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Women and the Internet
by t.kennedy＠utoronto.ca 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

Apologies for cross posting - Hello! My name is Tracy Kennedy, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. I am looking for Canadian women who are currently conducting, or have completed research about women and the Internet or other New Information Technologies. I have completed my own research entitled: "Women and the Internet: An Exploratory Study of Feminist Experiences In Cyberspace" (2000) and am curious of who else is doing work like this (I know you are out there!). Having visited numerous conferences in the past year and a half, I see that there are many American studies on Cyberspace and so forth. I wondered if there were any other Canadian women, like myself, who were studying Women and New Information Technologies or Women in Cyberspace. I would like to compile a database of existing research on my Website (www.netwomen.ca) dedicating part of my Netwomen.ca site to you. This part of my site would ultimately be reflective of some of the cutting-edge Canadian research that is being conducted. The 'Netwomen' of Canada should be recognized! Research needs to be made available and accessible for other women who may want to conduct their own research and are in need of information or motivation. I am hoping to create a 'Network' of 'Netwomen' researchers through this database. If you are a Canadian woman researching, or have completed research on women and the Internet, please email me at tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca with your name, email address, title of paper, year of research, a brief abstract, URL if applicable or publication information. Yours in cyber-solidarity, Tracy L.M. Kennedy Tracy L.M. Kennedy University of Toronto PhD Candidate Department of Sociology www.netwomen.ca t.kennedy(a)utoronto.ca

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Fwd: Technology Happy Hour at ASA
by Nalini P. Kotamraju 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

I realized a tad late that some members of this list may very well be attending the American Sociological Association meeting in Anaheim this weekend. This gathering (organized by some graduate students) is informal and I'm sure the more the merrier. >-----Original Message----- >Subject: Technology Happy Hour at ASA > >Hello Techno-interested folk. > >A few of us young techno-focused researchers are organizing a >"Happy Hour" gathering for all techno-interested folk planning to >attend the ASA. Its my job to invite you! > >We can chat research, lift our glasses together and hopefully come >to know more of the folks working in the field. > >Meet at the entrance to the hotel bar in the Hilton at 4:30pm on >Sunday, August 19th. If you arrive a little later look for us inside. If >discussion persists we may move on to Dinner elseware later. > >Please pass this notification on to all interested parties, session >presenters and co-authors and friends. Spread the word!

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Call for Workshops and Organized Sessions for Sunbelt XXII (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

This is an excellent conference. Serious fun. International, interdisciplinary, welcoming to newbies. N=about 200. Location is fine too. Of course, we all know that computer networks and communities are social networks... Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ To Live is To Network To Network is To Live ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:25:11 -0500 From: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU> To: SOCNET(a)LISTS.UFL.EDU Subject: Call for Workshops and Organized Sessions for Sunbelt XXII Call for Workshops and Organized Sessions for Sunbelt XXII 13-17 February 2002 Le Meridien, New Orleans, LA USA http://www.sunbelt.uiuc.edu/ It is time to consider sessions for the next Sunbelt conference. At this time we would like to receive submissions for Workshops, and for Organized Sessions. An Organized Session is one you put together and you tell us who will be presenting. A call for Contributed Papers and further information on the conference will go out in September. Please do not send contributed papers at this time. TO SUBMIT A WORKSHOP Send EMAIL to : sunbelt02(a)uiuc.edu (please do NOT "reply" to this message) Include * full name and contact information for workshop organizers * the title of your workshop * a one paragraph description of the workshop * the length of the workshop (full day, half day, 2 hours) * maximum number of participants * anticipated cost for participants For full consideration, please send your submissions by September 15. TO SUBMIT AN ORGANIZED SESSION: Send EMAIL to : sunbelt02(a)uiuc.edu (please do NOT "reply" to this message) Include ** full name and contact information for the organizer of the session (and the chair if different) ** the title of your session ** paper titles and names of presenters of 3 papers for the session ** the name of a discussant for the session For full consideration, please send your submissions by September 15. Session topics in the past two Sunbelt conferences have included Biological Networks Clustering Network Data Cognitive Networks Communication Networks Computer Networks as Social Networks Corporate and Inter-organizational Networks Data Mining Developments in Network Methods in the 1990's Diffusion of Innovations Evolution of Social networks Infectious Diseases and Social Networks International Networks Intra-organizational Networks Methods and Statistics for Network Analysis Network Exchange Network Sampling Issues Network Visualization Networks and Game Theory Networks and Health Networks and Needles Networks in East Asia Networks in Politics and Public Policy Networks on the Web Networks Through Time Personal Community Networks Scholarly Networks Social Capital Social Support Statistical Methods for Social Networks Further announcements about the conference will be made to the SOCNET list in the near future. Also check the website for updates regarding the SUNBELT XXII conference (http://www.sunbelt.uiuc.edu/) /Caroline Haythornthwaite and the UIUC Organizing Committee

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RE: 2002 Fellowship Announcement (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

