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[Fwd: [cultstud-l] Console-ing Passions 04: Sorry about cross-posts]
by Rhiannon Bury 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

FYI Rhiannon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [cultstud-l] Console-ing Passions 04: Sorry about cross-posts Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:46:04 -0500 From: "Joy V. Fuqua" <jfuqua(a)tulane.edu> Reply-To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l(a)lists.acomp.usf.edu> To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l(a)lists.acomp.usf.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism: Console-ing Passions May 30 - June 2, 2004 New Orleans, Louisiana We're back! The International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism: Console-ing Passions welcomes proposals for papers, panels, workshops and screenings on television, audio, video, new media and feminism. We welcome a wide range of work on media, including but not limited to: independent video/sound/new media work and video/sound/new media art the Internet and new media global issues/geopolitics genres, stars and producers media theory radio, television, audio, video and new media history children's media gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality in the media televisual narratives audiences and identity technology and everyday life regional and local voices policy, regulation & censorship reality television reception and production studies representing intersectionality international genres media education/pedagogy cyberfeminism and blog power women warriors and Operation Iraqi Freedom DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: NOVEMBER 15, 2003 See http://www.tulane.edu/~communic/cpnola> for proposal submission instructions (coming soon -- if you cannot access the CP website today, try again later). We welcome proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels, and workshops, as well as original video, audio, and new media work. For further program-related information, contact Michele Hilmes at mhilmes(a)wisc.edu>mhilmes(a)wisc.edu. For information on submission of audio, video and new media work, contact Crystal Kile at ckile(a)tulane.edu>ckile(a)tulane.edu. For information related to the conference site, contact Vicki Mayer at vmayer(a)tulane.edu>vmayer(a)tulane.edu or Joy Fuqua at jfuqua(a)tulane.edu>jfuqua(a)tulane.edu. 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University Joy Fuqua, Tulane University Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh Mimi White, Northwestern University Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, chair TULANE UNIVERSITY HOST COMMITTEE: Vicki Mayer, co-chair Joy Fuqua, co-chair Crystal Kile, Videotheque Coordinator Anne McCall Molly Travis Rachel Devlin Marilyn Miller CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS BOARD: Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona Anna Everett, University of California - Santa Barbara Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University Diane Brooks, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Chris Straayer, New York University Jackie Cook, University of South Australia Margaret Montgomeie, University of Derby Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh Mimi White, Northwestern University Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Dr. Joy V. Fuqua Associate Professor Director, Cultural Studies Minor Department of Communication Tulane University 219 Newcomb Hall New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-862-3034 FAX: 504-862-3040 --- You are currently subscribed to cultstud-l as: welshwitch75(a)rogers.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cultstud-l-148636Q(a)lists.acomp.usf.edu The FAQ: http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/faq.html

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Fwd: LG people and internet identities
by Annette Markham 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Hi all, A colleague of mine asked me some questions related to a specific legal case involving gay male adults and underage children in anonymous chatrooms. >Could you let me know of any research dealing with the relative fluidity >or "realism" of identity on the internet? > >Recently several adult gay men were caught in a sting operation after >entering a chat room, where they encountered a police operative >masquerading as a minor. When the gay men showed up for an assignation, >they were arrested. The men claim that identity is especially unreliable >in gay chat rooms where sex is a main topic of activity, and that they had >no strong basis for judging what characteristics (including age) the >person they would meet might have. The meeting was thus an opportunity to >find out the reality, not an act of solicitation based on a presumed reality. I believe the question could be usefully addressed by quantitative studies, which I'm not as familiar with. I'm hoping that some of you might have some leads... Putting aside, if possible, all the complicating factors and questions: 1. What percentage of people hanging out in anonymous chatrooms indicate that they believe the what others say about their identity? 2. In chatrooms primarily dealing with sex, is there more likelihood that people would assume others present false information about their ASL? Thanks for your thoughts, Annette ****************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph. D. Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 W. Harrison St (m/c 132) Chicago, IL 60607-7137 amarkham(a)uic.edu http://ascend.comm.uic.edu/~amarkham/ ******************************

