BACKSPACE: //wwwhere next?  - the picnic

We have all had a break from a physical location for BACKSPACE....

People have been carrying on with other projects and maxing things out on
the web.

A few people who use the server for streaming and for hosting projects
recently met up.  We thought it'd be a good idea to start looking about to
get things going again.  http://bak.spc.org still holds the highest
concentration of
digital culture in London.  Loss of the physical space has effected
everyone in diferent ways, some are key things are clearly missing from
this ever more pressured town:

- the chance for projects to develop without meeting institutional agendas
- informal meetings of people and of needs for space and skills
- a place for projects to be presented and shown
- for art, politics, life, technology, music, brats, objects, tea, cabling,
to meet and party


To kick things off, there's a picnic happening to work out what people
want, what they can do to make things happen - and of course, to brainstorm
any ideas for locations for an new SPC.  Come along for lunch with grub,
kids, and
whatever to make an afternoon of it:


Saturday 8th April, 12noon onwards
Greenwich Park - by the playground at the bottom of the hill
(if wet...meet inside the Maritime Museum 1PM - entrance near the
playground - free)
>trains from London Bridge or Charing Cross to:  Maze Hill, Greenwich Town.
>If you come by car be careful where you park eh!<

some of you will get this more than twice - sorry if that's you, please
pass one to a friend.




James Stevens

0973318881  <------------------->

http://consume.spc.org <-------------------> Founded 2000
http://learn.spc.org  <-------------------> Founded 2000
http://diy.spc.org  <-------------------> Founded 2000
http://south.spc.org <-------------------> Founded 1999
http://rad.spc.org  <-------------------> Founded 1998
http://bak.spc.org <-------------------> Founded 1996 Grounded 1999

