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CONF: The New Web Of History
by Karim R. Lakhani 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

This conference may be of interest to some on our list. THE NEW WEB OF HISTORY A CONFERENCE ABOUT CRAFTING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON-LINE MARCH 28 AND 29, 2003 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Dear Colleagues, The Dibner/Sloan History of Recent Science and Technology Project (HRST) and the Dibner Institute invite you to a conference on the novel opportunities and challenges that the World Wide Web presents for historians of science and technology. The conference has two goals: first, to provide a snapshot of some of the most original projects that use the Web to produce, present and disseminate scholarly and educational materials; and second, to examine critically the challenges as well as the opportunities that such projects face. The conference will be held on March 28th and 29th in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We plan three sessions, each of which includes presentations concerning recent and on-going projects: New Methods, about new tools and approaches for doing history on line; New Products, about the use of new media and the production of content; and New Challenges about issues faced by researchers, academia, and publishers. Each day will conclude with a panel of historians, administrators and program officers offering responses, reflections, and discussing future prospects. The confirmed speakers and commentators so far include: Babak Ashrafi, HRST and MIT Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, HRST and Paris X University Jed Z. Buchwald, HRST and CalTech Daniel Cohen, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Gregory Crane, The Perseus Project, Tufts University Michael Cusumano, Sloan School of Management, MIT Paolo Galluzzi, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University Slava Gerovitch, HRST and MIT Gerd Grassoff, University of Berne, Switzerland Stephen M. Griffin, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation Rob Iliffe, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT Timothy Lenoir, HRST and Stanford University David A. Mindell, HRST and MIT Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Roy Rosenzweig, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Zick Rubin, Copyright Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts Henning Schmidgen, Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Harvey Shoolman, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine George E. Smith, Dibner Institute and Tufts University Michael S. Mahoney, Princeton University Marney Smyth, MIT Press James Sparrow, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics Kenneth G. Wilson, The Ohio State University We hope that you will join us for what promises to be an interesting examination of new possibilities for our discipline. This conference is organized the History of Recent Science and Technology Project [http://hrst.mit.edu] and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Dibner Fund. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND, PLEASE CONTACT CARLA CHRISFELD AT CARLAC(a)MIT.EDU FOR 617-253-8721. SPACE IS LIMITED

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New Nerdi Website
by Paul Wouters 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

New Nerdi Website and WISER project We have started a new European project on Web Indicators last year, called Wiser. More information about WISER can be found at our updated Website http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi. You will find additional information about our activities there, that may be useful to internet researchers and science and technology studies. regards Paul Wouters Dr. P. F. Wouters Programme Leader Networked Research and Digital Information (Nerdi) NIWI-KNAW The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences PO Box 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands T 3120 4628654 F 3120 6658013 http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi paul.wouters(a)niwi.knaw.nl

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response rates to pop-up surveys on health issues
by John Powell 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

Hi all Does anyone have any references to papers which have surveyed health users (particularly users of health virtual communities) using pop-ups, and calculated response/recruitment rates? Or has anyone conducted such a survey themself? I want to compare the recruitment rate in my study with those found in other similar research. Many thanks! John Dr John Powell Clinical Research Fellow London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine john.powell(a)lshtm.ac.uk

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Benchmarking government web site and online service
by Mattia Miani 26 Jan '03

