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>                             CALL FOR PAPERS
>              EJC/REC: Electronic Journal of Communication/
>                  La Revue Electronique de Communication
>
>             A Digital Divide? Facts, Explanations, Policies
>
>     Interested scholars are invited to submit manuscripts for a special
>issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de
>Communication (EJC/REC) that will focus on research and theory
>concerning the so-called digital divide.  Presently, heated discussions
>are taking place in America and Europe, in particular, about whether
>there is such a digital divide or not.  And when it is deemed to exist,
>the next question is whether it will close or widen in years to come.
>Most of this discussion is politically charged.  Solid scientific
>research and analysis are scarce.  In the meantime, official statistics
>are beginning to appear, like those of the US Census Bureau, summarized
>in the NTIA's reports Falling through the Net I, II, III, the
>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.
>
>     * Summary statistics and other concise descriptions of distributions
>of computers, networks, skills and uses around the world, including
>Northern America, European Union, Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and the
>Third World.
>
>     * Explanations of (in)equalities based on longitudinal data and/or
>multivariate models, new conceptual distinctions, and/or theories of
>(in)equality in the information and network society.
>
>     * Studies highlighting problems of attitudes towards digital
>technology, digital skills, usage styles and actual usage in different
>social contexts, with special attention to the social categories
>mentioned above.
>
>     * Studies supporting or refuting popular claims about digital
>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
>politically active with yet another instrument to increase their
>advantage?
>
>     * Descriptions and analyses of concrete policy measures pursued by
>governments, corporations, union-, consumer- and user groups and civic
>institutions.
>
>     Manuscripts should be prepared following guidelines of the American
>Psychological Association (4th ed.).  Authors should be careful to
>remove all personal references from the manuscript to allow for blind
>review.  Manuscripts must be submitted electronically.  After acceptance
>both a hard copy and an electronic copy will be required.  Deadline for
>the receipt of manuscripts is July 31, 2001.
>
>     Notification of (non)acceptance within 5 weeks (receipts in June and
>July 2 weeks longer).
>
>Authors should submit manuscripts to the Guest Editor:
>
>J.vanDijk@...
>
>Prof. Dr. Jan A.G.M. van Dijk
>University of Twente
>Department of Communication
>Chair: Sociology of the Information Society
>
>Post Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede
>THE NETHERLANDS
>
>     Contributions will be reviewed by the editorial board of this
>special issue:  Jan A.G.M. van Dijk, University of Twente NL, Kenneth
>Hacker, State University of New Mexico, Joe Straubhaar, University of
>Texas, Austin and a fourth communication researcher from a third world
>country, to be confirmed.
>
>     The Electronic Journal of Communication/La revue electronique de
>communication, one of the first five electronic refereed scholarly
>journals ever created, has been in continuous publication since 1990.
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>
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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@...

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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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>
>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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>
>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
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130323829/cyborgaanethnogrA




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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 *****
>
>DRIVE SIGNIFICANT REVENUE!
>Offer web site building to your visitors. It's a low-cost way to
>significantly drive revenue, reduce churn and increase customer
>satisfaction. Builders average 2.2 sessions (80+ minutes) monthly
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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 *****
>
>FREE BOOK - BUILDING ONLINE COMMUNITY
>To launch an effective marketing campaign, you need to build a "good
>buzz" to generate interest and stimulate viral marketing. PeopleLink
>can help you start that buzz with PromotionLink, a quick turn
>marketing solution for promoting and launching new products and
>services. PeopleLink is the expert at building online communities
>that build awareness for your product and brand. We've helped groups
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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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>
>Cybersalon
>bubbletrouble.com
>
>E-FLYER: http://www.cybersalon.org/flyers/bubble.htm
>
>tuesday 8th May 7.00pm.
>@ the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), The Mall, London
>
>A panel of digital experts discuss the current state and future of the
>new media industry.
>Join them to represent your views and experiences.
>
>Which areas are worthwhile for research and development? Which skills
>have a future? Are call charges and limitations of infrastructure
>restricting the industry's potential?
>Will government policy open up new areas?
>>
>part 1: discussion with insights from:
>Jon Bains (Lateral)
>Damian Tambini (I.P.P.R)
>chaired by Eva Pascoe (Zoom, Cyberia)
>
>
>door: £8 /£5 conc/£4 ICA members
>book in advance on 020 7930 3647 or tickets@...
>
>part 2 door: £1.50/ free ICA members
>the best of the design agencies work
>(to show: get in touch- niki@...)
>+ space.fm DJs broadcast out live
>+ VJs sanfrandisco (Japan)
>bar open till 1am
>----------
>supported by
>HRC
>University of Westminster
>NMK
>ICA/Sun
>Groovy Gecko
>Digital Premiere
>
>in association with
>New Media Age/ New Media Creative
>Cr@ate
--
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

