Dear Colleagues,
The Electronic Literature Directory
is a useful resource located at
http://directory.eliterature.org/
From their introduction:
"The Electronic Literature Directory is a unique and valuable
resource for readers and writers of digital texts. It provides an
extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors,
and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction,
drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic
techniques or enhancements.
"The Directory provides easy access to one of the most exciting and
fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new
forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other
interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works,
generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration. Directory
users can also enjoy the enhancements that the new technology brings
to traditional literature, such as streaming audio readings of poetry
by masters ranging from e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas to
contemporary Pulitzer Prize winners."
The directory os published by the
Electronic Literature Organization,
located at:
http://www.eliterature.org/index2.html
--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Technology and Knowledge Management
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
Please post and distribute this call further.
Thanks,
Nick Jankowski
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom
Call for Papers
EURICOM COLLOQUIUM
ELECTRONIC NETWORKS & DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENT
October 9-11, 2002
The European Institute for Communication and Culture (Euricom) is hosting a
second colloquium of scholars concerned with the relation between
electronic networks and democratic engagement. This colloquium will build
on the inroads developed at the first event held in Piran, Slovenia, in
2001. A central objective of this colloquium is to lay the groundwork for
international collaborative research initiatives. Special attention is to
be given to the place of electronic networks during periods of collective
crisis such as experienced after the September 11th attacks on New York and
Washington. Contributions are welcome that are conceived within the more
general concerns of designing networks aimed at providing politically-based
information, and supporting public debate and citizen action. The arenas of
electronic community networks, digital cities, and other virtual spaces
within democratic engagement are particularly suitable for contributions to
this colloquium.
Background
Interest in and experimentation with electronic networks has been ongoing
since cable television infrastructures were constructed in the late 1960s.
This concern intensified with development of opportunities for
computer-mediated communication in the 1980s and with popularization of the
Internet in the 1990s. In 1996 the European Institute for Communication and
Culture (Euricom) sponsored a colloquium concerned with 'virtual
democracy'. Contributions to the most recent Euricom colloquium, held in
2001, continue in this tradition and are currently being prepared for
publication in the journals Javnost - The Public and Communications: The
European Journal of Communication Research.
Questions
This work, taken as a whole, reflects increasing concern about the possible
contributions of electronic networks to democratic life. Some of the
questions emerging from this work include:
· In what manner and to what degree do electronic networks contribute to a
more informed and politically active citizenry?
· How can electronic networks be designed to increase democratic engagement?
· In what ways are electronic networks utilized in collective crises?
The upcoming Euricom colloquium is intended to explore these and related
questions. An edited volume, assembled from contributions to both
colloquia, is to be published by Hampton Press.
Abstracts
Persons interested in participating in this event are invited to submit
extended abstracts (ca. 500 words) for proposed papers. The deadline for
receipt of abstracts is March 15, 2002; it is recommended, however, that
interested persons contact the organizers of the colloquium prior to that
date. The venue for the colloquium is still under negotiation, but will be
situated in The Netherlands.
Address queries to:
Nicholas Jankowski <N.Jankowski(a)maw.kun.nl> or
Slavko Splichal <slavko.splichal(a)uni-lj.si>
Further information may be found at the Euricom Project web site:
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom
Folks of AIR,
*** feel free to distribute ***
New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (December 2001)
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) celebrates its 5 year
anniversary this month with a new set of book reviews. New reviews for
December 2001 (found at www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/) include:
Eric Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of
Information. Harmony Books, 1998. Reviewed by Susan Lewak and Nick Hales.
Andrew Darley, Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New
Media Genres. Routledge, 2000. Reviewed by Sabrina DeTurk.
Markku Eskelinen & Raine Koskimaa, editors, CyberText Yearbook 2000.
Research Centre for Contemporary Culture, 2000. Reviewed by Jessica
Pressman with a response from Markku Eskelinen & Raine Koskimaa.
Each month, RCCS <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 100 books on cyberculture, the Internet, and
technoculture. 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
had to do some touch-up on some code, but i've linked the three sets of
pictures up to the http://aoir.org/2001/ conference archive site have
fun if anyone has anything other picture sets or conference reviews,
etc. let charlie or I know:)
--
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
Shalom
I am building an interactive site for vocabulary.
Please, if you have lists of English words with thier Hebrew meaning, and you are interested to use them on the internet, send them to me.
thanks
yours
Ahmad
Anyone going to this? anyone interested in doing an internet research
panel?
