I'm currently organising a proposal for a Phd research project
regarding the use of evolutionary design for virtual online
environments.
This proposal follows my MA Communication Design
project/dissertation "trans-kp | regenerative online interface".
______
"trans_kp" is an experimental online interface that uses
evolutionary and feedback procedures, in order to explore new
forms of interaction between users and users, users and data.

The initial design challenges were to identify principles in new
science (complexity theory, dynamical living systems, cognitive
sciences, and computational science) that could unfold new
conceptual and structural development for online interfaces.

Because of the wide range of new science, this study was
divided into four stages: first, an overview of some relevant
principles of complexity theory and dynamical living systems `per
si'; second, an introduction to computational evolutionary
systems that use these related principles to create design
models; third, a perspective of the internet through both
conceptual and computational approaches; fourth, development
of some conceptions that would be used on the "trans-kp"
interface, the data driven form model and the hyper navigation
functional model.

http://www.trans-kp.org
info@...
______

At the moment I am looking for partners, research associates or
advisers, sponsorships or funding, that could help me putting
this research further into a Phd .
I'm also trying to select a small group of Universities
(school/departments) to approach with my proposal, since it's
essential to develop this project in association with a course that
suits the nature of it.

So, if you think that you might be interested to join me, or if you
have any information that might be useful.
Or if you would like to discuss this project/subject further,
opening a poll of discussion, please let me know.

Thanks

dterroso@...

From "Lorrie Cranor" <lorrie@...> via the
CyberSocietyLive list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html

CALL FOR PAPERS

TPRC2001: The 29th Research Conference on
Communication, Information and Internet Policy
http://www.tprc.org/

October 27-29, 2001
Alexandria, Virginia

TPRC hosts this annual forum for dialogue among scholars and
decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in
communication and information policy.  The purpose of the conference
is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to
familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and
industry.  The TPRC program is assembled from submitted and invited
abstracts.

TPRC is now soliciting proposals for papers for presentation at its
2001 conference.  Proposals should be based on current theoretical
and/or empirical research relevant to the making of communication
and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective.
TPRC welcomes national, international, or comparative studies.
Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to
the following.  More information about these areas is available from
the TPRC web site at http://www.tprc.org/TPRC01/sessions01.htm .

Accessibility for the Disabled
Antitrust and Networks
Bandwidth and Spectrum Markets
Community Networking
E-Commerce
Economic Growth and Development
Electronic Political Participation and E-Government
Evolution of Industry Structure
Globalization and Regulation
Infrastructure (e.g. Broadband Development)
Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Trademark, Patent and Domain Name)
Interconnection, Peering and Settlements
Internet and Human Rights (e.g. Culture, Gender and Free Speech)
Internet Governance
Internet Quality of Service and Architecture
IP Telephony
Mass Media
Network Reliability, Critical Infrastructure and Security
Open Access
Open Code Policy
Peer to Peer Networking
Pricing Structure
Privacy
Proprietary Ownership of Internet Space
Regulation of Online Activity
Standards Setting
Statistical Studies
The Telecom Act 5 Years Later: Is Competition Working
Universal Service (Social and Economic perspectives)
User Studies
Value Sensitive Design
Wireless Policy Challenges

Abstracts should be certain to contain a clear statement of the
central ideas and outcomes of the research, in addition to a
description of the topic being addressed.  All submissions must
be submitted via the TPRC web site at http://www.tprc.org/submit/.
The site contains a form that you can use to submit your contact
information, a 500 word abstract, and a brief CV.  In addition, if
you have already written a full paper, you may post that online and
submit the URL.

Submissions are due by March 31, 2001.  No submission will be accepted
after this date.

Inquiries may be made to the members of the Program Committee (contact
info available from http://www.tprc.org/TPRC01/prog-comm01.htm):

Lorrie Faith Cranor - Chair, AT&T Labs-Research
Andrew Blau, Flanerie Works
Jean Camp, Harvard University
Robert Cannon, Federal Communications Commission
Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University
Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University and University of California - Berkeley
Hudson Janisch, University of Toronto
Mark Lemley, University of California - Berkeley
Lee McKnight, Tufts University
Michael Niebel, European Commission
Sharon Strover, University of Texas
Theresa Swinehart, WorldCom

English  /  Spanish

IV Chilean Anthropology Congress
Symposium on Anthropology, Society and New Technologies

In recent years it has became evident for social scientists that development
and spread use of new information and communication technologies (NT) are
producing new social phenomena for study, as well as they provide social
scientists themselves with new means and resources for research.
Informatics, telecommunication, robotics, informational networks, and
specially Internet development has allowed the emergence of scientific
electronic journals, virtual universities, academic networks, specialized
software for social research and the production of multimedia products for
communicating research results.
On the public side, new ways of communication and interaction between human
beings in technically-based informational environments have developed and a
number of new identities based on similar personal interest have grown
related to the use of these NT.
Studying this reality poses new methodological questions that require to be
discussed by social researchers, but so far there has not been a specific
space for that discussion in scientific events, causing that papers and
dissertations on this subject were found scattered through different
symposiums, workshops and meetings at the same event.
The aim of this Symposium on Anthropology, Society and New Technologies in
the IV Chilean Anthropology Congress is to revert this situation by bringing
together anthropologists and other social sciences professionals involved in
this field so they can meet and share their experiences, ideas, doubts and
concerns on the subject.

Papers on any of the following or related topics will be welcomed:

? Social use of NT. Social and cultural changes induced by the spread use of
NT.
? Cybercultures. Studies on virtual communities and computer mediated
communication. Studies on human-computer interaction and on new ways of
sociability mediated by the use of computers.
? NT applied to Anthropology and Social Research. Innovations and
reflections on computer assisted qualitative and quantitative data analysis,
recording and processing in Anthropology and related disciplines.
? Academic networking. Internet as set or interrelated research resources.
? Methodological problems risen from fieldwork in cyberspaces and from the
application of NT to recording, processing and communicating anthropological
information.

IV Chilean Anthropology Congress will have place in Santiago between Nov. 19
and 23, 2001. Its main topic is "Anthropology challenges: Modern Society,
Globalization and difference". All sessions, symposiums, panels and
workshops will be held in Spanish without any translation. Discussions will
be held in Spanish and/or Portuguese. Papers in other languages are welcomed
as well. All accepted papers will be published as a volume after the event.
There will not be accepted papers from people who will not attend the
congress.

Deadline for abstract:     April 27, 2001
Deadline for full paper:  September 28, 2001

We invite you to visit the Congress web site at
http://rehue.csociales.uchile.cl/antropologia for further details or email
to organizers: ca2001@...

Papers for this symposium should be submitted to its organizers also. Please
look for their email address at the bottom of this message.


Spanish

Simposio: Antropología, Sociedad y Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la
Comunicación
Presentación
Desde hace algunos años se ha hecho notorio para las Cs. Soc. que el
desarrollo y masificación creciente de las llamadas nuevas tecnologías de la
información y la comunicación están produciendo fenómenos sociales nuevos
que requieren ser abordados por las ciencias sociales, a la vez que
proporcionan nuevas herramientas de trabajo a los mismos investigadores
sociales que transforman a las cs. Soc. mismas.
El desarrollo de la informática, las telecomunicaciones, la robótica, las
redes en general y principalmente Internet, ha permitido la proliferación de
las publicaciones académicas electrónicas, de universidades virtuales, de
redes académicas, el desarrollo de software especializado para ciencias
sociales, de las capacidades multimediales para la presentación y difusión
de los resultados de las investigaciones.
Pero también han aparecido nuevas formas de comunicación e interacción entre
los seres humanos en espacios virtuales, comunidades de interés con diverso
grado de permanencia, nuevas identidades definidas a partir de la relación
establecida con la tecnología.
El trabajo con estas nuevas realidades y con los nuevos medios plantea
cuestiones metodológicas que requieren reflexión y discusión por parte de
los investigadores sociales.
Esta discusión e intercambio se han visto obstaculizados hasta ahora por la
ausencia de un lugar propio en los eventos científicos para el encuentro de
los especialistas que trabajan en estos temas, ocasionando que sus trabajos
se presenten en diversos simposios o mesas en un mismo evento.
Con la presentación de este simposio sobre Antropología, Sociedad y Nuevas
Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación aspiramos a generar este
espacio de encuentro en el IV Congreso Chileno de Antropología.

Temas
Serán bienvenidos los trabajos que aborden algunos de los siguientes temas o
temáticas afines:
Uso social de las NT : Modificaciones culturales producidas por la
generalización del uso de las Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la
Comunicación. Ciberculturas. Estudios sobre comunidades virtuales y procesos
de comunicación mediatizada por computadora. Estudios sobre la interacción
del hombre con las NT y de las nuevas formas de sociabilidad generadas por
el uso e NT.
Aplicación de las NT en Antropología: Aplicaciones novedosas de NT en la
investigación, tanto sea en la recolección de datos y en el procesamiento de
la información como en la presentación y difusión de los resultados. Trabajo
en redes académicas. Internet como fuente de recursos de investigación.
Problemas metodológicos derivados del trabajo de campo en el ciberespacio o
de la utilización de las NT en el relevamiento y procesamiento de la
información antropológica.

Objetivo
Proveer un espacio de encuentro para el intercambio, la reflexión y la
discusión entre profesionales de la Antropología y otras ciencias sociales
que utilizan las NT en su labor investigativa o estudian el impacto de las
NT en la sociedad y la cultura.




***********************************************************
Pablo Gustavo Rodriguez
Lic. en Antropología
Consejo Pcial. de la Familia y Desarrollo Humano
pablo_g@...
pablogr@...
***********************************************************

Dear Colleagues:This is a reminder to alert you that the deadline for abstracts
for the
Mobilize! conference is rapidly approaching. The conference will be held
May 29-30, 2001 in Windsor, UK; more information can be found at the link
below:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/mobilize/

the FINAL deadline for abstract submissions is 23 February 2001. Abstracts
of 300 words can be sent to  mobilize@...

If there are any further questions or difficulties regarding this panel,
please do not hesitate to get in touch. Thankyou

<call 4 papers>:

Mobilize!

Interventions in the social, cultural and interactional analysis of
mobility, ubiquity and information & communication technology

the 2nd Digital World Research Centre
interdisciplinary international workshop
for postgraduate social scientists

tue 29th - weds 30th may 2001
@ cumberland lodge, windsor, uk.

<agenda>:

The aim of this workshop will be to provide a structure for debating
emerging research directions in the social studies of mobile and ubiquitous
technologies. This workshop will be distinct in highlighting analytic
perspectives in an interdisciplinary framework to enable constructive
dialogue within a supportive atmosphere.  It will present significant
current empirical research in progress, together with an emphasis on
theoretical and methodological issues.

papers and presentations welcomed from, but not limited to:-

! sociology
! psychology
! economics
! geography
! urban studies
! computer science
! design
! HCI

fees for postgraduate researchers will be highly subsidized

<issues>:

Following the practical and symbolic centrality of mobile communications to
recent gatherings and mobilisations from Paulsgrove to Prague, this
academic mobilisation is round the technological leitmotif of the mobile
itself.  Mobile communications and convergent technologies, and the actions
and performances they facilitate, are continually and rapidly developing
and extremely ubiquitous social phenomena.  How such technologies and their
associated uses and techniques of ‘mobility’ and ‘ubiquity’  might best be
understood and critically interrogated is one focus of this workshop.

the production of viable mobile technologies for a broad range of user also
raises numerous new issues around interactive system design.  Social
scientists are being  placed at a critical juncture where a significant
impact can be made on the design of mobile technologies and associated
design methodologies, employing the analytical methods and techniques
brought to bear on studying behaviour, cognition and social practices.

the increase in users and introduction of new technologies and network
services has also led to a dramatic change in the economics characterising
the mobile telecoms market.  Understanding requires consideration of the
competition forces which determine the agents’ strategies, together with
issues such as number of licenses in granted, interconnection between
operators and efficient allocation of the spectrum, which require the
presence of an active regulator.

