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Re: [Air-l] Request for Resources: The Internet and Warfare
by Nancy Baym 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

I have been asked to forward this from Jeff Cares whose email is in transit: > >I have a host of papers and presentations at www.alidade.net. > >Jeff Cares >President, Alidade Incorporated >(Also Commander, US Naval Reserves) > >www.alidade.net >jeff.cares(a)alidade.net Nancy -- 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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AoIR Membership
by Suely Fragoso 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Dear all I just read Nancy's presidential toughts and I would like to emphasize that the special membership price for non-OECD countries is a powerful help to "bring more people in from underrepresented parts of the world" (I am quoting Nancy's message here). Membership does not help people being able to afford to travel for the anual meeting but it enables access to many conference papers, what constitutes a nice starting point for sharing ideas and so on. It is not, however, well known that people in non-OECD countries can be members of AoIR for a (relatively) small amount of money - I therefore suggest that this should be better publicised (both in the AoIR web site and in other mailing lists, for example academic ones shared by scholars located in those non-OECD countries). If most people agree with this, I can try to publicise special membership conditions in some Latin American lists and groups. Sue PS For those who intend to protest *against* special prices for non- OECD countries, I offer just one example: *one coffee* in Canada costs the equivalent to *a whole healthy meal* in many places in Brazil - notice that our salaries are proportional to national costs, not international ones, and you will understand why prices are as relative as many other matters. Dr. Suely Fragoso UNISINOS Sao Leopoldo RS BRASIL

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digital techs & warfare
by Sandra Braman 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

In response to Andrew Herman's question: There is a tremendous amount of information available on this topic. It was first raised in the 1970s under the rubric of "vulnerabilities" of the state presented by the use of new information technologies. By the early 1990s it was a question of "new security theory," and by the middle of that decade it was "information warfare" or "cyberwar." Now of course discussion about doctrine, strategy, and tactics involving the use of digital technologies is part of the discourse on the "war on terrorism." In my view it would be a mistake to limit the question to the internet, but that can be done -- in the 1980s, already, the Rand Corporation was doing research on the spread of rumors in the internet as part of its work on information warfare. My own "Contradictions in Brilliant Eyes" (Brilliant Eyes was the name given to the smart satellites program promoted by Reagan) is available in full text on the website for which the URL is provided below, provides a mid-1990s look at the state of the then-art. Sandra Braman Prof. Dept. of Communication University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu/~braman

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New books
by Frederic W. Nachbaur 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Routledge is pleased to announce the recent and forthcoming publications of the following cyberculture books: Data Made Flesh Embodying Information edited by Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle ISBN: 0415-96905-0 List price: $27.95 [$41.95 Can.] Discount price: $22.36 [33.56 Can.] October 2003 This 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. Granny @ Work Aging and New Technology on the Job in America by Karen E. Riggs ISBN: 0-415-96583-7 List price: $21.95 [$33.95 Can.] Discount price: $17.56 [$27.16 Can.] December 2003 Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today's technology-driven workplace. The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace by David Hakken ISBN: 0-415-94509-7 List price: $24.95 [$37.95 Can.] Discount price: $19.96 [$30.36 Can.] October 2003 David Hakken - a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies - approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, drawing on critical theory from anthropology, philosophy and informatics. The Haraway Reader edited by Donna Haraway ISBN: 0-415-96689-2 List price: $24.95 [$37.95 Can.] Discount price: $19.96 [$30.36 Can.] October 2003 For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies, and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world. This generous selection is the best introduction to her thought. More information on the contents can be found at www.routledge-ny.com. We are now offering AoIR members a 20% discount off the retail price, available only by phone. Please cite the source key code CYBER when placing your order. US customers: 1-800-634-7064 Canadian customers: 1-877-226-2237 Customers outside North America: 011 44 1264 343071 Please note that stock of the books outside of North America will not be available until two months after announced pub date. Your discounted order will be put on backorder. Date of offer: November 4, 2003-December 5, 2003 Shipping not included. Marketing Director, Arts & Humanities Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 P: 212-216-7841 F: 212-563-2269 fredric.nachbaur(a)taylorandfrancis.com