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Help with information gathering - AoIR ethical guidelines
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Dear Sister and Fellow AoIR-ists: One of the great delights over the past year is to learn from the occasional conversation that yes, indeed, the AoIR guidelines are "out there" and making a difference (positive, so far as I know). E.g., * a young researcher approached her IRB to begin the process of applying for approval - and was told, without prompting, that she should be sure to look at the AoIR guidelines since her research involved online venues. (Yes, her project was approved.) * an Australian university (which shall remain nameless until I receive appropriate documentation and permission) likewise has included the AoIR guidelines in its resource database on matters ethical. And...??? (For this philosopher, two data points are good starting points towards a generalization... smile) Here's where you come in (I hope). If you're aware of the guidelines being used in some way at your institution, by a colleague you know, etc. - and if you're at liberty to say, would you mind sending me a note to that effect? My notion is to collect these sorts of listings and include them in a webpage affiliated with the ethics document. Presuming there are a good number of them, this will help other researchers who may want to use the guidelines in arguing for their particular research project's design for appropriate ethical requirements and protections - i.e., if said researcher can point out that other institutions are using the guidelines as well, it will add credibility to them and thus to his/her argument. So - if you're aware of uses of this sort and you and/or your institution are happy to have these publicly noted on a website affiliated with the document, please let me know. In the meantime, thanks - and thanks again to all the folk who made AoIR 4.0 such a delicious feast of new ideas, interesting research, and some of the most enjoyable folks I have the pleasure and honor of knowing. Cheers and all best wishes, Charles Ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Telephone: +45 38 16 89 63 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

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Ph.D. course in internet research ethics
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Dear Sister and Fellow AoIR-ists: I've been encouraged to pass this announcement on - if you know of someone who might be interested in the course and able to participate in Copenhagen next week, please let them know! PHD course: "Internet Research Ethics: Foundations, Law and Guidelines, and Cross-cultural Perspectives" by Professor Charles Ess. 27 October to 31 October, 2003 The course will examine the background, pertinent literatures, and core issues and debates in contemporary efforts to develop an Internet research ethics, in order to achieve both theoretical and practical goals. Charles Ess is professor of philosophy and religion at Drury University, US, and currently visiting professor at the Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication at the IT University. Ess has chaired the ethics working committee - representing some 11 nations both East and West - of the Association of Internet Researchers since 2000. For an extended description, please visit: http://www.itu.dk/Internet/research/phd/courses/InternetResearchEthics/ Cheers, Charles Ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Telephone: +45 38 16 89 63 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

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aoir4 follow-up: Still thinking about ethnographies?
by Christian Sandvig 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Dear AIR colleagues, In the spirit of the amazon.com "customers who bought this book also bought...", if you liked the Lucy Suchman keynote in Toronto about ethnographies of Internet use, you may also like the following special journal issue that came out in print TODAY: "Policy, Politics, and the Local Internet" The Communication Review, Volume 6, Number 3 (2003). More details: http://research.niftyc.org/cr The basic idea behind this project is simply that the practice of public policy could be improved by considering problems of Internet policy and regulation using *ethnographic* research. (This is something that is almost never done in the policy world.) The articles here started at the conference "Ethnographies of the Internet: Grounding Regulation in Lived Experience" discussed previously on this list (http://aoir.org/pipermail/air-l/2002-April/001782.html) All of that was inspired by Daniel Miller & Don Slater's book _The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach_ which was featured prominently in Lucy's talk (and in fact Don was on the program committee for our meeting). Christine Hine -- whose _Virtual Ethnography_ was also put to good use by Lucy at AoIR 4.0 -- participated in the meeting as well. I can't claim that the meeting influenced their thinking on Internet ethnography but I know the reverse is certainly true. So, continuing this post somewhat in the genre of the amazon.com sales pitch: Editor's Review: All of these articles are about the Internet. But even better, if you read this special issue from cover-to-cover, you'll also receive (1) a Russian Tomagotchi joke (2) explanations of the secret software that political consultants use to translate Web banner ad buys into congressional votes (3) the real reason that banks in Singapore were once allowed to receive satellite TV when schools were not, and (4) a superficial discussion of automatic egg incubators in the 16th century. Most memorable informant lines include: "by 2050 a piece of software will be a [political] candidate", "scientists have proven that the Information Society is the next step in economic development", and the Internet is a big city "but we cannot not visit a city just because there are parts of it we do not like." On a more serious note, I've posted the full text of my essay about the issue (see http://research.niftyc.org/cr) if you would like a more serious essay. I've also posted how to get the issue. Regards, Christian -- http://www.niftyc.org/

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DiGRA 2004: Call for Conference Hosts
by Jason Rutter 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

