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fall colors in Toronto
by Barry Wellman 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

One more reason to come to Toronto: the Fall colors of the trees should be in their glory at the time of our conference. If not in the city, then a short ride northward. And if you're into that, while heading north, I suggest a 1-2 hour stop in Kleinberg, at the McMichael Collection, which has wonderful nature paintings and also Inuit (Eskimo) art. Alas, you must rent a car to get north of the city to Kleinberg, etc. 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 _____________________________________________________________________

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RE: [Air-l] ICS/ OII Symposium 17 - 20th September
by Dianne Looker 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

I will be there. Dianne Looker Sociology, Acadia University. -----Original Message----- From: Denise Carter [mailto:denisecarter@denisecarter.net] Sent: September 12, 2003 5:34 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] ICS/ OII Symposium 17 - 20th September ICS/ OII Symposium 17 - 20th September Oxford, UK hi there i will be at the above conference next week - and am looking forward to meeting any other aoirers best wishes denise Denise Maia Carter, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Hull, Hull , HU6 7RX Tel: 01482 465024 Mobile: 07739 147480 Email: denisecarter(a)denisecarter.net Web: http://www.denisecarter.net _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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11 Sep '03

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AOIR delegates: New Air Canada Sale
by Rhiannon Bury 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

If you missed the last Air Canada seat sale, here's another opportunity for those based in Canada or US. Sale ends September 15! The newspaper ads mention international destinations as well but I don't know if that would include visits to Canada. You could always contact them via website and find out. Canadians, click here: http://www.aircanada.ca/e-home.html Americans, click here: http://www.aircanada.com/us-home.html Rhiannon

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RE: "NEW MEDIA POLITICAL ECONOMIES"
by David Peterson 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Dear Friends and Colleagues: About the interesting phrase, 'new media political economies', three sources that immediately come to MY mind are: 1. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, MANUFACTURING CONSENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MASS MEDIA, 2nd. Ed. (Pantheon, 2002) 2. Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney, THE GLOBAL MEDIA: THE NEW VISIONARIES OF CORPORATE CAPITALISM (Cassell, 1997) 3. Edward S. Herman, THE MYTH OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA: AN EDWARD S. HERMAN READER (Peter Lang, 1999) Hope the work represented by these titles sheds some light upon this matter of the utmost concern. By the way, the phrase "social contract" appears in one of Philip Howard's titles.---Might not the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence these days suggest that the time has come to rewrite this "social contract," if not break it in its entirety??? Sincerely Yours, David Peterson

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Call for Entries: (5 Days left) 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media
by Benjamin Fischer 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media ------------------------------------------------- + Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2003. + ------------------------------------------------- Target Blank - the 17th edition of the Stuttgart Filmwinter is looking for innovative, critical, and unknown posititions in media art and film culture. After the record of 1300 submissions at the last festival the organizer Wand 5 cordially invites filmmakers, media producers, and artists to submit their work. Productions in the field of film, video, internet/www, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance are very welcome. Internet projects can be submitted online. For further information and entry forms please refer to our web site: http://www.filmwinter.de Besides the competiton with prizes amounting 11.000 Euros the Filmwinter offers various special programmes, lectures and performances. contact: Wand 5 im Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A D 70174 Stuttgart Germany Telephone: +49-711-226 91 60 Fax: +49-711-226 91 61 mail: wanda(a)wand5.de URL: http://www.wand5.de

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Public Net-Work articles, E-democracy links and resources
by Steven Clift 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Aoir members, Feel free to use any of my articles in your classes or research ... just drop me a note and assume that permission is granted. I always appreciate being sent copies of your e-democracy/e-government related work: clift(a)publicus.net Thanks, Steven Clift Public Net-Work New papers from Steven Clift, e-democracy expert and speaker: * E-Democracy, E-Governance, and Public Net-Work http://publicus.net/articles/edempublicnetwork.html A short paper with diagrams that explains e-democracy, government online consultations, and introduces a new concept called "public net-work." * Public Net-work: Online Information Exchange in the Pursuit of Public Service Goals http://publicus.net/articles/oecdpublicnetwork.rtf (Word/RTF) A paper completed for the OECD E-Government Working Group that goes into further detail on the public net-work. In short ... E-democracy uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve citizen participation and government decision- making. Public net-work uses similar ICT tools and online communities to encourage direct stakeholder and citizen participation in efforts that help governments, NGOs, and others implement established public programs and priorities in new and more effective ways. If you are a public network practitioner, please attend the online conference planned for this October <http://publicus.net/publicnetwork.html>. Other resources and related articles: * Democracies Online Newswire - DoWire http://e-democracy.org/do <- Subscribe here A free e-mail list with announcements related to e-democracy, e-government, and related topics. Specializes in original "primary source" information with no more than seven posts a week. DoWire's 2500 members come from over 75 countries. * E-Democracy Resource Links http://publicus.net/articles/edemresources.html Links page to the best and most consistent e-democracy and e-government starting points across the Internet. Easily printed as a two-page flyer for free use anywhere. * Volunteer Opportunities - E-Democracy.Org http://e-democracy.org http://e-democracy.us Volunteer for global, U.S., and local chapter activities. Help us implement technology from the citizen perspective. Steven Clift is the volunteer Board Chair of E-Democracy. * Highlighted articles and presentations by Steven Clift http://publicus.net/articles.html - Start an Online Commons - Global E-Democracy Trends Presentation - Q and A Interviews - E-Democracy: The Promise of the Future is a Reality Today - E-Governance to E-Democracy: Progress in Australia and New Zealand toward Information-Age Democracy - Online Consultations and Events - Top Ten Tips for Government and Civic Hosts - Representative E-Democracy Presentation - Future of E-Democracy - The 50 Year Plan - E-Democracy E-Book: Democracy is Online 2.0 - An Internet of Democracy - Top Ten E-Democracy "To Do List" for Governments - Top Ten Tips for "Weos" - Wired Elected Officials - A Wired Agora - Minneapolis, Citizen Participation, the Internet and Squirrels - Democracies Online: Building Civic Life on the New Frontier - Using Electronic Communication for Political Discussions - Building Citizen-based Electronic Democracy Efforts * Questions or Comments http://www.publicus.net/contact.html clift(a)publicus.net Thanks, Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net Reply to: clift(a)publicus.net ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: clift(a)publicus.net Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - M: +1.612.203.5181 Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://e-democracy.org/do My blogging experiment: http://travelscoops.com

