[Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #121 - 5 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the Office)
Maryrose Larkin
Larkin at mail.pdx.edu
Sat Sep 22 09:01:43 PDT 2001
I am out of the office until Tuesday, October 2nd. If you need assistance, please contact Zach Kronser X55225
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #120 - 7 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the
Office) (Maryrose Larkin)
2. civil defense origins of the internet (Barry Wellman)
3. Jobs at UCSD (Frederick Turner)
4. FW: [Ethics] public mailing list (Charles Ess)
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:01:13 -0700
From: "Maryrose Larkin" <Larkin at mail.pdx.edu>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #120 - 7 msgs (Maryrose is Out of the
Office)
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
I am out of the office until Tuesday, October 2nd. If you need assistance, =
please contact Zach Kronser X55225
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Music and the internet (neice at 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 at salford.ac.uk)
7. Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a Race-Free Utopia =
(D. Silver)
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Message: 1
From: neice at kw.igs.net
To: air-l at aoir.org
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:50:55 -0400
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Music and the internet
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
Hi Jens,
A useful discussion of music and digital technology is found in=20
Chapter 2 (Music: Intellectual Property's Canary in the Digital Coal=20
Mine) of the citation noted below. This book most assuredly does=20
not use ANT, but it still offers a solid analysis.=20
National Research Council (2000), The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual=20
Property in the Information Age, Washington DC: National=20
Academy Press.
Please write me off-line about your work as I have done some work=20
on file sharing that may be relevant.=20
Cheers,
david neice=20
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David C. Neice =20
digital-literacy.com :-) =20
Website at http://www.kw.igs.net/~neice/
Address: 47 Combermere, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5B2
Tel: 519-885-2951 Fax: 519-885-5263
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From: "aurelija dagilyte" <naunetka at takas.lt>
To: <air-l at 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 at 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
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:36:41 -0400
From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>,
jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>, Keith Hampton <knh at MIT.EDU>,
Nancy Baym <nbaym at ukans.edu>, Steve Jones <sjones at uic.edu>
Subject: [Air-l] Self-description and platform for Open Seat
Reply-To: air-l at 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.=20
For more details, see my website.
Cheers, Barry
___________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
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Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto
455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:30:52 -0400
From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
To: aoir office nominations <nominate at aoir.org>
Cc: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>,
jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at 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.=20
Barry
___________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
=20
Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto
455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162
___________________________________________________________________
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Message: 4
From: "Charlie Breindahl" <hitch at hum.ku.dk>
To: "Air-L" <air-l at aoir.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:44:38 +0200
Subject: [Air-l] International Nominations
Reply-To: air-l at 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 Sund=C8n (Sweden) jensu at tema.liu.se
Frank Schaap (The Netherlands) architext at fragment.nl
Stine Gotved (Denmark) gotved at hum.ku.dk
Lisbeth Klastrup (Denmark) klastrup at it-c.dk
Kate O'Riordan (UK) k.s.o-riordan at sussex.ac.uk
Ken Friedman (Norway) ken.friedman at bi.no
Nicholas Jankowski (The Netherlands) nickjan at pop.xs4all.nl
Nils Zurawski (Germany) zurawsk at 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 at 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
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:52:42 -0400
From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
Organization: Virginia Tech
To: air-l at aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Self-description and platforms
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
fyi
I will be posting the descriptions and platforms in the members area of=20
the website on sunday afternoon.
>
--=20
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
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Message: 6
From: w.lusoli at salford.ac.uk
To: Air-l at aoir.org
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:17:48 +0100
Subject: [Air-l] Web Archiving
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
Dear all,=20
I have learnt with interest of the archive project related to the=20
September 11 terrorist attack (http://webarchivist.org), and=20
downloaded their link. Applied networking, I would say, of the best=20
quality: technical, scholarly and moral.
On a much smaller scale, we are about to dowload and archive the=20
sites of a number of UK political organisations (for info see=20
http://www.ipop.org.uk). Does anybody on the list have knowledge /=20
experience of web archiving, and reliable web archiving software?=20
Our N is small, and we would be able to monitor each download for=20
faulty dynamic links. Yet, the jungle of jargon looks impenetrable:=20
web archiving, harvesting software, offline browsers, crawlers etc.
We've have tried to address a couple of 'specialist' librarian lists,=20
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 at salford.ac.uk
Research Officer
Internet, Political Organisations and Participation Project
http://www.ipop.org.uk
w.lusoli at salford.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 295 5654=20
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:57:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "D. Silver" <dsilver at u.washington.edu>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] Scholars Question the Image of the Internet as a =
Race-Free Utopia
Reply-To: air-l at 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
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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
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:04:42 -0400
From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] civil defense origins of the internet
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
At this time of civil defense crisis in the US, it is interesting to
recall that an important precursor of the Internet was the computerized
conferencing system that Murray Turoff and others developed in the early
1970s (and perhaps earlier) for the US civil defense system. The idea was
to foster coordination among dispersed people and groups. This
path-breaking system allowed for both email-like messages and easy setup
of computerized conferences.
The system became civilianized as EIES in the 1970s as Murray became a
prof at New Jersey Institute of Technology (and still is). I remember
being an early, delighted user of it in the mid-1970s, and was a member of
a National Science Foundation funded field trial of using EIES to foster
scholarly community. One fun feature: It was easy to use pseudonyms
whenever you wanted. I was "Alvey Singer" as an _Annie Hall_ fan.