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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>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
>
>
>
>==================================
>Mapping-Cyberspace Discussion List
>==================================
>
>If you're interested in discussing the wider issues of measuring and
>mapping the Internet and the Web why not join the new Mapping-Cyberspace
>List. It is a free and unmoderated mailing list.
>
>Full details on the list and how to join are available at:
>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)
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>thanks for your attention
>martin dodge
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>I welcome your comments on the usefulness of the bulletin and also on my
>Web pages. Suggestions for new information on the theme of the geography
>of the Internet, WWW and Cyberspace are also welcome. Send them to
>m.dodge@....
>
>If you want to be removed from the update bulletin distribution list
>please email me at m.dodge@..., with a subject line like "Please
>remove me from the update bulletin", remembering to include your email
>address.
>
>(Copyright (c) Martin Dodge, 2001)
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________________
>
>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.


---------------------------------------------------------
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/

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

>
>
>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)
>
>

--
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

From the CyberCulture List:

>
>-----Original Message-----



>declan@...
>
>I'm looking for a summer intern for Wired News in Washington DC.
>
>Qualifications include an interest in technology reporting, with a
>journalism or computer science major a plus. Must live in
>Washington metro area; compensation is $10-$12/hour. Opportunities include
>bylined articles and the chance to learn about the growing intersection of
>politics and technology firsthand. Previous Wired News interns have gone
>on to careers in political reporting.
>
>Internship applicants should sent email to declan@... with a resume
>in ASCII text format and URLs to writing samples. Attachments will be
>ignored.
>
>The position is available starting in late May or early June.
>
>Feel free to forward this message.
>
>-Declan

Hi,
I'm a post-grad student working on my Phd..I'm looking for any information
on the linguistic analyses of text chat..especially from a socio-linguistic
perspective (i.e gender differences, cultural differences..etc).
I'd appreciate any kind of help or suggestions .
                                               Thank You,
                                                 MAK
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Hi,

i have read that probability of correcting misspellings is higher when
males do online chats... females have this correction-probability lower.

M_> Hi,
M_> I'm a post-grad student working on my Phd..I'm looking for any information
M_> on the linguistic analyses of text chat..especially from a socio-linguistic
M_> perspective (i.e gender differences, cultural differences..etc).
M_> I'd appreciate any kind of help or suggestions .

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-----------------------------
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Join experts, practitioners, and journalists interested in role
of the Internet in democracy, governance, civil society,
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simply learn about what is happening, then join us.

The online conference will begin in May 2001 once 150
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Please help spread the word.

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Note: The e-mail list of participants will remain private and
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You will be asked to confirm your subscription via e-mail. The
DO- ASIA online event uses simple e-mail list technology.
Posting rules and guidelines will help limit the number of
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Internet connections to participate fully. The primary language
of the online exchange is English.  The use of other languages
is appropriate and additional conversations, country or language-
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Country Contacts are sought to promote this event in specific
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          'must reading' 'highest quality'

DO-WIRE is your primary source for what's important and
happening with the convergence of democracy and the
Internet around the world. DO-WIRE is a free, low volume,
moderated e-mail announcement list.

To subscribe for convenient e-mail delivery or read recent
posts on the web, visit:

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Or send the command "SUB DO-WIRE" in the message body to
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Launched in January 1998, DO-WIRE now connects over 1800
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around the world. If you are interested in democracy online,
which includes politics online, new media, e-governance,
online advocacy, citizen interaction and related topics,
then join us.

Each week, well known e-democracy expert and speaker Steven
Clift <http://publicus.net> forwards, with occasional
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DO-WIRE Member Submissions and Comments

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E-Democracy E-Book

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and dozens of articles, presentations, and highlighted posts
are available online from:

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The Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR, University of
Amsterdam) offers a PhD scholarship in the theme area of
"Communication and Innovation in Science and Technology".

