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Res: Re: [Air-l] Re: Air-l digest - The Social Movements Question
by rsvasc＠ar.microlink.com.br 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

So would I. Regards, Camila Drt <drt(a)un.bewaff.net> wrote : > Am Montag, 30.06.03 um 15:47 Uhr schrieb Sandor Vegh: > > > Hans, > > > > I can offer a relevant chapter or two from my dissertation (it has a > > strong > > focus on the mainstream media perspective): > > > > Hacking for Democracy: A Study of the Internet as a Political Force > > and Its > > Representation in the Mainstream Media. Doctoral Dissertation. > > University of > > Maryland. 2003. > > Hi Sandor, > > I would be extremly interested in your theses. > > Regards > > Max > > -- > Maximillian Dornseif - http://md.hudora.de/ > Dipl. Jur., University of Bonn, Germany - ars longa, vita brevis! > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l ___________________________________ Microlink Internet com Qualidade, http://www.microlink.com.br

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sources on Internet Policy - Canadian
by T Kennedy 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Hello; Statistics Canada offers some basis for assessing the market potential for internet services as well as highlighting several 'digital divides' (principally along income, education, and age lines), but they offer little insight on what value these services hold for people nor guidance on how to ameliorate the gaps. I am looking for some sources concerning qualitative studies, in (English-speaking) Canada that address policy concerns or studies that have linked Internet policy and ethnographic fieldwork. Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy Graduate Department of Sociology University of Toronto www.netwomen.ca tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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CFP: e-Democracy - Technology, Law and Politics
by Robert Krimmer [e-Voting.at] 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Please distribute --- Call for Contributions E-Democracy: Technology, Law and Politics Report of the working group E-Democracy Forum e-government of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) Content: Numerous applications use the Internet for business and administrative transactions. The question remains, however, how the Internet can be used for the support of democratic decision making and citizen participation ("e-democracy"). In order to achieve this, technical challenges have to be solved; however, also legal and political aspects have to addressed. The OCG working group e-democracy was founded in autumn 2002 and addresses e-democracy in its entirety. The aim of this proceedings volume is to summarize the current state of the discussion not only in Austria, but also on the development of e-democracy on an international scale. This call for contributions addresses mainly the presenters in the course of the working group but contributions from all researchers and practitioners in the field of e-democracy are welcome. Contributions may specialize in the fields of IT-related issues, legal, political or sociological aspects of e-democracy. Both theoretical research, comparative studies and case study reports are welcome. Publication: The volume will be published in the series OCG/ Forum e-Government. Editors: Prof. Alexander Prosser, Mag. Robert Krimmer The members of the working group serve as review board. Language of contributions: German or English Kind of contribution: Either a Full Paper (4.-5.000 words) or a Short Note (1.500 words) shall be submitted. Important Dates: 31st July 2003: Deadline for submitting extended abstracts (500 words) 20th August 2003: Author Notification of Acceptance 30th September 2003: Submission of camera-ready papers The proceedings volume will be presented during the OCG AT21 conference in Vienna (18th November 2003) and Graz (4th December 2003) to the general public (AT21 dates are subject to change). Upload and Submission details are available at http://e-Voting.at/proceedings. --- Mag. Robert Krimmer (robert.krimmer(a)wu-wien.ac.at) ~ Projektassistent e-Voting.at ~ Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien Institut fuer Informationsverarbeitung und -wirtschaft Abteilung Produktionsmanagement Pappenheimgasse 35/5 A-1200 Wien, Austria ~ phone: +43 1 31336 5622, fax: +43 1 31336 90 5622 ~ web: http://www.e-Voting.at, http://www.robert.krimmer.at --- Get the Austrian e-Gov-Mailinglist! Subscribe at http://lists.wu-wien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/e-gov

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Re: <nettime> from the dotcom observatory (geert lovink)
by geert lovink 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

> 6. <nettime> from the dotcom observatory (geert lovink) > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:48:41 +0200 (added by postmaster(a)eta.fastwebnet.it) > From: "geert lovink" <geert(a)springerin.at> > Subject: [Air-l] <nettime> from the dotcom observatory > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hi, someone must have used my name to send this file (a virus?) to this list and other addresses. Looks like an Italian hacker or someone in Austria perhaps if you look at the email and header. Sorry about that. It happens more often. I stopped looking into such cases long time ago. The who and why do not bother me but it is annoying anyway. Ciao, Geert > Content-Type: audio/x-midi; > name=treba da.txt.pif > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-ID: <a1f144IBpimiH>

