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Internet in Asia blog
by Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof) 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

A new blog that may be of interest to some of you.... Sirc.blogspot.com Published by the Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University. We post news items and academic research concerning the social, cultural, economic, and political impact of the Internet and other new media technologies in Asia. Some recent posts: China web dissident 'soon free' Liu Di's grandmother told Reuters news that she could soon be free; however it was unclear whether her release would have any bearing on other people arrested at the same time for posting critical material on the internet. India: Campaigning through the Internet and SMS The Congress and BJP, two leading political parties in India have announced that they will be campaigning through emails and sms in addition to using the more traditional methods such as posters and banners. Shopkeepers who specialize in selling campaign paraphenalia are however not as excited by this new form of campaigning. Singapore Ranks Top 5 in Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide In a joint study by the E-governance Institute of Rutgers University-Newark and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute of Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and was co-sponsored by the UN Division for Public Administration and Development Management, and the American Society for Public Administration, Singapore ranked in the top 5 and Jakrta in the top 20 countries of 100 countries world wide. Pakistan: IT education to be introduced on a large scale IT education will be introduced in 2000 government high and higher education schools across Pakistan. Amongst other things, it is aimed at introducing the benefits of the ICT revolution to the common man. Randolph Kluver School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University 31 Nanyang Link Singapore, 637718 (65) 6790-5770 Fax (65) 6792-4329

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Value propositions and Proof of concept
by Verhulst, Stefaan 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Dear Colleagues - Some value propositions which we hear and read daily: ICTs and the Interent have the potential to improve health care - ICTs and the Internet enable civic participation and community building - ICTs serve under-employed and enhance (adult) education - Is there any empirical proof? That's the basic question I try to answer in a small project that aims to collect key findings and papers that provides empirical evidence what the real 'social impact' is of ICT - The idea is to have a document that lists the seminal pieces of "proof of concept" research with regard to ICT and its measurable impact on health; civi participation; employment and education ... to share with a broader community of funders and researchers - As such we can identify what is 'known', what types of impact can be identified and where the "gaps" are in the current research literature... Any suggestions from your end? Many thanks in advance Stefaan Verhulst sverhulst(a)markle.org

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Re: new technologies: diffusion
by Eszter Hargittai 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

The book "Digital Divide" by Pippa Norris has some helpful related figures. Also, this article has some relevant diagrams: "The Internet as Hyperbole: A Critical Examination of Adoption Rates." by Hannemyr, Gisle. Information Society, Apr-Jun2003, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p111, 11p Eszter --- http://www.eszter.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com

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Researching Australian moderation
by Marg Emerton 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi, I am researching Australian experiences of moderating online discussion groups as part of an undergraduate honours degree at the University of Wollongong, Australia. I’m interested in how moderators manage their tasks and how they think managing discussion has changed as the Internet has become more popular. Moderators working in global environments but subject to Australian law and cultural expectations may encounter different challenges than their peers in other countries. If there are differences, knowing about them may be useful to future moderators and members of discussion groups. I’d like to invite anyone who has moderated an online discussion group or mailing list with some connection to Australia to take part in the research by participating with other moderators in an online discussion forum. You might also be asked to participate in an interview via email. The research is based on moderators of groups where all involvement is voluntary, so some groups, for example: online learning classes and workplace communities, are not included. A possible benefit of getting involved in the research will be the opportunity to share experiences and strategies with the moderators of other groups. The discussion forum will be open for three weeks, from 21 / 11 /2003 to 7/ 12 /2003. A new set of questions will be posted each week. If you would like to find out more about this research, follow this link to: http://www.acr.net.au/marg99/Research If you are not able to participate, but know someone who might be interested, I’d be very grateful if you forwarded this email to them. Feel free to contact me at: me21(a)uow.edu.au if you have any questions about this project. Regards, Margaret Emerton University of Wollongong Australia

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semiotics of new media
by Greg Wise 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

