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Reliable Stats on Censorship
by CHRISTIAN SANDVIG 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

> I am looking for reliable stats on the effectiveness of internet > censorship in developing countries. You should try Ben Edelman's empirical stuff on Internet filtering in China: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/ I think this is the most reliable method going, though I have heard a counter-argument that the poor overall quality of Internet infrastructure in China gives Edelman false positives. (That is, the sites are unreachable, but not blocked.) Christian

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Digital divide
by John Daly 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

There was a request a while back for references on the Digital Divide. Check out: "Bridging the Global Digital Divide" by by Jeffrey James; Edward Elgar publisher, 2003. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1843762064/qid=1062343544/sr=1 -4/ref=sr_1_4/102-0273911-6416164?v=glance&s=books A monograph that surveys some of the economic theory seeking to explain the digital divide, then looks at appropriate information and communication technology to serve the needs of the poor (in developing nations). John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant http://stconsultant.blogspot.com

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Re: [Air-l] Reliable Stats on Censorship
by Karine Barzilai-Nahon 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

The following material might be relevant: Kalathil, S., and Boas, T., 2001, "The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba and the Counterrevolution", 21, Information Revolution and World Politics Project, Carnegie Working Papers, p. 28. http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/21KalathilBoas.pdf Amnesty Report from 2002 - People's Republic of China: State control of the Internet: http://web.amnesty.org/web/content.nsf/pages/gbr_china_internet Karine ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Roberts To: air-l(a)aoir.org Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 8:59 PM Subject: [Air-l] Reliable Stats on Censorship I am looking for reliable stats on the effectiveness of internet censorship in developing countries. I am particularly interested in Saudi Arabia but could use information on Singapore, China, and others. Any thoughts or suggestions where one might find this info. Typical searches on Google have not been as fruitful as usual. Joseph W. Roberts, Ph.D., ABD Instructor of Political Science E-Mail: nospam.roberts000(a)earthlink.net

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Reliable Stats on Censorship
by Joseph Roberts 30 Aug '03

30 Aug '03

I am looking for reliable stats on the effectiveness of internet censorship in developing countries. I am particularly interested in Saudi Arabia but could use information on Singapore, China, and others. Any thoughts or suggestions where one might find this info. Typical searches on Google have not been as fruitful as usual. Joseph W. Roberts, Ph.D., ABD Instructor of Political Science E-Mail: nospam.roberts000(a)earthlink.net

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RE: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #814 - 2 msgs
by Vincent Hoek 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-101-1459.jsp Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the forthcoming The Anarchist in the Library and a true scholar of the internet age, presents a compelling, five-part panorama of the implications of electronic peer-to-peer networks for culture, science, security, and globalisation. His provocative argument registers peer-to-peer as a key site of contest over freedom and control of information. Bill Thompson of openDemocracy responds to Siva in a sparkling exchange of powerful, lucid intelligence.

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CFP 5th Media Ecology Association Convention June 10-13, 2004 Rochester, NY
by J Sternberg 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association RIT Campus, Rochester, New York Sponsored by The Department of Communication & the William A. Kern Professor in Communications College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS June 10-13, 2004 How do changing media environments influence the ways in which people express themselves, communicate with each other, and pass on knowledge to future generations? From cities to cyberspace, and ancient writing systems to digital communication technologies, media help shape human interaction, understanding and organization. This conference explores the various ways in which past, present and emerging media environments influence human life in general, and its self-examination via the liberal arts disciplines. These include the subjects of inquiry and the way research is conducted, changes in human and mass communication, policy-making and evaluation, individual expression and representation, formation and change in cultural attitudes, media representations of natural environments, emerging digital expression (hyperfiction, digital poetry, electronic music), and the social impact of media. What is Media Ecology? "It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs."-Lance Strate You are invited to submit papers, panels, workshop proposals, and short film and video works related to the conference theme. Complete papers may be entered for the Top Paper Award or the Linda Elson Scholarship Award (Top Student Paper). Please indicate entry on submissions. Submission deadline December 1, 2003 Send submission to: Dr. Sue Barnes Department of Communication College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, New York 14623-5604 (585) 475-4695 or (585) 475-6649 email: sbbgpt(a)rit.edu Conference Blog: www.rit.edu/~sbbgpt/mea-rit/ MEA Website: www.media-ecology.org

