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CFP: Research E-ditions 2001
by jeremy hunsinger 12 May '01

12 May '01

The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its Research E-ditions series. The CDDC ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu ) has been in operation for over two years, and it publishes hypertext journals, hosts digital research archives, and cooperates with many international cyberculture organizations. You can find examples of our Research E-ditions at http://www.cddc.vt.edu/editions.html . As an entirely digital point-of-publication, the CDDC will review and then produce professional academic research works--either single-authored or edited collections--in a digital format. Proposals could take the form of an "e-book" that simply makes available a scholarly monograph in online format, or a collection of academic papers organized around a central theme, or a fully hypertextual experiment with new forms of digital discourse. Proposals could also be made for hosting or mirroring material that you have on your site or for community building or teaching resources like bibliographies or discussion systems for your specific community. Arrangements can be made for "print on demand" (POD) paper versions of these works, but the main focus of the CDDC is to explore the new communicative potentials of hypertext, hypermedia, and web-centered publication. The review processes will be as extensive and rigorous as those experienced in print academic communication, but it too will be conducted in a fully on-line format. All topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions series, however, we are particularly interested in manuscripts, digital archives, and hypertexts from the humanities and social sciences relating to the areas of cyberculture, social theory, literary studies, digital art, and cultural studies. In addition, the CDDC is committed to Proposals from applied and natural sciences that relate directly to the fields of bioinformatics, energy and environmental studies, and information technology and communications. To propose a publication project, or to get more information, contact the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at cddc(a)vt.edu . Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it) Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 icq 5535471

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Re: air-l digest 9 May 2001
by Charles Ess 11 May '01

11 May '01

Colleagues: My great thanks to Prof. Walther for taking the time to respond to my post: his constructively critical observations are precisely the sort of comments I had hoped might emerge here, as a way of helping the Ethics Working Committee move further along in its discussion, now with the infusion of additional insight and reflection. In particular, he is precisely right (so far as I can tell, at least) to point out > While > there may be emerging consensus that human subjects research protections > should extend to Internet research, there is a distinct non-consensus about > what kinds of Internet research is Human Subjects Research. including his carefully developed argument that > So at one extreme end, Usenet postings, at least as interpreted within the > U.S. codes, are not protected. Precisely. Beyond the very helpful references to current U.S. codes, however, we are also faced with the larger questions: (1) since codes, including IRB standards, may well change, especially in light of various social and political pressures that emerge from the diffusion of a new technology - in what ways _should_ those codes be changed (if anyone bothers to ask us - smile!), in order to better represent the legitimate claims of researchers, ethical rights and responsibilities of both users and researchers, etc.? and (2) as important as current U.S. codes are - do they/will they provide sufficient ethical guidelines for a global medium and global community of researchers? Clearly, the latter is an especially difficult nut to crack - consider just the contrast between U.S. and U.K. attitudes and law towards protecting privacy online. As I understand it, at least, current U.S. law tends to privilege the right of individuals and corporations to "mine" data first, with concerns about protecting privacy left to individuals and special interest groups - in contrast with the default understanding in the UK that privacy as a right comes first, such that the burden of proof for any possible compromise of that privacy must be first established by interested corporations and individuals. (I have a similar - if somewhat more dated - sense that this is likewise the stance represented by various "data commissioners," etc., established especially in the Scandanavian countries - can somebody correct/update me here?) As we (I'm presuming here that the current majority of Internet researchers are U.S.-based - wrong again?) attempt to take into account even larger differences in cultural and ethical sensibilities - obviously (a) it will be incumbent upon researchers in any given locale to be aware of how far their own values, traditions, practices, etc., may or may not cohere with those associated with folk in different places and (b) it becomes proportionately harder (but not, I think, impossible) to find some coherency and/or consensus regarding at least some base-level guidelines. (One possibility here is a pluralist approach, one that distinguishes between those values and guidelines appropriate for work _within_ a specified cultural domain and those - more or less by definition, less specific because more global ["thin" in Michael Walzer's terms] - that might stand as a kind of moral common denominator among diverse cultural domains. Researcher/s might shape their work according to one or both sets of guidelines, depending on the "target" of their work - i.e., a specific local cultural domain and/or a broader/global cultural domain.) Still... > Some will argue that ethics and laws are not the same, and that these > legalistic interpretations are US-centric. These points are > valid. However, as Ess's argument implies, they are strongly related issues. No quarrel with you there! Nor here: > > I hope that the following is clear and obvious: Guidelines and concerns > that may fit one kind of Internet venue (e.g. a live chat in which a > researcher actively participates) may not fit other venues (e.g. the > analysis of extant, publicaly-accessible postings). Guidelines and > concerns that fit one kind of treatment of data (e.g. ethnographic analysis > and reporting of texts) may not fit other treatments (e.g. abstraction > through content analysis, feature analysis, etc.). Precisely so. > I appreciate the work of those who are trying to articulate ethical > guidelines. It is critical to avoid, however, claims about emerging > consensus that do not explicitly consider the wide variation in research > approaches, types of data, or the detailed aspects that define some > procedures as human subjects research and others as exempt, that ultimately > could constrain researchers from doing work that should otherwise proceed > unencumbered. And I apologize for giving the impression of any strong sense of consensus that did _not_ take such variations into account, etc. I would say that the discussions we've had on the ethics list so far have done fair justice to the sorts of variation and detail that Prof. Walther rightly foregrounds here - but he has enriched that discussion (at least for me) with these fine-grained comments and observations. Again, that was precisely my hope - many thanks! Additional comments, corrections, counterexamples, resources, etc., warmly welcomed. Cheers and best wishes, Charles Ess Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/Departments/phil-relg/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2000: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_

