[Air-L] Message 3: Multi-modal communications comparisons? Air-L Digest, Vol 58, Issue 27

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Re:  Multi-modal communications comparisons?
Chris

My name is Rachel and I am a grad student at UNLV, my area of research is
tending towards CMC and more specifically looking closely at privacy concerns
and admitted self-disclosure within CMC forums.  As for user expectations I am
looking to online dating circuits to help me determine when and how users
disclose information, or if they are generally distrusting of the concept.  I'm
not totally affluent yet, but I am very interested in CMC and was captured by
your email.  I would be happy to exchange ideas.

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> From: "Prof. I Kushchu" <ik at mgovernment.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] Submissions for mGovernment. mDevelopment and
> 	mSociety	Conferences
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Submission deadline to Mobile Life 2009 conferences is  approaching
> fast. The organization committee is looking for
>
> --  research submissions,
> --  practice talk proposals, and proposals for special sessions,
> workshop and tutorials
> --  demos of mobile devices, content, applications and services as
> well as posters and company showcases.
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> Online submissions are now open.
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> An early  draft program is also posted:
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> --  6 plenary talks
> --  27 separate sessions
> --  3 interaction sessions for demos and exhibitions
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> Looking forward to your research submissions...
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> Cheers
> Kushchu
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> mLife 2009: Three Conferences and Exhibitions
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> 2 - 3 - 4 September 2009, Barcelona, Spain,
> Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
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> -- mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society
> -- EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government
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> Practice talk proposals :as soon as possible
> Research Paper Submission dead line : 10th of June 2009
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> mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events for all
> organizations and professionals who would like to monitor, take part
> in, and shape the development of the social impact of the mobile
> revolution. They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector
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> mobile revolution and be informed about cutting edge applications,
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> Covering all aspects of mobile business, mobile society, m/e-
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> IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD
> Associate Professor and Founding Director,
> Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
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> IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD
> Associate Professor and Founding Director,
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> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:41:57 +1000
> From: Marcus Foth <m.foth at qut.edu.au>
> Subject: [Air-L] CfP: Making Links 2009 - Sustaining Communities in
> 	Tough	Times
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> MAKING LINKS 2009
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> Sustaining Communities in Tough Times
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> 17 - 18 November 2009
> University of Melbourne
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> http://www.makinglinks.org.au/
>
> Call for papers
>
> Two major challenges face the world today: the global economic crisis
> and environmental sustainability.
> Both are already having an impact on peoples? lives and livelihoods.
> Community organisations have already expressed concern that the most
> vulnerable in our societies will be hardest hit.
>
> Community organisations also face the challenge of keeping their
> operations going in tough financial times, and at the same time trying
> to be part of the environmental solution, rather than part of the
> problem.
>
> Making Links Conference 2009 asks: how are non-profit organisations
> meeting these twin challenges?
>
> We are seeking presentations that address issues such as:
>
> 	? Technology as a tool to improve communication, increase
> productivity and retain staff
> 	? Disaster response / management / relief
> 	? Financing your organisation and its programs in tight economic times
> 	? Engaging with communities online
> 	? Green ICT projects (from recycling computers to green design to
> green office to campaigning and more)
> 	? Corporate social responsibility - building partnerships to support
> our communities
> 	? Strengthening marginalised communities and constituencies
> 	? Research supporting action
> 	? The rapidly changing interface of online communication
> 	? Community arts and media
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> Making Links is a peer-based conference. We invite you to present a
> paper on your learning and experiences with ICT, your projects, case
> studies or research, or lead a practical workshop that introduces
> useful tools and concepts.
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> The structure of the conference will be based on:
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> 	? Case studies
> 	? Practical workshops
