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Found floppy at IR 2.0
by Nalini Kotamraju 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

I found a Sony floppy disk that someone left at the Social Capital session on the last day of the conference in Minneapolis. It is labelled "AUSTR.AOIR 2.0". If it's yours and you'd like it back, please contact me. -- Nalini P. Kotamraju Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley nalinik(a)socrates.berkeley.edu | http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik

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Anthrax scare pushes requests for electronic letters to the edito r
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

I subscribe to the Benton Foundation's Email list (www.benton.org/news) and I found this little tidbit synopsized by them from CNET news. Only months (weeks?) ago we were worried about viruses being passed through email, now we are worried about bacteria passed through postal mail. I would not have predicted a year ago that people would be urging electronic mail over postal mail. ~Jenny Stromer-Galley Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania jstromer(a)asc.upenn.edu E-MAIL A SAVIOR AMID ANTHRAX SCARE Issue: Internet A number of corporate entities, as well as Congress, have begun urging people to communicate through e-mail instead of sending traditional letters through the U.S. Postal Service. This week, the Arizona Daily Star announced that the newspaper would no longer accept regular postal mail addressed to "Letters to the Editor." Instead, editor and publisher Jane Amari told readers the paper is asking people to send all correspondence by e-mail, fax or through an online calendar. The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) sent an e-mail to its members urging them to send e-mail in conjunction with mass mailing campaigns. "This is not something that we just thought up Tuesday," said Lou Mastria, director of public and international affairs for the New York-based DMA, the oldest and largest trade association for users and suppliers in the direct, database and interactive marketing fields. "This is a practice that's been developing for some time...It increases response rates normally, but it's particularly effective in this kind of environment, when people are concerned about their mail." More than half of all Americans use e-mail, for an average of a half-hour each day, according to a recent report by Forrester Research. Jupiter Media Metrix predicts that by 2006 140 million Americans will be "active" e-mail users. [SOURCE: CNET News, AUTHOR: Rachel Konrad and Paul Festa] (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7546301.html)

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FW: Tucson conference-Call for Papers
by C Frank 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

-----Original Message----- From: Andrea Hoplight Tapia [mailto:andreat@u.arizona.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:58 PM To: Cfrank(a)biocom.arizona.edu Subject: Tucson conference-Call for Papers A brand new conference is coming into being and I'd like to invite you to be part of it. The conference is entitled "The Technology Economy on the Sonoran Border: Theory, Practice and Promise." We hope to focus on information technology and social change, especially between diverse populations, nations, and institutions. It is a one day (plus) conference to be held Friday, May 3rd, 2002 at the Sheraton El Conquistador in Tucson, AZ. There will also be a reception on Thursday evening, May 2nd. We are looking for papers/presentations in four areas: 1. The digital divide-- with special focus Latin American and Hispanic-American populations. 2. Technology at the border- International borderlands and IT 3. E-commerce- the changing nature of technical/information work 4. Law, privacy and policy in institutions- Higher Education and Government This conference draws from both sides of the border and from the academic and practical worlds.This conference will be a tremendous opportunity for dialogue, debate, and visioning with collaboration between academic, government, and industry constituents concerned about information technology. The deadline for paper submissions is November 1st, 2001. Please send them electronically to my address, andreat(a)u.arizona.edu. Email me earlier with ideas and questions. Very limited funding is available to help defer travel costs on a competitive basis. Andrea Hoplight Tapia, Ph.D. University of Arizona, Science and Technology Studies Post-Doc., NSF grant "Universities in the Information Age" Office phone: 520-626-8221 Email: andreat(a)u.arizona.edu

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FW: PSA Call for papers
by C Frank 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

