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Reminder: EQ Researchers Meet Tomorrow, Sat Nov 22
by T.L. Taylor 21 Nov '03

21 Nov '03

Hi everyone. Just a quick reminder that the in-game EQ researchers meeting will be taking place tomorrow. Please feel free to pass this announcement along to interested parties as well. TL --- original announcement --- On Saturday, Nov 22 there will an online meeting of EQ researchers (or researchers interested in doing work in the game). In fine Norrathian tradition everyone will start out as a level 1 and we will proceed to have drunken races, fireworks, and who knows, maybe some serious talk in between ;) The details: Saturday, Nov 22 @ 3pm EST (12pm PST and 9pm CET) EverQuest, Bristlebane server, Butcherblock Mountains outside the city of Kaladim (everyone is encouraged to start a level 1 dwarf, beards optional!) Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions or already have a character on BB and want to help out with any of the pre-fest preparations. Look forward to seeing folks there! TL -- ___________________________________ T.L. Taylor, Assistant Professor Center for Computer Games Research Dept. of Digital Aesthetics and Communiction IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67, 2400-DK NV Copenhagen +45 38 16 89 61 (tele) / +45 38 16 88 99 (fax) tltaylor(a)itu.dk / http://www.itu.dk/~tltaylor/

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I have been posting resources on the monitoring and evaluation of ICT for Development projects on this website
by John Daly 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

http://www.developmentgateway.org/evaluation Use them in good health! John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com

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ANN BlogTalk 2.0 conference call for papers
by Thomas N.Burg 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Dear members of AOIR, this is the official announcement of Blogtalk 2.0. The European Conference on Weblogs - http://blogtalk.net -- July 2004 and its call for papers. The conference is designed to initiate a dialog between bloggers, developers, researchers and others who share, enjoy and analyse the benefits of blogging. The focus is on weblogs as an expression of a culture based on the exchange of information, ideas and knowledge. In the spirit of the free exchange of opinions, links and thoughts we wish to engage a wide range of participants from the blogosphere in this discourse. This time we decided to establish a steering committee that mirrors the different cultures and economics of weblogs and the blogosphere. We have Torill Mortensen, who is the representative of weblogs as social and cultural texts and techniques thus linking to the domain of research. Jörg Kantel and Peter Praschl are representing the German speaking bloggery and partly the technological as well as the journalistic or more aesthetic aspects of weblogging. Clay Shirky represents the domain of social software, usability, trends and usage of web technology. All of the committee are bloggers themselves with one exception, Clay Shirky, who is nonetheless present on the web through his writings and participates in a group-weblog. Please submit a proposal, spread the word of this unique conference, and come to meet us in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be held in the first days of July 2004. Details coming up soon. For further information please visit http://blogtalk.net Thanks for listening Thomas N. Burg

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[PenPlusBytes] ITU Digital Access Index: World's First Global ICT Ranking (fwd)
by robert m. tynes 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:18:30 -0000 From: PENPLUSBYTES <info(a)penplusbytes.org> Reply-To: PenPlusBytes(a)yahoogroups.com To: penplusbytes(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [PenPlusBytes] ITU Digital Access Index: World's First Global ICT Ranking ORIGINAL: English ITU Digital Access Index: World's First Global ICT Ranking Education and Affordability Key to Boosting New Technology Adoption Geneva, 19 November 2003 - The first global index to rank Information and Communication Technology (ICT) access has turned up some surprises. Slovenia ties France; and the Republic of Korea, usually not among the top ten in international ICT rankings, comes in fourth. Apart from Canada, ranked 10th, the top ten economies are exclusively Asian and European. The Digital Access Index (DAI) distinguishes itself from other indices by including a number of new variables, such as education and affordability. It also covers a total of 178 economies, which makes it the first truly global ICT ranking. Countries are classified into one of four digital access categories: high, upper, medium and low. Those in the upper category include mainly nations from Central and Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Gulf States and emerging Latin American nations. Many have used ICTs as a development enabler and government policies have helped them reach an impressive level of ICT access. This includes major ICT projects such as the Dubai Internet City in the United Arab Emirates (the highest ranked Arab nation in the DAI), the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia (the highest ranked developing Asian nation) and the Cyber City in Mauritius (along with Seychelles, the highest ranked African nation). The DAI will be a useful tool for tracking the future advancement of these ambitious emerging economies. The four Asian Tigers have made the greatest progress in ICTs over the last four years. The results suggest that English is no longer a decisive factor in quick technology adoption, especially as more content is made available in other languages. The DAI forms part of the ITU's upcoming 2003 edition of the World Telecommunication Development Report (WTDR). Published to coincide with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), it will be a vital reference for governments, intern , non-governmental organizations and the private sector to assess national conditions in information and communications technology. For full text see: http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2003/30.html --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.537 / Virus Database: 332 - Release Date: 11/6/03