<menu>:

! mobile cultures
! ‘the future is…’
! location, location, location

! mobilities, ubiquities and new social theory
! social exclusion & ICT imperatives
! working and domesticating
! surveillance, hypercoordination and mobilisation
! gender & mobility

! designing mobile technologies
! informing design methodologies

! Regulation and network economics
! Interconnection terms and access pricing
! License auctions and spectrum allocation

! methodological issues in mobile analysis
! digital & disciplinary convergence

(these themes are not exclusive and any proposal relevant to the conference
will be considered)

<send To>:

16th feb 2001, abstract
30th april 2001, full paper submission

abstracts of no more than 300 words in PDF or rtf format.

submit via e-mail to mobilize@... or by post/fax to the organizers
below.

kevin mcsorley, karenza moore, barry fentiman
alex taylor, dionisia tsavara

mobilize
digital world research centre
school of human sciences
university of surrey
guildford gu2 7xh. uk

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/mobilize/

e-mail:    mobilize@...
tel:          +44(0)1483 873979
fax:         +44(0)1483 259550

Forwarded from the CyberCulture list, which picked it up from the
Papyrus news. Sorry for any cross-posting, but it looked interesting.

>Call for Papers
>
>THE NET: NEW APPRENTICES AND OLD MASTERS
>
>The internet is at the epicentre of a conceptual revolution, both in
>developed and developing countries dazzled by the lure of new technology.
>As Mark Nunes has written: "in its current figuration, the 'net' does more
>than network the globe; it creates a metaphorical world in which we
>conduct our lives. And the more ecstatic the promises of new, possible
>worlds, the more problematic the concept of 'the world' becomes."
>
>In this special issue of Mots Pluriels we will be focusing on the role of
>the internet in changing - or not changing - power relations between
>individuals, communities, societies, countries and continents. Some of the
>questions which might be considered are:
>
>To what extent does the net replicate pre-existing power relations, where
>"old masters" merely don new disguises? Does it open up possibilities of
>resistance to established power structures? Does it allow for a
>restructuring of power relations? Are "new apprentices" able to accede to
>a voice of their own? Who might these new apprentices be, what are they
>learning, and what will they do with that knowledge? In short, how
>different - if at all - is the world of cyberspace from the world outside,
>and what possibilities of
>liberation - if any - does it offer?
>
>More specific questions which might be addressed in this issue include:
>
>What does the internet/the web/cyberspace signify when observed from the
>varying perspectives of people of different genders, races, social
>classes? What is its real importance for minorities? How are its
>possibilities viewed in the "developing" as compared to the "developed"
>world? Does it mean something
>different in the East from in the West? How does it undercut established
>concepts of identity? How does it allow for identities to be
>(de-/re-)constructed?
>
>Mots Pluriels is a refereed electronic and international journal open to
>literary-minded scholars wishing to share their points of view on
>important contemporary world issues. Manuscripts are reviewed by expert
>readers and publication is dependent on their approval.
>
>As Mots Pluriels is a bilingual journal, articles may be submitted in
>either English or French. Submissions should not exceed 3000 - 3500 words.
>They should include a ten line paragraph presenting the writer of the
>article and his/her most recent publications (3 or 4). Further style
>guidelines can be found on the
>journal's homepage at: http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/
>
>All articles must be sent by e-mail to the the Guest Editor, Dr. Mark A.
>Pegrum, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Scotland
>[mpegrum@...] with a copy to the General Editor Dr. Jean-Marie
>Volet [jvolet@...]
>
>Submission Deadline:
>15th May 2001
>
>Publication Date:
>July 2001
>
>For any further information, please contact Dr. Mark A. Pegrum
>[MPegrum@...], Guest Editor and co-ordinator of the issue.
>
>
>
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CFP: Internet Research 2.0 - INTERconnections

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE

   A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE
   ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY


   Articles in this special issue will address the social implications of
new technologies - ranging from computer-based communications technologies
to biomedical and genetic applications. As Ursula Franklin emphasizes, we
are as interested in what new technologies prevent as what they enable.
Submissions should address one or more of the following questions:

What are the social contexts within which new technologies are developed
and applied and how do these play out?

What social changes (intended and unintended) may result from
various new technologies?

How do new technologies effect existing and future patterns of social and
global inequality?

What is the impact on social movements and political organizing
of new technologies?

How do new technologies change our understanding of knowledge and what are
the social implications of this epistemological shift?

Deadline for Submission: May 2001

Email submissions to:


        Dr. Ann Travers
        Information Technology and Society Editor
        Electronic Journal of Sociology
        atravers@sfu.

Switch: Social/Networks.

If any social system functions and exists within a describable,
measurable network structure, then perhaps the question at hand is:
can any network structure be described as a social system? In this
issue Social &
Networks, we explore, describe, define, represent and even test
social network theories on individuals, organizations, art and
technology. Like most social theory we are looking at how
individuals, organizations, and software exist and behave within a
network. With the bombardment of interactive capability in the past
few years our social networks are quite extensive and complex. They
have become increasingly more difficult to describe and visually
represent. Switch aims to look beyond the expected and into areas
relevant to artists today.

In Racism and Technology, Michelle Wright looks at the concepts
associated with "the digital divide" in which different sections of
the community living side by side, exist within different social
systems and therefore have access to different powers. Beryl Graham's
Live from Bangladesh reveals other aspects of globalization and
theories of postindustrial society influencing/creating new media.
Graham touches on many of the similarities and differences between
India, the U.S. and Great Britain. Marc Böhlen's Time Types and Table
Manners describes experiments with artificial intelligence. Böhlen
explores ideas of time, machine interaction, and authorship. In
Situated and Distributed Knowledge Production in Network Space, Geri
Wittig examines issues of identity and self-organizing social
networks amidst the mutable boundaries of network space. Joel
Slayton's Social Software develops arguments on "how membranes enable
autopoiesis in software." Slayton infers that software is social and
behaves socially. Wendy Angel's IdeaConsciousness NetWorks is an
obscure look at abstraction and consciousness in relationship to
network theory and painting. Matt Mays looks at the role of the
artist as lawyer and the lawyer as artist in Defining the
Lawyer/Artist. Mays touches on some of the biggest cases to influence
Information Technology. In Exclusive interviews Matt Mays, Nora
Raggio, and Sheila Malone look at the role and function of
individuals in progressive and ground-breaking arts organizations;
Creative Disturbance, GroundZ ero, Bill Viola, The Kitchen. Cindy
Ahuna reviews Ken Goldberg's newest book, The Robot in the Garden.
Jody Berland and Rob Riddle may have opposing ideas about social
interaction and the sound art scene today. In Musicking Machines,
Berland looks at how machines have changed the nature of
collaboration and musicianship. Riddle's Audiononlocation, argues
that the internet has empowered a new kind of collaboration and
exploration of sound art form. Susan Otto's Manifesto for a Virtual
Favela is a haunting but sober look at art practice in the
complicated mediated world we live in today. Steve Cisler, assists
local community networking advocates and has lectured worldwide on
the promise and the cultural challenges of the Internet and in his
latest Letter from Aspen: Cultural policyfurthers his dialogue about
private vs. public, culture vs nature.

Examples of social network complexities can be found in our Projects
section. Code Zebra is a highly interactive interdisciplinary,
performance and software system where art meets science. Sara Diamond
creator and developer of Code Zebra is a television and new media
producer/director, artist, curator, critic, teacher and artistic
director who has represented Canada and the USA at home and
internationally for many years. Conference Mapping Project by
graduate students Ben Eakins, Darby Smith, Minqing Zhou is an
intricate web of visual representation of the contemporary academic
and artistic gathering of individuals. In Electronic Disturbance
Theater's Zapatista Tribal Port Scan, the participation of activist
intermingles in a social network of the radical and complex political
issues facing contemporary society. Tommy Alvaran's and Darren Wong's
undergraduate senior project:Internetica cleanses websites from
unnecessary code leaving them with a new Internetic Code consisting
of X, Y, and Z values.

Social &
Networks is perhaps a confusing spider web of dynamic and critical
ideas about art, science, and our need to make sense of it all.

Switch

Sincerely, Sheila A. Malone Managing Editor Switch:
http://switch.sjsu.edu e-mail:Pythonldy@...