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Call for papers ... Managing Tacit Knowledge
by Ken Friedman 11 May '01

11 May '01

European CSCW 2001 Workshop On Managing Tacit Knowledge Bonn, Germany, September 16, 2001 Call for Papers and Participation: http://www.unite-project.org/ecscw01-tkm/ Tacit Knowledge is an umbrella term covering the subtext of a conversation, the intuitions that are gained through experience, and the sense of competency one acquires by participating in communities of practice. Tacit knowledge plays a key role in the way people work, especially when collaborating with others. CSCW systems, by enabling collaboration between people who are separated geographically, introduce a new level of complexity. Members of the same team may work in contexts that vary dramatically in terms of environment, available tools, constraints, culture, values, initial assumptions, etc. In order to take tacit knowledge into account, a CSCW system needs to address two main issues: Acknowledge and model the role, importance, and variance of tacit knowledge among users, and Assist in the enrichment, maintenance, exchange, and use of tacit knowledge. The workshop will build upon discussions in previous CSCW and ECSCW conferences as well as the experiences of participants to elaborate on these challenges, present recent results, suggest new ways to address them, and propose future directions for research and standardization. We will discuss available and desired technologies, required organizational changes, the social implications of these changes as well as the cultural inhibitors and obstacles faced by organizations. The organizers are members of UNITE, a project aiming at creating a middleware for distributed teamwork. They represent a wide spectrum of expertise in the areas of CHI, design, knowledge management consulting, and organizational behavior. Organizing Committee Michal Jacovi, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel, jacovi(a)il.ibm.com Amnon Ribak, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel, ribak(a)il.ibm.com Andree Woodcock, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK, a.woodcock(a)coventry.ac.uk Program Committee Prof. John Mackenzie Owen, The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr. Christoph Meier, Fraunhofer-Institut fur Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation, Germany Wendy A. Kellogg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Marthe Brunsveld, Penta Scope, The Netherlands Shari Schneider, Ethnographer, Microsoft Corporation Further information Information on the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference can be found at http://ecscw2001.gmd.de/ Additional information about the workshop is available at http://www.unite-project.org/ecscw01-tkm/. Questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers above. Submission Information: Send by email to Michal Jacovi: jacovi(a)il.ibm.com For presentation: a short personal synopsis detailing interest in the area, and a position paper indicating the chosen category (tutorial, research, demo, standards). Length of position paper: no more than 2000 words (HTML, Postscript, or PDF). For participation only: statement of interest (no more than 500 words). Important Dates: 14 May 2001 - Deadline for presentation submission 04 June 2001 - Acceptance notification 20 July 2001 - Camera-ready version of presentations 16 September 2001 - Workshop (in Bonn, Germany) 17-20 September 2001 - ECSCW Conference (in Bonn, Germany)

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Call for papers ... Strategic Knowledge and Design
by Ken Friedman 11 May '01

11 May '01

Dear Colleague, This call for papers may interest you. http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/SKCF/index.html Best regards, Ken Friedman -- ******************************************** Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University Norway +47 22.98.50.00 Telephone +47 22.98.51.11 Telefax Home office Byvaegen 13 S-24012 Torna Haellestad Sweden +46 (46) 53.245 Telephone +46 (46) 53.345 Telefax email: ken.friedman(a)bi.no ********************************************

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Reminder GOR conference
by Ulf Reips 10 May '01

10 May '01

Dear list members, please don't forget to register for German Online Research (GOR) conference now, if you haven't done so yet, as vacant participation slots are filling up. There will be about 80 presentations and 300 participants (some 260 have registered so far). You'll find the talks listed at http://www.gor.de/gor01/program/programm_ehtml.htm , other soon to-be-updated program files (poster program, PDF versions) at http://www.gor.de/gor01/program/programm_e.htm , and registration at http://www.gor.de/gor01/registrierungundanmeldung/registration_e.htm Hoping to see you next week! Best wishes, --u -- ********** Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Universität Zürich ICQ: 16739325 Experimental Psychology Fax: 0041-1-6344929 Attenhoferstr. 9 CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland The Web Experimental Psychology Lab: http://www.genpsy.unizh.ch/Ulf/Lab/WebExpPsyLab.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- In press: *Dimensions of Internet Science* -> Free Notifier@ http://www.or.zuma-mannheim.de/dis/

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #2 - 3 msgs
by Jon Hall 10 May '01

