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Introduction: BROADENING THE BANDAoiR paper acceptances have gone out (April 24, 2003)
Thanks to Program Chair Matt Allen, Jeremy Hunsinger and the Review committee. International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 16-19 Digital communications networks such as the Internet are changing the way people interact with each other, with profound effects on social relations and institutions. Yet many remain excluded from access and meaningful participation. It is timely to consider who is included, who is excluded and what we now know about the composition and activities of online communities. Internet Research (IR) 4.0 will feature a variety of perspectives on Internet, organized under the theme Broadening the Band. As in previous conferences, the aim is to develop a coherent theoretical and pragmatic understanding of the Internet and those that are empowered and disenfranchised by it. IR 4.0 will bring together prominent scholars, researchers, creators, and practitioners from many disciplines, fields and countries for a program of presentations, panel discussions, and informal exchanges. IR 4.0 will take place at the Hilton Hotel in the heart of downtown Toronto. The conference is hosted by a team led by The Association of Internet Researchers Toronto 2003 with the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and its partners at the University of Toronto. The IR 4.0 steering and working committees reflect the growing pan-Canadian network of Internet researchers, including members from Quebec, Alberta, and New Brunswick, in addition to the local contingent from Toronto, York and Ryerson Universities. This year's theme, Broadening the Band, encourages wide participation from diverse disciplines, communities, and points of view. Under the umbrella theme, contributors are called to reflect upon, theorize and articulate what we know from within the emerging interdisciplinary space known as Internet Research. In a cultural sense, the theme calls attention to the need to examine access, inclusion and exclusion in online communities. What role do race, gender, class, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, age, geography, and other factors play in the degree of online participation? What are the indicators of meaningful participation? In a technical sense, the theme points to the development of broadband, wireless and post-internet networks and applications that are currently coming on-stream including community, private, public as well as national research networks (e.g. CA*net 4, Internet 2). We plan to use these technologies to make the conference an internet-mediated and internationally accessible event. In an organizational sense, the theme reflects a widening of AoIR’s reach to include more researchers and constituencies involved in the evolution of the Internet. French language presentations will be included in the call for papers for the first time. Researchers and practitioners in the arts and culture sectors are encouraged to participate alongside social scientists and humanities scholars and researchers. In a thematic sense, “Broadening the Band” suggests widening the scope of topics and problematics considered within past conferences, while retaining the consistent emphasis on rigorous research work. This call for papers thus initiates an inclusive search for theoretical and methodological correspondences between this expanding theme and the many disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches that are required to address it with precision. top Keynote Speakers
Jane Fountain (Saturday, October 18 11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
Steve Jones (Friday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm)
Pierre Lévy (Friday, October 17 10:00 am - 11:15 am)
Lucy Suchman (Thursday, October 16 11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
Jane Fountain is the Director for the National Center for Digital Government Research and Practice. She also teaches at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Fountain's present interests lie at the intersection of governance, organizations, and information technology. Her work leads her into current investigations of the institutional processes that influence the enactment and use of information technologies in government, as well as the structural and behavioral characteristics of inter-organizational networks, and the political economy of gender in computing and new media.
Links:
Jane Fountain's Website: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/faculty/jane_fountain.
Building the Virtual State virtual book tour:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/fountainbooks/virtual_state.htm.
Keynote Address: After the 'Net Revolution: Or Has It Just Begun?
Professor Jane Fountain will assess the Internet and its transformative
potential. Based on research into the political, economic, and
organizational realities
of using the Internet, she will reflect on the tension between political
environments in
which technological change is subservient to politics and economics versus
those in which the Internet might lead to positive transformation.
back to list of keynotes Steve Jones is a co-founder of AoiR. He is the Head of Communication at the University of Illinois - Chicago, and studies the social history of communication technology. Dr. Jones is the author of six books, which have earned him critical acclaim and interviews for stories in Time, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and many other newspapers and magazines. He has also been interviewed on radio and TV, and has been a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "Sounds Like Science."
Keynote Address: The "Future Past" of Internet Studies
back to list of keynotes Pierre Lévy has devoted his professional life to the study of the cyberculture and to the growth of a science and philosophy of collective intelligence.
Born in Tunisia in 1956, he has studied and made an important part of his career in France. He established himself definitely in Canada in 1998. In 2002 he got a Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa.
He holds a Master degree in History of Sciences (Sorbonne), a PhD in Sociology (EHESS in Paris) and a PhD in Communication Sciences (University of Grenoble, France).
He participated in many international research networks and lectured in several Universities in Europe, Latin America and North America. He delivered hundreds of communications in scientific conferences and cultural institutions all over the world. He has been a consultant for the French and Swiss governments, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the UNESCO, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City and several big companies.
He is the co-inventor of an original software for the human resources management and the exchange of knowledge (the « Knowledge Tree ») and he co-founded in 1992 the company (Trivium SA, Paris) that develops and sells this system.
