digital divide in use - more suggestions?
[Crossposted to DDN + AOIR, sorry for that!] Hello everybody, I'm doing research within the erea of internet and the digital divide (like many of you, i suppose ;-) ) Most of the literature treats the internet as one uniform medium. In reality, the internet exists of different applications like websites, usenet, listserv, blogs, email, IM, ... I was wondering if there exists some research about the consequences of this difference in use and it's relationship to the digital divide-theory. Most of the time, the digital divide is constraint to the difference in internet access, but the future will bring us perhaps only a difference in internet use (some only use general websites, while others use all different applications). The term 'digital divide in use' is somewhat what i'm looking for, but not exctly i guess. Also the term digital literacy is quite helpful ... Anyone more suggestions about literature? Or your opinion about this subject? Thanks in advance! Michaël -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Deborah Elizabeth Finn [mailto:deborah.elizabeth.finn@gmail.com] Verzonden: za 4/06/2005 22:47 Aan: The Digital Divide Network discussion group CC: Onderwerp: [DDN] Bragging Rights in Boston (A version of this item is also available through my blog at <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/2/903714.html>; the blog version provides live links to more information about some of the people and organizations mentioned here.) Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday evening, the Boston 501 Tech Club had a record turnout of over 70 nonprofit techies! It was the largest gathering ever in the history of the regional 501 Tech Clubs. Here are a few factors that go into an event like this one: - We had a dedicated team of planners: Merove Heifetz of Earthwatch Institute (the outgoing convener of the Boston club), Beth Sousa of Families First (the incoming convener), Kathleen Sherwin of Tech Foundation, and yours truly. - The planners met several weeks in advance, to get acquainted in person, to brainstorm about desired outcomes, and to plan for the transition to a new convener. We then stayed in touch by email and conference call. - TechFoundation generously underwrote the cost of the venue, food, and drinks. Furthermore, Kathleen Sherwin, ably assisted by Colleen Higgins (also of TechFoundation), deployed her superlative skills as an event manager. - TechFoundation also generously underwrote my time as a consultant to bring various pieces of the puzzle together, and to do outreach to individuals and groups who may not have previously known about the Boston 501 Tech Club or considered attending one of its events. - The event was held outdoors at a time of year when most people crave a little fresh air and sunshire, and it didn't rain. - The venue was easily accessible by public transportation. (Parking was also available, which definitely counts for something in Harvard Square.) I'd summarize the most important take-aways in this way: - If you feed them, they will come. This costs money. - Events of this sort are labor intensive. Volunteers who have other full-time jobs can't be expected to do all the work. Hiring professionals costs money. - It's important for potential attendees to receive personal invitations (or to hear about the event) from people they know. However, it's also important not to overlook what we as the planners could take for granted: our region can boast of a first-rate talent pool of current and aspiring nonprofit techies. We have an abundance of philanthropic spirit, utopian vision, and technological genius here in Massachusetts. Rich in human capital, we desperately need the financial and institutional resources to bring it all together to serve the nonprofit sector. This new partnership between the Boston 501 Tech Club and TechFoundation may bring help to bring us to the tipping point. Go, team! Best regards from Deborah P.S. Full disclosure of financial relationship: I used to serve as TechFoundation's national nonprofit liaison officer and director of its Boston TechConnect program, and am currently working with TF on a consulting basis. Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request@mailman.edc.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Hi, I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline? Thanks a lot, at the moment I am a bit lost in links and buttons... ste
Stefania Vicari PhD student in Sociology University of Reading PO Box 218, Reading, RG6 6AA, United Kingdom.
Webcopier is my favorite, but it's not free. http://www.maximumsoft.com/products/wc_windows/overview.html All the Best Don Holeman Master's Candidate New Media Newhouse School of Public Communications Syracuse University 860.424.2599 djholema@syr.edu dholeman@twcny.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of s.vicari@reading.ac.uk Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:00 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] SW to store webpages Hi, I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline? Thanks a lot, at the moment I am a bit lost in links and buttons... ste
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Webcopier is my favorite, but it's not free.
