>
>From: "Keeble, Leigh" <L.M.Keeble@...>
>
>  >
>>
>>  Forthcoming Conference Announcement
>>
>>  Organised by:
>>
>>  The Community Informatics Research & Applications Unit (CIRA),
>>  University of Teesside,
>>
>>  Creative and Connected
>>  12th - 14th September 2001-06-15
>>
>>  Now everybody's a Media Personality!
>>
>>  Millions of individuals and communities throughout the world are creating
>>  their own Web Pages, joining Internet discussion forums, exchanging
>>  information and providing advice through e-mail, or creating their own
>>  broadcasts through audio/visual webcasting.  Most activity takes place
>>  outside the traditional media channels and enables people to become their
>>  own newscasters, artists, politicians, educators, healers, and gossip
>>  columnists.  The creative potential of this new media and its consequences
>>  for community regeneration and development is the focus of this conference
>>  organised by CIRA, University of Teesside, on 12th-14th September 2001.
>>
>>  The event is structured to provide an opportunity to explore ways of using
>>  the new technologies to stimulate community development through the
>creation
>>  of jobs, improve public services, enhance cultural prospects, overcome
>>  isolation, provide business opportunities and foster social inclusion.
>>
>>  Our Keynote Speaker is Howard Rheingold, one of the world's gurus of
>>  cyberspace and digital culture. An author, journalist, and editor, Howard
>is
>>  also a visionary, a futurist, and a synthesiser of today's ever-changing
>>  telecommunications applications.
>>
>>  For further information and booking form click on to our website:
>>  www.cira.org.uk/creativeandconnected.  Or contact: Claire Taylor, Senior
>  > Administrator, Community Informatics Research & Applications Unit,
>  > University of Teesside, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA.
>  > Tel: (01642) 342710
>  > Email: c.taylor@...
>>
>>  Research Fellow
>>  CIRA
>>  University of Teesside
>>  Middlesbrough   TS1 3BA
>>
>>  Tel: 01642 342710
>>  Fax: 01642 342711
>>
>  > www.cira.org.uk

>
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>
>      COSIGN 2001
>
>      1st International Conference on
>      COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS IN GAMES
>      AND NEW MEDIA
>
>      http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001
>
>      CWI, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
>
>      10th September - 12th September, 2001
>
>***********************************************
>***********************************************
>
>           REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
>
>    http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/Cosign2001
>
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>
>
>REGISTRATION DETAILS
>====================
>
>Registration is now open for COSIGN 2001: Computational Semiotics in Games
>and New Media. There are discounts for early registration and special
>student rates. Details can be found at:
>
>
>http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/Cosign2001
>
>
>Early registration is encouraged, and attendees are advised to book their
>hotel rooms well in advance due to the limited amount of accommodation
>available in Amsterdam. Links to hotel listings are available on the main
>conference website:
>
>
>http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001
>
>
>The programme for the conference will be posted to this website shortly.
>
>
>
>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, AI and VR practitioners, semioticians,
>narratologists and new media practitioners.
>
>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.
>
>
>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.
>
>In addition to academic and theoretical papers, there will be presentations
>by several digital artists of practice-based work relevant to the themes of
>this conference. Selection of these artworks has been based upon their
>relevance to the themes of the conference, their interest in demonstrating
>or exploring the potential of new media, and their challenging of
>perceptions, theoretical assumptions, or understanding in any areas related
>to the conference.
>
>
>
>CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
>====================
>
>The conference brings together academic papers and posters from as far
>afield as the USA, Australia, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Italy,
>Germany, Brazil, and the UK. Topics covered include: the aesthetics of
>virtual environments; the production of place in role-playing games;
>semiotic and non-semiotic MUD performance; literary theory and computer
>games; the design of interactive narratives; the mapping of movement to
>sound; web-based documentaries; the design of content management systems;
>montage; the semiotics of interface design; etc.
>
>In addition to academic and theoretical papers, there will be presentations
>by several internationally-known digital artists of practice-based work.
>Selection of these artworks has been based upon their relevance to the
>themes of the conference, their interest in demonstrating or exploring the
>potential of new media, and their challenging of perceptions, theoretical
>assumptions, or understanding in any areas related to the conference.
>
>A list of selected papers, posters and artworks can be found on the main
>conference website at http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001
>
>The programme for the conference will be posted on this website shortly.
>
>
>
>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)
>
>
>
>ENQUIRIES
>=========
>
>For further information, please contact Dr Frank Nack.
>
>Email:  Frank.Nack@...
>Tel:    (+31) 20 592 4223
>Fax:    (+31) 20 592 4312
>
>
>http://www.kinonet.com/cosign2001    (main conference website)
>
>http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/Cosign2001    (registration)
>
--
Robin Hamman MA MPhil - Internet Researcher and Online Community Developer

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

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

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

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Here is a new resource.
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I just received my Spring Issue.
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Greetings from http://ePoor.org and Pakistan!

Exploring Dimensions of IT

- Zubair Faisal Abbasi

“Well arranged fodder is a very attractive offering for my apparently dumb
cows (bay-zubaan junwar)”, says Maula Dad, our milk supplier. “I dispense
the fodder in a neat and beautiful way which my animals come and eat
happily; and doing this gives me the best quantity and quality of milk. I
sell the product and earn money better than my competitors.”

There are at least two points in Maula Dad’s words. One being his
understanding that instead of forcing animals to come and adjust themselves
with the available but unattractive layout the food offering can be
rearranged. Second, this way his efforts bring additional dividends both for
his animals and himself. In simple words, he knows the collaborative
importance of the “demand side”.

The case for “Poor Communities and IT” in poverty alleviation and community
development perspective is somehow analogous to the above pattern of work,
though the dynamisms of IT and societal needs are more complex and involve
multiple implications at the technological and policy levels. What is
important and needs analysis is the current focus and character structure of
Information Technology incidence in our society. At the moment, the focus is
one sided and is largely supply-driven. However, to realize the promises of
IT for an equitable socio-economic growth for poverty alleviation and
opportunity generation, it is required to balance and work on the ‘demand
side’ of IT needs.

At one level, the overemphasis on the ‘supply side’ has potential to sharpen
the legacy of socio-economic ‘divides’ (including digital divide i.e.,
information haves and have-nots) and strengthen the ruthlessly ‘exclusionary
impact’ of IT growth and development in society. This would practically mean
enhancing scope for development of a small, usually well off, and
urban-based segments of society and also, in a way, augmenting the problem
of urbanization. An example of supply-driven processes is mushroom growth of
IT training institutes to produce more and more IT graduates (i.e.,
exclusively IT specialists), and uploading more and more supply-driven
portals websites sometimes in the name of development as well.

Looking at the current focus, it is quite predictable that high-speed
over-supply of workforce in the domestic IT sector and the collection of
largely irrelevant content would not contribute much for broad-based
development. The over-supply may even lead to two uncalled for directions:
one, towards expanding social discontent (may be because of hi-tech
unemployment and decreasing remuneration) and second towards an accelerated
brain-drain searching for ‘lands of opportunity’ across the national
borders. While irrelevancy factor in content may lead to a general and
widespread belief that IT (and new media technologies like Internet) are not
a service but another transcendent ‘politics of the elite’.

It is interesting to note that sometimes the way development information
portals categorize and classify information is not the way poor need,
discuss, process, and access information. What can be a very relevant
suggestion here is to include the participatory role of community ‘key
informants’; these key informants are perceived as reliable source of verbal
information at the community levels and their potentials can be harnessed
for community Information Points (IT kiosks). However, the current
‘supply-driven’ focus divorced from ‘demand perspective’ is something like a
strategy of ‘putting all eggs in one basket’ without taking cognizance of
the circumstances under which the basket would guard and sustain itself; and
yes prove to be a fruitful contribution for pro-poor development as well.

Louis Pasteur once said, “the microbe is nothing, the terrain everything”.
It seems that the life-sustaining capacity of IT basket lies in its
potential to generate activity in non-IT sectors like formal and informal
education (in natural sciences, humanities, creative arts, technical skills
etc), extending better health services, developing marketing access of the
rural produce while improving quality of products, participatory governance
and services etc.  In other words, we need to develop such community-based
platform where suitable order of things can help actualize the promises of
IT for reducing poverty of income and opportunity in a sustainable,
inclusionary, and equitable fashion. In the suitable order of things, the
key would be to include and empower the excluded subjects of IT development
and growth i.e., the people especially the poor communities.

Questioning IT for Poor Communities

The analytical paraphernalia for developing pro-poor policy prescriptions
with demand side perspective can begin as a set of issue-raising questions.
For example, how can IT (and networks) become an effective tool to eradicate
excruciating predicaments of income poverty (see table 1.1) and poverty of
opportunity (see tables 1.2)?

Income Poverty in Pakistan, 1996-97 (%) (1.1)
Key Finding: Overall 31 per cent of the people of Pakistan lived in poverty
in 1996-97.