He published many scientific papers and chapters of collective books. He is the author of twelve books translated in more than 10 languages about the cultural and social impacts of digital technologies. Three of them are translated in English:
- Cyberculture, Minnesota UP,
- Becoming Virtual, Plenum Press,
- Collective Intelligence, Perseus Books (Paperback).
He works currently on the design of a universal ontology for the mapping and simulation of collective intelligence and collaborative processes in cyberspace. Keynote Address: For a Collective Intelligence Oriented Cyberspace The abilities of human communities to produce, exchange and use knowledge are at the core of the knowledge society. A new transdisciplinary research field is growing, aiming to study the "cognitive power" of groups. This power is not only based on the optimized use of new communication techniques for intellectual collaboration, but also on the deliberate improvement of several kinds of cultural and social factors. A better understanding of these collective intelligence phenomena will boost the aptitudes to learn and innovate in many real and virtual communities. The research project that I am currently leading intends to make visible the internal dynamics of collective intelligence thanks to a navigable 3D visual synthesis of the semantic landscape of any collection of data. Since a growing part of human knowledge and transactions are located in cyberspace, this new digital medium could be instrumented to show, from real data, a scientific image of the collective intelligence who produce and exchange them. I call this instrumented cyberspace: the CI-oriented Semantic Web. My starting point underlines Tim Berners Lee’s hypothesis: we need an addressing system that is not based on the physical localization of documents in the servers but on their meanings. This can only be reached with a universal ontology. The CI-oriented Semantic Web will be based on a universal ontology, expressed by an ideographic language, the CI Mirror Language (CIML). The universal ideography of the CIML will not erase the multitude of existing local ontologies. On the contrary, it will provide a background for the analysis of the evolutions and interactions of the semantic singularities, with regional ontologies appearing in the foreground. The achievement of the CI-oriented Semantic Web will have important implications for human development. The whole WWW (or any part of it) will become a helping encyclopedia instead of a labyrinthic chaos. The huge quantity of information already available could be integrated in a meaningful and living whole. From the torrent of information that constantly flows through cyberspace, we could assemble a comparatively comprehensive reflection of the current state of human affairs, a mirror in which decision-makers could see the operations of human customs, culture, and organizations, and the impacts of those operations. With a sufficiently large and clear mirror, it will be possible for our collective intelligence to detect pathological conditions in our society, and learn to heal them. Conditions would be monitored not only in the marketplaces of things and services, where our societies already has considerable instrumentation, but also in the marketplaces of ideas, confidence, and credibility, where most of the available information is still anecdotal. As the huge quantity of data circulating in cyberspace could be translated into the variables of a scientific model of collective intelligence, the web will become not only a source of information and a tool of communication but also an observatory of cultural dynamics - in the broadest sense of the word “culture”- and an analytical indicator of human development: economic prosperity, public health, education, scientific research, democracy and human rights. The worldwide use of a CI mirror language will help the emergence of a global culture of peace and knowledge growth, not based on any utopian ideology, but on a deepened observation of the fractal interdependence of all cultural, economic, social and political factors, from the scale of micro-communities to the extent of the whole human kind. back to list of keynotes Lucy Suchman teaches in the department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. She is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Work, Interaction and Technology Research Group at King's College in London, UK. She also works as a researcher for Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Dr. Suchman has been examining the correlation between sociology and technology. Her presentation will centre on the ethnographies of sites of technology production and use, and her contributions to emerging reconceptualizations of social/material relations based in anthropology, feminist theory and science and technology studies. Internet Research as Generative Critique: Approaches from anthropology This talk introduces the idea of generative critique, a form of research aimed at questioning received assumptions/current conditions in a way suggestive of how it could be otherwise, and explores its relevance to internet research. I use three cases to illustrate. The first, Danny Miller and Don Slater's book 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach,' draws on an ethnography of the internet among Trinidadians to (among other things) critique received conceptions of the internet itself as a singular object. The second, a study by Joe Dumit on the cultural politics of sociomedical disorders, psychiatry and pharmaceuticals, demonstrates how the internet can be brought together with other sources and media to constitute a form of 'multi-site' ethnography, aimed at critique of contemporary developments. The third draws from my own inquiries into the question of agency at the human-computer interface, and in particular how 'software agents' and the internet/www more generally are figured as the 21st century's new service class. back to list of keynotes top
Artistic Works
Recent work by the following three artists will be available for viewing during the welcome reception and the dinner cocktail. Each artist will introduce his/her work and be available to discuss their work.
- Thursday October 16 5:30 to 7:00 pm Location: TBA at welcome reception
Vincent John Vincent and and Francis MacDougall
"Innovation at Your Fingertips"
JestPointT is the core technology powering Jestertek's line of interactive products. JestPoint utilizes advanced real-time computer vision techniques to isolate and track your hand, converting your simple gestures into direct mouse control in a variety of environments. JestPointT allows any screen of any size to be controlled from any distance. Besides numerous public forum installations, JestPoint's stereo analysis and control technology is applicable for desktop PCs, corporate presentations, trade shows, education, security, entertainment, fitness and rehabilitation, and more.
- Saturday October 18, 5:30 to 7:00pm Locations TBA during pre-gala cocktail.
