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online jobsearch aids for grad students
by Jonathan Sterne 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hi All, I've become the graduate job placement officer in my department (it's a communication department), and so I'm looking for suggestions for good resources online for grad students who are first hitting the academic job market. I've already got a bunch compiled, which you're invited to see and use as you like. You can find my joblinks page at: http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne/joblinks.html OR just go to http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne and hit the "joblinks" link. My department only produces students in rhetorical or media studies -- no social scientists, orgcom, interpersonal, or media professionals. So the page is geared toward that audience, and I'm really only interested in links that would be useful to humanistic comm scholars going out on the job market for the first time. If you have suggestions, you can send them directly to me at jsterne(a)pitt.edu Thanks for reading. --Jonathan

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Mobile Consumer Behavior Report
by Philip Sidel 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hello, I just wanted to let you all know about our new report "The Emergence of Context" an in depth study of consumer behavior on the Mobile Internet. It can be downloaded for free at www.mocobe.com. I look forward to your comments on our work. --Philip 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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Web site analysis seminar
by Christine.Hine 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

There are a few places left at a seminar on web site analysis to be held at the University of Surrey on September 15th. This seminar is part of the Virtual Methods series funded by ESRC. Further details and registration information at http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmsem6.htm Please book your place by August 29th at the latest. Christine Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Digital Review of Asia Pacific
by Danny Butt 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Kia ora koutou Please find below the website address and foreword info on the Digital Review of Asia Pacific, a book I think will be a valuable reference for researchers interested in ICT development in the region. I'd appreciate it if you could encourage your libraries etc. to purchase a copy. Visit the site for order details. We'll be working on a 2004/5 edition next year. Please also forward to anyone else you think would be interested. Cheers, Danny ------------------------------ DIGITAL REVIEW OF ASIA PACIFIC http://www.digital-review.org/ Riding the waves of change: Transforming the digital divide into digital opportunities Shahid Akhtar UNDP-APDIP Claude-Yves Charron Orbicom Maria Ng Lee Hoon IDRC-PAN "The new communications era should not be perceived as a purely technological phenomenon. Its ultimate impact is social and cultural, although technological advancement is the key enabler. This new era invites a change in social and cultural patterns." Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen1 (1996) The Digital Review of Asia Pacific aims to report on the state-of-practice of ICTs in the region, on the innovative ways the new technologies are being deployed to advance the socioeconomic development of Asia-Pacific countries and on emerging attempts to transform the digital divide into digital opportunities. To take stock of the situation and elicit some of the future trends involved, four organisations decided to come together on this initiative as co-publishers of this volume: the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Pan Asia Networking (PAN) Programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and, the network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications (ORBICOM) in close collaboration with Southbound. This publication is an extension of the innovative editorial concept for the Pan Asia Networking Yearbook published in the early years of the digital revolution by IDRC. The readership we are aiming to serve includes all who work at societal transformation