All, One must be careful following a query concerning the demographics of the Association of Internet Researchers ([Air-l] Re: Outreach Working Group Charge, with a minor tweak Lachlan Brown) with a thread ([Air-l] Have you received something like this? ) on the so called 'Nigerian Scam'. Instead of alienating West Africa, and those who share an affinity with West Africa, or otherwise share an interest in breaking stereotypes wherever they occur and however they are articulated, perhaps you could address the issue of social inclusion seriously. A way to do this is to be reflexive and open about membership. My question arising from many, many years research in the field related to several 'gaps', or shall we simply say 'a complete and utter lapses in scholarship' in Internet Research, arose from reading an important misaddressed email in AoIR concerning 'outreach' strategies highlighting the need for greater social inclusion. What we get from AoIR is endless wittering about 'The Nigerian Scam'. What social literacies are represented by the Association of Internet Researchers? How are the industries of education and of media and communications best served in their need for informed scholarship and advice concerning 'future markets'? One way to understand these literacies is to have a breakdown, even a rough guesstimate, of the demographics of AoIR, which is, as far as I can see, a locus of power in Internet and Scholarship. The estimate or breakdown is important too to my initial intervention 'Bring Me My Bow' etc (Blakes "Jerusalem' far from being a nationalist hymn is a poem to spiritual and intellectual striving, inflected by irony, political satire, but also by love.) of January, which raises ethical and legal concerns for a number of constituencies of Internet. During the years use of Internet has, it seems, grown from 'cyberpunk in boystown' to take a place in the middle of our communication and media lives. Users, so I hear, now include the extremely angry mothers constititency, the raging grannies against technofascism, Street Kids against poor Internet Scholarship, not to mention the 'we know where you live' students against child abuse constituency, concerned about the exploitation of innocents in the industry and in education. Please provide the information I requested. I asked for a rough estimate, if hard data is not available, on the demographics of the Association of Internet Researchers. [Air-l] Re: Outreach Working Group Charge, with a minor tweak Lachlan Brown [Air-l] Subscribe FREE to Design Research News Ken Friedman [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Cristian Berrio [Air-l] Have you received something like this? jeremy hunsinger [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Adrian Higginbotham [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Gina Neff [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Steve Fox (NLG) [Air-l] Have you received something like this? david silver [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Sean Cubitt Down Sean, Down Boy. [Air-l] Re: Lurking Uwe Matzat [Air-l] Redundancy Index: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #293 - 14 msgs James Watt [Air-l] Redundancy Index: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #293 - 14 msgs jeremy hunsinger [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Steve Jones BTW: 'The Nigerian Scam' is a perennial. I received a snail mail about it in 1991 in Toronto at Between the Lines Press. It is annoying, but it is hardly the 'thread of the moment'. In Nettime 'the Nigerian Scam' appeared as Nettimers began considering 'race and ethnicity'. It also appeared in a couple of industry groups when the question of 'social inclusion' arose. Lachlan Brown Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Win a ski trip! http://www.nowcode.com/register.asp?affiliate=1net2phone3a
At 4:38 PM -0500 2/8/02, Lachlan Brown wrote: [...stuff deleted, redundancy possibly avoided, important things potentially left out...]
Please provide the information I requested.
For information about subscribers to air-l, you can send a "who" command - e-mail to air-l-request@aoir.org with the word who in the subject or body of the message. Concerning AoIR members, from the voluntary members listing on aoir.org, 74 of 452 members have input geographical information, as follows: 56/74 are in the USA. England accounts for 3, Finland, Indonesia, Germany, Denmark and Canada for 2 each, and the following for 1: Singapore, Wales, Netherlands, Lithuania, Portugal, Thailand, India, Hungary, Mexico, China. One person identified as coming from planet earth (I assure you it wasn't me). Best, Sj
Steve Jones wrote:
At 4:38 PM -0500 2/8/02, Lachlan Brown wrote: [...stuff deleted, redundancy possibly avoided, important things potentially left out...]
Please provide the information I requested.
For information about subscribers to air-l, you can send a "who" command - e-mail to air-l-request@aoir.org with the word who in the subject or body of the message.
