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messages and digests
by Barry Wellman 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

James Watt's posting re 'Do Not Quote the Entire Message in Your Reply' was welcome to me. But I started thinking that the annoyance level of this depends on the form in which people receive messages. Something else for lingusitic/communication folks to analyze, perhaps. Watt and I are digest readers, and it is a PITA to plow through a series of quoted full-length replies. On the other hand, if folks are getting one message at a time, it is much less annoying, and perhaps even useful to quote full messages. You read the reply and enough of the quoted message to get context. So the medium affects the usefulness of the message;-) I wonder how many readers of this list are digest readers or one-at-a-time readers. Barry PS: It is also an undisputed PITA to plow thru HTML after plain ASCII, which too many folks do also: turn that HTML off, svp. ___________________________________________________________________ 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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internet regulation - few questions
by Ondrej Veis 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hello, I'm gathering information on various aspects of internet regulation. For this purposes I've posted a short online form, it can be found at http://www.nms.cz/reg . I'd like to ask internet researchers who have some experience or present any opinion on such topic as internet regulation to visit the link and answer the form in short. That would be very helpful to me. Thanks everybody, Ondrej Veis phd student sociology dept. Faculty of Philosophy & Arts Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep. ICQ: 16287668, phone: +420.603450979

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SMS and VLMS
by James Watt 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

The members of this list are clearly interested in Short Messages, given the recent thread. I'd like to suggest that this interest be expanded to apply to the posts on this list -- my most recent digest contained a number of messages that quoted entire prior digests, that in turn quoted prior messages, that in turn were posted in both ASCII and Mime format. As a result, I had to plow through the same messages as many as 6 times in a single list digest. So this is what is turning into my annual appeal to posters to *not* quote entire digests, and to excerpt only the relevant material from long prior postings when replying. I enjoy the discussion on this list, but increasingly I just delete these huge, redundant digests rather than spending the time to separate the 30% of new material from the 70% of old stuff. A little care in preparing the post will improve the reading experience for lots of people. ======================================================== James H. Watt Professor and Chair, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4708 Troy, NY 12180-3590 email: wattj(a)rpi.edu voice: (518) 276-2784 fax: (518) 276-4092

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Greetings and Games
by federico 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hello to everyone. I'm a PhD student in Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and have just subscribed to this list. I am in the preliminary stages (read: literature collection) of research project regarding the psychology of, and construction of community in, MMORPGs (Massively Muliplayer Online Role Playing Games). I was wondering if anyone knew of any academic studies of online gaming (in any context, not limited to the ones I described). I've only managed to find the works of Nicholas Yee regarding MMORPGs and Ever Quest in particular (but none of those have have been published anywhere despite being rather extensive). Any help/advice is much appreciated. Federico de Gregorio

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Re: SMS
by James Watt 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

RE: >Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:37:05 -0800 >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >From: Mark Warschauer <markw(a)uci.edu> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] SMS? >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > >Where do you live, Mark ? > > >Southern California. > >SMS is not as prevalent here as in Europe, and apparently neither is >the term (though I'm sure people more astute than I are familiar with >it). >Mark > >Mark Warschauer >Vice Chair, Department of Education >Assistant Professor of Education and of Information & Computer Science >University of California, Irvine Since I mentally mistranslated "SMS" as "Synchronous Message Systems" (i.e., generic chat) for a moment (and I'm interested in in-group restricted language codes), I Googled "SMS " to see how out-of-it I was. Google found 48,300,000 hits, so I, too, must sadly confess to being acronym-impaired. Now if you had said "...thumb typing" ... ======================================================== James H. Watt Professor and Chair, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4708 Troy, NY 12180-3590 email: wattj(a)rpi.edu voice: (518) 276-2784 fax: (518) 276-4092

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MMRPG cites, study (Re: Greetings and Games)
by Dmitri Williams 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Federico- In addition to the good cites Lisbeth suggested, there is a study out of Simon Fraser U (which seems to have a good number of MA students interested and working on games in general) which has interesting results: http://www.sfu.ca/media-lab/onlinegaming/ You should also go straight out and buy "Avatars Offline," a low-budget, but thoughtful DVD documentary on MMRPG players. My undergraduates really enjoyed viewing and it was great as a starting point for effects, culture and policy discussions. It's at www.avatarsoffline.com I'd also recommend reviewing the literature on MUDs and MOOs. There is a fair amount of material on them, even beyond Sherry Turkle's fascinating work in "Life on the Screen." And if you're going to be working in this area, you should subscribe to the digiplay list at www.topica.com For myself, I have a two-wave panel study of Asheron's Call 2 that will launch within the month (knock wood, and committee members willing), and should provide causal data, mostly about social networks, but some on general effects as well. A second study of The Sims Online is in negotiation. As a sidenote, I have a draft of my survey instrument ready and in place at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dcwillia/surveys/SurveyIntro.html If anyone is interested enough in the effects of online games over time, I'd love to get feedback on my survey instrument. I'm also open to adding a question or two (within reason), so if anyone is interested in collaborating, write me off-list. Cheers, Dmitri **************** Dmitri Williams Ph.D. Candidate University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies dcwillia(a)umich.edu http://www.umich.edu/~dcwillia