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ANN BlogTalk 2.0 Conference
by Thomas N.Burg 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Dear members of AOIR, this is the official announcement of Blogtalk 2.0. The European Conference on Weblogs - http://blogtalk.net -- July 2004 and its call for papers. The conference is designed to initiate a dialog between bloggers, developers, researchers and others who share, enjoy and analyse the benefits of blogging. The focus is on weblogs as an expression of a culture based on the exchange of information, ideas and knowledge. In the spirit of the free exchange of opinions, links and thoughts we wish to engage a wide range of participants from the blogosphere in this discourse. This time we decided to establish a steering committee that mirrors the different cultures and economics of weblogs and the blogosphere. We have Torill Mortensen, who is the representative of weblogs as social and cultural texts and techniques thus linking to the domain of research. Jörg Kantel and Peter Praschl are representing the German speaking bloggery and partly the technological as well as the journalistic or more aesthetic aspects of weblogging. Clay Shirky represents the domain of social software, usability, trends and usage of web technology. All of the committee are bloggers themselves with one exception, Clay Shirky, who is nonetheless present on the web through his writings and participates in a group-weblog. Please submit a proposal, spread the word of this unique conference, and come to meet us in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be held in the first days of July 2004. Details coming up soon. For further information please visit http://blogtalk.net Thanks for listening Thomas N. Burg

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Correction CfP ECIW '04
by Maura Conway 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Dear All, It's been brought to my attention that the URL for the Web site to accompany the CfP for ECIW '04, which I posted yesterday morning, is incorrect. The correct URL is as follows: <http://www.academic-conferences.org/eciw2004/2m-eciw2004-home.htm>http://www.academic-conferences.org/eciw2004/2m-eciw2004-home.htm. Apologies for the inconvenience, Maura Maura Conway Teaching Fellow School of International Relations University of St. Andrews St Andrews KY16 9AL Scotland Tel.: +44 (0)1334 462939 Fax.: +44 (0)1334 462937 E-mail: mc52(a)st-andrews.ac.uk

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personal homepages
by Katerina 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

My approach to the issue of personal homepages is a psychological constructionist one and what I am mostly interested is how the creators of these homepages make use of these spaces to present, narrate, advertise, construct the self. You can have a look at my page http://www.media.uoa.gr/ndp/index.html. Dionysis Panos

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Internet Studies Graduate Program: 2004 admissions
by Matthew Allen 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

If you are interested in undertaking graduate coursework degrees in Internet Studies @ Curtin University, we are now taking applications for 2004 entry. We offer an articulated program of graduate certificate, graduate diploma and masters courses, all available by online study around the world, fulltime or parttime, with an emphasis on flexibility and, at masters' level, project/research-based individual study. Major areas of study include content management, website design, policy and practices, education and training. New majors in Internet communications (ie marketing and PR) and Internet law are likely to be available from March 2004. We have around 30 graduates, since the program began in 1999-2000; we currently have around another 30 students admitted. For more information, contact A/Prof Matthew Allen m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au and visit http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies. Matthew Allen Internet Studies Curtin University of Technology CRICOS 00301J

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New PhD Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 19 Nov '03

