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Information, Communication & Society - New Issue Alert (fwd)
by david silver 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Volume 6 Number 4/December 2003 of Information, Communication & Society is now available on the Taylor & Francis web site at <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=1MJDW5HP982E> http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com. To unsubscribe from this alert please visit: <http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara> http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara . This issue contains: Editorial Comment <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=G7XVWX87ABTM1J66> p. 5 Mapping the Bit Girl: Lara Croft and new media fandom <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=CN2KF15ABHNVLKLV> p. 477 Bob Rehak Boundary Spaces <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=MGKN2KKJGQK9AFPU> p. 497 T. L. Taylor, Beth E. Kolko The Video Game Lightning Rod <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=5XM65YJXMU2JYGFY> p. 523 Dmitri Williams Geography of the Digital Hearth <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=CB6U1TD0T6LBJ9P4> p. 551 Bernadette Flynn The Sims: Real Life as Genre <http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=1UUCQXW0HT8VUGF6> p. 577 Diane Nutt, Diane Railton

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CfP Theory and Practice of Community Informatics in the CIS
by Michael Gurstein 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Theory and Practice of Community Informatics in the CIS (English-Russian Textbook) Call for Abstracts and Chapters This edition will be the second part of the textbook "Community Informatics. Community Networking: Approaches. Prospects. Tools". The first part of the book was published in 2003 in Russian and English as a part of the Community Informatics Open Source Archive (http://ci-text.researcher.at) and was focused on the experiences of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) for locally based community and civic development (broadly defined) in a global, but particularly developed country context. The second part will in large part present a wide range of theoretical and practical experience, which has been accumulated in CIS countries in the area of Community Informatics. Community Informatics is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary approach which includes concerns for community Internet access, community information, online civic participation and community service delivery, community economic development, training and learning networks, and telework among other areas of interest. We are looking for papers focusing on the experience in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States on the issue areas listed below among others: 1. ICTs and community and social development 2. e-government, e-governance and e-democracy 3. e-enabled local economic development 4. e-education and e-learning 5. using ICTs in civic activities 6. local information systems 7. e-enabled local media and content production 8. locally based e-enabled resource management 9. locally based e-enabled environmentalism and environmental management 10. government policy and local ICT initiatives We welcome accounts of both theoretical and applied research, as well as research conducted at micro, meso and macro levels of analysis. In addition to research papers, we welcome submissions on current issues, public policies and practical problems in the field. We would particularly like to invite papers presenting case studies of successful localized ICT developments, citizen's media and community communication issues. In addition, the volume will include a limited number of high quality theoretical articles which will provide an overall vision and overview on the current status, problems and perspectives of Community Informatics as the discipline is developing globally. Thus, the overall objective of the book is to provide an introduction to advanced research on the objectives, practices and dynamics of Community Informatics as it is being expressed across all types of social institutions and media. Authors should initially submit short or extended abstracts of no more than 1500 words or completed papers for an initial review by March 1, 2004. Final papers will be due no later than April 1, 2004. Submissions will be accepted in either English or Russian and should be sent to the Editorial Board via e-mail at <textbook-2(a)mail.ru>. Works submitted in either Russian or English will be translated into the other language and the book will have both Russian and English editions. All submissions should include authors' names, affiliations and contact information. Publishers of the book are: Institute of System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISA RAN) http://www.isa.ac.ru Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) http://www.ciresearch.net/ Centre of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS) http://www.communities.org.ru Editors: Michael Gurstein (CIRN) Michel Menou (CIRN) Yury Popkov (ISA RAN) Sergei Stafeev (CCNS) Victor Tischenko (ISA RAN) Please forward this to anyone, particularly from the CIS region who might have an interest. Russian version http://communities.org.ru/papers/2004/cfp-rus.rtf

