Category — General

This morning before the 802.11 panel, we had a journal editors roundtable arranged by the incomprable Ulla Bunz. The Editors were asked questions about publication an tenure, about new publication opportunities, online publication and issues surrounding online archives and getting your paper published. I think panels like this are extremely important to have at conferences because they get people to think about new publishing paradigms. This is so important because there should be concerned with the possibility of the professoriate both new and old being caught between technologies. I fully support the transformation toward open access peer reviewed archives, and I've worked hard to produce some technologies that were excellent demonstration platforms for that, but still I know that traditions are hard to break and there is a paper fetish still. But what happens when someone is caught between the new opportunity and the requirements of tenure…. who knows? prudence is required, but as we know prudence is a virtue, a practice, and as such it transforms you through its consideration. So the direction that people must use 'tempers' them; changes them, and perhaps makes them less participative in new forms of publishing.

Adrian did a nice paper on the the 802.11 standard is kludge, but Christian is actually making an argument about the 'over the back yard' internet. two years ago i sketched the system necessary to use wireless, microwave, or laser enabled long distance internet connections to overcome local problems such as censorship, etc. It was a 'napkin' sketch of technics, interfaces, and connections. Now i hear that similar things are being institutionalized, somewhat unsuccessfully, but it is always fun to find that other people have the same sort of ideas and implementations.

Craig is talking about his Connective Project at Syracuse that works with broadband infrastructure and such. they did a community technology assessment for rural regions.

AOIR 4.2.3. THE TRIANGLE IS THE BINARY OPPOSITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Why is it that scholars are suddenly so drawn to the triangular graphic model, as though three-ness eliminates all of the shortcomings of binary logics? Don't get me wrong; I don't intend to be (wholly) snarky here, as I find… [Planned Obsolescence]

WSIS 'in turmoil'.

The latest edition of the GILC bulletin has a report on continued controversy around the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

[funferal]

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wish this was new

Educause releases 2002 Core Data Survey (IT in Higher Ed).

http://www.educause.edu/coredata/reports/2002/

Actual Educause members will have seen this ages ago, but for the rest of us, the latest summary of their survey of trends in IT in post-secondary has just been released.

Things I found to be of interest:

[EdTechPost]

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this is the data from that report the other week.

Yesterday, afternoon i went to see the Histories panel at the < a href="http://aoir.org/2003">aoir conference. The papers were interesting, the net years papers was intriguing, i'm wondering about capital times…. if every year is 7 years of amnesiac passings on the net, then the hypertemporal perspective becomes hyperpolitical, it would be good to tie virilio into that. beyond that the thought was put forth 'what came before the homepage' to which i thought 'the home directory'….

the other two papers were about Australian internet history, one presented a cultural-political history and the other proposed a modified annales school methodology. both are interesting works and I look forward to seeing them upon completion.

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after the panels we had our reception and i met Megan Boler and Tracy Kennedy and chatted a bit, took some video. all good fun. I also ran into Rajiv Shaw who is applying for a job that I'm also applying for.

after that I went to dinner with some folks, came back to the hotel and chatted for a while and had drinks with some of the usual criminals.

she links to my site, i link to her site

well so far the conference has been excellent, I've given my ethics presentation, which was well accepted, we had alot of interesting people at the ethics workshop including some interesting thoughts on some of the implications of the canadian research experience.

I gave my presentation internet environment as work environment. My co-panellists were Gina Neff and Anabel Quan-Haase, both presented interesting papers. Gina's was on her work on social networks and the spaciality of the nyc it boom and its implications. Anabel presented a paper on IM use in a corporation where she used ethnographic methods and interface analysis of IM's to shows the relative modes of conversation are contrary to our assumptions of, people who work closer tend to use im more, but that is somewhat influenced by the networks and strengths of their relationship

I then went to the first gaming sessions, on mmorgs. It was very interesting, and there is much work to explore in that area. Of course, i was waylaid for a minute and missed some of Jennifer's presentation, but I found her work on norm construction in sims online and the way those norms are enacted in that realm to be a significant push forward into research that I usually work on. I'm less interested in the performative actions available, but the textuality of actions and its implications.

Now i am in Lucy Suchman's Keynote which deals with Ethnographic practices.

there is an internet research 4.0 blog and this link is its url

i posted this once before. pathe is putting their whole news archive on the web. this is quite a few photos…