>From: isea <isea@...>
>Subject: ISEA2000 - CALL FOR PROJECTS
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>
>*****DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 30,2000*****
>
>ISEA2000, 10th International Symposium on Electronic Art
>Paris, France
>December 7-10 2000
>
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
>Deadline: April 30, 2000
>
>ISEA2000 is organized by ART3000 in collaboration with ISEA - The
>Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, with the support and the
>collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (DDAT, DAP,
>DAI,CNC, DMDTS), and in partnership with the Forum des images, CICV Pierre
>Schaeffer, Canadian Cultural Center, ACROE and the General Quebec Delegation.
>
>ISEA2000
>http://www.art3000.com
>http://www.isea.qc.ca
>Email : isea2000@...
>
>
>COMPONENTS :
>PAPERS : See heading Information on submissions, The International
>Symposium, 1
>PANELS : See heading Information on submissions, The International
>Symposium, 2
>POSTER SESSIONS : See heading Information on submissions, The International
>Symposium, 3
>WORKSHOPS : See heading Information on submissions, The International
>Symposium, 4
>INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION : See heading Information on submissions, The
>International Symposium, 5
>CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES AND "STREET SCENES" (OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES) : See
>heading Information on submissions, Associated public events, 6
>EXHIBITIONS : See heading Information on submissions, Associated public
>events, 7
>ELECTRONIC THEATER : See heading Information on submissions, Associated
>public events,8
>
>
>LOCATION
>ISEA2000 will be held from December 7-10, 2000 at the Forum des images in
>Paris as well as other participating venues in the capital.
>
>
>INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA
>ISEA2000 continues the tradition in which each edition is hosted by a
>different city. The ISEA Symposium will hold its 10th edition in Paris.
>
>1. Utrecht, Netherlands (FISEA, 1988)
>2. Groningen, Netherlands (SISEA, 1990)
>3. Sydney, Australia (TISEA, 1992)
>4. Minneapolis, USA (FISEA, 1993)
>5. Helsinki, Finland (ISEA 94)
>6. Montreal, Canada (ISEA 95)
>7. Rotterdam, Netherlands (ISEA 96)
>8. Chicago, USA (ISEA 97)
>9. Liverpool & Manchester, UK (ISEA 98)
>10. Paris, France (ISEA 2000) - 10th edition
>
>PRESENTATION
>ISEA2000 will be a major international event for members of the artistic
>community involved with new media. It consists of:
>1- an international symposium composed of papers and panel sessions, poster
>sessions, workshops and institutional presentations,
>2- a program of exhibitions, concerts, performances, electronic theater,
>"street scenes" (outdoor activities),
>3- and publications.
>
>This call for participation is open to all propositions related to the
>above program of activities.
>
>TARGET GROUPS
>ISEA2000, the International Symposium is oriented toward :
>- professionals in the arts and new media (creation, production, publishing
>and broadcasting electronic arts)
>- students, teachers, researchers,
>- as well as the general public who are invited to attend concerts,
>performances, electronic theater, "street scenes" (outdoor activities),
>and exhibitions.
>
>ISEA2000 aims to represent the diversity of those engaged in new media, and
>encourages submissions from artists and researchers from cultural groups
>that have been traditionally under-represented at global events and
>previous ISEA Symposia.
>
>STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
>ISEA is committed to interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
>communication/cooperation between the arts and the fields of technology,
>science, education and industry.
>
>With "Revelation" as its theme, ISEA2000 will focus on new means of
>representation, and will explore the effects of the technological
>revolution on art and society : digital images, virtual realities,
>multimedia,  interactive installations, networks etc.
>
>ISEA 2000 "Revelation" will put into perspective the transformations
>undergone by different artistic disciplines : fine arts, theatre, music,
>film and video, architecture, design, fashion. It will attempt to
>understand how new information and communication technologies produce means
>of expression unique to digital civilizations.
>
>
>THEMES
>In April 2000, an international programming committee comprised of
>professionals working in art, culture and research will select the projects
>chosen to be part of ISEA2000. These works will concern the following themes :
>
>
>Digital Art
>Dedicated to art history and theory, various schools of thought and their
>relation to new technologies, this part of the symposium will consider
>artistic movements which have preceded and accompanied the emergence of
>information and communication technologies. The goal will be to gain a
>better understanding of how contemporary approaches to digital art have
>developed. We will also examine the ways in which these approaches are unique.
>
>Interactivity And Generactivity : Transmitters Of New Forms
>Using interactivity, global networks and computer equipment available
>worldwide, authors and creators of digital works are inventing new means of
>expression which dramatically alter the artist's relation to art and the
>public. The form and the manner in which a work develops are no longer
>solely determined by its creator. With interactive and generative
>processes,  a work's form and development may be influenced by the
>reactions of the
>viewer, or those of its environment, and/or by a programmed autonomy.
>
>Real time and outside interventions are thus two elements of the creative
>process. How do these factors modify representation, speech, narrative and
>expression?
>
>New Arenas Of Revelation
>In comparison to certain powerful cultural industries, digital creation
>presents itself as being a laboratory of free expression which entirely
>modifies our relation to time, space, information, communication and art.
>Virtual realities and communication networks are increasingly becoming
>indispensable elements of our daily environment. Can this new arena of
>representation be considered a new space for revelation, and if so, for the
>emergence of which emotions and meanings?
>
>The Internet foreshadows the interconnection of a multitude of virtual
>spaces for exchange and expression populated by nomadic communities.
>International, interdisciplinary and multicultural, digital space abolishes
>borders and is part of a massive social and cultural transformation.  It is
>defining new codes of representation which are unique to cyberspace and
>which call for analysis and questioning.
>
>The transformation of creative tools resulting from the convergence of
>digital techniques allows for means of expression previously unheard of, as
>well as new relationships between different artistic disciplines : video
>and film, fine arts, theatre, sound, writing, design, fashion, architecture.
>
>New artistic forms emerge from these encounters. What are their
>consequences? How will they affect the creative process?
>
>All proposals must be related to these mentioned themes.
>
>INFORMATIONS ON SUBMISSIONS
>
>THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
>
>1-PAPERS
>Papers can be short (20 minutes) or long (45 minutes). The papers will be
>published in the ISEA2000 Proceedings after the event. All papers must be
>written in English and / or French. They must be original and previously
>unpublished.
>
>An abstract of 500 words maximum is required for the first deadline, April
>15, 2000 . After a preselection, the authors will be requested to send
>their full dossier, including illustrations, videos, or other materials.
>
>2- PANELS
>Panel proposals should contain the theme of the panel and a description of
>the proposed panel members.
>
>3- POSTER SESSIONS
>Poster sessions are informal presentations (about 30 minutes) of research
>or art practice, with the aid of audiovisual equipment. Proposals should
>include a short description of the work, with supporting visual or audio
>materials (pictures, videotape, cdrom, website, etc.).
>
>4- WORKSHOPS
>Workshops are thematic discussions open to the public. Workshop proposals
>should aim at both teachers and students in the field of the electronic
>arts (including music) and at Symposium participants. Proposals can cover
>any field of electronic art. Workshop proposals that aim at integrating
>electronic art in more traditional art forms are especially welcome.
>Workshops typically include hands-on sessions. Proposals can be for a half
>day session or a full day session. Workshop proposals must be sent in a
>short and precise text presentation form. Since available equipment at this
>stage is limited, it is important to indicate the equipment requirements as
>completely as possible in the proposal.
>
>5-INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATIONS
>Institutional presentations are open to institutes, organizations,
>festivals etc. in the field of the electronic arts. In principle, all
>relevant proposals should be accepted, but it must be noted that presenters
>in this category do not receive free admission to the Symposium.
>
>
>ASSOCIATED PUBLIC EVENTS
>
>6-CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES AND STREET SCENES
>Concerts and performances will be programmed as part of the event.
>Individuals and institutes are invited to submit the best and most recent
>examples of their work in these fields. The street represents an ideal
>space for presenting new media creations to the general public. Artists
>invest the public space with a critical view of urban communication,
>architecture and social debate. Proposals which relate to the above
>mentioned topics and adapted to an outdoor exhibition are especially
>encouraged.
>
>7-ISEA2000 REVELATION EXHIBITIONS
>All forms of new media creations (interactive installations, Websites,
>videotapes, virtual reality works, multimedia, networks, computer aided
>sculpture, digital imagery, etc.) keeping with the proposed themes are
>welcome for ISEA2000's exhibitions. Proposals should clearly describe the
>contents of the materials submitted, the installation requirements
>(including hard and software, audiovisual equipment, necessary assistance,
>etc.) and include audio and/or visual material (pictures, tapes, etc.) to
>give an overview of the work.
>
>
>8-ELECTRONIC THEATER
>A film and video show will be held during ISEA2000. Individuals and
>institutes are invited to submit the best and most recent examples of their
>work in the fields of computer animation, image processing and video art. A
>broad selection will be shown at the exhibition site.
>
>
>GENERAL SUBMISSION INFORMATIONS
>It is important to include with each proposal :
>- a complete list of required equipment,
>- a description of how the projects will be financed and produced.
>
>In order to facilitate the selection submissions, ART 3000 will set up a
>database of the proposals. For this reason it is strongly recommended that
>submissions include an html/Web presentation of each proposal ( one page
>maximum) which will be availabe for consultation on the ART3000 Website
>(www.art3000.com).
>
>Submitters who believe that a broader understanding of the context of their
>work is important for review may include additional supporting materials,
>such as a statement describing their access to technology or documentation
>of other work which is not intended for current consideration. Please
>clearly identify supplemental materials.
>
>All submitters whose work is selected will receive a letter of
>acknowledgment including a request to use materials for ISEA2000 publicity
>and for their eventual placement in the event archives.
>
>
>SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
>Deadline for all submissions : April 30, 2000
>To respond to the call for participation, send a proposal accompanied by
>the application form and all requested documents (see instructions) to :
>
>ART3000
>156 avenue de Verdun
>Issy-les-Moulineaux - France
>Tel. : 33 (0)1 46 48 66 36
>Fax : 33 (0)1 46 48 66 59
>http://www.art3000.com
>Mel : isea2000@...
>
>
>REPLY FORM
>Note : All proposals, papers or other entries should be accompanied by a
>cover page stating full name, address and position of the author(s), the
>title and a short abstract ot the contents.
>
>NAME
>INSTITUTE / ORGANIZATION
>POSITION
>
>
>PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS
>CITY / STATE / POSTAL CODE / COUNTRY
>PHONE / FAX
>E-MAIL ADDRESS / HTTP ADDRESS
>PERSONAL ADDRESS
>CITY / STATE / POSTAL CODE / COUNTRY
>PHONE / FAX
>E-MAIL ADDRESS / HTTP ADDRESS
>
>* I intend to submit a project entitled __________, and the abstract is
>enclosed (see instructions)
>* I have a proposal for :
>- Paper
>- panel
>- Poster session
>- Workshop
>- Institutional presentation
>- Concert
>- Performance
>- Street scene (outdoor activity)
>- Exhibition
>- Electronic theater
>
>
>* I would like to contribute to the organization of ISEA2000
>* I am interested in supporting ISEA2000 (public, institutional partnership
>or sponsoring)
>* I am interested in an advertisement or a booth
>* Please keep me informed
>
>
>THE COMMITTEES
>The organization of the event is being undertaken with different
>committees. They are responsible for the selection of the projects being
>presented during the symposium, the exhibitions and other related events.
>
>ISEA2000 STEERING COMMITTEE - FRANCE
>The steering committee defines the major orientations of the event and
>supervises the programming, the logistical organization and the choice of
>partners.
>
>Nils Aziosmanoff, Chairman, ART3000
>Maurice Benayoun, Artist
>Jean-Pierre Balpe, Writer, Director, Hypermedia Departement, Paris 8
>University
>Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Composer
>Florent Aziosmanoff, Multimedia author, editorial manager - ART3000
>Alain Mongeau, President, ISEA
>Roger Malina, Leornado and co-chair, ISEA International Advisory Committee
>Atau Tanaka, Artist / composer
>Pierre Bongiovanni, Director, CICV Pierre Schaeffer Center
>Michel Reilhac, Director, Forum des images
>Simone Suchet, Head of Cultural Industries, Canadian Cultural Center
>Claude Cadoz, Director, ACROE
>Martine Bour, Hypermedia Departement, Paris 8 University.
>
>THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
>The International Programming Committee (IPC) has the mission to examine
>and select the works emanating from the Call for Papers and Participation.
>
>Yoshiuki Abe (Japan)
>Moncho Algora (Spain)
>Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi (Italy)
>Barbara Becker (U.K.)
>Hervé Bailly-Basin (France)
>Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
>Richard Castelli (France)
>Philippe Codognet (France)
>Sara Diamond (Canada)
>Diana Domingues (Brazil))
>Odile Fillion (France)
>Marina Grzinic (Slovenia)
>Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (Poland)
>Machiko Kusahara (Japan)
>George Lewis (United States)
>Julie Méalin (Canada)
>Melentie Pandilovski (Macedonia)
>Niranjan Rajah (Malaysia)
>Peter Ride (U.K.)
>Josephine Starrs (Australia)
>Mike Stubbs (U.K.)
>
>
>ISEA2000 is organized by :
>
>ART3000
>Art and New Technologies
>
>ART3000 has undertaken its activities for eleven years in the field of
>creation and new media, and constitutes an interdisciplinary and
>cross-cultural space of exchanges and reflexion on digital culture. The
>action of ART3000 is organized around : the presentation, exhibition and
>the promotion of new forms of expression (organization of more than one
>hundred events), the edition and the production of studies, and the support
>for creation (digital workshop).
>http://www.art3000.com
>
>ART3000
>156 avenue de Verdun
>Issy-les-Moulineaux - France
>Tel. : 33 (0)1 46 48 66 36
>Fax : 33 (0)1 46 48 66 59
>
>http://www.art3000.com
>Mel : isea2000@...
>
>In collaboration with :
>
>ISEA - The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
>
>The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts was founded in 1990 and has been
>based in Montreal (Québec/Canada) since 1996. ISEA is an international
>non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and development of the
>technological arts. ISEA is committed to interdisciplinary and
>cross-cultural communication/cooperation between the arts and the fields of
>technology, science, education, and industry.
>http://www.isea.qc.ca
>
>Information or Membership
>ISEA
>Complexe Ex-Centris
>3530 Boulevard Saint Laurent, suite 305
>Montréal (Québec) Canada H2X 2VI
>Mail: isea@...
>
>With the support and the collaboration of :
>
>Ministry of Culture and Communication
>
>The Ministry of Culture and Communication follows an active policy of
>support for creation and promotion in the field of technological arts Five
>head offices support the international event ISEA2000 : the "Délégation au
>Développement et à l'Action Territoriale" (DDAT), the "Délégation aux Arts
>Plastiques " (DAP), the " Département des Affaires Internationales " (DAI)
>et the " Centre National de la Cinématographie " (CNC), the " Direction de
>la Musique, de la Danse, du Théâtre et des Spectacles " (DMDTS).
>http://www.culture.fr
>
>Tél : 33 (0)1 40 15 80 00
>
>
>And in partnership with :
>
>Forum des images
>
>The Forum des images, located in the Halles district in the center of
>Paris, is a place of exchanges and meetings around the Image :
>cinematographic, televisual, digital... Its activities are multiple : it
>has an audio-visual collection of 6300 films, organizes events and
>festivals and proposes a sensitizing of the multimedia and a practice with it.
>http://www.forumdesimages.net
>
>
>Forum des images
>Forum des Halles - Porte Saint-Eustache
>75 001  Paris - France
>
>Tél : 33 (0)1 44 76 63 14
>Fax : 33 (0)1 40 26 40 96
>Mail : AHesbert@...
>
>
>CICV Pierre Schaeffer
>
>The CICV Pierre Schaeffer is an art and creation center with an
>international vocation. Questions of image, sound, medias and networks are
>at the heart of its activity. Artistic and cultural creation and
>experimentation are the founding roles of this structure (residences of
>creation, experimentation...). The technical facilities of the CICV Pierre
>Schaeffer make it possible to intervene in network, sound and image
>processing.
>http://www.cicv.fr
>
>CICV Pierre Schaeffer
>BP 5, 25310 Hérimoncourt - France
>Tel : 33 (0)3 81 30 90 30
>Fax : 33 (0)3 81 30 95 25
>Mail: ole@...
>
>Canadian Cultural Centre
>The Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris is a place of discovery and
>innovation, the mandate of which is to allow Canadian artistic creation in
>all disciplines and in all its dimensions to develop, to be expressed and
>to be promoted in France.It represents a relay for Canadian artists and
>creators, and ensures the support and promotion of their work and their
>projects.
>http://www.canada-culture.org
>
>Centre culturel canadien
>5, rue de Constantine
>75 007  Paris - France
>Tél : 33 (0)1 44 43 21 90
>Fax : 33 (0)1 44 43 21 99
>Mel : simone.suchet@...
>
>ACROE
>
>The ACROE-ICA is a group made up of a university research laboratory at the
>Institut National Polytechnique and Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble,
>and a center for research, creation, promotion of data processing applied
>to artistic creation at the Ministry of Culture and Communication. Today,
>the ACROE-ICA develops several research orientations on the interfaces for
>musical creation, as well as activities of creation (hosting artists in
>residence), diffusion (organization of artistic, scientific and cultural
>events), tutorial activities, and promotion.
>http://www-acroe.imag.fr
>
>
>ACROE
>Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
>46, avenue Félix Viallet
>38 031  Grenoble Cedex - France
>Tél : 33 (0)4 76 57 46 69
>Fax : 33 (0)4 76 57 48 89
>Mail: Claude.Cadoz@... ; Annie.Luciani@...
>
>
>GENERAL DELEGATION OF QUEBEC
>The Cultural Services of the General Delegation of Quebec work to promote
>and support artists from Quebec in France. Actions are undertaken in
>partnership with French organizations working to make known the specificity
>of the culture of Quebec, and this under the direction of Mr. André Dorval,
>Cultural Adviser.
>http//www.delegationquebec.fr
>
>Délégation générale du Québec
>66, rue Pergolèse
>75116 Paris - France
>Tél : 33 (0)1.40.67.85.70
>Fax : 33 (0)1.40.67.85.79
>Mail: andré.dorval@...
>

