AirFolk,
(A new batch of goodies before we meet in Maastricht!)
New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (October 2002)
Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS)
<http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> publishes two or three full-length
book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically
various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of
cyberculture studies.
RCCS's book reviews section now includes full-length reviews of over 150
books on cyberculture, the Internet, and technoculture. New reviews for
October 2002 include:
Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause, eds., Cyberlines: Languages and Cultures
of the Internet. James Nicholas Publishers, 2001.
Reviewed by:
Rodney K. Marshall
Patrick Martin
Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, and Richard Sears, Literature and the
Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars. Garland, 2000.
Reviewed by:
Pramod K. Nayar
Stacy Gillis
Betsy Huang
Response from:
Stephanie Browner
Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities,
and Software. Scribner, 2001.
Reviewed by:
Laura Kertz
Nils Zurawski
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
Hi AIRers,
I am putting together a proposed panel on blogs for the International
Communication Association conference in San Diego, May 23-27. The theme in
Communication in Borderlands, which fits right in. The CFP is online at
http://www.icahdq.org/publicpdf/2003cfp.pdf. Since it's a panel, abstracts
(not full papers) are due November 1.
Are there any blog researchers on the list who are interested in
participating? If so, please email me privately and I'll fill you in.
Enjoy Maastricht! Sorry I won't be joining you this year,
Nicole
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Nicole B. Ellison
Dept of Communication
California State University | Stanislaus
The Fourth Annual MEA Convention
Sponsored by
The Hofstra University School of Communication
And Hofstra Cultural Center
Hempstead, New York
NB: Dormitory accommodations will be available on a limited basis.
Remapping Communication Environments
June 5-8, 2003
How is technology reshaping our media landscape?
* New communication platforms and old communication environments
* Information technology and place
* Ghettoes in the global village - the technology divide
* Urban and suburban communication environments
* Media content
* Media and religion
* Ethics in media
* Transforming public life and private life
* Creating social spaces
* Digital economics and the changing media landscape
* Sustainable digital communities
* Non-technological communication in a media world
* Understanding new communication environment in media history
* Media and cultural change
* Language and the new communication technologies
We welcome proposals for individual papers, presentations, roundtables,
workshops, screenings, performances or other kinds of special sessions that
are either theme-based or appropriate to the study of media ecology.
Diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of media
environments, including historical, philosophical, aesthetic, literary,
psychological, sociological, anthropological, political, economic, and
scientific investigations, applied, and pedagogical perspectives are
welcome. Complete papers may be considered for top competitive paper award
or top student paper award through a refereed process.
Deadline for submission of abstracts and proposals is January 15, 2003
Send two copies of abstracts and/or proposals to:
Conference
Professor Carol J. Drummer, MEA
School of Communication
Room 318 Dempster Hall
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY, 11549-1110
Questions? Contact the Convention Coordinators:
Susan Drucker
druckers(a)ix.netcom.com
516-463-5304
Barbara Kelly
Barbara.M.Kelly(a)hofstra.edu
516-463-4100
Further details are available at http://www.media-ecology.org
Call For Papers
THE MULTILINGUAL INTERNET: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
IN INSTANT MESSAGING, EMAIL AND CHAT
Co-editors:
Brenda Danet Susan Herring
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Indiana University
and Yale University Bloomington
brenda.danet(a)yale.edu herring(a)indiana.edu
In today's multilingual, global world, hundreds of millions
of people are communicating on the Internet not only in its
established lingua franca, English, but also in many other
languages. To date, the research literature in English on the
features of computer-mediated communication has focused almost
exclusively on emergent practices in English, neglecting
developments within populations communicating online in other
languages. This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a peer-reviewed online
journal. We may also edit a follow-up book on the same theme,
containing a wider selection of papers, with a major publisher.
Papers may relate to instant messaging, private email, postings to
listserv lists and newsgroups, text-only chat, e.g., on IRC or MOOs,
visually enhanced chat, or SMS (short message service) in mobile
phone use.