> 	? Panel discussions
> 	? Networking opportunities
> 	? Film festival
> 	? Social and satellite events
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> Submit a proposal online at:
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> Who should attend?
>
> The conference attracts delegates and presenters from many fields
> including health, environment, education, charities, business,
> government, philanthropy, human services and non-profits working with
> marginalised groups (e.g. e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander,
> culturally and linguistically diverse, youth at risk, unemployed,
> rural and remote, disability).
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> Registrations open 10 June.
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> --
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> Senior Research Fellow
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 06:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: c-soc-aoir at dagnon.net
> Subject: [Air-L] Multi-modal communications comparisons?
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> Hello all,
>
> This is my first foray into publicly attempting to ask this question, so
> please bear with my wandering hither and yon.
>
>
> I would like to provide new and/or differing communication mechanisms
> through the Internet, though I realize that I should really know how and
> why and by whom current mechanisms are being utilized in order to have a
> chance at coming up with more useful tools.  However simply comparing and
> contrasting existing modalities seems like a herculean effort.
>
> Do such comparisons exist?  The few things Google has lead me to are
> pretty limited in scope either in modalities covered, aspects being
> compared, or the details of comparing them. I would like comparisons
> including but not limited to CMC.  Preferably it would compare
> communication mediums or processes including face-to-face, postal mail,
> phone, cell, texting, web cams, MUDs/MOOs/MMOGs, bulletin boards (physical
> and digital), ad-hoc meetings, conferences, and possibly anything else
> from hieroglyphs, papyrus scrolls, and sign language to websites, wikis,
> blogs, forums, and tweets.
>
> In particular I would love to see comparisons (whether backed up by
> statistics, surveys, or at least well-reasoned and explained arguments) of
> many aspects though at the moment users' expectations about the other
> users' usage patterns seems key as, aside from the technology's interface
> and reliability the other person/people seem like the largest hurdle to a
> good user experience.  For example: I am emailing this to the listserv,
> hoping for some well reasoned questions, constructive criticisms on the
> topic/question/examples, and suggested (freely available) readings to help
> me on my way as I'm making this request in honest earnestness, yet this
> message carries only some if any of that to you.  I've considered
> facilitating explicit definitions of the expected content and timing
> responses included with a communication, though lack of a mechanism or
> awareness to define them may not be the reason they're left implicit
> within the communication streams.
>
> Also simply the differences in usage patterns varies drastically: some
> people almost never use a phone of any kind, others flow freely between
> calling, texting, photos, video, and emailing from their cells.  However
> people can carry heavy- or no-expectations of getting a response
> instantaneously.  And the toll of having/not having all those (implicit)
> expectations met (dependency, anger, ?).
>
> Other interesting aspects may include: any measurements or classifications
> comparing informativeness, expressiveness, understandability, immediacy,
> reliability, accuracy, interactiveness, ease-of-use, ease-of-adoption,
> circles of popularity, moderation (self, peer, superior, IT, corporate,
> law/gov't, morality), fail over, redundancy, etc.  Still the differences
> between sender and receiver (and if/how those are negotiated or
> negotiable), side effects of the modality or other influences including
> business or cultural (eg. cell phones are much more popular in Israel
> because they're cheaper than in the U.S.) including new cultural effects
> or sub-cultures, and how much the communication itself is shaped by the
> medium or process seem like significant realms needing at least
> summarization if not exploration.
>
> Are the best (communication) technologies the ones you don't realize are
> there?  Or the ones that call for your attention every minute?
>
> Bonus points for including different historical versions of the same
> modality within the comparison (eg. initial telephones required
> human-operators to connect calls, vs voice-operated cellphones).  Lastly
> may be cause-and-effect of imposed limitations after the initial
> technological pushes: many large companies now forbid any social
> networking at work and any critical messages ever, DMCA/other take down
> notices for BitTorrent sites, YouTube videos, and company-criticizing
> websites, the DMCA itself, electronic spam, many networking ports have
> been shut down by organizations because they're additional attack vectors
> for security breeches - resulting in most programs working over port 80,
> DTV signals are more fragile than analog signals so they cause more
> outages vs degradation, and President Obama needing permission (and
> security hardening) to have a Blackberry...
>
>
> Is that too much to ask?  8)
>
>
> Highly curious, hoping I don't have to do all this work myself, and
> willing to carry on this conversation in other modalities.
>
> Chris Dagnon
> Collaborative Communication, LLC
> Madison, WI  U.S.A.
>
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