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[Fwd from CSL]: FBI probes attack on net
by Adrian S. Petrescu 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Did everyone get this already? I found it interesting and addressing some questions posed in Maastricht. Adrian S. Petrescu -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CSL]: FBI probes attack on net Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:41:04 +0100 From: J Armitage <j.armitage(a)UNN.AC.UK> Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society<CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Wednesday, 23 October, 2002, 11:02 GMT 12:02 UK FBI probes attack on net http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2352667.stm The FBI has launched an investigation into a failed attempt to cripple the internet by attacking its central address books. Steven Berry, a supervisory special agent at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center said it was "aware of the issue and was addressing it". Experts said the net coped so well with the attack that the vast majority of users would be unaware it had taken place. The attack happened at 2200 BST on Monday evening and attempted to cripple the key servers by deluging them with many times more data than they usually receive. But the fact that the servers are spread around the world, have fast connections to the net and ordinarily cope with lots of requests for data stopped them succumbing to the flood of traffic. Seven down Although few users felt the effects of this barrage, known as a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDos), it did temporarily disable seven of the net's 13 root servers. The servers were bombarded with 30-40 times the usual amount of traffic they receive from hundreds of different computers. Despite this statistics from Matrix Netsystems, which monitors average net response times, said the ability of net users to reach these servers only dropped to 94% of its usual 100% reachability. As a result few people will have noticed anything unusual. "As best we can tell, no user noticed and the attack was dealt with and life goes on," said Louis Touton, vice president for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the running of the root servers and the net's addressing system. Although humans navigate the net with words, computers direct traffic with numbers known as IP addresses which broadly signify the location of a particular network, computer, domain or site. When you type the name of a website into a web browser it looks up the location of that site by consulting a name server. Popular and widely used domains, such as www.bbc.co.uk, are often held in a store, or cache, on a computer or network closely connected to the one looking up the address. If these servers do not know where to find the site they pass the query upwards and ultimately will get information from one of the 13 root servers - the master address books. Survivor The fact that these servers are not regularly consulted by users could have been another reason that few people felt the effects of the attack. "What we learned yesterday is ... it is hard to kill this system," said Paul Vixie of the Internet Software Consortium which makes software widely used to carry out domain queries. "The Internet is sort of the cockroach of the modern age," he said, "It survives." The Internet Software Consortium operates the 'F' root server which typically handles more than 272 million requests for information per day. Sites such as Yahoo have suffered DDos attacks The 'F' server uses 4 processors and has 8gigabytes of Ram, short-term memory, to cope with this number of requests. It was one of the root servers that survived the attack unscathed. "It seems a strange target for attack because they have very fat pipes and are able to deal with a large number of requests per second in the normal course of business," said Gary Milo, founder and chairman of anti-DDos technology maker Webscreen Technology. He said if the root attack was redirected to a company's server it could have been much more effective. Mr Milo said Webscreen was seeing the numbers of DDos attacks growing by the month and now it believes that, on average, 4,000 take place every week. "They can be started by anything from a bored teenager to a disgruntled employee," he said. ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************

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RE: [Air-l] thanks to all for aoir conference in Maastricht - Bes t presentations
by Monica.Murero＠MERIT.unimaas.nl 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Thank you Andrea, and all of you who wrote me off-list (it is good to hear after so much work : ) Please let me join you, and THANK again all the *outstanding* people that have made the AoIR conference 2002 happen: Klaus Bruhn Jensen, all the amazing folks of the Air planning and program committee, the super-efficient Air-exec, and in particular Steve Jones, for his fantastic and unique dedication. A special THANK YOU goes to our IR 3.0 PRESENTERS, for making the program so reach and stimulating for all of us. As many of you, I could not attend as many sessions of the program as I wanted ! So...As our memory is still fresh... I'd like to hear from you which *presentations* you have found particularly interesting during IR 3.0: Net/Work/Theory in Maastricht. It would help to hear from you: online papers will be available soon (so we can catch up!) -- thanks to our amazing Jeremy ! With my kindest regards, Monica P.S.= Please do not "boost" your own presentation :)) I am looking forward to hearing from you off-list. ------ Monica Murero Conference Chair 2002 University of Maastricht- Infonomics Cell. +31 6 1530 2850 Office +31 45 4000 540 Fax +31 45 4000 545 Andrea Baker/Andee wrote: >Hello, >I wanted to add my thanks to all who made it possible for us to go to >the fantastic conference in Maastricht, Netherlands. Special >gratitude goes to the incomparable Monica Murero, and also to Klaus >Bruhn Jensen and every reviewer of submissions for their hard work. >Kudos to the executive committee, headed by Steve Jones for >leadership of the organization. > >best, >andrea baker/andee

