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Re: [Air-l] 3600 Research Essays about the Net
by Rune Dalgaard 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi all I just want to recommend Reinhold Grether's site as being an exellent portal / link collection / meta-index (whatever term one prefers), which I find very useful. Whereas related sites such as Alan Liu's "Vocie of the Shuttle" and Daniel Chandlers "The Media and Communication Studies Site" seem to have lost some of their momentum in the last years (at least that is my general impression), Reihhold's site ´contains many recent publications and working papers. Of course one always wants more, and I surely would appreciate some level of categorization of resources with respect to subject should time and ressources permit it. But keep up the good work! Best, Rune ___________________________________________________ Rune Dalgaard | MA, Ph.D. Candidate | Information and Media Studies | Aarhus University | Denmark runed(a)imv.au.dk | http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed > From: "Reinhold Grether" <Reinhold.Grether(a)netzwissenschaft.de> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] 3600 Research Essays about the Net > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > > 3,600 Research Essays about the Net > > Welcome to the very heart of the netzwissenschaft project. > Most research essays listed here are from 2003 down to 1999. > It's a personal linklog of, in my view, persuasive contributions > to the emerging field of Internet Studies and Network Research. > Please find the latest entries on top. Updates at least once a week. > > http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem/pool.htm

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does email reduce prejudice
by Barry Wellman 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

The Ray Ozzie NY Times article for Dec 1 (thanks to Art McGee for sending it) says that email allows people to work together "mind to mind, regardless of their physical well-being. You can work with someone without prejudice, and their true talents will be shown." This is a comforting thought that many of us have proposed and written about. But it's really a hypothesis. Has any research been done in the past few years on the extent to which e-contact reduces prejudice? Please don't send me private comments or attachments; I'm away for the next 8 days and I don't want a choked in-box. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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Online group dynamics
by gdtaylor 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Jo, You might want to take a look at research that is being conducted with respect to group dynamics in online courses. First off, you might want to check out the archives of the DEOS-L listserver. This listserver is administered by Penn State University and creates a forum for those who are interested in distance education to share ideas and information with others. You can locate the archives by doing an Internet search on the phrase "DEOS-L." This is a very active listserver and there has been any number of discussions in the past year or so with respect to group dynamics within the context of collaborative learning environments. The ERIC database is also great resource for locating literature on online group dynamics. The trick to locating literature in this database is to knowing the terminology to use when conducting searches. Online learning resources can be located by doing searches on online learning, e-learning, web-based learning, computer-mediated learning, distance learning, and independent learning. Don't quote me on this as these phrases are being typed from memory as opposed to a list. :-) The Internet is also an excellent resource. You can locate literature by doing a search of the Internet using similar phrasing to that which you would use on the ERIC database. There are any number of journals that are being made available electronically with articles that might be of interest to you. Be sure to check out the Sloan Foundation Asynchronous Learning Network journal, which is accessible through the Internet. You might also want to take a look at the Journal of the Association for History and Computing which is also available on the Internet. Hope this information is useful to you. If you would like to chat more about this area of research, send me an email message. Gail Taylor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Grad student / Human Resource Education gdtaylor(a)uiuc.edu

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Instant Messaging
by Alan Sondheim 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

For IM, you might also want to look at the various applications in Unix - talk, ytalk, ntalk, wall, etc., that allowed instant communication. Not to mention IRC, but I believe that was later. I think of Unix as relatively porous for cross-communication; for example in the panix.com shell you can type 'hey <username>' for messaging across terminals - Alan http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt older http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm

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more on EIES
by Barry Wellman 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

Just a proud sidebar to the mini-thread on Murray Turoff's EIES system. Murray and Roxanne Hiltz wrote one of the first books on the possibilities of what grew up to be the internet: Hiltz, S. Roxanne and Murray Turoff. 1978. The Network Nation. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. I'd been playing on this with them since 1976, and I was proud then -- and now -- that they explicitly named The Network Nation after Paul Craven and my 1973 article, "The Network City" (in Sociological Inquiry). Paul and I did call the turn towards networking, but nary a word about the (proto) Internet. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] Re: Internet History/Stages, was Internet in Everyday Life (Frank Thomas)
by Frank Thomas 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