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Re: [Air-l] Request for Resources: The Internet and Warfare
by andrew.herman＠comcast.net 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Thanks, Jeremy--this is very helpful. -- 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 > here are some possible books > James Der Derian "Virtuous War" and > http://www.watsoninstitute.org/project_detail.cfm?id=1 > Manuel De Landa "War in the Age of Intelligent Machines" > Arquila, Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and > Militancy > and Megan Boler a colleague of mine from VT, now at OISE produced this > http://www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject/home.htm > and then there is http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/lnc/ which has a > listserv that frequently deals with the discourses of war in new > capitalism > > The Network Centric Warfare group is still around too(though it may > have been renamed), but if you really want to see the discourse of war > in a networked environment see the darpa project descriptions since > 1998. It's a paper I've been meaning to write, but it's been tabled. > > as for the gentleman you refer to, i'd refer you to the list archives > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > > On Nov 4, 2003, at 9:10 AM, andrew.herman(a)comcast.net wrote: > > > Friends- > > > > I have a graduate student who is currently working on a paper on the > > Internet and the discourses and conduct of 21st centrury warfare. > > Believe it or not, we are having trouble finding academic writing on > > the topic. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > One of the topics he/we are interested in is what the Department of > > Defense calls "Network Centric Warfare". Last spring, I remember > > there being a post to the AIR listserv from an officer who was > > teaching the topic at, I believe, the NAval War College. Does anybody > > know/remember this person? Is s/he still on the list. > > > > In any event, any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Andrew Herman > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Air-l mailing list > > Air-l(a)aoir.org > > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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CFP: Octopus: Journal Visual Cutlure, History, and Theory
by david silver 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

this looks really cool. david *** Call for Papers: Synesthesia Octopus (V1, N1) Spring/Summer 2004 The word synesthesia means "joined sensation." Synesthesia describes both a psychological condition and perceptual experience, conceptualized as a unity, confusion, or profusion of the senses. Synesthetes may visualize tactility, feel colors, taste sounds, or hear smells as if these sensory articulations existed outside of the body of the beholder. Synesthesia suggests a potent metaphor and method for examining and informing practices of visual studies, and for responding to critiques of this emerging field as overly fixated on the visual at the expense of other embodied experiences. The inaugural issue of Octopus invites 2,500-3,000 word manuscripts from all disciplines that engage with synesthesia from a wide-range of perspectives. Possible lines of inquiry include but are not limited to: 1) synesthesia as historically-situated perceptual experience, interdisciplinary methodological tactic, or theoretical engine; 2) phenomenology, the body, subjectivity, will; 3) gender, race, ethnicity 4) cyborg, posthuman; 5) art, music, film/video, new media; 6) philosophy, theosophy, hermeneutics; 7) literature, linguistics; 8) mysticism, ritual, religious experience, fantasy; 9) memory, mnemonics, hypermnesis; 10) geographies, navigation, directionality; 11) psychoanalysis, medicine, science Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2004. Octopus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the graduate students of the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. The journal is devoted to emerging scholarship that engages with visuality, culture, history, and theory from a range of contexts, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to submissions on synesthesia, Octopus welcomes longer-form scholarship (6,000-7,000 words) as well as book reviews and art and film criticism (800-1,000 words) addressing questions regarding the politics of vision, the historicity of visual practices, and the cultures and theories of vision and visuality on an on-going basis. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words, six keywords, and a short biographic entry about the author(s). All submissions must include the title of the contribution, the name(s) of the author(s), and the postal address, e-mail address, and phone number for the author who will serve as the primary contact with the editors on revisions. All submissions should follow MLA standards. Book reviews and art/film criticism should be 800-1,000 words in length. Please include title of book(s), retail price, and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Art/show reviews should include the gallery, curator, and dates. For film and video/media reviews, include the director, production company (if applicable), and year of production. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish all illustrations and must include captions for each image. Please submit 100% size, printable quality illustrations in at least 350 dpi in an eps, jpeg, gif, or tiff file. Originals or slides of illustrations are also acceptable. Manuscripts and reviews submitted to Octopus should not be under consideration at any other journal. All submissions and inquiries should be sent electronically as Microsoft Word.doc attachments to: submissions(a)octopusjournal.org -- James L. Cahill jcahill(a)uci.edu PhD Student, Program in Visual Studies UC Irvine