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MMS Technology
by Philipp Budka 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

hi all, the new MMS cell-phones have some implications for several parts of society. for instance it is forbidden in some european gyms and fitness-centers to (enter with) use MMS cellphones because of possible photoshootings. also spionage in companies, etc. is widely discussed. see (unfortunatly only in german): http://orf.at/030113-58706/index.html interesting topic! greetings, -- Philipp Budka email: ph.budka(a)philbu.net +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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RE: [Air-l] SMS messaging
by Gilad Ravid 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Hi All, An article from this weekend newspaper talk about the SMS (and related technologies) phenomena. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=252784&contrassID= 2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y The medium is the message By Dorit Hakim The cellular revolution has made everybody available to everybody, at all times. No wonder people are spending more energy than ever avoiding others Gilad Ravid http://hulia.haifa.ac.il -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Donna Ettrick Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:00 AM To: Air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] SMS messaging Importance: High Sensitivity: Confidential Hi all, Here in Australia the mobile phone has definitely become part of the everyday, not just for the young, but across all age/socio/economic groups. SMS messaging (cheaper than speaking) has become many peoples' choice of communication and this is obvious whilst travelling on buses,walking through shopping centres,shopping in supermarkets and at the movies one can constantly hear the beep tones of an arriving message and see many people around pulling their phones from their bags or pockets to check if it was their phone. I know people who will only answer to sms messages - not voice calls. Last year I was sitting with a class full of students (25 students, 23 had mobiles), and in the first five minutes at least three quarters of the class had received an sms message, it was a promo message from Telstra?? offering a cheap deal on mobile calls, those people with Vodaphone or Optus didnt receive one and were put out to be left out?? (needless to say, we had to ask them to turn off their phones) Another experience was in a social situation with a group of people (all had mobiles) at a party who were constantly sending and receiving sms's, to people in the room, having a private chat with sms, whilst simultaneously having public chat with others in the same room!! You can subscribe to free sms services on the internet (i.e.smspup) but you must agree to receive and view promotional emails to build up enough points to make sms calls!! Dr. Sadie Plant in the UK has done some research on the development of 'thumbs' in youngsters who have grown up using their thumbs for gaming and SMSing. I read somewhere that soon many things like coke machines or shops will have the technology to automatically detect then sms your mobile as you are walking by and offer you a 'deal' of some sort!! The times they are certainly a changing!! regards, Donna E _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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SMS messaging
by Donna Ettrick 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Hi all, Here in Australia the mobile phone has definitely become part of the everyday, not just for the young, but across all age/socio/economic groups. SMS messaging (cheaper than speaking) has become many peoples' choice of communication and this is obvious whilst travelling on buses,walking through shopping centres,shopping in supermarkets and at the movies one can constantly hear the beep tones of an arriving message and see many people around pulling their phones from their bags or pockets to check if it was their phone. I know people who will only answer to sms messages - not voice calls. Last year I was sitting with a class full of students (25 students, 23 had mobiles), and in the first five minutes at least three quarters of the class had received an sms message, it was a promo message from Telstra?? offering a cheap deal on mobile calls, those people with Vodaphone or Optus didnt receive one and were put out to be left out?? (needless to say, we had to ask them to turn off their phones) Another experience was in a social situation with a group of people (all had mobiles) at a party who were constantly sending and receiving sms's, to people in the room, having a private chat with sms, whilst simultaneously having public chat with others in the same room!! You can subscribe to free sms services on the internet (i.e.smspup) but you must agree to receive and view promotional emails to build up enough points to make sms calls!! Dr. Sadie Plant in the UK has done some research on the development of 'thumbs' in youngsters who have grown up using their thumbs for gaming and SMSing. I read somewhere that soon many things like coke machines or shops will have the technology to automatically detect then sms your mobile as you are walking by and offer you a 'deal' of some sort!! The times they are certainly a changing!! regards, Donna E

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NEW journal "Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web"
by jeremy hunsinger 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Begin forwarded message: > From: owner-seweb-list(a)cs.vu.nl > Date: Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:08:00 AM US/Eastern > To: jhuns(a)vt.edu > >> >> ***Call for papers*** >> >> >> Announcing the NEW journal "Web Semantics: Science, Services and >> Agents on >> the World Wide Web". >> >> >> This new interdisciplinary journal focuses on research at the >> intersection >> of three major research areas: semantic web, agent technology and grid >> computing. We call this interdisciplinary field Web semantics. Web >> semantics >> investigates and develops the standards, ontology's, protocols and >> technology that contribute to the development of a >> knowledge-intensive and >> intelligent service Web. This is often referred to as the second >> generation >> of the Web. >> >> >> The journal not only provides a forum for theoretical and experimental >> papers by academic and industrial researchers and developers in the >> area of >> computer science, but also aims at reaching a more application >> oriented >> audience like information specialists or researchers and developers >> from the >> Internet-industry. >> >> >> The editorial board has been carefully selected and consists of the >> world's >> leading researchers from the areas of semantic web, agent technology >> and >> grid computing. >> >> >> Author versions of papers will be published immediately after >> acceptance on >> the web site of the journal (www.semanticwebjournal.org) which will >> also >> allow for semantic annotations and linking of additional non-textual >> material to the article. 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