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Prix Ars Electronica - Digital Communities
by Denise Carter 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Dear All, I am pleased to announce that I will be a member of the nominating jury (doing a pre-selection of the entries) for a new category of the Prix Ars Electronica prize competition. The Ars Electronica Center and ORF Oberösterreich (Austrian Broadcasting Company, Upper Austria Regional Studio) in Linz, Austria the organizers of Prix Ars Electronica, the world's most renowned and highest endowed competition in the digital arts are pleased to announce that a new "non-artistic" category, Digital Communities, will be added to the Prix Ars Electronica in 2004 to mark Ars Electronica's 25th anniversary. This new category of the Prix Ars Electronica prize competition (that has been showcasing the latest trends in art, technology and society since 1987) will be dedicated to these highly dynamic, leading edge social phenomena. The social potential of digital and networked systems defined to include the wide-ranging effects of the Internet as well as of so-called mobile space encompasses a broad spectrum of phenomena, programs and initiatives in which social innovation is taking place, as it were, in real time. This is also the domain in which debates surrounding the issues that will have a major impact on our futurefor example, the establishment of technological standards, the treatment accorded to intellectual property, and conflict at the point where the right to privacy meets the necessity of surveillanceare launched and carried out. Discussions surrounding the creative commons and peer-to-peer computing, phenomena like collective blogging on the Internet or flash mobs that form spontaneously via mobile communication are among the latest developments; others include new forms of online collaboration in learning, gaming and fan communities, digital neighborhoods, and citizen consensus conferences. This new Prix Ars Electronica category is designed to recognize the initiators and propagators of these communities, the persons whose work deals with these thematic domains, as well as the developers of the relevant technologies and the theoreticians who identify these emerging phenomena and help the public come to terms with them. The prizes in the Digital Communities category will total 40,000 Euros for two Golden Nicas and four Awards of Distinction. Submissions deadline is March 12, 2004. The Nominating Jury of this new category will be held in Linz, Austria from April 16 - 18, 2004. A week after the Nominating Jury the Awarding Jury will make the final selection. The two Golden Nicas and the Awards of Distinction in the "Digital Communities " category will be presented at a special ceremony,hosted jointly by Ars Electronica and SAP,held in New York in June 2004.The winners of the Golden Nicas and the Awards of Distinction commit to accepting their prizes at the "Digital Communities " Gala in June 2004 in person (or through a proxy nominated in advance)and to present their project at the Prix Ars Electronica Forum in September 2004 in Linz, Austria. The "Digital Communities" category is open to political, social, and cultural projects, initiatives, groups, and scenes from all over the world utilizing digital technology to better society and assume social responsibility. It is meant to recognize the initiators and propagators of these communities as well as the developers of the relevant technologies, and to honor those whose work contributes to the establishment and proliferation of Digital Communities as well as provide understanding and research into them. Two Golden Nicas will be awarded in order to recognize the vast array of relevant projects between grassroots operations and professional solutions, the diversity of approaches and aspects from community innovation to social software excellence as well as the broad spectrum of submitters involved, ranging from private initiatives to public institutions. Particular emphasis will be placed on a project's "community innovation," its sustainability, and its appropriate use of technology optimized for the end user. This could be a novel method for connecting already existing technology or optimizing the use of an available infrastructure. Jury members will be looking to recognize technological-social solutions, "social software tools," and infrastructure with great promise, as well as the brilliant realization of such concepts. Their evaluations and decisions will honor visionary and forward-looking projects; those that display consummate social and technological innovativeness and have been implemented with tremendous success. In their selection, the jury will place particular emphasis on the reasonableness, appropriateness, and openness of the solutions. Digital Communities projects should enable human beings to enjoy the widest possible access to technology, networks, and the "Digital Commons." The winning projects should be able to serve as a model to be copied by others, and, in their orientation on the future, be a source of inspiration, encouragement, and enablement. Among the projects, phenomena and fields of activity subsumed under the heading Digital Communities are: . social software . eDemocracy, eGovernment, eGovernance . emergent democracy . collective weblogs, social networking systems . filtering and reputation systems . social self-support groups . learning and knowledge communities . computer supported collaborative processes . gaming communities . digital neighborhoods, community networks . free net initiatives, wireless LAN projects . digital cities, urban development projects . citizen involvement initiatives, citizen conferences . telecenters For further information see Ars Electronica at http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp , but please contact me direct for further details and application procedure as I have been asked to suggest nominations. Denise M. Carter Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Hull, Hull. HU6 7RX Tel: 01482 465024

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FW: visualising social networks
by Ulla Bunz 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