Maria, I am somewhat uneasy to call something like a technoinfrastructure an "actor". For me, an actor is someONE you has the capacity and the will to act. Artefacts can not act by themselves but have inbuilt rules. The question for me then is: who built which rules in the artefact, who was ecluded in using it, which are the "costs"=efforts to use it, who covers for the cost, etc. So, in any case, the artefact is a socially constructing being, not an actor by itself. Of course, artefacts shape the opportunity and constraints structure of humans (and organisations) that use them. But this is not the result of an independent will. This is the result of social decisions about the use (or non-use) of specific material characteristics. Also, I would add to your list economic factors, for instance business models, user tariffs etc. and operational guidelines. The latter is often not considered in sociological discussions of the construction and use of an artefact but it may become the most important part of it as the rules decide how to use the artefact. And, of course, there sometimes is a nice struglle about the rules. Think of the French telecom engineers who conceived the minitel as a centra server model and who were surprised that users linked terminals not to the server for database retrieval but to link through to communicate with other end terminal users. This was the birthday of the messager services on minitel which had their strongest use when someone invented minitel rose (I guess you have to translate "someone" into: male, below 30 years, single, trained in science or engineering, ...) . So, the fellow enginners were strongly against this morally incorrect use of a marvel of communication technology. I don't know who made the decision to allow messenger services even when they transported porn, I guess, no prejudice, this must have been people from the finance department. Look into the works of Volker Schneider and his comparison with the British videotext and the German Btx services (together with Graham Thomas and Thierry Vedel). Did you integrate the videotext services as a precursor in your description ? Cordialement Frank

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Submission Deadline Extended for Finland Communication and Technology Conference
by Susan B. Kretchmer 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

******* DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 15, 2002 ******* ** Please pass this message on to colleagues and lists to whom it would be of interest. Thank you! ** 2003 International Summer Conference on Communication and Technology in Finland The Informing Science Institute, the Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide, the National Communication Association, and the Pori Unit of the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration will be sponsoring an International Summer Conference on communication and technology in Pori, Finland, June 24-27, 2003. The purpose of the conference is to spur debate and increase understanding to meet the challenges and explore the opportunities posed by the new Information Age, and to reach out in innovative ways to seek partnerships and solutions that bridge gaps in knowledge, expertise, and interdisciplinary cooperation. The topic areas to be considered range from the digital divide to misinforming and misinformation. Further details are available at the conference web site: http://www.is2003.org. In addition to lunches, coffee, tea, and snack breaks, and guided walking tours of the city during the day, the conference features an informal welcoming reception, a banquet with music at a traditional Finnish restaurant by the river, and a reception at City Hall hosted by the City of Pori. The conference will be held at the Pori Unit of the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration. Pori is on the West coast of Finland, about 120 km (or 75 miles) north of Turku and 240 km (or 150 miles) north-west of Helsinki. The main part of Pori, a peaceful city of 75,000, is about eight blocks square, so it is easy to walk almost everywhere. Traffic is light, and many people ride bicycles. It is easy to reach Pori from either Helsinki or Turku by air, bus, train, or rental car, or even ferry from Sweden via Turku. A trip is planned on Saturday, the day after the conference, to nearby Yyteri Beach, a sandy beach known as the "Finnish Riviera," with a water slide and a hiking trail along the shore, and/or Reposaari, a small fishing village unspoiled by tourism. Convention attendees will also be able to participate in a post-conference study trip to the University of Lapland above the Arctic Circle, land of the Midnight Sun and Northern Lights. You can learn more about Finland at http://www.genealogia.fi/finnlinks/ and http://virtual.finland.fi/. Submission Instructions The language of the conference is English. All submissions should be original and not currently under review by any other publication or conference since the author(s) will need to transfer copyright to the organizers before the paper can be published. All submissions will undergo blind review by three or more referees. It may be useful to review papers presented at IS2002, which can be found at http://2002.insite.nu. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and selected papers will appear in the journal _Informing Science: International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline_ or the _Journal of Information Technology Education_. Quality papers on the special conference topics of Misinforming/Misinformation and Bias will be fast tracked for inclusion in a special issue of _Informing Science_ and/or a book. Below are the specific requirements for each type of submission, followed by the general requirements for all submissions. Research Papers--Research papers should be submitted as complete papers. Papers should include a description of the context of use, the relevant publics involved, the problem, and the proposed solution, if appropriate. Original thinking is valued. Papers typically are less than 20 pages long (about 5000 words). Research papers must be original and unpublished. Interactive Papers, Discussion Papers, and Practical Papers--Shorter papers (at least 8 pages) of Research-in-Progress, Interactive, Discussion, and Practical matters are also welcome. These let you share the progress you have had to date and receive constructive feedback midstream in your research. Panel Discussions--Proposals for panels that synthesize and orient work in the area are encouraged, especially those that cross disciplinary boundaries. Panel proposals should define an issue, list proposed panel members, their backgrounds, and their basic positions. Panel proposals should be written as extended abstracts that are approximately two pages long. Panels should provide for interaction among members and with the audience and should not consist of a series of independent mini-papers. Submissions will be accepted via the web at http://submit.insite.nu (or email, if your web access is limited). Please review http://www.is2003.org for complete details on submission, including formatting instructions. NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2002 (just request extension from Eli Cohen at eli_cohen(a)acm.org or elicohen(a)sprintmail.com.) If you would like to be part of a panel submission, but cannot put one together, we will try to match up presenters with similar interests and submit the resulting panels. To participate, please email a Word attachment containing a 75-word abstract of your topic, a 50-word bio, and your complete contact information by 5 p.m. ET on DECEMBER 8, 2002 to both docrod99(a)hotmail.com and susankretchmer(a)yahoo.com. Authors may appear at most on two papers, or one paper and one panel. For an accepted paper to appear on the program and in the proceedings, at least one author must register by the presenters' registration deadline. All members of panels must register by the presenters' registration deadline. Volunteer to Review Submissions Please volunteer your expertise as a paper reviewer for the 2003 International Summer Conference and, thereby, become a member of the Conference Program Committee. Sign up at: http://volunteer.InSITE.nu. Sponsorships Various levels of Academic Departmental Sponsorship are available beginning at $500. All sponsors will be acknowledged in the conference literature and websites. Higher levels of support will also be acknowledged on the Conference Carry Case. Interested institutions should contact both Susan Kretchmer (susankretchmer(a)yahoo.com) and Rod Carveth (docrod99(a)hotmail.com) Important Dates Abstract or paper submission December 15, 2002 Author notification February 15, 2003 Final paper due (MS Word or RTF) & presenter's registration deadline March 15, 2003 Conference Period June 24-27, 2003 Study Trip to the Arctic Circle June 29-July 3, 2003 Further details about the conference are available at the IS2003 web site: http://www.is2003.org. Please contact both Susan Kretchmer (susankretchmer(a)yahoo.com) and Rod Carveth (docrod99(a)hotmail.com) with any questions. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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3600 Research Essays about the Net
by Reinhold Grether 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