Description:

The increasing availability of large-scale databases about scientific
research (e.g. PubMed, patent data) has led to a shift of emphasis in
science and technology studies from an institutional perspective to a
focus on communication, potentially across organizational interfaces.
The communications among researchers and at the interfaces of science
have become essential ingredients of the knowledge production process
itself. The knowledge infrastructure of innovation, for example, can
be analyzed in terms of interactions among (institutional) agencies
like universities, industries, governmental agencies, etc.

We expect the applicant to propose and develop a theoretically
informed project that focuses on the development of a specific
science and/or technology (e.g., biotechnology) or a specific (e.g.,
regional or national) system of innovation from an evolutionary
perspective. The study is elaborated with reference to the
availability of large-scale databases and e-data. This requires both
familiarity with the relevant literature in the area of science,
technology, and innovation studies, and the capacity and willingness
to use statistics and electronic media of communication for testing
theoretical assumptions.

The candidate will have considerable freedom in developing the
subject matter (for example, in terms of relevant comparisons) and in
extending the research, for example, with a component about the
public understanding or the technology assessment of the system(s)
under study. However, the main interest should be in producing a
scholarly contribution to the social sciences, notably, at the
interface between communication studies and STS.

Applications should preferably contain a first indication of the
proposed project (not more than four pages), detailing the
theoretical contribution, the envisaged operationalization, and its
social relevance. Applicants are expected to participate in the
courses of the Netherlands School for Science, Technology and Modern
Culture (WTMC).

Requirements

* MA in Social Science or other relevant study;
* knowledge of and preferably experience with the research topic.

Position
The candidate selected to participate in this research project will
be expected to complete a Ph.D. dissertation within four years.
During that period the selected candidate will receive a stipend of
minimally Dfl. 3700 (Euro 1681) per month. Additional funds are
available for attending international conferences, special courses
and computer facilities.

  Information:

  The research will be supervised by :
         Loet Leydesdorff            E-mail: loet@...
         phone: +31 20 525 6598
http://www.leydesdorff.net/index.htm


   Persons interested in further information are requested to contact
the supervisor.

  How to apply:
   Applications should contain:
   * A letter of motivation
   * CV
   * Copies of diplomas (including lists of courses attended and
grades received.
     If not in English or Dutch, please add translation)
   * Copy of the Master thesis

Complete applications can be sent before June 9, 2001 to:
                                        ASCoR
                         dr. S. Zwier, researchmanager ASCoR,
                                Oude Hoogstraat 24,
                          1012 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

For those of you researching the psychological aspects of Internet
use, I invite you to join our discussion list on Online Trust:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/online-trust

The objective of this list is to provide a discussion platform for
user trust in online services. Given the multidimensional nature of
trust, we encourage participation from a wide range of disciplines:

e.g. psychology, sociology, economics, human-computer interaction
(HCI), information technology, marketing or graphic design.

The focus will be on understanding online trust, evaluating trust and
designing for trust. The last issue is particularly important to
maximise the perceived trustworthiness of e-commerce systems.

****************************************
Florian N. Egger, MSc
e-commerce usability + trust research
ipo, center for user-system interaction
eindhoven university of technology (nl)
http://www.ecommuse.com
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Apologies for cross-posting
***************************************
A limited number of places are immediately available for the Mobilize!
conference on 29th-30th May being held at Cumberland Lodge, Great Park,
Windsor UK.

Deadline for registration is next Thurs 24th May; registration form
available at:-
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/mobilize/registration.pdf

<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, the great park, windsor, uk.

<agenda>:

! mobile theory
! mobile culture
! mobile design
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programme available at:-
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/mobilize/draftprogramme.pdf