Johannes Birringer
"reappearances and oracles"
Film installation by Johannes Birringer (editor) The first international Interaction Laboratory at the former Coal Mine Göttelborn took place in July 2003, produced by Industrial Culture Saar and organized by director/choreographer Johannes Birringer. Göttelborn is projected to become a future high tech location of the Saarland, a small state in southwest Germany bordering on France and Luxemburg. The Laboratory was designed as an experiment in the re-utilization of the abandoned site which now anticipates economic and architectural development. In this changing landscape of industrial culture, an innovative platform was seeded for integrated research in media and technologies, especially interactive performance and telecommunications. The film reflects the project introducing some of the poetic interactions with the location in the work of the 21 participants of the laboratory who came from four different continents. Camera: Jim Ruxton, Maria Stamenkovic, Beatrice Sauberbrey and Johannes Birringer.
Editor/Producer: Johannes Birringer
- Lisa Naugle
"Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope" (2001)
A performance commemorating September 11, 2001 tragedies was conducted in real-time at New York University and the University of California, Irvine. At UCI, The Dance and Digital Performance Ensemble, directed by Lisa Naugle, explored new ways to work with technology, sending high-bandwidth audio and video back and forth using Internet 2. Internet 2 allowed each venue to receive sound and video simultaneously. The performers on each coast interacted in a structured improvisational mix using VBrick Systems' television-quality video-over-IP system, which enables each venue to receive sound and video in real time. One of the visual threads created with John Crawford was "The Machine Meeting Its Reflection" or the image of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center, meeting their own reflection in the windows; also creating a conceptual reflection on technology, the disaster of it and its power to bounce back and effect us.
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Conference Registration and Rates
On-site Registration and Rates
Participants may register during the AoIR conference. Rates are as follows (where applicable, rates have been indicated in both USD/CAD):
|
Member |
Non-Member |
Student/unwaged |
Full Conference
(Sun-Thurs, USD/CAD) |
$160/200
|
$200/275 |
$100/135 |
Full Day
(CAD only) |
$80 |
$80 |
$50 |
Half Day (or Sunday sessions)
(CAD only) |
$55 |
$55 |
$30 |
Single Sessions
(CAD only) |
$20 |
$20 |
$12 |
AoIR Memberships will also be sold on-site. Rates are as follows:
| Professional |
Students
(undergrad, MA and PhD) |
Individuals from non-OECD countries |
| $USD45/CAD65
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$USD30/CAD42.50 |
$USD10/CAD14 |
top Birds of a Feather MeetingsUse our forum to organize a birds of a feather group, or to join one that interests you. These groups are great for networking, learning, and socializing. top Book DisplaysThis year, the Association of Internet Researchers joins forces with the Library of Social Science, a book exhibit management firm based in New York City, to present the latest and most significant books and journals on information technology and Internet studies, all in one location.
Over thirty publishers and two-hundred fifty titles will be represented in this exciting, comprehensive collection of books and journals.
THE BOOK EXHIBIT WILL BE OPEN IN THE JOHNSTON ROOM THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE CONFERENCE. ALL TITLES WILL BE ON SALE AT SPECIAL, DISCOUNTED PRICES.
The Library of Social Science's friendly and knowledgeable on-site book exhibit managers will help you find everything you need.
Quantities of individual titles are limited. Please stop by early and often to make and reserve your selections.
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Media Enquiries
Media Enquiries should be directed to Liss Jeffrey, Conference Chair: aoir@ecommons.net.
Click here to download an AoIR media release (MS Word Document).
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Information for Presenters
Session chairing: If you haven't received your confirmation, please email
Conference Chair ljeffrey@ecommons.net.
Session Timing - Almost everyone is in a session that gives them 25 minutes
total - either 15 + 10 Q&A or 20 + 5 Q&A. Basically 3 papers in the 75 min
sessions and 4 papers in the 105 min session. Session chairs will be
expected to enforce timelimits rigorously for equity - plan accordingly.
The only exceptions to this are as follows:
3 sessions where, because of scheduling problems, 4 papers are in 75 mins or 5 into 105 mins.
Some people in the 90 minutes session on Friday before lunch will have
slightly MORE than 25 minutes (90 mins /3) or slightly LESS than 25 minutes
(90/4) - this is an unusual session time.
a few of the pre-organised panels will have less than 25 mins / speaker,
through arrangement because people added extra speakers after
scheduled or had more than 4 in the first place, or wanted a time that
couldn't give everyone 25 mins.
Finally - there are some panels with only 2 papers because of cancellations
- I guess you should take as long as you have got :)
Any comments or queries about the conference proper should now
be directed first of all to the Conf Chair, Dr Liss Jeffrey
ljeffrey@ecommons.net on the ground in Toronto or Conference coordinator lmorgan@ecommons.net
We apologize for the mixed messages that some may have received about the conference organizing. All is well and we look forward to your arrival in Toronto.