through ICTs for development, including policy makers, members of industry, ICT specialists and development practitioners both within the Asia-Pacific region and on the international scene. The authors participating in this initiative belong to the same diverse constituencies as the target audiences and come from 27 economies in the region, including areas for which almost no data was available until very recently. The authors and members of the editorial board met in Kuala Lumpur in November 2002 to conduct a peer-review process, which determined the content of this publication and elicited the regional trends published here. They also enjoyed the opportunity of taking part in a public forum at the MIMOS headquarters while in Malaysia. A choice was made by the participants of the Kuala Lumpur meeting for a non-technology focus for this first edition of the Digital Review of Asia Pacific to complement the existing body of literature devoted mainly to connectivity, access and e-readiness issues, 2ensuring that this publication meets the current critical need of reporting on how the region is deploying ICTs for development. A number of our contributing authors took part in the Asia-Pacific regional consultation on the World Summit on the Information Society, and the series of case studies presented here provide us with an impressive diagnostic of the transition between the digital divide and the digital opportunities for the countries covered. These diagnostics will be updated on a regular basis via e-mail to registered subscribers. This publication will be followed up by the 2004-2005 edition. The case studies and the regional trends discussed in this edition present us with a unique source of information by key scholars, members of the industry and policy makers who are well established in their respective countries. The chapters provide solid, well-grounded and nuanced perspectives on current issues and challenges. They make a unique contribution to ongoing national debates concerning endogenous development and to regional and international debates leading to the two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society of December 2003 in Geneva and November 2005 in Tunis. The regional trends provide us with the building blocks for a discussion on the leadership needed to effectively deploy ICTs to achieve development goals and about the different types of actors involved: national governments, corporations, scholarly communities, civil society and donor agencies. One of the weak links undoubtedly relates to the lack of leadership within some technology and scholarly communities to strengthen the response of the education system to the ICT revolution and to provide leadership in the localisation of content. A very young man, more than 40 years ago, presented a PhD dissertation entitled Struckturwandel der Offentlichkeit ,3later published by Herman Luchterhand Verl g (1962). One might consider, when reading the 28 essays here, that we could expand on Habermas' analysis of the role of the press in the creation of a new public sphere and consider that we are entering a new communications era, with the technologies and the cultural and social changes they induce, confronting us with a new type of public sphere, very different from the traditional mass media, much more participatory in nature and much more international. Such a new set of dynamics, be it in Afghanistan or in Japan, Timor-Leste, China or India, invites us to an unfamiliar way of riding the waves of change. We still have to learn how to cope with these new dynamics and to ensure that they allow for the realisation of the millennium development goals. Notes 1. Azzman Shariffadeen (1996). New Communications Era: Economic, Social and Cultural Consequences for Developing Nations. In A. Goonasekara, Y.S. Beng & A. Mahizhnan (Eds), Opening Windows: Issues in Communications . (pp. 104-12). Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre. 2. Dutra, S., Lanvin, B. & Paua, F. (Eds) (2003). The Global Information Technology Report: Readiness for the Networked World . New York : Oxford University Press. 3. Habermas, Jurgen (Translated by Thomas Burger) (2000). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 11th printing. -- http://www.dannybutt.net

