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Job at University of Surrey, UK
by Nina Wakeford 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Some list members may be interested. The University is home to two related research centres - INCITE (www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/incite) and DWRC (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/) Nina Wakeford Director, INCITE > > >University of Surrey > >School of Human Sciences >Department of Sociology > >Lectureship in Sociology (Ref: 3711) > >Salary: Lecturer Scale A/B, up to £33,679 pa > >Applications are invited for a Lecturer in Sociology with expertise >in one or more of the following areas: the sociology of culture, >media, new media or communications technologies. The post will >commence on 1 September 2003. The post-holder will join a lively, >research active department which achieved a 5* in the 2001 RAE, and >currently has over £3million worth of research grants and contracts. > >The post holder will be expected to make a significant contribution >both to the department's research and to the BSc in Sociology, >Culture and New Media. He or she will be expected to supervise >undergraduate and Masters dissertations, and doctoral students. >Depending on the particular areas of interest and expertise of the >successful candidate, there would be opportunities to teach on other >parts of the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum in the >Sociology Department. > >Candidates should have a strong research profile and a good >publication record. It is expected that he or she will have research >interests that relate to one or more of the Sociology Department's >substantive research groupings: New Media and Communication >Technologies; Culture, Identity and Ethnicity; Crime and Criminal >Justice; Health, Social Divisions and the Life Course; and Sociology >of the Environment. > >Further details about the Department of Sociology are attached, and >information about the Department, including courses taught, is >available on the Department's Web site: Informal inquiries should >be directed to Dr Geoff Cooper, Head of Sociology (Tel: >01483-686976; Fax: 01483-689551; or e-mail g.cooper(a)soc.surrey.ac.uk >) > >Shortlisted candidates will be expected to give a presentation about >their research as part of the interview process. Interviews will >be held during week commencing 24 March 2003. > >For an application pack please contact Miss C Edminson, School of >Human Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH. >Telephone 01483 686912 (24 hours). Email: or download application >documents from 'Employment Opportunities'. Please quote Reference >number 3711, supply your postal address and where you saw the >advertisement. The closing date for applications is 7 March 2003. >

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Re: [Air-l] key terms/concepts for understanding the web
by Ildiko Kaposi 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Yes, probably this is a question we need to ask ourselves. The temptation to makeshift theorise and sell these ideas as new insight can be strong, and I've seen it done (not by AoIR members, of course :) Something for the ethical guidelines maybe? >>> radhika(a)cyberdiva.org 01/31/03 12:24 PM >>> the question also is are we "revamping" and if that is indeed what we are doing, and just adding on a prefix of cyber - Are we examining the specificities and complexities of what happens when its cyber-something.... or just doing makeshift terms and theorizing so we can move with our academic merit sheets. my 2 cents. r At 07:49 AM 1/31/2003 +0000, you wrote: > >Some of the responses made me think though. Isn't it perhaps a slippery >explanatory strategy for internet research to revamp old concepts by >attaching the prefixes cyber-, virtual, digital, or e- to them? >I know these were not dominating the suggestions, but they kept popping up, >mixing with concepts like interactivity. >And I could be totally wrong, so feel free to vivisect me.< > > > >first thought - don't we continually revamp old concepts anyway - the way >in which we experience things is constantly changing? >second thoughts - adding cyber, digital etc to old concepts and applying >them in new ways makes the internet familiar, and allows us to experience >things (and explain them) in terms of our everyday lives > >just two thoughts from a social anthropologist who is also a >cyberethnographer > >denise > > >Denise Maia Carter, >School of Comparative and Applied Social Science, >University of Hull, UK >http://www.denisecarter.net >denisecarter(a)denisecarter.net > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: [Air-l] key terms/concepts for understanding the web
by Andrew Herman 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