Technology -
Each presentation room will be equipped with
data projector and screen
pentium 3 laptop or desktop with DVD, CD ROM, floppy drive. Windows 2000
with Powerpoint XP.
switcher to allow presenters to easy hook up of their own laptop to the
projector. Mac/apple users MUST be sure to bring the appropriate VGA
adaptor!
There is a 15 minute break between sessions so you can hook up your
technology then.
There will be NO wired internet access in any of the presentation rooms.
Wireless internet access will be available in the "cybersandbox" room. Those
who wish to connect must have wi-fi built in or wireless cards
(802.11b or 802.11g).
There will also be 1-2 old style OHPs around.
Any questions on technology or the hotel can be addressed to Rhiannon Bury rbury@wlu.ca
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Special Events
Welcome Reception
Thursday October 16, starting after panel sessions end (about 5:15 pm). The welcome reception will feature the launch of the first edited AoIR conference book, art performance, draw for prizes, and a meet and greet with old and new colleagues.
Gala
The AoIR gala event to honour retiring President Steve Jones will be held Saturday, October 18th. Come ready with your short open mic farewell to Aoir's founding president and one of its guiding spirits. The evening will begin with a cocktail hour for all delegates after panel sessions end at 5:15 pm. Gala ticket holders will be served a four-course French service dinner in the Toronto 1 ballroom beginning at 7:00pm. Sign up with a birds of a feather group, or visit people you have not yet met (or maybe have seen online but never in person) with our unique url-table locator system. Special dietary requirements will be accommodated if advance notice is given. Please join us for this special event and take the opportunity to relax and socialize with colleagues and new friends. You and yours are welcome even if you cannot attend all of the conference. Tickets are $50 USD and $75 Canadian -- click here to order online. You must register before October 14th. Tickets can also be purchased by mail: send a cheque for $75 CAD or $50 USD to AoIR Toronto 2003, 386 Huron St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2G6. Cheques should be made out to AoIR Toronto 2003, and must be received before October 13th, 2003. For further information, please contact Lisa Morgan lmorgan@ecommons.net.
Sunday Brunch and Roundtable
Stay until the last moment for Sunday brunch (October 19, beginning at 11:30 am) and the final Round Table. Scribes and bloggers will deliver 3 minute reports on the conference threads. Add your impressions. Come watch highlights from our special On Aoir video clip archive. A buffet-style brunch will be served. Contact conference chair Liss Jeffrey, PhD ljeffrey@ecommons.net for details. Click here to register online.
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Pre-Conference WorkshopsPre conference workshops will be held on Wednesday, October 15. Most are free, and all are open to the public. For information on location, contact the organizers. Technology / Research / Ethics
Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Studies
Qualrus Qualitative Analysis Software I
Qualrus Qualitative Analysis Software II
Qualrus Qualitative Analysis Software I and II If you have specific questions relating to pre-conference workshops, please direct them to: aoir-preconf@ecommons.net. Available Pre-Conference Workshops: - Technology / Research / Ethics (morning) [free]
Organizer: Charles Ess, Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury UniversityThis workshop brings together AoIR ethics working committee members (Charles Ess, Jeremy Hunsinger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Leslie Tkach Kawasaki) and nationally-recognized scholars (Elizabeth Buchanan, Michele White) who have significantly contributed to the discussion and development of Internet research ethics. The workshop is designed to: utilize the AoIR ethics statement as a starting point for discussion of the ethical issues surrounding Internet research; highlight important new resources on Internet research ethics - including recent case-studies - that have appeared since the AoIR statement was endorsed; and provide AoIR members and conference participants an environment in which to discuss their own experiences and cases of ethical problems encountered in their research. Elizabeth Buchanan will discuss the role of Institutional Review Boards and Internet research ethics. How should such boards respond to the novelty of Internet research ethics? What guidelines must be in place to assist boards in reviewing protocols dealing with online research? Jeremy Hunsinger will describe three advanced technologies that can be used to gather research data on the Internet and then discuss some of the areas where they can cause problems pursuing ethical Internet research. Michele White will discuss how humanities methodologies generate critical questions and provide particular challenges to Internet research ethics. Charles Ess will review recent developments in Internet research ethics, including the RESPECT guidelines under development in Europe and the most recent guidelines from the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH). Workshop participants are encouraged to bring their own ethical case-studies for discussion with workshop presenters and other participants in small groups following the formal presentations. back to list of workshops - Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Studies (afternoon) [free]
Organizer: Radhika Gajjala, Associate Professor, Department of Interpersonal Communication Bowling Green State UniveristyThe purpose of this workshop is to bring together well-known Internet related feminist researchers who position themselves as doing race, gender, and postcolonial theory at the site of internet and technology research. Researchers include Theresa Senft, Lisa Nakamura, Jillana Enteen, Kiran Mirchandani and some others in the field of Internet studies and Science and Tech studies who, while they work on issues of diversity, digital divide and the Internet, would not necessarily see themselves along the same lines as those whose work intersects with postcolonial feminisms (e.g., Charles Ess and Michel Minou). We will assert the basic problematics and struggles involved in bringing together the two fields - "postcolonial feminisms" and "internet studies". The session will be concluded with an open round table discussion where all people attending the workshop will be asked to engage with the issues laid out. back to list of workshops - Qualrus Qualitative Analysis Software I (morning) [free]