	 Urban  Rural Overall
Punjab
Headcount 33 29 30
Poverty Gap 7 7 7
Sindh
Headcount 20 53 27
Poverty Gap 4 14 9
NWFP
Headcount 18 24 23
Poverty Gap 3 5 4
Balochistan
Headcount 35 54 49
Poverty Gap 8 14 12
Pakistan
Headcount 27 32 31
Poverty Gap 6 8 7
Source: Social Policy and Development Center estimates based on HIES
(1996-97)

How can IT become a participatory and empowering service delivery mechanism
and serve as efficient and relevant information (information about
day-to-day needs) to the poor? How can IT help develop enabling environment
for community participation and development, generate trust, generate
accountability potential, improve governance and access to civic services?
Creating enabling environment is important so that the poor access civic
services without compromising their dignity. (see ANNEX 2.3 - at the bottom)

Poverty of Opportunity Index, 1996-97 (1.2)

	 Punjab  Sindh  NWFP Balochistan Pakistan
Health Deprivation 52 56 51 54 47
Education Deprivation 53 51 60 65 54
Income Deprivation 30 37 23 49 31
POPI 47 49 50 57 49

The maximum value of the index is 100. The closer the value of POPI is to
100,the greater the state of deprivation.
Source: Social Policy and Development Center Annual Review 2000

In quest for relevance of IT industry with pro-poor strategies vis-à-vis
poverty alleviation mechanisms and societal needs the hunt for policy
planners and IT entrepreneurs could be: What sort of IT applications can be
developed, packaged, and presented (marketed) serving as tools of
socio-economic relevance for the poor? How far IT industry provide public
domain and affordable auto-translators (e.g., from English to Urdu) or
text-to-speech software, voice recognition, and touch-screen applications
that work as optimal man-machine interface to bridge illiteracy handicap of
the poor communities at local levels? How can pro-poor clusters in IT
enterprises be established and sustained?


However, these question need not to be replied with a narrow marketing
scheme (e.g., skimming strategy) like how the ‘poor’ (as separate subject
category) are unprofitable than ‘others’ in expanding IT content and
infrastructure; and they need to be given access to water rather than
opportunities and access of new media technologies. Perhaps, the vision
regarding IT development for the poor communities needs to liken the process
of IT spread (i.e., ubiquitous prevalence of IT based on increasing consumer
canvass) with the processes of community development and building social
capital for equitable and inclusionary socio-economic development. What is
important is to acknowledge that the poor communities need both water and
cost-effective, capability enhancing collective communication tools and
there is no such question of either/or.

The subtlety of the questions stated above can be simplified in asking for a
participatory bottom-up approach in information content generation and IT
infrastructure provision and development. Notwithstanding, the bottom-up
methodology (rooted in community development approach), while reorienting
supply-driven exclusivity in IT environment, would help doing at least three
things:

q Design and spread IT tools and information content in a participatory way
(establishing two-way communication mode) .
q Build a sense of ownership regarding IT systems and services amongst
communities while reducing alienation and help bridge digital divide.
q Help making IT part of lived experience of the poor and a general-purpose
tool for community development while harnessing collective buying/selling
power of communities and building bondages and bridges  for development in
non-IT fields.

Looking Ahead …..

The key issue in the spread of IT in society is striking a balance between
demand and supply side of the process and make it a socially responsible
process; may a sort of e-convergence. The key prescription would be to
locate procedural frameworks in ‘community development and participation
approach’ which works by enhancing the capacity of the poor to access IT and
new media technologies and also participate in decision making processes
(see ANNEX 2.1 - at the bottom).

Harnessing the collective buying power of communities may be an important
option along with resource mobilization like credit availability for
community entrepreneurs to set-up community managed Information Points (IP:
is called Internet Protocol in data transmission) and ensure access to new
media technologies. This method would also help communities accrue benefits
even in the absence of ‘one person one PC model’.

These Information Points, may be equipped with mobile phones (e.g., Grameen
experience of giving mobiles to women in Bangladesh) can act as two-way
communication platform for linking the poor communities Diaspora and
organize labor and skill market leading to dis-intermediary (shortening
supply-chain with direct access between producers and consumers). It would
be great experience of IT for the poor, if auto-translators (English to Urdu
and other languages) are put in use and ‘key informants’ of community
benefit from the service to further strengthen the capacity to make use of
two-way collective communication potential.

The potentials of IPs (Information Points) can also spark off good response
from the poor communities if the digital assets of educational institutions
like Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan are customized and made
available on CDs at the community levels. These assets in the shape of
audio-visual training manuals on subjects like preventive health care,
agriculture, sanitation, and automobile management are of direct use of
communities. Speaking IT for education for kids a very relevant experience
could be of “Hole In The wall” which was carried out with street urchins.
Interestingly, illiterate kids flocked to computers and learnt using
computers without instructions and prior education. Isn’t replacement of
blackboard with keyboard possible along with initiating a process of
computer-based literacy? (see ANNEX: 2.2 - at the bottom)

As Alan Greenspan, the chairman of US Federal Reserve once suggested, the
world product is becoming lighter in weight. To produce it, we need more and
more knowledge and information and not much material inputs.  In the light
of Alan’s suggestion, another goal in the way to ‘information technology for
the poor’ is to innovatively think across the idea of how the power of IT
can be linked with income diversification, participation into formal safety
nets, and reducing vulnerability against ill-health, and disasters. The work
of Tara HAAT http://tarahaat.com and Hewlett & Packard
http://hp.com/e-inclusion is very relevant here. HP works in the select
coterie of villages to harness IT for health, education, and marketing the
rural produce with aim to initiate processes of broadening developing
countries' access to the social and economic opportunities of the digital
age.

The Key

However, the key to making IT beneficial for community development and a
critical tool for poverty eradication is to broaden the focus of IT and the
strategies of its spread in society. The focus should also be on demand
creation and mobilizing creative couplet of development-application of IT
tools so that the excluded become partners of development and contribute to
national wealth and collective social well-being.
---------

Reference Sites

q ePoor.org http://ePoor.org
q IT, Pro-poor Projects and Responses http://ePoor.org/bg.htm
q Databases and Resources on Urban Development  http://www.bestpractices.org
q Slums Information Development and Resource Centers (SIDAREC) Kenya.
http://www.sidarec.or.ke
q Hole in the Wall project: http://www.niit.com
q IT for the Poor http://tarahaat.com
q Grameen Foundation’s Telecom: http://www.gfusa.org/projects/telecom.html
q Ninos de la Calle, a Project among Street Children in Ecuador.
http://www.chasquinet.org/ninodelacalle
q Promes: Software tools for organizations working with urban poor
http://www.promesWeb.nl
q SAMEX: Decision making support system for sanitation selection for the
poor http://www.awme.uq.edu.au/manage/thomast.htm
q Text-to-speech software, ReadPlease 2000 http://www.readplease.com
q Bridges.org: http://www.bridges.org/
q Simputer Trust http://www.simputer.org
------
ANNEX: 2.3
Poor People, Dignity, and Services
Poor Women in the Voices of the Poor study stressed that officials are often
unresponsive to them. They shared countless examples of criminality, abuse,
and corruption in their encounters with public institutions and said they
have little recourse to justice. In describing their encounters with
institutions, poor people also drew attention to the shame and indignity of
being treated with arrogance, rudeness, and disdain.

“We would rather treat ourselves than go to the hospitals, where the angry
nurse might inject us with the wrong drug.” Poor Youth from Kitui, Tanzania.

Source: World Bank Development Report 2000/2001 “Attacking Poverty”.
----
ANNEX 2.1
Participatory-budgeting from Brazil

The Porto Alegre Participatory Budget is one of the finest examples
involving communities in the decision-making process.  In Brazil,
communities have been able to help authorities apportion the annual
municipal budget to needs and priorities that are decided upon through a
parallel process involving poor and disenfranchised neighbourhoods. The
results speak for themselves and include improved water and sanitation,
infrastructure and basic services. The "participatory budget" has now spread
to over 70 other municipal authorities in Brazil and in neighbouring
countries.

Participatory mechanisms established and enabled by the local authority
appear to provide an important means by which critical information, such as
the municipal planning and budgeting process, is rendered accessible and
transparent to the poor. As a result, such information allows the urban poor
to organise themselves and to present their demands in such a way that they
can be considered by the formal institutionalised decision-making process.
Source: E-conference on the Knowledge and Information Systems of the Urban
Poor organized by The Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) Feb -
May 2001
------
ANNEX 2.2

Hole in the wall project of the National Institute of Information
Technology, Delhi http://www.niit.com/Press%20Stories/Story71.htm. As an
experiment, NIIT's cognitive engineering researchers last year made a hole
in the wall near the slum and installed a powerful computer connected
permanently to the Internet there. The computer was available for anyone to
use. The result was extraordinary. The slum children, many of whom had had
no primary education, went over to check out the computer. There was no
instructor on call; they were left to themselves. Within five hours, one of
them, Rajender, aged eight, had managed to find a Disney Site.
------

Regards,
Zubair Faisal Abbasi.
CEO/Project Director,
ePoor.org
Waheed Plaza, West 52, First Floor,
Blue Area, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ph: 092-051-2201484, 0303-7759274
++++++++
Pro-Poor means enhancing capacity of the POOR to perform PRO i.e., 'Poverty
reduction', 'Remoteness reduction' and 'Opportunity generation'.

Virtual reality is a new medium for the delivery of therapy. Technology is
creating a new way to deliver therapy through globally accessible, virtual
reality environments. Therapy World is a prototype virtual world that has
been
successfully providing therapeutic care since November 2000.