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[CITASA] Email list for Sociology - Communication & Information Technologies
by Keith Hampton 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

FYI. Please join the list... and if you are an ASA member, the section. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CITASA] Email list for Sociology - Communication & Information Technologies Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:49:17 -0400 From: Keith Hampton <knh(a)MIT.EDU> Reply-To: ASA CIT Section <citasa(a)MIT.EDU> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology To: CITASA(a)mit.edu Dear colleagues, Welcome to the new email list of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) section. This is an unmoderated email list open to members and nonmembers of the ASA. The purpose of this list is to support the mission of CIT. Mainly, to support, enhance and promote research, teaching and other professional activities related to: 1) social aspects of computing, the Internet, new media, computer networks, and other communication and information technologies, 2) the design and use of technology in teaching and research. The section council hopes that you will help us revitalize our newly renamed section by sharing your research findings, teaching materials, thoughts, and questions with members of this online community. All are welcome. Your students and colleagues can subscribe to this list by visiting: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/citasa Sincerely, Keith Hampton Section Council & Webmaster Assistant Professor of Technology, Urban and Community Sociology Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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AOIR Toronto: hotel contest
by Rhiannon Bury 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

At the risk of belabouring the point, I wish to once again encourage those of you planning to attend the October conference to book your accommodation at the Hilton. As an added incentive, the Hilton has donated several prizes. Below is the text with details. I already sent a .pdf version around to those who have registered for the conference. However, that list may have been incomplete and others not already signed up may be interested as well. *********************************************** Dear AOIR Delegate: Now that you have registered for AOIR Toronto: Broadening the Band, we encourage you, if you have not done so already, to book your accommodation at the Toronto Hilton and be eligible to win some great prizes! You can complete the form on our website http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/hotel_travel.phtml and either email it to the hotel at the address listed or fax it to 1-416-869-1478. Alternatively, you can telephone 1-800-267-2281 toll free from Canada or the United States; international participants can call (416) 869-3456. Please indicate our block code: ASSA110703. Rooms are $224 CDN a night, taxes extra. If you wish to share a room, check out the roommate finder phorum: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/p/list.php?f=2 Remember that your credit card is only used to secure your reservation up to 4pm on the day of arrival, and no charges will be made to your card until check out. All conference delegate, including those already booked, who have made reservations at the Hilton by 12:00pm (noon) EDT on Tuesday September 2 will be entered in a draw to win a dinner for two at one of the Hilton restaurants during their stay. Five additional people will win free internet access for their hotel room for the duration of their stay. Contest prizes have been generously donated by the Toronto Hilton. The draw will take place shortly thereafter, and winners will be contacted by email. If you have any questions or wish further clarification in making hotel reservations, please contact me at rbury(a)wlu.ca, or welshwitch75(a)rogers.com. We look forward to seeing you in Toronto in October! Rhiannon Bury on behalf of Liss Jeffrey, Conference Chair and the AOIR Toronto Working Committee

