Internet Research 3.0: NET /
WORK / THEORY
Maastricht, The Netherlands,
October 13-16 2002
*All sessions take place at the Mecc Congress Center*
PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP 1: Intellectual Property for Internet Researchers
PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP 2: Social, Technical, and Democratic Origins of the Internet
08:00
09:00
Auditorium
Opening:
Director of
Infonomics Institute Luc Soete, AoIR President Steve Jones, Conference
Coordinator Monica Murero
Keynote speaker:
Dr. Detlef Eckert, Head of Unit for Policy Planning, European
Commission, Brussels
10:00
10:15
Panel 1A
0.4 Brussels
Old
Methodologies, New Empirical Issues on the Internet
(Chair:
Serge Proulx, CANADA)
Applying
Old Media Theories to New Media: Uses & Gratifications <abstract>
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, USA
Flow-Experience,
the Internet and its Relationship to Situation and Personality <abstract>
Robert Tzanetakis, AUSTRIA
Peter Vitouch, AUSTRIA
Telling Stories: Using Scenario Methodologies in Internet Research <abstract>
Erika Pearson, AUSTRALIA
Improving
Unit-Nonresponse Error Correction in Online Surveys Using Multi-Dimensional
Response Models <abstract>
Gerhard Lukawetz, AUSTRIA
Panel 1B
0.8 Rome
Information
Societies around the World
(Chair: Michel Menou, UNITED KINGDOM)
Cultural Indexes of
Information Society: The Future of the Internet in Asia <abstract>
Brian Shoesmith, AUSTRALIA
Mark Balnaves, AUSTRALIA
Debate on the Internet in Africa:
Trends, Typology, and Characteristics <abstract>
Raphael Ntambue-Tshimbulu, FRANCE
Accurately Measuring the
Impact of Information Society/Revolution Conditions upon Public Policy
Decision-Making. A Comprehensive Cross-disciplinary Research Agenda <abstract>
Adrian Petrescu, USA
Surveying the Internet: A
Critical Review of the Study of Internet Effects on Society <abstract>
Mattia Miani, ITALY
Panel 1C
Auditorium
September
11: The Web Response <abstract>
Allene Hayes, USA
Kirsten Foot, USA
Steven M. Schneider, USA
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, USA
Alex Halavais, USA
Panel 1D
0.9 Athens
Gendered
Representations and Practices on the Internet
(Chair: Marj Kibby,
AUSTRALIA)
Women Empowerment: Internet Perspective <abstract>
Chitra Pathak, INDIA
Manish Kumar, THE NETHERLANDS
Participating
in an Electronic Forum: The Difference Gender Makes <abstract>
A. Vayreda, SPAIN
A. Galvez, SPAIN
F. Nunez, SPAIN
B. Callen, SPAIN
Cybercheating: Attitudes towards Online Infidelity <abstract>
Monica Whitty, AUSTRALIA
Gender and Commercialization:
The Construction of User-representations in a Changing Design Context <abstract>
Els Rommes, THE NETHERLANDS
Teenage Intercultural
Communications Online: A Redeployment of the Internet Activist Model <abstract>
David Gauntlett, UNITED KINGDOM
Jayne Rodgers, UNITED KINGDOM
Panel 1E
0.5 Paris
Social
Movements and Collective Identity on the Internet
(Chair:
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, USA)
Shaping
Online Welfare Cultures: Social Movements, Identification, and the Internet <abstract>
Brian D. Loader, UNITED KINGDOM
Leigh Keeble, UNITED KINGDOM
The
Queer Sisters and Its Electronic Bulletin Board: Internet for Social Movement
Mobilization <abstract>
Joyce Yee-man Nip, CHINA
Open Source and the Construction of
Collective Identity <abstract>
Anna Maria Szczepanska, SWEDEN
Standing on the Shoulders of
the Real Programmers: An Analysis of the Use of Usenet as a Site for Computer
Hacker Cultural Formation <abstract>
Matthew Wysocki, USA
Panel 1F
0.1 London
Anticipations:
The Internet in Historical and Future Perspectives
(Chair: Ronald E. Rice, USA)
International Origins of the
Internet and the Emergence of the Netizen: Is the Early Vision Still Viable? <abstract>
Ronda Hauben, USA
Pushers, Plumbers,
and Pediatricians: The Symbolism of the Pager in the United States - 1975 to
1995 <abstract>
Nalini Kotamraju, USA
Internet: The Real Pre-history
and Its Consequences for Social Theory <abstract>
Laszlo Z. Karvalics, HUNGARY
Drop-outs: A Forgotten Category of Internet Users <abstract>
Frank Thomas, FRANCE
Introducing the Wireless
Information Society Research Network (WISER.NET) Project <abstract>
Richard Smith, CANADA
Gordon A. Gow, CANADA
11:45
Break
12:00
Panel
Session 2
0.8 Rome
Nikos Leandros, GREECE
Community Access and the Digital Divide: with Maritime Subtitles <abstract>