A new article describing our work and experiences is now available at
http://members.kabsi.at/t01/twa/article.html


Fran Pagdin

>
>Registration is now officially open to the VI edition of the Pirelli
>INTERNETional Award 2001 (http://www.pirelliaward.com)..
>
>This year, the overall prize has increased to 80,000 Euros (more than
>US$65,000), for the first international multimedia competition for the
>spread of scientific and technological culture, entirely carried out on the
>Internet, on-line since 1996.
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>Looking forward to your participation, we wish you,
>
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>
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>
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>
>
>Game Studies
>the international journal of computer game research
>issue 1
>july 2001
>is out
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/>
>
>"Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to
>games research, web-published 3-4 times a year at
><www.gamestudies.org>
>Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative
>aspects of computer games."
>
>"Our mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games;
>to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and
>theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing
>discussions on games and gaming."
>
>Espen Aarseth
>Computer Game Studies, Year One
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/editorial.html>
>
>Marie-Laure Ryan
>Beyond Myth and Metaphor
>The Case of Narrative in Digital Media
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/ryan/>
>
>Jesper Juul
>Games Telling stories?
>A brief note on games and narratives
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/juul-gts/>
>
>Selmer Bringsjord
>Is It Possible to Build Dramatically Compelling Interactive
>Digital Entertainment
>(in the form, e.g., of computer games)?
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/bringsjord/index.html>
>
>Markku Eskelinen
>The Gaming Situation
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/eskelinen/>
>
>Jesper Juul
>The repeatedly lost art of studying games
>Review of Elliott M. Avedon & Brian Sutton-Smith (ed.):
>The Study of, Games, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
>1971. 530 pages
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/juul-review/>
>
>Gonzalo Frasca
>The Sims: Grandmothers are cooler than trolls
><http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/0101/frasca/>

--
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

>Conference Announcement
>
>Nordic Interactive Conference 2001 - Digital Visions  and User Reality
>31 October 2001 to 3 November 2001, Copenhagen, Denmark
>
>NIC 2001 is a biannual conference initiated by Nordic
>Interactive, a new pan-Nordic network for leading Nordic IT
>research institutes and companies in interactive digital
>technology. The first significant landmark of the network
>is NIC 2001, featuring entrepreneurs and visionary
>leaders from industry and academia, artists and
>performers as well as a number of international keynote
>speakers. The conference provides a rich set of formats
>for interaction, presentation and discussion of the latest
>results and developments. NIC 2001 presents a four-day
>program consisting of five tracks, tutorials, informal
>workshops, expo (also open to the public), art gallery, job
>fair and a competition for postgraduate and doctoral
>students.
>
>Why NIC 2001?
>There has been a growing focus on research and
>development as the core competencies of the Nordic
>countries. The Nordic countries occupy unique research
>and development positions in areas closely connected to
>development and use of interactive digital technology,
>especially in the areas of user centred design, social
>context relations and mobility. At NIC2001 we aim at
>bringing the Nordic capacities in this broad and
>multidisciplinary field together, to present and discuss
>contributions from scientists, artists, developers,
>business, educators, and computer enthusiasts.
>Conference topics will relate to science, education,
>games, design, communication, interaction, work, daily
>living and society. Leaders and visionaries from industry,
>academia, research and government will discuss the key
>technology advances that will impact our daily lives now
>and in the future, and how that may change the way we
>interact.
>
>The goal of NIC 2001 is to provide a highly interactive and
>engaging forum, where attendees can meet to exchange
>and discuss ideas. We wish to strengthen the Nordic
>relations and networks, to consider the form, role, and
>impact of future interactive digital technology. The
>conference will present some of the latest technological
>developments, and discuss issues and challenges facing
>the Nordic R&D environment in this area, as we move into
>the 21st Century. Our speakers, panellists and presenters
>are all deeply involved in various areas of research,
>development, creation and use of interactive digital
>technology.
>
>Conference themes are:
>1. Living in intelligent environments
>2. Nomadic computing
>3. Learning in a distributed world - future pedagogical
>practices
>4. Touch, hear, see
>5. - To be announced!
>
>Keynote speakers are as follows:
>J°rgen Lindegaard - President and CEO of the SAS Group
>(Scandinavian Airlines) ;
>Kevin Warwick - Professor of Cybernetics at the
>University of Reading, UK, leading robotics researcher;
>John Thackara - Director of "Doors of Perception",
>Holland, a design guru, critic and business provocateur;
>Norbert Streitz - Dr. Dr. at GMD, Germany, a leading
>expert on workspaces of the future;
>Maureen Thomas - Creative Director at Cambridge
>University Moving Image Studio (CUMIS), UK, expert on
>digital interactive narrative/drama;
>Bob Stone - Professor, head of MUSE Virtual Presence
>Ltd. and Scientific Director of MUSE Technologies, UK,
>world-leading expert on human factors and ergonomics in
>relation to virtual reality and
>Kathryn Clark, Senior scientist at Nasa, USA, specialist in
>intelligent environments.
>
>Online registration and the preliminary conference
>programme is now available at
>http://www.nic2001.org.
>
>E-mail enquiries: secr@...
>
>Website: http://www.nic2001.org
>
>Organized by: Nordic Interactive

Virtual reality is a new medium for the delivery of therapy.
Technology is
creating a new way to deliver therapy through globally accessible,
virtual
reality environments. Therapy World is a prototype virtual world that
has been
successfully providing therapeutic care since November 2000.

A new article describing our work and experiences is now available at
http://members.kabsi.at/t01/twa/article.html

Frances Pagdin
Therapy Worlds
http://members.kabsi.at/t01/tw2/index.html

>
>
>Conference Announcement
>
>Hypertext 2001: Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and  Hypermedia
>14 to 18 August 2001, Aarhus, Denmark
>
>From online documentation aboard aircraft carriers to
>distance learning degree programs to interactive
>entertainment, hypertext and hypermedia have already
>begun to transform our world. As the foremost
>international conference on hypertext and hypermedia
>Hypertext 2001 brings together scholars, researchers,
>and practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines -
>including computing, literature, law, art, medicine,
>business, journalism, philosophy, psychology, and
>engineering - to consider the form, role, and impact of
>hypertext and hypermedia.
>
>Hypertext 2001 will provide a forum where attendees can
>exchange and discuss ideas on hypermedia, as well as
>its design and use in a variety of domains, while also
>considering the transformative power of hypermedia and
>its ability to potentially alter the way we read, write, argue,
>work, exchange information, or entertain ourselves.
>Attendees can discuss all aspects of hypermedia, ranging
>from navigational aids, time, and infrastructures to digital
>libraries, interactive literature, virtual and augmented
>reality environments, gaming, human-computer
>interaction, software engineering, computer-supported
>collaborative work, and, of course, the World Wide Web.
>
>Topics include but are not limited to: Interactive games
>and entertainment; effects of hypermedia on business and
>industry; experiences with the application of hypermedia;
>innovative hypertexts and novel uses of hypertext and
>hypermedia; web-based hypermedia drama; collaborative
>hypermedia technology and applications; hypermedia in
>virtual environments and augmented reality
>environments; hypermedia in fiction, scholarship, and
>technical writing; hypermedia in education and training;
>empirical studies and hypermedia evaluation; hypermedia
>and time: narratives and storyboarding; hypertext rhetoric
>and criticism; integration and open hypermedia
>architectures; large-scale distributed hypermedia;
>structuring hypermedia documents for reading and
>retrieval; theories, models, architectures, standards, and
>frameworks; hypermedia user interfaces; object-oriented
>hypermedia; hypermedia infrastructure technologies;
>hypermedia middleware and components; hypermedia
>authoring; and hypermedia for the Internet.
>
>E-mail enquiries: kgronbak@...
>
>Website: http://www.ht01.org/
>
>Organized by: ACM
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
>We are writing you because you are either a friend of ours, a
>Netizen, a scientist
>or a geek :-)
>
>We are proud to announce the upcoming launch of the VI edition of the Pirelli
>INTERNETional Award (http://www.pirelliaward.com).
>
>This year, the overall prize has increased to 80,000 Euros (more
>than US$65,000),
>for the first international multimedia competition entirely carried out on the
>Internet, on-line since 1996.
>
>Having browsed your Web pages, we believe that you certainly have the means to
>participate in the VI edition of the Pirelli INTERNETional Award,
>and, in order
>to maximize your chances of winning, we invite you to contact us.
>
>Being sponsored by a multinational company (which allows you to
>participate totally
>free of charge), our mission is to promote the spread of scientific
>and technological
>culture.
>
>This year, the subjects for multimedia submissions are:
>
>EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA: for the best multimedia product directed at, or coming
>from, any educational institution from grade school to university.
>Specifically, there are two subcategories:
>- a 15,000 Euros prize for the best scientific or technologically
>inclined multimedia
>work that contributes to the spread of knowledge at any level: this prize is
>OPEN to every citizen, organization or business of the world.
>- a 15,000 Euros prize for the best scientific or technologically
>inclined multimedia
>work that comes from an educational institution: this prize is RESERVED to any
>educational institution from grade school to university;
>
>ENVIRONMENT MULTIMEDIA:
>- a 15,000 Euros prize for the best multimedia product that either describes
>the environment or serves to safeguard it: this prize is OPEN to
>every citizen,
>organization or business of the world;
>- a 15,000 Euros prize for the best multimedia publishing product
>(Web magazine,
>article, essay, book) on the subject of the environment: this prize is OPEN to
>every citizen, organization or business of the world.
>
>SPECIAL JUNIOR AWARD: a 10,000 Euros prize for the best multimedia product, on
>any of the above subjects, presented by any candidate born after December 31st
>1980.
>
>ADDED PRIZE: additional 10,000 Euros conferred by the Jury to the best of the
>above awarded submissions.  The winner of the 2001 Pirelli INTERNETional Award
>will therefore receive a total of 25,000 Euros.
>
>Looking forward to your participation, we remain,
>
>Yours Faithfully
>
>------------------------------------------------
>Technical Committee 2001
>Pirelli INTERNETional Award
>
>c/o Pirelli, Rome Office
>Foro Romano, 3
>00186 Rome, Italy
>
>e-mail: info@...
>phone ++39 06 69517610
>fax ++39 06 69517608
>http://www.pirelliaward.com
>
>Netiquette: Being Internet-based, we naturally follow the rules of the Net: we
>have neither bought, nor acquired in any way other than browsing the Web your
>public e-mail address.  We are not bulk-mailing, we are just addressing those
>potential participants considered worth contacting. If you are not interested
>in our cultural initiative, please simply Reply with the word "REMOVE" in the
>subject line, and you will no longer hear from us; in this event, we are sorry
>for the intrusion.  On the other hand, if you would like more information on
>the Award, please do not hesitate to contact us.

