List members may be interested to know that a copy of Caroline Haythornthwaite's paper published in the current issue of Information, Communication & Society (8.2. 2005) is available to be downloaded at: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/webcast <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/webcast> as a realmedia file. You will also find a recorded interview with Caroline undertaken by Christian Sandvig where she discusses the principle issues of the paper. Full contents of iCS 8.2 are listed below for information. Brian D. Loader, Editor, Information, Communication & Society, CIRA, University of Teesside, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley TS1 3BA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1642 342348 Fax: +44 (0) 1642 342711 b.d.loader@tees.ac.uk www.infosoc.co.uk CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAPERS Caroline Haythornthwaite Social Networks and Internet Connectivity Effects. Denise Carter Living In Virtual Communities: An Ethnography of Human Relationships in Cyberspace. Darren Holloway The Digital Divide in Sydney: A Socio-Spatial Analysis. Darren Purcell The Military in the Noosphere: NCT Adoption and Website Development in the Slovenian Ministry of Defence. Martin Harris ICT and Institutional Change at the British Library. PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE SERIES Charles Raab and David Intro Mason Adam Warren and James Data Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom: From Dearnley Development to Statute 1970-1984 BOOK REVIEWS The Digital Divide Is Dead, Long Live The Digital Divides. A Review Article of K Mossberger, C Tolbert 'Virtual inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide'. and M Stansbury Reviewed by Neil Selwyn Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick 'The New Media Reader' Montfort (eds) Reviewed by Ravi Srinivas Krishna James Cornford and Neil Pollock 'Putting the University Online: Information Technology and Organizational Change' Reviewed by Pat Maier Jean Aitchison and Diana M Lewis 'New Media Language' (eds) Reviewed by Stephen Coleman Colin J Bennett and Charles D Raab 'The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective' Reviewed by Duncan Langford Joseph Turow and Andrea L 'The Wired Homestead: An MIT Press Source Kavaneugh (eds) Book on the Internet and the Family' Reviewed by Jan Brace-Govan Jenny Pickerill 'Cyberprotest: Environmental Activism Online' Reviewed by Paul Reynolds
...BBC has created an online environment where people who are "blocked" in the areas of explosions are sending hundreds of e-mails, pictures, but also mms, sms and calls to tell what's going on - and ask what's going on - I was told by a friend who works at BBC. I am reading on the Internet those stories from central London...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4659237.stm I have no TV here at home...the Internet is my only window on the world .....what a world.... ...I was in London just few days ago.... Monica ************************************************************ Prof. Monica Murero, PhD Director, E-Life International Institute Professor in Communication and Media Integration University of Florence MICC - Center of Excellence for Media Integration and Communication Mailing address: Largo de Gasperi, 1 50137 Firenze (Italy) Tel. + 390 55 4237401 Fax + 390 55 4237400 +390 550 5187 29 Website http://www.micc.unifi.it E-mail: monica.murero@unifi.it International Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) AoIR Executive Board - Appointed Seat http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/133 http://www.captaindoc.com/interviews/interviews12.html *********************************************************************
I'm in London about half a mile from the Aldgate bomb and less than 5 miles from all of the blasts. Think my nerves must have got rather blunted having gone through the pretty incessant bombing in the IRA campaign of the 70s and 80s - the Bishopsgate bomb in the early 90s shook my building and shattered glass on the other side of road, and the tremor shook the external stairwell - which my son was going down at the time and had to grab for a railing. I knew people who were in the Admiral Duncan when that was bombed by neo-fascists (I [wo]manned the helpline that evening), and I live less than a mile from the nail-bomb the neo-fascists let off in Brick Lane a couple of years ago. When I described the sound of the Bishopsgate bombing to my mother, she laughed and pointed out that she knew perfectly well what a bomb destroying a building sounded like having grown up during the WWII blitzkreig on London and Bristol and spent half the nights of her childhood in a bomb shelter. Bombings are pretty much a way of life in London - and I'm slightly surprised by the intensity of the response to this one. Maybe because of the level of disruption - the IRA and the neo-fascists tended to go for single buildings so the disruption was minimised. But also I think there's a bit of a shift from the "plucky blitz" approach Londoners' normally take, which may be related to an expectation of instantaneous communication but I think is also influenced by American responses to terrorist