[Note] I have spoken at length with Henry Singer from October Films about
the following programme proposal. He is a sincere, intelligent, and
respected film maker here in the UK. He has done a lot of research for this
project and has spoken with many well known Social Scientists, such as
Sherry Turkle and Sandy Stone, to obtain background information. I would
very much like for members of the cybersociology list who engage in
cybersex to contact Henry or Kari. I'm sure it will be an interesting
experience and have been personally assured that all contacts will be kept
confidential. I should also point out that I will not be told who contacts
them, either to take part or just to find out more, as my association with
the production company is just to informally provide some advice from time
to time.

This is a really worthwhile project and I hope some of you feel that you
can get involved.

Robin.

-----
British Documentary on Chat Rooms and Sexuality

We have been contacted by October Films (www.octoberfilms.co.uk) to assist
them with the production of a British television documentary which is a
serious treatment of the new sexual culture created by Internet chat rooms.
October Films is a highly respected independent production company,
specialising in high quality factual programming.  The documentary is of an
educational nature as opposed to programming for merely entertainment or
titillation purposes.

Chat rooms have taken off in the last few years, fuelled by Internet users'
thirst for a variety of experiences.  Chat rooms speak directly to a
variety of human instincts that in the real world find few outlets,
including the need for fantasy play, experimentation and self-exploration.
This film will explore this multi-dimensional world through the experiences
of a group of selected people.  It is being made by Henry Singer, who has a
long history of making films of quality and integrity, assisted by Kari
Jersch.

If you are interested in speaking to the producers, please contact Henry at
henry.singer@... or Kari at kari.jersch@....
All conversations will be confidential and will not oblige you to
participate in the film.

Forwarded from Cybermind to Cyberculture and from there to here...


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    From: coinete@... (Rodrigo Coinete)
    Date: 30-03-2000, 22:12:26
Subject: Conference call for papers

I Eletronic Conference
Centro Virtual de Estudos Pol=EDticos (CEVEP)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Internet, Democracy and Public Goods
November 1-30, 2000

Call for Papers
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2000

Internet voting, eletronic governance, civic networking over the Internet,
eletronic media, cyberdemocracy, Internet lobbying and campaigning, public
services and information over the Internet. These are amongst the numerous
ways by which the Internet increasingly invades the political life of
contemporary democracies. It is becoming ever more important for social
scientists to understand how this new communication technology will affect
politics in the twenty-first century. Particularly, in the light of the
market struggles for control over the new medium, it becomes important to
reflect upon its role as a public good.

This conference is an experiment with new forms of organizing intellectual
debates over the Internet, using computer-mediated communication to
discuss
the theme of the event. In order to participate or attend to the
conference, one needs only to have access to a computer connected to the
Internet. During the month of November, all accepted papers and critical
commentaries will be available at the conference=92s website and will be
discussed by the participants and those attending to the conference.

Proposals (title, abstract, author and affiliation) should be sent by
e-mail
to conference@.... Proposals may be submitted in English,
French,
German or Spanish.

New Media Research

Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables for:

Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University

webpage:                  http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning
Submission system:  http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/lol
September 27-30, 2000
Hotel Roanoke
Roanoke Virginia

Deadline for Submission is June 1, 2000

Many have been exploring ways for building a "virtual university" either
from scratch or by virtualizing the educational experiences at already
existing colleges and universities. Yet, a few institutions of higher
learning, such as Virginia Tech, have been laying the foundations for such
online learning environments since 1993. With its support for the
Blacksburg Electronic Village
(BEV), a state-wide broadband ATM network (NET.WORK.VIRGINIA), the Faculty
Development Initiative (FDI), the Cyberschool project in the College of
Arts and Sciences, and the campus-wide Institute for Distance and
Distributed Learning (IDDL), Virginia Tech has been uniquely positioned as
a site to assess the benefits and costs of virtual university
instruction.  Drawing upon this six years' experience, the College of Arts
and Sciences at Virginia Tech will continue the serious, sustained, and
on-going debate about the merits of online teaching and distance education
launched at "Learning Online '98" in June 1998 with "Learning 2000:
Reassessing the Virtual University."

The purpose of this conference is to gather colleagues from around the
world who are interested in the shape and substance that the virtual
university is acquiring in practice. In addition we hope to debate the
advantages or disadvantages of digital discourse, learning online, and
virtual university life. By reviewing the quality of faculty life, the
pressures on support staff, the impact
on student learning, the demands on university administrators, and the
potentials for reaching new types of learners, a series of paper sessions,
round-table discussions, panels, and keynote speakers will address the wide
range of issues that emerge in this domain.

Included in these discussions will be a meeting for the university
administrators and faculty involved in creating the Electronic Campus of
Virginia (E-CVA). E-CVA is the Commonwealth of Virginia's experimental
effort at creating a statewide virtual university, and this group will have
much to contribute to the discussion with the other conference participants.



Confirmed Keynote Speakers:


       Carole Barone, Educause
       Keith Fulton, Urban League
       Katherine Hayles, Professor of English at University of California
Los Angeles
       Michael Joyce, Professor of English at Vassar College
       Stuart Moulthrop, Associate Professor of Communications at the
University of Baltimore
       Mark Poster, Professor of History at University of California Irvine

Some Suggested Topics:

       Administering Online Universities
       Best Practices in Online Learning
       Digital Discourse
       For Profit and Not For Profit Virtual Universities
       Hypertext/Hypermedia
       Intellectual Property and Online Learning
       Legalities and Illegalities Online
       Meanings of and Motives for Virtualizing University Education
       Online Learning Environments: Creating Communities
       Scholarship and the Teaching Profession Online
       What Fails Online and Why?

If you have questions about the conference contact Len Hatfield at
Len.Hatfield@... or Tim Luke at twluke@...


         Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables.


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                     by clicking below and filling in the form:

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>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:24:31 +0100
>From: richard barbrook <richard@...>
>Subject: UWE/ESS Research Studentships
>To: students@...
>Cc: xhrc@onelist.com
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Precedence: Bulk
>Reply-To: Students List <students@...>
>
>>From: Dr Christopher May <Christopher.May@...>
>
>>Subject: UWE/ESS Research Studentships
>>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 07:41:46 -0500 (EST)
>>Priority: NORMAL
>>X-Authentication: IMSP
>>MIME-Version: 1.0
>>
>>Please could you circulate this to any likely candidates,
>>thanks
>>
>>********************
>>UWE, Bristol
>>Faculty of Economics
>>and Social Science
>>********************
>>
>>*********************
>>Research Studentships
>>*********************
>>
>>
>>Applications are invited for Full and Part-time PhD
>>research to commence September 2000. Several Part-time PhD
>>Studentships are available, which cover part-time tuition
>>fees for up to five years.  There will be no contribution
>>to living expenses. Applicants will hold a good honours
>>degree and/or Masters in a relevant subject. Activities are
>>organised in three Schools ñ Politics, Economics and
>>Sociology. Interdisciplinary projects are also undertaken.
>>We strongly welcome proposals in our current areas of
>>expertise.
>>
>>School of Politics:
>>
>>The politics of the Internet; Democracy, participation and
>>citizenship; European public policy and
>>European integration.
>>
>>
>>School of Economics:
>>
>>Small/medium enterprises in the
>>regional economy; Valuation in cultural heritage
>>management; Defence, disarmament and economic adjustment;
>>Labour productivity in the UK.
>>
>>
>>School of Sociology:
>>
>>Citizenship, social welfare and
>>employment in Europe; The psychodynamics of groups,
>>organisations and societies; New genetics.
>>
>>Please note that applications are also invited in any other
>>sub-field of each of the above disciplines.
>>
>>The CLOSING DATE for receipt of applications is April 18
>>2000.
>>
>>For further details contact Angela Brooks, Research
>>Administrator on (+44) 0117 344 2246. email:
>>Angela.Brooks@...
>>
>>If you would like to have an informal discussion about your
>>plans, please contact Dr Andrew Chadwick, Postgraduate
>>Research Officer, on (+44) 0117 344 2374. Or email to
>>Andrew.Chadwick@...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----------------------------------------
>>Dr. Christopher May
>>Email: Christopher.May@...
>>Snail mail:
>>Faculty of Economics and Social Science
>>University of the West of England
>>Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane
>>Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
>>direct line (44) 0117 344 2245
>>switchboard (44) 0117 965 6261
>>fax. (44) 0117 976 3870
>>--------------------------------------------
>>We've got provisions and lots of beer
>>The key word is survival on the New Frontier...
>>Confess your passion and secret fears
>>Prepare to meet the challenge of the New Frontier.
>>--------------------------------------------
>>
>

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Robin Hamman, PhD Candidate at the Hypermedia Research Centre,
University of Westminster, London.
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Please come check out *spark-online Issue 7.0
http://www.spark-online.com

Does a steady stream of silver spoon information make it taste any better.
If your regular spoon feeding of media is leaving a bitter taste in your
mouth, stop by *spark-online and be a part of the media revolution. You
won't get information on a silver platter; at *spark-online you can be
a part of the media not a consumer of it.