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Call for Entries: TARGET BLANK: 17. STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER - FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA
by Benjamin Fischer 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENGLISH VERSION SEE BELOW! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TARGET BLANK: 17. STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER - FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film Video Neue Medien Installation Performance Vortraege Festival 15.-18. Januar 2004 Warm Up 9.-14. Januar 2004 http://www.filmwinter.de Target Blank - der Stuttgarter Filmwinter geht in die 17. Runde - stets auf der Suche nach Innovativem, Kritischem und Unbekanntem in der Medienkunst und Filmkultur, nach den Zwischenzonen und Freiraeumen im Medienbetrieb. Nach dem Rekord von ueber 1300 Einreichungen beim letzten Festival sind alle Film-, Medien- und Kunstschaffende herzlich eingeladen, ihre Arbeiten in den Bereichen Film, Video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, Internet, Installation und Performance fuer den kommenden Filmwinter einzusenden. Einreichung Online-Projekte koennen direkt ueber die Festival Website http://www.filmwinter.de eingereicht werden. Anmeldeformulare fuer Film, Video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, Installation und Performance koennen im PDF-Format heruntergeladen werden. Deadline fuer Einreichungen: 15. September 2003 Preise In den Sektionen Film/Video und Neue Medien werden Preise in Hoehe von ueber 11.500 EUR vom Publikum und unterschiedlichen Jurykommissionen vergeben. Team-Work-Award Die Hoppe-Ritter Kunstfoerderung stiftet EUR 2.000,- fuer eine Film- oder Videoproduktion, die von einem Team realisiert wurde. Norman 2004 Preis der Jury fuer Film und Video in Hoehe von EUR 1.500,- Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart fuer Neue Medien Zwei Preise in Hoehe von insg. EUR 4.000,- gehen an Arbeiten aus dem Bereich CD-ROM/DVD-ROM oder an Projekte im Internet. Milla & Partner Preis Preis fuer Medien im Raum (Installationen) in Hoehe von EUR 2000,- DASDING-Publikumspreis Publikumspreise in den Bereichen Film/Video und Internet in Hoehe von jeweils EUR 1.000,- Sowie weitere Preise und die heissbegehrte Wand 5-Ehrenauszeichnung Neben den beiden Wettbewerben fuer Film/Video und Neue Medien wird das Festivalprogramm mit Spezialreihen, Panels, Praesentationen und Musikevents ergaenzt. Weitere Informationen: Wand 5 e.V. im Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A D - 70174 Stuttgart Germany Tel: +49-711-226 91 60 Fax: +49-711-226 91 61 Mail: wanda(a)wand5.de http://www.filmwinter.de http://www.wand5.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TARGET BLANK: 17TH STUTTGART FILMWINTER - FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film Video New Media Installation Performance Lectures Festival, January 15-18, 2004 Warm Up, January 9-14, 2004 http://www.filmwinter.de 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, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance are very welcome. Submission Internet-projects may be submitted online on the festival's website http://www.filmwinter.de. Entry forms and regulations for submissions in the field of film, video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance can be downloaded as PDF-file. Deadline for submission: September 15, 2003 Awards In the sections film/video and new media prizes amounting more than 11.500 EUR will be awarded by the audience and various jury commissions. Team-Work-Award The Hoppe-Ritter Art Sponsorship endows an award of EUR 2.000 for a team production in the field of film and video. Award of the Jury Award of the Jury for film and video of EUR 1.500 State Capital Stuttgart Awards for New Media These awards of EUR 4.000 go to an independently produced work on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or to a project published on the internet/www. Milla & Partner Award Award for media in space (installations) of EUR 2.500 DASDING-Audience Award Audience award for film/video and internet of respectively EUR 1.000 as well as further prizes and the popular honourable mention by Wand 5 Besides the competitions for film/video and new media a wide range of special programmes, panels, presentations and music events will be offered. Further information: Wand 5 e.V./Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A D - 70174 Stuttgart Germany Tel: +49-711-226 91 60 Fax: +49-711-226 91 61 Mail: wanda(a)wand5.de http://www.filmwinter.de http://www.wand5.de