If anyone bothers to calculate anything based on who command results, please share what you come up with. I've played with it and it's tedious (and with only domain names to go on, a huge chunk of which are .com and .edu, it's dubiously informative). I think we can safely say there are more Americans than residents of any other nation, but there are a large number of nations represented by at least one subscriber. There are at least 35-40 geographic domain names on the subscriber list (including some African domains, Lachlan). Remember also that there is a distinction between aoir members, of whom there are approximately 450, and air-l subscribers, of whom there are nearly 1,000. [plug for joining goes here, there are some benefits that go with membership beyond the sheer glory of non-profit giving]. To those of you who believe we should have members or air-l participants from places we don't, or more from places that we have only a few, or more of any kind of internet researcher for that matter, I urge you to let such researchers know about us and invite them to participate and/or join. We all have to share in the responsibility of making aoir as inclusive as it can be. Broad diversity can't be created by the executive committee no matter how much the 11 of us wish it could, but it might be created by 1,000 list subscribers reaching out to those who aren't here. Toward that end, the exec committee will soon be posting a few e-materials at aoir.org that you can download and use to inform others about our existence. I'll have more about that for you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, believe me, there have been over 200 messages exchanged on the executive committee mailing list so far in February. I think it's a safe bet that the general readership of air-l does not want to be burdened with all of our thought progresses at each moment of their evolution. Nancy _________________________________________________________ Nancy Baym nbaym@ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas 102 Bailey, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org
Hi, I´d like to know where I can find information on research about Internet in German & French. Can someone inform me? Robert ***************************************** Robert Arpo, M.A Researcher ETNICA-Joensuu Centre for Ethnic Studies University of Joensuu P.O.Box 111 FIN-80101 JOENSUU FINLAND tel: +358-13-251-5253 fax: +358-13-251-5275 email:Robert.Arpo@joensuu.fi http://www.joensuu.fi/etnica http://cc.joensuu.fi/~arpo ****************************************
I´d like to know where I can find information on research about Internet in German & French. Can someone inform me?
Hi, as far as I know, there are very few french speaking full text ressources, open mailing lists, and even directories about Internet researches and Internet researchers. I assume that it's firstable a cultural problem. French researchers don't have the reflex, the time or perhaps the idea to publish their work on Internet and to build up an interdisciplinary community. That's make a big difference with Great Britain, USA or Germany. In the Net Researchers directory you certainly know (http://netzwissenschaft.com/wiss.htm), there are only two french people... that's all. http://www.devinci.fr/iim/jch/ http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/ The CIRASI could have been a valuable way to find french speaking researchers. It is the "Collectif interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les aspects sociaux d'Internet" (Interdiscplinary group on the social aspects of Internet :http://lajoie.uqam.ca/cirasi/cirasi.html). A good initiative but with a very low activity now. Idem for the Commposite (http://commposite.uqam.ca) which intended to gather young researchers. No activity. Regarding some Think tanks or publications (not always Internet centered) you could look at FING (Fondation pour l'Internet nouvelle génération) : http://www.fing.org/ L'équipe Réseaux savoirs et territoires from the Ecole normale supérieure (http://barthes.ens.fr/) Les Cahiers de médiologie (http://www.mediologie.com/) Groupe de recherche sur les médias (http://grm.uqam.ca/index.html) Revue Terminal (http://www.terminal.sgdg.org/) Revue Réseaux : http://www.editions-hermes.fr/rev_accueil.asp?id=17 Quaderni : http://panoramix.univ-paris1.fr/CREDAP/quaderni/ Les Cahiers du numérique : http://www.editions-hermes.fr/rev_accueil.asp?id=28 Regarding research teams we could speak among others of RIAM (Réseau de recherche et innovation en audiuovisuel et multimédia (http://www.cnc.fr/riam/) INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) : http://www.ina.fr/recherche/doctorants/ But they don't give access to their researches. Even France Télécom R&D http://www.rd.francetelecom.fr/ is very pusillanimus (Mr Thomas, we could speak of that in private if you like). And the very well known INRIA (Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatisme) have a very technical view of the Internet. I really hope I have forgotten really valuable and open ressources. And if I gain some technical support I would be pleased to build up such a directory for french speaking researches. -- Serge Courrier Freelance journalist Internet Section Editor for Science & Vie magazine Paris, France
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