26 Jan '03

Dear Aoirs, I am currently working in a research project aimed at analyzing the quality of government web site in Emilia-Romagna (one of the twenty Italian administrative division, roughly equivalent to a U.S State or a German Lander). We are studying both the quality of what is offered online and the interactivity of thoese services offered online. We are much concerned in benchmarking, that is in comparing our situation with other European and World regions (that's different from National and Local level...). If you know any research that could be useful for this purpose or are interested in this knind of project, please read the rest of the message and send any reference. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Benchmarking Information Society in the Regions of Europe The Emilia-Romagna Telematic Plan The Emilia-Romagna region has recently launched its Regional Telematic Plan 2002-2005. For the year 2002, attention is focussed on: · Broadband infrastructure in the region o A network for Romagna o A satellite for the mountain districts o In Emilia the network runs along the rails · TETRA, an emergency network · Interactive public services · Online General Practitioners and Paediatricians · Digital land registry · E-Procurement for Public Administrations · Support for enterprises operating in the sector In this framework, the Regional Government has launched a benchmarking action, in order to compare itself with other regions in Europe. Quantitative data and comparison between regions provide a great decision-support tool for local policy-makers. Ervet, the Regional Development Agency, is in charge of the execution of the project, which was already carried out successfully as a pilot in the Province of Parma. The benchmarking indicators The benchmarking action is consistent with and takes accoun of main eEurope actions, current European projects such as BISER, and priorities of the Regional Plan. Although not yet finalised and open to discussion, actual indicators for benchmarking are: - Interactivity of public services and quality of public websites - Connection of research centres and universities to Research Networks - Internet access in households - Number of places and graduates in ICT - Number of Public Internet Access Points - E-commerce in enterprises - E-procurement in Public Administration - Availability of broadband connection - Internet connection in schools - Dimension of ICT/multimedia sector WHAT WE HAVE We are already aware of a number of pieces of research, among these: Benchmarking Eeurope http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/benchmarking/text_en.htm Bartelsmann Foundation: Balanced e-government benchmarking http://www.begix.de/en/frames/content.html Accenture, Governments Closing Gap Between Political Rhetoric and eGovernment Reality, studio del 2001 sull'e-gov in 22 paesi http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enWeb&xd=Industries\Government\gove_st udy.xml http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=industries\government\gove_me thod.xml I materiali del laboratorio di Benchmarking della comunicazione pubblica in rete organizzato da Urp degli Urp http://www.urp.it/Database/urpdegliurp/urp.nsf/pagine/35DC4B691A14E2C8C1256C 52002557DA?OpenDocument Cheklist per il controllo della conformità dei siti ai requisiti per l' assegnazione del dominio gov.it (valido per la pubblica amministrazione centrale) http://www.mininnovazione.it/ita/intervento/normativa/dominio.shtml AIPA - I servizi in rete offerti sui siti web delle regioni italiane e delle province autonome Quaderno n. 11 - Luglio 2002 http://www.aipa.it/servizi%5B3/notizie%5B2/Rilevaz_servizi_in_rete.pdf AIPA - I servizi in rete offerti sui siti web dell'amministrazione centrale italiana, Quaderno n. 6 - Ottobre 2001 http://www.aipa.it/servizi[3/pubblicazioni[5/quaderni[3/quaderno_6.pdf Censis - Città Digitali e analisi dei siti della PA centrale (arpa-l, arpa-c) http://www.rur.it/rur/ http://www.censis.it http://www.censis.it/censis/ricerche/2001/paonline/index.html Darrell M. West, Assessing E-Government: The Internet, Democracy, and Service Delivery by State and Federal Governments, Providence (RI), Brown University, 2000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/polreports/egovtreport00.htm l Altri studi, compreso il follow-up di quello del 2000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/policyreports.html Is Your Local Government Plugged In? Highlights of the 2000 Electronic Government Survey Prepared for ICMA and PTI byDonald F. Norris, Patricia D. Fletcher, and Stephen H. Holden University of Maryland, Baltimore County February 27, 2001 http://icma.org/download/cat15/grp120/sgp224/E-Gov2000.pdf INVOLVEMENT If you are working on some similar project, especially in Europe, please contact me outside the list (my email is katanankes(a)yahoo.com) we are looking for partners for future efforts and for polishing our methodology. Mattia Miani University of Bologna ITALY

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Fwd: Positions in Art+Technology at UC Irvine-Please Circulate
by Steve Jones 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

>ASSISTANT PROFESSORS (2) IN ARTS, COMPUTATION AND ENGINEERING (ACE), >UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE > >The University of California, Irvine (UCI) invites applications for >two tenure-track cross-disciplinary positions in the area of Arts, >Computation and Engineering (ACE), a new transdisciplinary program >supported by the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the Henry Samueli >School of Engineering, and the School of Information and Computer >Science. It emphasizes the development of cultural projects and >practices involving real time computation and interaction. For >details and application information, please visit >http://www.ace.uci.edu. >The successful candidates will play a core role in the ACE graduate >program and will have the opportunity to be centrally involved in >the research agendas of the Arts Layer of the California Institute >for Telecommunications and Information Technology (www.calit2.net) >These include the visualization, simulation and interaction lab, the >Game Culture and Technology Lab, and a (proposed) Center for >Research in Interactive, Telematic and Immersive Culture. >The campus has a vigorous research and teaching presence in such >areas as digital media arts, interactive installation, electronic >music, embodied interaction, live performance, game culture and >technology, computer graphics, immersive visualization and >simulation, HCI, CSCW, robotics, sensors, wireless and ubiquitous >computing. We are seeking candidates in any area of computing or >engineering and the arts that will complement or bolster these >emphases. >Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Engineering, an >MFA/MA in Digital Arts, dual degrees, or demonstrated equivalent >experience, with strong research credentials as evidenced by >scholarly publications, research projects and/or public exhibition >and projects. >Applications should include a cover letter, a statement of purpose >including a page each on pedagogy and research, an up-to-date CV, >three recent publications, audio visual documentation of >research/practice, and letters from three to five references. >Documentation of projects can be submitted on CD (Mac/PC compatible) >or VHS video. Websites and online projects can be submitted on CD. >Electronic applications are highly preferable. Instructions for the >submission of electronic applications can be found at: >http://www.ics.uci.edu/about/jobs/faculty.php and questions >regarding the process should be directed to profrecruit(a)ics.uci.edu >or: >ATTN: ACE Search >Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering >305 Engineering Tower >University of California >Irvine, CA 92697-2625 >USA > >Application screening will begin immediately upon receipt of >curriculum vitae. Maximum consideration will be given to >applications received by February 28, 2003. >The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity >employer committed to excellence through diversity, has an active >career partner program and a National Science Foundation Advance >Gender Equity Program.