I'm teaching a course on semiotics and visual communication in an intensive wintersession course this January. In that course we deal with the semiotics of different media (film v. TV, for example, using John Ellis' work). Any suggestions for a decent chapter-length piece to assign for reading that deals with the semiotics of the computer or webpages or...? This is an undergraduate class. Off list replies are fine. Thanks for your time. Greg J. Macgregor Wise, Chair Department of Communication Studies College of Human Services Arizona State University West 4701 West Thunderbird Road Glendale, AZ 85306-4908 office: (602) 543 6646 fax: (602) 543 6612

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FW: Inviting you to participate in PISTA 2004
by Homero Gil de Zuniga 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Sorry for crossposting... Some of you might be interested. HGZ ------------------------------------ Dear Dr. Homero Zuniga: The Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA '04), is pleased to invite you to participate in this international event that will be held in July 21-25, 2004, in Orlando, Florida, USA. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are transforming our societies, therefore papers about research results, solutions and problems of the applications of ICT in Politics and Society are highly encouraged. You are also invited to organize a panel or an invited session. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged. You can find more information about Pista '04, in our web site: http://www.confinf.org/Pista04 The best 10% of the papers will be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp) the hard copy version of which will be ready in about one month, and it will be sent to the largest university libraries. Could you please deliver the Call for Papers I am including herein, to your colleagues? If you consider that the deadlines are tight and you need more time, please, let me know about a suitable timing for you and I will inform you if it is feasible for us. This deadline is exclusively for the people who are being invited through these letters hence, this deadline won't be published in our web site. Best Regards, Professor Jose Vicente Carrasquero General Chair Pista 2004 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 December 22nd, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500) words or paper Drafts (2000-5000) words. December 22nd, 2003: Invited session proposals. February 13th, 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.

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Service or Content Usage Theories
by Philip Sidel 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Is anyone on this list familiar with theories that specifically address USAGE of the Internet or related content and services? I'm fully aware of theories that explain the intention to adopt, the decision to upgrade, and the decision to continue using a service. But have there been any theories that have directly addressed usage patterns or behaviors? I'd appreciate your help with this, as I don't like going into uncharted territory.... Philip Sidel Assistant Professor of Marketing The International University of Japan Graduate School of International Management Phone: 81-(0)25-779-1400 Fax: 81-(0)25-779-4443 Email: psidel(a)iuj.ac.jp

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Surveillance & Society | News - November 2003 (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

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: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:14:32 -0000 From: D F J Wood <D.F.J.Wood(a)newcastle.ac.uk> Subject: Surveillance & Society | News - November 2003 Surveillance & Society | News - November 2003 the international journal of surveillance studies http://www.surveillance-and-society.org 1. Foucault Issue a success! 2. Mobilities Issue Out Soon 3. Final Call for Papers - Issue 2(1) 4. Surveillance & Society Conference & Issue 2(2) 5. Preliminary Announcement: Call for Papers - Issue 2(3) 6. History of Surveillance Book Proposal 1. Foucault Issue a success! Our Foucault and Panoticism Revisisted Issue http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/journalv1i3.htm has been the best received so far with positive comments all round and hits on the site now exceeding 20,000 for our first three issues. 2. Mobilities Issue Out Soon. The next Issue (and last of this volume), Surveillance and Mobilities, has been delayed for various reasons which the Issue Editors , Colin Bennett and Pris Regan, have been working hard to sort out. It should be out by the end of the year. Looks like another good one! 3. Final Call for Papers - Issue 2(1) The delays to the Mobilities Issue have meant that we have been able to extend our deadline for the first issue of Volume 2. This will be a general issue with no specific theme - as long as it's about surveillance of course! The deadline will be Friday, December 19th, 2003. Can authors who have submitted papers already please note that we will not be sending papers out for review for this issue until the beginning of December. 4. Surveillance & Society Conference & Issue 2(2) Surveillance & Society is having its first ever conference - 'CCTV and Social Control. The politics and practice of videosurveillance: European and Global perspectives'. This will be held in conjucntion with the Centre For Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield from 8th-9th January, 2004. The website is at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr/publicity/conference/index.html It will feature papers from over 50 top surveillance studies researchers and promises to be very exciting. Selected papers from this conference will form Issue 2(2) of Surveillance & Society, and probably an edited book as well. 5. Preliminary Announcement: Call for Papers - Issue 2(3) Issue 2(3) will be have the theme of 'People Watching People' - this could include consideration of non-technologically mediated forms of surveillance, surveillance before modern technologies, the behaviour of both human watchers and the watched, and also personal forms of surveillance including 'human intelligence', tailing, voyeurism and stalking etc. A full call will be posted soon. The deadline for submissions is 30th June 2004. 6. History of Surveillance Book Proposal The Editors of Surveillance & Society will shortly be putting out a call for authors for a book proposal entitled 'A History of Surveillance in the Industrialised World' - this will map the development of surveillance from multiple thematic angles. Look out for this on the website from December 1st, 2003, or go direct to www.surveillance-and-society.org/book.htm after that date. All the best, David. Dr David Wood Managing Editor Surveillance & Society http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ d.f.j.wood(a)ncl.ac.uk