>From: "Antonio Marturano" <a.marturano@...>
>
>
>
>CEPE 2001 - IT and the Body
>
>
>
>Lancaster University
>
>Lancaster (UK)
>
>14-16 December 2001
>
>
>
>Organised by
>
><http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/CSTO/CSTO_HOME.htm>Centre for Study of
>Technology in Organizations
>
><http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ieppp/>Institute for Environment,
>Philosophy and Public Policy
>
>
>
>Co Chairs:
>
>
>
>Ruth Chadwick
>
>Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy,
>
>Lancaster University
>
>Lucas Introna
>
>Centre for Study of Technology in Organizations,
>
>Lancaster University
>
>Antonio Marturano
>
>Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy,
>
>Lancaster University
>
>
>
>Helen Nissenbaum
>
>Center for Human Values, Princeton University
>
>
>
>Keynote Speakers:
>
>
>
>David Lyon
>
>Kevin Warwick
>
>
>
>2nd Call For Papers
>
>The special theme 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 talk of it as an extension
>of 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
>acceptable 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
>right 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, and the right to personal data ownership. Other
>philosophical challenges about our body are raised from Virtual
>Reality and Artificial Intelligence.
>
>
>
>Some of the fields involved:
>
>
>
>- Genomics
>
>- Human Genome Project
>
>- Bioinformatics
>
>- Cultural Values
>
>- Politics
>
>- Health Information Systems
>
>- Law
>
>- Bionics
>
>- Globalisation
>
>- Cognitive Sciences
>
>- Media Studies
>
>- Philosophy of Mind
>
>- Sociology
>
>- Anthropology
>
>- Artificial Intelligence
>
>- Virtual Reality
>
>- Cybernetics
>
>- Postmodernism
>
>
>
>Papers on other topics that cross the fields of computing and ethics
>are also welcome.
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________\
_____
>
>Papers will be accepted on the basis of a submitted abstract, which
>will be refereed.
>
>An abstract must be between 1200 and 1400 words (references
>included) in length and submitted via email as embedded plain text
>or an attachment in RTF or WORD 6 format.
>
>Abstracts must be submitted no later than 16 September 2001 to
><mailto:cepe@...>cepe@.... Authors will be
>informed of the decision of the referees by 15 October 2001.


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3rd Annual Internet Political Economy Forum Conference

Internet & Development in Asia

Across Asia, governments, corporations, schools, and individuals are
embracing information and communication technologies as a means of achieving
economic growth, improving operating margins, and personal empowerment. In
addition, the Asian economic crisis, accelerated political changes, and
globalization of businesses have accompanied the emergence of information
technologies. Asia now boasts some of the world's most wired-nations,
including South Korea, Singapore, and Japan, but also some of the world's
most poverty stricken, and information-poor, nations. This advent of the
information society means that societies, economies, and communities across
Asia will be profoundly altered.
IPEF 2001 will explore the role of information technologies on economic and
business development, political development, and community development in
Asia. Experts who are focused on the Internet in Asia from around the world
will examine in detail the ways in which ICT (Information Communications
Technologies) are changing lifestyles, political structures, and economic
relationships in Asia. Keynote speakers will highlight the critical issues
associated with the growth of the Internet.

Opening Address
  David Lim, Minister of State, Republic of Singapore (Defence,  Information
and the Arts)

Keynote Speakers:
David Lyon, Queens University, Canada, Surveillance and Privacy in the
Asian Information Society
Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University, Japan's IT Policies:  Development and
Impacts

Panels on Intellectual Property in Asia, IT in Japan, the digital divide in
Asia, as well as the economic, political, commercial, and cultural issues
associated with IT in Asia.

Date: September 14 & 15, 2001
Venue: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Registration fees: S$150

More details are available at www.prnewsasia.com/ipef2001, or by contacting
Jane Ong at ipef2001@....

The Internet Political Economy Forum is an international consortium of
universities to coordinate a global study of the Internet paradigm through
the leading universities/high tech hubs in the United States, Europe and
Asia.  The IPEF organizes conferences and research projects with plans
underway for fellowship programs and curricular activities.  The members
are: University of Washington (secretariat), University of Cambridge, and
National University of Singapore.

Randy Kluver, Ph.D.
Information and Communication Management Programme
National University of Singapore
AS 3, #04-16
Singapore 117570
(65) 559-3141  fax (65) 779-4911

>
>  >2nd Call for Papers
>>
>>Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture
>>
>>Special Issue, Spring 2001.
>>
>>Net_Work : the Politics of Work in an Information Age
>>
>>Guest Editors:  Mary Griffiths and Simon Cooper
>>
>>Monash University
>>
>>
>>New communication technologies are transforming the nature of work.  The
>>economic and social ramifications of fast capitalism - rationalization,
>>downsizing, and the collapse of boundaries between work and domestic
>>spaces give rise to new ways of working and living. Networked technologies
>>on the one hand provide flexibility to capital and labour - for some a
>>culture of opportunity. However the same technologies can also generate an
>>environment of transience and insecurity for those using information
>>technologies, or redundancy for those who are displaced by them. .
>>These transformations force us to re-evaluate the more taken for granted
>>notions of how we work and live. For instance, can the idea of 'the
>>workplace' continue, given the mobile and transient nature of info-work?
>>How can new ways of working be re-conceptualized? What can be said about
>>the likely political and social effects on workers and their
>>families?  Are the social networks of shopfloor and corridors remade
>>on-line? Is the end of 'organised labour' at hand? Is the individual
>>worker more or less autonomous in the new environments? How is on-line
>>work providing ways for net-workers to think of themselves?  This special
>>issue of Southern Review calls for articles on:
>>   * telecommuting
>>   * fast capitalism
>>   * cyberwork
>>   * industrial relations
>>   * policy
>>   * work subjectivities
>>   * surveillance
>>
>>The deadline for papers has been extended until 31 August. Papers should
>>be approx. 4500 words. Under special circumstances longer papers will be
>>considered.
>>
>>Please send us 3 hard copies of your paper, double -spaced on white A4
>>paper, with your name and institutional affiliation on a separate sheet to
>>facilitate anonymity in the evaluation process. An abstract (max. 100
>>words) is required, and a biographical note of no more than 50 words.
>>Referencing should follow the MLA Style Manual (1988) 'works cited' form
>>of documentation (for further details see
>>www.bedfordbooks.com/rd/mla/cited.html). Discursive notes should be
>>avoided. Full details of editorial policy are available on request.
>>
>>You may submit electronically - please contact the editors for details.
>>Mary.Griffiths@...
>  >Simon.Cooper@...
>

Wiretap 7.08: Carte Blanche

Presentation
Thursday 30th August, 20.30 h, doors open 20.00 h, location V2_,
Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, entrance fl. 10,-

Work-in-progress exhibition
Thursday 30th Augustus - Sunday 2nd September 2001, Thu - Sat 12.00 - 18.00
h, Sun 12.00 - 17.00 h, location: V2_, free entrance

Maps appear in many guises and forms, conveying various messages and
agendas. Cartography has always played a role in the representation of
spatial and political reality. Thus besides being a navigational aid, a map
is also an ideological tool.

In a society where our worldview is continuously changing due to rapid
technological developments and the effects of globalisation, the static
maps of yore, which feign the semblance of stability and immutability, are
outmoded. New technologies provide us with 3D maps, dynamic maps with
automatic update functions, animated and interactive maps which chart
variable processes and complex relations.

The digitalisation of cartography has had to its effect that the
visualisations of data are far from dry snapshots of reality. Maps are
increasingly playing a more directive role in the representation, but also
in the active shaping of reality. Moreover, maps plot their own realities
and cross the lines between information carrying and information shaping.

Reality is in the eye of the map maker? Wiretap 7.08 maps out the blanks
with pressing critical questions.


Guests:
Martin Dodge (GB)
Is a computer technician, researcher and part-time Ph.D. student at the
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
Currently he is working on temporary secondment with Peacock Maps in
Washington DC. His background is in social geography and geographical
information systems. His Ph.D. research is on the geographical analysis of
the Internet and mapping cyberspace. He directs the Cyber-Geography
Research project.  He is together with Rob Kitchin author of Mapping
Cyberspace (2000) en Atlas of Cyberspace (2001).

Michael Pinsky (GB)
Graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1995. His work explores
relationships between architectural spaces and perceptions of time. His
most recent projects include; 'Transparent Room', a site-specific video
installation which was shown at a number of venues including Leeds City Art
Gallery and Watershed, Bristol, and 'Overload' an installation first
exhibited in Weimar, Germany and developed during residencies at the
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Germany and the Ecole d'Art
d'Aix-En Provence, France. His work has been featured by publications such
as The Guardian and Creative Camera. He is currently developing his latest
project ‘In Transit’ as EMARE artist in residence at the V2_Lab.

STEALTH group (NL)
Ana Dzokic
Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture Belgrade, Yugoslavia where she
initiated in 1996 Projekt X, a large international cultural event. In 2000
she received her Masters at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. She is
co-founder of research and design practice, STEALTH group from Rotterdam.
Marc Neelen
Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, The Netherlands. In
1998 he established his practice for architecture and media that evolved
into STEALTH group, based in Rotterdam. He is working as an editor of
ArchiNed (architecture internet organisation of the Netherlands) and
participates in the Smart Architecture network.