3,600 Research Essays about the Net Welcome to the very heart of the netzwissenschaft project. Most research essays listed here are from 2003 down to 1999. It's a personal linklog of, in my view, persuasive contributions to the emerging field of Internet Studies and Network Research. Please find the latest entries on top. Updates at least once a week. http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem/pool.htm

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new reviews in cyberculture (december 2002)
by david silver 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

*** feel free to distribute *** New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (December 2002) Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> publishes a number of full-length book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. New reviews for December 2002 include: Thierry Bardini, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Stanford University Press, 2000) Reviewed by Julia Chenot GoodFox. Erik P. Bucy, ed., Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2002) Reviewed by Jamie S. Switzer and Collette Snowden, with a response from Erik P. Bucy Loss Pequeno Glazier, Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (University of Alabama Press, 2002) Reviewed by Tom Bell and Susan Joyce, with a response from Loss Pequeno Glazier Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg, The Computers of Star Trek (Basic Books, 1999) Reviewed by Arthur Asa Berger. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu>. As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver 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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Compte rendu du colloque de Strasbourg
by ronald.creagh 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

Chère Collègue, J'ai appris par la SENA la publication de L'Internet en politique, des Etats-Unis a l'Europe, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2002 dont vous êtes l'éditeur (éditrice?) intellectuel. La revue Réfractions, à laquelle je participe, compte publier en mai un numéro sur l'Internet. J'aimerais faire un compte-rendu de cet ouvrage et serais heureux s'il était possible d'en avoir un exemplaire de presse. Pour votre information, Réfractions est une revue anarchiste, bi-annuelle, dont vous pouvez vous faire une idée en consultant son site à <http://refractions.plusloin.org/>. En vous remerciant de votre aimable attention, je vous prie d¹agréer, Chère Collègue, mes meilleures salutations et mes voeux pour vos si intéressants projets Ronald Creagh

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