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>"Regulating the Information Society"
>19-20 June 2001 in Brussels
>
>  "Co-regulation implies taking self-regulation one step further.
>  Rather than the mere coexistence of regulation and co-regulation, it
>  implies the sharing of responsibilities through agreements between
>  public and private partners"  - Erkki Liikanen
>
>Commissioner Liikanen will open the event giving a keynote address
>on Tuesday 19 June at 9.30 a.m.
>
>CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
>
>     The EMF conference will be introduced by an opening
>     address given by Erkki Liikanen, Commissioner for the
>     Enterpise & Information Society, European Commission.
>
>     The conference will focus on hot Information
>     Society topics:
>
>          ".eu" top-level domain name
>          Legal aspects of e-commerce (including liability of
>          intermediaries)
>          Mobile Commerce
>          Copyright (including security issues, levies, digital
>          rights management and the role of royalty
>          collection)
>          Data Protection (including Spamming and Safe
>          Harbor agreement)
>          VAT on e-commerce
>
>     In addition, the programme foresees a special session
>     presenting the upcoming Information Society
>     Technologies Programmes included in the 6th EU
>     Framework Programme on Research and Technological
>     development.
>
>     The conference will notably respond to the
>     following questions:
>
>          To what extend should we be regulating?
>          How do you find a balanced regulatory framework,
>          that takes into account of the realities of
>          e-business?
>          How do you make the most of EU's
>          competitiveness?
>
>For more information visit:
>
http://www.emf.be/regul/