-----Original Message----- From: Andrea Hoplight Tapia [mailto:andreat@u.arizona.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:57 PM To: Cfrank(a)biocom.arizona.edu Subject: PSA Call for papers >> I just wanted to let you know that I will be running 3 >> sessions at the >> Pacific Sociological Associan Meetings to be held next April 18-21, >> 2002 in Vancouver, BC. I am looking for good papers/presenters in all >> three. To learn more about the conference go to >> http://www.csus.edu/psa/vancouver02.html. >> >> The deadline for submissions is October 15th. HOWEVER i WILL ACCEPT PAPERS UP UNITL MONDAY OCTOBER 22ND. You do not need to >> be a sociologist to apply. >> >> Three sessions: >> >> 55) Technological and Cultural Change in Institutions of Higher >> Education >> >> 146) Life Cycle Changes in High Tech Industry >> >> 180) The Wireless Society >> >> Email me with any ideas if you are interested. I hear Vancouver is >> beautiful in the spring! >> >> Andrea Hoplight Tapia, Ph.D. University of Arizona, Science and Technology Studies Post-Doc., NSF grant "Universities in the Information Age" Office phone: 520-626-8221 Email: andreat(a)u.arizona.edu

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Job Opportunity
by Faye Livay 16 Oct '01

16 Oct '01

4GL School Solutions is a young, rapidly growing educational technology company dedicated to assisting school districts in leveraging information to more effectively support children with special needs. We are currently seeking a Research Associate for our Towson, MD offices. This position will provide background information, briefing packets, research federal programs, as well as competitors to 4GL products. Our wage and benefits are competitive. If you are interested in this position or if you know where I can reach someone who is, please contact me via email or fax as listed below. Thank you. Faye Livay 4GL School Solutions, Inc. 849 Fairmount Avenue, Suite 200 Towson, MD 21286 410-616-0301 (f) flivay(a)4glschools.com

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IR 2.0: Thanks to All and Tech Staff
by Andrea Baker 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

This post is a large thank you to Leslie Shade and other conference organizers, and air officers including Steve Jones and Nancy Baym, and other committee members for a fantastic second conference. In particular I would like to give special thanks to the technical people who got everything up and running through all bugs, snags and special requests: John Loggie, Pat Benson, Karen and Jim, and the Apple guys and anyone else I missed. Bless you. --andrea

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Any suggestions for finding Arab student mailing lists?
by Kartik Pashupati 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

We are in the process of conducting a study of media usage by Arab students in the US. Does anyone have any suggestions as to a good way of compiling a good mailing list of Arab students in US universities? Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ Kartik Pashupati, Ph.D. (kpashupa(a)mailer.fsu.edu) Florida State University, Department of Communication 356 Diffenbaugh Building, Tallahassee FL 32306-1531 Phone: 850-644-1809; Fax: 850-644-8642 website: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~kpashupa

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Re: [Air-l] AoIR 2.0, Day 3
by radhika gajjala 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

First - thankyou everyone who organized, gave keynotes, presented panels... I had a great time. It was great meeting some old and new friends and seeing f2f (the discursive "talking heads" really have heads and bodies - aaargh!) some email addresses from this list although I did not get to say hello to all. At the moment I am still trying "filter" and "sort" everything I saw and heard while I was there and since I am not always very good at this .... who knows when I can come up with more. At the moment actually I'm wondering if I really *do* do "Internet Research " after all(;-)) - so thankyou Jonathan et al.... I enjoyed all the panels I attended - learned a lot, and I echo the positive complaint. > No one has taken me up on the invitation to post their >impressions and observations of the conference, which is a shame as I'm >the worst person to try to convey a sense of what's happening at panels! ___________ Radhika Gajjala Assistant Professor, Dept of Interpersonal Communication/School of Communication Studies tel - 372-0528 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425/ fax: 419-372-9841 __________