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> THE 6th WORLD MULTI CONFERENCE ON
> SYSTEMICS , CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS
> SCI 2002
>
> July 14 - 18, 2002
>
> Orlando , Florida, USA
> Sheraton World
>
> http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/
>
> Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir
> Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
> General Chair: Nagib Callaos
> Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez
>
> MAJOR THEMES
>
> * Information Systems Development
> * Information Systems Management
> * Management Information Systems
> * Virtual Engineering
> * Mobile/Wireless Computing
> * Communication Systems and Networks
> * Emergent Computation
> * Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing
> * Computing Techniques
> * Human Information Systems
> * Education and Information Systems
> * Control Systems
> * Economic and Financial Systems
> * SCI in Biology and Medicine
> * SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality
> * Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI
> * Natural Resources
> * Human Resources
> * Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies
> * SCI in Art
>
> ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS
>
> · WOSC: World Organization on Systemics and Cybernetics (France)
> · The Center for Systems Studies (UK)
> · Systems Society of Poland
> · Society Applied Systems Research (Canada)
> · Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society
> · Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)
> · Polish System Society (Poland)
> · Italian Society of Systemics
> · ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences (USA)
> · ISI: The International Systems Institute (USA)
> · IFSR: International Federation of Systems Research (Austria/USA)
> · Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics
> and
> Cybersemiotics (Denmark)
> · CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University
> (France)
> · Concurrency and Architecture Group, the Telematics Engineering
> Department of
> the Univesity of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain).
> · The Tunisian Scientific Society (Tunisia).
>
> Technical Co - Sponsor
>
> · IEEE, Computer Society (Chapter: Venezuela)
>
>
> ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS
>
> The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.
>
> ACTIVE PARTICIPATION
>
> Those interested in participating in:
> · The Organization of Invited Session(s)
> · The Organization of Focus Symposium
> · The Reviewing Process
> · The Conference Promotion
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>
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> need
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>
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>
> PARTICIPANTS
>
> Participation of both, researchers and practitioners is strongly
> encouraged.
> Papers may be submitted on: research in science and engineering, case
> studies drawn on professional practice and consulting, and position
> papers
> based on large and rich experience gained through executive/managerial
> practices and decision-making. For this reason, the Program Committee is
> conformed according to the criteria given above.
>
> TYPES OF SUBMISSION ACCEPTED
>
> 1. Papers
> · Research
> · Review
> · Position
> · Report
> 2. Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals
> 3. New Topics and Invited Sessions Proposals (which should include a
> minimum of 5 papers)
> 4. Focus Symposia (which should include a minimum of 15 papers)
>
> EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM
>
> Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent taking into account
> the
> following Format:
>
> 1. Major theme of the paper, related to the major themes given above.
> 2. Paper title.
> 3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to
> 5000 words, in English.
> 4. Authors and/or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone and fax
> numbers, and e-mail addresses.
>
> Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent to the conference web
> page: http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/, filling the respective form and
> uploading the respective paper or extended abstract. If by any reasons
> you
> are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the
> following
> page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2002/.
>
> If the conference web pages are not accessible for you, you can also
> make
> your submission by e-mail, attaching it to the following e-mail
> addresses:
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>
> DEADLINES
>
> December 19, 2001: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or
> paper drafts (2000-5000 words).
>
> December 19, 2001: Invited session proposals.
>
> February 20, 2002: Acceptance notifications.
>
> April 10, 2002: Submission of camera-ready papers: hard copies and
> electronic versions.
>
>
> PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION
>
> Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not
> exceed
> six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and
> electronic proceedings.
>
> Best papers will be selected for awards and might be recommended for
> journal publications.
>
> Multiple author books will be published by IIIS based on, the
> best-invited
> sessions, the best focus symposia or the best mini-conferences and the
> topic of the papers.
>
> INVITED SESSIONS
>
> Based on past conferences experience, we suggest the following steps in
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>
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> the
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> This acceptation is not a final approval of the proposed session, but a
> pre-approval. The final approval will depend on identifying at least
> five
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> titles. With this acceptation: a) the proposed session will be included
> in
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> and
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> context of SCI 2002, by any media that he/she thinks appropriated, such
> as:
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> e-mails,
> etc.
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> can contribute a paper to your proposed session and attend at SCI 2002.
> 4) Collect the extended abstracts or the paper drafts from each
> prospective
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> related to the invited/selected papers.
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> the
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> http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/.