>
>
>         Call for Papers and Participation
>
>                     ECSCW 2001
>(European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work)
>         Bonn, Germany, September 16, 2001
>
>                    Workshop on
>  Actions and Identities in Virtual Communities of Practice
>     http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/ecscw2001.html
>
>  Organizers:
>  Christopher Lueg, University of Technology Sydney
>  Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University
>  Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sydney
>  Volkmar Pipek, University of Bonn
>
>
>Workshop theme and background
>
>Communities of practice are a hot topic in CSCW and knowledge management
>
>as they have been identified as social groups that support effective
>information and knowledge sharing as well as learning. As the number of
>physically distributed groups have increased so has the interest in the
>concept of virtual communities of practice.
>
>This workshop will explore an aspect of virtual communities of practice
>that we consider important for understanding these social groups. The
>question is where the actions are in virtual communities of practice.
>Our
>focus is the relations between the locations of activity in virtual
>communities of practice. In particular, we want to investigate if and
>how
>it matters that activities in physical space create and maintain
>interaction in virtual communities of practice.
>
>In order to investigate virtual communities of practice, we need to draw
>
>from several research areas. We know from sociology that humans are
>social
>beings that tend to form communities and we know from research in
>virtual
>communities that humans are able to form such communities in the
>virtual.
>We also know that ``communities of practice'' may emerge whenever people
>
>work together. However, social participation - as a constituent of
>communities of practice - is not just engaging in certain activities,
>such
>as working in a team, but actively participating in the practices of
>social communities and constructing identities in relation to these
>communities.
>
>Such participation shapes not just what participants do but also
>self-perception and understanding of their own activities, i.e., their
>identities within specific communities of practice. Apparently,
>communication and socialisation can happen in the virtual to some
>extent.
>The action, however, still happens in the real world when interacting
>with
>the physical and social environment.
>
>2 Goals and objectives
>
>The overall goal of the workshop is to develop our understanding of the
>relations between virtual socialising and activities in the physical
>world, especially with regard to learning. Potential topics to
>investigate
>are as follows:
>
>- Is the concept of communities of practice well-suited to be applied to
>
>   virtual communities? Research indicates that communities of practice
>are
>   only one specific social group among several that support information
>   and knowledge sharing. Other groups, such as communities of interest,
>   communities of purpose, and communities of passion or distributed
>   communities of practice, might be more suitable to describe virtual
>   settings. As these groups are not mutually exclusive, it might be
>   difficult to allocate a specific concept to a particular social
>setting,
>   such as newsgroups.
>- Research in embodied cognitive science stresses the importance of
>   physical presence and bodily interaction with the environment.
>However,
>   bodily experiences and tacit knowledge are hard to communicate and we
>   are interested in what ways these communication ``problems'' matter in
>
>   the context of virtual communities of practice.
>- ``Identity'' is an important aspect of communities of practice and in
>   the context of virtual communities of practice, the role of identity
>has
>   received less attention than in the context of real world communities
>of
>   practice. The interesting thing with virtual communities of practice
>is
>   that identities would not only form in the interaction
>   with the virtual community but also in the interaction with the
>``real''
>   social environment.
>
>With the Internet, virtual communities use a medium which is not
>transparent to its participants. Communicating and acting in virtual
>communities is to some extent bound to the tools used by the community.
>Representations of persons, actions, artifacts, the communication flow,
>argumentation lines, etc. may play an important role in building
>identities and practices as well as in learning. We are also interested
>in
>the interdependencies between the tools (the medium) and the different
>dimensions of learning (as belonging, as becoming, as experience, and as
>
>doing) connected with the concept of communities of practice. And, as a
>consequence, what we can learn for tool design.
>
>3 Intended participants
>
>Participants should be familiar with either ``communities of practice''
>or
>``virtual communities'' but we do not expect participants to be experts
>in
>these particular areas. The ``action'' issue, in particular, demands an
>interdisciplinary perspective so that the workshop could benefit from a
>broad range of backgrounds from cognitive science to social sciences.
>
>Participants are requested to submit /either/ a position paper (1-2
>pages)
>stating background and interest in the workshop /or/ a 1-page position
>paper and a full paper that is suitable for publication. The position
>papers will be structured into a number of moderated discussion threads
>which will contribute to a summary of issues and positions at the end of
>
>the panel. Also, the position papers will be made available on the
>workshop home page. We intend to submit the full papers as a collection
>for
>publication. Lawrence Erlbaum expressed interest to publish such a
>collection.
>
>Submissions (only PDF or postscript please) should be sent to the
>contact
>address listed above.
>
>Time Schedule
>  01 July 2001                Papers are due
>  20 July 2001                Notification
>  Early August 2001           Early registration deadline
>  16 September 2001           The workshop takes place at ECSCW 2001
>
>
>See you in Bonn!
>
>--
>|Volkmar Pipek                    |Research Group SW-Ergonomics/CSCW   |
>
>|fon:+228 734503 |fax:+228 734382 |Institute for Computer Science III  |
>
>|mailto:pipek@...      |University of Bonn                  |
>
>|http://www.cs.uni-bonn.de/~pipek |Roemerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn, Germany |
>
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>From: "Helen Kennedy" <H.M.T.Kennedy@...>
>
>
>cyborg lives? women’s technobiographies
>one day conference
>15 june 2001
>university of east london, docklands campus, london
>
>about the conference
>The conference seeks to promote the concept and use of
>‘technobiography’ as a tool for
>understanding more about the place of technology in everyday life.
>For the past four years, a
>group of women academics in the Department of Innovation Studies at
>the University of East
>London have been exploring the use of autobiography to understand
>gender-technology
>relationships by writing our own ‘technobiographies’. Cyborg Lives? Women’s
>Technobiographies, edited by Flis Henwood, Helen Kennedy and Nod
>Miller (Raw Nerve
>Press, forthcoming, May 2001) is the result of this endeavour. The
>book adopts Donna
>Haraway’s now well-known cyborg metaphor to explore the centrality
>of technology in
>everyday life. Cyborg Lives? is a playful and experimental attempt
>to examine the potentials
>and problems of seeking to employ the cyborg metaphor when trying to
>make sense of
>women’s diverse, complex and often very contradictory relationships
>to technological  artifacts
>and processes.
>
>The conference aims to explore the potential of technobiography as
>methodology for those
>concerned with the social and cultural significance of technology.
>It will be of interest to those
>working in this area in the social sciences, in technology studies,
>in cultural studies and in
>women’s studies in particular. It should also appeal to those
>familiar with autobiography as
>methodology in the social sciences but who have not considered the
>role of technology in
>everyday life.
>
>Papers presented at the conference are intended to stimulate
>discussion about to the potential
>of technobiography as methodology and to examine the implications of
>technobiographical
>research for feminist theories of gender and technology.
>
>Speakers include:
>Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London): 'Autographing culture lines'
>Gill Kirkup (Open University): 'Becoming a cyborg teacher: do I pass
>the Turing test?'
>Maureen McNeil (Lancaster University): 'Auto and Techno: telling tales'
>Uma Patel (City University) title to be confirmed
>Nina Wakeford (University of Surrey): 'Researching the queer
>technological self'.
>
>The cost of the conference includes a copy of Cyborg Lives? Women’s
>Technobiographies.
>
>For further information about the conference, contact Gillian
>Perkins  (G.S.Perkins@...).
>
>time and place
>The conference takes place on Friday 15th June 2001, at the
>University of East London’s  new,
>purpose-built Docklands campus in East London. Information about how
>to get to  UEL's
>Docklands campus can be found on the following webpage:
>http://www.uel.ac.uk/docklands/index.htm.
>
>Coffee will be served from 10.30am and the proceedings will start at
>11.00am. The  conference
>will conclude at 17.00 and will be followed at 17.30 by the launch
>of Cyborg  Lives? Women’s
>Technobiographies, at the same venue.
>
>how to register
>The cost of the conference is £30 waged or £20 students/unwaged.
>This price includes coffee
>and lunch and a copy of Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies. To
>register for the
>conference, please make your cheque payable to The University of
>East London and send it  to
>the following address:
>
>Gillian Perkins
>Department of Innovation Studies
>Docklands Campus
>University of East London
>4-6 University Way
>London E16 2RD
>
>Please print out and fill in the registration form below and send it
>along with your cheque.
>
>Numbers are limited, so early booking is advised.
>
>
>cyborg lives? women’s technobiographies
>one day conference registration form
>
>First name and surname:
>
>
>Institutional affiliation:
>
>
>Address:
>
>
>Phone number :
>
>
>Email address:
>
>
>Waged or unwaged rate:
>
>
>Any special dietary requirements:
>
>
>Any other requirements:

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>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:34:34 +0100
>To: david@...
>From: david sinden <david@...>
>Subject: LabCulture2
>
>................
>................
>
>LabCulture2
>
>................
>................
>
>interdisciplinary
>multimedia
>laboratories
>
>................
>
>pva . lighthouse . artsway
>dorset . sussex . hampshire
>june . july . october 2001
>
>................
>
>For a full brief and application details go to:
><http://www.pva.org.uk/labc/index.htm>
>
>................
>
>Call for proposals - DEADLINE MAY 23 2001
>
>................
>
>LabCulture 2 is a collaboration between arts organisations PVA
>(Bridport), Lighthouse (Brighton) and Artsway (New Forest) in
>association with South West Arts and Southern Arts.
>
>LabCulture2 will develop interdisciplinary new technology models,
>working with artists from all disciplines. In particular it is hoped
>to involve people working within the performing arts (dance, music,
>theatre) and to explore projects which exploit broadband delivery.
>
>10 artists will work at PVA MediaLab for 10 days in June 2001.
>These will be drawn from the South East, Southern Arts, South West
>Arts Regions and nationally.  An additional 10 artists will work at
>Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton in the South East Region in July
>and at ArtSway in the Southern Arts Region in October to an
>identical format.  The intention is to encourage artists from
>different regions to collaborate and share experiences. Selected
>artists will allocated places by a panel and need to demonstrate
>availability for the given periods.
>
>Artists need not have new technology based skills as a high degree
>of support will be offered during each of the labs. Creative and
>conceptual development will be placed alongside active discussion
>and therefore the intention is not just to impart software and
>hardware oriented skills.  Individual artists will be provided with
>a full week long bursary on the lab which will cover their food,
>accommodation and technical equipment needs (but please not that
>available resources may vary from venue to venue).
>
>Applications or further information requests for LabCulture2 at all
>venues should be sent to:
>
>Julie Penfold, Director
>pva-MediaLab
>The Literary and Scientific Institute
>51 East Street  Bridport  Dorset  DT6 3JX
>t/f: 01308 459071
>e: julie@...
>url: www.pva.org.uk
>
>--
>
>l i g h t h o u s e . l i g h t h o u s e . l i g h t h o u s e .
>
>....David Sinden . Head of Digital Media
>
>......L I G H T H O U S E . Brighton . UK
>
>........t: +44 (0)1273 384222
>
>..........e: david@...
>
>............<http://www.lighthouse.org.uk>
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>l i g h t h o u s e . l i g h t h o u s e . l i g h t h o u s e .