I agree wholeheartedly with John here,although IP issues transcend copyright (i.e trademark disputes with respect to domain names and patent disputes with respect to electronic business methods). There is not a day when there is not some story coming across the wires about struggles over the meaning of intellectual property rights on the web. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793-2531 >>> john(a)logie.net 01/30/03 10:02PM >>> My belated nomination: "copyright" I've weighed the options, and I think this is ultimately preferable to the umbrella term "intellectual property." The bulk of the I.P. issues in electronic composing spaces are copyright issues, and, at lwast in a U.S. context, copyright hovers over, in, and around almost every act of 'Net-based communication. Best, John Logie Rhetoric University of Minnesota _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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concepts/terms
by swiss＠uiowa 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

>aoir folks, > > >I'm very much learning from the posts on this list and from those of >you who sent me private emails on the topic of key >concepts/terms/metaphors. >I'm interested, too, in the debates on these terms as I >think Nancy and others are right in saying that most terms have >different histories, do different kinds of work (have a different >kinds of power or none at all, depending on the field), and thus >have different *meanings*-- again, depending on the field. >Discussing how we undertand certain terms/concepts in and across >fields is very useful for me to hear -- as that is what the book is >trying to explore: a way into helping upper-level undergrad students >understand the charged (and sometimes invisible and differing) >meanings that these 'common' terms carry in culture generally and >among researchers in 'internet studies.' >So, thanks, and look forward to hearing more in the next few days... >best, Thom > >-- >Thomas Swiss >University of Iowa >Iowa City 52245 -- Thomas Swiss University of Iowa Iowa City 52245

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key terms/concepts for understanding the web
by swiss＠uiowa 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hi, all, Am considering a new edition of a book I edited a few years ago for NYU Press: UNSPUN. The book looked at key terms/concepts/tropes in re: the web. In chapters written specifically for this text, the authors explored the key terms and concepts -- gender, community, and so on -- that help shape our understanding of the World Wide Web and its wide-ranging influence on contemporary culture. Each chapter highlighted for students both continuities and conflicts in the meanings of the Web by focusing on the language surrounding key terms. In doing so, the book asked: what are we talking about when we talk about the Web? Below: the TOC. What I'm wondering about is this: what key terms do you all see as missing from this list? Clearly there are many. But developing such a list would be helpful to me, and I'd appreciate your feedback on what terms should be added, along with essays of about 20 pages on the terms? thanks for yr help. Contact me at <thomas-swiss(a)uiowa.edu> best, Thom ------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Unspun: The Web, Language, and Society 1. Community Jodi Dean 2. Identity Jay Bolter 3. Gender Cynthia Fuchs 4. Race Lisa Nakamura 5. Political Economy Vincent Mosco 6. Cyberspace Rob Shields 7. Governance Timothy Luke 8. Ideology John Sloop 9. Performance Dawn Dietrich 10. Hypertext Matthew Kirschenbaum 11. Narrative Joseph Tabbi 12. Authorship Russell Potter 13. Multimedia Sean Cubitt