MEDIA >> surfing towards bethlehem?
http://www.spark-online.com/april00/media/macintyre.html

TRENDS >> hacktivism: the new protest movement
http://www.spark-online.com/april00/trends/martin.html

DISCOURSE >> virtual morality
http://www.spark-online.com/april00/discourse/baum.html

E_SOCIETY >> the industrial countries bitch
http://www.spark-online.com/april00/esociety/duford.html

MISC[ing] >> futurism (marinetti) vs bestism (ARTnews)
http://www.spark-online.com/april00/misc_ing/podstolski.html



T-Shirt Contest Winners Posted on Discussion Board
http://www.spark-online.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000027.html

Thanks a lot to the nearly 200 people who helped up launch our new
discussion
board last month.  The names have been drawn for the five[5] 'exploring
electronic consciousness...' t-shirts and can be found on the discussion
board.  Swing by and see if we drew your name and shout out a
congratulations
to the winners.  If you want to pick up a shirt but you didn't win you
can buy one from me for $20: email me and we'll set up the  transACTION...
the only uniform you'll need in the army of media revolutionaries.


Become a part of the *spark-online network.  Spread the word:
-colorful *spark-online [funk]style flyers are available.  Send us your
address and we'll send you the coolest flyers outside of the net.
-Forward this email to everyone you know--get them off their silver spoon
diet of mass-media and onto a healthy diet of substantive discussion.


Kristopher Krug
editor-in-chief

exit analog >> enter *spark-online
http://www.spark-online.com

Internships: Institute for Public Policy Research.

The Institute for Public Policy Research is the countryís leading think
tank on the centre left. We are currently conducting a major research
project and policy network on the future of media regulation, and would
like to receive CVs from students interested in work-experience placements.

The research project includes issues such as:

The internet and privacy
Why regulate new media? Citizenship, democracy and the new media
Sex and Morality and the new media
Rights to connectivity: Public access and the new media

Why apply for an internship?

You get:
Improved research skills
To make a contribution to one of the most important emerging policy debates
Access to a network of some of the leading professionals and academics
working in the area of new media
An opportunity to use your networking skills for the benefit of a
charitable organisation working for public interest objectives
An insight into the world of policy development

We get:
An energetic, IT literate researcher with a willingness to learn
A contribution to our research
To learn from your networking and research skills

Placements are usually for 1-3 Months. They are unpaid, but a small
allowance is made for travel.

Send your curriculum vita and a cover letter to:
Damian Tambini,
IPPR
30-32 Southampton St
London WC2E 7RA
d.tambini@...

I Electronic Conference of the
Virtual Center for the Study of Politics (CEVEP)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Internet, Democracy and Public Goods
November 1-30, 2000

Call for Papers
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2000

Internet voting, electronic governance, civic networking over the Internet,
electronic media, cyberdemocracy, Internet lobbying and campaigning, public
services and information over the Internet. These are amongst the numerous
ways by which the Internet increasingly invades the political life of
contemporary democracies. It is becoming ever more important for social
scientists to understand how this new communication technology will affect
politics in the twenty-first century. Particularly, in the light of market
struggles for control over the new medium, it becomes important to reflect
upon its role as a public good.

This conference is an experiment with new forms of organizing intellectual
debates over the Internet, using computer-mediated communication to discuss
the event's theme. In order to participate or attend the conference, one
only needs to have access to a computer connected to the Internet. During
the month of November, all accepted papers and critical commentaries will
be available at the conference's web site and will be discussed by the
participants and those attending the conference.

Proposals (title, abstract, author and affiliation) should be sent by e-mail to
conference@....

Proposals may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.

From the CyberCulture List....


_CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of The Journal of Sex Research

Sexuality and the Internet

A special issue of The Journal of Sex Research is planned on the impact the
Internet has on sexual behavior.  This special issue is scheduled to be
published in August 2001.  We invite submissions on the following or
related topics:
C       Use of the Internet as a tool for research in human sexuality
C       Use of the Internet as a resource in teaching human sexuality
C       Cybertherapy: Use of the Internet as a medium for counseling and
therapy
C       Sex Education on the Internet
C       Erotica/pornography on the Internet
C       "Hooking up" via the Internet: Computer mediated dating/relationships
C       Cybersex: Sexual gratification on-line
C       Paraphilias on the Internet
C       Gays/Lesbians and the Internet

Questions about submissions should be directed to the Special Issue Editor:
Irv Binik, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr.
Penfield Avenue, Montreal, PQ H3A 1B1, Canada; email:
binik@...

To be considered for this special issue, manuscripts must be received by
August 1, 2000.   Early submission is encouraged.  An accompanying letter
should describe the ethical review process employed by authors, and should
include a statement that the manuscript has not been published and is not
currently under consideration elsewhere.  Four paper copies of the
manuscript must be submitted, prepared according to the Publication Manual
of the American Psychological Association (4th ed.).

Because an anonymous review system is employed, identifying information
should be removed from the title page and in the text of the copies to be
sent to reviewers.  Authors should include one separate page that provides
the title of the manuscript, the names and affiliations of the authors, and
the complete address, phone number, fax number, and email address of the
corresponding author.

Manuscripts should be sent to:  The Journal of Sex Research
Department of Sociology
The University of Wisconsin
2445 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393

You are invited to the premier issue of coDecode.com the online interactive
media journal.  coDcode is meant to to foster an ongoing dialogue
about these media.  We invite you to read the articles and join  or start
a discussion in the Dialouge Box.  The Dialogue Box is the place where we
get to blur the lines between writer and reader.  We want to make this a
responsible and comfortable community so you will have to register to post
messages but it's a very simple process.

Please visit http://www.coDecode.com your interactive media community.

Sincerely,

Morry Galonoy
Publisher
Feature Articles
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Douglas Rushkoff
B-92 Radio Belgrade, Robin Hamman
Moderator's Promise, Barbara Steinberg
Cult of ebay, M. Kim
Virtual Dawson's Creek, Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Cyberslut, Joshua Kreig
SurfKooks, Katherine Moriwaki

Departments
Editor's Letter, Morry Galonoy
Book Review-John Maeda's Design By Numbers, Andrea Moed
Opinion-F*!K The Internet, Bill Gayze

Project Gallery
International Jam Chat
Collagorate
Miricle in Masapequa

>-----------------------------------------
>Ars Electronica 2000
>NEXT SEX
>Sex in the Age of its Procreative Superfluousness
>September 2-7, 2000
>Linz, Austria
>http://www.aec.at/nextsex (*)
>-----------------------------------------
>
>(*) NOTE: For those who can't access this page because their provider
>automatically censors the word "sex," Ars Electronica has set up the
>following alternative URL: http://www.aec.at/festival2000
>
>
>Ars Electronica 2000 - 1st announcement
>
>CONTENT
>...................................
>
>1. Introduction
>....................................
>
>2. What is this year's Festival theme?
>....................................
>
>3. "openX" goes "electrolobby"
>....................................
>
>Next update: April 28, 2000
>....................................
>
>
>1. Introduction
>....................................
>
>You are reading the first issue of the Ars Electronica 2000 newsletter. It
>has entered your in-box because you've either subscribed to our mailing
>list or have demonstrated an interest in Ars Electronica. We sincerely
>apologize if you find this service unpleasant.
>
>Please do not reply to this message. If you want to remove your name from
>this mailing list, you can send mail to <announcement-request@...> with
>the command "unsubscribe announcement" in the body of your email message
>and we'll remove your e-mail address from the list.
>These announcements are also available on our homepage. Please check
>http://www.aec.at/nextsex
>This is an English-only version; you can find the text in German on our
>website, too.
>Eine deutsche Version dieses announcements findet sich auf unsere Website.
>
>
>2. What is this year's Festival theme?
>....................................
>
>Continuing the festival's thematic focus on life science, Ars Electronica
>2000 will elaborate on the cultural and social policy perspectives of
>modern reproductive biology.
>
>Ars Electronica, as a festival for art, technology and society, is
>programmatically committed to exploring the ways in which artists deal
>with technology-induced social and cultural change, and, as a festival of
>contemporary art, has been striving since its very inception to make art
>visible as a political work as well. The artistic as well as theoretical
>contributions to this year's festival will take up again the process of
>dealing with current political issues on which international attention has
>been focused as the result of events taking place in Austria.
>
>Under the general theme NEXT SEX - Sex in the Age of its Procreative
>Superfluousness, a dual approach combining scientific and artistic points
>of view will scrutinize the contours of a society in which human beings
>are genetically configured - not simply born but, rather, fabricated - one
>in which sex is relieved of its functional indispensability for
>reproduction, and thus one in which the battle of the sexes as well as the
>moral steering mechanism of our very society undergo reordering. From a
>discussion of upcoming possibilities, this excursion into humanity's
>future is meant to map out the routes we take to that future - a venture
>in which art must not remain restricted to society's moral conscience.
>
>Symposium NEXT SEX - Sex in the Age of its Procreative Superfluousness
>September 3 and 4, 2000, Brucknerhaus Linz.
>
>Symposium participants will include British evolutionary biologist Robin
>Baker, author of the bestsellers "Baby Wars" and "Sex in the Future", and
>Carl Djerassi, a chemist and the inventor of the "pill" who was born in
>Vienna and now lives in the US.
>
>The Ars Electronica 2000 Advisory Board includes Prof. Carl Djerassi and
>Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer, media theorist and scholar in the field of gender
>studies. A detailed on-line collection of material will be made available
>in conjunction with the Festival theme in order to provide a wide variety
>of perspectives on highly controversial issues.
>
>
>3. "openX" goes "electrolobby"
>....................................
>
>For several years, network art has been one of Ars Electronica's chief
>areas of emphasis. The aim has been to take into account the central
>position that has been assumed by artistic expression in the virtual space
>of global networks as the field of operation of contemporary societies.
>Under the label "openX", a wide range of experimental configurations were
>set up to deal primarily with the problem of coming up with adequate forms
>in which to exhibit network art - art presented in and making use of the
>Internet. This year, we'll be taking a new approach. New and exciting ways
>to present this art will determine the ambience in the Brucknerhaus - not
>from the position of the curator and mediator, but rather from the
>position of the artists themselves. The large-scale network art
>headquarters of the past will be replaced by a networked showroom.
>
>openX-electrolobby will premier on Saturday, September 2 with an
>entertaining and informative opening event. From Sunday, September 3 to
>Thursday, September 7, openX-electrolobby, the networked showroom, will be
>a convivial, stimulating meeting place for festival participants and
>members of the public. There will be a series of daily special features,
>as well as a live Web channel produced in cooperation with international
>associates.
>
>The Internet label >tnc network< has been commissioned to implement this
>concept and to design the program of openX-electrolobby.
>
>
>Next update: April 28, 2000
>Content: Prix Ars Electronica 2000
>....................................
>
>The next announcement update will appear on April 28. It will focus on the
>winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2000. Conducted for the 14th time this
>year by the ORF's Upper Austria Regional Studio, the Prix Ars Electronica
>is the world's most highly regarded competition for digital media in the
>categories of Digital Musics, Computer Animation/Visual Effects,
>Interactive Art and .net. More details:
>http://prixars.orf.at
>
>
>....................................
>Ars Electronica 2000:
>Organization: Ars Electronica Center Linz and ORF - Upper Austria Regional
>Studio
>Co-organizers: Brucknerhaus Linz, O.K. - Center for Contemporary Art
>
>Sponsors and Partners
>Creditanstalt, Compaq, Gericom, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft,
>Oesterreichische Brauunion, Oracle, Quelle, SGI, Siemens AG, Telekom
>Austria AG.

