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Re: Subject: [Air-l] History of computer
by Rune Dalgaard 16 Apr '02

16 Apr '02

Hi Antonio You might also want to check Paul N. Edwards "The closed world" (can not recall the year of publication). I would be interested in seing the list you manage to compile - perhaps you can mail it to this list? Best, Rune ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rune Dalgaard, MA, Doctoral Candidate Dept. of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University E-mail: runed(a)imv.aau.dk / Web: http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > i am looking for books, essays etc. about a cultural and/or sociological > history of computer. I know just one book, e.g. Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes > of the Computer Revolution. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated > > Yours > > Antonio

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social history of computers
by Jay Hauben 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

Hi, I have always found reading Fire in the Valley of value. It captures some of the social context and aspirations of the early personal computer activists. This book helps to confirm Michael Hauben's insight that the personal computer was somehow intimately connected with the Free Speech movement. I include one of the reviews I found online: Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine "The first book to chronicle not only the technological innovation, but also the social legacy created by the true "fathers" of the personal computer; a very human, sometimes funny and always articulate story of the industry's otherwise cloudy origins. The pages are filled with the people, the projects, and the frenzy that built the personal computer industry." -- Computer Currents Take care. Jay

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info tech company anthems
by jeremy hunsinger 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

i know it is just wierd, but what a very strange phenomena, a top 10 list of companies songs. I'm all for like labor union song preservation etc, but this is just not what i would expect from companies. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/specials/2002/it-anthems/ jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com

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Re: History of Computer
by John Daly 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

Try Tracy Kidder, "The Soul of a New Machine" in paperback, about the struggle of corporate development of a minicomputer in the 1970's. -- John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant/

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History of computer
by Antonio Roversi 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

Dear Aoirs i am looking for books, essays etc. about a cultural and/or sociological history of computer. I know just one book, e.g. Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated Yours Antonio

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Interdisciplinary graduate programs
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Hi. I am forwarding this on behalf of the Advanced Studies Committee at Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC in response to an earlier query about interdisciplinary graduate programs ... ---- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a Ph.D. program in library and information science that is VERY interdisciplinary in nature. The research areas of faculty and current doctoral students include CMC, on-line communities, internet studies, information policy, educational technology, etc. We have connections to the Institue for Communication Research, the College of Education, and other parts of the campus. This makes it easy for our doctoral students to connect with other researchers and set up a broad program of study for themselves. More information about the program and the research directions we support can be found at: <http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/>. -------

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RE: [Air-l] Internet Researchers in Japan
by John Daly 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

Steven Clift wrote: >I am hoping to connect with various Internet researchers when I am in >Japan in May. (snip) >I will be speaking at a symposium on e-democracy in Tokyo, Japan. I suggest that you check the E-government community on the Development Gateway site (which has more the 500 subscribed members): http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130619/ More generally, I would like to suggest that AoIR members participate in the Development Gateway site. http://www.developmentgateway.org/ It will serve us to the extent that we participate. I have joined as an advisor for its "Information and Communication Technologies for Development" and "Knowledge Economy" Topic pages, and have been working to add resources (papers and links) to the Gateway resources. It is easy to do so. The Development Gateway is still in its early phases, but with more than 900 ICT4D and more than 400 KE resources, and some 500 members in each community, it is becoming a useful resource. If you help, we can make it more useful in the future. -- John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant/

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Re: [Air-l] technology as social status symbols
by David Palfreyman 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

For research re mobile phones, try Lycett & Dunbar (2000). Mobile phones as lekking devices among human males. Human Nature, 11(1): 93-104. :-D >>> myildiz(a)indiana.edu 04-Apr-02 11:19:58 PM >>> Regarding: > 2. Technology as social status symbols (Patrick B. O'Sullivan) Hi, In my home country Turkey, I remember reading a couple of news stories about cutting edge cell phones being status symbols, but I have not seen any scholarly work on it. Mete Mete Yildiz School of Public and Environmental Affairs Bloomington, IN

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Fwd: OSI welcomes publisher participation in BOAI (fwd)
by jeremy hunsinger 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