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> one
> if the papers fulfil all the requirements (i.e. quality). All the
> approved
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>
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> Integrated by (197) prestigious scholars/researchers from 48 countries:
> Details can be found in the conference web page:
> http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/,
> or asked for a detailed Call For Papers, by e-mail.
>
> Conference fees
>
> The conference fees will be $340 before the deadline, and $390 after the
> deadline.
>
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>
> * A CD-ROM version of the Proceedings
> * One volume of the hard copy version of the Conference Proceedings.
> (Other volumes will be available with a 40% of discount for
> participants)
> * Coffee breaks
> * Welcome Reception
>
> Each registration fee might include a maximum of one paper, which
> presentation will be included in the conference program and published in
> the conference proceedings.
>
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> registration fee does not include any post-conference services. There
> will
> be additional shipping and handling costs for those registered authors
> who,
> for unforeseen reasons, could not go to the conference. Any
> post-conference
> administrative requirements will be charged $20 per staff hour required
> to
> elaborate such a requirement, with a minimum of $10. Post-conference
> requirements will have their own deadline, which in no case will be more
> than three months, after the last day of the conference.
>
> Conference CONTACTS
>
> Prof. Nagib Callaos (General Chair)
> E -mails: ncallaos@ usb.ve(Academic)
> ncallaos@ aol.com(Personal)
> ncallaos@ callaos.com(Business)
> callaos@ telcel.net.ve
>
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> Venezuela Tel/Fax (office): +58 (212) 962-1519
>
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>
> Details can be found at the Conference web page:
> http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/.
> Answers to specific questions can also be requested by e-mail.
>
>
jeremy hunsinger
on the ibook
www.cddc.vt.eduwww.cddc.vt.edu/jeremywww.dromocracy.com
CALL FOR PAPERS - 2002 CSAA ANNUAL MEETING
University of Toronto
May 29 - June 1, 2002
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/eng/confe.htm
MEDIATIONS/MEDITATIONS -- TRACING THE "VIRTUAL" AND "REAL" IN SOCIAL THEORY
Organizer: Lauren Cruikshank, Communication and Culture, York University
This session encourages papers that consider concepts of reality,
virtuality, hyperreality and other modes of existence through a range of
theoretical perspectives. Mediation of experience and the significance of
the "real" in contemporary culture could be explored here with attention to
media, technology, mythology or any number of other lenses.
Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2001. Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words along with name, departmental affiliation, institution, email, mailing address and phone number to: lrc(a)yorku.ca
or by mail to: 1412 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON, M4G 3A7, Canada
Thank you.
This conference may interest some of the aoir-list members.
J. Campbell
Call For Papers
Computer-Supported Social Interaction (CSI) 2002
http://www.users.muohio.edu/campbeqj/csi/csi.html
April 19-20 2002
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
Proposal Submission Deadline: Feb. 15, 2002
Advanced Registration Deadline: March 15, 2002
Computers and the Internet are becoming increasingly important mediums for
social interaction. Many types of relationships including business,
casual, and intimate are formed and maintained through the use of
computer-mediated communication (CMC). The CSI 2K2 conference is an effort
to bring together leading researchers in the field of CMC to discuss the
psychological implications of technology on social relationships.
The conference will feature presentations by:
¨ Andrea Hollingshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
¨ Sara Kiesler (Carnegie Mellon University)
¨ Joseph Walther (Rensselear Polytechnic Institute)
We also invite individuals to submit proposals for poster or 10 minute oral
presentations on topics related to the area of computer-supported social
interaction. The poster/paper sessions will be scheduled around the
featured presentations. We welcome proposals from any discipline relevant
to the theme of the conference; submissions can be of an empirical nature
or a theoretical/conceptual paper. Students are particularly encouraged to
submit poster proposals.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
¨ Electronic team performance
¨ Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
¨ Online relationships
¨ Distance learning and education
¨ Gender and technology
¨ Internet research methodology
¨ Research ethics
¨ Human-computer interaction
¨ Electronic commerce/privacy
Submission Guidelines
¨ Authors must submit a 500-word proposal by Feb. 15 2002. The abstract
should present a brief yet detailed description of the problem,
methodology, results and/or potential implications.