Folks, This is a nice thing. Last year, the panel gave out 8 doctoral and 8 junior-ish faculty level fellowships to spend some summer months at Berkeley. Please DO NOT CONTACT ME for details, but Deborah Matzner, the administrator, whose coordinates are at the end of this message. Good luck, Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ To Live is To Network To Network is To Live ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:31:14 -0400 From: matzner(a)ssrc.org To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: RE: 2002 Fellowship Announcement SSRC FELLOWSHIPS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND GLOBAL SECURITY The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce the availability of summer fellowships for innovative research on information technology (IT), international cooperation and global security. PhD students and faculty from any academic discipline and of any nationality may apply. These in-residence fellowships (location TBA), for summer 2002, are designed for researchers who currently work on cooperation and security issues and who want to explore the role and impact of IT in this area; or for researchers who work on IT and want to explore its relationship to cooperation and security. Doctoral-student fellowships are $5,500. Faculty fellowships are $10,500. International cooperation and global security involve a wide range of issues including new forms of global regulation and surveillance; transboundary advocacy and global civil society; economic and political "crisis" and system transformation; unequal access to goods and services; transnational identity politics; conflict and transboundary intervention; changes in security threats, military and warfare practices; legitimacy, power and governance in the global realm. IT issues could involve the Internet and related technologies such as those associated with telecommunications, data processing, encryption, and systems of code; robotics, automation, and simulation; and concerns bearing directly on connectivity and content such as structures of information flow and processes of disinformation and dissemination. Deadline: Monday, December 3, 2001 For more information and an application: Email: Itcoop(a)ssrc.org / web: www.ssrc.org Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Social Science Research Council 810 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 (212) 377-2700 telephone / (212) 377-2727 fax > Deborah Matzner > Information Technology, International Cooperation > and Global Security > Social Science Research Council > 810 Seventh Ave. > New York, NY 10019 USA > tel: 212-377-2700 ext. 440 > fax: 212-377-2727 > >

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doctoral dissertations in progress
by Sandor Vegh 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

I am just catching up on the discussions on the list and saw the initiative on a dissertation database. I wonder if there should also be a page for registering working titles or topics of dissertations in progress. For one, it would be helpful for those currently formulating their topics to see what is already being researched. ------------------------------ Sandor Vegh Ph.D. Candidate Department of American Studies University of Maryland http://otal.umd.edu/~veghs/

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August 2001 report
by Steve Jones 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

August 15, 2001 Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee Prepared by Steve Jones AoIR Executive Committee President: Steve Jones Vice-President: Nancy Baym Secretary: Matt Stoner Treasurer (on leave): Benjamin Bates Interim Treasurer: Wes Shrum Open Seats: Beth Kolko and Sean Cubitt Appointed Seats: Diane Witmer and Fay Sudweeks Student Seat: Matt Williams Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl 2001 Conference Coordinator: John Logie 2001 Conference Program Chair: Leslie Shade Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess 1. Introduction & General (Jones) Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members. 2. Executive Officers' Reports 2.1 President (Jones) 2.1.1. The AoIR bylaws have been revised to make them better reflect the shape the organization has taken. They are available on the members web site for review and comment, and will be made available generally for review and comment. Please look them over at your earliest convenience. Our next election will operate under them. Speaking of which... 2.1.2. AoIR elections are also upcoming, and the call for nominations will issued soon. Remember that only members who have their dues paid up are eligible for nomination, to vote, etc. 2.1.3. Without stealing anyone else's thunder, because the credit is all theirs, we have made tremendous progress over the past couple of months. The members web site has undergone a major overhaul thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger, the conference program and planning under the auspices of Leslie Shade and John Logie are going swimmingly, Nancy Baym has continued to work with publishers to secure member discounts to journals, Charlie Breindahl has assisted with air-l and web-related matters, and while I could go on and on I suspect there are many others who have helped AoIR of whom I'm unaware -- thank you all for your efforts! More information about these follows below, and has been posted to the web site. 2.1.4. I'd also like to thank all those who have been posting to air-l of late, particularly those who have provided some excellent suggestions about things we can do with the web site. And I'd like to add my $.02 that we continue with only one air-l for the time being. One of the wonderful, albeit not very easy, things about last year's conference was simply listening to people from different disciplines talk to one another and come up with translations, if you will, for conversing about Internet research. I learned a lot by lurking at the conference, in a sense. Most disciplinary associations end up sub-dividing themselves to the point that there's very little such interaction. With the conferences we've divided panels by theme/topic, so some division does occur. And of course people do tend to flock together, and I suspect there's some "flocking" off-list. To me, it's a sign of interest and vitality that we can accommodate as diverse a group as we are. And it's a sign of the collegiality and professionalism of all those on air-l that we've made it a relatively low-traffic, high-info and flame-free list. Someday we may end up with multiple lists (or threads on the web site, or...), but I, for one, will stay subscribed to air-l, and hope that it will continue to be the "melting pot" of interests that it has become. 2.2 Vice President (Baym) 2.2.1 No report. 2.3 Secretary (Stoner) 2.3.1 No report. 2.4 Treasurer (Bates) 2.4.1 No report. 2.5 Open Seats (Kolko, Cubitt) 2.5.1 Kolko: No report. 2.5.2 Cubitt: No report. 2.6 Appointed Seats (Witmer, Sudweeks) 2.6.1 Witmer: Nothing to report. 2.6.2 Sudweeks: No report. 2.7 Student Seat (Williams) 2.7.1 No report. 2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl) 2.8.1 Hunsinger: Created new membership management system, new members portal system, replaced static pages. It has news sections for: research news job announcements conference announcements etc. Web site now has: a calendar a synchronous chat system an asynchronous chat system a faq system a glossary system a polling system a members listing Members should feel free to use it at your leisure as you see fit. It is not anonymous. Ported information on old members page to new members system. Helped John, Leslie, Charlie 2.8.2 Breindahl: I have taken part in the bylaws revision and the aoir.org members area discussion. In the next couple of months, I will try to devote more time to supplying content to the members area. 2.9 2001 Conference (John Logie, Coordinator and Leslie Shade, Program Chair) 2.9.1 Logie: I'm pleased that, according to Jeremy, we're now fifteen days ahead of last year's schedule. The conference web pages are at http://aoir.org/2001/program.htm et seq. Leslie will also be sending out a mass e-mail shortly to alert folks to the program's availability. Registration is strong to date. We have 80 registrants. 2.9.2 Shade: (See above.) 2.10 AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair) 2.10.1 : The group is concluding its discussion of a case study provided by Malin Svenningson and the "Guidelines for research ethics in the social sciences, law and the humanities" recently released by the National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH - Norway) <http://www.etikkom.no/NESH/guidelines.htm>. Members of the committee attending the aoir conference in Minneapolis this October will meet the evening of October 9 to finalize their comments to the conference and plan for subsequent work.