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thanks to all for aoir conference in Maastricht
by bakera＠ohiou.edu 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

Hello, I wanted to add my thanks to all who made it possible for us to go to the fantastic conference in Maastricht, Netherlands. Special gratitude goes to the incomparable Monica Murero, and also to Klaus Bruhn Jensen and every reviewer of submissions for their hard work. Kudos to the executive committee, headed by Steve Jones for leadership of the organization. best, andrea baker/andee

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DAC call for works
by Adrian Miles 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

Apologies for any cross posting that may occur. This announcement may be of interest to some list members. begin announcement ____________________ conference url http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/ cfw url http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/cfw.html +playengines+ MelbourneDAC exhibition DUE TO NUMBER OF LATE ENTRIES/REQUESTS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 2002: Exhibition categories (one category per work): computer games, interactive film/video, streaming media, hypermedia what genre(s)/category(ies) your art might nearly just about go in: online game, browser game, interactive film/video, streaming fiction, streaming nonfiction, streaming other, text game, interactive graphic narrative - fiction , interactive graphic narrative - nonfiction , interactive graphic narrative - other , interactive text narrative - fiction, interactive text narrative - nonfiction, interactive text narrative - other, Flash fiction, Flash nonfiction, interactive fiction, (other?) entry is open to: independent artists, students, researchers, producers and/or small teams, computer game artists, real timers, 3D on-line gamers , interactive film/art creators, Flash artists, word players, interactive fiction creators regards adrian miles Adrian Miles Conference Chair | Antoanetta Ivanova Conference Producer adrian.miles(a)rmit.edu.au | antoanetta(a)novamediaarts.net _______________________________ end of announcement

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first pics
by jeremy hunsinger 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

I've put up my 25 pics or so on the aoir.org/2002/aoirclips/index.html page, if you want your pics up on the website, send them to me at papers(a)aoir.org, preferably zipped or archived in some manner. -- Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy cddc/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 http://www.dromocracy.com virginia tech -under construction blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 jhuns(a)vt.edu this email was sent from my office --- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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online version of special issue on Internet research ethics available
by Charles Ess 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

Colleagues: I'm very pleased to announce that a forthcoming issue of _Ethics and Information Technology_ will feature a series of significant essays on Internet research ethics, including several from the AoIR ethics working committee and AoIR more broadly, i.e. Amy Bruckman Dag Elgesem Charles Ess Kate O'Riordan Joe Walther Michele White Even better: thanks to the energy and initiative of Helen Nissenbaum and a supporting grant from the National Science Foundation, these essays are now available on the Web: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/projects_ethics.html Readers of the AoIR ethics working committee report (<www.aoir.org/reports/ethicsfinal.pdf>) will note that these essays play an important role in helping to shape our discussion and reflection: especially as we ready the report - in light of discussion and comments from the AoIR 3.0 panel in Maastricht - for AoIR membership review and vote, I'm pleased that these essays are now available for your review and use as well. I commend these essays to your attention. As editor of the special issue, my judgment is no doubt less than perfectly objective - but in my view, I think it's quite fair to say that these essays will more than reward the attention of anyone interested in exploring the complexities of Internet research ethics. Indeed, I think they'll stand as a high water mark and important reference point for subsequent reflection and discussion of these issues. Our thanks to the National Science Foundation for providing the funding that made possible our bringing these contributors together originally as a panel at the Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries (CEPE) conference (Lancaster, UK, December 14-16, 2001), as well as for the support of the special issue of _Ethics and Information Technology_ and the affiliated website. My thanks especially to Helen Nissenbaum who first conceived of this project and energetically pursued NSF funding. Happy reading! Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Re: [Air-l] VG Addiction
by Frank Schaap 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Dmitri wrote: > The article is currently under journal review, so I don't think I can > post it right now. All I can add is that the content analysis was of When it is accepted, could you let us know where and when it will be published? Much appreciated :) Frank. -- Fragments Blog == http://fragment.nl Cyberculture Resources == http://fragment.nl/resources/