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new media political economies
by Philip Howard 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hi Andrew / Lisa: I'm also curious about what is meant by 'new media political economies'. If you mean the market for political information and the business side of new media political campaigns, I have a piece called Digitizing the Social Contract: Producing American Political Culture in the Age of New Media, in Communication Review, 2003, 6:213245. page proofs are at http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publications/socialcontract.pdf. also coauthored a piece with Tema Milstein called Spiders, Spam, and Spyware: New Media and the Market for Political Information, coming out in Mia Consalvo's Internet Studies 1.0 (Peter Lang: 2003). preview at http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publications/howardmilstein.pdf. p. Phil Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/

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Call for papers - Gender & ICT Symposium
by Laurence Claeys 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion Research on the inter-relations between Gender and Information & Communication Technologies is dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and creative. In January 2003 the symposium 'Gender and ICT: Where are we at' was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We aim to pursue the discussions begun there and therefore we are pleased to announce the symposium entitled: Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion This symposium aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines and research schools that are familiar with ICT and gender studies, women's studies or feminist studies. The symposium will be held in Brussels on 20 January 2004. We invite abstracts on the following themes : - Women, Work and Computerization - Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life - Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education - Gendering Technology: Structure and Design Examples of possible paper sections in the different themes: Women, Work and Computerization Job profiles and the influence of ICT, the impact of ICT skills in the job function classifications, influence of ICT on work organisation, computerization of work and surveillance, portrayal of ICT (functions), etc. Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life Possession and use of ICT, domestication, ICT-literacy, user and skill divide, consequences of use of ICT in the organisation of daily work and private life, ICT and family life, privacy and ethics, wearables and biometrics, on-line activities, interaction, Participation and democracy, etc. Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education Gender differences in ICT-use in school contexts Computer attitudes, learning styles, informatics curriculum, e-learning, feminist pedagogies, ICT and lifelong learning, etc. Gendering Technology: Structure and Design Women designing and shaping contents and systems of the new technologies, social shaping of technology, production of ICT, feminist critiques of computing, gender scripts of technology, participatory design, user-friendlessness, adaptivity, etc. The deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is November 15. The final programme will be available by December 15. The working language of the symposium will be English. Abstracts may be submitted to: Laurence Claeys or Sarah Meersman at: steunpuntgeka(a)ua.ac.be Programme Committee: Els Rommes, Sally Wyatt, Anne-Catherine Devolder, Magda Michielsens and Laurence Claeys. The symposium is a joint initiative of the Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities (Belgium) and the European SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society) network. It is part of Digitales and is supported by the. Dutch Association for Gender and Technology (The Netherlands). During the symposium, members of SIGIS will present their final research reports. Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities : http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be (website only in Dutch) Dutch Gender and Technology Association: http://www.indexsociety.nl/genderictsymposium/aboutvgt.htm Digitales: http://www.digitales-online.org SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society): http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/ Website of the conference: http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be/genderandict [still under construction].

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The One to Watch: Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity
by George Lessard 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

> New book on radio and the Internet The One to Watch: Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity Information and download at http://comunica.org/1-2-watch --- >> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> Via / Excerpted / By / From / Thanks to: From: "Bruce Girard" <bgirard(a)comunica.org> Date: Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:12:31 AM Canada/Eastern _______________________________________________ Cr-afghan mailing list Cr-afghan(a)comunica.org http://comunica.org/mailman/listinfo/cr-afghan_comunica.org >> (c)info http://tinyurl.com/jkkw http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources. http://tinyurl.com/h4m7 http://media002.tripod.com/ >> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." >>> (Gandhi) *****************************************

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