I also use WebCopier, but mainly out of habit. I tried out: http://www.httrack.com/ and it seems to work just as well and is freeware. I will probably switch to that in the future. Wget is another free possibility, but why make things difficult, when a free Windows based program such as HTTrack exists? No commands to learn! No tedious installation routines! I also tried http://www.surfoffline.com/ once, but was pretty unimpressed. But then again, I have used WebCopier for years and was always satisfied with the results, so that might have tainted my judgement. HTH, Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/
Wget is another free possibility, but why make things difficult, when a free Windows based program such as HTTrack exists? No commands to learn! No tedious installation routines!
because someone might want the additional flexibility to make their research better? isn't that the real goal, here? --elijah
elijah wright wrote:
Wget is another free possibility, but why make things difficult, when a free Windows based program such as HTTrack exists? No commands to learn! No tedious installation routines!
because someone might want the additional flexibility to make their research better?
isn't that the real goal, here?
No, not really. As is often the case, there is a trade-off between flexibility (read: complexity) and parsimony (read: easy of use). Maximum complexity is not always the best solution. At the moment, I cannot see how the alleged greater flexibility of wget would improve research. If I want to capture an entire website, then HTTrack seems to do the job. It seems to do it even more complete than wget: (Funny languages only!) http://linuxfr.org/~blackshack/2889.html http://lists.bxlug.be/pipermail/linux-bruxelles/2002-September/005497.html http://groups-beta.google.com/group/de.comp.lang.php.misc/msg/76f85bf9a2bef5... (http://tinyurl.com/bqwqp) It's thus faster than wget and, unlike wget, HTTTrack can retrieve some broken links and, more importantly, it captures some dynamic URLs (though not all of them). Some even claim that HTTrack is more powerful (flexible?) than wget: http://lists.gulp.linux.it/pipermail/gulp/2004-May/002747.html If you want to capture an entire website, HTTrack thus seems both better suited and easier to operate. What are some examples for the greater flexibilty of wget? BTW: There are GUIs for wget: http://kmago.sourceforge.net/index.htm http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/ And finally, yet another supposedly good non-freeware application is: http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm Haven't tried it yet, so I must rely on reviews here, which say that this is the best option. Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/
Maximum complexity is not always the best solution. At the moment, I cannot see how the alleged greater flexibility of wget would improve research. If I want to capture an entire website, then HTTrack seems to do the job. It seems to do it even more complete than wget: (Funny languages only!)
you managed to sidestep my question while simultaneously admitting that you haven't used the tool in question. that's very interesting social behavior... please don't actively troll the AIR list. it is quite annoying. --elijah
elijah wright wrote:
Maximum complexity is not always the best solution. At the moment, I cannot see how the alleged greater flexibility of wget would improve research. If I want to capture an entire website, then HTTrack seems to do the job. It seems to do it even more complete than wget: (Funny languages only!)
you managed to sidestep my question while simultaneously admitting that you haven't used the tool in question.
I did try wget a couple of years ago (where did I write that I never used it?), but found WebCopier more practical than wget. I argued on your premises, namely that one might want to use wget, because
someone might want the additional flexibility to make their research better?
I suspect that, in fact, wget's "flexibility" does not improve research, and that, possibly, wget isn't even more "flexible" with respect to important research goals than HTTrack. Besides wget and WebCopier, I also tried out WinHTTrack, and it seems to work well. I didn't make a systematic comparison of the three tools, but my links from the previous post (provided the satements made in them are true) suggest that there are at least four advantages of HTTrack (and WebCopier) over wget: 1) Better use of system resources (faster) 2) Access to some files obscured by bad links 3) Better handling of dynamic parameters 4) Easier to install and has a more intuitive inteface. These seem intuitive advantages, since wget is an old UNIX command from the times, when no dynamic web pages existed. Maybe newer versions now handle parameters better, if that's the case, please say so. I couldn't find any evidence that wget is now superior or even en par with either of the other two programs with respect to above three criteria. I glanced over the wget mnanual (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/wget/wget.html), and couldn't find any options that seem important for site mirroring, not also offered by WebCopier (which is the program I am most familiar with). I suspect, with HTTrack that's the same. In fact, there is quite a credible evaluation of 20 free spiders, and HTTrack fares pretty well, you could even say better than wget: http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/oct2504/spidereval.pdf Thus, I repeat my question: What are the functions wget offers that makes it superior to HTTrack or WebCopier?
that's very interesting social behavior...
please don't actively troll the AIR list. it is quite annoying.