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Research Fellowships @ Curtin Uni : application due 22 Nov
by Matthew Allen 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2003 Curtin University of Technology wishes to offer up to four prestigious Research/Teaching Fellowships to commence in 2003. This Fellowship scheme aims to attract high quality researchers with excellent potential for providing future academic leadership at the University. Appointments will involve an initial three-year Research Fellowship. Subject to performance review, Fellows may proceed to a continuing appointment after a further two-year Research/Teaching Fellowship. The principal selection criterion will be research excellence. Other criteria include an ability to develop effective teaching skills and demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills. The Fellowships are not restricted to Australian citizens. Applicants must have completed a research Doctoral degree at the time of application. Applications: Prospective applicants should consult with the relevant Head of School or Director of the Research Institute/Centre of the University regarding their research interests and potential research program. The Head of School/Director will provide advice to the applicant in preparing a full application. Only applications that have the support of a School or University Research Institute/Centre will be considered. Guidelines and an application form are available from: <http://www.curtin.edu.au/corporate/research/g&f/fellowships.html> Benefits: $55,606 (Academic Lecturer Level ALB1). The total employment cost, including superannuation (SSAU) is available for repackaging through the University's remuneration packaging service. Conditions for interstate and overseas appointees include airfares and removal assistance. Contact: Further information is available from Carla Nosworthy, Office of Research and Development, telephone +61 8 9266 3278, facsimile +61 8 9266 3793, e-mail: C.Nosworthy(a)curtin.edu.au Closing date: Applications must be received no later than 22 November 2002. Curtin reserves the right to appoint by invitation. Curtin is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides a smoke-free work environment.

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Faculty Position in Communication Technologies
by James Watt 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Position Open RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (Open Rank) The Department of Language, Literature and Communication is seeking a tenured or tenure-track faculty member with outstanding scholarship in the one of the following areas: Technologically Mediated Group or Organizational Communication; Media studies, New Media and Visual Communication; or Organizational Information Systems. Ability to establish or continue a program of funded research is very important. Additional expertise in one or more of the following is a plus: persuasion theory and processes; E-business, including advertising and public relations; film; television; cyberspace; or social and economic policy as it applies to communication technologies. The successful candidate will join a faculty that is currently conducting state-of-the- art research in Human-Computer Interaction, digital document design, technologically-mediated rhetoric, composition and technical communication, and media studies at one of America's most wired technological institutions, ranked in the top 50 US universities. Appointment as an Associate of the new Rensselaer Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory is available, as is the possibility of involvement in the undergraduate programs in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication or Web Design and Analysis. RPI is located within an easy driving distance from New York City, Boston and Montreal, in the Hudson River Valley, a region of the northeast known for its quality of life. We offer an excellent benefits package including health, dental, life insurance,retirement, tuition, etc. Visit our Web site at: www.hr.rpi.edu Senior applications are strongly encouraged. Interested individuals should send an application letter, current CV, writing samples and three letters of recommendation to the address listed below. Review of application material will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. James Watt, Search Committee Chair The Department of Language, Literature and Communication Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 E-mail: wattj(a)rpi.edu Fax: (518) 276-4092 Rensselaer is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Women and Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Re: [Air-l] VG Addiction
by Dmitri Williams 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

The article is currently under journal review, so I don't think I can post it right now. All I can add is that the content analysis was of qualitatively developed Todd Gitlin-style frames, but done in a typically quantitative way with intercoder reliability scores, so I'm reasonably confident in the results. I think they support the Wartella-Reeves theory of new media coverage. - Dmitri Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:35:23 -0700 (PDT) From: david silver <dsilver(a)u.washington.edu> To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] VG Addiction sent to the list because others may be interested ... On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Dmitri Williams wrote: I've recently done some content analysis research into how video games have been represented in the media over the last 20 years. Dmitri, do you have a draft of this work available? it sounds very interesting. david silver **************** 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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