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CFP -- Critical Discourse Studies
by Phil Graham 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Dear All, Please distribute widely. Best regards, Phil ********************** Call for Papers Critical Discourse Studies: An interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences A Routlegde Journal -- New for 2004 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17405904.asp Editors: Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University, UK Phil Graham, University of Queensland, Australia Jay Lemke, University of Michigan, USA Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna, Austria Authors are invited to submit papers for publication in Critical discourse Studies, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Routledge-Taylor & Francis. Critical Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change. The journal has been established in response to the proliferation of critical discourse studies across the social sciences and humanities. We will consider for publication papers that meet the needs of scholars in diverse disciplines and areas of study which develop critical perspectives on the relationship between discourse and social dynamics. Relevant areas and disciplines include, but are not limited to: anthropology communication cultural studies education ethnic studies gender studies geography history legal studies linguistics literary studies management studies media studies migration studies philosophy political economy political science psychology sociology technology studies urban studies The ediitors also welcome papers which connect critical academic research with practical concerns and agendas, including those of activist and grassroots political movements. The scope of critical discourse studies is not limited to linguistic studies, or articles that are primarily empirical or analytical. Critical examination of non-linguistic phenomena that take a significant discourse orientation, as well as theoretical and methodological papers that advance critical understandings of discursive phenomena, are welcomed. Recognising the diversity, depth, and history of scholarship in the growth of critical discourse studies, no particular theoretical, disciplinary, or methodological "schools" or paradigms will be privileged over others in the selection of papers for publication. The primary criteria for publication are originality, scholarly rigor, coherence of argument, relevance and timeliness of research. Critical Discourse Studies encourages contributions from both new and established scholars. The journal recognises that the new and rapidly changing social relations of the current age call for new approaches and new understandings that bridge disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Therefore the editors strongly encourage the submission of papers that help us achieve these aims. Critical Discourse Studies aims to be accessible. It aims for papers that are written clearly, explain key terms and concepts in an accessible way for readers at many levels, and recognise the needs and interests of its diverse community of readers. For further information, or to submit manuscripts, email editorial(a)cds-web.net . Further information, including notes for authors, is available at the Routledge-Taylor and Francis Critical Discourse Studies webpage: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17405904.asp. International Advisory Board John Armitage - Northumbria University, UK Henrik Bang - University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Billig - Loughborough University, UK David Boje - New Mexico State University, USA Dominic Boyer - Cornell University, USA Carmen Caldas-Coulthard - University of Birmingham, UK Eve Chiapello - HEC Grand Ecole, France Paul Chilton - University of East Anglia, UK Lilie Chouliaraki - University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mike Cole - UCSD, USA David Cromwell - Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK Robert de Beaugrande - Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil Konrad Ehlich - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Yrjo Engestrom - University of Helsinki, Finland Susan Gal - University of Chicago, USA Annette Hastings - University of Glasgow, USA Rick Iedema - University of New South Wales, Australia Bob Jessop - Lancaster University, UK Douglas Kellner - UCLA, USA Helga Kotthoff - Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany Robin Lakoff - Berkeley, USA Colin Lankshear - University of Ballarat, Australia Angel Lin - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Allan Luke - National Institute of Education, Singapore Izabel Magalhaes - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Bernard McKenna - University of Queensland, Australia John O'Neill - Lancaster University, UK Ernesto Laclau - University of Essex, UK Bruno Latour - Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Mark Poster - UC Irvine, USA Luisa Martin Rojo - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Carlo Ruzza - University of Essex, UK Ron Scollon - Georgetown University, USA Roger Silverstone - London School of Economics, UK Glenn Stillar - University of Waterloo, Canada Adam Tickell - University of Bristol, UK Teun van Dijk - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Theo van Leeuwen - University of Cardiff, UK Karl Weick - University of Michigan Business School, USA James Wertsch - Washington University in St Louis, USA Stanton E. F. Wortham - University of Pennsylvania, USA ....................................................................................................................... Phil Graham Senior Lecturer UQ Business School www.business.uq.edu.au Editor, Critical Discourse Studies www.cds-web.net www.philgraham.net/philindex.htm ........................................................................................................................

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Re: Air-l digest - The Social Movements Question
by Sandor Vegh 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Hans, I can offer a relevant chapter or two from my dissertation (it has a strong focus on the mainstream media perspective): Hacking for Democracy: A Study of the Internet as a Political Force and Its Representation in the Mainstream Media. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Maryland. 2003. The abstract, TOC, and a brief chapter overview: http://www.hungarianamerica.com/veghs/papers/abstract.pdf Chapter Seven deals with online political activism in general, and also offers a case study. Please let me know if you're interested - I'll give you (or anyone) access to the full paper. Cheers, Sandor

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<nettime> from the dotcom observatory
by geert lovink 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