I am used to "trolling" allegations on the Usenet (not necessarily towards myself, but that also happens), when there is dissent. However, there is a difference between voicing "dissenting views" and "trolling". All to often on the Usenet trolling allegations silence dissent (less likely on academic lists, where many people have big egos). Nevertheless, I think, even on an academic list, such ad hominem allegations should be made only under extraordinary circumstances. After all, the whole business of academia is criticism and counter-criticism and there is no need to get personal, when one disagrees (except in very few circumstances). NB: I frequently make provocative statements, because that's the easiest way to falsify (my own) wrong assumptions. Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/
I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline?
Thanks a lot, at the moment I am a bit lost in links and buttons...
wget, a common (and free) unix utility, will let you make complete mirrors easily. it is VERY flexible and has tons of useful options for this sort of thing. --elijah
I use wget or mirror.pl and then there are the tools represented at http://webarchivist.org/ too On Jun 5, 2005, at 10:10 AM, elijah wright wrote:
I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline?
Thanks a lot, at the moment I am a bit lost in links and buttons...
wget, a common (and free) unix utility, will let you make complete mirrors easily.
it is VERY flexible and has tons of useful options for this sort of thing.
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On 6/5/05 1:36 PM, "Jeremy Hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I use wget or mirror.pl and then there are the tools represented at http://webarchivist.org/ too On Jun 5, 2005, at 10:10 AM, elijah wright wrote:
I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline?
The tools represented at http://webarchivist.org are for somewhat more elaborate research approaches than many individual scholars are interested in developing -- but let me try to explain our thinking on this topic. WebArchivist was created to solve the problem of making regular periodic copies of a number of sites or pages; retrieving the archived objects by URL and date; indexing, cataloguing and/or analyzing the sites / pages; and then retrieving the archived objects on the basis of researcher/cataloguer created metadata (i.e. The index, catalog, or analysis fields). Our tools seem to be most efficient when the number of objects is relatively large (dozens to hundreds or even thousands of sites), regular (daily, weekly or monthly) and sustained (three months to a few years). Examples of the kinds of archives / collections that can be sustained include the Web spheres we've analyzed around the 2002 US Election and the September 11 terrorist attacks; both are presented at http://www.loc.gov/minerva; additional scholarly data on the 2002 election collection is presented at http://politicalweb.info. We strongly encourage scholars to work closely with librarians at their institutions to see if they are willing to work with you to store your collection for future researchers. Alternatively, consider working with us or perhaps the Internet Archive to store your collection and the data about the Web objects that you collect. If you are interested in making a collection accessible to other researchers, even others in your own research group, you will need to consider how to serve the objects in the collection. If you have any concerns about preservation, or concerns about representing the data in as close to the observed form as possible, you may wish to consider the crawlers that do not change the HTML code. Some programs, such as teleport pro, and wget in some of its usages do -- while rewriting HTML code to make links readable may make your initial observation easier, subsequent researchers may find your data very difficult to interpret. And it may be difficult or impossible to house your collection as an archive. Most recently, we've been using the Heritrix crawler and saving our data into ARC files. This creates an additional challenge of reading the ARC files, however. There are some tools out there that help -- check out http://www.netarchive.dk/website/sources/index-en.htm. This thread raises interesting issues about our ability as scholars to create datasets (archives) of Web-based materials. I'd be glad to continue the discussion if anyone is interested in this. //steve. Steven M. Schneider Associate Professor, SUNYIT: http://www.sunyit.edu/~steve Co-Director, WebArchivist: http://www.webarchivist.org
I admit I haven't used much of the software mentioned above, although I have substantial experience with spidering and scripting. 200 protest group websites is a significant amount to archive even with wget. If you are serious about archiving such a massive amount of content I would recommend getting acquainted with some heavy duty tools, such as perl, or python. These are generally easier to access through a mac or Gnu/linux box than a windows one, but of course, you can code these things under windows. Its also the case that such tools can work with wget to automate scripting on a higher level. If you are using a mac, the automator (which is free if you have the latest OS*), can actually get a lot of this done for you if you set it up correctly. My best recommendation right off is to purchase the book 'spidering hacks' published by orielly. Most of the scripts are written in perl, but some are in python (which is generally understood to be more readable and beginner friendly). Be careful when you scrape. Check the robots.txt file at the domain level for example http://www.google.com/robots.txt. If your aren't allowed to spider it, then perhaps you need some sort of ethics approval to capture it for academic purposes [if not, I feel you should require this approval, and to open a can of worms - I think the AoIR guidelines should reflect this]. If a site doesn't want you to scrape it (as indicated in the robots.txt), you might consider actually contacting these people and maybe even asking to host a mirror (which would be ideal, and respectful). In return for mirroring the site, of course you get your data. Take Care, BERNiE *P.S. An addenda about Mac's latest OS - Tiger does NOT run SPSS, so if you depend on it (as I currently do :( - be ready to switch to STATA or R for quant work, as SPSS seems to be slack on their Mac development cycles. Bernie Hogan PhD Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto I received a message from s.vicari@reading.ac.uk at approximately 6/5/05 8:59 AM. Above is my reply.