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CFP: Computer Games Conference
by Jason Rutter 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING ================================================= APRIL 5-7, 2002 Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester Manchester, England Deadline for submissions: Friday, December 21, 2001. Computer games have now been taking up room in people's homes for over twenty-five years. The mid-seventies fad for the black and white block graphics of Pong has turned into an industry worth over $6 billion in the USA alone. The new generation of consoles along with the almost frenetic development in graphic and CPU technologies for PCs demonstrates a time of great technological innovation for gaming technology and this is reinforced by the growing importance of new methods of gaming-related retail such as web-based e-commerce and interactive digital television. Further, gamers are becoming increasingly organised and professionalised through growing consumer gaming exhibitions, national and international gaming competitions and arenas such as LAN parties and online gaming. At this rapidly moving point in the gaming industry the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) will be hosting a conference of computer gaming, gamers and the gaming industry on the 5th-7th April 2002 at The University of Manchester. Bringing together researchers from sociology, psychology, games design, cultural studies, economics, management and other disciplines, along with members from various sectors of the gaming industry such as developers, publishers and retail the central aims of the conference are: * To provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information and analysis on the gaming industry and gamer research * To foster research links between academic research and the gaming industry and develop new networks of research activity * To offer students a supportive environment for sharing and developing their idea with more established researchers * To facilitate dissemination of work produced for the conference in printed and electronic format The organisers welcome submissions from any discipline, as well as work from those producing games and other leisure-orientated new media or working within associated industries. Panel presentations which establish connections across disciplines, institutions and/or continents are especially encouraged. We invite paper, presentation, and panel proposals on, but not restricted to, the following areas: Gamers: Gamers as producers Gaming communities Ethnographies of gamers Gender differences Gaming Industries: Organisational culture E-commerce and bricks & mortar retail Market values and sectors Marketing Strategic alliances Gaming Effects: Gaming and health Gaming and development Games software in education Gaming technologies: Technological convergence Avatars and AI Console wars Gaming via WAP, WED and dTV Games: Textual analysis Gender in games Constructing gameplay Character and narrative Gaming history Legal Aspects: Software piracy Game certification IPR and copyright Gamers as a consumer market Individual paper and presentation proposals should be no more than 500 words. For panel proposals, the session organiser should submit a 250 word description of the panel topic along with abstracts of up to 500 words for each paper or presentation in the panel. Abstracts and proposals should be submitted electronically to Jason.Rutter(a)man.ac.uk in RTF, Word or PDF format or sent to: Jason Rutter ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, The University of Manchester, Ground Floor, Devonshire House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QH PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Deadline for abstracts: Friday, December 21, 2001. Accepted authors notified: Friday January 21, 2002

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AoIR 2001 Conference in Minnesota
by Steve Jones 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

Fellow members of the Association of Internet Researchers and air-l subscribers: These are trying times, to greatly understate things. We will all struggle in one way or another to re-imagine the world now that everything has changed. The attacks in the U.S. this week were in part directed squarely at the U.S., But they were also directed in part at the world. The destruction of the World Trade Center towers killed and hurt many people from all walks of life, from all beliefs, races, countries. AoIR is an international organization, and each of us feels some sense of loss. Our thoughts go out particularly to those who have lost friends, family and acquaintances. We have been asked by several people whether the 2001 conference in Minneapolis will be cancelled. The executive committee, the conference organizers at the University of Minnesota and I have decided that the conference will not be cancelled. None of us associated with AoIR will ask anyone to do something with which they are uncomfortable. Were I to have to fly within the next week I would certainly think twice, although I think I would go ahead with it. I would be apprehensive about it, and will be for quite some time, and I will not be very happy at the prospect, and I will be ever so glad to land. However, the alternative is to cease travelling by air and therefore cease meeting indefinitely (except online, of course, or at short distances), and to lose all confidence in the variety of human systems on which the world is, and must, be based. I do not choose that alternative. Your choice, however, should, and will be, respected. We will, of course, keep abreast of events. Do not hesitate to e-mail me at sjones(a)uic.edu with any questions and concerns. I will look forward to seeing some of you in Minneapolis, and others of you at other places and times in the future. Steve Jones, President of the Association of Internet Researchers

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