Work-in-progress exhibition:
‘In Transit’  Michael Pinsky
Pinsky creates interactive maps that alter conventional perceptions of
urban time and space. Noting the resultant travel times between urban
locations as a form of plotting device, the maps are then constructed to
show points in time rather than space. They re-organise the city's form,
and our understanding of it, in terms of a temporal as well as geographic
dimension.

‘Genetics of the Wild City’  STEALTH Group
In contradistinction with static mapping techniques ‘Genetics of the Wild
City’ presents the development of a set of tools and a specific methodology
for the dynamic mapping and visualisation of complex urban processes and
transformations. This project started from the reality of Belgrade, the 2
million inhabitants’ capital of Yugoslavia  a city that experienced the
abrupt change from a centrally conducted to an atomised growth, steered by
individual needs. The project draws its metaphors and parallels from
studies of genetics and computer viruses.

‘Safetown Project’ - Laurent Neyssensas & Frédéric Degouzon
The ‘Safetown’ project is a photographic inquiry in urban space, based on
the colour reduction process of palettes used in computer graphics.
Neyssensas’ and Degouzon’s approach consists of applying the technique of
palettes to urban tissue in order to draw a general and systematic vision
of the whole entity, which is designed for interactive electronic broadcast.

Bookmarks
Martin Dodge
http://www.atlasofcyberspace.com
http://www.cybergeography.org
http://www.mappingcyberspace.com/
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/martin.html
Michael Pinsky
http://www.watershed.co.uk/transparent/
Laurent Neyssensas & Frédéric Degouzon
http://www.safetown.org

Producer: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam. More info
www.v2.nl/wiretap

V2_events are streamed live at www.v2.nl/live

The Wiretap 7 series is supported by Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterdam,
Ministery of OC&W, Luna Internet, Thuiskopie fonds, Rotterdamse
Kunststichting

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newsletter, the Online Community Report. It is an excellent resource
for those building online communities or researching them.
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>
>
>
>**** ONLINE COMMUNITY REPORT ****
>
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>Editors: Dan Shafer, Jim Cashel
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>
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>
>**** NEWS ****
>
>ONLINE COMMUNITIES SWAMPED FOLLOWING TERRORIST ATTACKS
>
>The online community sector played a large role this past week in
>allowing people to find one another, commiserate, and express rage.
>New York Times: "Web Becomes Global Support Forum"
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Attacks-Internet.html;
>News.com: "Online Chat Ranges >From Hate to Sympathy"
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7165025.html?tag=cd_mh ;
>Salon.com: ""Purge Our Society," Online Bigots Shout"
>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/11/net_hate/index.html
>News.com: "Net Offers Lifeline Amid Tragedy"
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7132246.html
>New York Times: "I.S.P.'s Curb Terrorist Postings and an
>Anti-Islamic Backlash"
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17WEB.html
>
>STOCKJUNGLE.COM CLOSES COMMUNITY-DIRECTED FUND
>
>StockJungle.com has closed its Community Intelligence Fund,
>describing it as economically unfeasible due to its small asset
>base. The Fund, once as large as $7.5 million, now stands at $1.4
>million. http://www.stockjungle.com ; Morningstar.com:
>http://biz.yahoo.com/ms/010827/6009.html
>
>STARWOOD HOTELS' STAFF SURVEY ONLINE COMMUNITIES
>
>In a good example of Corporate American paying attention to online
>communities, Starwood Hotels and Resorts has a staffperson assigned
>to participate in message boards. Reuters:
>http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010905/n29241918_2.html
>
>MESSAGEKING OFFERS MESSAGE BOARD SEARCH
>
>MessageKing offers a new search capability for web message boards.
>http://www.messageking.com .
>
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>
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>communities: finance, strategy, growth, business partnerships,
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>**** JOBS ****
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>Briefings is interested in hearing from experienced online
>facilitators (editorial background a plus) to help develop the next
>wave of community-centric knowledge formation for business and
>professional markets. Virtual production processes. Understanding of
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>larger community in which these events take place. twalsh@...
>Roles for lead facilitator, associate producer.
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>
>**** ARTICLES & RESOURCES ****
>
>* Business Wire: "Web Crossing Announces New Support Crossing
>Solution" http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010905/50481.html
>
>* Computerworld: "Covisint Taps MatrixOne For Collaboration Tools"
>http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO63552,00.html
>
>* eContent: "In the Key of C: Content and Community Co-mingle"
>http://www.econtentmag.com/Magazine/Features/tidwell9_01.html
>
>* News.com: "Virtual Shareholder Meetings Flop"
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7083108.html?tag=cd_mh
>
>* News.com: "Lovelorn Seek Mates Online" (dating service popularity)
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7165872.html?tag=cdshrt
>
>* PR Newswire: "Akonix Research Server Enhances Sales, Marketing,
>and Product Development Efforts"
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010905/law106.html
>
>* Press Release: "ChatSpace Providing the "Connect" in Sony's
>Screenblast" http://www.chatspace.com/press091001.htm
>
>* Press Release: "Octave Communications Unveils MeetAbout" (phone
>chat)
>http://www.octavecommunications.com/PressRelease/mobility_pr.asp
>
>* Reuters: "Electronic Arts Suspends 'Majestic' Online Game"
>http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010912/en/media-\
majestic_1html
>
>* Conference: "II World Congress of Citizen Networks" Buenos Aires,
>Dec. 5-7 2001 http://www.globalcn2001.org/ingles/index_ing.html
>
>* Conference: "Fourth National Community Network Conference" Austin,
>TX Dec 2-4 2001 http://www.tcrc.net/conference/default.asp
>
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>
>INTERVIEW WITH GUY HIBBERT, SIFT
>
>Sift is a large British online community consulting and technology
>firm. CEO Guy Hibbert shares his perspective on online communities
>in Europe in an interview with Jim Cashel.
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/features/hibbert/
>
>* Additional Features at
>http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/categories/features.html
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>(c) 2001 Online Community Report / Forum One Communications Corporation

>From: "Wipout" <contact@...>
>To: "Wipout" <contact@...>
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:16:38 +0100
>Subject: Launching Wipout
>Reply-to: contact@...
>Priority: normal
>X-Originally-To: robin@...
>
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>
>PRESS RELEASE FROM WIPOUT
>Email address: Contact@...
>
>Activists unite against harmful effects of Intellectual  Property
>4 September 2001
>
>WIPOUT, an international organisation consisting of academics,
>artists, musicians, and other activists, is today  (Sept. 4)
>launching the Intellectual Property Counter Essay  Contest on its
>website, http://www.wipout.net
>
>The multi-lingual essay contest has been organised in response to
>the World Intellectual Property Organisation's  (WIPO's) own
>competition announced earlier this year. The  counter contest is
>intended to challenge the over-protection  of intellectual property
>(IP)  which is doing much damage to  education, health care,  the
>environment, and economic  security for millions around the world.
>
>Entrants are being asked to address the same topic that   WIPO has
>posed: WHAT DOES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MEAN TO YOU IN YOUR DAILY
>LIFE? We  expect the counter contest essays to be rather more
>critical  than those that WIPO is soliciting.
>
>The website also has a space for shorter 'Point of View'  pieces on
>the same topic for those who have something  to  say, but do not
>want to write an essay.
>
>
>WIPOUT’s contest will continue from 4 September until 15  March
>2002. The winning essays will be chosen by an  international panel
>of judges and the results announced on  26 April 2002, the same day
>that WIPO announces the  winners of its contest. WIPOUT’s prize fund
>currently totals  £1500.00 (approx. $US2100.00).
>
>Unlike submissions to most essay contests, WIPOUT’s essays will be
>immediately posted on the website and accessible to all readers, not
>just the judges. And although  WIPOUT is hosting a 'contest', we see
>the competitive  aspect of the contest secondary to the purpose of
>enabling  a public and critical debate on the over-protection of IP.
>
>
>
>More than 40 groups and individuals from 10 countries have, to date,
>announced their support for WIPOUT. (A complete list can be viewed
>at www.wipout.net High- profile  endorsers include Noam Chomsky, The
>Treatment Action  Campaign of South Africa, the Gene Campaign of
>India,  British barrister Michael Mansfield, and the Electronic
>Frontier Foundation and the Center for the Public Domain in  the US.
>
>Commenting on the current intellectual property regime, Noam Chomsky
>stated that the contest is necessary to remind people that “this
>harsh regime [of Intellectual Property Rights] is designed to grant
>multinational corporations control over the technology of the
>future… It   really is a scandal.”
>
>Canadian musician John Oswald, another endorser, stated  that “if
>creativity is a field, then copyright is the fence.”
>
>WIPOUT sees the contest as a way of building on recent
>high-profile issues such as the South African anti-HIV drugs  case,
>the growing protests against the TRIPS agreement  and the WTO, the
>Napster saga (and increasing  resentment against the high price of
>CDs), the arrest and  charging of Dmitry Skylarov, and public
>concern about GM  crops and the patenting of human genes and plants.
>
>Contest co-founder, Alan Story, a lecturer in Intellectual Property
>law at Kent Law School, Canterbury, UK explains  that “our intention
>is to highlight the relationship  between  these seemingly disparate
>issues and the relentless, in fact  downright pernicious, expansion
>of intellectual property  across the globe and into every area of
>peoples’ lives.”
>
>WIPOUT co-founder Dr Lee Marshall, a sociologist at University
>College Worcester in Worcester, UK, added that  “for too long,
>discussions about IP issues have been  dominated by the interests of
>multinational corporations,  and such interests are at odds with the
>well-being of most  of the world's population.”
>
>“This contest is an opportunity for people to stand up and  say ‘No,
>my life would be better if IP laws were relaxed and  the current
>expansion halted’,” said Marshall.
>
>The essays can be submitted to WIPOUT in English, French, German,
>and Spanish. A selection of initial essays,  submitted for judging
>purposes or for the shorter non-judged  “point of view” section of
>the website, has already been  posted on the website.
>
>Details of the WIPO contest can be found at:
>http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/alert/2001/ma03rev.htm
>
>Note to Editors:
>
>1) More details of the contest are available on the Wipout  website
>at:  www.wipout.net
>
>2) A copy of one of WIPOUT’s contest posters is attached....and
>please feel free to use it; no copyright is claimed.
>
>3) For further information or to arrange an interview, please  contact:
>
>In the UK:
>
>Alan Story 			 Dr Lee Marshall
>Kent Law School 	 Department of Sociology
>University of Kent 	 University College Worcester
>Canterbury 			 Henwick Grove
>Kent CT2 7NS 		 Worcester WR2 6AJ
>44 (0)1227 823316  44 (0)1905 855312
>a.c.story@...  l.marshall@...
>
>In the US:
>
>Debora Halbert 		 Tawnya Louder-Reynolds
>Associate Professor of 	 Public Relations
>Political Science 		 Center for the Public
>Otterbein College 			 Domain
>Dept. of History and Political tawnya@...
>Science
> 919.549.8388 tel
>Westerville OH 43081 	 919.549.8449 fax
>(614) 823-1559
>DHalbert@...
>
>In Australia and New Zealand
>
>Brian Martin   Science, Technology & Society   University of
>Wollongong, NSW 2522   Australia   phone +61-2-4221 3763 work,
>            +61-2-4228 7860 home   fax      +61-2-4221 3452
>brian_martin@...
>
>In Germany
>
>Stefan Solleder   Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Straße 12   0407 Berlin
>Germany   Phone: +49-(0)30-42 08 12 45   Mobile: +49-(0)179-10 44
>890   Fax: +49-(0)30-42 08 12 58  st_so@...
>
>
>
>Press release issued by WIPOUT, The Intellectual Property  Counter
>Essay Contest
>E-mail address: contact@...
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>From: Inger Lassen <inglas@...>
>Organization: Aalborg Universitet
>
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>This is a first call for papers for the symposium:
>
>'Constructing image and ideology in mass media discourse' to take place at
>Aalborg University 22-24 August 2002.
>
>Focal points will be embedded ideology, presuppositions, implicit values,
>intertextuality, evaluation and appraisal.
>
>Contributions are welcome in English or French.
>
>For further information, please see the attached documents in English and
>French.
>
>A symposium website is currently under construction and will soon be
>available with more information.
>
>We look forward to receiving your abstracts.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>Forum for Discourse Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark
>Jeanne Strunck, ph.d.  and Inger Lassen, ph.d. (organizers)
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Aalborg University
>Department of Language and Intercultural Studies
>Forum for Discourse Studies
>Kroghstraede 3
>9220  Aalborg East
>Denmark
>
>Email:
>inglas@...
>i12js@...
>bentev@...