I Electronic Conference of the
Virtual Center for the Study of Politics (CEVEP)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Internet, Democracy and Public Goods
November 1-30, 2000

Call for Papers
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2000

Internet voting, electronic governance, civic networking over the Internet,
electronic media, cyberdemocracy, Internet lobbying and campaigning, public
services and information over the Internet. These are amongst the numerous
ways by which the Internet increasingly invades the political life of
contemporary democracies. It is becoming ever more important for social
scientists to understand how this new communication technology will affect
politics in the twenty-first century. Particularly, in the light of market
struggles for control over the new medium, it becomes important to reflect
upon its role as a public good.

This conference is an experiment with new forms of organizing intellectual
debates over the Internet, using computer-mediated communication to discuss
the event's theme. In order to participate or attend the conference, one
only needs to have access to a computer connected to the Internet. During
the month of November, all accepted papers and critical commentaries will
be available at the conference's web site and will be discussed by the
participants and those attending the conference.

Proposals (title, abstract, author and affiliation) should be sent by e-mail to
conference@....

Proposals may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.

The April edition of the pioneer online art and technology Netnews service,
fineArt forum, is now online!

Come and check out the latest in art and technology developments, events and
opportunities at fAf's Australian based URL:
http://www.cdes.qut.edu.au/Fineart_Online/

or elsewhere at:
http://www.fineartforum.org

This month's edition features a feature by Paul Brown - 'Beyond Art'.
Interestingly, it was written in 1990, and having just hit the millennium,
it is timely to revisit the final decade of the 20th century to see how his
predictions went.

Have a look at our first gallery for 2000 curated by fAf's Bec Nissen and
Bree Chesher called 'Syntax: new works/young artists'. Syntax showcases
works that explore and expand the nature of human-computer relationships
featuring works by Melinda Rackham and Freya Pinney.

Drop by and check out our book reviews of 'Floating Lives', 'Surfing through
Hyperspace' and more... Better yet, sense the vibrancy of the latest in
dot.comm world through, fAf correspondent, Jason Chua's report of 'Internet
World Asia Conference' held in Singapore in March.


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Some additional information about fAf:

Launched in 1987, fineArt forum is the pioneer online news service dedicated
to the provision of news and information for the global arts and technology
community. It aims to keep its readers informed of achievements,
developments and opportunities relevant to the new media arts community.

fineArt forum is distributed by the Communication Design Program, Queensland
University of Technology on  behalf  of  the Art, Science and Technology
Network  (ASTN).

"This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the
Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body."
http://www.ozco.gov.au

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Hey there...This month over at *spark-online we added two hot Flash features
to the Digital Gallery...
http://www.spark-online.com/001gallery/gallery.html

Please check out...

OS76 - by Todd Purgason
http://www.spark-online.com/001gallery/os76/index.html

Flash is art, and that's the idea behind OS76 by Todd Purgason of
JUXTInteractive. OS76 is a personal exploration of the "collision of found
objects as inspirations from the digital world with found objects and
inspirations from the real world. Spawning a surrealistic junkyard of
inspirations."


The Pros and Cons  - design by Sean Donohue, words by Dana Mezzina
http://www.spark-online.com/001gallery/mm/index.html

When I was a little guy, I had dreams of being led out to see by a mermaid..
as do many young boys I imagine. Anyway, the newest Digital Gallery piece by
Dana Mezzina and Sean Donohue explores The Pros and Cons of Being a
Merimaid... have fun. :)

You'll find our Call for Submissions below... read it through if you are
interested in having an article or Digital Gallery content published in the
upcoming issue of *spark-online.

Kristopher Krug
editor-in-chief

exit analog >> enter *spark-online
http://www.spark-online.com



Call for Submissions <8.0> - June Issue

"For a publication whose motto reads "exploring electronic consciousness,"
this is not at all high-falutin material. The articles are well chosen, and
certainly do reflect contemporary issues." James Horner (Canadian Content)

"The tone adopted is one which frequently avoids the hype which all too
often attends discussions of e-culture."  (CTI Textual Studies: Oxford
University)

"I believe that *spark-online captures the essence of a greatness which few
new and emerging technology sites can lay claim to. Spark-online's slogan is
"exploring electronic consciousness." I believe this summary describes
exactly what the site does. Look out Wired, Look out ZDNet, Look out
C-Net..." (Osopinion.com)


First published in October of 1999, *spark-online has achieved remarkable
success in a short period of time. With nearly 2 million visits to the first
7issues, readers encounter an online magazine that doesn't condemn or
celebrate the technology that defines modern life, but rather attempts to
understand its role and influence within the nascent digital culture it has
spawned.

What will politics look like in the 21st century? What role do the arts have
to play in a wired world? How can I stay abreast of all the change? In each
issue of *spark-online, we attempt to wrestle with these questions under the
rubric: 'exploring electronic consciousness.'

Electronic consciousness is part thesis, part polemic, and part convenient
brand into which we stuff our oversized ideas every month. Each month it
covers topics under the following headings:

Media - Film, T.V., Online, Music;
Trends - related to culture and technology;
Discourse on Electronic Consciousness;
e-society - politics, religion, economy;
Misc.(ing) - Visual Arts, Poetry, Short Story, Literary Criticism.

Written submissions should be between 400 and 1000 words. Please use Times
New Roman font (12 point), and include a short biography of yourself at the
end of the piece (no more than 40 words in length). Editorial policy will
favour those submissions that are succinct in syntax and in the active
voice. Preference will be given to editorial-style opinion articles, rather
than rational, exegetical style articles. Given the constraints of the
medium an editorial style article lends itself better to an on-line
publication.

Submissions are not paid. Writers retain copyright subject to written
agreement between themselves and *spark-online. We will notify writers via
electronic mail on the 25th of the month if their pieces have been accepted.
We will not notify writers who are not going to be published.

Submissions can be sent as an attachment in MS WORD, or as the body of an
e-mail c/o Managing Editor, Robert Delamar

Submissions are due on the 5th of each month for publication on the 1st of
the following month..

Please send written submissions to our Managing Editor, Robert Delamar at:
rfdelamar@...

or visual submissions to Kristopher Krug at: kris@...

Associate Professor and External Lecturer positions within the area of
Design, Communication and Media at the IT University of Copenhagen.


Applications are invited for four associate professorships and a number
of
external lectureships within the area of Design, Communication and
Media.
The positions are to be filled as soon as possible.

The IT University of Copenhagen was founded in April 1999 by the Danish
Government. It admitted 150 students in August 1999, another 150
students in
February 2000 and stands to accept 800 students a year within five
years.
Education at the Ph.D. level and Master's level is offered in the
following
fields: Design, Communication and Media, Software Development, Internet
Technology, Multimedia Technology, E-Commerce and Cross-disciplinary IT.

The IT University offers degree programmes at the levels of Ph.D.,
Master
and Diploma. Currently, emphasis is on establishing the  Master and
Ph.D.
programmes, but the IT University plans to extend its teaching
activities to
cover distance learning and continued education.