We invite papers on topics such as:
--The influence of the local language on the use of a medium, e.g.,
the distinctive features of email or chat in languages with specific
font-related requirements (e.g., French, Russian, Hindi, Arabic,
Korean, Chinese).
--Cultural constraints on the use of the medium, e.g., how traditional
requirements for deference in Japanese language and culture are
realized or modified in online communication; Italian non-verbal and
verbal expressivity as realized in typed chat.
--Comparison of the distinctive features of email or chat in two or
more language-culture groups or sub-groups with differing cultural
orientations, e.g., Austrian German versus German German.
--Chat in situations of diglossia--differentiation between spoken and
written languages and dialects (e.g., Moroccan spoken Arabic and how
it is being realized in typed chat).
--Code-switching in bilingual or multilingual online communication.
--The clash between requirements of formality in the letter-writing
tradition in a given language-culture constellation and the trend
toward speech-like patterns in online textual communication.
--Language and play with culture, including play with identity
(e.g., via nicknames).
--A comparison of online communication within the same language-
culture group but in different languages, e.g., Israeli chat in
English versus Hebrew.
--The effects of the English language or global "netspeak" (Crystal,
2001) on email and chat in the local language.
--Online communication in English by non-native speakers, focusing
on language and culture issues.
Submission procedures:
Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500-1000
words by November 30, 2002 (earlier submissions are encouraged).
The proposal should describe the research question, the data and
methods of analysis, preliminary findings/observations and their
broader significance, and should include selected references. The
proposal should also include a tentative paper title.
Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited
to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by April 15,
2003. Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should
plan for papers that will be accessible to non-specialists. If you
have a potentially suitable paper that is already published or
slated for publication elsewhere, we would also like to hear from
you, as it might be possible to republish high quality articles in
the follow-up book.
Questions? Proposal ideas? Please address all correspondence
electronically to both co-editors: Brenda Danet
(brenda.danet(a)yale.edu) and Susan Herring (herring(a)indiana.edu)
A Web version of this Call for Papers is available at:
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/cfpmultilingual.html
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I'm sure air-l is so quiet because we are all busy preparing for our
upcoming meeting in Maastricht.
Has anyone been researching the area or spent time there and want to
recommend things to do there? Maybe people who were interested in
doing the same things might be able to hook up in advance this way?
Just a thought from your friendly local social engineer,
Nancy
________________________________________________________
Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym
Communication Studies, University of Kansas
102 Bailey, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org
>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:44:13 +0200
>From: Frank Schaap <architext(a)fragment.nl>
>To: air-l(a)aoir.org
>Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis
>Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org
>
>I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that
>discussion anymore.
>
>I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for a
>way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them in
>for analysis purposes.
>
>Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since
>personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the whole
>site including underlying pages.
>
>I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to work
>quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It also
>converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important to
>see how someone structures their site.
>
>So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and IT
>policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my
>own machine...
>
>TIA
>
>Frank.
>--
>Fragments Blog: http://fragment.nl/
>Cyberculture Resources: http://fragment.nl/resources/
Apologies if someone already gave this solution, as I'm on digest.
Internet Explorer 5 and above offers a number of ways to save sites,
for purists who want all the HTML and code, and a Web Archive feature
which will save a site and all its links to whatever link depth you
specify.
It will also preserve framesets, I believe. One of the drawbacks of
the Acrobat method is that the PDF archive, altho stable, won't
preserve framesets, or at least not in the last version I had.
Chris
--
Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at:
http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Miasma
I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that
discussion anymore.
I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for a
way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them in
for analysis purposes.
Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since
personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the whole
site including underlying pages.
I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to work
quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It also
converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important to
see how someone structures their site.
So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and IT
policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my
own machine...
TIA
Frank.