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CFP: The Life of Mobile Data Conference
by Sean Smith 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity April 15 16, 2004 University of Surrey, England The rapid adoption and diffusion of mobile devices over the past decade have altered the way information is generated, organized and communicated about individuals and their lives. The construction of new mobile data profiles, and of mobile, informatic selves, hold the potential to transform what is organizationally and interpersonally meant by privacy, individuality, community, risk, trust, and reciprocity in a mobilizing, and globalizing world. In order to examine these transformations, the RIS:OME project at the University of Surrey is hosting an international, interdisciplinary conference to address emerging social and cultural relations of mobility, privacy, identity, information and communication. This conference will bring together academic, industry and policy researchers and practitioners to critically address how mobile information and communications technologies structure relations of privacy, security, trust, power, identity and difference. There are a number of questions that inform the themes of the conference. In what ways, for example, do mobiles reconfigure the relations of trust, risk, privacy and reciprocity embedded in organizational and interpersonal data-sharing? In what ways do mobiles contribute to the construction of identity and of the information self? What is the relationship between mobile data and the individual? Who owns and controls the emerging, individualized mobile data image? What roles do consumption and consumerism play in the social relations of privacy, trust and security? Is the development of mobile technologies associated with emerging relations of risk, uncertainty and privatisation? What social, cultural and regulatory factors have influenced the generation of mobile data in different countries? How do these factors influence culturally specific understandings and practices of globalized and transnational privacy, risk and trust? Are regimes of information sharing and data protection patterned along axes of development and underdevelopment? What roles do national differences and political economies play in the construction of emerging mobile data relations? How are politics reconfigured within and between countries via mobile data technologies and changing mobilities? What critical approaches can be brought to bear on our understanding of diversity, difference and resistance in the generation of mobile data? How can we account for the rapid uptake of mobile devices, and the development of mobile data sharing, both now and in the future? We seek to bring critical perspectives to bear on the development and widespread uptake of mobile technologies and developments in information sharing and data profiling over the last decade. The conference organizers thus invite papers presenting empirically grounded and theoretically informed analyses of the social changes that mobile technologies and their data relations have brought about. Suggested themes could include, but are by no means limited to: · risk, trust and power in mobile information ownership, control, access and management · culturally specific patterns of informational trust and privacy · organizational structuring of mobile information paradigms · data subjectivity and the construction of identity through mobile technologies · mobile communications and emerging regulatory environments · privacy enhancing technologies, their problems, paradoxes and possibilities · privacy advocacy in the mobile environment · organizational and interpersonal information sharing · the lifecycle of mobile personal data: its generation, integration, profiling and mining · mobile surveillance, security and globalization · mobile data protection, data subjectivity and knowledge · information gathering and social memory Papers and panels are invited that address the conference themes. Paper length: 20 minutes. Panel presentations encouraged. Timetable: Submission of Abstracts: 500 700 words, October 31st 2003 Notification of acceptance of papers: December 12th 2003 Paper Submission: February 13th 2004 Registration Deadline: January 8th 2004 All conference correspondence should be sent to the conference organizers at the addresses below. Further details of the conference will be posted to the RIS:OME website (http://risome.soc.surrey.ac.uk) as they become available. Conference Fees, Registration and Accomodation Details of conference fees and registration, and conference accommodation and availability, will be posted to the RIS:OME website as they become available. A limited number of rooms will be reserved on-campus for conference delegates. Requests for on-campus accommodation should be sent to the conference organizers in advance of the January 8th registration deadline. Conference Organisers: Nicola Green (n.green(a)soc.surrey.ac.uk) Sean Smith (s.a.smith(a)soc.surrey.ac.uk) RIS:OME Project (http://risome.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom Phone: +44-1483-689-460 Fax: +44-1483-699-551 With the support of Intel Corporation, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. _________________________________ Sean Smith Research Fellow, Mobile Technologies, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. ph: +44 (0)1483 686 966 m: +44 (0)7786 511 042

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Re: [Air-l] 2-Min-Study
by u.matzat＠t-online.de 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On 26 Aug 03, at 12:01, air-l-request(a)aoir.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:48:20 +0200 > From: Frank Schaap <architext(a)fragment.nl> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-l] 2-Min-Study > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > > Dear colleague, > > thanks for taking part in a brief (2 Min) study: > > http://www.genpsylab.unizh.ch/frames66841/index.html?air > > *giggle* Done... you will share the results with us? Or is it a highly > classified black project? > > > Frank. This was the shortest study I have ever taken part! Since the results section probably won't be too long, I guess that Ulf will share the most important results with the list and nobody will mind of being overloaded with too much information. Uwe +++++++++++++++++++++ Uwe Matzat Institute of Social Sciences Sociology Chair I University of Duesseldorf Universitaetstr. 1 40225 Duesseldorf phone: +49 211 8112851 matzat(a)uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/~matzat !I send this email from my private !email address; please respond only to matzat(a)uni-duesseldorf.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++

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