>
>Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/CODE/index.html
>
>
>Non-proprietary or free approaches to creating and distributing digital
>tools and content have come increasingly into the public eye. The Free
>Software and Open Source movements - centred around operating systems,
>programming languages, and other utilities - have inspired a diverse group
>of initiatives spanning a wide range: collaborative scholarship and research
>in the humanities and sciences, emergent art forms, and a variety of
>Internet applications (e.g Gnutella, FreeNet). Apparent in all these
>movements is a tendency to reinforce the breadth and richness of the public
>domain in cyberspace. They create new kinds of collective goods, while at
>the same time challenging traditional copyright regimes, and offer a
>challenge to individualistic modes of authorship.
>
>To consider these issues the Arts Council of England and the Academia
>Europaea, in partnership with the new Crucible agency at the Computer
>Laboratory, Cambridge and the Cambridge University Law Faculty's
>Intellectual Property Unit, are organising a Conference to be held at
>Queen's College, Cambridge, from 4 to 6 April 2001. The conference, CODE -
>Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy - will bring together
>leading theorists and practitioners in the media, software, law, technology
>and the arts to ask: How do non-proprietary principles contribute to
>creativity and collective action? What problems may be encountered in the
>legal domain? Will the current efforts of established IP rights holders to
>extend copyright enforcement eventually be reconciled with this emerging
>world of free-flowing network-based collaboration? What lessons may be
>gained from alternative concepts of ownership? How can these movements
>interface with regular commercial practice?
>
>This conference will appeal to everyone concerned with the emerging software
>and creative media industries, particularly the intersection between those
>industries where new media content is being created and disseminated via
>software distribution methods.
>
>It will offer insights also into issues critical to cultural and social
>development in Europe as well as globally. The rapid development of the open
>content movement has far-reaching consequences for policy makers across many
>disciplines particularly in a period of rapid expansion of investment in
>e-universities, distributed research laboratories, virtual faculties and the
>opening up of broadband networks which will enable high speed distribution
>of data and new kinds of multimedia products.
>
>
>Speakers
>John Howkins
>Chairman of the Conference, is a media consultant, Chairman of the
>webcasting company Tornado, Director of Equator Group plc and author of
>several books on the communication society.
>
>Michael Century
>has been a policy adviser to the Government of Canada on the cultural
>applications of ITC, and was the author of a major report to the Rockefeller
>Foundation on innovation in digital culture.
>
>Richard Stallman
>is the founder of the GNU free operating system, the principal author of the
>GNU C compiler and other programs, and holds an honorary doctorate at the
>Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
>
>Martha Woodmansee
>is at the English Department of Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, and
>has written several books on authorship and intellectual property. She is
>especially interested in the collaborative nature of creative production.
>
>
>Geert Lovink
>is a media consultant, publisher and producer of radio programmes. He has
>worked in Berlin and Budapest and is now based in Australia. His book
>Uncanny Networks will be published in March 2001.
>
>Marilyn Strathern
>is Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and Professor of Social
>Anthropology. She specialises in the anthropology of kinship, ownership and
>gender.
>
>Christopher Kelty
>is an anthropologist with special interests in Internet healthcare and in
>the cultural, economic and political aspects of free software in the US,
>Germany and India.
>
>Bill Cornish
>is Professor of Law at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the British Academy
>and author of several books on the law of intellectual property, patents and
>copyright.
>
>James Boyle
>is Professor of Law at the Duke Law School, North Carolina. He has also
>taught at Yale, Harvard and Pennsylvania Law School, and specialises in the
>law of information. He has published Shamans, Software and Spleens and
>numerous press articles.
>
>Bruce Perens
>is a software engineer turned business person, primary author of The Open
>Source Definition, the formative document of the Open Source movement, and
>founder of Linux Standard Base and the Open Source Initiative.
>
>Antoine Moreau
>is an artist and founder of Copyleft and of the newsgroup
>fr.rec.arts.plastiques for information about art and artists.
>
>Bob Young
>has twenty years experience in computer industry finance and marketing and
>has been recognised among Business Week's 'top entrepreneurs'. He is the
>Co-Founder and Chairman of Red Hat Center, now known as Center for the
>Public Domain..
>
>Alok Nandi
>is a lecturer, writer and director in the new media, including mixed media.
>He is preparing installations for Porto 2001.
>
>Anne Nigten
>is Managing Director of the V2 Laboratory in Rotterdam. She is a visual
>designer and lecturer in the audio-visual arts.
>
>Drazen Pantic
>is the founder of OpenNet, the Internet department of Radio B92 in Belgrade.
>He has lectured and published widely on the use of the Internet to support
>independent media and free expression.
>
>Mark Greco
>is a printmaker, illustrator and lecturer.
>
>Simon Pope
>is an artist, lecturer, producer and software designer.
>
>John Naughton
>is leader of the Going Digital project at the Open University and a fellow
>of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He runs the Press Fellowship Programme and is
>involved in the creation of Open Source teaching materials.
>
>Robin Mansell
>is Professor of New Media and the Internet at the London School of
>Economics. She is known for her work on the social, economic and technical
>issues arising from new technologies.
>
>Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
>is International and Managing Editor of First Monday, the peer-reviewed
>Journal of the Internet, and Programme Leader at the International Institute
>of Infonomics. He has written widely on the non-formal socio-economic and
>legal structures of the Internet, and in 1994 developed the "Cooking-pot
>Market" model of non-monetary economics to explain the functioning of
>collaborative development.
>
>
>
>Robin Hamman
>Development Producer - Communities
>Granada Broadband
>
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I am currently teaching an undergraduate module entitled
'Cyberpsychology' in the Department of Cybernetics, University of
Bradford, UK.

Might any of you be able to help with suggestions for materials
(articles, books, journals, websites, videos, etc) which deal
specifically with the following topics:

-- Exhibitionism; especially as regards 'homepages' on the web (why
this need to establish a web presence? Why are there so many?); and
'lifecams (why are there so many cameras which continually broadcast
one's day-to-day life on the internet? Why are they so popular?).

-- Pornography; why? for who? effect on the consumer, any studies which
show consumption patterns.

-- Anything else of potential relevance to the aims of my
Cyberpsychology module; that is, 'To develop an understanding of the
psychological dimensions of cyberspace (environments created by
computers and online networks) and how people react to and behave
within it.'

Any and all suggestions GREATLY appreciated.

cheers,

Apurba

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Dr Apurba Kundu
The Internet, Law and Society
Department of Cybernetics
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Tel: +44-(0)1274-23-5046
Fax: +44-(0)1274-23-6600
Email: a.kundu@...
Web: www.cyber.brad.ac.uk/tils.html
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March Cybersalon
Inhabited TV- living with new forms
Thursday March 1st 2001

see flyer on www.cybersalon.org/cybersalon/resources/itv_flyer.html

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Part 1- Discussion:
Price: 6 pounds/4 pounds(conc.)/3 pounds(ICA)
-Creativity and iTV

With 98.5% of households owning a TV set compared with less than 50% owning
a computer, the potential of Interactive TV to reach the mass populace must
be explored. So, how can we create engaging content that both draws the
audience into interaction and allows for personal expression, when content
control is in the hands of broadcasters?
How will audience relationships with television change as digital TV becomes
the standard and interactivity the norm? What is the future of the narrative
and can interactive TV bring wider democratisation where the Internet has
not? What effects will the arrival of broadband have?

Speakers include interactive TV consultant Stuart
Nolan from Oyster Partners, stephen jeffery-poulter on interactive
narrative, William Rowe from Protein° and Rachel Collinson.
Check the latest on : www.cybersalon.org

Part 2: from 9pm (1.50 pounds/ ICA members free)
digital short films in collaboration with Livestock
digital stimulation including work from leading iTV producers

in the bar:
www.space.fm live perfomances with:
Supanaut featuring Kid Suda live
One Tongue Soup (space.fm)
Bambola (In Flight Radio & XFM)
Sore Throat - William Pears and Mike Benson with spoken words and beats
+ live visual jamming by Sanfrandisco (Japan)

@ the ICA
the Mall
London sw1 5ah
tubes:piccadilly/charing cross


sponsors:
University of Westminster
Hypermedia Research Centre
ICA/Sun microsystems
Arts Council of England
New Media Knowledge
Wildlife Records
Oyster partners

<http://www.ethicalmedia.com>www.ethicalmedia.com     Welcome to the
Ethical Media February e-Newsletter.  We hope you find the
stories helpful and inspiring and we would be grateful  for any comments  and
suggestions.


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Ethical  Media Network
People are questioning how media the Internet can help to  affect
positive social and environmental change. More than that they want to  do
something about it.
- What are the problems that need solutions?
-  How can ideas become action?
- How can my company/organisation maximise the  positive of media ICT and
minimise the negative?
- Where to start?
-  Who to talk to?
It is our intention that these networking events and the ones  to follow are
a mechanism to initiate affirmative action by allowing issues  and ideas to
be shared across industry and policy/research.
The Network is  hosted by Ethical Media
(<http://www.ethicalmedia.com>www.ethicalmedia.com),  Smartchange
(<http://www.smartchange.org>www.smartchange.org), Forum for the  Future
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and  Demos (<http://www.demos.co.uk>www.demos.co.uk). For further details
and comments please e-mail
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Maximum  Access

This evening seminar produced in association with New Media  Knowledge will
examine how different sections of society actually experience  digital media
products, and how production processes can be adjusted to  create interactive
products that are better experienced and enjoyed by these  groups.
Questions that will be addressed by the seminar include: who and how  many
are missing out? How can professionals broaden the appeal of their  products?
How far should creativity be compromised by  accessibility?

Date: 18 April 2001
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Cost:  £20
Location: PSI Conference Centre, 100 Park Village East, London NW1  3SR
Nearest Stations: Mornington Crescent, Euston

To book your ticket  please go to the
<http://www.nmk.co.uk/maximumaccess.cfm>www.nmk.co.uk/maximumaccess.cfm

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Gordon  Brown launches The Inner City 100 website, an Ethical  Media
production.

The Inner City 100 Index tracks and rewards inner  city entrepreneurs.

The Inner City 100 is a new national index to track  the success of micro and
small enterprises in the UK's inner cities. Launched  on Friday by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP,  The Inner City 100
will initially target entrepreneurs in fifteen inner  cities of the UK.
<http://www.theinnercity100.org>www.theinnercity100.org

See also <http://www.neweconomics.org>www.neweconomics.org


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EXCLUSIVE:  Dot-com ethics: e-business and sustainability
Download the pamphlet at  <http://www.ethicalmedia.com>www.ethicalmedia.com

The  pamphlet, produced by Forum for the Future, explores three strands of
the  relationship between e-business and sustainability:

. 3D entrepreneurs  What are the attitudes of the dot-com pioneers to
corporate responsibility?  Can next wave of e-entrepreneurs succeed in
combining economic innovation  with social and environmental innovation?

. eBay environmentalism What  are the environmental impacts and opportunities
of e-business? Can new  web-based market models be used to promote
sustainability?

.  Stakeholders.com How do dot-coms relate to their stakeholders? Can
e-commerce  promote more inclusive and accountable business behaviour?

The pamphlet  is being published as part of the Digital Futures project. The
final report  >from Digital Futures will be launched on 1st March at a 1-day
conference in  London.

<http://www.digitalfutures.org.uk>www.digitalfutures.org.uk

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Online  Social Networks from March 28 to April 11

Learn strategies, approaches,  tactics, and tools to help you:
Design networks for communities of practice,  teams, learning cohorts, and
knowledge sharing.
Launch networks that  attract and engage.
Sustain networks that go beyond the early adopters and  become mainstream.

Every organization is also a social network. The  business of the
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place as conversations. Skillfully structured and represented,  those
conversations can become sources of social and intellectual  capital.
Knowledgeable use of message boards, chat, instant messaging, can  enhance
and enable online social networks.

This conference will help  companies understand why and how to organize,
lead, manage, value, and  sustain internal online social networks for teams,
communities of practice,  learning cohorts, and other mission-oriented
groups.

http://www.groupjazz.com/osn2001

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45  Countries Suppress Internet Access for Citizens

Governments in 45  countries across the developing world are being taken to
task for placing  restrictions on their citizens' ability to access
information on the  internet. In most cases, government control has been
achieved by compelling  citizens to subscribe to a state-run Internet Service
Provider (ISP), charges  Reporters Without Borders (known by its French
acronym RSF, for Reporters  Sans Frontiers).

<http://www.rsf.fr/uk/home.html>http://www.rsf.fr/uk/home.html
Inter Press Service News Report:
http://www.oneworld.net/ips2/feb01/22_39_103.html

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Explore  the Social Aspects of the Digital Revolution

At a time when the world  confronts immense social problems, many hopes for
progress are grounded in  the development potential of new information
technologies. But technical  breakthroughs in themselves are not a sufficient
condition for improving the  lives of most people in Third World countries.

UNRISD programme on  Information Technologies and Social
Development: www.unrisd.org/infotech

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UKonline  website launched - 19/2/2001
posted: 20/2/2001
Get more involved in the  democratic process. You can take part in government
consultations and discuss  views with other users. You can find your elected
representatives and get  information on elections, or find out how to vote
and how to make complaints  about public services.

Contribute to government policy-making through  official consultations, and
discuss your views with other users.

Find  out about elections, your elected representatives, voting and  making
complaints about public services. Explore CitizenSpace to see what  else you
can do.

