IR8 Pre-conference workshops
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Four important pre-conference workshops have been organized for you. And even some whimsical (IR8 pie tour) ones. All four workshops/colloquia are held in the main conference site, SFU's Vancouver Campus at 515 West Hastings Street.
Doctoral Workshop
Nancy Baym has organized a day-long doctoral workshop. Marc Smith, of Microsoft Research, has kindly offered to sponsor the workshop. Details from Nancy, via the Air-L mailing list, and on the Internet Research 8.0 Doctoral Workshop pages. The Workshop is in Rooms HC 1500, HC 1510, and HC 1520.
Internet Histories Workshop
Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland are organizing a full-day workshop on Internet Histories. TIME: 9.30 - 5.30. VENUE: ROOM 1425.
This project brings together researchers working on country-specific and regional histories of the Internet as well as those researching Internet use by local and transnational subcultures and communities. This will be the first of what is anticipated to be a series of workshops, leading to an edited collection aimed at understanding the different historical patterns of Internet deployment and cultural and technological development.
The keynote speaker will be Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois), author of the 2002 Routledge volume Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet.
Keynote Address
Race 2.0: Identity, the Internet, and the Shift to New Media
Academics are irresistibly drawn to periodization, and scholars of Internet studies are no different. Despite our best intentions, however, journalists and industry mouthpieces often beat us to this favorite activity, as in the case of "Web 2.0." Quibbles about its accuracy aside, how do race, nationality, and gender articulate to the "participatory web"? If racism, racial underrepresentation online, and identity tourism were features of Web 1.0, do they persist in Web 2.0? If user-generated content is the new new thing, in what ways are minorities generating or being generated as new media commodities, âÂÂopen sourceâ or not?
Confirmed Titles and Abstracts:
âÂÂWhy Internet Histories Now?âÂÂ
Gerard Goggin University of New South Wales
It is stating the obvious to say that the undertaking of Internet history is in its infancy. With a few notable exceptions, there have been few histories of the Internet. We find fewer still when we look for those that offer fresh or alternative approaches that engage with contemporary social and cultural theory. Further, while there have been various histories of media or design that touch upon the Internet, we need to integrate these into other accounts. The state of the field is such also, like Internet studies in general, that the available histories and discourses on Internet histories, do not recognise the different, specific histories of Internet as it has developed around the world (especially in non-Anglophone countries).
Against such a backdrop, my paper tries to locate the project Mark McLelland and I are undertaking on Internet histories. Firstly, I give a brief survey and characterization of existing and emerging work on Internet histories. Secondly, I look at the challenges to doing Internet histories, drawing on my own work on Australian Internet history the history of disability and Internet, and mobile phone histories. Thirdly, I offer some remarks on what might be specific about doing history of the Internet, and what possibilities such a venture might offer for enlarging and complicating existing conceptions of media and cultural histories.
Development Under Construction: The History of the Internet in Costa Rica.
Ignacio Siles, University of Costa Rica
To advance understanding of the process of development of the Internet in Costa Rica, in this presentation I will reflect on theoretical issues concerning historical research on the Internet, and on the results achieved so far after a two-year study. In summary, three periods have been identified as key junctures in which the meaning of the Internet has changed significantly in Costa Rica between 1990 and 2006: an initial phase of academic development managed by the University of Costa Rica, a commercial expansion headed by the countryâÂÂs telecom monopoly, and a national project intended to create an advanced networked infrastructure.
A Critical Textual Philology of the Website: Why and How? Niels Brügger, The Centre for Internet Research, Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark
In the task of writing website history the archived website is one of the main sources. But the problems involved in finding, collecting and preserving the website are different from those characterizing the archiving of other media types. The primary problem is that the actual act of archiving changes the website that was on the web in a number of ways thus creating a version of it. This paper sets out to discuss how these changes affect the work of the website historian just as it tries to formulate some methodological principles, rules and recommendations to help us.
âÂÂSinging the Strong Light Works of [American] EngineersâÂÂ: Popular Histories of the Internet as Mythopoetic Literature. Merav Katz-Kimchi, Bar Ilan University
This paper presents socio-literary analysis of the American popular histories of the Internet written during the 1990s. Taken as a whole, these histories attest to the enormous appeal of the new technology and to the public interest in its history. The recurrent narrative in these works portrays the revolutionary nature of the new technology, its benign impact on society and its many heroic ingenious inventors. Overall, it casts the history of the internet into the mythopoetic form of the romance and embodies contemporary perceptions as regards the internet in popular culture. While this narrative shows no novelty in its literary qualities and belongs to a longer tradition narrating the heroic enterprises of scientists and engineers it was still written by selected members of the new middle class of contemporary American society, or certain cultural intermediaries and specialists, in that all the authors are prominent actors in the media industry.