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Re: [Air-l] cfp Corporal Literacy
by Andrew Herman 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Is it not "corporeal"? Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793-2531 >>> kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl 01/30/03 07:43 AM >>> CALL FOR PAPERS Corporal Literacy Maaike Bleeker: New developments in a variety of disciplines - ranging from philosophy to medicine to cognitive science - argue for a revaluation of the body as actively involved in processes of world making rather than a passive decoding machine. This revaluation of the body points to the necessity to change our understanding of the role of the body in processes of perception and meaning making. Corporal literacy understood as the bodily capacity to read and make sense also changes the notion of thought and meaning itself, the idea of what it means to do thinking, to make meaning, to rationalize. "What is important" write Lakoff and Johnson in their Philosophy in the Flesh, "is not just that we have bodies and that thought is somehow embodied. What is important is that the very peculiar nature of our bodies shapes our very possibilities for conceptualisation and categorization." Corporal literacy describes these abilities of the body to perceive, read and make sense. It is a strategic term, with which we want to make a space for interaction and collaboration between researchers approaching questions of bodily meaning making from various backgrounds. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books 1999: 19 Rob van Kranenburg: In A future world of supersenses, Martin Rantzer of Ericsson Foresight claims: "New communication senses will be needed in the future to enable people to absorb the enormous mass of information with which they are confronted," According to him the user interfaces we use today to transmit information to our brains threaten create a real bottleneck for new broadband services. "The boundaries of what constitutes consumer electronics and computers are getting blurred," said Gerard J. Kleisterlee, the chief executive of Royal Philips Electronics. "As we get wireless networking in the home, everything starts to talk to everything." Implementing digital connecitivity in an analogue environment without a design for all the senses , without a concept of corporal literacy, leads to information overload. In a ubiquitous computing environment the new intelligence is extelligence, "knowledge and tools that are outside people's heads" (Stewart and Cohen, 1997) In a ubiquitous computing environment the user has to be not only textually and visually literate, both also have corporal literacy, that is an awareness of extelligence and a working knowledge of all the senses. It is our claim in staking out a field of corporal literacy that in contemporary performance and theatrical practice we find an actualization of (and ways of dealing with) the bottleneck scenarios that are envisaged by information experts. At Big Consumer Electronics Show, the Buzz Is All About Connections January 13, 2003 By SAUL HANSELL, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/technology/13DIGI.html?ex=1043457162&ei=1… A workshop/panel in the Conference: MULTILITERACIES: THE CONTACT ZONE 2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila Submit abstracts by email in an attachment to kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl and maaike.bleeker(a)hum.uva.nl. Remember to give the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, fax number and 50 word biodate. Location: Ghent, Belgium Date: 22-27 September 2003 Call Deadline: 28 March, 2003 Contact Persons: Rob van Kranenburg - Maaike Bleeker Contact Email: kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl - maaike.bleeker(a)hum.uva.nl 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 -- web: http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/rob mail: kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl mobile: ++32 (0) 472 40 63 72 Call home first 0032 9 2333 853

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Fwd: Postdoctoral Positions in Technology and Security, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University
by jeremy hunsinger 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

> > > Postdoctoral Positions in Technology and Security > Peace Studies Program, Cornell University > > The Peace Studies Program invites applications for two postdoctoral > positions for academic year 2003-2004, one for a person trained in the > physical or biological sciences and the other for a social scientist. > The successful applicants will be expected to participate in program > seminars and other activities and to pursue research related to > science, technology, and international security, preferably within one > of the three major areas of interest to the program: 1) dual-use > technology and weapons proliferation; 2) the impact of new > technologies and strategies, including those associated with the war > on terrorism, on international humanitarian law and the norms of > warfare; and 3) North Asian security and technology. Salary $33,600, > plus benefits and a modest research budget. All requirements of the > PhD must be completed by the time of appointment. > > Send curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interests, a > writing sample, and the names of three references to: > > Postdoctoral Associate Search Committee > Peace Studies Program > 130 Uris Hall > Cornell University > Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 > > Review of applications will begin immediately. > For more information on the Program, please visit its website: > www.einaudi.cornell.edu/PeaceProgram > > Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer > and Educator. > > > 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: [Siit] Reminder: EURAS Workshop in Aachen
by jeremy hunsinger 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