The Master programme in Design, Communication and Media is one of the
largest educational programmes at the IT University. Each student
admitted
holds a Bachelor's degree; most often, it is a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Among the courses currently offered are Web Design, Interaction Design,
IT
as Media, Digital Aesthetics, User Perspectives on Future Media, 3-D
Modelling, Graphical Design, and Target Group Analysis. Currently, two
associate professors, ten external lecturers, and three teaching
assistants
are employed.

More generally, the Design, Communication and Media unit  conducts
research
and teaching  with a theoretical and methodological orientation, where
the
Humanities, Social Sciences and technological disciplines are combined
with
practical and artistic approaches. The ambition is to create a
cross-disciplinary unit, extending existing subject areas and meeting
the
highest international standards. The research will focus on theoretical
and
methodological approaches to the exploration, understanding and
development
of the form and content of digital media. Central research areas
include:
visual and text-based communication and art; media studies; cultural
studies; graphical design; interaction design; philosophy of technology;

usability of digital media; computer-supported work; digital aestethics;

virtual communities; digital fictions and simulations; hypermedia and
multimedia-based communication; digital design; design history; and
multimedia learning.

The Associate Professorships positions are tenured positions with
research
and teaching obligations. Excellent research and teaching qualifications
are
indispensable. Research experience with a strong cross-disciplinary
flavour
is desirable, as is experience with participation in large,
collaborative
research projects. Applicants for the associate professor positions must

hold a relevant Ph.D. and must have a  first-rate, international
publication
record in a relevant field. The applicant must be able to participate in
the
planning and execution of research projects and must be able to
supervise
Ph.D. and Master's students. Finally, good administrative skills and an
interest in building a new organisation are required.

Applications must include a letter of motivation, documentation for
degrees,
a brief CV, a list of publications, 5 selected publications, and
documentation for teaching experience.

The positions as External Lecturer are part-time teaching positions for
normally 3  years of duration. The applicant  must be able to plan and
teach
entire Master's courses. Applicants for the external lecturer position
must
have a Master's degree or a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field, must have
relevant teaching experience and must have a substantial practical,
professional experience in a relevant field. Applications must contain
the
application form available at www.itu.dk and must include a letter of
motivation, documentation for degrees, a brief CV, a list of
publications, 5
selected publications, and documentation for teaching experience.


For further information, please contact Mads Tofte, President of the IT
University (telephone +45 3816 8812, e-mail: tofte@...) or John
Paulin
Hansen, Associate Professor, Ph.D., (phone +45 3816 8825, e-mail:
paulin@...).

An appointments committee will be formed, and the applicants will
receive
the part of the final recommendation concerning the assessment of their
qualifications.

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of
Finance's
Agreement with the Central Academic Organisation with the possibility of

negotiation of benefits on the basis of qualifications.

Application deadline: 5 May 2000, 12.00 noon.

Applications in Danish or English, including the documentation mentioned

above, must be sent in 4 copies to the following address:

The President of The IT University of Copenhagen
Att. Kirsten Talbro Laraignou
Glentevej 67
DK-2400 Copenhagen NV
Denmark

Mihaela Mousou and I will be offereing a 2-week intensive version of our
online facilitation course starting June 12th -- aptly named "INTENSIVE" as
it will go at a fast pace, packed with content and interaction. Please feel
free to email me if you have any questions.

Full details at http://www.fullcirc.com/keu/spring00intensive.htm or read
below....

Dates: June 12-23.200

Tuition: $595.00 US

Register at: www.KnowledgeEcology.com/keu/reg/

Online Facilitation Intensive

**Course Description**

Whether you plan to facilitate project oriented virtual teams, online
communities or focused inquiries, at the end of this 2 weeks course you
will be equipped with the tools and practice to make a difference in your
work.

**Learning Outcomes**

* Designing the online space, structure and mental maps to help people's
internal representation of the virtual space
* Exploring the translation of offline facilitation skills to the online
environment
* Specific online facilitation tips and tools
* Enabling relationship and trust building online
* Encouraging participation, pacing and leading
* Defining group interactions, techniques and outcomes
* Successfully moving groups from purpose to action
* Understanding the dynamics of rhythm and cycles of activity
* Summarizing and harvesting knowledge and learning

The course focuses mainly on the human elements of online interaction in a
marriage of theory, dialog and action learning, although we will also have
discussions and explorations on current group technologies and tools.

A CD of the course is made available to each student for future reference.

**Delivery Format**

This is an online course presented in a web-conference asynchronous
environment, allowing participants to engage at their own convenience from
home or office. Additionally, there will be one scheduled phone conference
call and several field trips to experiment with other synchronous tools.

**Requirements**

* To get the most out of this intensive course, a minimum of 2 hrs/day is
required. We strongly recommend that this time be set aside away from other
daily activities, to ensure focused and uninterrupted attention.
* If a student has no experience with online discussion tools, some
additional time should be allocated three days before the course start to
familiarize themselves with the environment and tools.
* Netscape Navigator 6.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0, or higher version, are
recommended for this course.


**Instructors**

**Mihaela Moussou**
Mihaela is a co-founder of Knowledge Ecology University. She has designed,
hosted and facilitated all ranges of virtual environments, such as
corporate virtual teaming knowledge centers, online meetings for virtual
taskforces, large-scale web communities and special virtual events,
including the Knowledge Ecology Fair '98.
Mihaela combines her backgrounds in psychology and 25 years of logistics
and project management to enhance interpersonal communication in virtual
work environments. Mihaela can be reached at mihaela@...


**Nancy White **
Nancy is the founder and president of Full Circle Associates
(www.fullcirc.com), a communications consulting firm, helping non-profits
and businesses connect through online and offline strategies.
Nancy is a skilled online host and facilitator who actively hones her craft
on both social conversational sites and focused, work-related online
communities. She is an active chronicler and collector of online
facilitation resources, constantly seeking to understand "what works and
why" in this evolving world of online communities. Nancy can be reached at
nancyw@...

More on the Knowledge Ecology University: http://www.KnowledgeEcology.com/keu/

Telephone (831) 336-3428 - Fax (831) 336-2832


Nancy White   ~   Full Circle Associates   ~  206-517-4754
http://www.fullcirc.com  and  http://www.onlinefacilitation.com

I  Electronic Conference of the

Virtual Center for the Study of Politics  (CEVEP)

Universidade Federal de Minas  Gerais

Belo Horizonte,  Brazil

----------
Internet,  Democracy and Public Goods

November 1-30,  2000

Call for  Papers
Deadline for submissions: June 30,  2000

Internet voting,  eletronic governance, civic networking over the Internet,
eletronic media,  cyberdemocracy, Internet lobbying and campaigning, public
services and  information over the Internet. These are amongst the numerous
ways by which the  Internet increasingly invades the political life of
contemporary democracies. It  is becoming ever more important for social
scientists to understand how this new  communication technology will affect
politics in the twenty-first century.  Particularly, in the light of market
struggles for control over the new medium,  it becomes important to reflect
upon its role as a public good.

This  conference is an experiment with new forms of organizing intellectual
debates  over the Internet, using computer-mediated communication to
discuss the event s  theme. In order to participate or attend the
conference, one only needs to  have  access to a computer connected  to the
Internet. During the month of November, all accepted papers and critical
commentaries will be available at the conference s website and will be
discussed  by the participants and those attending the conference.

Proposals  (title, abstract, author and affiliation) should be sent by
e-mail to conference@.... Proposals  may be submitted in English,
French, German or  Spanish.

José Eisenberg
Departamento de Ciência  Política
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

[publication announcement]

HUBS AND SPOKES: A TeleGeography Internet Reader
<http://www.telegeography.com/Publications/hs00.html>

What does the Internet look like?  Most engineers draw it as a cloud.  That
shouldn't surprise anyone: in a sense, there is no Internet, only
networking standards like TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP
(Internet Protocol) which allow an ever-increasing number of private data
networks across the world to exchange digital information.  These networks
and the traffic they carry give the Internet its form.  That they
interconnect gives the Internet its substance.

But if you look inside the Internet cloud, a fairly distinct hub-and-spoke
structure begins to emerge at both an operational (networking) and physical
(geopolitical) level.  A well-known Internet graph created at Lucent
Technologies by Bill Cheswick and Hal Burch, for example, is built up from
thousands and thousands of nodes (routers) and edges (links between
routers), each reflecting a possible path from Cheswick and Burch's home
network to the rest of the Internet.  Even a casual review of these hubs
and spokes can provide a rough idea of the Internet's scale and some of its
major constituents (http://www.peacockmaps.com).

What about the geopolitical dimensions of this hub-and-spoke model?
Traditionally, the Internet's basic transmission facilities have been
centered around the U.S., the hub whose backbone spokes connected the rest
of the world.  Some spokes were quite thick, like those linking the U.K.,
Canada and Japan.  Others were pencil thin: Russia's and Brazil's, for
example.  This was no conspiracy.  The topology, largely unplanned,
reflected the Internet's U.S. origin; its embryonic commercial structure,
including America's head start in building network backbones; its status as
home to most Internet content; and waning monopoly pricing of cross-border
data links outside the U.S.

By 1999, this U.S.-centric structure had slowly begun to shift. Today more
bandwidth links key European cities to each other than to the U.S., making
western Europe the first hub to emerge from North America's shadow.
Intra-regional links between Asian networks are also growing.  As a result,
the Internet's global hub-and-spoke structure has begun to diffuse,
replicating itself within regions. In Europe, for example, single cities
have begun to play the role that the U.S. once did worldwide.