Hi,
I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline?
Thanks a lot, at the moment I am a bit lost in links and buttons... ste
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Bernie Hogan wrote:
I admit I haven't used much of the software mentioned above, although I have substantial experience with spidering and scripting. 200 protest group websites is a significant amount to archive even with wget.
It really depends on the web presence of these sites. Back in 1998, I captured 500 (!) New Age websites (with, err, wget ;-) ) and they all fitted zipped on 50 FDD (that's 70MB!!). Now, granted that things have changed since then, but it might still be possible to do a reasonable job, given how poor many movement sites are (I assume NOW, attac or some other professional SMOs are not part of the sample ;-) ). [ack. snip]
Be careful when you scrape. Check the robots.txt file at the domain level for example http://www.google.com/robots.txt. If your aren't allowed to spider it, then perhaps you need some sort of ethics approval to capture it for academic purposes [if not, I feel you should require this approval, and to open a can of worms - I think the AoIR guidelines should reflect this].
wget actually has an option to ignore "robots.txt" and even an option to pose as IE or any other browser for that matter (as do HTTrack and WebCopier ;-) ). I personally wouldn't have any problems to activate that option. But that's a political decision I feel is better decided by national or supranational polities than a voluntary associations such as aoir. -- thomas koenig, ph.d. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/
Piggybank should become what you want:
Don't know if you can really use it for large scale use, but the idea is right up your alley. Would be good for people to develop good web mirroring apps for it, and lots of other tools. Seth Johnson s.vicari@reading.ac.uk wrote:
Hi,
I am a PhD student at the University of Reading, Uk. I am running a study on 200 protest group websites. Would you suggest any good SW to store whole websites offline?
Thanks a lot, at the moment I am a bit lost in links and buttons... ste
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Michaël, this one might help you. Sorry for the shameless self-promotion. Jaeho Cho, Homero Gil De Zuniga, Hernando Rojas, Dhavan V. Shah (2003). Beyond Access: The Digital Divide and Internet Uses and Gratifications. IT & Society, vol 4 (1). Stanford University. http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/itandsociety/v01i04.html This research explores the relationship between Internet use and gratifications gained within the context of the digital divide framework. Analyses within sub-samples defined by age and socio-economic status reveal that there are notable differences in uses and gratifications across subgroups. For instance, those who are young and high in socioeconomic status are most likely to use the Internet to satisfy their motivations strategically and to gain the desired gratifications. They are most likely to engage in specific Internet behaviors-computer-mediated interaction, surveillance, and consumption uses-to achieve the particular gratifications of connection, learning, and acquisition. In contrast, those who are young and low in socio-economic status were more likely to employ consumptive use of the Internet to attain connection gratifications. Similarly, regardless of age, both low socioeconomic status subgroups were likely to use computer-mediated interaction as a means to gain learning gratifications. Even as gaps in access are closing, gaps in usage and gratifications gained seem to persist. Homero Gil de Zuniga University of Wisconsin-Madison -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Opgenhaffen Michaël Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:20 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] digital divide in use - more suggestions? [Crossposted to DDN + AOIR, sorry for that!] Hello everybody, I'm doing research within the erea of internet and the digital divide (like many of you, i suppose ;-) ) Most of the literature treats the internet as one uniform medium. In reality, the internet exists of different applications like websites, usenet, listserv, blogs, email, IM, ... I was wondering if there exists some research about the consequences of this difference in use and it's relationship to the digital divide-theory. Most of the time, the digital divide is constraint to the difference in internet access, but the future will bring us perhaps only a difference in internet use (some only use general websites, while others use all different applications). The term 'digital divide in use' is somewhat what i'm looking for, but not exctly i guess. Also the term digital literacy is quite helpful ... Anyone more suggestions about literature? Or your opinion about this subject? Thanks in advance! Michaël -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Deborah Elizabeth Finn [mailto:deborah.elizabeth.finn@gmail.com] Verzonden: za 4/06/2005 22:47 Aan: The Digital Divide Network discussion group CC: Onderwerp: [DDN] Bragging Rights in Boston (A version of this item is also available through my blog at <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/2/903714.html> ; the blog version provides live links to more information about some of the people and organizations mentioned here.) Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday evening, the Boston 501 Tech Club had a record turnout of over 70 nonprofit techies! It was the largest gathering ever in the history of the regional 501 Tech Clubs. Here are a few factors that go into an event like this one: - We had a dedicated team of planners: Merove Heifetz of Earthwatch Institute (the outgoing convener of the Boston club), Beth Sousa of Families First (the incoming convener), Kathleen Sherwin of Tech Foundation, and yours truly. - The planners met several weeks in advance, to get acquainted in person, to brainstorm about desired outcomes, and to plan for the transition to a new convener. We then stayed in touch by email and conference call. - TechFoundation generously underwrote the cost of the venue, food, and drinks. Furthermore, Kathleen Sherwin, ably assisted by Colleen Higgins (also of TechFoundation), deployed her superlative skills as an event manager. - TechFoundation also generously underwrote my time as a consultant to bring various pieces of the puzzle together, and to do outreach to individuals and groups who may not have previously known about the Boston 501 Tech Club or considered attending one of its events. - The event was held outdoors at a time of year when most people crave a little fresh air and sunshire, and it didn't rain. - The venue was easily accessible by public transportation. (Parking was also available, which definitely counts for something in Harvard Square.) I'd summarize the most important take-aways in this way: - If you feed them, they will come. This costs money. - Events of this sort are labor intensive. Volunteers who have other full-time jobs can't be expected to do all the work. Hiring professionals costs money. - It's important for potential attendees to receive personal invitations (or to hear about the event) from people they know. However, it's also important not to overlook what we as the planners could take for granted: our region can boast of a first-rate talent pool of current and aspiring nonprofit techies. We have an abundance of philanthropic spirit, utopian vision, and technological genius here in Massachusetts. Rich in human capital, we desperately need the financial and institutional resources to bring it all together to serve the nonprofit sector. This new partnership between the Boston 501 Tech Club and TechFoundation may bring help to bring us to the tipping point. Go, team! Best regards from Deborah P.S. Full disclosure of financial relationship: I used to serve as TechFoundation's national nonprofit liaison officer and director of its Boston TechConnect program, and am currently working with TF on a consulting basis. Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request@mailman.edc.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Michaël, I suggest you might want to look at my book, Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide (MIT Press, 2003), or also look at some of the work of Eszter Hargittai, who posts most of her papers on her Website. Good luck-- Mark Mark Warschauer Associate Professor, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Informatics University of California, Irvine tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw
Hello everybody,
I'm doing research within the erea of internet and the digital divide (like many of you, i suppose ;-) ) Most of the literature treats the internet as one uniform medium. In reality, the internet exists of different applications like websites, usenet, listserv, blogs, email, IM, ...
I was wondering if there exists some research about the consequences of this difference in use and it's relationship to the digital divide-theory. Most of the time, the digital divide is constraint to the difference in internet access, but the future will bring us perhaps only a difference in internet use (some only use general websites, while others use all different applications).
The term 'digital divide in use' is somewhat what i'm looking for, but not exctly i guess. Also the term digital literacy is quite helpful ...
Anyone more suggestions about literature? Or your opinion about this subject?
Thanks in advance!