Organizer: Ed Brent, Professor of Sociology Missouri Univeristy, IdeaWorks The morning portion of this workshop will give an overview of the qualitative analysis program, Qualrus®, followed by hands-on demonstrations of key features, with a special emphasis on applications to Internet research. Example applications to be discussed include the analysis of open-ended responses in Internet surveys, the use of Qualrus to parse input for interactive natural language web interfaces, and strategies for automating or semi-automating the coding of text with scripts. Qualrus is easy to use because it was designed with the advice of internationally respected qualitative researcher, Howard Becker, relying on the concepts and methods from the qualitative literature and with careful attention to making the interface similar to familiar programs. It is more powerful because it uses intelligent computational strategies to do more for the researcher at each of the three major stages of qualitative research: coding, analysis, and application. Qualrus provides a wide range of tools to support diverse coding styles in addition to the customary coding of successive segments one at a time. Qualrus' categorizing tool (based on Howard Becker's preferred coding method) lets researchers sort segments into stacks and then apply codes to the entire stack simultaneously-supporting diverse research styles and emphasizing emerging concepts. A graphical interface displays standard and user-defined relations among codes in a semantic network. That network is then used to facilitate reasoning by the program. Qualrus also uses intelligent computational strategies to identify patterns in data, suggest codes to users, and learn from user responses, providing more intelligent help as the coding progresses. Researchers can code independently, with computer-assistance, or even apply codes automatically, at their own discretion-in some cases achieving dramatic gains in coding speed and accuracy. The automatic comparison of codes assigned by coders with those recommended by the program provides an ongoing measure of coding consistency throughout the project. Qualrus offers a range of tools specifically designed for the common tasks of qualitative research. Concept formation and the emergence of categories from the data are facilitated by the categorizing tool, while other tools help researchers identify codes that are good candidates for generalization or refinement. Still other tools compute commonly used summary statistics, perform Boolean searches, and test hypotheses. These diverse tools are designed to support many different styles of research. Multimedia support is included for text, rich text, and a wide variety of video, audio, and graphics formats. Results can be saved to HTML reports, and data can be both imported and exported to spreadsheets and statistical programs. Qualrus' powerful scripting language permits users to adapt the program to their own research style and to a wide range of practical applications. The versatility of this scripting language is illustrated by two specialized applications of Qualrus to non-traditional qualitative analysis tasks of grading essays for an introductory college-level course, and conducting a literature review. Morning and Daylong Qualrus workshops are taking place at:
40 St George Street
Bahen Building, University of Toronto
Bell University Labs
BA 7256
(Just north of College Street on St George)
Directions: walk down from St George subway station or walk along College Street to St george and turn north
Researchers are welcome, especially graduate students, and the workshop is free.
For further information please contact Jeremy Shtern.
back to list of workshops - Qualrus Qualitative Analysis Software II(afternoon) [free]
Organizer: Ed Brent, Professor of Sociology Missouri Univeristy, IdeaWorks
With the byDesign eLab and eCommons/agora and McLuhan global research network: Dr Liss Jeffrey, with Jeremy Shtern, Univerity of Montreal, Christie Hurrell, York Ryerson Communication and Culture, Elic Chan, Sociology, University of Toronto.The afternoon portion of this workshop will extend and explore the functions and application of Qualrus with respect to a recent national e-governance consultation. Analysts from the Foreign Policy Dialogue/ Dialogue Politique Etrangere (www.foreign-policy-dialogue.ca) will present a case study on the uses of Qualrus for an online consultation. This Dialogue is worth examination for at least four primary reasons: - Linkage between government and civil society. The electronic side of the Dialogue was developed and hosted through a partnership between a civil society network (led by the byDesign eLab) and the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development (CCFPD) at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Internatinal Trade (DFAIT).
- Innovation with new media in digital democracy. No national government had ever before invited its citizens to take part in the shaping of foreign policy online, normally considered the exclusive preserve of a small elite. The Foreign Affairs Minister, backed by the Prime Minister's Office, was instrumental in this process.
- Historical coincidence with major world events. The Iraq situation became a focal issue in the foreign policy concerns of most citizens, dominating media, public and government agendas, with significant impacts on the response to the invitation to shape longer range policies online.
- Ecology of information and communications media channels. The Foreign Policy Dialogue featured multiple tracks (including Minister's Town Halls, responses by regular mail, MP consultations, Expert round tables, a Youth forum, the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary subcommittee ) thus permitting some understanding of the contemporary practices of citizen and government policy dialogue, and the potential and actual uses of an ecology of channels of democratic discourse. This half of the workshop will report on the uses of these methods, notably the incorporation of Qualrus in the data analysis and reporting process.