attacks. In the 70s, it would never have occurred to me to start ringing round friends (nor did it today) cos they'd all be out in the daytime anyway and, actually, the statistical chances of being caught in a bomb blast are pretty small. Far more likely to be in a traffic accident on a normal day! Remember, the networks are only down because ppl are flooding them with unnecessary calls so the emergency services have had to lock out personal calls. Actually, apart from the transport and communications disruption, this has been relatively considerate. Better than nail bombs in crowded pubs if you ask me. I'm starting to feel guilty for being so matter-of-fact, but, unless I'm going crazy, the Brits have always been matter-of-fact about bombing campaigns for as long as I remember? I can't imagine why Blair is banging on about threats to civilisation and preserving our way of life blah blah. What ridiculous rhetoric! Did Bush's speechwriters come up with that one for him? It's yet another bombing campaign, not the end of the bloody Western World. Jeez! I hasten to add that of course I care about the grief to the victims, friends and family of this particular attack and I care very much about the victims of violence everywhere in the world. Let's have a bit of stiff-upper-lip, for heaven's sake! And bear in mind that this is chickenshit compared to what people are dealing with in Iraq and Afghanistan. Paula Monica Murero wrote:
...BBC has created an online environment where people who are "blocked" in the areas of explosions are sending hundreds of e-mails, pictures, but also mms, sms and calls to tell what's going on - and ask what's going on - I was told by a friend who works at BBC. I am reading on the Internet those stories from central London...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4659237.stm
I have no TV here at home...the Internet is my only window on the world .....what a world.... ...I was in London just few days ago....
Monica ************************************************************ Prof. Monica Murero, PhD Director, E-Life International Institute Professor in Communication and Media Integration
University of Florence MICC - Center of Excellence for Media Integration and Communication Mailing address: Largo de Gasperi, 1 50137 Firenze (Italy)
Tel. + 390 55 4237401 Fax + 390 55 4237400 +390 550 5187 29 Website http://www.micc.unifi.it E-mail: monica.murero@unifi.it
International Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) AoIR Executive Board - Appointed Seat http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/133 http://www.captaindoc.com/interviews/interviews12.html
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--- Paula <pmg@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
I'm in London about half a mile from the Aldgate bomb and less than 5 miles from all of the blasts. Think my nerves must have got rather blunted having gone through the pretty incessant bombing in the IRA campaign of the 70s and 80s - <snip>
There's certainly a bit of shock around - more from those outside of central London, in the suburbs and beyond - at the scale of the blasts, and the disruption. Some hysteria and panic, of course, and a lot of confusion this morning. And around here the various emergency vehicles have been tearing around with sirens going (whether or not it's necessary - with open and lightly trafficked roads, it really isn't necessary, is it?) all afternoon. I was walking across the River Thames to work in Southwark, not far from Waterloo, Tate Modern, and the Globe Theatre, about the time the bombs were going off, but knew nothing about it until mid to late morning when a caller mentioned some problems on the Underground and wondered if I'd been affected. Maybe there is a sense of being a little used to this. I remember being at home in Covent Garden in the early/mid '70s with the IRA Christmas bombing campaign going off in the night around us. And my mother, who had lived just off Leicester Square through WWII, working as a nurse, remarked with a great deal of calm (equanimity? sang froid?) that it was a little like living through the Blitz. There was chaos and confusion - and variously between four and seven bombs reported, although the main reports were about the power surge simulatneously affecting 5 or 6 Underground stations. Access to mobile networks and news web sites was intermittent - in fact for much of the late morning I could only get cnn.com or abc in Australia. CNN was reporting bomb explosions way before the BBC started mentioning this as a possibility. We have survived worse, much worse, and it pales in comparision with the tsunami, or the World Trade Center, the Madrid devastations, or the last big earthquake in the Bay area. I don't think it's a matter of being insensitive, or having blunted nerves - I was calling around and e-mailing to ensure family and friends were not caught up - but being a bit more measured and considered. For those directly involved it is another matter, and until you are it is difficult to really comprehend that. Dominic Pinto e-m dominic.pinto@ieee.org M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph/Fax: +44 207 379-8341
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