I don't believe this has been forwarded to this list yet. It is from the mapping cyberspace Listserve and should be of interest to those of you who like social networks and are visual thinkers (or whose readers are visual thinkers!). Ulla ---------------------------------------------------- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu ---------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Mapping and visualising Internet infrastructure and Web space [mailto:MAPPING-CYBERSPACE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of martin dodge Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:20 PM To: MAPPING-CYBERSPACE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [MAPPING-CYBERSPACE] 2 on visualising social networks Hi, a couple of things on social network visualisation that might be of interest to some. First, a short, illustrated article from Inf@Vis! magazine and then a new online app for mapping mailing list networks by Marcos Weskamp. cheers martin --------- Social Networks by Juan C. Dürsteler Social networks are responsible for many of the structures of power and influence in our world. Its not always easy to recognise their structure and behaviour. The visualisation and analysis of social networks can help considerably in knowing them. See the graphical version of this article at http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2003/num_136.htm. --------- Social Circles I've just uploaded the application over here: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/socialcircles/ Data to from the lists flows in as posts happen, that is to say these are almost *live* snapshots of the current status of them. Currently I'm visualizing the mailing lists I'm subscribed to. If you have any ideas on lists that you'd like to see, please drop me a line. Best regards, -marcos weskamp -----------

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #946 - 4 msgs
by Lokman Tsui 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

> I am trying to compile a corpus of texts from Japanese, English and > Danish= =20 newsgroups in the 5-year period 1999-2003 in order to make a > contrastive=20 study of word-formation and neologisms in these 3 > languages. However, much = to=20 my dismay I have recently discovered > that the average rentention time of NN= TP=20 servers is somewhere > between 2 weeks and a month! Instead of using NNTP servers, have you tried using http://groups.google.com for this purpose? They archive most newsgroups way back to 1996. Regards, Lokman Tsui Center for eLaw University of Leiden

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Any linguistic studies based on a newsgroup corpus?
by Jakob Halskov 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Has anyone heard of a linguistic study based on a corpus of newsgroup texts? I am trying to compile a corpus of texts from Japanese, English and Danish newsgroups in the 5-year period 1999-2003 in order to make a contrastive study of word-formation and neologisms in these 3 languages. However, much to my dismay I have recently discovered that the average rentention time of NNTP servers is somewhere between 2 weeks and a month! If there is some scholar out there who has compiled a corpus I should very much like to know. Thanks in advance! Jakob Halskov, MA, Ph.D. student -- Institute of Computational Linguistics Copenhagen Business School Bernhard Bangs Allé 17B 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark -------------------------- Phone (office) + 45 38153137

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NCDG Fellowships 2004-2005: Technology, Institutions and Governance
by Robin_McKinnon＠harvard.edu 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

Please see below for details on upcoming fellowships at the National Center for Digital Government at the Kennedy School of Government. Regards, Robin McKinnon _____________________________________ Executive Director National Center for Digital Government http://www.ncdg.org John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FELLOWSHIPS IN TECHNOLOGY, INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE 2004-2005 The National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government is the pre-eminent research center in the United States to focus on information technology, institutions, and governance. The NCDG's mission is to build global research capacity, to advance practice, and to strengthen the network of researchers and practitioners engaged in building and using information and communication technologies in government. A key part of this mission is to bring together and train the next generation of social, information and computer scientists on the governance challenges of the 21st century. The NCDG is therefore offering a small number of NSF-funded pre-doctoral residential fellowships to support dissertation research in the area of technology, institutions, and governance. ELIGIBILITY Applications for pre-doctoral fellowships are welcome from those students who have passed their general examinations prior to appointment. The NCDG encourages applications from a range of disciplines and fields bearing on information, technology, institutions, and governance. The NCDG also encourages applications from women and minorities. Fellows are expected to devote some portion of their time to collaborative endeavors, as arranged by the appropriate program or project director. Pre-doctoral research fellows are expected to contribute to the NCDG's research activities as well as to make progress on - and ideally complete - their doctoral dissertations. STIPEND INFORMATION NCDG Fellows will receive ten-month stipends of $20,000. In addition, office space and supplies, computers with LAN and Internet connections, and access to Harvard University libraries and other facilities will be provided. APPLICATION PROCEDURES and CONTACT INFORMATION 1. A 3 to 5 page double-spaced statement summarizing the dissertation prospectus 2. A curriculum vitae 3. Three sealed letters of recommendation (not emails) attesting to the applicant's scholarly promise and professional competence 4. A short writing sample pertinent to the application 5. A sealed graduate school transcript There is no physical application to complete; the steps above constitute the application process. The applicant is responsible for collecting all materials, including letters of recommendation and transcripts and for submitting them as one packet to the NCDG. Materials submitted will not be returned to the applicant. Emailed materials will not be accepted, unless specifically indicated by the Fellowship Coordinator. The application deadline is March 31, 2004. Late applications will not be accepted. Direct applications to: Ines A. Mergel, Fellowship Coordinator, National Center for Digital Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Telephone: (617) 496-6166, E-mail: ines_mergel@.harvard.edu