Yet country-by-country numbers tell only part of the story.  More detailed
data for metropolitan areas suggest that the emerging structure of the
Internet's hub-and-spoke structure is based upon a core of meshed
connectivity between world cities on coastal shores -- Silicon Valley, New
York, and Washington, DC; London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt; Tokyo
and Seoul.

The Internet's architecture is still evolving.  *Hubs and Spokes*, the
first publication from TeleGeography's Internet program, expands and
updates our past material to help readers understand that evolution.  Like
our PSTN (public switched telephone network) research, our Internet work
focuses on international industry structure, network topology, and traffic
flow.

As the Internet takes its place at the core of an emerging public network,
hard questions are coming up.  What shape is that network taking on -- and
will those who operate it be organized horizontally, by function, or
vertically, by end-to-end slice?  How will those players interoperate, both
technically and financially, to ensure that the hubs and spokes continue to
connect?  Who will govern the cloud, and what are the demand drivers
causing it to expand?

PRIMER

Architecture:  How is the global Internet structured?  Not long ago, the
answer seemed easy: the Internet was U.S.-centric.  As regional hubbing
makes geographical diversity a more pervasive network feature, Net
architecture moves beyond its U.S.-domestic and
global-but-still-U.S.-centric phases toward a third stage characterized by
a distributed global presence.  That is the theory, anyway.  But a
combination of regulatory and economic factors have threatened to forestall
the end of the U.S.-centric phase.  Where do things stand?  And where are
they headed?

Finance:  Who pays for the Internet?  The answer is complicated: a typical
Internet transmission may involve many different networks -- five, say, or
fifteen -- and is broken up into many different packets, which may take
radically different paths to get from point a to point b.  That makes it
hard to bill Internet communications in the way that traditional phone
communications are billed.  How do peering and transit models for traffic
exchange fit in -- and what happens in practice?

Governance: Who governs the Internet?  Most Netizens would once have
scoffed at the question, and probably sent unfriendly e-mails to the person
posing it.  But dramatic growth has transformed the Internet into both a
quasi-public global infrastructure and a very big business.  In doing so,
its priorities have shifted toward stability and predictability.  That's
where governance comes in.  What's up with ICANN?  And how did we get there?

Demand: Demand growth for IP capacity is almost impossible to state:
because IP applications tend to grab the bandwidth they need -- slowing
down rather than halting when less is available -- and because faster
performance impacts user behavior directly, new capacity is filled readily,
and the challenge for many backbone providers is simply to build as fast as
possible.  Keeping this challenge in mind, we look to the network's edges
and why they're being populated by an increasing number of users; the
on-ramps that let them get data to and from the core; and the content,
devices, and interactive applications which are helping increase the
volumes involved.

Voice: One of the Internet's most-discussed demand drivers is voice
telephony.  During the last year, voice-over-IP (VoIP) players have
attracted very large amounts of new capital, and the trend toward telco
investments in VoIP carriers could well accelerate the long-awaited
convergence between the telco and IP worlds.  How does VoIP work?  And
where does it stand?

INTERNATIONAL INTERNET BANDWIDTH

Providers: A market overview and comprehensive list of more than 250
international Internet service providers (IISPs) headquartered in 85
countries provides a guide -- and direct coordinates -- for the online maps
and data which will help readers size up the players.

Connectivity and Exchanges: How much international Internet bandwidth goes
where?  A guide to international city-to-city bandwidth provides a
geographical summary of the global Internet, along with a table of the top
50 international Internet hub cities worldwide.  Maps help present the
information visually, showing international backbone routes for the Europe,
Asia/Pacific, and Americas regions.  And the world's Internet exchange
points -- facilities where network traffic is traded -- are indicated, with
pointers to over 200 facilities in 76 countries (see
http://www.telegeography.com/ix).

INTERNATIONAL INTERNET INDICATORS

A guide to the other metrics used to size the Internet's global growth,
including country-by-country Internet user counts; the spread of different
languages on the Internet; and the nature of links between sites in one
country and another.  Pointers to pertinent projects are provided, and a
geographical twist on the tried-and-true host counts is included.
Reference pages provide easy access to Internet and telephony country
codes, and include a "bit primer" to match bandwidth technologies with
their speeds.

Cybersociology Goes Wireless with weekly updated WAP Service:
http://www.wapdrive.net/cybersoc

The new WAP version of Cybersoc/Cybersociology is now available for those
using WAP enabled GSM Mobiles, Palm's, and other devices. Each week a new
article or review will appear so that you can spend your time on the train
or bus reading something worthwhile :-)

The full contents of Cybersoc and Cybersociology should be available on WAP
devices by June 2000.

Cybersociology Magazine is a non-profit webzine for the critical
multi-disciplinary investigation of cyberculture, cyberspace, online
communities, and life online. Since Autumn 1997, Cybersociology has
published over 40 feature articles, a dozen book reviews, and numerous site
reviews.

Past Topics:

* Issue One: Cybersex and Romance Online
* Issue Two: Online (Virtual?) Community
* Issue Three: Digital Third Worlds and Barriers to Internet Access
* Issue Four: Open Topic
* Issue Five: Grassroots Political Activism Online
* Issue Six: Research Methodology Online
* Issue Seven: Techno-Spiritualism and Religion Online

Interaction:

* Cybersociology Conference, Book and Paper Announcment List (775 members)
* Message Boards
* Chat Room

Forthcoming Topics:

* Convergence (Digital Television, WAP Phones, Internet Everywhere)
* Play in Cyberspace
* Work and Cyberspace
* Commercialisation of the Internet


[Don't know what WAP sites look like? Try the Wapalizer Emulator at
http://www.gelon.net/ ]

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
New WAP site featuring selected content from Cybersoc and
Cybersociology - UPDATED WEEKLY  http://www.wapdrive.net/cybersoc
*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+

Robin Hamman, PhD Researcher at the Hypermedia Research Centre,
University of Westminster, London (amongst other things!)
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  / /   / / / / __ \/ _ \/ ___/ ___/ __ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / /_/ /  __/ /  (__  ) /_/ / /__
\____/\__, /_.___/\___/_/  /____/\____/\___/
      /____/  http://www.cybersoc.com
	      http://www.cybersociology.com
	      http://www.digitalartisans.org
	      WAP-> http://www.wapdrive.net/cybersoc

---------------------------------------------------
       ----- C U L T U R A L   R E S I S T A N C E ! -----
       ---------------- an event by VP.be ----------------
       --- 19 mei 2000 --- 19 mai 2000 --- May 19 2000 ---
       ------- Vanderborght building - Bxl 2000 HQ -------
       -------- Schildknaapstr. 50, 1000 Brussels --------
       -------------------event.start=20.00h!-------------
       ---- http://www.dbonanzah.org/cure/eventMay19/ ----
       ------------------FREE ADMISSION!------------------
       ---------------------------------------------------



       --- English ---------------------------------------

An unstable night full of digital disobedience, alternative culture, and
media art.

Internet, computer, CD-Rom.  The new culture machines allow you to enjoy
and manipulate text, visuals and music at your will.  So you mail your
music across the globe, and your pictures and illustrations adorn your
website.  However, all of a sudden these things become impossible.
Copyright!  Before you know it, you have been classified as a minor
criminal.  Is this justified?  What have you done wrong?  Aren't you
putting into practice what a number of artists and alternative groups have
been advocating so strongly for, namely the open and free use of cultural
artefacts? In this scenario internet does not feature as a digital copy
machine, playing a nasty trick on the commercial world.  On the contrary,
it is a free zone, where collective creation and experimentation with new
forms of cultural participation become focal.  It aspires to escape the
deadlock of cultural policy, and the stagnation of the cultural
institutions.
Ideas abound: open source, free access to resources, global collaboration,
virtual performances,...
Yet the industry, politics, legislators and copyright associations are on
their guard.  They refuse to give up their monopoly and forcefully try to
retain control.  That's why lately, they have been very prominently present
on the net.  However: the virus of resistance is spreading!


       --- Nederlands ------------------------------------

VP.be presenteert een labiele avond vol digitale ongehoorzaamheid,
alternatieve cultuur en mediakunst.

Het internet is een vrijplaats waar het samen creëren en experimenteren met
nieuwe vormen van cultuurparticipatie centraal komen te staan.  Het belooft
alles om uit de impasse van het cultuurbeleid en uit de stagnatie van de
culturele centra te geraken.  De ideeën zijn er: open source, free access
to resources, global collaboration, virtual performances.  Maar de
industrie, de politiek, de wetgevers en de auteursverenigingen liggen op de
loer.  Ze laten zich het monopolie niet uit handen rukken en proberen de
controle te behouden.
De laatste tijd zijn ze dan ook prominent op het internet aanwezig en
treden hard op.  Maar dat lukt niet altijd goed: het verzet groeit!


       --- Français --------------------------------------

VP.be présente une nuit de désobeissance électronique, culture alternative
et d'art des medias.

L'internet est une scène libre dans laquelle la création collective et
l'expérimentation de nouvelles formes participatives deviennent des
éléments-clés.  Un espace dans lequel on cherche à éviter l'impasse des
politiques culturelles et la fossilisation des institutions.  Les idées se
bousculent: open source, libre accès aux ressources, logiciels ouverts,
collaboration globale, performances virtuelles...  Mais l'industrie, les
politiciens, les législateurs et les sociétés de gestion de droits montent
la garde.  Elles refusent d'abandonner leurs monopoles et s'emploient à
garder le contrôle des échanges.  C'est pourquoi récemment elles cherchent
à occuper le plus de territoire sur le réseau.  Pourtant, le virus de la
résistance se répand!