¨ Submit proposals online at:
http://www.muohio.edu/~campbeqj/csi/proposal.htmlx
or email them to CSI(a)muohio.edu (with CSI Proposal as the subject heading)
Registration
¨ Deadline for advance conference registration is March 15, 2002
¨ Register online at:
http://www.users.muohio.edu/campbeqj/csi/csireg.html
Any questions should be emailed directly to -- CSI(a)muohio.edu
Dear aoir list,
here the programe of the fibreculture meeting, a list for Australian new
media/net research and culture. Matthew Allen and a few others of the
Internet Studies program from Curtin (Perth) will be coming. We expect
around 50 participants. This first meeting will have an informal character
and is meant to become a strategic conference, not one with speakers and
papers. One of the outcomes could be the founding of an Australian
foundation for Internet research, but we first have to discuss this. One of
the topics is also gonna be the relation between fibreculture and aior. We
will keep you posted about the results. If you're interested, you can order
the book which contemporary writings of Autralian new media scholars. Later
on I will post the details how to order this publication. All the papers
were peer-reviewed and ran on the fibreculture list in previous versions.
Yours,
Geert Lovink
(one of the fibreculture facilitators)
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::fibreculture:: politics of a digital present
6 - 8 December, 2001, Melbourne
Noting a vacuum in critical Australian net culture and research,
::fibreculture:: was founded as a mailing list in January 2001 by David Teh
and Geert Lovink. The purpose of the list has been to exchange articles,
ideas and arguments on Australian IT policy and practice in a broad context.
The inaugural ::fibreculture:: meeting considers four key areas of net
culture and research: theory, policy, education and the arts. Co-organised
by Cinemedia and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a public debate
on the evening of 6 December will precede the meeting. The debate seeks to
address these issues in dialogue with a wider audience.
A 2 day meeting follows the debate. All are welcome.
Both events bring together a community of critical thinkers engaged with new
media/Internet theory and practice, with a view to constructing a strategic
program of how Australia might better support innovation, R+D and the
applications and culture of new technology.
A reader has been prepared for publication prior to the ::fibreculture::
meeting. It can be ordered from the ::fibreculture:: website
(www.fibreculture.org) Submissions of 1500 to 3000 word short essays,
position papers, or manifestos were invited that address at least one of the
four key themes, and these were posted to the ::fibreculture:: mailing list
and subject to peer review.
The aim of the ::fibreculture:: meeting is not to present formal papers, but
to circulate papers in advance which can operate as a point of reference and
basis for discussion during the meeting.
We aim to produce more readers, monographs, edited collections and
newspapers. Proposals to the list are most welcome for future publications.
We see this as one key intervention into the current political economy of
commercial academic publishing and the "command economy" approach to
academic production by DETYA.
Digital publics: a debate
Thursday 6 December, 7pm - 10pm
Organised together with Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image
(ACMI)
Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza
1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne
Registration: at the door ($10 full/$7 concession)
7pm sharp
Introduction
Moderator: Geert Lovink
7.15pm - 7.50pm
Session 1 - Net Theory
Key Speaker: Mathew Allen, Associate Professor, School of Media and
Information, Curtin University of Technology; author of Smart Thinking; and
the Executive of the Association of Internet Researchers
(http://www.aoir.org)
Respondent: Esther Milne, writer and PhD candidate, Department of English
with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne.
7.50pm - 8.25pm
Session 2 - Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Commercial Practices
Key speaker: Victor Perton, Victorian Shadow Minister for Technology &
Innovation; Victorian Shadow Minister for Conservation & Environment; former
Chairman, Victorian Government Multimedia Committee, Data Protection
Advisory Council, Electronic Business Framework Group.
Respondent: Tom Worthington, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer
Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian
National University; electronic business consultant; author of the book Net
Traveller; information technology professional.
BREAK - 25 minutes plus launch of book, Politics of a Digital Present: An
Inventory on Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory
· light snacks and drinks available in foyer
8.50pm - 9.25pm
Session 3 - New Media Arts/Culture and the Arts
Key Speaker: Terry Cutler, currently a member of the Australian Information
Economy Advisory Council. He is a member of the International Advisory
Panel of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, reflecting his strong
interest in the role of, and opportunities for, Asian countries in the new
information era. Terry Cutler is also Chairman of the Australia Council,
having previously chaired its New Media Arts Board, and he is on the Council
of the Victorian College of the Arts. He has previously served as a director
of Cinemedia and Opera Australia.
Respondent: Amanda McDonald Crowley, currently Associate Director, Adelaide
Festival 2002. Cultural worker, researcher, facilitator, curator working
primarily in the new media/ electronic arts field. Previous Director of the
Australian Network for Art and Technology.