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FW: BIC2003 Final Report now available online
by Michael Gurstein 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

-----Original Message----- From: Sergei Stafeev [mailto:gard@gard.spb.org] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:25 PM To: mgurst(a)vcn.bc.ca Subject: (fwd) [CIRN-CIS] BIC2003 Final Report now available online Russian translation below Dear Colleagues, Please, note that a final report for the Conference: "Building the Information Commonwealth: Information Technologies and Building Prospects for Development of Civil Society Institutions in the CIS Countries (BIC2003)" that took place in Saint-Petersburg 30 June - 02 July 2003 is now available online at the CCNS website: http://www.communities.org.ru/papers/2003/bicreport.pdf best regards, Sergei Stafeev : director, Centre of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS) : 27, Mayakovskogo str., St. Petersburg, Russia : Tel/Fax +7 /812/ 2739670 : E-mail gard(a)gard.spb.org : http://www.communities.org.ru and BIC2003, Chair of the Organizing Committee Уважаемые Коллеги! Пожалуйста, обратите внимание, что финальный отчет нашей Конференции "Строим Информационное Содружество", Вы можете найти в Интеренет по адресу: http://www.communities.org.ru/papers/2003/bicreport.pdf С уважением, Сергей Стафеев : директор, Центр Изучения Сетей Сообществ и Информационной Политики : СПб, ул. Маяковского, 27 : тел/факс (812) 2739670 : E-mail gard(a)gard.spb.org : http://www.communities.org.ru

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FW: [Air-l] personal homepages
by Charlie Breindahl 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

-----Original Message----- From: air-l-owner(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-owner@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Susannah Stern Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:29 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Cc: 'Katerina' Subject: RE: [Air-l] personal homepages Dionysis - Many services offer indexes of personal home pages - Geocities, Yahoo, About.com, Angelfire, http://www.bltg.com/people/ . I imagine you will run into the same problems with each in that there is no way to guarantee that they are comprehensive, representative, or that links are active. Network sampling might be more useful depending on the goals of your study, or web rings may provide a point of access (web rings link home pages to one another based on some theme or topic, typically). I've written a bit about personal home pages and have run up against some of the same issues in sampling and locating home pages; I discuss some of these issues in my articles. Feel free to check out: Stern, S. (accepted). Expressions of identity online: Prominent features and gender differences in adolescents' WWW home pages. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. (I can forward you a copy since this is not yet in print, if you like). Stern, S. (2002). Virtually speaking: Girls' self-disclosure on the WWW. Women's Studies in Communication, 25(2), 223-253. Stern, S. (2002). Sexual selves on the World Wide Web: Adolescent girls' homepages as sites for sexual self-expression. In J. Brown, J. Steele, & K. Walsh-Childers (Eds.) Sexual Teens/Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (pp. 265-286). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. Stern, S. (1999). Adolescent girls' expression on WWW home pages: A qualitative analysis. Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 5(4), 22-41. Good luck, Susannah Susannah Stern, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Communication Department 140 Commonwealth Avenue Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02446 phone: 617-552-6015 email: sternsu(a)bc.edu fax: 617-552-2286 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Katerina Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:22 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] personal homepages I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos

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