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ISEA2004 Deadline extended to 20 September, 2003
by Susanna Paasonen 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

************************************************************ ISEA2004: The 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art ************************************************************ CALL FOR PROPOSALS ************************************************************ +++ Deadline extended to 20 September, 2003 +++ ************************************************************ http://www.isea2004.net - Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki - August 14 - 22, 2004 new media art - media culture research - electronic music - art and science - cultural and social applications for new media - New media meets art, science, research, and popular culture at ISEA2004 in Stockholm - Tallinn - Helsinki. For the first time an event of this scale is being organised between three cities and on the ferry travelling between these three Baltic countries. International participants and local audiences attend thematic conferences, exhibitions, live performances, screenings, satellite events, concerts and clubs. Many events are also interfaced via television, radio, broadband Internet, and mobile networks. We are encouraging: Socially, critically and ecologically engaging work; Projects that bring the creative media to the streets; Projects that are worn on or inside people; Context sensitive work in the museums; Projects that float, dock or sail; Screen based media as it appears in 2004; Sea Fair: technological gizmos for ferry travellers and future media archaeologists to discover; Bridges between club scenes and art venues; Most engaging works from performing arts that engage new media, users, and audiences; Networks to network... Key themes for the event include: Networked experience (Stockholm) Wearable experience (Tallinn) Wireless experience (Helsinki) Histories of the new: media arts, media cultures, media technologies - all cities Additional themes include: Open source and software as culture (Helsinki) Critical interaction design (Helsinki) Geopolitics of media (Tallinn) Interfacing sound (Helsinki and on the Ferry - in collaboration with Koneisto - http://www.koneisto.com) We are currently inviting proposals for projects and papers for the exhibitions, conferences and associated programs during ISEA2004. Projects might include: works for exhibition in a gallery; workshops; installations in public spaces; live performance; interfaced screenings; games or shared environments; projects which encourage remote participation - etc. Proposals for the conference can include papers and panels but we are equally interested in workshops and roundtables: discussion formats that encourage participation and exchange of ideas. We are also working with a range of local organisations who may be able to host short and medium term residencies or workshops for artists who are keen to spend a longer time working with local artists and organisations. Information on these opportunities will be regularly added to the web site, so do register to receive updates. ISEA2004 will be an exciting week long event, but we are also interested in providing a space to build long term, sustainable exchange and collaboration. The time on the Ferry will provide a space for less formal dialogue and social intercourse, so feel free to propose workshops and meetings for the exchange of information and ideas. Our over all aim for ISEA2004 is to create an event which is thematically and critically coherent and provides new insight. Please note that ISEA2004 is a forum for artistic, academic, and culturally or socially relevant work that has not previously been presented in international forums (you may have showed/presented it in your local context). All submissions are done via our website using a web form and stored into a database. This procedure allows us to have the proposals reviewed by International Programme Committee (IPC) members. We very much look forward to hearing your ideas! For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info(a)isea2004.net Our partners for the event are: MAIN ORGANISER: m-cult, centre for media culture in finland http://www.m-cult.org HELSINKI: Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma http://www.kiasma.fi Conference: Media Centre Lume (University of Art and Design) http://www.lume.fi Electronic music: Koneisto (Festival for electronic music and arts) http://www.koneisto.com STOCKHOLM: Coordinator: CRAC, Creative Room for Art and Computing http://www.crac.org Conference: Moderna Museet http://www.modernamuseet.se and Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm) http://www.kkh.se Exhibition: Färgfabriken http://www.fargfabriken.se Electronic music: Fylkingen http://www.fylkingen.se TALLINN: Coordinator + conference: Estonian Academy of Arts http://artun.ee Exhibition: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia at The Art Museum of Estonia http://www.cca.ee ISEA2004 is produced in collaboration with ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts http://www.isea-web.org For further information: http://www.isea2004.net info(a)isea2004.net

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Electronic Media in 21st Century Social Movements
by Charles Tilly 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

For a chapter on 21st century social movements, I would welcome papers, bibliographies, crucial citations, or observations on how the availability and employment of electronic media have affected the organization and practices of recent social movements. I promise acknowledgments for items I use. Chuck T. -- Charles Tilly Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University Office 514 Fayerweather Hall, letters and packages 413 Fayerweather Hall, Mail Code 2552, Columbia University, New York 10027-7001, USA telephone 212 854 2345, fax 212 854 2963, electronic ct135(a)columbia.edu