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Role Playing Streaming Video
by MSJANEW＠aol.com 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

Hello, I am developing content for an online sports interaction website called Sports Smarts. I am writing scripts for "characters" that users can choose and follow through a streaming video story about Little League Elbow. I will be shooting video to allow for multiple storylines, with branches and outcomes based on each child's chosen character (risk-taker, gamer, winner, clutch, etc.) The focus is sports safety and thinking skills. My question: Has anyone seen good examples of interactive story websites (educational or not) such as I am describing? I would love to see how others are building role-playing into the web, especially for kids. Thanks, Matthew Newman Executive Producer Sports Smarts msjanew(a)aol.com

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Stuttgarter Filmwinter
by Charlie Breindahl 10 Jan '04

10 Jan '04

English version see below Das Warm Up-Programm Festival 15.-18.01.2004 Warm Up 9.-14.01.2004 Ausstellung im Ex-IKEA 13.-18.01.2004 http://www.typedown.com/?RDCT=bdfb351353f1b6711478 Der Warm Up zum Stuttgarter Filmwinter hat begonnen: Ab dem 9. Januar können die nominierten Internetprojekte für den Wettbewerb Neue Medien auf den Websites www.filmwinter.de und www.dasding.de besucht werden. Die Besucher entscheiden mit ihrer Stimme über den DASDING-Publikumspreis im Bereich Neue Medien/Internet in Höhe von 1.000 Euro. Zu sehen sind künstlerische internationale Webprojekte. *** Ebenfalls am 9. Januar um 19:00 Uhr eröffnet die erste Ausstellung des Festivals mit Arbeiten der englischen Künstlerin Lenka Clayton in der Oberwelt (Reinsburgstr. 93). Im Zentrum der Ausstellung von Lenka Clayton steht ihr Dokumentarfilm Quaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet", in dem sie alle 4100 Wörter der Video-Aufzeichnung von George W. Bushs berühmter Achse des Bösen"-Rede minutiös zusammenfügt. *** Ein Tag später, am 10. Januar um 19:00 Uhr, eröffnet die Ausstellung Lyric" des kanadischen Videokünstlers Benjamin Nemerofsky im Schapp (Schlossstr. 55). Die Videoinstallation Lyric" vereint eintausend Liebeslieder und setzt Bruchstücke davon zu einem 110-minütigen Marathon-Song" zusammen, der wie wie eine Art Kanon auf fünf Monitoren präsentiert wird. Nemerofsky präsentiert außerdem im Rahmen des Festival eine Auswahl seiner Videos. (16.01., 22:00, Filmhaus, Saal 2) *** Am 13. Januar beginnt um 19 Uhr die Ausstellung mit den ausgewählten Medieninstallationen des Wettbewerbs Neue Medien im Ex-IKEA (Kronenstr. 36). Zu sehen sind zwölf Installationen internationaler Medienkünstler. Das Ex-IKEA fungiert ebenfalls als Workshop-Raum und Internet-Café. *** Einen Tag vor Festivalbeginn präsentiert die Galerie GEDOK (Hölderlinstr. 17) die Ausstellung Day 0623" der mexikanischen Videokünstlerin Ximena Cuevas (14.01., 19:00 Uhr). Cuevas greift zu radikalen Methoden der Inszenierung und Übertreibung, um die Bedeutung des Dokumentarischen neu zu definieren. Im Zentrum ihrer Arbeit steht die leidenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Mexico City und den alltäglichen Begebenheiten dieser megalomanischen Stadt. Das komplette Programm des Festivals und alle relevanten Informationen (Eintrittspreise, Vorbestellungen etc.) befinden sich auf der Filmwinter-Website www.filmwinter.de Wand 5 e.V. im Filmhaus Stuttgart, Friedrichstr. 23 A, 70174 Stuttgart T 0711-99 33 98-0, F 0711-99 33 98-10, wanda(a)wand5.de, www.wand5.de English version: The Warm Up-programme Festival, January 15-18, 2004 Warm Up, January 9-14.0, 2004 Exhibition in the former IKEA-Building, January 13-18, 2004 http://www.typedown.com/?RDCT=3b0dfb79405e8157f897 The Warm Up of the 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter has begun: From 9th of January on the nominated internet projects of the New Media competition can be visited on www.filmwinter.de or www.dasding.de. The visitors decide with their vote which project receives the DASDING audience award in the field of Internet amounting 1.000 Euros. The main stress of the selected websites lies on experimental and artistic production in the net. *** Also on Friday, January 9 at 7 p.m., the exhibition of the English artist Lenka Clayton opens the Oberwelt gallery (Reinsburgstr. 