19 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: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:53:59 -0500 From: Kathleen Carley <kathleen.carley(a)cmu.edu> To: kathleen.carley(a)cmu.edu Subject: New PhD Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science announces A NEW Ph.D. PROGRAM IN COMPUTATION, ORGANIZATIONS, AND SOCIETY Deadline for applications: January 5, 2004 The Ph.D. program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (COS) prepares students to be tomorrow's leaders in constructing and evaluating technology that is particularly responsible to societal, business, policy, and regulatory settings. The Ph.D. program in COS trains students to be leading scientists in this heavily sought area by providing students with in-depth training not just in computation but also in fundamental approaches and techniques for including networks of people, organizations and/or policies as additional constraints during development. Students engage in research aimed at developing emerging technology with provable guarantees of the technology's appropriateness for specific social, organizational, and/or legal settings. The Ph.D. program in COS builds on a multi-disciplinary team of world-class faculty. It exposes students to traditional tenets of computer and social science weaved with interdisciplinary coursework, hands-on applications and cutting-edge research. Research examples include privacy technology, dynamic social networks and e-business. MOTIVATION The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in both the breadth and the complexity of computational systems society has come to rely on. This increase in turn is giving rise to a number of new and challenging societal, management and policy issues, which themselves often call for new technological innovations. Examples include privacy rights management, data privacy, electronic market mechanisms and automated negotiation, real time estimation of social networks, dynamic network modeling, scalable visualization of complex systems, online dispute resolution, etc. Attacking these new problems requires profound understanding of computation and the interplay between the managerial, personal and policy networks in which technology operates. Unfortunately, current degree programs in traditional disciplines (e.g. computer science, sociology, economics, policy or management) fail to provide the kind of multi-disciplinary curriculum needed to train tomorrow's leaders in this emerging area. Today's demand for integrated expertise far exceeds supply. As demand for this new breed of researchers continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to offer a PhD program that fills the void. We are pleased to announce the first such program. WHO SHOULD APPLY Students in the Ph.D. program in Computation, Organization and Society (COS) are expected to come from industry, government or directly from undergraduate programs. Students must have an undergraduate and/or master level degree in any of the following areas: mathematics, computer science, computational organization theory, physics, information science/technology, biology, mathematics, or a mathematical/computational social science, government or policy program. In other words, students are expected to already have had a solid exposure to computation and math/science and to some area of the social or managerial sciences. Students apply to the program because of their desire to do research at the confluence of computer science, management, social science, law and/or policy. Students are expected to generally be pioneers who are unsatisfied with traditional degree programs and have strong interest in interdisciplinary research incorporating vigorous computational approaches. More information available at: cos.cs.cmu.edu Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412)268-1593 cos-phd(a)cs.cmu.edu, cos.cs.cmu.edu

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New publication: social networks meet citation networks on and offline
by Barry Wellman 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology vol 55, #2, Jan 2004 "Does Citation Reflect Social Structure? Longitudinal Evidence From the 'Globenet' Interdisciplinary Research Group' Howard D. White, Barry Wellman, and Nancy Nazer Published online 13 November 2003 pp. 111-126 White, Wellman, and Nazer investigate the inter-citation patterns of the 16 international interdisciplinary members of a research group established in 1993 to study human development with the hope of determining whether citation is based on whom those who cite know, or upon what they know, i.e., whether the patterns are social or intellectual in structure. The members of the group are acquainted and the study of the 240 possible pairs indicates that half collaborate and read each other's work, and 74% consider themselves friends or colleagues. Inter-citation patterns were studied prior to 1989, from 1989 to 1992, 1993 to 1996, and 1997 to 2000. Co-citation is shown to predict inter- citation; one cites those with whom one is co-cited. As members became better acquainted, citation of one another increased. Inter-citation was not randomly distributed with a core group of 12 pairs predominating. Friends cited friends more than acquaintances, and inter-citers communicated more than non-inter- citers. However, intellectual affinity, as shown by co-citation, rather than social ties, leads to inter-citation. _____________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________

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