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Fw: [Reader-list] CFP: IT in regional areas
by K.S.O-Riordan＠sussex.ac.uk 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

<apologies for cross-posting> This seeemed to tie into the rurality thread..... Kate O'Riordan University of Sussex, UK -------------------------------------------------------------- The Faculty of Informatics and Communication at Central Queensland University is pleased to call for case studies for its ITiRA 2002 Conference at CQU Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 27 - 29 August 2002. The overall purpose of the ITiRA 2002 Conference is to examine strategies, research and applications for the introduction and use of Information Technology in Regional Areas (details can be found at: http://itira.cqu.edu.au ). "Expressions of Interest" (abstracts) for the presentation of Case Studies or Posters will be accepted until 10 May 2002, accepted case studies will be notified by 24 May and completed case study papers due 5 July.

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online psychotherapy/supervision
by Ben Davidson 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Hi all, This is to announce the creation of the 'Psychotherapy & Clinical Supervision Online' Internet forum, specifically for those with an interest or involvement in the practice, research, development or theory of Online Psychotherapy and Online Clinical Supervision. The forum is unmoderated, but membership is by approval of the listowner. The forum currently comprises an e-mail discusson list (PSYCHOTHERAPY-ONLINE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK) a videoconferencing and instant message facility, and a website. As membership grows, perhaps we will be able to develop these resources further. You are invited to join by visiting the following URL, clicking the 'join' button and supplying the required details (name and e-mail address): http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psychotherapy-online.html Hope to see you there. Best wishes, Ben

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Re: [Air-l] Learning from Lachlan
by radhika gajjala 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Having been on and off and on Joan's list (great control, btw:)) and done my own listing - where "trolls" often come from a strange mixed subjectivity of privilege (implicitly assuming that "the Internet" is a "free" and "democratic" space...haha - and buying into certain culturally - situated in hierarchies of race, gender, geography, class, langauge...you name it) specific notions of no-censureship - in a sense, pretty naive, I would say, about the possibility for a lack of power wielding and hierarchy in internetworked spaces... i could go on in loops of hyphens, semicolons and paranthesis... but...) and a lack of privilege in the specific context - if "privilege" can be taken to mean a lack of nettiquette and knowledge, cultural capital within the specific context (whether of internet research as a body of knowledge or women's studies or postcolonial theory as defined within certain epistemologies or engaging specific contexts inaccessible to varieties of Other people - or creative writing by so-called and percieved-as "Others" - here i refer to my own various interestingly failed attempts in listing and ethnographing - etc). In my managing of various lists (a couple of which got parallyzed into silence because of the dilemma regarding who speaks and who doesnt), I've done my own share of gatekeeping so I am not criticizing anyone else's - but I'm always fascinated at the issues and discussions that emerge. r > >For what it's worth, I might note that in the eleven years I've been >responsible for WMST-L (a large academic list for discussion of >women's studies teaching, research, and program administration), I've >seen a number of trolls follow a pattern similar to the one Michael >Gurstein describes. At first, they tend to seem interested, engaged, >sincere. Soon, though, their postings become increasingly off the >wall and disruptive. Eventually, it becomes clear that they're >interested primarily in creating chaos and being the center of >attention. > >I for one am very pleased that Lachlan has been removed from AIR-L. > > Joan > > Joan Korenman, Director > Center for Women & Information Technology > University of Maryland, Baltimore County > Baltimore, MD 21250 USA > korenman(a)umbc.edu > http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > >

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Lachlan Brown has been unsubscribed from air-l
by Steve Jones 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Based on today's e-mails from him, and earlier ones, I have had Lachlan Brown's e-mail addresses removed from the air-l list. He will not be able to post to air-l from those addresses. Furthermore, air-l is now open to subscribers only, and subscriptions will be moderated by the air-l administrators. A comprehensive posting policy is forthcoming (hopefully in the next day or two), but in the meantime due to the personal, inappropriate and harassing nature of his recent posts I've decided to remove Lachlan from the list at this time. Thanks you, Sj

