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apsa panels
by jeremy hunsinger 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

the apsa is having its annual, you can see some of its i.t. panels and get the drafts below Information, Technology and Politics http://apsaproceedings.cup.org/Site/panels/040/D040.htm Chair: Micah Altman, Harvard University 1 Online Surveys: Assessing the Usefullness of New Methods for Measuring Public Opinion 2 Evil, Telecommunications, and the Internet 3 Organizing and Participating Online 4 Internet Policymaking and E-Merging Research: E-Governance, E-Competitiveness, and E-Security 5 The Internet and Civic Culture 6 Technology and Education 7 Technology, Communities, and Participation jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: Second post in Britain
by Kartik Pashupati 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

I am a long-time lurker on this list, and I have followed this thread with interest. While I was in London this summer, there was much hand-wringing in traditional circles about the decision by Consignia (the "corporation" that has now renamed itself "Royal Mail!") to drop the second mail delivery starting 2002. A sample news story (from the Telegraph): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/14/npost14.xml People in favor of the decision to drop the "second post" questioned the need for this time-honored tradition in an era of fax and Internet communication.

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messengers and networks
by Barry Wellman 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Re Naomi Baron's point on past-generation messenger boys, in 1970, the head of the sociology dept at the Univ of Ghana Legon had a @boy@ (really a man) squatting next to his desk all the time I was there. To deliver handwritten messages across campus. And unlike email, the receipt of the message was confirmed. Re Frank Thomas' point on long distance ties documented by community social network analysts, see a bunch of my papers from the 1970s thru early 1990s. Summarized in my @The Network Community" - intro chapter to my Networks in the Global Village, and in draft form (for those who want something for nothing) on my website. 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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You Got Mail (before Internet)
by Naomi Susan Baron 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Nancy Baym's right: multiple daily mail deliveries were common in 19th c London (not to mention in other parts of the world, such as the large cities in India, well into the 20th c). It's also important to remember that besides such "public" mail deliveries, it was quite common to have servants, messenger boys, and the like (a street urchin would do in a pinch) deliver letters across town quite regularly. As the telegraph was introduced (and then became increasingly affordable and accessible), telegrams were sent across town, from business to business, or from business to home (for those wealthy enough to have home access) for many of the same sorts of reasons we send emails to local recipients. Naomi Naomi Baron Professor of Linguistics American University Washington, DC 20016-8045

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #547 - you got mail
by Michel J. Menou 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

My 2 Eurocents to the debate. Mail was reaching the Assyrian Emperors in their capital from the remotest border of the empire in 7 days (don't ask me for the exact reference, I've heard that on an archeology documentary). And although in strange caracters there was no html text and in extenso quotes of the earlier messages to make them inintelligible :-) Let's give up the Cray's and go back to the clay! Another interesting point to stress, IMHO, is that 2 mail deliveries per day are more than enough to allow for effective work as opposed to instant messaging that spoils our lives non stop. Michel

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Re: mail delivery in 19th-century London, Brownings' courtship
by Brenda Danet 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Nancy Baym wrote: >A related note I've seen mentioned but can't remember where (Naomi >Baron, are you here? you must know, it was probably you) is 19th >century London where mail was delivered several times daily. >Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning apparently carried out >their famed courtship through this mail in a way that parallels >email. Nancy I referred to all this in my paper, reference below. In mid- to late Victorian London, mail was delivered once every hour for 12 hours of the day (source: Asa Briggs, Victorian Things, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988). Danet, Brenda. 1997. "Books, Letters, Documents: the Changing Aesthetics of Texts in Late Print Culture." Journal of Material Culture 2:5-38. You have a good memory, Nancy! Brenda Danet

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Teenage Courtship Online
by dca4＠georgetown.edu 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

There is an emerging phenomena of teenage courtship and CMC. My friends with 12-14 year olds talk about it all the time. One of my graduate student is having difficulty finding published academic studies on the subject for her thesis work. If anyone does know of publications or individuals she might contact could you please email Maggie Malone at malonem2(a)hotmail.com. Thanks, Dorine Dorine Andrews Research Professor - CCT Program Georgetown University 202-784-4338 410-366-0994 www.georgetown.edu/faculty/dca4

