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minor histories that became major
by jeremy hunsinger 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

mosaic probably wasn't the first browser, do you know what was? Mosaic Web Browser Celebrates 10th Birthday URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr0343 Type : News Releases Subtype : Computer/Information Sciences jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Fwd: [C-FIT_Community] Hackers Have Field Day with Madonna Decoy
by jeremy hunsinger 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

this is from cfit post, which is an interesting group, but other than that this is another interesting example of hactivism. Begin forwarded message: > From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson(a)RealMeasures.dyndns.org> > Date: Sun Apr 27, 2003 10:22:29 PM US/Eastern > To: C-FIT_Community(a)RealMeasures.dyndns.org, > C-FIT_Release_Community(a)RealMeasures.dyndns.org, > fairuse-discuss(a)nyfairuse.org, DMCA_Discuss(a)lists.microshaft.org, > DMCA-Activists(a)gnu.org > Cc: dpreed(a)reed.com > Subject: [C-FIT_Community] Hackers Have Field Day with Madonna Decoy > Reply-To: C-FIT_Community(a)realmeasures.dyndns.org > > > (Forwarded from Pho list) > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: pho: Hackers Have Field Day with Madonna Decoy > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:22:08 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Parres <johnparres(a)yahoo.com> > To: pho(a)onehouse.com > > I do love it so when the Pho list drives the reportage =) > > JP > > ------------------------------------------- > >> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=3&u=/ >> nm/20030427/en_nm/music_madonna_dc > > Hackers Have Field Day with Madonna Decoy > Sun Apr 27, 3:55 PM ET > > By Chris Marlowe > > LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Anyone who thinks they can control > the > Internet received an object lesson during the past week. > > > It all started when Madonna (news - web sites) literally lent her > voice to a > popular antipiracy technique. Warner Music Group had audio files > purporting > to be her new songs uploaded onto peer-to-peer file-sharing services. > Anyone > who downloaded the decoys, however, heard nothing but the pop star > swearing > at them. But since then, the pithy profanity has taken on a life of > its own. jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: email destroying friendships?
by stuszyn＠bgnet.bgsu.edu 26 Apr '03

26 Apr '03

>--The permanence or relatively long-lasting imprinting of words can >sometimes affect people more deeply than words uttered in passing. While I dislike anything that priviledges f2f contact over electronic, I do have to agree with this, especially since email means different things to different users. I've known people who compulsively save every communication they receive. This can lead to problems when an email written in the heat of a moment comes back to haunt the writer a few weeks later when calm has been restored (I tend to act as though anything I put out on the net in any form can always come back at me later). Similarly, a political discussion gone bad in person can perhaps fade from memory more readily than an email which can be saved and reread over and over. Something I keep thinking when I read studies about CMC in relationships (or in any arena) is that the studies aren't long-term, at least not yet. I believe that long term studies of use of CMC in relationships would end up yielding results that match up fairly well with f2f relationships. While email and chat and so forth can make communication easier to do/require less physical effort, the technology itself does not maintain a relationship. No matter what form you use to communicate with another person, you both have to work to keep it going. :) ST "The right use of language, respect for it, care and attention in engaging in it, implies - demands, makes real - morality, and ethics. The right use of language leads to respect, care and attention for others. Language is a moral activity."

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Re: [Air-l] Re: Query on Digitial Technology and National Identity
by Charles Ess 26 Apr '03

26 Apr '03

If anyone is still interested in these... I've followed the suggestions of Joan Korenman, Nick Noakes, and Jeremy Hunsinger as follows. The original slides can be directly downloaded from www.drury.edu/ess/herg/catac-cc.ppt (566KB) Jeremy has kindly converted the slides to both PDF and a Quicktime movie: the PDF file can be directly downloaded from www.drury.edu/ess/herg/ess-herg-catac-1.pdf (1.1 MB) The Quicktime movie is available at http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/ess.mov Again, if these are of interest, you're welcome to review them - comments and suggestions welcome! Cheers and all best wishes, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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CISCO router eavesdropping
by Ulf Reips 26 Apr '03

26 Apr '03

Hi all, there is an article on new developments in router eavesdropping, affecting privacy on the Internet: http://news.com.com/2010-1071-997528.html Cheers, --u -- ********** Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Psychology Department University of Zurich ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *Dimensions of Internet Science* available from -> http://www.genpsy.unizh.ch/reips/dis/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Perforations 26 - Kismet, my love... CFP
by Lists 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