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Re: [Air-l] Learning from Lachlan
by radhika gajjala 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

golly - looks like I've missed some real fun stuff (I think I got derailed because of a bouncing account). and who decides this "broad range" might i ask? r >My interest in the Internet is that it has been, is and gives the appearance >of being a profoundly transformative technology. Determining the nature of >that transformation, its boundaries, its impacts and its limitations is for >me a very significant task, both in its own right but also and perhaps most >importantly because this can help us as teachers and as citizens influence >and guide this development in socially meaningful and useful ways. > >To be useful in those areas, as "Internet Researchers" we must I think, be >open to the broadest range of ideas (and not rush too soon to closure around >what is meaningful or valuable) and we must be willing and able to use the >full capacity of the Net to sustain and enable meaningful interactions >across wide distances both physical and social. > >Mike Gurstein > >Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. >(Visiting) Professor: School of Management >New Jersey Institute of Technology >Newark, NJ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > ___________ Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425/ "I am not erudite enough to be interdisciplinary, but I can break rules" - Spivak, 1999. "Just bear in mind, darling: Write Mortal. Think Witch" - Endora from "Bewitched" _____ __________

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Disrupting lists
by Charlie Breindahl 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

I once was a subscriber to the phil-lit list started by the people behind the print magazine Philosophy and Literature. Some years ago, the hostility on this list of booklovers escalated to unbelievable levels - as some fellow AoIR members can probably testify. - Postings went from being on the subject to acerbic and then ad-hominem. - The main topic for the whole list changed from "philosophy and literature" to "list maintenance." - People were summarily and repeatedly unsubscribed and resubscribed by list management. - As a result, the list in effect ceased to function as an open and friendly venue for debate. To me, this was very instructive. Trolling and flaming are very interesting phenomena to be sure, but they can thoroughly destroy an e-mail list. I don't want this to happen to AIR-L. If research in such phenomena is needed, please carry it out elsewhere. AIR-L is a list with an agreed-upon topic: Scholarly research about the Internet itself. It is also a list started and maintained by a democratic organization. Jeremy Hunsinger and I are appointed Information Officers of this organization and have acted following clear instructions by the president of AoIR to remove a subscriber from AIR-L. The decision was made following a thorough debate in the executive committee and has been announced to AIR-L with a clear motivation (see below). I think all members of AoIR should respect this decision for now. Following the rules of a representative democracy, a member of AoIR should cast her/his vote for the next executive committee in accordance with her/his stand on this issue. I also think that non-members should leave it for members to decide - or join the association. The cost involved is not prohibitive. There is no easy way to ensure that an open e-mail list continues to function, but we have to try. In my view, it is the duty of the elected officials of AoIR to protect the open and friendly forum of AIR-L. If we fail to act when a subscriber is acting in a hostile and disruptive way, then we have failed to act as we should. Best, Charlie Breindahl Information Officer About the phil-lit list, see http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/information/lis… > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-admin(a)aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of > Steve Jones > Sent: 18. marts 2002 22:43 > To: air-l > Subject: [Air-l] Lachlan Brown has been unsubscribed from air-l > > > Based on today's e-mails from him, and earlier ones, I have had > Lachlan Brown's e-mail addresses removed from the air-l list. He will > not be able to post to air-l from those addresses. Furthermore, air-l > is now open to subscribers only, and subscriptions will be moderated > by the air-l administrators. A comprehensive posting policy is > forthcoming (hopefully in the next day or two), but in the meantime > due to the personal, inappropriate and harassing nature of his recent > posts I've decided to remove Lachlan from the list at this time. > > Thanks you, > Sj -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Copenhagen + Malmö Web: http://staff.hum.ku.dk/hitch/ http://www.creativeenvironments.mah.se/ Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 or +46 40 665 71 51 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray

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riaa hacks back?
by Mark Andrejevic 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

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Symposium information
by Bart Simon 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