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>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:14:30 +0000
>From: trace@...
>Subject: Call for Proposals Incubation 2002 + Incubation Archive Now
>Online + Stop Press Talan Memmott talk in Nottingham 17th September
>
>
>In this email:
>
>1. Call for Proposals Incubation 2002
>2. Incubation Archive Now Online
>3. Stop Press Talan Memmott talk in Nottingham 17th September
>4. September offer continues at the trAce Online Writing School.
>
>
>1. Call for Proposals for Incubation 2002 to be held on 19-21 July
>2002 at The Nottingham Trent University, UK
>
>We are pleased to invite proposals for Incubation2, the leading
>international conference on Writing and the Internet. For our second
>conference we continue our focus on the role of the internet and
>telecommunications and particularly invite contributions that
>address the way new media create new potentials and re-define the
>acts of writing and reading. We welcome proposals on all aspects of
>new media and writing, especially by those whose work is based in
>new media, on or off the internet. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
>
>
>2. Incubation Archive Now Online
>
>For three days in July 2000 trAce provided a platform for the most
>essential voices on the web today. Writers, critics, theorists and
>web-artists came from around the world to speak at Incubation at The
>Nottingham Trent University. Incubation Archive is the online record
>of this dynamic event. It includes audio, text and electronic
>versions of presentations and performances; information about
>contributors; a gallery of photographs taken over the three days,
>and the background of the conference itself. The Incubation Archive
>website was created by Mary Cavill.
>http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
>
>
>3. Stop Press Talan Memmott talk in Nottingham 17th September
>
>_Technontology and the [Ap]proximate Other_
>
>trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Competition winner Talan Memmott is
>currently visiting the UK and we are delighted he has found time to
>give a talk on his work at the Clifton Campus of  Nottingham Trent
>University at 2pm on Monday 17th September 2001. The talk is free of
>charge but please email trace@... or call 0115 8486360 to let
>us know you are coming. For updates watch the trAce front page at
>http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
>
>Talan's offline interpretation of Lexia to Perplexia using three
>whiteboards was a highlight of Incubation 2000. Nobody else can talk
>so entertainingly about network life with such a mix of humour, art,
>and high theory. We do hope you can join us in Nottingham for this
>unique opportunity.
>
>See his award-winning site Lexia to Perplexia at
>http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/comp.cfm.
>
>
>AND FINALLY...
>It's still 1/3 off at the trAce Online Writing School for the first
>50 registrations received for courses starting 8th October.
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>
>  >Call for Papers
>>**Electronic Publishing**
>>
>>The editors of Academic.Writing, CCC online, Enculturation, Kairos, and
>>The Writing Instructor seek submissions for a special multi-journal
>>issue on "Electronic Publishing." Projects may address but are not
>>limited to these possible topics:
>>
>>Academic.Writing,  "Literacy, assessment, disciplinarity "
>>* Web sites in Rhetoric and Composition and their relationship to
>>disciplinarity.
>>* Post-print literacies and assessment.
>>* Journal websites as advertising for print.
>>* Electronic publishing and virtual/visual rhetorics/literacies.
>>
>>CCC-online, "Tenure and promotion"
>>* The value of electronic publications in terms of the job market,
>>tenure, merit pay, etc.
>>* The value of editing e-journals for the above.
>>* Ethos and electronic publishing.
>>* The relationship between e-journals and academic presses and their
>>role in tenure and promotion.
>>
>>Enculturation,  "Hypertext and academic criticism"
>>* Have we exhausted the academic possibilities of hypertext?
>>* Are hypertext and academic discourse incompatible? "Where are the
>>(critical) hypertexts?"
>>* How (via what criteria) should we assess and/or edit (such) an
>>electronic text?
>>* What role should journals play in the transition from page to screen?
>>Only traditional editing? Strictly purveyors of form and presentation?
>>
>>Kairos, "Archiving and historicity"
>>* Histories of electronic publishing in the discipline (journals and web
>>sites).
>>* Issues of collaboration in writing/editing for the web.
>>* Libraries, archives, databases and electronic publishing.
>>
>>Writing Instructor, "Viability and institutionality"
>>* The Pros, Cons, Challenges, and Opportunities of Going Digital.
>>* Relationships among Journals, Departments, and Universities.
>>* Legal and Economic Issues of Electronic Publication.
>>* The Politics of Reaching across Disciplinary and Digital Boundaries.
>>
>>IN ADDITION to academic writing, we are interested in narratives or
>>editorials regarding positive or negative experiences with review
>>committees or editorial boards; musings about the impact of the Internet
>>on print journals or thoughts for future engagements; multi-media
>>projects; reviews of relevant web sites/projects; reviews of e-journals.
>>
>>All submissions DUE by November 15, 2000. Please send submissions to:
>>bhawk@..., or
>>
>>Byron Hawk c/o Enculturation
>>George Mason University
>>English Department (MSN 3E4)
>>4400 University Drive
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>