If eConsultation is to make a difference to democracy, then it is necessary to answer the question: How can policy relevant advice be extracted from the Internet-mediated communication of the public in a large scale consultation? In the course of this online consultation, thousands of Canadian citizens electronically provided their input into the process of foreign affairs policy formation through e-mails, answers to questions posed by the Minister, and discussion forums. To meet the challenge of analysis, the Foreign policy dialogue civil society partnership team used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. This workshop will report on the uses of these methods, notably the incorporation of Qualrus in the data analysis and reporting process. This seminar is about research, NOT just about technology.
Morning and Daylong Qualrus workshops are taking place at:
40 St George Street
Bahen Building, University of Toronto
Bell University Labs
BA 7256
(Just north of College Street on St George)
Directions: walk down from St George subway station or walk along College Street to St george and turn north
Researchers are welcome, especially graduate students, and the workshop will be free.
For further information please contact Jeremy Shtern. back to list of workshops - Qualrus Qualitative Analysis Software (morning and afternoon sessions) [free]
Organizers: Ed Brent, Professor of Sociology Missouri Univeristy, IdeaWorks
With the byDesign eLab and eCommons/agora and McLuhan global research network: Dr Liss Jeffrey, with Jeremy Shtern, Univerity of Montreal, Christie Hurrell, York Ryerson Communication and Culture, Elic Chan, Sociology, University of Toronto, Cathie Salyn, KMDI, University of Toronto.Attend both the morning and afternoon sessions of the Qualrus workshops. Morning and Daylong Qualrus workshops are taking place at:
40 St George Street
Bahen Building, University of Toronto
Bell University Labs
BA 7256
(Just north of College Street on St George)
Directions: walk down from St George subway station or walk along College Street to St george and turn north
Researchers are welcome, especially graduate students, and the workshop will be free.
For further information please contact Jeremy Shtern. back to list of workshops
back to list of workshops top Pre-Conference Lab ToursFree lab and arts tours will be held on October 15th. If you wish to attend some/all of the lab tours, please contact Olivia Robertson and let her know which tours you are interested in attending. Participating Labs: - Knowledge Media Design Institute
Researchers at KMDI will run a tour/demonstration at the Bahen Centre at 2pm. The Bahen Centre is located on the University of Toronto campus, 40 St George St 7th floor. More details coming soon. - Access Grid at Ryerson's Rogers Communications Centre
- CitizenLab with Professor Ron Diebert, Munk Centre, University of Toronto. No set time -- drop-in program.
- Civil Society cluster with Dr. Liss Jeffrey and team: byDesign eLab, eCommons/agora project, McLuhan global research network.
This tour will be held at 386 Huron Street. From 9 - 10am there will be a presentation. An open house will follow, from 10am until noon. - NetLab with Professor Barry Wellman and students. 10 am, 4th floor, Centre for Urban & Community Studies, University of Toronto, 455 Spadina Avenue, Toronto Canada, M5S 2G8.
NetLab studies the intersection of networks: social, computer,
communication,
and information. Based at the University of Toronto's Centre for Urban
and
Community Studies, NetLab is a hub for sociologically-minded research
about the
relationship between the Internet and society. This research network,
headed by
Barry Wellman, hosts a motley crew of social science professors,
graduate
students and undergraduates.
Currently, NetLab is analyzing a global National Geographic survey of
Internet
use; neighboring and long-distance ties in a wired suburb; knowledge
brokerage
in hierarchical and networked organizations; scholarly networks;
computer
literacy in the U.S., the U.K., Japan and China; trans- national
entrpreneurs
online and offline in Toronto, Beijing and Los Angeles; how the Internet
connects weak ties (collaborative with the Pew Internet and American
Life
Project); the digital divide within and between countries; and an
indepth look
at how the Internet is used by the residents of the Toronto district of
East
York.
- RCAT: Resource Centre for Academic Technologies at the University of Toronto. This tour will begin at 3:30 pm.
- The Vivid Group: This tour will be held from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Vivid Group's Lab in downtown Toronto. They will be demonstrating many of their products including GestXtreme, ClearTouch, HoloPoint and GroundFX. The tour will include a basic demo of all products, Q&A and demos of applications by request. Please see the Jestertek website for complete product descriptions.