CALL FOR PAPERS: Kismet, my love Perforations 26 Guest editor Charles Kriel <journal(a)kriel.tv> Senior editor Robert Cheatham <zeug(a)pd.org> http://www.perforate.org/ Theme: Kismet, my love is concerned with the growing phenomena of the mediation of personality and the marketing of the self via new tools for communication: text and multimedia messaging; 3G video phones; mobile and stationary email; web pages; web logs; networked software agents and others. It is concerned with both the technical workings of any new innovations with potential use in this context, as well as the social implications and the theoretical issues surrounding them. As Perforations is an e-journal with impact beyond the theoretical, we are interested in works that express their ideas through a variety of media, including sound, video, visual art, performance, etc., as well as the written paper. George Myerson¹s Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone, is one possible starting point in this exploration. To quote John Bird on Myerson: [M]obile phone communication is, essentially, the provision of information through a technology which does not really require a person on the other end of the handset. The MIT AI Lab robot, Kismet, built by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, is another source. Although Kismet speaks nonsense, it will engage you in conversation. Through gesture and vocal inflection, it will make clear that it understands that you have said something to it, it will speak non-demanding nonsense back to you, and then indicate that it is your turn to speak again. It insists only that you keep it at the right level of stimulation, and that you keep a reasonable distance. Finally, blogs play a role in this work. Frankfurt School theorists critiqued the wearing of one¹s personality externally and materially, whether through fashion or some other inscription into the corps of collective expression; the more democratic the language of expression, the more banal. Blogs, which typically express individual personality via a collection of links and a display of friendships (I am what I reference), are ripe for evaluation within this framework, whether pro-Adorno, anti-, or viewed within more contemporary theoretical parameters. This particular trend of expression of the individual via selection from the collective belies a drift in culture in general: the arrogation of the curator over the artist, the DJ over the musician, the blogger over the journalist. Kismet, my love privileges neither voice, but seeks, as well, to evaluate this shift in culture. Papers & Works: Perforations 26 will feature works and/or papers from: Dr. Richard Barbrook - University of Westminster Hypermedia Studies Siobhan Davies, CBE - Siobhan Davies Dance Company Gary Carter - former Executive Director of Programme Affairs, Endemol International Format: There are no limits to media formats, other than that which can (reasonably) be placed on the web. There are preferences, however: PDF & Word files will be converted into HTML and be made available for download in either format. Papers and artworks are equally encouraged. This will be an ISBN registered, peer-reviewed issue of Perforations. Submissions: Submissions should be sent to Charles Kriel, at journal(a)kriel.tv Abstract Deadline: 31 May 2003 Deadline: 31 August 2003 Perforations is an affiliate of Public Domain, Inc, a 501-c-3 organization unaffiliated with any other organization. Charles Kriel Guest editor Charles has been creating film/video and media works since relocating from Atlanta ten years ago; first to Prague, then Venice and London. Born a third-generation circus performer, Charles is PhD in media art from Central Saint Martins, and has received awards/grants/commissions from Prix Ars Electronica, ICA, MOMA-Oxford, London Institute, Royal Festival Hall, British Council, Dance on Screen, and London Arts. As a media artist, he has exhibited in the gallery of Tomato Design, at the 1999 Venice Biennale, and throughout the Middle East, Europe, Russia, the US and Australasia. As a composer, he has composed by commission an opera and several song cycles, and his work is released by ÖRF (Austria) and Electroshock (Moscow). As a filmmaker, writer and photographer, he is regularly commissioned by BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra and has also been commissioned by MTV, ITV and Channel 4. Also a media theorist synthesising the works of McLuhan, Lacan and Freud as they apply to digital media in his recent work Noise and the Uncanny, he has delivered papers and talks at University of Westminster, Institute of Education, London Institute, Oxford Brookes, and a number of conferences.

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Call for Papers- Contemporary Research in E-Marketing, Volume 1.
by Sandeep Krishnamurthy 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

Some of the members of this list may be interested in this. Please accept my apologies for cross-posting. --------- CALL-FOR-PAPERS CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN E-MARKETING, Volume 1 To be Published by: Idea Group Inc., Hershey, PA. Editor: Sandeep Krishnamurthy, University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep E-mail: sandeep(a)u.washington.edu [A copy of this Call-for-Papers in Microsoft Word format is available at- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/cfp.doc] Description of the Book The Internet/Web and related technologies have had a transformational impact on the marketing function. The four Ps of marketing [Product, Price, Place and Promotion] have all been affected. Digital products and services have emerged as a major force. New price formats such as auctions have met with considerable success. Distribution channels have been reshaped. New forms of promotion [E.g. permission marketing] have led to interesting ways of building relationships with the online consumer. Online communities have provided new marketing opportunities and challenges. The Internet has brought us closer to the vision of a global marketplace. Mobile technologies now promise the creation of exciting new services based on location-based targeting.