>
>From: VSMM Secretariat <vsmm-sec@...>
>
>
>
>-------VSMM2001 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT-------
>
>The 7th International Conference on
>Virtual Systems and MultiMedia VSMM 2001
>
>ENHANCED REALITIES:
>Augmented and Unplugged
>
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>25-27 October 2001
>University of California, Berkeley, USA
>
>VIRTUAL HERITAGE COLLOQUIUM
>25 October
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>The Center for Design Visualization,
>University of California, Berkeley USA
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Higgs [mailto:khiggs@...]
>
>
>
>The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is offering the
>BETINHO COMMUNICATIONS PRIZE (2001), which recognizes the use of the
>Internet for social justice. The prize is in the amount of $7,500 USD;
>the deadline is September 24.
>
>The Betinho Prize is offered to non-profit organisations,
>community-based groups, coalitions, working groups or social movements
>anywhere in the world that have successfully used information and
>communication technologies (ICTs) as an essential ingredient in their
>development work.
>
>Last year, over 160 inspiring projects were nominated for the prize
>including a Website recruiting and orienting volunteers to participate
>in the reconstruction of ex-Yugoslavia; an information network
>connecting indigenous communities in Mexico; and a child's rights data
>gathering initiative in Mozambique. The inaugural winner, the Max
>Foundation, is a life-saving online support network functioning in
>English, Spanish and Portuguese for the families of children suffering
>from leukaemia and host of Latin America's first online bone marrow
>tissue registry.
>
>Nominations for the Prize will be accepted until September 24, 2001.
>Detailed eligibility criteria and a nomination form are available from:
>http://www.apc.org/english/betinho
>
>========================================
>
>PREMIO BETINHO DE COMUNICACIONES DE APC, 2001- La fecha lÌmite para las
>presentaciones al premio de 7.500 dÛlares, en reconocimiento al uso de
>Internet a favor de la justicia social, es el 24 de septiembre
>
>El Premio Betinho de APC de 7.500 dÛlares se entrega a organizaciones
>sin fines de lucro, grupos comunitarios, coaliciones, grupos de trabajo
>o movimientos sociales de todo el mundo que hayan sabido utilizar con
>Èxito las tecnologÌas de informaciÛn y comunicaciÛn (TIC) como elemento
>esencial en su trabajo por el desarrollo y la justicia social.
>
>El aÒo pasado fueron nominados al Premio m·s de 160 proyectos de gran
>inspiraciÛn; entre ellos, un proyecto destinado a conseguir y guiar
>voluntarios, a partir de un sitio Web, para participar en la
>reconstrucciÛn de la ex-Yugoslavia; una red de informaciÛn entre
>comunidades indÌgenas en MÈxico y una iniciativa de recolecciÛn de
>informaciÛn sobre derechos de los niÒos, de Mozambique. El ganador del
>primer aÒo, la FundaciÛn Max, es una red de apoyo electrÛnica que se
>dedica a salvar vidas: est· dirigida a las familias de niÒos que sufren
>de leucemia y hospeda el primer registro latinaomericano de mÈdula Ûsea.
>
>Las candidaturas al Premio ser·n recibidas hasta el 24 de septiembre de
>2001. Los detalles acerca de los criterios de selecciÛn y el formulario
>de candidatura se encuentran en: http://www.apc.org/espanol/betinho
>
>Best regards,
>
>Karen Higgs, APC Communications Manager
>Tel: +598 - 2 - 419-6192 Int. 116 (GMT -4)
>APC: http://www.apc.org
>
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>Internet to promote social justice and equality. From the APC, an
>international online community or peace, human rights, development and
>the environment since 1990.
>
>To receive the news direct, write to: webeditor@... or visit:
>http://www.apc.org/english/news
>______________________________________________________
>
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>enfocado en el uso de Internet para promover la justicia e igualdad
>social realizado por APC.
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>From: <Loka@...>
>
>                               INITIAL REPORT
>              2001 Annual Community Research Network Conference
>
>                   "Re-Shaping the Culture of Research:
>             People, Participation, Partnerships and Practical Tools"
>                        By Jill Chopyak and Khan Rahi
>
>Launched in 1995 by the Loka Institute, the Community Research Network
>(CRN) is a comprehensive, international network of community- based
>research (CBR) practitioners from grassroots communities, funding
>agencies, universities, local government offices and national research
>institutions. The CRN aims to support and enhance collaborative,
>community-based research activities through education and training,
>networking opportunities, information on funding resources, media
>outreach, and advocacy efforts.
>
>Community-based research is based upon the principles of participation and
>partnership. It puts affected communities in the driver's seat for finding
>solutions to the problems they face. Recent movies such as A Civil Action
>and Erin Brocovich have shown how such citizen action can lead to positive
>change in a community. There are, however, hundreds of communities around
>the country that are involved in research to solve problems of
>environmental health, economic development, racial injustice, and
>agricultural sustainability that are not shown on the big screen. These
>are the people that make up the Community Research Network.
>
>The Fourth Annual Community Research Network Conference was held July 6-8,
>2001 at the University of Texas, Austin. Sponsored by the Loka Institute,
>and hosted by the Urban Issues Program at the University of Texas and the
>Llano Grande Center for Research and Development of Edcouch, Texas, the
>conference brought together approximately 180 participants from 13
>different countries. Financial support from the C.S. Mott Foundation and
>conference co-sponsors (see below) enabled Loka to provide full or partial
>scholarship to approximately 50 people - over 30% of conference
>participants.
>
>CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
>
>As a conference location, Austin, TX took the Community Research Network
>out of the East, bringing in new participants from the Southwest and
>Western part of the U.S. Local hosts from Austin and south Texas gave us a
>taste of southwest culture and a sense of place through live music, art
>work, and storytelling by renowned author David Rice. Conference keynote,
>Enrique Trueba, provided a broad introduction to community-based research,
>both in theory and his personal practice. The conference used an adapted
>version of Open Space, making the conference a combination of self-defined
>circle discussions, plenary discussion, and tools-based workshops.
>
>Some of the key issues that emerged from conference discussions included:
>
>** Involving young people in community-based research - it is important to
>continue to recognize the power of young people in conducting
>community-based research. They are the voice of the future, and often,
>have the ability to speak to policy-makers, funders and academics in a way
>others can't. Training young people as researchers also builds community
>leadership and capacity, and often will provide the energy to invigorate
>and involve a community.
>
>** Regional networking - Saturday morning focused on the development of
>regional networks. Conference participants grouped themselves by the
>various regions around the U.S. Discussion focused on establishing
>regional networks in the northeast, west and southeast initially. All
>groups recommended having regional conferences before the next national
>conference in 2002.
>
>** Language - It's important to use language that is understood by both
>community members and academics. Often, language is used to exclude
>individuals from participation. Community-based research is about shifting
>the power dynamics of traditional research, so language needs to be
>understandable to all involved.
>
>** Need to recognize community knowledge as valid - Community-based
>research is about altering the idea that only formalized or
>institutionalized scientific knowledge is valid. We need to shift the
>research process and priorities to understand that community-based
>knowledge brought together with science creates well-balanced information
>can pave the way for positive change.
>
>** Building partnerships takes time, and trust is essential - Issues of
>race, gender and class need to be discussed further. We need to recognize
>that removal of these barriers is essential to building meaningful and
>effective partnerships. The division between universities and communities
>needs to be bridged and harmonized. Having intermediary organizations that
>can bridge the gap is often useful.
>
>** Increase funding for community-based research - The lack of resources
>for community-based research activities is always a barrier to long-term
>sustainable CBR projects and activities. Partnerships between funders, and
>between funders and grantees needs to be encouraged. Conference
>participants developed an advocacy plan aimed at increasing funding for
>community-based research. They asked the Loka Institute to coordinate and
>implement these efforts.
>
>** International cooperation - Globalization requires action cross-
>nationally. We need to fill in the gap and bring forward more examples
>from Southern countries. We need to address issues of poverty and
>marginalization that are a result of globalization. There is also a need
>and opportunity for community-based research projects cross-nationally
>that will make the connection between a local situation and a global
>process.
>
>** Media - We need to increase contacts with the media and use the media
>as a fundraising and social change tool.
>
>ALANA Caucus
>
>The ALANA (African, Latin, Asian and Native American) Caucus of the CRN
>met to discuss its mission and future activities. Below is a summary of
>that discussion prepared by Hasan Crockett, Ph.D., Director, Brisbane
>Institute, Morehouse College.
>
>Mission Statement: Points for Consideration
>
>· ALANA supports the recovery and reconstruction of the history of
>communities of color committed to the notion of knowledge in the service
>of community. · ALANA supports knowledge and educational institutions as
>functions of community and opposed these institutions separate from
>communities "reaching in" to solve problems. The
>localization/indigenization of knowledge production and transmission must
>be central to ALANA's development (place based education and research). ·
>We must support and develop popular forms of education and research that
>are community generated and transmitted as opposed to paternalistic
>approaches descending from the academy or other "external organizations".
>The assumption here is that regardless of ones occupation, one is a
>community member first and foremost. We must become and seek to inspire
>the development of "organic intellectuals".
>
>Suggested Concrete Goals of ALANA Caucus
>
>· Unite communities and individuals of color within a network that
>supports the development of functional community based research praxis and
>institutions. · In the process, share experiences (both successes and
>failures), which will advance community-based research within communities
>and institutions controlled by people of color. · Contribute to the
>ongoing debate and process associated with making knowledge production and
>education more relevant, culturally sound and humane within the context of
>communities of color. · Encourage the development of a national network
>driven by functional local institutions. · Develop a biannual publication
>that supports the goals stated above. · Meet annually to develop a level
>of autonomy in theory and practice for ALANA. · Develop a financial base
>to support the development of ALANA.
>
>CONFERENCE RECOMMENDATIONS
>
>Conference participants also offered several suggestions for future
>conferences as well as the future work of Loka as the coordinator of the
>Community Research Network. These included:
>
>· Incorporate a field trip into the conference.
>· Have a training opportunity for those new to the topic to learn
>about CBR before the conference.
>· Increase access to funders, and provide information on how to
>secure funds for CBR activities.
>· Increase electronic forum discussions in between conferences to
>enhance the activity of the CRN.
>· Facilitate the development of regional working groups/networks.
>· Need additional discussion/case studies on how community-based
>research is a legitimate and useful methodology for science, not just
>for community development.
>· Create an online "tool-kit" with resource guide.
>
>As coordinator of the CRN, the Loka Institute welcomes other
>suggestions for next year's conference and other CRN activities. We
>have begun to implement some many of the suggestions above and those
>suggested by conference participants. If you were not able to attend
>the conference, we hope to hear from you too! Please email
>Loka@..., or call us at 413-559-5860 with your thoughts and
>ideas.
>
>The Loka Institute would like to thank the C.S. Mott Foundation for
>their support of the Community Research Network, and the Albert A.
>List Foundation, the Menemsha Fund, the European Commission, the
>Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the
>Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities for other Loka project
>and general operating support.
>
>We would also like to thank the following organizations and
>individuals for co-sponsoring the conference and for participating in
>the conference planning committee:
>
>Conference Co-Sponsors
>
>The Annie E. Casey Foundation
>Council for Undergraduate Research
>The Institute for Community Research
>New Directions Community-Based Research Institute
>The Policy Research and Action Group
>
>Conference Planning Committee
>
>Miguel Guajardo, Univ. of Texas Urban Issues Program, Llano Grande
>Center for Research & Development
>Peter Levesque, Social Science & Humanities Research Council, Canada
>Juan Valadez, Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church
>Oliver Loveday, Appalachian Focus
>Andrew Collver, New Directions Community-Based Research Institute
>Heather Fenyk, Rutgers University
>Torri Estrada, Urban Habitat Program
>Loka Institute Staff: Jill Chopyak, Khan Rahi, Rose Ryan, Geert
>Dhondt, Vionne Revering
>
>
>
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A couple of weeks ago, I sent a poll to all 1272 members of the
cybersociology list asking them to select the options that best
describe them. This is a totally non-scientific poll, and users could
select as many options as they wanted to. A total of 74 options were
selected by an unknown number of users. Below are the results, listed
from highest to lowest. If you would like to suggest another poll in
the future, please email me (robin@...) and I'll consider
your suggestion.


