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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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new technologies: diffusion comparison diagram
by John Daly 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

I think about the diffusion of the Internet to developing countries. Getting onto the Internet depends on having a computer and a telephone connection. Most people who have computers already have telephones. Diffusion of the Internet to people with both is a relatively easy, inexpensive process. In developing countries few people have either computers or telephones. I suspect that the process of diffusion of the Internet will become much slower when it has exhausted the installed computer and telephone capacity, and new linkages will require both a new computer and a new telephone. I have seen estimates that a billion people in the world still don't have electricity. I suspect that the diffusion of Internet technology to illiterate people who not only don't have computers and telephones, but who don't have electricity will be quite a different process still. John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com

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New IT & Civil Society Reports from the Social Science Research Council
by Sabino 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Dear Colleagues: The transnational digital linkages among civil society organizations have produced an entirely new realm of politics beyond the state. However, there are significant constraints on the further development of civil society networking. In order to provide the knowledge necessary to move forward to overcome those constraints and expand the global networking of civil society, the Social Science Research Council has produced two reports on information technology and civil society that we think might interest you and are now available. They are: - "Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Strategic Uses of Networked Technologies by Transnational Civil Society Organizations " - "Global Governance of Information Communication Technology: Implications for Transnational Civil Society Networking." The reports can be read on or downloaded from our Web site at www.ssrc.org/programs/itic If you would prefer to receive a hard copy please send a request to Ms. Marcela Sabino at sabino(a)ssrc.org. In addition, we have recently published Bombs and Bandwidth which examines the use of ICT by governments, businesses, terrorist and criminal organizations, and social movements. The book has been featured in an article on MSNBC Newsweek: http://www.msnbc.com/news/986097.asp?0cv=KB20 Background on the book is available on our web site <www.ssrc.org/programs/itic> . **Note: This is an announcement by the Information Technology and International Cooperation program at SSRC. You are not subscribed to a mailing list. If you prefer not to receive announcements from us in the future, please let us know. We hope that you will be interested and engaged with our efforts.**

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re: new technologies
by Bernie Hogan 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Its also important to remember that the levelling of the diffusion curve is the best way to predict saturation. It is not 100% of the population (that's a limit, like that ol' calculus stuff I once did). And the fact that it started in 1991 regardless of us *nix geeks reminds me of a cheeky comment by Paul DiMaggio at Webshop (http://www.webuse.umd.edu ) this summer. "Nobody used the Internet until 1994, cuase that's when *we* started measuring it". Cracks me up every time. In any case, recent reports like PEW (http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=88 ) from May 2003 suggest that some 'laggards' are in fact rejected adopters, while others live in the house with adopters and do indeed have 'access if they want it' but don't see the need in adopting the Internet. In a sense, imposing the discourse of "Internet is great, get on board" on them might be a sort of technological imperialism. I think of my former employer, smart as a whip and owner of one of the finest collections of Newfoundland historical literature in the world, who really did not see herself as benefitting from internet adoption, and she might actually be right! If anyone wants to take this thread off the list feel free to email me. oh and: PLEASE DO NOT SEND HTML POSTS TO AIR-L!!!! I get a daily digest which does not parse the html, so I have to read through a lot of xml and html crap to get at the goods (your thoughtful posting). Be kind to you ascii feathered friends. BERNiE Bernie Hogan Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto bernie.hogan(a)utoronto.ca

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Conference: Quality for cultural Web sites
by Monica Murero 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

This is one of the most important events of the year in the field of "quality for cultural web sites"- online cultural heritage for research. If you will participate let me know so we can gather! Monica Murero AoIR Executive Committee- Appointed Seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Italian Semester of Presidency of the European Union EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MINERVA Quality for cultural Web sites Online Cultural Heritage for Research, Education and Cultural Tourism Communities Parma, 20-21 November 2003, Auditorium Paganini Free entrance Conference website: http://www.minervaeurope.org/events/parma/parmaconference.htm Program: http://www.minervaeurope.org/events/parma/parmaprogramme.htm

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new technologies: diffusion comparison diagram
by catherine middleton 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hello, Can someone point me to a downloadable diagram that compares diffusion rates for new technologies, e.g. telephone, VCR, internet etc? I've seen many versions of this sort of diagram, but can't seem to locate one that I can put directly into a powerpoint presentation. It doesn't really matter whether the data is North American or from elsewhere, it's the overall trendlines I'm interested in. Any suggestions as to where to find something like this would be most appreciated. Thanks, catherine middleton cmiddlet(a)ryerson.ca

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new technologies: diffusion comparison diagra
by Bernie Hogan 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hi everyone, #1 DVD is diffusing faster than the Internet, as is the mobile phone in many places. It is not unprecedented. Furthermore, the diffusion curve here suggests that television might have been as steep. #2 Everett Roger's book "Diffusion of Innovations" is highly recommended. I haven't read the fifth edition so I cannot speak to it, but the fourth is really great. #3 Internet diffusion should be probably broken down by dail-up vs high-speed and definately by country. #4 It shold also be noted that this chart wold sugest the internet was invented 9 years ago. Would that make the chart 2000, and the internet being correlated with WWW? One should be very careful to make such claims, given that the role of DARPAnet and all sorts of precommercial work has been embedded in the history of the Internet's development. It would still behave like a logarithmic curve but it does inject a different sort of ideology into the picture about who is responsible for the Internet's diffusion, AOL, the FCC or general diffusion trends. #5 There is some evidence to suggest that the Internet will not receive the total diffusion that telelvision did. It is already being outpaced by mobile phones in many places. Nonetheless, this is still an interesting graphic. Thanks! BERNiE Bernie Hogan Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto bernie.hogan(a)utoronto.ca http://edublog.com/hogan/

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