Of course, the technology wasn't the same then. Everything ran off a
single server in New Jersey, and we used an 800 number to dial-in. Speed
was 110 bits per second (which is a lot different than 110K). It came over
a printing modem. Whenever I got a message, I knew I had time to go get a
cup of coffee, sometimes two. Text only of course. But EIES ran, it was
fun, and it was useful. [See Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff's _The
Network Nation_ for a fuller account: I'm proud that they named their book
after my even-earlier "Network City" article.]
Now things have come full circle. I assume US Civil Defense folks are
using similar systems today, and certainly we all have relied on the
Internet to convey thoughts, argue positions, and obtain information.
Barry
___________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director
wellman at 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
___________________________________________________________________
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:06:30 -0400
To: air-l at aoir.org, CYBERCULTURE at LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU,
CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
From: Frederick Turner <fturner at MIT.EDU>
Subject: [Air-l] Jobs at UCSD
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
>
>The University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication is
>seeking to fill several full-time, tenure-track positions at the Assistant
>Professor level, beginning Fall 2002:
>
>Production
>The practice and theory of production. The department seeks Ph.D. or
>M.F.A. degree holders who can provide an imaginative blend of creative
>work and research in new or traditional media. The department's needs are
>weighted toward documentary video, non-linear editing, and non-fiction
>multimedia design, but innovative work in radio, web design, or other
>media will be considered. Send sample(s) of creative work (on VHS tape)
>and evidence of research and/or critical writing skills to the attention
>of Professor Ellen Seiter.
>
>Communication as a Social Force
>The political economy or institutional analysis of communication. Special
>areas of interest include cultural industries, globalization, comparative
>media systems, law and policy, new information technologies (including
>digital divide and access issues), and research on the intersection
>between the political economy of communication and race, gender and/or
>nationalism. Send materials to the attention of Professor Dan Hallin.
>
>California Cultures
>Race, ethnicity and communication. Part of a new, interdisciplinary
>cluster hire in the social sciences and humanities addressing race and
>ethnicity in California. Applicants should have research interests that
>speak to communication and questions of racial and ethnic formations
>primarily, but not exclusively, in California. Areas of particular
>interest are open. Possibilities could include: immigration, changing
>media markets, and new forms of representation; the role of communication
>media in forming ideas about social identity; border culture; patterns of
>access to and use of information technology; communication and
>California's multicultural classrooms; communication networks and patterns
>of migration and settlement; the articulation of race and ethnicity
>through music, television, film, video, or other media productions. Send
>materials to the attention of Professor Vicente Rafael.
>
>Salaries are in strict accordance with UC pay scales. If non-citizen,
>state immigration status. UCSD is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
>employer committed to excellence through diversity. Applicants are invited
>to preview campus diversity resources and programs at the campus website
>for Diversity (http://diversity.ucsd.edu/).
>
>To assist applicants who may have concerns regarding employment
>opportunities for spouses/partners, please consider the UCSD website for
>the Academic Job Opportunities Bulletin, the Staff Employment Opportunity
>Bulletin or our links to employment opportunities at other education and
>research institutions in San Diego.
>
>
>Send vita, statement of research and teaching interests, and names,
>addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of three references
>supporting the applicant's teaching qualifications by November 16, 2001,
>however, we will review applications until the positions are filled.
>
>http://communication.ucsd.edu/
>
>Please send materials to:
>
> Recruitment Committee
> Department of Communication (0503),
> Univ. Calif. San Diego
> 9500 Gilman Drive,
> La Jolla CA 92093-0503.
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:56:50 -0500
From: Charles Ess <cmess at lib.drury.edu>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] FW: [Ethics] public mailing list
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
I happily pass this on from Amy Bruckman...
Charles Ess
Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center
Drury University
900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230
Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435
Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/
"...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the
meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi
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From: "Amy S. Bruckman" <asb at cc.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: ethics at aoir.org
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:32:21 -0400
To: ethics at aoir.org
Subject: [Ethics] public mailing list
If anyone's interested, I've set up a new public mailing list for
discussion of these issues. (If someone could please forward this to
the AoIR public lists, I'd appreciate it--I'm not on any of those lists.)
-- Amy
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:20:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: New mailing list: online-research-ethics
If you're interested in joining the new online-research-ethics mailing
list:
mail: majordomo at cc.gatech.edu
place in the message body: subscribe online-research-ethics
A quick intro to the issue:
I've been doing some work on trying to development guidelines for ethical
research online. I'm part of working groups from APA and AoIR to develop
formal policies. There are lots of thorny issues. Here's an example of
a controversial situation: studying discourse in chatrooms.
View 1: "A chat room is like a public square"
Linguists reserve the right to record dialog in public places and
study its formal properties. They can take notes or even tape record
conversations say in a park. They don't need consent for this.
Identity of subjects is disguised. Many linguists argue that open
Internet chatrooms are an analogous situation, and they can record
whatever they like and analyze it without acknowledging their
presence.
View 2: "A chat room is like my living room"
Others argue that because chat rooms are normally not recorded, participants
have a reasonable expectation that discourse there is ephemeral. You
can't record it without permission. You can't make individuals be subjects
in an experimental study without their freely-given informed consent.
Messy, no? Join the mailing list for more. The list is open to anyone.
Especially welcome are:
* Individuals seeking advice on their own research
* Members or IRBs struggling to handle research proposals
The list is "off the record"--you may not quote postings from it without
written permission of the author. I hope this will help foster free
discussion.
Please feel free to forward this message to interested people, and post
it to appropriate lists.
- -- Amy
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