- Post-Graduate Researcher of Life Online - PhD, 13 votes, 17.57%

- Post-Graduate Researcher of Life Online - MA, MSc or MPhil, 9 votes, 12.16%

- Website Developer, Producer or Designer, 8 votes, 10.81%
- Other - I don't fit in anywhere!, 8 votes, 10.81%

- Academic Lecturer, Researcher, Professor or University Teacher
interested in research of life online, 7 votes, 9.46%

- Undergraduate Researcher of Life Online, 6 votes, 8.11%

- Professional Community Builder, Community Manager, or Community
Producer, 4 votes, 5.41%
- Owner of another email list, 4 votes, 5.41%

- Internet User just interested in this stuff, 3 votes, 4.05%
- Freelance Researcher or Consultant, 3 votes, 4.05%

- Print Journalist (staff or freelance), 2 votes, 2.70%
- Graphic Designer or New Media Artist, 2 votes, 2.70%
- Non-Profit Organisation, 2 votes, 2.70%
- Webzine Owner, 2 votes, 2.70%

- Business Owner or Manager, 1 votes, 1.35%

- Advertising / Sales / Marketing, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Broadcast Journalist (staff or freelance / radio, TV, etc), 0 votes, 0.00%
- Media Activist, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Politician, Work for a political party, etc, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Work for a Wireless Company and don't fit in elsewhere, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Work for an Internet Company and don't fit in elsewhere, 0 votes, 0.00%
- High School Student, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Police/Law Enforcement, 0 votes, 0.00%
- I never joined - why am I on this list?, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Post-Doctoral Researcher of Life Online, 0 votes, 0.00%


Some interesting findings:

* 35 of the 74 options selected were postgraduate student, university
lecturers / teaching staff, and undergraduate students.

* 18 of 74 fit into categories of internet professional, include
online community manager, website designer/producer, consultant, and
business owner/manager.

A possibly totally inaccurate theory:

I would guess that many of you overlap, fitting into both of the
above categories. This is probably due to a) the cost of education
today and the need for many students to earn an income while working
on their degree and b) the realisation that internet researchers can
be a very valuable resource to commercial website/internet companies.


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

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

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

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




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Dear contributors and friends,

  As some of you know from experience, Mute's slightly bursting at the seems
at the moment in terms of what needs to be done editorially and what the
current co-editors can (and in the long term want to) do. For this reason,
and because we feel the beast may well do with a bit of imput from
'outside', we are hoping to hire a new part-time assistant editor before
the year is out. Although we're going to send this ad to all and sundry
relevant lists, job boards, etc., we figured that - since all of you are
more or less familiar with Mute's working culture - you should be the first
port of call.

  Obviously, many of you are happily ensconsed in your own life-path and we
weren't literally thinking of each of you as candidates... More, if this is
the case, as suitable suggest-ors for other ones.

  So, if you know some incredibly talented student, or you are one, or
there's someone out there unhappy in their job as a librarian or arts
administrator or corporate subber, and they write great prose, and could be
sensitive to writers' needs and, perhaps, even those of the whole damn net
shebang, PLEASE PASS THEM OUR WAY. We shall be forever in your debt :)

  Many thanks, and here goes!

  The Editors

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*---*---*---*---*

  Mute magazine is looking for an addition to its editorial team. As part of
the company's reorganisation, we are seeking to appoint an assistant editor
to work closely with the editors and deputy editor on all aspects of
editorial. Initially, the assistant editor will share responsibility for
basic subbing and commissioning as well as feed into editorial development.
In the longer term, his/her job will encompass all aspects of editorial,
from co-commissioning larger features to helping devise themes and
developing creative crossovers with the company's website, Metamute.

  The assistant editor will join the magazine at an exciting time of change:
Mute (launched in 1994) is seeking to build on its distinctive editorial
history by finding original ways to pursue established editorial threads on
art, net politics, information economies, globalisation and protest. The
magazine and associated website will also function increasingly as spaces
in which models of cultural self-sustainability are explored. As such, the
development of editorial content should be understood in the 'bigger
picture' of innovative information architectures, tools and services.

  You are likely to bring to the role the following: excellent command of
the English language, experience in writing, subbing and editing, and a
sound knowledge of contemporary culture and politics. Although it would
help for you to be familiar with Mute's history and cultural context, we
are ultimately most interested in your informed and critical opinion on how
the magazine should service independent cultural production now.

  The job is part time (3 days p/w) and subject to the satisfactory
completion of a three month 'test' period. The salary will be in the range
of £14-16K pro rata, depending on skills and experience. We are keen to
appoint ASAP.

  If you'd like to discuss this further, please send your CV with a covering
letter detailing what you might bring to this job and organisation to
Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Simon Worthington (the editors), Mute, 2nd
Floor East, Universal House, 88-94 Wentworth Street, London E1 7SA. For
further information, contact us at E: <mute@...> // T: 00 44 (0)20
7377 6949 // F: 00 44 (0)20 7377 9520

  DEADLINE: 29th OCTOBER, 2001

  If you've never heard of Mute before, its home page at
[<http://www.metamute.com/>http://www.metamute.com] provides information on
its history and editorial development since 1994 as well as a manifesto of
sorts entitled 'Ceci n'est pas un magazine'
[<http://metamute.com/mfiles/mcontent/metamutemap.pdf>http://metamute.com/mf
iles
/mcontent/metamutemap.pdf]. We are happy to send interested parties a
recent issue for preparation purposes.



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Universal House,  88-94 Wentworth Street, London, E1 7SA. T: +44 (0)20 7377
6949 // F: +44 (0)20 7377 9520 E: pauline@... // W:
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What are you doing today? - Mon 22nd October 2001

Visit Cybersalon- Streaming Dreams (evening) + Kendra convergence
workshop (daytime)
************************************************
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Streaming Dreams?

Mon 22nd October 2001 from 7pm - midnight

Amidst all this streaming hype, for Web and wireless, what dreams are
being realised, given the bandwidth realities?

The discussion will focus on interactive video, live events, one-to-
one messaging, viral marketing, and alternative news.

7.00- 9.00pm: Discussion with

*Mike Worley - Victoria Real- the streaming behind Big Brother

*Mick Fuzz - Undercurrents.org

*Paul Bennun - XY Network/Somethin' Else

*Eddie Robins - Groovy Gecko

Hosted by Jon Silk - European Editor - Streamingmedia.com

From 09.30 pm - midnight:

+ extracts from the previously unreleased "Globalisation and the
Media" film from Undercurrents.org

+ a show of specially commisioned net films by BBC Arts, Arts Council
and Bastard TV Festival 2001

+ DJs Zip Dog and Smart Monkey spinning Dub beats
+ BBC Communities demo StreamGenie
+ Vidology
+BrazilNetwork

@ ICA, The Mall, London SW1

Tubes: Charing Cross/Piccadilly

Tickets on: <tickets@...> or 0207 930 3647

Price: £6/£4 (ICA/Cybersalon /conc)

More info: <www.cybersalon.org>

supported by:
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Groovy Gecko <www.groovygecko.com>
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Kendra Initiative invites you to its forth all day meeting -
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President, central London. Register on the website, at no cost.

With presentations from:

- Daniel Harris, Instigator, Kendra Initiative, talking: the Kendra
vision.

- Justin Keery, Internet Analyst, Trafalgar Asset Managers, talking:
stop
worrying and start making money.

- Lisa Gornick, Film Maker, Valiant Doll, talking: what I want.

- Neil Harris, Media Channel, talking: metadata and where it's going.

- Nick Ogden, CEO, WorldPay plc, talking: billing and payment
systems, evolution in the content value chain.

- Stacey Pogoda, Middlesex University, talking: interface design and
the design process.

- Steve Kennedy, Head of Technology Futures, Thus Plc, talking:
content providers, ISPs, caching and content peering.
Kendra Initiative - Convergence Workshop Invitation

Do you want convergence? Kendra Initiative is building an open
platform for content delivery facilitating revenue generation for
content owners/aggregators and service providers.

- Toby Slater, Musician, talking: what artists want.

Sponsored by BlueArc. See:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/meetings/20011022invite.php





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Hi there,

I write to you to bring to your notice the launch of a new egroup
called Deconstructions.

Deconstructions@yahoogroups.com is an open forum to discuss and
analyse the socio-cultural & political developments in India and
abroad. Art, Culture, Fashion, Media, Politics, Society, Technology,
et al. is discussed and debated here.

Deconstructions@yahoogroups.com aims to facilitate understanding of
paradigms that impact Culture & Society through analysis of the
media - it's texts and discourses.

To join the group, visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deconstructions

To know more, visit:
http://www.geocities.com/deconstructions/

Thank you for your time and interest.

Nakul Shenoy
http://www.geocities.com/nakulshenoy/