Cabinet Office Minister Ian McCartney said:
"This  website is a key part of our £1billion UK online drive to get all
Government  services online. It's turning Government on its head - ensuring
convenient  and accessible services organised around people's needs."

www.ukonline.gov.uk/online/citizenspace/default.asp

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Ethical Media provide the media and communications  solutions needed to
achieve the social and environmental aims of your  organisation. Extensive
experience of working with progressive organisations  combined with the high
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We are expanding and are always in need of talented and inspired  individuals
with a vision who would be interested to work with us.
Ethical  Media is interested in building long term partnerships with
organisations and  businesses in the new media and social responsibility
arena
www.ethicalmedia.com

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Dear Apurba, (& everyone else: I started this as a private reply, but then
thought it just might be useful to others on the list - and it's a bit of
self-publicising)
Jill Arnold & I, here at Nottingham Trent University, have been doing some
work on presentation of self in personal home pages for a while now. You can
find links to some of our stuff on my home page:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/soc/psych/miller. Some of the papers there will refer
you to other stuff. We have other publications in press, primarily about how
women academics phandle personal homepages, which we could pass on if they
looked as though they might be useful. Check the stuff that's up, and see if
you need any more.
Daniel Chandler (URL: http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/publish.html) has also
written about selfpresentation on the Web, and has a great site with a big
collection of links covering a wide range of elctronic communication issues
- and other things.
www.aber.ac.uk/media/
There's also John Suler's online book 'The Psychology of Cyberspace':
http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html
The University of Maryland's Resource Centre for Cyberculture Studies has
useful links http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/
David Gauntlett at Leeds runs www.theory.org.uk and www.newmediastudies.com,
both interesting (the second will be more use to you, I guess). His edited
book web.studies (Arnold, 2000) is very basic, but lively and interesting
and covers a good range.
I really like Miller & Slater's The Internet (Berg, 2000)- an ethnography of
internet use in Trinidad, which raises lots of 'everyday life' (rather than
'wierd cyberspace') issues.
There are older, well-known sources - Turkle, Rheingold, Jones - but you may
know about those anyway.
Hope this is useful. Contact me direct if you want to follow any of this up
further.
Hugh

Hugh Miller
Department of Social Sciences, The Nottingham Trent University,
Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK
hugh.miller@...
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/soc/psych/miller

-----Original Message-----
From: A Kundu [mailto:a.kundu@...]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:38 PM
To: cybersociology
Subject: [cybersociology] Web psychology HELP


I am currently teaching an undergraduate module entitled
'Cyberpsychology' in the Department of Cybernetics, University of
Bradford, UK.

Might any of you be able to help with suggestions for materials
(articles, books, journals, websites, videos, etc) which deal
specifically with the following topics:

-- Exhibitionism; especially as regards 'homepages' on the web (why
this need to establish a web presence? Why are there so many?); and
'lifecams (why are there so many cameras which continually broadcast
one's day-to-day life on the internet? Why are they so popular?).

-- Pornography; why? for who? effect on the consumer, any studies which
show consumption patterns.

-- Anything else of potential relevance to the aims of my
Cyberpsychology module; that is, 'To develop an understanding of the
psychological dimensions of cyberspace (environments created by
computers and online networks) and how people react to and behave
within it.'

Any and all suggestions GREATLY appreciated.

cheers,

Apurba

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Dr Apurba Kundu
The Internet, Law and Society
Department of Cybernetics
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Tel: +44-(0)1274-23-5046
Fax: +44-(0)1274-23-6600
Email: a.kundu@...
Web: www.cyber.brad.ac.uk/tils.html
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>the next question is whether it will close or widen in years to come.
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>are beginning to appear, like those of the US Census Bureau, summarized
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>Eurobarometer and United Nations Development Reports.  However, research
>and analysis based on these resources and other primarily descriptive
>statistics does not take into consideration the multifaceted nature of
>access, the social, cultural, and psychological causes for lack of
>access, the need for theory to explain these problems and policy
>measures to address them, and the contributions that a communicative or
>psychological perspective can provide.
>
>     We invite manuscripts that address the digital divide and any of the
>problems associated with understanding its nature, its origins, and its
>potential solutions.  In particular, we welcome:
>
>     * Empirical studies related to the existence of a digital divide
>(clearly defined) among one or more of the categories of income,
>education, occupation, age, sex, race and ethnicity.  Multivariate
>analyses are preferred.
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>Northern America, European Union, Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and the
>Third World.
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>multivariate models, new conceptual distinctions, and/or theories of
>(in)equality in the information and network society.
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>technology, digital skills, usage styles and actual usage in different
>social contexts, with special attention to the social categories
>mentioned above.
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>technology and its opportunities to solve inequalities.  For example,
>has digital technology enabled higher rates of political participation
>in general or has it benefited the existing political elite and already
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>advantage?
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>institutions.
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>both a hard copy and an electronic copy will be required.  Deadline for
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>>                          First Call For Papers
>>                                 ---------------------
>>
>>                                       COSIGN 2001
>>
>>                             1st International Conference on
>>
>>        COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS IN GAMES
>>             AND NEW MEDIA (COSIGN 2001)
>>
>>                       (http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001)
>>
>>                            Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
>>
>>                         September 12 - September 14, 2001
>>
>>********************************************************************
>>
>>CONFERENCE SCOPE
>>
>>This cross-disciplinary conference explores the ways in which semiotics
>>(and related theories such as structuralism and post-structuralism) can
>>be
>>applied to creating and analysing computer-based media. It is intended
>>for
>>anyone with an interest in areas of overlap (or potential overlap)
>>between
>>semiotics and interactive digital media - including artists, designers,
>>critics, computer scientists, HCI and AI practitioners, semioticians,
>>narratologists and new media practitioners.
>>
>>Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols and signification, and is
>>therefore the study of how meaning is created, encoded and understood.
>>Computational semiotics is understood here to be the application of
>>semiotic theories to interactive digital media and has three main areas
>>(which overlap). They are:
>>
>>The way in which meaning can be created by, encoded in, or understood
>>by,
>>the computer (using systems or techniques based upon semiotics).
>>
>>The way in which meaning in interactive digital media is understood by
>>the
>>viewer or user (again using systems or techniques based upon semiotics).
>>
>  >The use of semiotics as the starting point for a system for looking
>  >critically at the content of interactive digital media - devising a
>  >critical framework equivalent in status and depth to art theory or
>>academic
>>film criticism.
>>
>>Interactive digital media here refers to computer-based media that
>>responds
>>to the user's input. This response can either be in real-time,
>>responding
>>continuously to the changing input of the user, or generatively, based
>>on
>>initial settings provided by the user. It incorporates one or more
>>modalities including digital video and audio, live-rendered and
>>pre-rendered 2D or 3D graphics, still images and text, etc.
>>
>>Input may make use of conventional keyboard, mouse, joystick or game
>>pad,
>>data glove, or sensor technology of any type. Output may be through
>>conventional screen technology (including data projectors), 3D
>>visualization systems (including VR goggles and CAVE systems), haptics,
>>and
>>other new interaction technologies.
>>
>>Media that make use of the unique capabilities of digital systems are of
>>
>>particular interest to this conference. These include: computer games,
>>interactive narratives and other forms of interactive entertainment;
>>interactive video, virtual reality systems and virtual environments; and
>>
>>hypermedia.
>>
>>COSIGN 2001 invites the following submissions:
>>1. Academic Papers
>>2. Media Artworks
>>3. Posters and technical demonstrations
>>
>>IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:
>>
>>1. Academic Papers
>>Submission date for Academic Papers: 23rd March 2001
>>Acceptance will be notified on or around 7th May 2001
>>Authors of accepted papers will be required to return the revised
>>camera-ready copy and complete registration form (at least one per
>>paper)
>>by 11th June 2001
>>Electronic version for online publication to be submitted by 25th June
>>2001
>>
>>2. Media Artwork Proposals
>>Submission date for Media Artwork proposals: 23rd March 2001
>>Acceptance will be notified on or around 7th May 2001
>>
>>3. Posters and Technical Demonstrations
>>Submission date for Posters and Technical Demonstrations proposals: 23rd
>  >
>>April 2001
>>Acceptance will be notified on or around 21st May 2001
>>
>>
>>1. ACADEMIC PAPERS
>>
>>Papers are invited on any subject that explores areas of overlap (or
>>potential overlap) between semiotics and interactive digital media.
>>Examples of this include, but are not limited to, the following:
>>
>>The use of semiotics in the study and criticism of digital interactive
>>media.
>>Narratology in new media.
>>The use of semiotics in the creation of generative narrative systems,
>>interactive digital games, entertainment and artworks.
>>Semiotic-orientated HCI.
>>Software architectures and technologies using (or based upon) semiotic
>>theories, systems or models.
>>The use of semiotics in AI.
>>Semiotics and Hypermedia.
>>
>>Papers should demonstrate an understanding of - and engagement with -
>>the
>>principles of semiotics (understood here as the study of signs) and gain
>>
>>something from this engagement.
>>
>>Submission Requirements for Academic Papers:
>>
>>Submission deadline: 23rd March 2001.
>>Authors will be notified regarding acceptance on or around 7th May 2001.
>>
>>Interested parties are invited to submit papers of not less than 2000
>>words
>>and not exceeding 5000 words.
>>
>>All papers must be submitted electronically in one of the following
>>formats: Postscript, Microsoft Word for Windows, RTF or PDF to BOTH the
>>following:
>>craig@... (Craig Lindley) and g.r.mitchell@... (Grethe
>>Mitchell)
>>
>>If authors have difficulty in submitting papers electronically please
>>contact:
>>Frank Nack
>>          CWI - INS2
>>          Kruislaan 413
>>          P.O. Box 94079,
>>          NL-1090 GB Amsterdam
>>          Email: Frank.Nack@...
>>          Phone: +31 20 592 4223
>>          Fax:    +31 20 592 4312
>>
>>
>>Other Deadlines:
>>
>>Authors of accepted papers will be required to return the revised
>>camera-ready copy and complete registration form (at least one per
>>paper)
>>by 11th June 2001
>>Electronic version for online publication to be submitted by 25th June
>>2001
>>
>>Online Publication:
>>
>>Authors of accepted papers will be required to prepare an electronic
>>version for the online conference proceedings, which will supplement the
>>
>>traditional printed volume. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to
>>submit their papers in validated HTML 4.0 or PDF format for online
>>publication.
>>
>>
>>2. NEW MEDIA ARTWORKS
>>
>>In addition to academic and theoretical papers, presentations of
>>practice-based work relevant to the themes of this conference are also
>>invited.
>>
>>Proposals for the presentation of new media art works of all forms and
>>in
>>all formats are invited. Selection of work for presentation at the
>>conference will be based upon relevance to the themes of the conference,
>>
>>interest in demonstrating or exploring the potential of new media, or
>>challenging perceptions, theoretical assumptions, or understanding in
>>any
>>areas related to the conference. Selection may also be constrained by
>>practical requirements for equipment, safety, etc.  Final decisions will
>>be
>>made by the Media Artwork Committee in consultation with the Programme
>>Committee.
>>
>>Submission Requirements for New Media Artworks:
>>
>>Submission deadlines:
>>Submission date for Media Artwork proposals: 23rd March 2001
>>Acceptance will be notified on or around 7th May  2001
>>
>>Proposals for media artworks must be presented on an online website (you
>>
>>must guarantee stability of the files until the conference). The website
>>
>>should display the following:
>>A textual description (maximum size equivalent to 2 pages of A4) of the
>>proposed artwork and any illustrations.
>>A biography of the artist(s)/author(s)
>>Contact details
>>Please submit the URL of the website containing your proposal to BOTH of
>>
>>the following by email:
>>andy@... (Andrew Clarke) and Frank.Nack@... (Frank Nack)
>>
>>If artist(s)/author(s) have difficulty in submitting a URL then please
>>contact:
>>Frank Nack
>>          CWI - INS2
>>          Kruislaan 413
>>          P.O. Box 94079,
>>          NL-1090 GB Amsterdam
>>          Email: Frank.Nack@...
>>          Phone: +31 20 592 4223
>>          Fax:     +31 20 592 4312
>  >
>>
>>3. POSTERS AND TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
>>
>>A) Posters:
>>
>>There will be an opportunity for researchers to present new work and
>>ideas
>>that are not yet ready for the full presentation. Short papers will be
>>presented in poster format, and will be included in both the hardcopy
>>and
>>electronic proceedings.
>>
>>Submission Requirements for Posters:
>>
>>Submission deadline - Posters:
>>Submission date for Posters and Technical Demonstrations proposals: 23rd
>>
>>April 2001
>>Acceptance will be notified on or around 21st May 2001
>>
>>Papers must be submitted electronically.
>>Please submit your work described in 2 to 4 pages of A4 size, double
>>spaced, either as a URL or in one of the following formats: Postscript,
>>Microsoft Word for Windows, RTF or PDF. Submissions to BOTH of the
>>following: andy@... (Andrew Clarke) and P.C.Fencott@...
>>(Clive Fencott)
>>
>>
>>B) Technical Demonstrations:
>>
>>Demonstrations will include leading edge work and work in progress in
>>every
>>area relating to Semiotics in New Media and Computing. Submissions will
>>be
>>peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Submitters will be encouraged to
>>provide
>>videotapes where applicable to show the proposed demonstrations.
>>
>>Submission Requirements for Technical Demonstrations:
>>
>>Submission deadline - Technical Demonstrations:
>>Submission date for Posters and Technical Demonstrations proposals: 23rd
>>
>>April 2001
>>Acceptance will be notified on or around 21st May 2001
>>
>>Please submit your demonstration proposal by email to BOTH of the
>>following: P.C.Fencott@... (Clive Fencott) and craig@...
>>(Craig Lindley).
>>
>>Organizing Committee:
>>Andy Clarke - Kinonet  (UK)
>>Clive Fencott - University of Teeside (UK)
>>Craig Lindley - Starlab (Belgium)
>>Grethe Mitchell - University of East London and Kinonet  (UK)
>>Frank Nack - CWI (Netherlands)
>>
>>Programme Committee:
>>Elisabeth Andre - DFKI (Germany)
>>JP Balpe - Universite Paris 8 (France)
>>Paul Brna - Leeds University (UK)
>>Kevin Brooks - Motorola Human Interface Labs (USA)
>>Andrew Clarke - Kinonet (UK)
>>Clive Fencott - University of Teeside (UK)
>>Monika Fleishman - GMD (Germany)
>>Ian Green - University of Westminster (UK)
>>Werner Kriechbaum - IBM (Germany)
>>Craig Lindley - Starlab (Belgium)
>>Grethe Mitchell - University of East London and Kinonet (UK)
>>Frank Nack - CWI (Netherlands)
>>Paolo Petta - OFAI (Austria)
>>Doug Rosenberg - University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
>>Adelheit Stein - GMD (Germany)
>>Ola Stockfelt - University of Goteborg/University of Skovde (Sweden)
>>
>>
>>New Media Artworks Committee:
>>Andrew Clarke - Kinonet (UK)
>>Maja Kuzmanovic - Starlab (Belgium)
>>Mari Mahr - Photographer/Artist (UK)
>>Grethe Mitchell - University of East London and Kinonet (UK)
>>Doug Rosenberg - University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
>>Uli Spierling - ZGDV (Germany)
>>Linda Wallace - Machine Hunger/Australian National University (Aus)
>>
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>Keep in touch and maybe we'll meet in Amsterdam
>
>Yours
>
>Ulf Wilhelmsson
>Inst. för humaniora
>Box 408
>54128 Skövde
>
>tel +46 (0)500 448808
>fax +46 (0)500 448849