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Forthcoming Conference in Oxford
by Vicki Nash 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Please can I bring to your attention a forthcoming conference to be held in Oxford by the Oxford Internet Institute on the 2nd October. For details of how to register please go to http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/conference_021003.shtml COMMUNITY & MOBILITY: LIVING WITH THE TECHNOLOGIES OF REMOTE COMMUNICATION The second annual Community in the Network Society conference A conference bringing together academics, community practitioners and policy-makers organised by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Community Development Foundation in partnership with the Said Business School. 2 October 2003, 9.30am-5.00pm Said Business School, Oxford Chair: Nina Wakeford, University of Surrey Key themes: How do different communication technologies support the varying degrees and understandings of mobility experienced by different communities? What impact does this have on relationships at the neighbourhood level? 0900 Registration and Coffee 0930 Introduction and welcome 0940 Keynote Speech - Community & Mobility Professor John Urry, University of Lancaster Comments from panel and discussion Panel: Professor Ron Rice (Rutgers University), Anne Pridmore (UK Disability Forum for European Affairs), Steve Soames (Devonport Regeneration Company) 1100 Coffee 1130 Plenary - Mobility, transience & connection Kris Cohen, Incite, University of Surrey - Homeless single mothers & the use of mobiles Joy Etheridge, Freedom and Empowerment for Women (tbc) - Achieving a sense of community through technology in the setting of domestic violence Panel response & discussion 1300 Lunch 1400 Parallel breakout sessions . Speaker from Young Gypsy and Traveller Cyberpilots (tbc) - Travelling communities and their online experiences . Aydin Mehmet Ali, author and consultant - Experiences of online mobility as expression of linguistic and national identity 1445 Plenary - Virtual mobility & community Cameron Marlowe, MIT Media Lab and creator of Blogdex Panel response 1530 Tea 1600 Panel comments and discussion 1645 Review and summing up Victoria Nash, Policy & Research Officer, OII Dr Victoria Nash Policy and Research Officer 01865 287231 Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1, St Giles OX1 9DT www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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FW: Global Access to UK Research: Removing the barriers
by Rowin Cross 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Global Access to UK Research: Removing the barriersHi, I think there was a strand on this on the list a couple of weeks ago - hope this of interest to some. Best wishes Rowin -----Original Message----- From: A JISC announce list. [mailto:JISC-ANNOUNCE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf Of Katie GARDENER (7256) Sent: 11 August 2003 15:58 To: JISC-ANNOUNCE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Global Access to UK Research: Removing the barriers Global Access to UK Research: Removing the barriers 20 November 2003 Universities UK, Woburn House, London The JISC wishes to invite individuals in the further and higher education sectors who are interested in the dissemination of the results of UK research to attend a one-day seminar at Universities UK, Woburn Place, London on Thursday 20 November. The distinguished guest speakers - who include Mark Walport of the Wellcome Trust and Jean-Claude Guedon of the University of Montreal - will describe current initiatives to remove the barriers to research publications. The barriers of price and licensing restrictions are hindering access to the results of academic research world-wide, and the seminar will place UK initiatives in the context of international moves to create open access to published research. The topics to be discussed will concern heads of academic departments, deans, directors of research and other senior members of universities. Further information and the booking form are available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=event_reseach_1103

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Digital Gaming Industries Event: Manchester, UK
by Jason Rutter 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Hi All, We're rapidly approaching the registration deadline for this workshop but there are still a few places available. Jase -- DIGITAL GAMES INDUSTRIES: Developments, Impact and Direction 19th-20th September 2003 ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition University of Manchester, Manchester, England. http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/workshops/dgi/ Call for Participation The digital gaming industry is one of the more important recent examples of the phenomena of restless capitalism and creative destruction: new activities emerge from within to compete with older, more established, ones as rivals displace them or succumb to competitive pressures themselves. As these new activities become embedded in economic systems and old ones disappear there are profound effects on the structure of economies, as well as on production, consumption, demand, technology and employment. The study of the digital games industry allows us to gain new insights about innovation, the creation of new consumption and economic activities, the growth of business opportunities and the development of the market in terms of demand, consumption and supply. Against the current backdrop of a highly competitive economic environment of gaming platforms, leisure software and new game-enabled consumer technologies, the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) is hosting a two day workshop on the socio-economics of digital gaming. The workshop will bring together international delegates from academic, policy and commercial circles for in-depth discussion on nature and characteristics of this emerging sector: the 'drivers', key 'players', the 'current state of play', and the impact of the industry on the modern economy and the framework of its evolution. Themes covered include: * Competitive processes and their regulation * The technology of gaming * Evolving new sectors * Role of venture capital and investment * Standardisation of technologies and markets, instituted economic processes * Inter-firm interactions and strategic alliances * IPR, licensing and piracy * Labour markets and mobility * Economics of demand and consumption * Evolution through success and failure A draft programme can be found at www.cric.ac.uk/cric/workshops/dgi/ Registration for this event in now invited. In order to facilitate high level discussion and debate participant numbers for this event and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. The fee for the event is £150 which includes registration for both days of the workshop, two lunches, workshop dinner and all workshop documentation. We look forward to seeing you in Manchester. Stan Metcalfe Jason Rutter Ronnie Ramlogan -- Dr Jason Rutter 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 http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter

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