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text music image
by Douglas Galbi 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

"As an apprentice information designer, I regularly have to decide whether to communicate information in words, images, or sounds. How do I decide this?" [Lantham (2001) p.2]. New technologies, such as mobile camera phones, voice-enabled mobile gaming devices, and lower cost color printers, are greatly increasing possibilities for sensuous choices in communication. The sensuous balance and evolution of the Internet and other communication spaces deserves more attention. My work "Sense in Communication" provides much material that you might use in considering sensuous choices in communication. It includes detailed analysis of a couple of artistic masterpieces: the Hamzanama of Akbar (sixteenth-century India) and the Morgan Bible of Louis IX (thirteenth-century France). The work also includes a discussion of sixteenth-century English iconoclasm, and demonstrates the importance of that history for understanding Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. This work, "Sense in Communication," is publicly available at www.galbithink.org I hope that it encourages more discussion of sensuous choices in communication industry development. Douglas Galbi FCC Senior Economist

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* New * Geert Lovink: My First Recession
by geert lovink 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

My First Recession Critical Internet Culture in Transition By Geert Lovink ISBN 90-5662-353-2 V2_Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003 My First Recession starts after the party is over. This study maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid to late 1990s Internet craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent meltdown of global financial markets and 9/11. In his discussion of the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle, Geert Lovink lays out the challenges faced by critical Internet culture today. In a series of case studies, Lovink meticulously describes the ambivalent attitude that artists and activists take as they veer back and forth between euphoria and skepticism. As a part of this process, Lovink examines the internal dynamics of virtual communities through an analysis of the use of moderation and "collaborative filtering" on mailing lists and weblogs. He also confronts the practical and theoretical problems that appear as artists join the growing number of new-media education programs. Delving into the unexplored gold mines of list archives and weblogs, Lovink reveals a world that is largely unknown to both the general public and the Internet visionaries. Geert Lovink is a Australian-based Dutch media theorist and Internet critic, a co-founder of numerous online projects such as Nettime and Fibreculture, and the author of Dark Fiber and Uncanny Networks. Table of Contents: Introduction: Currents in Critical Internet Culture; Post-speculative Internet Theory, Three Positions: Dreyfus, Castells, Lessig; Anatomy of Dotcommania, Overview of Recent Literature; Deep Europe and the Kosovo Conflict, a History of the V2_East/Syndicate Network; Principles of Streaming Sovereignty, a History of the Xchange Network; Oekonux and the Free Software Model, From Linux to the GPL-Society; The Battle over New Media Art Education, Models and Experiences; Defining Open Publishing, Of Lists and Weblogs; Conclusion: Boundaries and Sustainable Models. -- V2 Publishing titles are distributed through the publishing house of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. The book will be available in Europe in the Fall 2003 and in the USA and through Amazon from January 2004. V2_Publishing Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam The Netherlands tel: +31.10.206.72.72 fax:+31.10.206.72.71 www.publishing.v2.nl For publicity please contact Marije Stijkel (marije(a)v2.nl,) Direct ordering through V2: store(a)v2.nl Available in North, South and Central America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers Inc, 155 Sixth Avenue 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013-1507, Tel 212 6271999, Fax 212 6279484. Available in the United Kingdom and Ireland through Art Data, 12 Bell Industrial Estate, 50 Cunnington Street, London W4 5HB, Tel 208 7471061, Fax 208 7422319. Available in Australia and New Zealand through Modern Journal, Robyn Ralton, P.O. Box 1082 Collingwood 3066 Australia tel/fax 0061 3 9481 2877 email modernjournal(a)netspace.net.au