9.25pm - 10pm
Session 4 - Education
Key speaker: Paul James, Senior Lecturer, Political and Social Inquiry,
Monash University; President of Association for the Public University;
author of Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community; editor
of The State in Question: Transformations of the Australian State and
Technocratic Dreaming: Of Very Fast Trains and Japanese Designer Cities;
editorial member of Arena publications.
Respondent: Anna Munster, Lecturer in Digital Media Theory, School of Art
History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She is also a media artist
whose work ranges across new media, time-based and photomedia (see her
online work: http://wundernet.cofa.unsw.edu.au) Anna has written for
ctheory, m/c, Photofile and Artlink among others and is currently
researching biotechnical art and ethics.
Closing Panel
::fibreculture:: inaugural meeting, 7 - 8 December,
Organised together with the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts
(VCA)
234 St Kilda Road
Southbank, Melbourne VIC 3006
Registration: $50/$30 full; $30/$20 single day (payable at the door - NOTE
cash or cheques only). Registration includes lunch, tea, coffee and copy of
the book, Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net
Culture, Criticism and Theory.
Venue: a PDF map of the room locations can be downloaded from
www.vca.unimelb.edu.au - go to the link "Where is the VCA".
Program
Friday 7 December
Venue: Room 216 in the Music School (entry from St Kilda Road)
10.00am - 10.30am
Introduction of ::fibreculture:: facilitators and organisers
10.30am - 12.30pm
Mapping Australian FibreCulture
Round with introductions and 3 minute presentations
· Researchers, critics, theorists, writers, programmers, designers,
developers, consultants: WHERE are you and WHAT are you up to?
12.30pm - 1.25pm - Lunch break
1.30pm - 3.30pm
Session 1: Network Theory/Philosophy
Topics:
· Debating neo-emperical approaches and the return of objective social
science after the exhaustion of post-structuralism
· Crisis of the offline (AI/VR) body centred Deleuzian notions
· Hegemony of digital Darwinism and biologism within new media arts
and IT industry
· Importance of media archaeology, mapping pre-histories of new media
· Global governance debate
· Public Domain vs. the Corporate State
· Problematic relation to Cultural Studies
· Network theories for the future-present
3.30pm - 4pm - Tea/coffee break
4pm - 6pm
Session 2: Policy
Topics:
· Telstra, broadband, right of access, bandwidth
· Australia and the censorship tendency (political, pornography,
gambling, etc.)
· Alternative plan for IT Centre of Excellence
· Mapping the policy players
· How to fight the consumerist ethos in IT policy - "access" as cyber
literacy and skill, not high bandwidth data-gluttony
· How can ::fibreculture:: be heard and operate on the policy level?
· Policy futures
6pm onwards - drinks/dinner party (location to be decided)
Saturday 8 December
Venue: Federation Hall (entry from Grant Street, Southbank)
11.00am - 1pm
Session 3: Culture and the arts
Topics:
· Cult of representation, proximity to political power
· Patronage system (cultural state apparatus)
· Primacy of aesthetics
· Lack of game/net.art and e-literature funding
· Deliriating over an (absent) synergy of arts and science
· Generationalism in new media arts
1pm - 2pm - Lunch break
· screening of The Code - a Linux documentary from Finland
2pm - 4pm
Session 4: Education
Topics:
· Current approaches/paradigms: teaching new media/internet studies
and e-learning
· Corporatisation and the Virtual University - profit obsessions,
confused IT sovereignty, limited teaching and research outcomes
· What constitutes the mode of production?
· Relationship between curricula development and university funding
and policy
· Both government and opposition share limited horizons. How can we
explode these?