DiGRA CALL FOR CONFERENCE HOSTS:- Digital Games Research Conference; DiGRA 2004 The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) has as a central goal for its organisation the support of an annual conference on digital gaming to take place at a different venue each year. This document is a call for proposals for a committee and location to host the associations second international games research conference in 2004. The inaugural conference will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 4-6 November 2003. Institutions wishing to put themselves forward should consider the following aims of DiGRA when putting their proposal together and highlight how the event they would organise would achieve these: To support digital games research as an interdisciplinary field To encourage dialogue between researchers, practitioners, commercial organisations and policy makers To support digital gaming students and curriculum development To disseminate work produced by the associations community DiGRA is keen to receive proposals that tackle these issues in an innovative manner and build upon standard conference practices. There is no compulsory format for conference hosting proposals but is it highly recommended that they deal with the following: Venue: Location: Institution, town/City, Country. Background: What is the host city like? Attractions for visitors? Entertainment options? Location for visiting other areas before/after conference? Proximity to local game industries or other relevant sites? Venue: Description, facilities, access, lecture theatres, meeting rooms, exhibition space, etc. Accommodation: Description, university/hotel, location in relation to conference venue, facilities, etc. Conference: Programme structure Overview of themes Draft Call for Papers Type of abstracts requested and review process Potential keynote/plenary speakers Special events: Social events: What? When Where? Are they particularly digital gaming relevant or locally typical? Delegate packs: Contents. Proceedings Travel: Distance from international airport/s? Access by bus, cab, coach, train, etc Travel between conference venue and accommodation Estimated travel costs from a range of major cities Costs & Finance (in Euro and US$) Conference registration: Full & Day rates, student rates, DiGRA member rates Accommodation: Per person, room share scheme? Meals/Conference Dinner How will booking be handled? Organisation Conference committee: Details of organisers, responsibilities, administrative support, etc. Status of their DiGRA membership or office. Short research biographies. Plan for coordination of duties within committee as well as with DiGRA executive board; estimate of deadlines for conference planning schedule. Institutional support: Level and nature of department/institution involvement and funding Additional support: Details of finance, facilities, sponsorship or other involvement from additional organisations Dates: Proposed conference dates, deadline for abstracts, etc. (It is strongly recommended that proposers avoid dates conflicting with events such as E3, GDC, GDCe, ECTS, SIGGRAPH, CHI, etc) It is recommended that proposers produce a simple business plan to estimate incoming and outgoing monies for the conference depending on different levels of attendance and financial support. Issues such as how any loss will be accounted for should be dealt with, as DiGRA cannot currently offer any financial guarantee. Procedures should be in place so that in the event that the conference makes a profit DiGRA will receive 10% of this. The association will use this towards developing funds to support conference costs for some students or researchers coming from economically unstable countries. There will be more details in the Conference License Agreement that will be signed by the representatives of the conference organiser and the association. Completed proposals or general enquires about the conference hosting call, and details of the Licence Agreement etc. should be directed to Jason Rutter (Jason.Rutter(a)man.ac.uk) or Frans Mäyrä (frans.mayra(a)uta.fi) *** Deadline for proposals is Monday, October 27, 2003. *** Finally, if you havent organised an international conference before do not underestimate the time and resources it consumes. Think carefully about your organisational network and distribution of labour as well as contingency plans for if your people or funding arrangements change. --- (please feel free to forward to all relevant parties) --- -- Dr Jason Rutter Mobile Entertainment: User Centred Perspectives 25-27th March 2004 - www.mobile-ent.org Digital Games Industries: Developments, Impact and Direction 19-20th September 2003 www.cric.ac.uk/cric/workshops/dgi/ ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Harold Hankins Building, Booth Street West, Manchester M13 9QH. UK Ph: +44 (0)161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter

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editors roundtable follow up
by Ulla Bunz 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Returned from Toronto and am still exited from all the wonderful presentations I've heard and people I met! Thanks to all for a great conference. The editors roundtable was a great success. Despite its Saturday 8:30 am scheduled time, there were about 40 people in attendance and we engaged in (at times) quite lively discussion with the four editors on the roundtable. Special thanks to the editors, who were: Steve Jones, Brian Loader, Teresa Harrison, and Sue Barnes. Next year, I will not be organizing this roundtable, but I gathered that there is continued interest in this, especially with more focus on book publishing. Once the Call for Papers comes out, I encourage all of you to take the initiative and organize an editors roundtable for 2004 in Sussex! During the discussion, I had promised to post two pieces of information to the list, so here they are. The URL for acceptance rates for many journals (most of them within the discipline of Communication but also including some Internet Research journals) is: http://fmp2.its.uiowa.edu/iowaguide/FMPro?-db=iowaguide_.fp5&-lay=plain& -format=journallist.html&-error=notfound.html&-token=alpha&-max=all&-sor tfield=journal%20name&edited=yes&-find You can also try to search for "Iowa Guide Journals" in Yahoo or Google. The article I referred to about reasons for rejecting an article is: Daft, R. (1995). Why I recommended that your manuscript be rejected and what you can do about it. In F. Cummings (Ed.), Publishing in the organizational sciences (pp. 164-182). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Since not everyone may have access to this book, please email me for a PDF copy. Ulla ---------------------------------------------------- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: bunz(a)scils.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------