top Contact InformationIf you have questions about the conference, program, or AoIR, please contact the people below. All inquiries on review and acceptances: | Program Chair | Matthew Allen
Curtin University of Technology, Australia | m.allen@curtin.edu.au | Inquiries on special technology themes: Program
Co-Chair | David Mitchell
University of Calgary | mitchell@ucalgary.ca | All inquiries on Toronto conference and pre-conference workshops: | Conference Chair | Liss Jeffrey
Knowledge Media Design Institute and McLuhan Program, University of Toronto | aoir@ecommons.net | | Associate Coordinator, hotel | Rhiannon Bury | aoir@ecommons.net | | Associate Coordinator | Olivia Robertson
OISE/University of Toronto | olivia.robertson@utoronto.ca | General inquiries on AoIR: | AoIR President | Steve Jones | sjones@uic.edu | | AoIR President-elect | Nancy Baym | nbaym@pop.ku.edu | top
appel à communication introduction | dates | étudiants et étudiantes gradués | ateliers de pré-colloque | groupes d'affinité | avis aux présentateurs| pour obtenir plus d'informations... click here for english version Introduction: Élargir la bande passanteColloque international et interdisciplinaire de l'Association of Internet Researchers
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, du 16 au 19 octobre 2003 Les réseaux de communication numériques tels que l'Internet changent la façon dont les personnes interagissent entre elles, entraînant des conséquences importantes sur les relations sociales et les institutions. Pourtant, beaucoup restent exclus de l'accès et d'une participation signicative. Il apparaît donc important d'intégrer dans l'analyse tant les exclus que les inclus et ce que nous savons des participants et participantes des communautés en ligne ainsi que de leurs activités. Internet Research (IR) 4.0 vise à regrouper un ensemble de perspectives consacrées à l'Internet, sous le thème suivant "Élargir la bande passante". Comme cela a été le cas lors des colloques précédents, l'objectif consiste à favoriser une compréhension de l'Internet tant d'un point de vue théorique que pragmatique tout en nous intéressant à ceux à à celles dont l'Internet favorise l'émancipation et à ceux et celles que le réseau laisse pour compte. IR 4.0 rassemblera les académiciens et académiciennes, les chercheurs et chercheuses, les créateurs et créatrices, les praticiens et praticiennes issus de nombreuses disciplines, champs et pays dans le cadre d'un programme comprenant des interventions, des discussions en tables-rondes et des échanges informels. IR 4.0 aura lieu à l'Hôtel Hilton au coeur du Centre-Ville de Toronto. Le Colloque sera organisé par une équipe autour du Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) et de ses associés de l'Université de Toronto. Les comités de direction et de travail reflètent la croissance du réseau pancanadien de chercheurs et de chercheuses dont les travaux portent sur l'Internet, avec des membres au Québec, en Alberta, au Nouveau-Brunswick en plus du contingent des Universités ontariennes de Toronto, York et Ryerson. Le thème de cette année, "Élargir la bande passante", encourage une large participation de divers points de vue, disciplines et communautés. Sous ce thème englobant, les contributeurs et contributrices sont invités à à réfléchir, à théoriser et à articuler l'état des connaissances naissant dans l'espace interdisciplinaire connu sous le vocable "Internet Research". D'un point de vue culturel, le thème attire l'attention sur la nécessité d'examiner l'accès, l'inclusion et l'exclusion au sein des communautés en ligne. Quels rôles jouent le genre, la classe, l'appartenance ethnique, la langue, l'orientation sexuelle, l'âge, la géographie, et d'autres facteurs dans l'intensité de la participation en ligne? Quels sont les indicateurs qui témoignent d'une participation signicative? D'un point de vue technique, le thème pointe le développement des réseaux à large bande, des réseaux sans-fil et des réseaux "post-Internet" ainsi que des applications dont l'usage se répand dans des réseaux communautaire, privé, public de même que scientifique à l'échelle nationale (par exemple CA*net 4, Internet 2). Nous envisageons par ailleurs d'employer ces technologies pour faire du Colloque un événement international accessible, médiatisé par l'Internet. D'un point de vue organisationnel, le thème reflète une ouverture plus grande de l'AoIR visant à inclure plus de chercheurs, de chercheuses et de constituantes intéressés par l'évolution de l'Internet. L'appel à communication comprend pour la première fois des présentations en langue française. De plus, des chercheurs, chercheuses et des praticiens, praticiennes dans les secteurs des arts et de la culture sont encouragés à participer à côté des chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences humaines et sociales. D'un point de vue thématique, "Élargir la bande passante" suggère un élargissement des sujets et des problématiques abordés lors des colloques antérieurs, l'accent étant toujours mis sur la rigueur des recherches effectuées. Il s'agit là d'un véritable appel au développement de liens théoriques et méthodologiques entre le thème retenu et les nombreuses approches disciplinaires et interdisciplinaires nécessaires pour l'aborder de façon précise. début de section française Dates: - Date-limite pour la soumission d'une proposition: 1er mars 2003
- Date de l'envoi de l'avis aux auteurs: 14 avril 2003
- Date-limite pour l'inscription au Colloque: 1er septembre 2003
- Date-limite pour l'envoi du texte de la part des étudiants et étudiantes souhaitant obtenir le prix: 1er septembre 2003
début de section française Étudiants et étudiantes gradués:Les étudiants et étudiantes gradués sont fortement encouragés à soumettre des propositions. En effectuant leur soumission, ils doivent mentionner leur statut d'étudiant ou d'étudiante afin de participer au concours menant à l'obtention d'un prix. Ils doivent aussi envoyer leur texte complet au plus tard le 1er septembre 2003. Les étudiants et étudiantes canadiens gradués ne venant pas du Canada central doivent noter que des aides pourront être disponibles pour le voyage à Toronto et le séjour sur place. Des précisions seront envoyées sur la liste de l'AoIR dès que des engagements financiers seront confirmés. Pour assurer une participation diversifiée, les frais d'admission demeurent peu élevés pour les intervenants et les intervenantes. Un système de réservation et de partage des chambres sera mis sur pied. Une traduction simultanée en langue française sera disponible pendant certaines sessions en fonction des aides financières obtenues. début de section française Ateliers de Pré-ColloqueL'information sera disponible bientôt. début de section française
Groupes d'affinité
Dans le cadre du colloque de l'AoIR à Toronto en 2003, les rencontres des
groupes d'affinité correspondent à des échanges informels qui auront lieu
le matin à l'hôtel Hilton pour les personnes qui ont des intérêts de
recherche proches à partager, et ce avant que le colloque ne commence.