--
Fragments Blog: http://fragment.nl/
Cyberculture Resources: http://fragment.nl/resources/
*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****
8. European Congress of Psychology - "Networking"
6. - 11. July 2003
Vienna, Austria
organised by the Austrian Professional Association of Psychologists
(BÖP)
under the auspices of the European Federation of Psychologists'
Associations (EFPA)
The conference is designed to constitute an international review of how
psychology acts in dialogue with related disciplines. The Congress will
provide a unique opportunity to bring together experts in the field of
psychology and related fields to exchange ideas, information and the
latest research findings. Keynote speakers will introduce a selection of
important topics followed by symposia, parallel sessions and posters. I
also want to highlight the teaching seminars "Tools for Practitioners",
which will offer an excellent opportunity to increase the level of
familiarity with different areas of psychology.
The Call for Papers posted in this list is to encourage submissions of
abstracts especially to the topic Media/New Media. Other topics are
Organisational Psychology, Disaster Psychology, Health
Psychology/Wellness, Life Span, Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and
Political Psychology. The official language of the Conference is
English. Presentations in the German language are possible but should
not exceed one third of the programme. There will be no simultaneous
translations.
Deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 November 2002, abstracts may be
submitted only online.
For further information and submission details visit the congress
website: www.psycongress.at
Contact: info(a)psycongress.at
Gerald Kral
on behalf of the Organising Committee
*We apologize for crossposting*
Hi Frank
Have you thought about using the Internet Archive? (See
http://www.archive.org/.) This claims to be "building a digital library of
Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper
library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and
the general public". By inserting a particular url, you can see how the
site looked at particular dates, from about 1996, although these dates are
set by the archive. I'm not sure if this will provide the level of depth
into a website that you are looking for, but perhaps there may be more
flexiblity if you register.
I've also recently been recommended to try Net snippets
(http://www.4dev.com/ns/) "Net Snippets provides users for the first time
with tools to clip, annotate, edit and manage information found on the web".
May be useful depending on how extensive the sites you're looking at are.
Regards
Rachel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr Rachel A Harris
Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning and Assessment
University of Glasgow
Florentine House
53 Hillhead Street
Glasgow, G12 8QQ
0141 330 2878
r.harris(a)udcf.gla.ac.uk
www.scrolla.ac.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of
Frank Schaap
Sent: 26 September 2002 13:44
To: air-l(a)aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis
I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that
discussion anymore.
I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for a
way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them in
for analysis purposes.
Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since
personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the whole
site including underlying pages.
I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to work
quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It also
converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important to
see how someone structures their site.
So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and IT
policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my
own machine...
TIA
Frank.
--
Fragments Blog: http://fragment.nl/
Cyberculture Resources: http://fragment.nl/resources/
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I use 'Teleport Pro' which can download until 'x' links away from the starting address, and can include both internal and external links.
merlyna lim
scot research group, bandung - indonesia
u.twente, enschede - netherlands
>Frank,
>
>I use adobe acrobat. If you have the writing feature, not the free reading
>feature, you can save webpages exactly as they are, including their
>directories, and you can decide exactly how many links deep. Endnote also
>provides this feature, with detailed cataloging available so you can recall
>them later.
>
>Jillana Enteen
>jillana(a)rcnchicago.com
>http://www.rcnchicago.com/~jillana
>,žž,ø€º°`°º€ø,ž,žž,ø€º°`°º€ø,ž
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank Schaap" <architext(a)fragment.nl>
>To: <air-l(a)aoir.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:44 AM
>Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis
>
>
>> I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that
>> discussion anymore.
>>
>> I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for
>a
>> way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them
>in
>> for analysis purposes.
>>
>> Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since
>> personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the
>whole
>> site including underlying pages.
>>
>> I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to
>work
>> quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It
>also
>> converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important
>to
>> see how someone structures their site.
>>
>> So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and
>IT
>> policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my
>> own machine...
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Frank.
>> --
>> Fragments Blog: http://fragment.nl/
>> Cyberculture Resources: http://fragment.nl/resources/
>>
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>>
>
>
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Merlyna Lim
Research Fellow
SCoT Research Group
UTwente - ITB