       --- Participants - Deelnemers ---------------------

leonardo journal (FR+USA)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/

etoy (EU+USA)
http://www.etoy.com/

rtmark (USA)
http://www.rtmark.com/

detritus.net (USA)
http://www.detritus.net/

earlabs (NL)
http://www.earlabs.org/

distorted media (BE)
http://soli.inav.net/~psrf/home/links.html

logos (BE)
http://ping4.ping.be/logos/copyrigh.html

dbonanzah! (BE)
http://www.dbonanzah.org/

With confirmed unexpected guests.


This is a vp.be production. No copyright, of course.
www.brussels2000.org/vp

Are you an experienced Web user and worker, familiar with online dialogue,
inspired by the notion of using your skills to make a difference in people's
lives? If so,we want to hear from you. Web Lab is a New York based non-profit
that develops, supports and champions innovative uses of the Web to enhance
public understanding of -- and participation in -- the issues of our times. We
are looking for an enthusiastic, multitasking, team player to become our
Director of Dialogues. And these aren't just any dialogues. Our innovative
model provides an exciting alternative to the current norm of chaotic Web
bulletin boards populated by drive-by postings and flame wars. Last summer, the

New York Times called our technique "One of the most innovative ideas for
creating value and relevance in online conversation." For more information,
please go to http://www.weblab.org/jobs/dod.html
________________________

________________________
Laura Kertz
<lkertz@...>
Associate Producer, Web Lab
http://www.WebLab.org

Apologies for cross-posting

Issue no. I, vol. II, of Cauldron & Net is now online at and may be seen
at: http://www.StudioCleo.com/cauldron/

With many thanks to all of you who helped make this such a splendid
issue.

Please note that if you find any coding mistakes or typos, feel free to
contact me [however exhausted I may be ...]

FEATURES:
		 Net.Artist [m]E[z] (Mary-Anne Breeze)
		 Poet Sheila E. Murphy

CONFLUENCE:
		 barry Smylie & Alan Sondheim, Bill Marsh, Brian Lennon, Carolyn Black,
Deena Larsen, Duc Thuan, Intima, Jeannette Lambert & Raquel Rivera,
Jennifer Ley, Jim Andrews, Kominos Zervos, M.D. Coverley, Pete Everett &
Rosie Pedly, Reiner Strasser, Stephen Dignazio, Ted Warnell, Tom Bell

VERBAL EMBELLISHMENT:
			 Alan Sondheim, Alfred A. Walker, Camille Martin, David Fujino, George
J. Farrah, Jesse Glass, Joel Weishaus, Johanna Drucker, Kevin
Fitzgerald, Mark Amerika, mIEKAL aND, Ramez Qureshi

VISUAL EMBELLISHMENT:
			 Aleksandra Globokar, Arghyro Paouri, Barry Smylie, Dirk A. Hine,
George J. Farrah, Whitney Sander, Zack Peabody

to Mr. Alan Sondheim (by the way of Robin Hamman):

My name's Claudia Martinez, I'm a chilean Psychology student and at the
present I'm doing my honours thesis to graduate this year in the Catholic
University of Valparaiso (UCV), Chile.
  I finished all my signatures and my practice period too, having good
qualifications. My thesis theme's about Chilean people's motivation to chat,
and I've been investigating during this year, that's why Im interested on
participating in this research too. I'd like to recieve more information
about The Journal of Sex Research, the reason of needing a manuscript, if
you're recieving papers just from american and graduated psychologists and
the characteristics of the papers (including lenght and type of
investigations). Is the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association the DSM-IV?
I'm interested on investigate about Lesbians and Internet, I've contacted a
group of chilean lesbians who agree to participate in a focus group about
the issue. The idea is to do two focus groups, one in my city, Valparaiso
and another in the capital, Santiago, to contact different people. The
sessions would be filmed and analized after by me. I could send the video,
the script and the analysis,but I'm not sure about the terms and conditions
of the submission.
I tried to contact Mr. Irv Binik, but the Mail Delivery Service message is
that the routing server failed and I can't send my email to him.
Please answer soon this email, to know if it's possible to participate in
the research too.
Thank you
Claudia Martinez.

N E W   &   I M P R O V E D ! - Version 8.0
http://www.spark-online.com

This is not just another slick marketing campaign to shove new candy down
your throat, or to get you cleaner with new soap!

*spark-online is new and improved.

While life may not be getting any simpler, exploring electronic
consciousness has never been easier, never looked cooler, never sounded
better.

*spark is redesigned for issue 8.0

In issue 8.0 you will find that *spark-online got a little makeover.  Check
out the archive for a "before" picture.  Not only does *spark-online look
better, you will find it easier to get around.  You can also have ambient
electronica music beamed into your reality for a total electronic
consciousness experience.

Check out the digital gallery for world class Flash and streaming video, and
don't forget to share your opinions on the discussion board.


Kristopher Krug
editor-in-chief

exit analog >> enter *spark-online
http://www.spark-online.com

An email attachment slipped through the system which runs the
cybersociology list. For some reason, the automatic moderation set-up
did not stop it. This attachment is potentially damaging.

PLEASE DELETE ANY AND ALL ATTACHMENTS WHICH HAVE COME FROM THE
CYBERSOCIOLOGY LIST OVER THE PAST DAY. THE ACTUAL EMAIL IN QUESTION
IS TITLED "ILOVEYOU" AND WAS SENT ON TUESDAY 09 MAY.

I apologise for this.
Robin Hamman
List moderator

FYI, The attached file is a virus. DO not open it!!

ICE OUT

Victorious GE AM Op. Torch
II/JG1 Adjutant Gruppenkommodore
Maj.  PTR_ICE

Ad Mortem Fidelis

Here are some sites that might be of use to anyone who inadvertently
opened the ILOVEYOU virus contained in a message that was sent
through the Cybersociology List.

If you have received the email titled "ILOVEYOU", but have not opened
the attached file, simply delete the file and you should avoid
problems.

If you have opened it, please visit the following sites for details
on how to cure your PC:

http://www.datafellows.com/download-purchase/updates.html
http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/index.html#loveleta
http://download.mcafee.com/

NOTE: If you are running a computer using the MacOS, Linux, BeOS or
another non-microsoft operating system you should still delete the
file, but it shouldn't harm your computer.

Again, my apologies that this virus slipped through in the first
place.

Robin.

New Media Research


RESEARCH E-DITIONS
@ Virginia Tech

          The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) in the College
of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its
Research E-ditions series.  The CDDC ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu )  has been
in operation for nearly two years, and it publishes hypertext journals,
hosts digital research archives, and cooperates with many international
cyberculture organizations.
          As an entirely digital point-of-publication, the CDDC will review
and then produce professional academic research works--either
single-authored or edited collections--in a digital format.  Projects could
take the form of an "e-book" that simply makes available a scholarly
monograph in online format, or a collection of academic papers organized
around a central theme, or a fully hypertextual experiment with new forms
of digital discourse.   Arrangements can be made for "print on demand"
(POD) paper versions of these works, but the main focus of the CDDC is to
explore the new communicative potentials of hypertext, hypermedia, and
web-centered publication.  The review processes will be as extensive and
rigorous as those experienced in print academic communication, but it too
will be conducted in a fully on-line format.
          All topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions
series, however, we are particularly interested in manuscripts, digital
archives,  and hypertexts from the humanities and social sciences relating
to the areas of cyberculture, social theory, literary studies, digital art,
and cultural studies.  In addition, the CDDC is committed to publishing
projects from applied and natural sciences that relate directly to the
fields of bioinformatics, energy and environmental studies, and information
technology and communications.
          To propose a publication project, or to get more information,
contact the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at cddc@... .

Jeremy Hunsinger           http://www.cddc.vt.edu
Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Webmaster/Manager CDDC
526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061  (540)-231-7614


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Hi,
As many of you will already know, while continuing to study towards my PhD,
I have also been working as a Communities Producer at BBC Online since
August 1999. BBC Online is the World's largest publicly funded website, and
the most popular content (non-search engine or proprietary online service)
site in Europe. I have helped build the message board area as well as
starting the online chat service currently used by BBC Online.

Although I loved every minute of my job at BBC Online, where I ran
celebrity and politician interviews as well as much of the day to day
moderation and hosting of the message boards, I have now decided to leave
BBC Online to join a commercial venture. The company, Talkcast.com, is
building 150 websites over the coming 6 months, each targetting a niche
audience. They also have a telecoms license which allows them to provide
mobile telephony and landline service. My roll, as Communities Evangalist
(Manager), will be to build communities across a number of digital
platforms including online, WAP, and interactive television.

I leave the BBC on Wed. 24 May and will have to leave the UK for
approximately two weeks in order to obtain a UK work permit (after 6 years
here I'm still considered an American by immigration officials). I'll make
a later announcement, but the list will be inactive for approximately two
weeks starting 25 May. I do hope that this does not cause anyone an
inconvenience. Other than my brief absence, my career change should not in
anyway affect this list.

The list is now up to nearly 800 members, and is growing by 1-2 members per
day. I hope that all members are finding the list as useful as I have over
the past three years, and will continue to do so. Feel free to ask your
friends to join - the more people we have on the list, the useful it
becomes.

Best of Luck to you all,

Robin Hamman
Cybersociology List Moderator
robin@...

PS. I have changed the settings so that no one on the list can send
attachments in order to keep viruses from being diseminated across the
list. My sincere apologies go out to anyone who was infected by the
ILOVEYOU virus - this change should make such events impossible in the
future.


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New WAP site featuring selected content from Cybersoc and
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Robin Hamman, PhD Researcher at the Hypermedia Research Centre,
University of Westminster, London (amongst other things!)
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