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Acting With Technology: MIT book series CFP
by Kirsten Foot 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Greetings-- Those of you who attended ICA this year may have seen a flyer about this new series. Please pass this announcement on to colleagues whose work may correspond to the themes in the series description below. -Kirsten Foot *********************************************************************** Announcing a new series of books from The MIT Press *Acting with Technology* Bonnie Nardi, Victor Kaptelinin, and Kirsten Foot, Series Editors Books published in this new series are concerned with the study of meaningful human activity as it is mediated by tools and technologies. The series will explore developments in postcognitivist theory and practice concerning technology from the fields of sociology, communication, education, and organizational studies, as well as from science and technology studies, human-computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative work. Acting with Technology volumes will encompass theoretical frameworks including activity theory, actor network theory, distributed cognition, and those developed through ethnomethodological and grounded theory approaches. They analyze tool-mediated processes of working, playing and learning in and across a wide variety of social settings. Our goal is to publish the best new booksboth research monographs and textbooksthat contribute to a discussion of technology as a crucial facet of human activity enacted in rich social and physical contexts. FOR INFORMATION ON THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS, PLEASE CONTACT ANY OF THE EDITORS OR THE PUBLISHER: BONNIE NARDI VICTOR KAPTELININ Agilent Laboratories Department of Informatics 3500 Deer Creek Road, MS 24M-A Umeå University Palo Alto, CA 94304 S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden bonnie_nardi(a)agilent.com vklinin(a)informatik.umu.se KIRSTEN FOOT ROBERT PRIOR School of Communications The MIT Press University of Washington, Box 353740 5 Cambridge Center Seattle WA 98195-3740 Cambridge, MA 02142 kfoot(a)u.washington.edu prior(a)mit.edu

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a vain request
by Nancy Baym 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Apologies for the self indulgence: I am putting together my tenure papers and would like to include a list of courses in which things I've written are assigned. If you've ever taken or taught a course that used my work, would you please do me the tremendous favor of emailing me OFFLIST (nbaym(a)ku.edu) to let me know the course title, instructor, department, and institution? Thank you. Nancy _______________________________________________________________ Nancy Baym, Communication Studies University of Kansas NEW! email: nbaym(a)ku.edu NEW! snail mail: 102 Bailey, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA NEW! url: http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym

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nsf: Information Technology Research
by h 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

There is a new National Science Foundation CFP for ITR out today, or at least i just got the announcement. It seems much more society and strangely, to me at least, humanities focussed: http://www.itr.nsf.gov

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informed consent conference
by Laura Gurak 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

Some of you may find this interesting: http://www.research.umn.edu/subjects/conference/ ---------------- Laura J. Gurak, Ph.D. Associate Professor Rhetoric Department, University of Minnesota 1994 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108 v 612-624-3773 also--Director, Internet Studies Center -- www.isc.umn.edu Faculty Fellow, Law School gurakL(a)tc.umn.edu www.rhetoric.umn.edu/Faculty/gurak.html

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