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Re: [Air-l] weak ties, great good place, & cyberspace
by Irene Berkowitz 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Concepts such as these may exist in other areas, such as quantum physics. See the work of Murray Gell-mann as it whether it might have relevance for your thought. Irene Berkowitz Coordinator for Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu >>> sgz01570(a)nifty.ne.jp 11/11/2002 6:51:44 PM >>> Hi everyone, Does somebody know of publications that apply the notions of weak ties (Granovetter) and/or third place (Oldenburg) to understand ephemeral yet meaningful ties created in and around cyberspace? I began using these concepts to make sense of forms of sociality observed in communities (both "virtual" and offline) I am studying. I read a few papers that make reference to these concepts, But I do not know anything really good. Other than suggestions for readings, I appreciate your thoughts on this matter as well. Whoami> I am a doctoral student of sociology. I am working on a dissertation about uses of the Internet in Japan, I am particularly interested in the ways in which everyday people adopt and adapt to the Internet to maintain their personal communities. Thank you in advance, Mito Akiyoshi Department of Sociology The University of Chicago _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Instant Messenger
by Andrejevic, Mark 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

Hi Folks, For a student working on a research project I'm trying to track down some academic research on Instant Messenging. In addition to the Pew reports, does anyone have some good cites of recent work on any area of IM use? Thanks, Mark

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Re: [Air-l] Instant Messenger
by Amanda Lenhart 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

Mark, I've just done a recent survey of some of the literature on IM. A great starting point is Nina Wakeford and Nalini Kotamraju's web site on Mobile Phone, SMS and Instant messaging research at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html Otherwise, here's excerpts from my current reading list on Instant messaging: Grinter, Rebecca E. and Eldridge, Margery A. "y do tngrs luv 2 txt msg?" in W. Prinz, M. Jarke, Y. Rogers, K. Schmidt and V. Wulf (eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '01), Bonn, Germany. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, (2001) pp. 219-238. http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/grinter/ecscw.pdf Grinter, Rebecca E., and Palen, Leysia. (2002) "Instant Messaging in Teen Life." In Proceedings from Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2002. New York: ACM Publishers. Herbsleb, James D., et al. (2002) "Introducing Instant Messaging and Chat in the Workplace." ACM, CHI 2002, Minneapolis, MN. pp 171-178. Available from http://www.crew.umich.edu/Technical%20reports/Herbsleb_Atkins_Boyer_Handel_… Leung, Louis. (2001) 'College Student Motives for Chatting on ICQ," New Media and Society, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. (2001) pp. 483-500. Leung, Louis. (2002) "Loneliness, Self-Disclosure and ICQ ('I Seek You') Use," Cyber Psychology & Behavior, vol. 5, no 3, pp. 241-251. Nardi, B. A., Whittaker, S. & Bradner, E. (2000) "Interaction and Outeraction: Instant messaging in action." In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. New York, ACM Press, pp. 79-88. http://www.research.att.com/~stevew/outeraction_cscw2000.pdf Quinn, Amy, et al. "Teenage Communications in the Instant Messaging Era." Paper submitted to CHI 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, scheduled for April 2003. Currently Unpublished-- {try contacting Amy or Carnegie Mellon's Human Computer Interaction group for a copy of this one...} Reynolds, Holly Lynn. (2002) IM What I Am: Teen Talk and Gender Identity in Online Instant Messaging. MA thesis, Georgetown University. Rheingold, Howard. (2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution: Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA. {more about SMS, but interesting none the less} Schiano, Diane J. et al. (2002) "Teen Use of Messaging Media." Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2002. Extended Abstracts. NY: ACM. http://hci.stanford.edu/cs377/nardi-schiano/CHI2002.Schiano.pdf Good luck with your research! Best, Amanda Lenhart Pew Internet & American Life Project alenhart(a)pewinternet.org At 04:23 PM 11/12/2002, you wrote: >Hi Folks, >For a student working on a research project I'm trying to track down some >academic research on Instant Messenging. In addition to the Pew reports, >does anyone have some good cites of recent work on any area of IM use? >Thanks, >Mark

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