10 May '01

help.....please unsubscribe me from the list as I am retiring...when set up at home, I will rescribe. Thank You air-l-request(a)aoir.ORG wrote: > Send Air-l mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-admin(a)aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-l digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Air-l List Migrated (jeremy hunsinger) > 2. [Fwd: GAME CULTURES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GAMES > BRISTOLJUNE 29th - JULY 1st] (jeremy hunsinger) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:21:26 -0400 > From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] Air-l List Migrated > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > As some of you know, AoIR migrated to a new server and so has this > list. the list address is > > air-l(a)aoir.org > > the webpage for the list is > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > i preserved your digest options. > most everything related to the list and your account on it can be accessed > at the above url. > > The old list address will forward for a period of time but if you would > change your filters and aliases to this list, it would make the migration > easier. > > if you have questions about the list or management thereof please send me a > note at jhuns(a)vt.edu > > Thank You, > > Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu > Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber > 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage > Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it) > Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 icq 5535471 > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 19:30:42 -0400 > From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org, cddc(a)vtonline.psci.vt.edu > Subject: [Air-l] [Fwd: GAME CULTURES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GAMES > BRISTOLJUNE 29th - JULY 1st] > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > GAME CULTURES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GAMES > BRISTOL JUNE 29th - JULY 1st > > http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/Gamesculture/index.htm > > Dear Colleague, > > I've just joined the 'Game Cultures' team (apologies for any duplicate > mailings) and am writing to you with a reminder of the upcoming > conference > above. 'GAME CULTURES' will be the first UK academic conference looking > at > computer games and gamers. > > I'm aware that you've shown an interest in the conference, so I would > like > to remind you that the deadline for registration is Friday 18 May. As > places > are limited and as you were kind enough to express interest at the > planning > stage we would be keen for you to be able to participate in this event. > > >From the outset, we have been particularly keen to provide an opportunity > for UK researchers to actively participate in this emerging area of > academic > inquiry. As you will see from the website, there is a strong > international > presence which should create a stimulating platform for debate. > We hope that by disseminating some of the best internationally produced > work > in this area that we will be able to establish an active network of > academic > researchers in the field. To this end we would very much welcome your > involvement > > I have attached an updated version of the registration form, and a > credit > card authorisation form (if you have a problem opening any of the > attachments, please reply to sender <lizmilner.wwd(a)virgin.net) Please > pass > on these details to any other researchers who you think might benefit > from > attending this event. > > We look forward to hearing from you very soon. If you know you intend to > come but have not yet secured funding please do let us know so that we > can > hold a place for you subject to payment of delegate fees. > > Yours sincerely > Liz Milner > Marketing co ordinator > > If this information is no longer relevant, or if you wish to be removed > from > this mailing list, please reply to sender <lizmilner.wwd(a)virgin.net>. > For > all other contacts, booking and information, please reply to > Jonathan.Dovey(a)uwe.ac.uk > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > End of Air-l Digest

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[Fwd: GAME CULTURES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GAMES BRISTOLJUNE 29th - JULY 1st]
by jeremy hunsinger 09 May '01

09 May '01

GAME CULTURES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GAMES BRISTOL JUNE 29th - JULY 1st http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/Gamesculture/index.htm Dear Colleague, I've just joined the 'Game Cultures' team (apologies for any duplicate mailings) and am writing to you with a reminder of the upcoming conference above. 'GAME CULTURES' will be the first UK academic conference looking at computer games and gamers. I'm aware that you've shown an interest in the conference, so I would like to remind you that the deadline for registration is Friday 18 May. As places are limited and as you were kind enough to express interest at the planning stage we would be keen for you to be able to participate in this event. >From the outset, we have been particularly keen to provide an opportunity for UK researchers to actively participate in this emerging area of academic inquiry. As you will see from the website, there is a strong international presence which should create a stimulating platform for debate. We hope that by disseminating some of the best internationally produced work in this area that we will be able to establish an active network of academic researchers in the field. To this end we would very much welcome your involvement I have attached an updated version of the registration form, and a credit card authorisation form (if you have a problem opening any of the attachments, please reply to sender <lizmilner.wwd(a)virgin.net) Please pass on these details to any other researchers who you think might benefit from attending this event. We look forward to hearing from you very soon. If you know you intend to come but have not yet secured funding please do let us know so that we can hold a place for you subject to payment of delegate fees. Yours sincerely Liz Milner Marketing co ordinator If this information is no longer relevant, or if you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please reply to sender <lizmilner.wwd(a)virgin.net>. For all other contacts, booking and information, please reply to Jonathan.Dovey(a)uwe.ac.uk

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Air-l List Migrated
by jeremy hunsinger 09 May '01

09 May '01

As some of you know, AoIR migrated to a new server and so has this list. the list address is air-l(a)aoir.org the webpage for the list is http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l i preserved your digest options. most everything related to the list and your account on it can be accessed at the above url. The old list address will forward for a period of time but if you would change your filters and aliases to this list, it would make the migration easier. if you have questions about the list or management thereof please send me a note at jhuns(a)vt.edu Thank You, Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it) Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 icq 5535471

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test apologies
by jeremy hunsinger 09 May '01

09 May '01

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by jeremy hunsinger 09 May '01

09 May '01

test test ok, if you guys get this, let me know. Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it) Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 icq 5535471

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