Braudel in the Library: A Local History of the Internet in Western Australia, Glenn Pass, Curtin University
In this paper I outline my Doctoral research on the social history of the Internet in Western Australia, focusing on the argument that a new approach is needed to interpret the history of a new technology, such as the Internet, within a local context. Drawing on examples from my research, in particular a case study of the Curtin University of Technology and its Library and Information Service, I illustrate how the integration of Annales style historiography within a postmodern context provides a useful model to explore a local history of the Internet.
Content Analysis of Online Newspapers in Web Archives, Vidar Falkenberg, University of Aarhus
This paper explores how content analysis of online newspapers can be conducted with archived material. Based on earlier content analysis studies of online newspapers using the live web as the object of study, selected methods are repeated using archived material from Netarchive.dk. This has two goals: The first is to observe the possibilities and implications of doing research with archived material compared with the live web. Secondly, the results of this study will assess the usefulness of the harvesting strategies employed by Netarchive.dk in the case of doing content analysis on online newspapers.
Internet Histories Workshop Program
(Please register at the main AoIR registration desk, collect your badges and programs and go to room 1425)
Coffee is available in the room throughout the event
9.30 Arrival and welcome: Gerard Goggin
10.00-11.00 Keynote address: Lisa Nakamura
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45 Why Internet Histories Now? Gerard Goggin
A Critical Textual Philology of the Website: Why and How? Niels Brügger
12.45-2.00 Lunch (light lunch is provided)
2.00-3.15 Development under Construction: The History of the Internet in Costa Rica. Ignacio Siles
Braudel in the Library: A Local History of the Internet in Western Australia. Glenn Pass
3.15-3.45 Coffee
3.45-5.00 Content Analysis of Online Newspapers in Web Archives. Vidar Falkenberg
âÂÂSinging the Strong Light Works of [American] EngineersâÂÂ: Popular Histories of the Internet as Mythopoetic Literature. Merav Katz-Kimchi
5.00-5.30 Summing Up and Future Directions
7.00 AoIR Welcome Reception
Workshop on Internet/s and Organizations
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, Room 1600
The topic of this workshop is the impact of information and communication technologies, especially the Internet (or, if you prefer internet/s), in and on organizations. Themes that emerge might, for example, include the blurring of boundaries online, the interplay of influence between ordinary (offline) life and life online, and the facilitation of global flows of information and the implications for life offline, as well as any other ideas participants find relevant. We will use the workshop as an opportunity to explore the issues, the challenges and the opportunities, the promise and the reality, in-depth from various perspectives. A series of expert speakers will provide presentations and throughout the workshop and lunch (complimentary) there will be multiple opportunities to actively engage in discussion and networking.
Schedule
11-11:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductions -- Susan Kretchmer
11:15-11:45 a.m. "Dismantling Central Information Technology Gatekeeping in Educational Organizations: The Virtual Computing Lab" Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University, USA
11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. "Open Access as an Unprecedented Public Good: The Transformative Potential of the Internet for Scholarship and Society" Heather Morrison, BC Electronic Library Network, Simon Fraser University Library, University of British Columbia, and The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com), Canada Presentation, with notes, in E-LIS: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00011747/
12:15-1 p.m. Lunch (provided)
1-1:30 p.m. "Measuring Internet Usage Within Organizations: The Collection and Sharing of Internet Research" Kenneth J. Levine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, and Susie Allard, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
1:30-2 p.m. "Technology Transforming Medical Practice: The Emergence of Changes Brought Along by the Electronic Medical Record" Nina Boulus, Simon Fraser University, Canada
2-2:20 p.m. Break
2:20- 2:50 p.m. "Blurred Boundaries: Mobile Communication Technologies in the Office and Beyond" Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University, Canada
2:50-3:20 p.m. "Accessing Knowledge?: People's Use of Health Information They Find on the Internet" Anne McCulloch, Simon Fraser University, Canada
3:20-3:40 p.m. Break and Refreshments
3:40-4:10 p.m. "The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in the Digital Age: Changing Paradigms of the Organization-Individual-Public Nexus" Susan B. Kretchmer, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide
4:10-5 p.m. Wrap-Up and Discussion
For any further information, please feel free to contact the workshop organizer, Susan Kretchmer via susankretchmer @ yahoo . com.
Learning and Research in Second Life
Jeremy Hunsinger is organizing a workshop on using Second Life for Learning and Research. Room 1315 on Wednesday, October 17.
Contact slworkshop @tmttlt.com for more information. Internet Research 8.0 Learning and Research in Second Life Workshop