>From: "Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera" <hfiguero@...>
>
>
>Teknokultura is an electronic journal.  Its main objective is to
>provide a discussion forum regarding subjects of technoculture from
>a critical and transdisciplinary perspective.  We also stimulate the
>integration of the arts as a medium of theoretical reflection
>regarding technocultural artifacts.  We use the term "technoculture"
>to refer to the wide range of lifestyles emerging from the
>integration of technology into the daily life of the citizens in
>contemporary times.  Mediated experiences, computer science,
>telecommunication, robotics, genetic engineering, and
>nanotechnology, among others, bring forth a social thread in an
>oscillating debate between centralization-decentralization,
>ethics-aesthetics, and domination-resistance with unexpected
>consequences for the restructuring flux of social life.  Another of
>the objectives of this journal is to analyze this emergent flux in
>the local/global context using electronic mediums.
>
>The journal's first edition deals with the subject of Computer
>Mediated  Communication (CMC) with the purpose of stimulating the
>critical and theoretical reflection regarding different experiences
>transformed by the development of computers as means of
>communication.  These experiences highlight the multidirectional
>aspects of communicative interaction.  People can be connected to
>each other and to different sources of information through
>telephones, cell phones, personal computers, and e-mail anywhere at
>any given time.  This entails transformations in people's
>life-styles and behaviors.  The world of communication brings forth
>a mixture of relations that interweave people, images, artifacts,
>objects, and attitudes, among other things, in all scenarios of
>social life.
>
>
>The journal's first edition deals with the subject of Computer
>Mediated  Communication (CMC) with the purpose of stimulating the
>critical and theoretical reflection regarding different experiences
>transformed by the development of computers as means of
>communication.  These experiences highlight the multidirectional
>aspects of communicative interaction.  People can be connected to
>each other and to different sources of information through
>telephones, cell phones, personal computers, and e-mail anywhere at
>any given time.  This entails transformations in people's
>life-styles and behaviors.  The world of communication brings forth
>a mixture of relations that interweave people, images, artifacts,
>objects, and attitudes, among other things, in all scenarios of
>social life.
>
>This call for papers will evaluate works for publication that deal with
>different aspects of the subject, websites and books reviews,
>stories, poems, jokes or cartoons.  The deadline for submissions is
>March 23, 2001.  All submitted materials should follow these
>guidelines (when they are appropriate for the type of work being
>submitted):
>
>·          Papers should be no longer than 15 pages. Text should be
>double-spaced
>
>·          We encourage the integration of images, animation and sounds.
>
>·          PC platform in Microsoft Word.
>
>·         APA publication style.
>
>Materials should be sent through e-mail or digital copy by regular
>mail to the following addresses:
>
>
>Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera (co-editor)
>Teknokultura
>
>University of Puerto Rico
>Department of Psychology
>Social Sciences Faculty
>Río Piedras Campus
>P.O. Box 23345
>San Juan, P.R. 00931-3345
>
>Email: <mailto:hfiguero@...>hfiguero@...

--
Robin Hamman MA MPhil - Internet Researcher and Online Community Developer

http://www.cybersoc.com  -  resources for the study of cyberspace
http://www.cybersociology.com  -  cyberculture webzine I edit
http://www.granadamedia.com  -  where I work as communities
development producer
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk  -  where I conduct research and lecture

My most recent published article: "Computer Networks Linking Network
Communities" in the 17 article collection, Online Communities:
Commerce, Community Action and the Virtual University, edited by
Miranda Mowbray and Chris Werry.

UK/Europe:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130323829/cybersocandcyber
USA
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130323829/cyborgaanethnogrA




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>New Media Research - info from newmediaresearch-help@...



>
>CEPE 2001
>
>Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries
>
>IT and the Body
>
>December 14-16
>
>Lancaster University
>
>email: cepe@...
>
>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/
>
>Aims etc.
>=========================================================
>The aim of CEPE2001 is to establish an international multidisciplinary forum
>for the development of innovative debate and dialogue between moral
>philosophy and the emerging field of information and communication
>technology (ICT). The conference aims to foster and promote philosophical
>work, which is intended to make a constructive contribution to the ethical
>questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of ICT. The
>conference committee welcomes work of high quality regardless of school of
>thought or philosophical tradition from which it derives.
>
>The main topic of CEPE2001 is IT and the Body
>
>Information and Communication Technology is becoming increasingly pervasive.
>We use ICT in most human activities. McLuhan describes ICT as the world's
>nervous system (others talks of it as an extension to the senses of human
>beings). ICT is not just a metaphor of the body (and vice-versa) or a
>metaphor for the empowerment of the human body. It can be viewed as a real
>extension of the human body. Examples of this are Bionics (the science
>studying the possibilities of partly or totally implanting artificial pieces
>of human bodies as eyes, arms, legs, brain, etc.) and the advances in the
>Human Genome Project (which is, to a large extent, a bio-informatics
>research programme). Furthermore, in health care, many of the medical
>procedures are computer assisted (for example NMR - Magnetic Nuclear
>Resonance).
>
>Important philosophical and ethical questions arise from examples such as
>these. Are the inner connections between ICT devices and our nervous system
>a loss for our privacy and human dignity? Is it fair to repair damaged
>brains with computer-assisted interfaces? Are there limits to using computer
>technologies as a support for artificial pieces in the human body? Should a
>human be considered a cyborg if most of his body is artificial? Do they have
>rights to citizenship? Is there an ethics of the post-human? Such questions
>involve many philosophical and ethical concepts such as: personhood,
>personal identity, the right to privacy, the right to health, the right to
>personal data ownership. Other philosophical challenges about our body are
>raised from Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence.
>
>Papers on other topics that cross the fields of medicine, computing and
>ethics are also welcome.
>
>

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>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:32:54 +0000
>From: Alerts <alerts@...>
>To: sondheim@...
>Subject: CYBERMIND - Boundaries conference
>
>Dear Alan Sondheim
>
>We would appreciate it if you could post the conference announcement
>below on your discussion list if you consider it appropriate.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Helen Terre Blanche (Conference Alerts)
>alerts@...
>
>Conference Announcement
>
>Boundaries, Bytes and Ballyhoo:  Visual Sociology, New Media and
>Public Information Conference
>11 to 15 July 2001, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
>
>Over the past several years, new media have transformed
>the nature and distribution of public information.  This is
>even more the case for images called upon to serve
>public information functions as icons, data, instances,
>arguments and accounts.  New media have the potential
>to redefine these functions and to alter traditional
>relationships between image-based research, teaching
>and public service.  The new media also have
>implications for how social research, documentary work,
>and journalism are defined and practiced, both locally and
>globally.
>
>We invite in particular proposals for papers and sessions
>that would address questions such as the following:
>
>-In what ways is the growth of new media changing
>relationships between scholars and practitioners in the
>visual arts, journalism, film, video and media studies, art
>history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, education
>and the like?
>
>-What do changes of this sort portend for the practice of
>local, regional and global image-making and social
>research?
>
>-What implications do these changes have for traditional
>boundaries between visual sociology, documentary work
>and public affairs journalism?
>
>-What implications do they have for relationships between
>image-based researchers and their research subjects?
>
>-How are existing ideas about public and private imagery
>being affected by new media?
>
>-And what implications do answers to these questions
>have for how we think about image-based research and
>visual representations of social life?
>
>E-mail enquiries: dona@...
>
>Website: www.visualsociology.org
>
>Submission deadline: 1 April 2001
>
>Organized by: International Visual Sociology Association
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Let me introduce an Internet Research web resource which
contains by now more than 2,500 links.
Netzwissenschaft http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/

It's a German language site, but with the following hints
everybody can use it.