4.15pm - 6pm
Closing session ::fibreculture meeting::
· Directions of ::fibreculture::
· Discussion about the list
· Legal structures for ::fibreculture:: as formal organisation
· Futures: the place of ::fibreculture:: within policy making,
research funding and practice
Convenors:
Hugh Brown (Brisbane) hughie(a)onlineopinion.com.au
Geert Lovink (Sydney) geert(a)xs4all.nl
Helen Merrick (Perth) H.Merrick(a)exchange.curtin.edu.au
Esther Milne (Melbourne) e.milne(a)pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Ned Rossiter (Melbourne) Ned.Rossiter(a)arts.monash.edu.au
David Teh (Sydney) dteh(a)arthist.usyd.edu.au
Michele Willson (Perth) M.Willson(a)exchange.curtin.edu.au
With special thanks to:
John Arnold, Head of School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash
University, <John.Arnold(a)arts.monash.edu.au>
Alessio Cavallaro, Producer/Curator New Media Projects
Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
<alessio(a)cinemedia.net>
Nikos Papastergiadis, writer and Head of the Centre for Ideas, Victorian
College of the Arts (VCA), <n.papastergiadis(a)vca.unimelb.edu.au>
Louise Adler, Deputy Director of VCA
Arena Printing and Publications Pty Ltd., http://www.arena.org.au
Sponsors:
Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts
Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Humanities Division, Curtin University of Technology
Monash Publications Grants Committee
School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
The Power Institute, University of Sydney
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
A CHI 2002 WORKSHOP
Discourse Architectures:
Designing and Visualizing
Computer-Mediated Conversation
AT A GLANCE
- What: A Workshop on Designing and Visualizing CMC
- Where: CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- When:
* Submission: Position paper and profile by January 25, 2002
* Notification: Accept/Reject feedback by February 22, 2002
* Workshop: Monday, April 21, 2002
- Organizers: Tom Erickson, Susan Herring, Warren Sack
ORGANIZERS
- Thomas Erickson, snowfall(a)acm.org
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Susan Herring, herring(a)indiana.edu
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
- Warren Sack, sack(a)sims.berkeley.edu
School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The goal of this workshop is to examine the issue of coherence in
computer-mediated (text-based) conversation (CMC), and how it can be
visualized graphically. Coherence, broadly defined, is that which in
a discourse connects utterances with utterances, utterances with people,
and people with other people. It is, in short, the "glue" of text and
conversation. Coherence is manifested in and through patterns of
message exchange (including turn-taking, threading, and
cross-posting), citation and other forms of intertextual reference,
and social networks. Visualizations of coherence phenomena take
the form of graphical user interfaces and graphical representations
produced by quantitative and/or qualitative analyses.
In this workshop, we will approach the issue of coherence from two
perspectives: design and analysis. As designers of CMC systems, we
often sense that computer-mediated conversation has a tendency towards
drift, dissolution and chaos, and that participants in CMC have to do
extra work to 'stay on course.' Therefore, we solicit approaches to
designing CMC systems that aim to support participants in achieving
coherence in their conversational interactions. We especially
encourage reports of novel CMC system designs that support coherence,
as well as analyses that visualize ways in which participants have
developed practices that support the achievement of coherence in
conventional CMC systems.
At the same time, as analysts, we recognize that computer-mediated
conversations are often not as chaotic as they appear to the
untrained eye. Coherence lurks below the surface, and we have
developed a wide range of analytical techniques for uncovering and
explicating it. Often these techniques involve diagrams or other
graphical representations of structure (among utterances, persons,
groups, or some combination of these). We solicit descriptions and
demonstrations of analytical techniques for representing coherence
in CMC.
We use the phrase 'Discourse Architectures' as a rubric for both
of these perspectives. That is, we are interested both in the
structure or architecture *of* discourse (the ways in which the
utterances which form a conversation interrelate and build upon one
another), and in architectures *for* discourse (the ways in which CMC
systems can be designed to shape the conversation that takes place
within them).
The basic premise underlying the workshop is that the understandings
of coherence developed by designers and researchers can usefully
inform one another. Analytical representations based on discourse
research and/or theory might, suitably modified, serve as interface
designs, and the interplay between graphical user interfaces and the
achievement of coherence by users might advance research
understandings.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
By January 25th, submit the following (preferably electronically):
1. Submit a position paper of no more than six pages. The paper should
include
(a) A discussion of your understanding of "coherence", as a theoretical
or analytical construct, or as a practical result of the use of
a CMC system.
(b) A description of your approach to analyzing or designing to
support coherence, applied to a specific CMC system or data
set.
(c) Examples of the graphical representations produced by your approach,
and some discussion of what they reveal about or how they
support coherence.
2. The position paper should include, as an appendix, a profile of
yourself consisting of:
(a) a short biography (no more than 250 words)
(b) the discipline(s) you are situated in
(c) a brief description of your relevant analytical and/or
design work, with references (URLs preferred)
(d) a pointer to someone else's design or analysis that
you think is interesting (URLs preferred)
3. Those from outside of the HCI community should note that you are
NOT required to pay the conference registration fee if you only want
to attend the workshop. First-time attendees are most welcome.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
- On the workshop: contact the organizers
- On CHI 2002: http://www.acm.org/chi2002/
- For a web-based version of this CFP:
http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/DiscourseArch02CFP.html
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