Utilisez ce forum pour créer un groupe d'affinité ou pour en rejoindre un.
Les étudiants et étudiantes de 2e et 3e cycles sont tout particulièrement
encouragés à utiliser ce moyen de réseauter.
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Avis aux présentateurs
Présidence de session. Si vous n'avez pas reçu de confirmation à ce sujet,
écrivez s'il vous plait à la responsable du colloque: Liss Jeffrey : ljeffrey@ecommons.net.
Organisation du temps pour une session - Presque tous les intervenants et
intervenantes disposent d'un total de 25 minutes -- avec par exemple 15
minutes pour la présentation orale et 10 minutes pour la période de
questions et réponses ou 20 minutes pour la présentation orale et 5 minutes
pour la période de questions-réponses. Normalement, il y a 3 présentations
pour une session de 75 minutes et 4 présentations pour une session de 105
minutes. Les présidents de séance devront respecter rigoureusement les
limites de temps pour des raisons d'équité. Les seules exceptions sont les
cas de figure suivants:
3 sessions où, à cause de problèmes d'horaires, 4 présentations ont lieu en
75 minutes ou 5 en 105 minutes. Les personnes qui participent à la session
de 90 minutes vendredi avant le repas de la mi-journée auront un peu plus
de 25 minutes (90 minutes pour 3) ou un peu moins de 25 minutes (90 minutes
pour 4). C'est une exception.
Dans le cas de plusieurs tables-rondes, les présentateurs et présentatrices
auront moins de 25 minutes parce que d'autres présentations ont été
ajoutées après que le programme ait été monté.
Notez encore qu'il y a quelques tables-rondes avec seulement deux
présentations pour cause d'abandons.
Tous les commentaires et les demandes à propos du colloque doivent être
envoyés directement à la responsable du colloque, Dr Liss Jeffrey : ljeffrey@ecommons.net sur place à Toronto ou à la coordinatrice du
colloque Lisa Morgan : lmorgan@ecommons.net. Nous vous prions de nous
excuser pour les messages à répétition que vous pourriez avoir reçu de la
part de l'organisation du colloque. Tout va bien et nous attendons vorre
arrivée à Toronto.
Équipements techniques
Chaque salle sera équipée d'un rétroprojecteur et d'un écran d'un
ordinateur portable Pentium 3 ou d'un terminal de bureau avec lecteur DVD,
CD ROM, disque dur amovible. Windows 2000 avec Powerpoint XP. Il y aura un
adaptateur pour permettre aux présentateurs et présentatrices d'utiliser
leur ordinateur et le rétroprojecteur. Les utilisateurs et utilisatrices de
Macintosh doivent apporter l'adaptateur VGA approprié.
Il y aura une pause de 15 minutes entre les sessions afin que vous puissiez
vous assurer du bon fonctionnement des équipements techniques.
Il n'y aura pas d'accès Internet dans les salles. L'accès à Internet sera
uniquement disponible dans la salle "cybersandbox". Ceux et celles qui
souhaitent se connecter doivent avoir la technologie wi-fi ou des cartes
"sans fil" (802.11b or 802.11g).
Il y aura aussi des rétroprojecteurs à acétates/transparents.
Toutes les questions sur les équipements techniques ou sur l'hôtel doivent
être posées à Rhiannon Bury : rbury@wlu.ca
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Pour Obtenir Plus d'Informations... Si vous avez des questions au sujet du Colloque, du programme, ou de l'AoIR, vous êtes invités à contacter: Toutes les requêtes sur le processus d'évaluation et sur les propositions retenues: | Direction du programme | Matthew Allen
Curtin University of Technology, Australia | m.allen@curtin.edu.au | Toutes le thème consacré à la technologie: | Co-direction | David Mitchell
University of Calgary | mitchell@ucalgary.ca | Toutes les requêtes sur le Colloque et les ateliers de pré-Colloque: | Direction du Colloque: | Liss Jeffrey
Knowledge Media Design Institute and McLuhan Program, University of Toronto | aoir@ecommons.net | | Coordonnatrice associée: | Olivia Robertson
OISE/University of Toronto | olivia.robertson@utoronto.ca | | Président de l'AoIR: | Steve Jones | sjones@uic.edu | | le président élisent de l'AoIR | Nancy Baym | nbaym@pop.ku.edu | Site Web de l'AoIR: www.aoir.org Site Web du Colloque: www.aoir.org/2003 / www.ecommons.net/aoir début de section française
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