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Re: [Air-l] Call for reviewers for 2003 AoIR conference
by David J. Phillips 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

I'd be happy to serve as a reviewer. Here's a blurb: David J. Phillips studies the political economy and social shaping of information and communication technologies, especially technologies of privacy, identification, and surveillance. He is the author, most recently, of "Negotiating the Digital Closet: Online Pseudonymity and the Politics of Sexual Identity" (forthcoming in Information, Communication, and Society) and "Beyond Privacy: Confronting Locational Surveillance in Wireless Communication" (forthcoming in Communication Law and Policy) as well as numerous conference papers exploring the relations among policy, economics, ideology, culture, technology. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award to study wireless infrastructure in Finland in Fall 2002. The most appropriate non-streams would be: >Surveillance, Privacy, Security > >Technologies and Infrastructures Thanks for your work! djp David J. Phillips Assistant Professor of Radio/Television/Film University of Texas - Austin CMA6.120, Mail code A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1091 512-471-6624 (voice); 512-471-4077 (fax) djp(a)mail.utexas.edu

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: AILA Literacy 2003
by Bart Bonamie 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Apologies for any cross-posting. MULTILITERACIES: THE CONTACT ZONE 2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy Location: Ghent, Belgium Date: 22-27 September 2003 Call Deadline: 28 March, 2003 Contact Persons: Ronald Soetaert - Bart Bonamie Contact Email: literacy(a)memling.rug.ac.be Website: http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila Official language: English MEETING DESCRIPTION: The concept of Literacy invokes multiple and complex interpretations. The concept is also approached from a varying number of perspectives: both as a problem and a solution to a problem. The theoretical and empirical base can be approached from a large number of perspectives (see themes). More than anything else, literacy is seen as a kind of social practice. As a consequence the focus shifts towards multiliteracies with special attention to kinds of literacy (high and low culture, multi-cultural interpretations) and to the role of media in relation to literacy. Our conference as a 'contact zone' - a space which brings into contact people from many different cultures and disciplines (de/re-)constructing, talking & thinking about the future of literacy and the literacies of the future. THEME & SUBTHEMES: The overall theme of the conference is Multiliteracies. (Sub)themes on this conference will include, but not be limited to: - Literacies and Development (Globalisation, social development, third world development etc) - Literacies and Languages (Reading, Writing, Minority Languages, etc) - Literacies and Identity - Literacies and Education (Special needs, ) - Specific Literacies (Digital, Media, Environmental, Youth, Family, Gender, Scientific, Numeracy, Emergent, etc) - Institutional Literacies (Academia, Schools, Museum...) - Cultural Literacies (Literacies & Cultural Studies) - Literacies & Research Issues - Literacies and Education (Academic, Special needs, etc) OBJECTIVES: - bring together a group of established and emerging scholars from around the world, - focus on the changing literacy practices of contemporary times, - have an interdisciplinary focus, - focus on cutting-edge work in the distinct and emerging fields of language and literacy research that make up literacy studies, as well as numeracy studies. GUIDELINES: Individual paper presentation and poster proposals should be no more than 250 words. Panels will generally include three or four papers or presentations. For panel proposals, the session organizer should submit a 150-250 word statement describing the panel topic, including abstracts of up to 250 words for each paper or presentation in the panel. - Paper presentations (time allotted 30 min) - Posters (space allotted 180x90 cm) Submit abstracts by email in an attachment to literacy(a)memling.rug.ac.be. Remember to give the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, fax number and 50 word biodate. All proposals will be reviewed by the Academic Advisory Committee on their quality and relevance to the themes of the conference. CONFIRMED KEYNOTES: - Shirley Brice Heath - James Gee - Brian Street - Catherine Beavis - Eddie Williams - Donna Alvermann - David Barton - Ilana Snyder IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 March, 2003. Notification of acceptance: 31 April, 2003. Program available: 15 August, 2003. Early bird registration: before 28 March, 2003 Details regarding the program, registration and hotel accommodation will be sent out in February 2003. If you submit an abstract, you will automatically receive this information. If you do not submit an abstract, send us an e-mail in order to receive our next newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit a man on the head with a fish, and he'll have a headache for a day Teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish and he'll have headaches for the rest of his life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bart.Bonamie(a)rug.ac.be - Dept. of Education - Univ. of Ghent (Belgium) http://memling.rug.ac.be - http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/bart

