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Today's Topics: 1. Re: Music and the internet (neice@kw.igs.net) 2. some notes about 09.11 and the Internet (aurelija dagilyte) 3. Self-description and platform for Open Seat (Barry Wellman) 4. International Nominations (Charlie Breindahl) 5. Re: Self-description and platforms (jeremy hunsinger) 6. Web Archiving (w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk) 7. Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia (D. Silver) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: neice@kw.igs.net To: air-l@aoir.org Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:50:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [Air-l] Music and the internet Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Hi Jens, A useful discussion of music and digital technology is found in Chapter 2 (Music: Intellectual Property's Canary in the Digital Coal Mine) of the citation noted below. This book most assuredly does not use ANT, but it still offers a solid analysis. National Research Council (2000), The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, Washington DC: National Academy Press. Please write me off-line about your work as I have done some work on file sharing that may be relevant. Cheers, david neice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David C. Neice digital-literacy.com :-) Website at http://www.kw.igs.net/~neice/ Address: 47 Combermere, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5B2 Tel: 519-885-2951 Fax: 519-885-5263 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "aurelija dagilyte" <naunetka@takas.lt> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:20:08 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] some notes about 09.11 and the Internet Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Hello, I wanted to share some impressions about the well-known events and some tendencies I've noticed in Russian and other post-soviet countries Internet. As an anthropologist I was interested what do the ordinary people of these countries really think about what happened, while their governments speak nice phrases supporting the US and the war against the terrorism. The result was interesting - while all TV channels, radio stations were speaking how that was terrible and bad, on the Internet I've found very wide scale of opinions and emotions. It seems so, that in post-soviet countries is a difference between the Internet and other media. I had an impression that TV channels and radio programs presented more or less censored view and on the Internet almost all expressed opposite position to the official. These tendencies had even more increased when US started to talk about the war in the Afghanistan. I think a lot of people still remember the Russian war in that country and it's useless. Another interesting thing is the fact that politic discussions still dominates in the chat rooms and web pages which usually are not interested in the politics. I'm not sure if the opinions presented on the net had some influence on the other media, but after some time more skeptic view started to appear on the Russian TV too. I'm very curios what will be next. Regards, Aurelija Dagilyte --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:36:41 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>, Keith Hampton <knh@MIT.EDU>, Nancy Baym <nbaym@ukans.edu>, Steve Jones <sjones@uic.edu> Subject: [Air-l] Self-description and platform for Open Seat Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org As the norm in the AOIR governance process seems to be evolving towards public statements by/about candidates, here's mine. I was nominated by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Keith Hampton for an open council seat on AOIR. I was asked by AOIR (via Jeremy Hunsigner) to prepare a 250-word self-description and platform. I present it below. For more details, see my website. Cheers, Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@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 ___________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:30:52 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir office nominations <nominate@aoir.org> Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Subject: Self-description and platform for Open Seat As a keynote speaker at our founding conference, I want to keep the momentum going. Research: I believe in systematic, quality research. I've been studying the Internet and its precursors since the 1970s. I've (co)-authored more than 160 scholarly articles and (co)-edited three books, including The Internet in Everyday Life and Networks in the Global Village. Organization: Let's pioneer new ways to keep connected. In 1976, I founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis, quite similar to AOIR. I've served on the Sociology and Computing section Council of the American Sociological Association, and the International Sociologists' Community Council. I just co-founded a new journal as head of the ASA's Community section. Breadth: At AOIR, I will work to foster skill-expanding workshops. My research encompasses a wide range of interests: how people find community online, how people work together online, knowledge management, and the rise of the networked society. I've collaborated in the design of new communication systems. Interdisciplinary: I've collaborated with computer scientists, educators, engineers, historians, information scientists, lawyers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists, and I'm an ICA member. I've been a board member of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute, McLuhan Program, and Structural Analysis Program. International: A Canadian, I've lived and worked in Europe and Asia. I've collaborated with scholars in 8 countries in Europe, Asia and America. My work has been translated into 8 languages. I've lectured and given workshops in 16 countries in South and North America; Eastern and Western Europe; Western, Southern and Eastern Asia. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@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 ___________________________________________________________________ --__--__-- Message: 4 From: "Charlie Breindahl" <hitch@hum.ku.dk> To: "Air-L" <air-l@aoir.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:44:38 +0200 Subject: [Air-l] International Nominations Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org I think many good names have come up already and I support those, especially Steve and Nancy for a second term. My motivation is primarily to make room for non-americans in the executive committee. In my opinion, this is important to ensure that AoIR has credibility as an _international_ organisation. (I think it is self-explaining why AoIR in particular should have such credibility.) To achieve this is harder than you might think. More than half our members are American. And most of us would like to vote for someone we know. If all Americans vote for Americans, well... So when voting, please consider international candidates as well. And for you guys from .il, .nz, .jp, etc.: Please come forward with your nominations :) My nominees are: Jenny SundΘn (Sweden) jensu@tema.liu.se Frank Schaap (The Netherlands) architext@fragment.nl Stine Gotved (Denmark) gotved@hum.ku.dk Lisbeth Klastrup (Denmark) klastrup@it-c.dk Kate O'Riordan (UK) k.s.o-riordan@sussex.ac.uk Ken Friedman (Norway) ken.friedman@bi.no Nicholas Jankowski (The Netherlands) nickjan@pop.xs4all.nl Nils Zurawski (Germany) zurawsk@uni-muenster.de (I will not run for an open seat myself, but will be happy to serve a second term as Information Officer, if the new executive committee decides it.) Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen Web: http://computer.media.ku.dk/breindahl/ E-mail: hitch@hum.ku.dk PGP: ldap://certserver.pgp.com Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:52:42 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Self-description and platforms Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org fyi I will be posting the descriptions and platforms in the members area of the website on sunday afternoon.

-- Jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy CDDC/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 virginia tech blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 --__--__-- Message: 6 From: w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk To: Air-l@aoir.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:17:48 +0100 Subject: [Air-l] Web Archiving Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Dear all, I have learnt with interest of the archive project related to the September 11 terrorist attack (http://webarchivist.org), and downloaded their link. Applied networking, I would say, of the best quality: technical, scholarly and moral. On a much smaller scale, we are about to dowload and archive the sites of a number of UK political organisations (for info see http://www.ipop.org.uk). Does anybody on the list have knowledge / experience of web archiving, and reliable web archiving software? Our N is small, and we would be able to monitor each download for faulty dynamic links. Yet, the jungle of jargon looks impenetrable: web archiving, harvesting software, offline browsers, crawlers etc. We've have tried to address a couple of 'specialist' librarian lists, but no joy. Can anybody help? Many thanks Wainer Wainer Lusoli Research Officer Internet, political organisations and participation project ESRI - University of Salford United Kingdom http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk Research Officer Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project http://www.ipop.org.uk w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk Tel: 0161 295 5654 --__--__-- Message: 7 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "D. Silver" <dsilver@u.washington.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Folks, In my mind, Jeff Young, a writer for the Chronicle for Higher Education, is by far one of the best journalists covering our beat. I'm including the first few paragraphs and URL of an article on race and cyberspace he wrote for the Chronicle. Lots of AIR'ers mentioned! david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Friday, September 21, 2001 Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia By JEFFREY R. YOUNG The Internet has often been touted as a utopia where racial differences are erased and people are judged by their ideas rather than their skin color. But rather than curbing racism, cyberspace may be perpetuating racial stereotypes for some users, a growing number of scholars say. And until recently, they say, few researchers have studied issues of racial identity online -- even though so much attention has been paid to economic studies of the "digital divide." A recent batch of conferences and books are helping to fill the research gap, however. http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092101t.htm --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l End of Air-l Digest