93). The centre of Lenka Clayton's exhibition is her documentary film Quaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet", in which the artist has re-arranged the video recording of all 4100 words of George W. Bush's famous axis of evil" speech in meticulously precise manner: in alphabetical order. *** One day later, on Saturday, January 10 at 7 p.m., the exhibition Lyric" by the Canadian video artists Benjamin Nemerofsky opens at Schapp (Schlossstr. 55). This piece of work comprises of 1000 love songs, which are arranged in fragmented parts to form a 110 minute long marathon song", presented like a canon on five monitors. Additionally Nemerofsky will show his single channel video works in the context of the Filmwinter festival (Januar 16, 10 p.m., Filmhaus Stuttgart, Saal 2, Friedrichstr. 23 A). *** On Thursday, January 13 at 7 p.m., the exhibition of the nominated media installations of the New Media competition starts in the Ex-IKEA. Twelve media-based installations by international media artists will be presented. The former IKEA-building functions also as workshop space and internet café. *** One day before the festival's opening the GEDOK gallery features the exhibition Day 0623" by the Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas (Wednesday, January 14, 7 p.m.). Cuevas turns to radical means of staging and exaggeration, to re-define the meaning of documentary. In the centre of her work is the passionate occupation with Mexico City and the everyday events of this megalomanic city. You can find the complete festival programme and all relevant information (including ticket prizes, reservation possibilities) on the Filmwinter's website http://www.typedown.com/?RDCT=aff1d2200de1067cc938 Wand 5 e.V. im Filmhaus Stuttgart, Friedrichstr. 23 A, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany T +49-711-99 33 98-0, F +49-711-99 33 98-10, wanda(a)wand5.de, www.wand5.de -- Benjamin Fischer | benjamin[at]typedown.com | http://www.typedown.com/?RDCT=a6760909850a3da28891

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2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA ´04 )
by Nancy Baym 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA ´04) July 21 - 25, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA http://www.confinf.org/pista04 PISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking, problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present their research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present political information systems and software based solutions. Public servers are invited to present case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Political and social scientists are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems and political processes. Politician and political consultants are invited to present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT. All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. You can find complete information about the conference in our web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04 PISTA '04 Organization General Chair: Prof. Jose Vicente Carrasquero Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Angel Oropeza Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics Conference Areas · Informatics And Society · Informatics, Voting and Political Parties · Informatics And Government · Ethical and Legal Issues related to Informatics Abstracts and Paper Drafts Submission Form Papers might be submitted via web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/submission.asp, as extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or as full papers drafts (2000-5000 words). Reviews will be done for both kinds of submissions. Invited Sessions proposals can be done filling the form given in the web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/invitedsession/organizer.asp More information about Invited Sessions Organization could be found at the web http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/ISOrganization.asp Important Dates February 04th, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500) words or paper Drafts (2000-5000) words. February 04th, 2003: Invited session proposals. March 17th, 2004: Notifications of Acceptance. April 13th, 2004: Submission of final versions: hard copies and electronic versions. Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its organizer and chair Papers Reviewing And Publication Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must sign a copyright release form. The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics will publish, at least, the best 10% of the papers presented at the conference. -- 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

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