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CFP: "Identifying New Media," Winter 2003 special issue, Post Identity
by Rosemary Weatherston 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Post Identity, a national, fully-refereed journal of the humanities, publishes scholarship that problematizes the narratives underlying individual, social, and cultural identity formations; that investigates the relationship between identity formations and texts; and that argues how such formations can be challenged. Increasingly we, our contributors, and our readers are finding that the most powerful of these cultural formations and their most provocative critical challenges are combining text, images, and sound: we use to watch films; we now consume DVD assemblages of multiple cuts, interviews, and games. We use to only print our work; we are now publishing web sites that embed that work in multimedia settings. In response to these cultural and disciplinary changes, Post Identity has partnered with the University of Michigans Scholarly Publishing Office to transform itself into an audio-, graphic-, and video-enhanced web-based journal that can make available the new forms and subjects of contemporary critiques of identity, as well as more traditional text-based scholarship. The theme for our Winter 2003 special issue is Identifying New Media. We are looking for submissions that theorize how new media forms (DVDs; e-books; Internet blogs, digital archives, interactive gaming; etc.) are changing cultural and academic understandings of identity and authorship, and/or how new media might provide models for new forms of scholarship. We especially are interested in experimental work that performs its theory, such as essays or projects that offer alternative models to the standard academic essay. We are interested in the relationship between the form and content of academic discourse, and the ways in which this discourse might evolve in light of the new media scene. We invite the immediate submission of 300-word abstracts of essays and other academic projects on this theme. We encourage submissions from a variety of theoretical perspectives and from all disciplines for which the critique of identity is of vital and central concern. Final essays/projects should fall within the range of 3,000 to 10,000 words and will be due September 30, 2003. Please submit abstracts to Professor Rosemary Weatherston at weatherr(a)udmercy.edu. Past print issues of Post Identity are available until September 2003 at http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/pi/. The new web-based format of PI is under construction at http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/postid/. Editorial Board Houston A. Baker, Jr. M. Keith Booker Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang Benjamin Click Anne DeWindt Edwin DeWindt S. E. Gontarski Arnold Krupat Luis Leal Wayne Lesser Paul Lorenz Lev Manovich Carla Mulford Judith Roof Werner Sollors Molly Abel Travis James D. Wallace Jeffrey A. Weinstock Christina Zwarg

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (july 2003)
by david silver 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Friends: New reviews (found at www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: Paul Dourish, Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (MIT Press, 2001). Reviewed by Tom Bell Psychologist and freelance writer Ollivier Dyens, Metal and Flesh: The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over (MIT Press, 2001). Reviewed by Bryan Alexander Center for Educational Technology Middlebury College Colette Nicolle and Julio Abascal, Inclusive Design Guidelines for HCI (Taylor & Francis, 2001). Reviewed by Rita Lauria Media Interface and Network Design (M.I.N.D.) Labs Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal, William J. Mitchell, eds., High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology (MIT Press, 1998). Reviewed by Gracie Lawson-Borders Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Southern Methodist University As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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Social Movements
by LLang944＠aol.com 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Social movements/Internet We are glad to see our work cited, more recently Castells and Sklair have used some of our perspective. I am not familiar with the citations shown in the post, but with Internet, stuff gets posted everywhere/anywhere. For folks who want to look it up/have a print reference, the paper we gave at AoIR 1.0, much revised appears as Langman, Lauren, Douglas Morris and Jackie Zalewski, "Cyberactivism and Alternative Globalization Movements", in Wilma A,. Dunaway, ed. Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System. pp. 218 -35. Westport: Conn, Greenwood Press, 2002. We have another paper in press that notes the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, it is concerned with virtual public spheres, will appear (04) in Social Theory. We did an early, power point version at our Midwest Soc and Steve Jones was the commentator. (Will send ppt if asked) For folks in/near Atlanta, Dana Fisher will have a session at ASA, Aug, on soc movements and will do our latest version. Further, I have organized a session for AoIR 4.0 Toronto, with Valerie Scatamburlo, Victor Pikard and Steve Walker on the topic of sm on the net. Do join us. Personal comment: while not well covered in mass media, the internet is empowering people accross the globe and slowly, surely, there is ever more resistance, confrontation against domination-now fascilitated by the net. The extensive use of the net in organizing Porto Alegre and organizing NGOs is amazing, and while demonstrations get press, you know the "crazy criminals" that challenge global power and capitalism, the extent of grass roots organization is where the action is at. For example, as we network, there are major contests between the masses of people in Iran and the theolocratic gerontocracy-and one place this takes place is cyberspace. A major issue besides the political is the moral, pornography abounds. But in this case, much like the old pre net, samistad (sp?) presses in the USSR, pornography, as an exemplar of the grotesque of carnival, as Bakhtin has shown, is a protest, resistance, albiet symbolic, against established authority. Now I am not saying that watching porn> freedom and democracy, it may actually be the other way around, but it does become a point along a policed border on the cultural terrain, where established power is challenged. (I am doing a paper for a book on cyberporn if anyone has any ideas, please send), Hope to see all at AiOR 4.0

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