Michaël
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Deborah Elizabeth Finn [mailto:deborah.elizabeth.finn@gmail.com] Verzonden: za 4/06/2005 22:47 Aan: The Digital Divide Network discussion group CC: Onderwerp: [DDN] Bragging Rights in Boston
(A version of this item is also available through my blog at
<http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/2/903714.html>; the blog version provides live links to more information about some of the people and organizations mentioned here.)
Dear Colleagues,
On Wednesday evening, the Boston 501 Tech Club had a record turnout of over 70 nonprofit techies! It was the largest gathering ever in the history of the regional 501 Tech Clubs.
Here are a few factors that go into an event like this one:
- We had a dedicated team of planners: Merove Heifetz of Earthwatch Institute (the outgoing convener of the Boston club), Beth Sousa of Families First (the incoming convener), Kathleen Sherwin of Tech Foundation, and yours truly.
- The planners met several weeks in advance, to get acquainted in person, to brainstorm about desired outcomes, and to plan for the transition to a new convener. We then stayed in touch by email and conference call.
- TechFoundation generously underwrote the cost of the venue, food, and drinks. Furthermore, Kathleen Sherwin, ably assisted by Colleen Higgins (also of TechFoundation), deployed her superlative skills as an event manager.
- TechFoundation also generously underwrote my time as a consultant to bring various pieces of the puzzle together, and to do outreach to individuals and groups who may not have previously known about the Boston 501 Tech Club or considered attending one of its events.
- The event was held outdoors at a time of year when most people crave a little fresh air and sunshire, and it didn't rain.
- The venue was easily accessible by public transportation. (Parking was also available, which definitely counts for something in Harvard Square.)
I'd summarize the most important take-aways in this way:
- If you feed them, they will come. This costs money.
- Events of this sort are labor intensive. Volunteers who have other full-time jobs can't be expected to do all the work. Hiring professionals costs money.
- It's important for potential attendees to receive personal invitations (or to hear about the event) from people they know.
However, it's also important not to overlook what we as the planners could take for granted: our region can boast of a first-rate talent pool of current and aspiring nonprofit techies. We have an abundance of philanthropic spirit, utopian vision, and technological genius here in Massachusetts. Rich in human capital, we desperately need the financial and institutional resources to bring it all together to serve the nonprofit sector. This new partnership between the Boston 501 Tech Club and TechFoundation may bring help to bring us to the tipping point.
Go, team!
Best regards from Deborah
P.S. Full disclosure of financial relationship: I used to serve as TechFoundation's national nonprofit liaison officer and director of its Boston TechConnect program, and am currently working with TF on a consulting basis.
Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn
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Hello Michael, we are doing a lot of research on the phenomenon of digital inequality (use differences) especially among youth. I don't know if you can read german texts ;-) but we will publish the english version of our study soon on our website: www.kib-bielefeld.de (The site will be soon available in english as well) Best regards Nadia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Nadia Kutscher Project Co-Ordinator Kompetenzzentrum informelle Bildung (KIB) Centre of Competence for Informal Education (CCIE) Bundesinitiative "Jugend ans Netz" Faculty for Educational Sciences University of Bielefeld Postfach 10 01 31 D-33501 Bielefeld Germany Tel.:++49-(0)521-106 3297 Fax: ++49-(0)521-106 8047 Email: nadia.kutscher@uni-bielefeld.de KIB: http://www.kib-bielefeld.de Bundesinitiative "Jugend ans Netz": www.jugend.info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Opgenhaffen Michaël" <michael.opgenhaffen@lessius-ho.be> To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <digitaldivide@milhouse.edc.org> Cc: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 2:20 PM Subject: [Air-l] digital divide in use - more suggestions?
[Crossposted to DDN + AOIR, sorry for that!]
Hello everybody,
I'm doing research within the erea of internet and the digital divide (like many of you, i suppose ;-) ) Most of the literature treats the internet as one uniform medium. In reality, the internet exists of different applications like websites, usenet, listserv, blogs, email, IM, ...
I was wondering if there exists some research about the consequences of this difference in use and it's relationship to the digital divide-theory. Most of the time, the digital divide is constraint to the difference in internet access, but the future will bring us perhaps only a difference in internet use (some only use general websites, while others use all different applications).
The term 'digital divide in use' is somewhat what i'm looking for, but not exctly i guess. Also the term digital literacy is quite helpful ...