A core feature are three pages which link to websites of
net.researchers http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss.htm
net.artists http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/kuenst.htm
net.publicists http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/publ.htm

Don't miss the five pages which contain affiliations, research
interests and short "web bites" of the listed internet researchers.
Go for the researchers' second names:
A - E  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss1.htm
F - J  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss2.htm
K - M  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss3.htm
N - R http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss4.htm
S - Z http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/wiss5.htm

You're an internet researcher, and not listed here? Sorry.
If you've a website with a little bit more on it than just your
name, please mail me the URL.

There are also lists of
institutes http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/inst.htm
and projects http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/proj.htm
that do professionalized internet research.

A lot of bibliographic stuff is online too. More than 500
book releases from 1999 to 2001 are listed with direct
links to the author's and book's homepages and to the
best book reviews. Look for
1999  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/biblio/neu99.htm
2000  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/biblio/neu00.htm
2001  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/biblio/neu01.htm
You'd even find traditional bibliographies
for media anthropology 1995-1998
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/biblio/medien.htm
and for global studies 1988-1994
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/biblio/kultur.htm

Don't miss another page with a lot of links to very new
internet research essays, articles, and reviews:
Pool http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem/pool.htm

A smaller page about on- and offline journals:
Periodika  http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/period.htm

Look for conferences in 2001 on
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/conf/konf01.htm

[Most of my own writings are in German, but not all.
Writings 1983-1996
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/eig2.htm
Writings 1997-2000
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/eig1.htm
My university course is about
net.literature, net.art, net.science
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem.htm ]

I'm an internet researcher with Constance University, Germany.
My main interest lies in establishing net(work) science
(Netzwissenschaft) as an autonomous pillar of the science system.
Actually I'm researching what institutional forms the
emerging field of internet research applies.

Thank you for your attention and your help,
Reinhold Grether.
Reinhold.Grether@...
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/

>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:33:30 -0900
>From: VSMM Secretariat <vsmm-sec@...>
>Subject: VSMM2001 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
>To: Robin@...
>X-MDRemoteIP: 133.66.147.228
>X-Return-Path: vsmm-sec@...
>X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: Robin@...
>
>
>------------FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS------------
>The International Society on Virtual Systems
>            and MultiMedia presents
>
>      The 7th International Conference on
>          Virtual Systems and MultiMedia
>                   VSMM 2001
>  ENHANCED REALITIES: Augmented and Unplugged
>         http://www.vsmm.org/vsmm2001
>
>              25-27 October 2001
>   University of California, Berkeley, USA
>
>
>          VIRTUAL HERITAGE COLLOQUIUM
>        23-24 October, San Francisco, USA
>
>
>                  HOSTS:
>     UCB Center for Design Visualization
>       International Society on VSMM
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------
>AUTHOR SCHEDULE
>Paper Deadline 18 June 2001
>Acceptance Notification 3 August 2001
>Manuscript Submission 3 Sept 2001
>VSMM Conference: 25-27 October 2001
>
>------------------------------------------------------
>Conference information details listed below.
>PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO INTERESTED ASSOCIATES
>Unsubscription information at the end of this document
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>
>
>ENHANCED ENVIRONMENTS
>Picking up where virtual reality and technology 'assistants' left
>off, enhanced environments are rapidly emerging as a major
>multidisciplinary research, development, and deployment area today
>through the explosion in wireless technologies (and bluetooth
>standard), small and easily deployable sensor technologies,
>networked off-the-shelf 2 and 3D cameras, pattern recognition
>algorithms, smart mobile phones, RFID tags, GPS and location
>trackers, etc. Papers which present innovative research in wireless
>virtual and augmented environments, including mobile computing,
>mobile learning, wireless entertainment / games, and mixed reality
>are encouraged.
>
>VIRTUAL HERITAGE
>This year will showcase the most innovative work in the field,
>including new imaging and modeling techniques, large scale terrain
>modeling, geo-temporal 3D databases, remote sensing and GIS for
>culture, laser scanning and data capture, object and image
>restoration and modeling, virtual reality for museums, kiosks and
>site explanations. Papers accepted will cover a range from technical
>tools and techniques, to actual site environments that use new
>techniques for historical re-enactment, storytelling or site
>reconstruction. Heritage, museum, and cultural officials working
>with technology are encouraged to submit case studies.
>
>SPECIAL VIRTUAL HERITAGE COLLOQUIUM [23-24 October]
>sponsored by the Virtual Heritage Network <http://www.virtualheritage.net>
>For 3 consecutive years VSMM has brought together researchers from
>around the globe focused on the new field of Virtual Heritage. In
>response to user demand, a special Colloquium will be held
>immediately prior to the full conference to debate, explore, and
>begin to address issues including: international standards and
>metadata, funding and collaboration, and application of emerging
>technology. Due to high demand and the need to keep the discussion
>focused, space will be limited to 25 attendees. To facilitate a
>productive and fruitful Colloquium, we hope to select a diverse
>international cross section of professionals, government officials,
>and academics from the spectrum of preservation, heritage, culture,
>museum, computing technology and new media. Shortly, an online form
>will be made available for those wishing to apply to reserve a space.
>
>IMMERSIVE ART AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
>This session will present the latest work in 3D art and creative
>technology with special emphasis on real-time interactive and
>immersive systems. Paper topics include museum art and exhibitions,
>wireless art, networked experiences, open-ended generative systems,
>site-specific installations, new media, and experimental art forms
>are encouraged to apply.
>
>SPECIAL SESSION ON EMERGING VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
>With entertainment/game consoles rivaling the power of flight
>simulators, and game engines taking over 3D standards, entertainment
>is playing an increasingly strategic role in the Virtual and 3D
>worlds. And with the increasing crossover between Military and
>Entertainment applications traditional lines are blurring and new
>alliances being forged. This session will explore and debate both
>theoretical and practical issues pertaining to this virtual
>cross-cultural area. Technical papers, from processes to
>applications and tools are encouraged. Theoretical papers that
>discuss philosophical, moral or the future issues of this emerging
>industry are highly encouraged.
>
>VIRTUAL DESIGN, PROTOTYPING & TRAINING
>Virtual Design & Training is the first area of Virtual Reality to
>yield commercially viable applications. This session presents the
>papers for the following three sub-categories:
>
>:::INDUSTRIAL
>Papers exploring 3D virtual design, prototyping, and telerobotic
>applications in engineering (macro and micro), aerospace, defense,
>automotive, petrochemical, manufacturing, and related areas. Case
>studies and papers presenting business and human factors benefits
>will be particularly welcome. Also welcome are papers presenting
>practical techniques for assessing human performance in virtual
>environments - situational awareness, transfer of skills,
>navigational performance and cognitive mapping.
>
>:::ARCHITECTURAL
>Papers exploring advances in applied 3D design and prototyping in
>the architectural field (as distinct from 3D CAD and CAE), from
>applications of image-based modeling and rendering, to 3D scanning,
>applications of Web3D in architectural design and training, virtual
>design, and the issues of virtual 'placemaking'.
>
>:::MEDICAL
>Topics here include telemedicine and telesurgery, virtual surgery,
>virtual patients (and the importance of training delivery using task
>abstraction vs. physiological fidelity) VR and micro- and
>nanotechnology for biomedical applications, surgical robotics using
>VR or other advanced human-system interfaces, virtual hospitals and
>operating theatres (for training), case studies (transfer of skills,
>especially), Web-based surgical training, and so on.
>
>INFORMATION
>For more information, please email the conference Secretariat:
>vsmm-sec@...
>
>
>
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Graduate Student Summer WebShop  - June 10 - June 23, 2001
at the Univeristy of Maryland - College Park

Program Description and Online Application located at:
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/Summer_Webshop.htm

This summer, the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is
hosting the 1st annual graduate student workshop-or WebShop.  This
conference or "WebShop" will bring together the leading Internet researchers
to discuss their work, direct discussion, and shape the nature of future
research on this timely topic.  At the Webshop, graduate students will hear
presentations from leading experts who study the behavioral aspects of
information technology. Students will also develop an original research
project as the basis for their thesis or dissertation or other ongoing
research.  Join us for a challenging and rewarding academic experience!

A Stipend and room and board are available for students on a competitive
basis. Please see our online application at:
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/Summer_Webshop.htm
or contact the Program Coordinator, Ms. Peg Pullan (webuse@...) for
additional information.

  Deadlines
· For best consideration, your application should arrive before April 10th,
2001.
· Review of applications begins immediately.
· Application review continues until all the spaces are filled.
· Notification of acceptance will be made the week of May 7th, 2001.

CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA

Call for Papers: "The South Asian ICT Revolution"

<http://csa-books.homepage.com/SouthAsiaICT.htm>

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is transforming the
way South Asia and South Asians work and play. Contemporary South
Asia is looking for papers for a special issue which will offer
articles across a broad range of ICT issues. Examples of potential
submission titles might include:

-- The Uneven Spread of ICT Across South Asia: Comparing 'haves' and
'have nots'
-- The South Asian ICT entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley
-- Netwar: South Asian internet sites and the spread of propaganda
-- Digital Democracy vs Digital Divide: Will ICT help or hinder
development in South Asia?
-- The South Asian Diaspora and ICT: Encouraging transnational
loyalties
-- ICT and the command and control of South Asia's nuclear arsenals

Contemporary South Asia is an academic, peer-reviewed journal
published three times yearly by Carfax/Taylor & Francis (UK). See
<www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09584935.html> for full details.

Submissions for "The South Asian ICT Revolution" themed issue should
be of no more than 7000 words in length and written in accordance
with the "Notes for Contributors" for Contemporary South Asia
found on its website. Submissions must be submitted as an email
attachment to arrive no later than 1 June 2001.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Dr Apurba Kundu
Editor, Contemporary South Asia
Department of Cybernetics
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK
Tel: +44-(0)1274-235-046
Fax: +44-(0)1274-235-295
Email: a.kundu@...
Internet: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09584935.html

Hello!

My name is Leon Mussche, I am a 21 year old design student
from Holland and I've just joined this group because I think
I share an interest with you! I have just updated my
website.   http://www.xhibit-interactive.com
A monthly updated e-zine featuring multimediapresentations,
entertainment,
music,guest features etc.
The site is completely interactive, which means YOU decide what can
happen
by making contributions or mailing your responses.
I would like to know what y'all think of it. Hope to hear from you
via email or through the messageboard on my site.
Thanx!

Leon

P.s. I'm always lookling for people to be next months guest on the
site!

>From: "Laura Watts" <laura@...>
>
>
>Techno Faery Tales
>"small tales for small things"
>
>Just created a web site dedicated to delivering short stories to
>small devices (PC, Palm/Pocket PDAs and the Rocket eBook at the
>moment).  It's currently stocked with little faerytales, which are a
>first step towards more complex mobile narratives now I know how the
>various ebook readers work...
>
>Please pass on your thoughts and experiences of the site.
>
><http://www.laura.watts.net/Technofaerytales/>http://www.laura.watts.net/Techno\
faerytales/
>
>To those of you who I have been out of contact with for a while,
>it's good to connect again and I hope we can remain in touch!
>
>Best regards,
>Laura.
>
>
>Laura Watts
>Futurist and Author
><http://www.laura.watts.net>www.laura.watts.net
>
>

--
Robin Hamman MA MPhil - Internet Researcher and Online Community Developer

http://www.cybersoc.com  -  resources for the study of cyberspace
http://www.cybersociology.com  -  cyberculture webzine I edit
http://www.granadamedia.com  -  where I work as communities
development producer
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk  -  where I conduct research and lecture

My most recent published article: "Computer Networks Linking Network
Communities" in the 17 article collection, Online Communities:
Commerce, Community Action and the Virtual University, edited by
Miranda Mowbray and Chris Werry.