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>
>The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) in the College
>of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
>University is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of
>publication in its Research E-ditions series. The CDDC (
>http://www.cddc.vt.edu ) has been in operation for over two years,
>and it publishes hypertext journals, hosts digital research
>archives,  and cooperates with many international cyberculture
>organizations.  You can find examples of our Research E-ditions at
>http://www.cddc.vt.edu/editions.html .
>
>As an entirely digital point-of-publication, the CDDC will review
>and then produce professional academic research works--either
>single-authored or edited collections--in a digital format.
>Proposals could take the form of an "e-book" that simply makes
>available a scholarly monograph in online format, or a collection of
>academic papers organized around a central theme, or a fully
>hypertextual experiment with new forms of digital discourse.
>Proposals could also be made for hosting or mirroring material that
>you have on your site or for community building or teaching
>resources like bibliographies or  discussion systems for your
>specific community.
>
>Arrangements can be made for "print on demand" (POD) paper versions
>of these works, but the main focus of the CDDC is to explore the new
>communicative potentials of hypertext, hypermedia, and web-centered
>publication. The review processes will be as extensive and rigorous
>as those experienced in print academic communication,  but it too
>will be conducted in a fully on-line format.
>
>All topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions
>series, however, we are particularly interested in manuscripts,
>digital archives, and hypertexts from the humanities and social
>sciences relating to the areas of cyberculture, social theory,
>literary studies, digital art, and cultural studies. In addition,
>the CDDC is committed to Proposals from applied and natural sciences
>that relate directly to the fields of bioinformatics, energy and
>environmental studies, and information technology and communications.
>
>  To propose a publication project, or to get more information,
>contact the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at cddc@... .
>
>Jeremy Hunsinger          http://www.cddc.vt.edu
>Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse
>and Culture
>Webmaster/Manager CDDC     http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber
>526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage
>Virginia Tech 	 (yes i need to update it)
>Blacksburg, VA 24061  (540)-231-7614  icq 5535471
>
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>
>
>From: Technotopias Organising Committee[mailto:technotopias@...]
>
>
>Dear Recipient,
>
>The University of Strathclyde's Department of English Studies will be
>holding an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Technotopias: Texts,
>Identities, and Technological Cultures on the 10-12 July 2001. The aim of
>this conference is to encourage discussion and interaction between within
>the Arts and Humanities by focusing on a topic that has recently produced
>much work within the its various disciplines. To this end I would be
>grateful if you could forward this e-mail to the academic staff and
>graduate students within your department.
>
>Yours
>
>Stephen Jones
>Conference Coordinator
>
>                          XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>TECHNOTOPIAS: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures
>
>An Interdisciplinary Conference
>The Department of English Studies
>The University of Strathclyde
>Glasgow
>
>July 10-12 2002
>
>GUEST SPEAKERS: Colin MacCabe, Harry Collins, and Bryan Turner
>
>The University of Strathclyde is a world leader in science and engineering
>yet, like many similar institutions, it maintains a strong commitment to
>the humanities. In societies that seem to place increasing emphasis on the
>application of technology and scientific knowledge this kind of commitment
>is sometimes seen as irrelevant. For humanities departments this situation
>raises new questions of identity, within both university faculties and
>cultural discourse itself. In the light of this situation the aims of
>Technotopias are to:
>
>Investigate the complex historical and contemporary interplay between the
>humanities and technology.
>
>Address the impact of technologies upon the formation of physical and
>cultural identities.
>
>Consider historical and contemporary representations of technology.
>
>Reflect upon the place of the arts within modern academia.
>
>To realise the interdisciplinary nature of this conference we invite papers
>from all fields of literary and cultural criticism, as well as the
>scientific and technological disciplines, at both post-doctoral and
>post-graduate levels.
>
>SUGGESTED TOPICS INCLUDE:
>
>Literatures of technology: historical contexts
>Frontiers of the imagination: Science and Fiction
>(Post) modern texts / (post) industrial spaces
>Technologos: technology and the word
>The science of Angellica: gender and technology
>Culture, technology, and the body
>Technologies and the self
>New media, old academe
>Paradigms of utility in academia
>
>Abstracts of 200 words for a 20 - 30 minute paper by 31 December 2001 by
>E-mail or post to:
>
>technotopias@...
>
>Stephen Jones
>Technotopias Organising Committee
>Department of English Studies
>University of Strathclyde
>Livingstone Tower
>26 Richmond Street
>Glasgow
>G1 1XH
>
>Tel: 0141 548 3529 (Tues-Thurs 10am-4pm)
>Fax: 0141 552 3493
>
>Further information will shortly be available through the department's on
>line Journal Ecloga:
>
>http://www.strath.ac.uk/ecloga
>
>PP Technotopias Organising Committee
>
>Department of English Studies
>University of Strathclyde
>16 Richmond Street
>Glasgow
>G1 1XH
>
>0141 548 3529 (Committee Office)
>0141 553 4150 (Margaret Philips, Graduate School Administrator)