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Last Call for Abstracts: Proposals for September Conference at the OII
by William Stewart 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

>From: "Oxford Internet Institute" <enquiries(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> >To: <oii-news(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk> >Subject: Last Call for Abstracts: Proposals for September Conference at the OII >Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:22:21 -0000 > >Dear Colleagues > >As you may know, the OII is hosting an academic conference for Information >Communication and Society (iCS) ><http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html, a refereed journal >focused on the social aspects of information and communication technologies. >The conference will be held in the heart of Oxford, at the OII and Balliol >College, on 17th-20th September 2003. > >Proposals for papers should be submitted as abstracts of no more than 500 >words, and should include details of the proposer's name, position, >affiliation, and contact details. Please submit proposals electronically to >b.d.loader(a)tees.ac.uk in RTF, Word or PDF format by 31 January 2003. > >More details about this 'Call for Papers' and other OII events can be found >on >our events page <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events.shtml>http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events.shtml > >Regards, > >Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute > > 1.To remove your name from the oii-news mailing list, please send an email to: > majordomo(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk > >with the following message in the body text: > > unsubscribe oii-news > >No subject line is necessary; it will be ignored by the system. > >2. To change your address in the mailing list you should first unsubscribe as at 1. above and then re-subscribe by sending an email from your new address to: > > majordomo(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk > >with the following message in the body text: > > subscribe oii-news > >Again no subject line is necessary. > >Any comments or enquiries about the OII can still be sent to enquiries(a)oii.ox.ac.uk. >Yours, >Kunika Kono >Information Officer

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conf-ann First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology January 27-28, 2003 Main Auditorium U.S. Department of Commerce 14th St. and Constitution Ave. Washington, DC http://www.transformingenterprise.com/ (someone should let them know they weren't the first too) 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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call for papers
by Adrian Miles 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

hi of interest to many here: Call for Papers Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture Special Issue, 36.2, 2003. The Geopolitics of Electronic Messaging Editors: Mary Griffiths and Susan Yell mary.griffiths(a)arts.monash.edu.au sue.yell(a)arts.monash.edu.au Monash University, Gippsland Campus "The Geopolitics of e-Messaging" invites theoretically informed discussions of the social and political outcomes of P2P electronic communications, and case studies of the dynamics of governing new publics and the spaces of private communication. Email, webmail, voicemail, text messaging, ICQ, pxt, chat forums, digital television messaging, discussion boards, and now, wireless communications form distinctive protocols, and different capacities in users. New geographies of space and politics are made possible. But, not all that results from the increase in the kind and volume of communication is beneficial. The pressure on many users is to be always available and immediately responsive. Organisational communications may improve but increased surveillance is the corollary. At home and work, time is needed to manage "legitimate" electronic messages and users also deal with unsolicited spam, and with scams, and viruses. Many find themselves, either willingly or involuntarily, in new and compelling sets of relations with others. New etiquettes of interaction are emerging. The "free" space of limitless communication shows signs of shrinking back to more private and customised domains. For example, online communities now use gating technologies to secure themselves from all but identifiable messages. Individuals are increasingly using filters, junk folders and different accounts for protection of privacy. What is being gained or lost by these developments? Is an organised retreat from the exigencies of the most demanding and clamorous aspects of e-messaging starting? Can the new gated communities be thought of as publics? Do they provide evidence of undemocratic tendencies? What can be produced by the crossing of traditional communicative borders? What are the skills, capacities and literacies which are being formed by different messaging technologies? What counts as "nuisance mail" and how is it being dealt with? How are subjectivities being constructed and governed by compulsory participation in online work and educational communities? How are nations, communities, institutions, businesses and individuals managing the virtual spaces of electronic messaging across physical frontiers? Which technologies are being favoured to help sort and filter messages, and protect the privacy of the user? Conversely, why have weblogs, the privatised acts of publicity and broadcasting, become so popular? Full articles due: April 30, 2003. cheers adrian miles -- + MelbourneDAC2003 digital arts and culture conference [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]

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