UK/Europe:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130323829/cybersocandcyber
USA
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The Forum One Online Community Report might be of interest to
community professionals and anyone studying online community. I like
to send it through the list from time to time although I recommend
you subscribe yourself if you don't want to miss any issues.
Robin.
:-)



>
>**** ONLINE COMMUNITY REPORT ****
>
>Newsletter for Online Community Builders
>Editors: Dan Shafer, Jim Cashel
>April 16th, 2001 | http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com
>Forward me to a colleague!
>
>
>**** CONTENTS ****
>
>- Sponsor: Trellix
>- Sponsor: PeopleLink
>- TV Guide Adds Net Events Directory
>- MIT Offers All Courses Online For Free
>- More Closures Across Online Community Sector
>- Eurasset Acquires Beehive Communities
>- Homestead Unveils Paid Service
>- Web Crossing Launches Live Events Service
>- TerraShare Seeks $1 per User
>- E-ThePeople.com Donates Assets to Democracy Project
>- Sponsor: Web Crossing
>- Jobs
>- Articles & Resources
>- Feature: Community as the Building Block of Online Marketplaces
>- Feature: How Not to Leverage Community
>
>
>***** SPONSOR'S MESSAGE: TRELLIX *****
>
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>performance compared to their old tool. About, CNET, iVillage, and
>many other hosting companies, ISPs and technology providers -- big
>and small -- are experiencing the Trellix benefits. Real sites. Real
>business model. Real ROI.
>http://www.trellix.com/success/ocr040116
>
>
>***** SPONSOR'S MESSAGE: PEOPLELINK *****
>
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>services. PeopleLink is the expert at building online communities
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>PromotionLink can work for you. Get a FREE copy of "Building
>Community on the Web" by Amy Jo Kim. Visit
>http://peoplelink.edm5.com/crmd/
>
>
>**** NEWS ****
>
>TV GUIDE ADDS NET EVENTS DIRECTORY
>
>TV Guide has launched a new net directory service listing online
>chats, presentations, interactive games, and other events.
>http://www.tvguide.com ; News.com:
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5592909.html?tag=cd_mh
>
>MIT OFFERS ALL COURSES ONLINE FOR FREE
>
>In a major development for distance learning community sites, MIT
>has committed to putting all course work online for free over the
>next decade. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/ocw.html .
>
>MORE CLOSURES ACROSS ONLINE COMMUNITY SECTOR
>
>The Internet downturn continues to take its toll across the online
>community sector. Recent closures of major online community sites
>include eCircles, Rivals.com, SourceXchange.com, and Themestream.
>http://www.eCircles.com ; http://www.rivals.com ;
>http://www.collab.net/sites/sxc_redirect/ ;
>http://www.themestream.com .
>
>EURASSET ACQUIRES BEEHIVE COMMUNITIES
>
>Eurasset, a web strategy and development group based in Lyon,
>France, has acquired Beehive Communities of Montreal. Beehive builds
>and manages online communities. Terms of the transaction were not
>announced. http://www.eurasset.com ;
>http://www.beehivecommunities.com
>
>HOMESTEAD UNVEILS PAID SERVICE
>
>Web community company Homestead Technologies has launched a new
>subscriber-based service. "Homestead Professional" costs $29.99 per
>month. http://www.homestead.com ; News.com:
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5548637.html
>
>WEB CROSSING LAUNCHES LIVE EVENTS SERVICE
>
>Community software and services firm Web Crossing has launched a new
>live events service. Standard packages range from 900 to 2000
>dollars. http://wwwwebcrossing.com/01099
>
>TERRASHARE SEEKS $1 PER USER
>
>Guide-led community site TerraShare has announced its interest in
>being acquired, with opening bids starting at $1 per unique monthly
>user. http://wwwterrashare.com ; Business Wire:
>http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010404/0818.html
>
>E-THEPEOPLE.COM DONATES ASSETS TO DEMOCRACY PROJECT
>
>Political community site E-ThePeople.com has donated its assets to
>the non-profit Democracy Project, which manages the political site
>Quorum.org . http://www.e-thepeople.com/ ; PR Newswire:
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010315/nyth097.html
>
>* Additional News at http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com
>* Post News at http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/pform.f1ml
>
>
>***** SPONSOR'S MESSAGE: WEB CROSSING *****
>
>WEB CROSSING is the award-winning communications software for online
>communities and collaboration groups, known for scalability,
>customizability and extensibility.  Web Crossing's core server
>provides discussion boards, a news server, e-mail list mirroring,
>fast indexed full-text searching, integrated member directory
>service, real-time chat and scalability to extremely high traffic
>levels. The full range of community design and management services
>are also available directly from Web Crossing. More information at
>http://webcrossing.com/01092 .
>
>
>**** JOBS ****
>
>* Oxygen.com and befearless on Oxygen are accepting volunteer
>applications for web hosts. Are you passionate about women's issues?
>Are you an advocate? If you would like to know more and interested
>in online communities, email kscott@...
>
>* Additional Jobs at http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/categories/jobs.html
>* Post Available Jobs at http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/jobposting.htm
>
>
>**** ARTICLES & RESOURCES ****
>
>* Business Wire: "room33 Advances With Mobile Communities"
>http://biz.yahoocom/bw/010410/0093.html
>
>* Business Wire: "Members of Online Communities Make Best Customers"
>(Participate.com study) http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010403/2234.html
>
>* New York Times: "Pyra Gets a Boost from Trellix"
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/16/technology/16LOG.html
>
>* News.com: "Did AOL Shoot the Messenger?"
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-5464191-0.html?tag=bt_pr
>
>* PR Newswire: "Talk City Provides Discussion Service to IRS"
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010411/nyw030.html
>
>* Reuters: "TheGlobe.com cuts staff by 31 percent"
>http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010410/n1041908_2.html
>
>* Reuters: "Internet Cos Turn To Old-Fashioned Fund Raising"
>http://news.excite.com/news/r/010404/13/column-nettrends
>
>* TechRepublic: "Online Communities: Is the Fox in the Chicken
>Coop?" (free registration required)
>http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00520010402sum01.htm
>
>* Wired: "Craigslist Launches Wishlist Program"
>http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42428,00.html
>
>* Resource: "CommunityAnswers.com" (Community Builder Q&A)
>http://communityanswers.com
>
>* Conference: "Renewing Communities in the Digital Era" (Buenos
>Aires, Dec. 5-7 2001) http://www.globalcn2001.org/
>
>* Course: "Web Crossing Fundamentals Seminars" (April 18, 2001 / Mt.
>View, CA) http://webxedu.com/fundamentals/
>
>* White Paper: "Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the Power of Community
>Building" (Reed's Law) http://www.reed.com/Papers/GFN/reedslaw.html
>
>* White Paper: "A Business Case for Collaboration" (SiteScape / PDF
>format) http://www.sitescape.com/pdfs/buscasecollab.pdf
>
>* Additional Articles at
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/categories/articles.html
>* Additional Resources at
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/categories/resources.html
>* Post Articles / Resources at http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/pform.f1ml
>
>
>**** FEATURES ****
>
>COMMUNITY AS THE BUILDING BLOCK OF ONLINE MARKETPLACES
>
>Most e-commerce sites got it wrong. Will they soon get it right
>through the use of community? An article by Dan Shafer.
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/features/marketplaces/
>
>HOW NOT TO LEVERAGE ONLINE COMMUNITY
>
>The recording industry is petrified by the actions of the Napster
>community -- but is this community their main threat? An article by
>Jason Lefkowitz.
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/features/napster2/
>
>* Additional Features at
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/categories/features.html
>
>
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>
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>Join them to represent your views and experiences.
>
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http://www.cybersoc.com  -  resources for the study of cyberspace
http://www.cybersociology.com  -  cyberculture webzine I edit
http://www.granadamedia.com  -  where I work as communities
development producer
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk  -  where I conduct research and lecture

My most recent published article: "Computer Networks Linking Network
Communities" in the 17 article collection, Online Communities:
Commerce, Community Action and the Virtual University, edited by
Miranda Mowbray and Chris Werry.

UK/Europe:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130323829/cybersocandcyber
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Dear colleagues and friends,

My study entitled "A Sociological Theory of Communication: The
Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society" has now been
published with Universal Publishers, at
http://www.upublish.com/books/leydesdorff.htm. It is available both
on-line (as a pdf-file; US$ 9.00) and as a paperback (US$ 29.95). The
paperback edition is in good shape. It is also available from
Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and comparable bookshops.

I gave preference to this relatively non-academic mode of
distribution because I want the book primarily to be read. (The first
25 pages can be accessed freely at the above indicated Internet
address.) I now made also a new edition of my previous book ("The
Challenge of Scientometrics: The development, measurement, and
self-organization of scientific communications", DSWO Press, Leiden
University, 1995; at http://www.upublish.com/books
/leydesdorff-sci.htm ) available by the same means.

The two studies can be considered as each other's complement in
providing theory and methodology for the investigation of the
knowledge base in socio-cognitive processes of communication and
codification.

I apologize for unavoidable cross-postings. Perhaps, you can do me
the favour to note the book to relevant circles (e.g., mailing lists,
newsletters, libraries, journals for possible review, etc.).
Review copies are available on request.

With kind regards,

Loet
************************************************************
Synopsis:

Networks of communication evolve in terms of reflexive exchanges. The
codification of these reflections in language, that is, at the social
level, can be considered as the operating system of society. Under
sociologically specifiable conditions, the discursive reconstructions
can be expected to make the systems under reflection increasingly
knowledge-intensive.

This sociological theory of communication is founded in a tradition
that includes Giddens' (1979) structuration theory, Habermas' (1981)
theory of communicative action, and Luhmann's (1984) proposal to
consider social systems as self-organizing. The study also elaborates
on Shannon's (1948) mathematical theory of communication for the
formalization and operationalization of the non-linear dynamics.

The development of scientific communications can be studied using
citation analysis. The exchange media at the interfaces of knowledge
production provide us with the evolutionary model of a Triple Helix of
university-industry-government relations. The construction of the
European Information Society can then be analyzed in terms of
interacting networks of communication. The issues of sustainable
development and the expectation of social change are discussed in
relation to the possibility of a general theory of communication.