> >> >> CALL FOR PAPERS >> >> 8th EURAS Workshop on Standardization >> >> Aachen, July 11 - 12, 2003 >> >> The workshop solicits papers on all aspects of standards and >> standardisation. Sample topics include, but are not limited to: >> >> - Technological innovation and standardisation >> - Standardisation and economic development >> - Legal issues in standardisation >> - Economics of standardisation >> - Standardisation policies >> - Analyses of standards setting processes >> - Case studies of standardisation >> - The future of standardisation >> - Educational activities >> - Management of standards >> - History of Standards >> - Standards and technology transfer >> >> >> Papers (up to 20 double-spaced pages) or extended abstracts (up to 4 >> double-spaced pages) should be submitted (preferably by e-mail) to >> Kai.Jakobs(a)i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de >> >> If electronic submission is not possible please send 3 copies to: >> Kai Jakobs >> Aachen University >> Computer Science Department, Informatik IV >> Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany >> >> Preference will be given to full papers. >> Particularly relevant papers will be fast-tracked for review in the >> EURAS-Yearbook or the International Journal of IT Standards and >> Standardization Research (JITSR). >> >> >> Programme Committee >> Wilfried Hesser (University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg) >> Manfred J. Holler (University of Hamburg) >> Kai Jakobs (Aachen University) >> Jacek W. Mercik (Wroclaw College of Management and Finance) >> Anthony Ogus (University of Manchester) >> Hans-Bernd Schäfer (University of Hamburg) >> >> >> Important Dates >> Papers due: March 28, 2003 >> Notification: May 2, 2003 >> Final paper due: May 30, 2003 >> >> >> Conference Venue >> Aachen University, Computer Science Centre >> >> Conference Fee >> EUR 50 for EURAS members >> EUR 100 for non-members >> >> For more information about EURAS please see >> http://www.EURAS.org/ >> >> The conference home page may be found through >> http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html >> >> More information on the venue may be found at >> http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ >> >> >> The 2003 EURAS membership meeting has been scheduled for >> Friday, July 11, 8.30 - 10.30 h. >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> Kai Jakobs >> >> Technical University of Aachen >> Computer Science Department >> Informatik IV (Communication and Distributed Systems) >> Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany >> Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 >> Fax: +49-241-80-22220 >> Kai.Jakobs(a)i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de >> http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Siit mailing list >> Siit(a)mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de >> http://i4mail.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/siit > > 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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-empyre- + open source to open art +
by Michael Arnold Mages 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

-empyre- takes pleasure in introducing +open source to open art+ : Felix Sattler and the artists of backup.lounge]lab - http://www.backup-festival.com. How is open source theory possible in collaborative artistic practice? What are the implications, limitations and choices in an open source approach? These questions are explored in February on -empyre- by the artists and curators of backup.lounge]lab which served as the experimental playground for the backup_festival/new media in film Nov 7-11th, 2002 in Weimar, Germany. 19 artists including 'Artificial paradises' 'Luna Nera' and 'D-Fuse' (London); 'Dijital Riot' (Weimar); Laura Kavanaugh & Ian Birse, (Montreal), Sebastian Hundertmark, Stephan Jacobs, Tobias Finauer (Weimar), Catherine Moriwaki, and Pearl Gluck (USA); Helena Jonsdottir (IS, Reykjavik), Jon Fawcett (GB, Cardiff), and Micz Flor (CZ, Praha), created a network of open accessible ideas, tools, media, molecules and pieces that would eventually melange in the display at the festival. The artists of backup along with curators Carine Linge, Alexander Klosch and Felix Sattler will have a look at the process and results of backup's theory that "open source" might be translated into a working model for a conception of "open art". -- -empyre- regularly invites practicioners, curators and theorists in the media arts field to discuss specific projects, publications, and issues. Subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyrean/empyre/ --

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RE: [Air-l] Key Terms
by Andrejevic, Mark 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

I may not have caught all of the terms mentioned so far -- but the conspicuous absence to me is the most ever-present term in Internet discourse, indeed, a cognate: interactivity...that little "i" that seems to creep in front of everything. It strikes me as perhaps the most in need of interrogation and examination, as so much of the promise of new media hinges upon it. My 2 cents. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Fred Turner [mailto:fturner@stanford.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:25 PM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Key Terms Thom -- Some possibilities, including a couple already mentioned: Place Surveillance E-commerce Mobility Ubiquity Origins (a history of...section) Privacy I'm actually about to teach portions of the book in a Social Impact of Digital Media class and am a fan; these are some of the categories that I've found myself wishing were already there. Best, Fred ___________________________________________________________________ Fred Turner Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Building 120 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2050 O) 650-723-0706 Fax) 650-725-2472 fturner(a)stanford.edu _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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