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looking for a copy of "The six quests for the electronic grail: Current approaches to information quality in WWW resources" by Matthew Ciolek
by Mentor Cana 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Hello, I'm looking for an electronic copy of the following paper by Mathew Ciolek: Ciolek, T. Matthew (1996). The six quests for the electronic grail: Current approaches to information quality in WWW resources. Review Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines (RISSH)(1-4):45-71 Until recently the paper was available at http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/six-quests1996.html . Unfortunately, the site is no longer accessible beyond the first page (and it is empty). I'll appreciate if anyone can forward me a copy. Otherwise I'll have to scan the paper copy for the class (I'm a TA). Your help is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Mentor

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Design in the University: an On-line Conference
by Ken Friedman 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

The editors of Design Research News invite you to participate in an unusual on-line conference titled "Design in the University." The conference will convene on the PhD-Design list to examine the issues, challenges, and problems of planning university level design education. What makes this conference unusual is the fact that the keynote "speakers" will focus on a specific project: the proposal for a new school of design at the University of California, Irvine. In the fall of 2000, the University of California at Irvine established a committee to develop a proposal for a new design school. Their mandate was to plan a school balancing inquiry into the nature of design and the design process with training in professional design practice. To write its report and guide the university debate, the committee studied today's leading design schools while working with a wide range of experts to plan the university-level design school of the future. The committee faced two major challenges. One was economic. The new design school would have to contribute to the economic growth and prosperity of a complex multi-cultural state positioned at the edge of the increasingly important economy of the larger Pacific region. The second challenge was quality - conceptual, intellectual, and professional. The new school must further and advance the work of one of the world's great universities, enhancing the university while drawing on its resources. After two years of work studying everything from design programs and best practices in curriculum planning to demographic trends and professional development, the committee delivered its report. The June 2003 issues of Design Research News reviewed the report: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html The report is available in free .pdf download at http://www.evc.uci.edu/growth/design/SoD-proposal.pdf This on-line conference offers you an opportunity to meet the committee, to reflect on the questions they asked, and to ask questions of your own. Speakers at the on-line conference will include committee chairman professor Richard Taylor of information and computer science, professors Kristen Day and Sanjoy Mazumdar of urban and regional planning, professor Alladi Venkatesh of management, as well as Michael Clark, professor of English and comparative literature and associate executive vice chancellor for academic planning. Respondents include professors Lorraine Justice, head of industrial design at Georgia Technical University, Keith Russell of Newcastle University in Australia, Charles Burnette of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Christene Nippert-Eng of Illinois Institute of Technology, and David Durling of Staffordshire University. The conference open on November 10, convened by Ken Friedman of the Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School. Following a brief introduction, Prof. Taylor will lead off and Prof. Justice will respond. This will be followed by two or three brief invited comments. The floor will then be open for conversation among the speakers. At this point, any conference participant will be free to ask questions or to offer comments. The first session will last for four days. The second session will open with Prof. Day, following a similar four-day format. Prof. Mazumdar will speak third, followed by Prof. Venkatesh. Vice Chancellor Clark will speak last. This conference offers participants a chance to benefit from the three-year process of research and development at the University of California, Irvine. In today's economic climate, few universities - and fewer design schools - will have the budgetary resources to build (or rebuild) design education on the level of a new purpose-built school. What this conference offers to existing schools is an opportunity to learn from improvements and changes implemented elsewhere, adapting them to local needs and opportunities as they shape programs for the future. To participate in this conference, please go to URL http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html Click on the line that reads Join or leave the list Follow the on-screen instructions to join. We hope you will join us in what promises to be an extraordinary on-line event with speakers and participants from around the world. David Durling and Ken Friedman

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