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Fwd: [Freesw] communities
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

kindly send replies to Monica.MIRANDA-SILVA(a)cec.eu.int Begin forwarded message: > From: Monica.MIRANDA-SILVA(a)cec.eu.int > Date: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:40:35 PM US/Eastern > To: freesw(a)conecta.it > Subject: [Freesw] communities > Reply-To: freesw(a)conecta.it > > I am suppose to write a state-of-the-art report on cybercommunities. I > am > concerned about the relation between tools/processes/objectives. Is out > there someone willing to help me? please... > _______________________________________________ > Freesw mailing list > Freesw(a)conecta.it > http://mail.conecta.it/mailman/listinfo/freesw > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Digital Games Research Conference 2003
by Mia Consalvo 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS MAY 1. Digital Games Research Conference 2003 4-6 November 2003 University of Utrecht, The Netherlands -:*:- The inaugural world conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) will take place at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. University of Utrecht, Faculty of Arts, Department of New Media and Digital Culture, is collaborating with DiGRA and numerous academic and other partners in the conference implementation. The conference will include keynote lectures, paper sessions, posters, symposia, workshops and other events. Call for papers The conference will be the first official event of the new interdisciplinary association DiGRA, aiming to promote quality research of games, interdisciplinary collaboration in games research, design and development, and recognition of game studies as an academic field of enquiry. A wide range of approaches is encouraged focussing on research, design and development. We aim at a broad diversity of topics, such as: [Computer Games] On the history of games, game aesthetics (narrative, interactivity) and game play (structure, time, multiplayer platforms). [Design/production] Concerned with the relationship between the designer/producer and the game (programming, project management). [Reception] Reception focuses on the individual players relationship to the computer game: the cognitive, social, psychological and therapeutic effects of games. [Games as an aesthetic phenomenon] On games as art, game-genres and storytelling. On the similarities and differences between computer games and other media [Games as a cultural phenomenon] How games are interpreted, their meaning and significance to the player, their contribution to an understanding of oneself, of relationships with others, and of ones world (gender, ethnicity, nationality). [Games as a social phenomenon] Considers normative aspects of computer gaming and the effects of games on social behaviour. Issues include the effects of computer games on (un)acceptable or (un)desirable behaviour, such as aggression and addiction, and participation and education. There are possibilities to present a paper or poster, give a workshop, organize a symposium or present a game concept/ demo. [Papers] Papers will be limited to 30 minutes, which includes time for questions and comments. Two or three paper presentations will be linked in one session, every session will have a chairperson. [Posters] Posters consist of a large print-out or cd-rom which shows a research project. These are being presented in the main hall and possibly during the Game Fair. [Symposia] Symposia will be limited to 1 hour and 45 minutes. With from two to four presentations on a common theme, followed by discussion. [Workshops] Workshops can be planned during 1-3 sessions of 1 hour and 45 minutes . They should include instructional and working elements. [Game concepts] At a Game Fair, held during the conference, students and art/ non-commercial/ educational game designers can present their work (games or demos) . Participants who would like to present a paper or poster, give a workshop or organize a symposium should submit an abstract in English. Participants who would like to present a game or demo during the Game Fair should submit the game and a short introduction in English. Abstracts have a 300 words maximum and should include a short biography, email and postal address. We encourage participation by students. Deadline for submitting abstracts: 1 May 2003. Abstracts can be submitted by e-mail to: abstracts(a)gamesconference.org Your abstract or proposal will be reviewed by an international scientific committee for its suitability to the conference. The authors of the selected papers will be asked to write a full article to be published beforehand in the Conference Proceedings. Registration for the Digital Games Research Conference 2003 will open at the end of May. Financial support may be available to participants for whom registration fees and travel costs would present a hardship. Contact/University of Utrecht: info(a)gamesconference.org Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein Dr. Joost Raessens, Associate Professor Drs. Marinka Copier Contact/DiGRA: Prof. Frans Mäyrä, President; frans.mayra(a)uta.fi Dr. Jason Rutter, Vice-President; Jason.Rutter(a)man.ac.uk Celia Peirce, Liaison Officer; celiap(a)uci.edu -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

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opportunity for publication
by katharine sarikakis 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Dear colleagues, We are currently preparing an edited volume that examines some of the social, cultural and political dimensions of the Internet and we are looking for one or two chapters that will offer a critical analysis (preferably including original research data) of the use/potential of the Internet for development. Ideally we are looking for very well theorised case studies of the Internet in broader Asia and/or Africa. However any study related to the issues mentioned will be considered. If you are interested please contact k.sarikakis(a)coventry.ac.uk <mailto:k.sarikakis@coventry.ac.uk> as soon as possible. You may want to discuss an idea or send a chapter proposal directly, please do send a few lines about your research interests and publications as well. We would like to solicit the study/ies in the next couple of weeks so if you are writing/have just written a relative piece we would love to hear from you. Katharine Sarikakis, Coventry University Daya K. Thussu, Goldsmith College

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