---------------------------------------------------------
Loet Leydesdorff
Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR),
Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681

mailto:loet@... ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/

*********************************************************
"A Sociological Theory of Communication:
The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society" at
http://www.upublish.com/books/leydesdorff.htm

"The Challenge of Scientometrics: The development, measurement,
and self-organization of scientific communications" (Leiden, 1995);
second edition at http://www.upublish.com/books/leydesdorff-sci.htm
*********************************************************

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>==  Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 05, 23rd April 2001  ==
>==        < http://www.cybergeography.org/bulletin-2-05.html >          ==
>==                      < ISSN 1471-3489 >                              ==
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>Welcome to the Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin. This is a regular, free,
>email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to the
>Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the
>Cyber-Geography Research web site. The bulletin is distributed every
>couple of months, depending on how much time I have available for
>my cyberspace exploration.
>
>This bulletin is available on the Web at
>http://www.cybergeography.org/bulletin-2-05.html
>
>I am happy to acknowledge the support of CORPEX. They are kindly
>sponsoring the Cyber-Geography Research web site.
>
>
>=====================================
>The Geography of Cyberspace Directory
>=====================================
>* http://www.cybergeography.org/geography_of_cyberspace.html *
>* http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html *
>
>
>New for the "Mapping the Internet" section:
>
>* Caimis Geo's IPMapper. ( http://www.ipmapper.com )
>
>* The Oregon Telecommunications Atlas, by Sam Churchill, provides a
>comprehensive review of the geography of all telecommunications
>infrastructure in the state. It was compiled at the end of 2000. The Atlas
>is "a preliminary survey of data compiled from a variety of trade
>publications and internet resources. This report has six parts, (1) a
>broad narrative overview of telecommunications and Oregon anecdotes, (2)
>Telecommunications facilities by city, (3) County inventory - mostly cell
>tower locations in lat/long, (4) Oregon maps of cell and fiber
>infrastructure, (5) Oregon Radio and Television broadcasters, (6)
>Reference links."
>( http://www.teleport.com/~samc/telecom/index.html )
>
>
>New in the "Visualising Information Space" section:
>
>* Skupin, A. 2000, "From Metaphor to Method: Cartographic Perspectives on
>Information Visualization". In Roth, S.F., and Keim, D.A. (Eds.)
>Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2000),
>9-10th October 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, pages 91-97. Los Alamitos: IEEE
>Computer Society.
>( http://www.geog.uno.edu/~askupin/research/pubs/InfoVis2000.pdf )
>
>* Inf@Vis magazine by Juan C. Drsteler, Infovis.net.
>( http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/Magazine.htm )
>
>
>New for the "Statistics" section:
>
>* America's 50 Most Wired Cities and Towns, a report in Yahoo! Internet
>Life magazine, April 2001.
>( http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0104/cities.html )
>
>
>New for the "References" section:
>
>* Cheswick B., Burch H., & Branigan S., 2000, "Mapping and Visualizing the
>Internet", Usenix 2000 Conference, San Diego. (gzipped postscript format).
>( http://www.cheswick.com/ches/papers/mapping.ps.gz )
>
>* Gorman S., 2001, "Where are the Web Factories? The Urban Bias of
>e-Business Location", paper presented at the Information and the Urban
>Future meeting, 26th February 2001, Taub Urban Research Center, New York
>University. (
>http://www.informationcity.org/research/web-factories/index.htm )
>
>* Graham S., 1999, "Global grids of glass: On global cities,
>telecommunications, and planetary urban networks", Urban Studies, Vol. 36,
>No. 5, pages 929-949. ( http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cut/docs/ggg.pdf )
>
>* Hulsmann, T., 2000, Geographien des Cyberspace, (Oldenburg: Bibliotheks-
>und Informationssystem, ISBN 3-8142-0756-4).
>( http://www.giub.uni-bonn.de/grabher/huelsmann/book.html )
>
>* Jiang B. & Ormeling F.J., 2000, Mapping Cyberspace: Visualising,
>Analysing and Exploring Virtual Worlds, The Cartographic Journal, December
>2000, Vol. 37, No. 2, pages 117-122.
>( http://www.hig.se/~bjg/cybermap2000.pdf )
>
>* Zook M.A., 2001, "Grounded Capital: Venture Capital's Role in the
>Clustering of Internet Firms in the U.S.", paper presented at the
>Information and the Urban Future meeting, 26th February 2001, Taub Urban
>Research Center, New York University.
>( http://www.informationcity.org/research/venturecapital/index.htm )
>
>
>New for the "Relevant Courses" section:
>
>* Course title: "Mapping Cyberspace", spring 2001; Lecturer: Mei-Po Kwan;
>Institution: Department of Geography, Ohio State University.
>( http://geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/mkwan/Teach/G880_s2001.html )
>
>* Course title: "Geographies of the Information Society", spring 2001;
>Lecturer: Shannon Crum; Institution: Department of Geography, University
>of Texas at Austin.
>( http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/classes/crum/infosoc/infosoc.html )
>
>
>
>=======================
>An Atlas of Cyberspaces
>=======================
>* http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html *
>* http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html *
>* http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html *
>* Italian Language http://www.museoscienza.org/museovr/cybergeography/ *
>
>New additions are listed on the "What's New" page
>( http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/whats_new.html )
>
>
>
>New for the "Conceptual Maps" page:
>
>* Anatomy of a Linux System poster.
>( http://linux.oreilly.com/news/linuxanatomy_0101.html )
>
>* "Wireless Spectrum for Dummies" chart.
>( http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/0,1640,8836,00.html )
>
>* US radio frequency allocation map.
>( http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html )
>
>
>New for the "Artistic" page:
>
>* Scroll of early networking history.
>( http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/artistic.html )
>
>
>New for the "Geographic" page:
>
>* Ride the Byte. ( http://www.artcom.de/projects/ride-the-byte/ )
>
>
>New for the "Census Maps" page:
>
>* Map of French websites.
>( http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/census.html )
>
>
>New for the "Topology Maps" page:
>
>* Mapping mailing lists.
>( http://w1.314.telia.com/~u31414369/xmca/linkmap.html )
>
>
>New for the "Information Spaces" page:
>
>* The game Doom as an information space.
>( http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/ )
>
>
>New for the "Web Site Maps" page:
>
>* WebTracer. ( http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/-/tracer.htm )
>
>
>
>Please remember there is a US mirror site for the Atlas of Cyberspaces at
>http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html. (This mirror is kindly
>provided by the Peacock Maps.)
>
>
>
>================
>Map of the Month
>================
>* http://www.cybergeography.org/maps/ *
>* http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/ *
>
>The Map of the Month columns are now being published online in Mappa.Mundi
>Magazine.
>
>* March's column entitled "What Does the Internet Look Like, Jellyfish
>Perhaps?", examined Walrus, a visualisation tool being developed by Young
>Hyun, CAIDA. ( http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_020/ )
>
>
>
>=====
>Books
>=====
>
>* http://www.atlasofcyberspace.com *
>
>Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin
>Published by Addison-Wesley: due June 2001: 288pp
>Softback ISBN 0-201-74575-5: 30.00 / $45.00
>
>A new book aimed at the 'coffee-table' market providing a comprehensive
>review of field, richly illustrated with over 300 full colour images and
>maps.
>
>
>* http://www.mappingcyberspace.com *
>
>Mapping Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin
>Published by Routledge; October 2000: 246x174: 296pp
>Paperback ISBN 0-415-19884-4: 19.99 / $32.99
>
>
>
>==================================
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>List. It is a free and unmoderated mailing list.
>
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>http://www.cybergeography.org/discussion.html
>
>Or just send email to: jiscmail@...
>with the message: join mapping-cyberspace firstname lastname
>(E.g. join mapping-cyberspace John Smith)
>
>
>
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>
>martin dodge
>
>cyber geography research
>centre for advanced spatial analysis, university college london
>gower street, london, wc1e 6bt, united kingdom
>
>email: m.dodge@... tel: +44 (0)207 679 1782
>
>http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk http://www.cybergeography.org
>
>  http://www.mappingcyberspace.com
>__________________________________________________________________________

Dear colleagues,

I made a second edition of my book entitled "The Challenge of
Scientometrics: The development, measurement, and self-organization of
scientific communications" (Leiden, 1995) available at
http://www.upublish.com/books/leydesdorff-sci.htm . The second edition is
enlarged with a section about technological trajectories, but not
essentially different from the first.

The study provides, among other things, a comprehensive set of
probabilistic entropy measures for studying complex developments in
networks of, for example, words and citations. Some applications (e.g., the
use of indicators for the prediction) are further elaborated.

With kind regards,


Loet


Synopsis:
Scientometrics--the quantitative study of scientific
communication--challenges science and technology studies by demonstrating
that organized knowledge production and control is amenable to measurement.

First, the various dimensions of the empirical study of the sciences are
clarified in a methodological analysis of theoretical traditions, including
the sociology of scientific knowledge and neo-conventionalism in the
philosophy of science. Second, the author argues why the mathematical
theory of communication enables us to address crucial problems in science
and technology studies, both on the qualitative side (e.g., the
significance of a reconstruction) and on the quantitative side (e.g., the
prediction of indicators).

A comprehensive set of probabilistic entropy measures for studying complex
developments in networks is elaborated. In the third part of the study,
applications to S&T policy questions (e.g., the emergence of a European R&D
system), to problems of (Bayesian) knowledge representations, and to the
study of the sciences in terms of 'self-organizing' paradigms of scientific
communication are provided.  A discussion of directions for further
research concludes the study.


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Loet Leydesdorff
Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR),
Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681

mailto:loet@... ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/

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"A Sociological Theory of Communication:
The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society" at
http://www.upublish.com/books/leydesdorff.htm
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>
>CFP: Postmodern Practices, Germany, 11/23-25/2001
>
>C A L L    F O R     P A P E R S
>Postmodern Practices:
>MediaTraces - DiscourseBodies - TradeMarx
>
>4th interdisciplinary, international (post)graduate conference on
>Postmodernism
>at the University of Erlangen/Nuernberg (Bavaria, Germany)
>November 23rd - 25th, 2001
>
>keynote adress: Terry Eagleton (invited)
>
>
>
>
>The Departments of Sociology, Political Sciences and American Literature
>invite young scholars (from graduate students to
>assistant professors) to participate in the 4th interdisciplinary,
>international (post)graduate conference at Erlangen
>University (Germany).
>
>Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
>
>postmodern criticism - criticizing the Postmodern
>postmodern politics - political postmodernism
>Marxism and the Postmodern
>language and power
>truth as difference
>alterity as intercultural practice
>strategies of identity in the simulacrum
>feminism and queer theory
>re-presentation and the politics of the body
>psychoanalysis and phallocratism
>jouissance as surplus value
>difference as a symptom
>transnational media rhizomes
>I is a commodity
>the sublime and the affordable
>p-commerce: utilizing the postmodern
>the true, the beautiful and the goods - the end of philosophy and
>ethics?
>postanalytical philosophy vs deconstruction
>usic cultures in late capitalism: song_track_loop
>science fiction and postmodern utopia
>historiography, narration and biography
>hyperfiction and net literature
>the fantastic in literature, film and the fine arts
>echoes and reflections in art and literature
>Deadline for paper proposals: 15th September, 2001 (other participants
>may register till November 20th). Please register
>on our online submission form (http://www.gradnet.de)
>Each panel will consist of three to five speakers and will last two to
>two and a half hours. Speaking time for each paper
>is approximately 12 minutes, which permits ample time for discussion
>after the delivery of the papers. Contributions of 3
>to 10 pages from the delegates will be posted on our web page in order
>to facilitate discussion and scholarly exchange. The
>deadline for the submission of these short contributions is 15th
>October, 2001.  Email (Thomas Doerfler or Michael Fritz)
>proposals as well as short contributions to: 2001@...
>
>Further information (registration form, program etc.) is available on
>our web page: http://www.gradnet.de
>
>If you have questions, please feel free to contact Claudia or Mark:
>info@...
>
>Organizers: Alexandra Boehm (Comparative Literature), Thomas Doerfler
>(Sociology), Michael Fritz (Film and Theatre
>studies), Claudia Globisch (Sociology), Mark Schoenleben (Philosophy)
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http://www.cybersociology.com  -  cyberculture webzine I edit
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development producer
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk  -  where I conduct research and lecture

My most recent published article: "Computer Networks Linking Network
Communities" in the 17 article collection, Online Communities:
Commerce, Community Action and the Virtual University, edited by
Miranda Mowbray and Chris Werry.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130323829/cybersocandcyber
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