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TOC - Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies
by Charles Wankel 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Research in Management Education and Development, vol. 2 (2003) Volume title: Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies http://management-education.net/rmed2/ Introduction: Emerging Technological Contexts of Management Learning Charles Wankel and Robert DeFillippi 1. Educating managers, managing education: Trends and impacts of tomorrow's technologies Rogier Brussee, Marjan Grootveld and Ingrid Mulder 2. Learning and Teaching Management on the Web: What Do We Know? J. B. Arbaugh and Leigh Stelzer 3. Online Simulations in Management Education about Information and Its Uses Sheizaf Rafaeli, Daphne R. Raban, Gilad Ravid, and Avi Noy 4. Innovations in Web-format Case Teaching: Leveraging Dynamic Information Delwyn N. Clark 5. Electronic Student Portfolios in Management David S. Chappell and John R. Schermerhorn, Jr. 6. The Place and Space Model TM of Distributed Learning: Enriching the Corporate e-Learning Model John Gallagher 7. Interpersonal Communication Training with Tomorrow's Technologies? Michael Henninger and Birgit Weingandt 8. Mobile Scenarios: Supporting Collaborative Learning Among Mobile Workers Johan Lundin and Urban Nulden 9. Global Management Education: The Case of ERP Enabled Business School Programs William D. Reisel and Edward F. Watson 10. From Vision to Reality: A Model for Bringing Real-World Technology to the Management Education Classroom Michael D. Hamlin, Charla Griffy-Brown, and James Goodrich FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: http://management-education.net/rmed2/ This link has extensive contact information for the chapter authors and purchase information including library recommendation forms.

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Allocation of money within the family - refs needed
by Sue Cranmer 18 Oct '03

18 Oct '03

Hi I'm struggling to find anything about how families negotiate the money involved in buying home computers. Does anyone know of anything relevant? Thanks Sue www.suecranmer.co.uk

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on Web surveys.
by Katja Lozar Manfreda 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

The Journal of Official Statistics (JOS) in cooperation with the Web Survey Methodology Portal (http://www.websm.org) is planning a Special issue on Web surveys. CALL FOR PAPERS Due date: March 31, 2004 ___________________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND TOPICS: In recent years, a new way of collecting survey data has come into use: data collection through the World Wide Web. This innovation has many advantages, but also generates new methodological challenges. For this special issue we welcome manuscripts on various aspects of Web survey methodology and application, including (but not restricted to): · coverage issues and respondent solicitation strategies · sampling and weighting issues · visual design effects including the use of multimedia · nonresponse issues and participation patterns · measurement errors · mode effects and mixed mode surveys · Web data collection in special contexts, such as employee surveys via corporate intranets, etc. · questionnaire development and pretesting methods · studies on the utility and effectiveness of Web surveys, such as cost and benefit issues · software reviews and other technological issues. JOURNAL INFORMATION: JOS is a scholarly journal published by Statistics Sweden, the national statistical office of Sweden. The journal publishes articles on statistical methodology and theory, with an emphasis on applications. For more information on JOS, please visit the JOS home page, www.jos.nu. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Contributions should be submitted exclusively via email to jos(a)scb.se, preferably in MS Word. Detailed guidelines for preparation of a manuscript are available at the JOS home page. Manuscripts proposed for this special issue should not have been submitted or published elsewhere. All manuscripts are peer reviewed and evaluated with respect to quality, significance and clarity of presentation. Manuscripts should be as concise as possible without loss of clarity. To be considered for the special issue, a submitted manuscript must reach JOS no later than March 31, 2004. The special issue is tentatively scheduled to appear in December 2004. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: The special issue is administered by a guest editorial committee, comprised of the following members: · Dr. Michael Bosnjak (University of Mannheim, Germany) · Dr. Gösta Forsman (Swedish National Road Administration and Linköping University, Sweden) · Dr. Annica Isaksson (Linköping University, Sweden) -- Committee chair · Dr. Katja Lozar Manfreda (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) · Dr. Lars Lyberg (Statistics Sweden, Sweden) -- Chief editor of JOS · Dr. Tracy Tuten Ryan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA) · Dr. Matthias Schonlau (RAND, USA) The committee members are looking forward to your submission. ************************************************************** Lozar Manfreda, Katja, PhD Assistant Professor Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana Kardeljeva ploscad 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel. +386 1 5805 284 Fax. +386 1 5805 101 Email: katja.lozar(a)uni-lj.si, katja(a)ris.org Faculty of Social Sciences: www.fdv.uni-lj.si Research on Internet in Slovenija: www.ris.org Methodology of Web surveys: www.websm.org

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