I don't know who else in air-l follows the ongoing situation with journals and publishing, but this might be something some of you want to participate in. Begin forwarded message: > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK> > Date: Fri Apr 12, 2002 10:06:39 AM US/Eastern > To: VPIEJ-L(a)LISTSERV.VT.EDU > Subject: OSI welcomes publisher participation in BOAI (fwd) > Reply-To: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:57:33 +0100 > From: Melissa Hagemann <mhagemann(a)sorosny.org> > Reply-To: September 1998 American Scientist Forum > <SEPTEMBER98-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG> > To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > Subject: OSI welcomes publisher participation in BOAI > > OSI WELCOMES PUBLISHER PARTICIPATION IN BOAI > > April 12, 2002 > > The Open Society Institute (OSI) has a long history of collaboration > with academic publishers and is looking for participation by publishers > in its latest major initiative, the Budapest Open Access Initiative > (BOAI) http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ > One of the two strategic paths identified in the BOAI provides > an opportunity for publishers to set up new electronic journals knowing > that the open access vision behind BOAI is shared by academic > communities across the globe. > > As a major part of the Initiative, OSI is working with publishers, > business consultants, economists and librarians to develop model open > access journal business plans. To support existing open access > journals, OSI will provide funding for authors from over 65 developing > countries to have their articles published in these journals; more > details about the funding scheme will be announced soon. > > There is a special opportunity in BOAI for learned society publishers. > A transition to open access publishing may be very beneficial to > smaller societies facing the struggle to maintain journals from which > they make insufficient money to move to electronic access. For larger > publishers also, the BOAI strategy offers a dramatic increase in > exposure for their journals and an opportunity to move away from an > economic model that relies upon library subscriptions. It is the > considered opinion of many in the publishing and library communities > that the current economic model is unsustainable. Academic > organisations and publishers must work together to prepare alternative > economic models if the scholarly publishing system is to emerge from > the deepening "serials crisis". > > Behind this thinking in BOAI there is a realisation that publishers > contribute value to the access to research information. The academic > world would be far poorer without the contribution of publishers. OSI > wishes to work with publishers to retain their added value in new > economic models that are viable and allow open access. > > For additional information on the BOAI, please contact Melissa > Hagemann, mhagemann(a)sorosny.org. > > ---------------------- > NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free > access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the > American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): > http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html > or > http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html > > Discussion can be posted to: > september98-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org > > See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative: > http://www.soros.org/openaccess > > and the Free Online Scholarship Movement: > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm > > jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com

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RE: [Air-l] Internet Researchers in Japan
by Han Lee 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Dear Clift: Hi, I know two professors in South Korea, who may be interested in your presentation. One is Prof. Shin Kyungwon from the Department of English and the other is Prof. Hyun Daiwon from the Department of Mass Communication. You can find their e-mail addresses from the following web websites: http://www.sogang.ac.kr/english/faculty/under/prof_elanguage.html http://www.sogang.ac.kr/english/faculty/under/prof_comm.html Best wishes, Han Lee ************************************ Han Lee Communication @ http://www.uic.edu/depts/comm & Religious Studies @ http://www.sogang.ac.kr/english E-mail: hlee37(a)uic.edu ************************************ >===== Original Message From "Steven Clift" <slc(a)publicus.net> ===== >I am hoping to connect with various Internet researchers when I am in >Japan in May. Below is a note that I am circulating around Japan. >Please forward as appropriate. > >Any suggestions? > >Thanks, >Steven Clift > >P.S. I may stop in South Korea if there is interest in arranging some >sort of e-democracy presentation. Any ideas? > > >E-Democracy and Japan > >On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 I will be speaking at a symposium on e- >democracy in Tokyo, Japan. This will be my first visit to Japan. This >message is a short introduction to my work and a request for advice >and contacts. Please forward this message to those you think will be >interested. > >** To connect with me and others interested in e-democracy >** in Japan, send an e-mail to: >** do-japan-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com >** For e-democracy news, visit: http://e-democracy.org/do > >What is e-democracy? > >A simple definition of e-democracy is the use of the Internet in >governance, politics, elections, media and community. I have spoken >on this topic hundreds of times across twenty countries. I look >forward to learning about e-democracy trends in Japan and comparing >notes. > >To learn more, read my "Future of E-Democracy," "E-Democracy E-Book," >and other articles on my web site <http://www.publicus.net>. My >Democracies Online Newswire e-mail announcement list connects 2400 >people around the world interested in this topic. Join this >important e-mail list and read past messages at ><http://www.e-democracy.org/do>. To auto-translate my materials try ><http://world.altavista.com/>. > >A request for advice. > >In the days following the symposium I plan to meet people involved >with e-democracy-related projects in media, politics, community and >government. Please e-mail suggested names and contact information to >me <clift(a)publicus.net>. In particular, I would like to meet the >staff who work on Prime Minister Koizumi's e-mail newsletter ><http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/m-magazine/>, those involved with >wireless political content on iMode, and citizens involved with very >local uses of the Internet for local community involvement and >discussions. > >Meeting and learning. > >In major cities around the world I have organized small informal >public gatherings where people interested in e-democracy can meet one >another. We will meet online first and organize the details. Join >my e-mail list for contacts in Japan by sending an e-mail to ><do-japan-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com>. > >I am also considering organizing a special half-day workshop for a >limited number of participants on Friday, May 24 or Saturday, May 25. >Depending upon potential sponsors and costs, there will likely be a >fee to participate. Send me an e-mail if you would like more >information on attending or sponsoring this event ><clift(a)publicus.net>. > >Thank you, > >Steven Clift > >P.S. You can read my full biography at <http://www.publicus.net>. The >short version is that I helped create the world's first election- >oriented web site in 1994 called Minnesota E-Democracy, coordinated e- >government for the State of Minnesota 1994-97, served as Co- >Editor of the G8 Democracy and Government Online Service Publication, >and I was a co-founder of Web White & Blue, a project of the >Markle Foundation which organized an online presidential campaign >debate in 2000. Today, I am a global e-democracy expert, >speaker and consultant. I continue to volunteer with Minnesota E- >Democracy ><http://www.e-democracy.org> which is recognized as a leading host of >online citizens discussions that matter in real politics and >community. > >^ ^ ^ ^ >Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net >Minneapolis - - - E: clift(a)publicus.net >Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 >USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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