Anyone more suggestions about literature? Or your opinion about this subject?
Thanks in advance!
Michaël
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Deborah Elizabeth Finn [mailto:deborah.elizabeth.finn@gmail.com] Verzonden: za 4/06/2005 22:47 Aan: The Digital Divide Network discussion group CC: Onderwerp: [DDN] Bragging Rights in Boston
(A version of this item is also available through my blog at <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/2/903714.html>; the blog version provides live links to more information about some of the people and organizations mentioned here.)
Dear Colleagues,
On Wednesday evening, the Boston 501 Tech Club had a record turnout of over 70 nonprofit techies! It was the largest gathering ever in the history of the regional 501 Tech Clubs.
Here are a few factors that go into an event like this one:
- We had a dedicated team of planners: Merove Heifetz of Earthwatch Institute (the outgoing convener of the Boston club), Beth Sousa of Families First (the incoming convener), Kathleen Sherwin of Tech Foundation, and yours truly.
- The planners met several weeks in advance, to get acquainted in person, to brainstorm about desired outcomes, and to plan for the transition to a new convener. We then stayed in touch by email and conference call.
- TechFoundation generously underwrote the cost of the venue, food, and drinks. Furthermore, Kathleen Sherwin, ably assisted by Colleen Higgins (also of TechFoundation), deployed her superlative skills as an event manager.
- TechFoundation also generously underwrote my time as a consultant to bring various pieces of the puzzle together, and to do outreach to individuals and groups who may not have previously known about the Boston 501 Tech Club or considered attending one of its events.
- The event was held outdoors at a time of year when most people crave a little fresh air and sunshire, and it didn't rain.
- The venue was easily accessible by public transportation. (Parking was also available, which definitely counts for something in Harvard Square.)
I'd summarize the most important take-aways in this way:
- If you feed them, they will come. This costs money.
- Events of this sort are labor intensive. Volunteers who have other full-time jobs can't be expected to do all the work. Hiring professionals costs money.
- It's important for potential attendees to receive personal invitations (or to hear about the event) from people they know.
However, it's also important not to overlook what we as the planners could take for granted: our region can boast of a first-rate talent pool of current and aspiring nonprofit techies. We have an abundance of philanthropic spirit, utopian vision, and technological genius here in Massachusetts. Rich in human capital, we desperately need the financial and institutional resources to bring it all together to serve the nonprofit sector. This new partnership between the Boston 501 Tech Club and TechFoundation may bring help to bring us to the tipping point.
Go, team!
Best regards from Deborah
P.S. Full disclosure of financial relationship: I used to serve as TechFoundation's national nonprofit liaison officer and director of its Boston TechConnect program, and am currently working with TF on a consulting basis.
Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn
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CITASA Graduate Student Publication / Software Award 2005 The Committee of the "Communications & Information Technology section of the American Sosociological Association [CITASA]" is seeking for papers from students in a wide range of disciplines that examine computing technology and society. The papers can be works in progress, white papers, position papers, etc. The only restriction is that the primary author should be a student. Details of the award: For an application which either addresses a unique problem in sociological analysis, or a paper which provides exceptional analysis of a specific issue related to computing technology and society. Submissions involving new or existing software should include detailed descriptions of the projects and copies of the software. The award shall pertain to applications or papers written in the two calendar years prior to the award being presented. Please circulate this email to graduate students who may be interested. Deadlines: Submission of Paper: July 1 Notification of Award: July 15 Please send papers or questions to Anabel Quan-Haase (aquan@uwo.ca). Committee Members: Anabel Quan-Haase, Gustavo Mesch & Uwe Matzat. -- Gustavo S. Mesch, Academic Visitor Oxford Internet Institute, U. of Oxford Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Senior Research Associate Minerva Center for Youth Studies The University of Haifa, Israel email:gustavo@soc.haifa.ac.il http://soc.haifa.ac.il/~gustavo http://soc.haifa.ac.il/community ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University
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Bernie Hogan -
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Gustavo S. Mesch -
Homero Gil de Zuniga -
Jeremy Hunsinger -
Mark Warschauer -
Opgenhaffen Michaël -
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Seth Johnson -
Steve Schneider -
Thomas Koenig