_____________________________________ PLEASE POST! PLEASE FORWARD! <bold>Network Worlds: a symposium on the Internet and Society Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario May 31 and June 1 2002 </bold>featuring a public lecture by <bold>Manuel Castells (University of California at Berkeley): "The Internet: a Cultural Creation" Symposium speakers include </bold>Kong Chong Ho (National University of Singapore) Thomas Courchene (Queen's University) David Lyon (Queen's University) Vincent Mosco (Carleton University) Serge Proulx (Universite de Quebec a Montreal) Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago) Steve Woolgar (Oxford University) Elia Zureik (Queen's University) <bold>Free registration Opportunities for graduate students to meet speakers Speakers book exhibition Details at <<http://www.networkworlds.ca/>www.networkworlds.ca _______________________________________ </bold> ------------------------------------------------------ Bart Simon, Asst. Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, LB-687 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 phone: 514-848-2164 email: simonb(a)alcor.concordia.ca -------------------------------------------------------

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(no subject)
by Sandeep Krishnamurthy 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Colleagues, As many of you know, I am the author of a soon-to-be-released textbook- "E-Commerce Management: Text and Cases". Some of you may be interested to know that we are offering the Amazon.com case that will be featured in the book as a free download. The case is a comprehensive business history of the company including events up to Feb 2002(notably, the recent quarterly profit). To download the latest version of the case, please visit- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/textbook/Amazon.htm (If you are having problems downloading the case, try this one- http://www.swcollege.com/marketing/marketing.html) This site now includes- -The latest version of the case(in pdf format). -A teaching note for instructors. This is presented as a password-protected Word document to limit access to instructors only(the password is sandeep). -Link to a public discussion of the case. Please encourage your students to use this. They can make up any username to post a message. The book is coming along well and is expected to be out by July 2002. To see the final table of contents, please visit- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/textbook. Please leave your e-mail address at the site to be included in the textbook's learning community. Feel free to contact me with your comments and suggestions. Best, Sandeep P.S.: You may also see this announcements on other lists. Sorry for the duplication. --- http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep

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public domain/copyright Fwd: <nettime> the patron saint of copyleft?
by jeremy hunsinger 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

one of those confirmable anecdotes that can help to historicize some of the ongoing arguments. sharing this from the ever-popular nettime, with the name of the cow, so goes the name of the calf. Begin forwarded message: > From: Kermit Snelson <ksnelson(a)subjectivity.com> > Date: Sun Mar 17, 2002 08:49:14 PM US/Eastern > To: nettime-l(a)bbs.thing.net > Subject: <nettime> the patron saint of copyleft? > Reply-To: Kermit Snelson <ksnelson(a)subjectivity.com> > > In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, here's a reminder that one of Ireland's > other patron saints, Saint Columba, may have pioneered the > anti-copyright > movement way back in the sixth century (A.D. 555, to be exact): > > St. Columba had borrowed from the monk a fine manuscript of the > Gospels, and Columba had made a copy of the borrowed book, before > returning > it. The monk claimed the copy also as his; the saint disputed this. > His > argument in defence reads not unlike the defence made by modern > infringers > of copyright: "I confess that the book in question was copied from the > manuscript of Finnen. But it was with my own industry and toil and > burning > of the midnight oil. And it was copied with such care that Finnen's > manuscript is in no way injured by the act of copying. Moreover, my > object > was to preserve more surely the best parts of the book and employ them > for > the greater glory of God. Hence I do not admit that I have done any > injury > to Finnen; nor am liable for restitution, nor am at fault in any way." > But > Dermot, the judge, as manuscripts were then new in Ireland, had no exact > precedent, and he cast about for the nearest analogy. He found the > Brehon > maxim, "With every cow goes its calf", "Le cach boin a boinin"; and so > his > judgment was in favor of the monk, because "Le cach lebar a lebran", > "With > every book goes the young of the book". (But the saint, it is recorded, > was > very angry at this judgment, invoked the power of a rival chieftain > against > Dermot, and thrashed him well in battle.) [Wigmore, John H., _A > Panorama of > the World's Legal Systems_, Washington DC, 1936, p. 677] > > Kermit Snelson > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg > body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net > > 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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