Vanda Rideout,
CANADA
The Digital Divide,
Individuals and Governance: Opportunities and Challenges <abstract>
Andrew Reddick, CANADA
0.4 Brussels
(Chair: Barry Wellman, CANADA)
Social
Networks of Intensive Internet Users <abstract>
Valentina Hlebec, SLOVENIA
Katja Lozar Manfreda, SLOVENIA
Vasja Vehovar, SLOVENIA
The Internet in College Social
Life <abstract>
Nancy Baym, USA
Yan Bing Zhang, USA
Mei-Chen Lin, USA
Users
vs. Manipulators: Investigating Two Approaches to Internet Activity <abstract>
Andrew
Mendelson, USA
Zizi
Papacharissi, USA
Risky Information Search in
Databases <abstract>
Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck,
SWITZERLAND
The Circadian Geography of
Chat ? <abstract>
Paul Bevan, UNITED KINGDOM
Panel 2C
0.5 Paris
Democracy,
Activism, and Online Participation
(Chair: Leslie Tkach, JAPAN)
Indymedia: Using a Technology of Abundance to Become the Media <abstract>
Victor Pickard, USA
Meghan Dougherty, USA
Maria Garrido, USA
Where ’Fascist’
and ’Communist’ Citizens Get Together: Virtual Deliberation in
Hungarian Online Political Discussion Forums <abstract>
Ildiko Kaposi, HUNGARY
The Internet as an Instrument
and Platform for NGOs to Strengthen Civil Society in Japan <abstract>
Iris Wieczorek, GERMANY
Panel 2D
0.9 Athens
Online
Gaming
(Chair: Kathleen
O’Riordan, UNITED KINGDOM)
Multiple Pleasures: Women and Online Gaming <abstract>
T.L.Taylor, USA
To Kill or Not to
Kill. Attraction of Violent Death (and Meaning of Stats) in Online Multiplayer
Computer Games <abstract>
Gitte Stald, DENMARK
If It’s In The Game,
It’s In The Game: Or, What Makes Games Feel Real? <abstract>
Charlie Breindahl, DENMARK
Net Play Theory: Narrative As Social Control <abstract>
Espen Aarseth, NORWAY
Panel 2E
0.1 London
Internet Research as Methodological
Challenge
(Chair: Sally Wyatt, THE NETHERLANDS)
Distributed
Collective Practice, Linux, and a Commitment to the Technical <abstract>
Matt Ratto, USA
Actor-Networks and Genres
Analysis of a Mailing List <abstract>
Moses Boudourides, GREECE
Dimensions of the ’Mode
of As-If’: Hermeneutics, Narrative, and Virtual Communities <abstract>
Gary Burnett, USA
Panel 2F
Auditorium
Simulations
in Internet Research:
Value
and Sharing of Information, Social Facilitation, Friends and
Neighbors <abstract>
(Moderator: Sheizaf Rafaeli, ISRAEL)
The
Lemonade Stand: Experimental Investigation of the Subjective Value of
Information <abstract>
Daphne R. Raban, ISRAEL
Sheizaf Rafaeli, ISRAEL
Online
Auctions and Social Facilitation <abstract>
Sheizaf Rafaeli, ISRAEL
Avi Noy, ISRAEL
Sharing
Information in Virtual Teams: Messaging, Supply Chains and the Disintermediation
Promise? <abstract>
Gilad
Ravid, ISRAEL
Sheizaf
Rafaeli, ISRAEL
Enhancing
User Control over Online Recommendation Processes: ’Friends’ vs.
"Neighbors" in the "Qsia" Recommender System <abstract>
Sheizaf
Rafaeli, ISRAEL
Yuval
Dan Gur, ISRAEL
13:30
14:30
Panel session 3
Panel 3A
0.8 Rome
Learning
from the Internet
(Chair: Rob van Kranenburg, THE NETHERLANDS)
No Magic Solutions: What Can
We Learn from Recent Developments in E-learning? <abstract>
Laia Miralles, SPAIN
Adela Ros, SPAIN
The Interconnected Youngsters:
When Students Teach Us How to Use Technology to Learn <abstract>
Jose Jesus Garcia Rueda, SPAIN
Fernando S. Vacas, SPAIN
The Internet and Learning: A
Qualitative Study <abstract>
Amanda Lenhart, USA
The Epistemology of Internet
Use: Implications for Teaching and Learning <abstract>
Thomas J. Scott, USA
Michael O'Sullivan, USA
0.4 Brussels
The Importance Of Context Sensitivity In Doing Internet Ethnography <abstract>
(Roundtable –
Moderator: Annette Markham, USA)
Presenters:
An Ethnography Is an Ethnography Is an Ethnography? <abstract>
Annette Markham, USA
Public Places - Public Activities? Context Sensitivity as Key to Defining 'Space' and Selecting Ethically Sound Methodological Approaches in Researching Social Interaction Activities Online
Janne Bromseth, NORWAY
Considering the Ideological Bases of Our Methodological Choices in Accessing, Collecting, and Interpreting Discourses of Marginalization <abstract>
Radhika Gajjala, USA
Panel 3C
0.5 Paris
Surveillance
and Regulation on the Internet
(Chair: Nils Zurawski, GERMANY)
Big Brother in Australia:
Privacy and Surveillance of the Internet in the Australian Workplace <abstract>
Monica Whitty, AUSTRALIA
Online Privacy and Consumer
Protection: An Analysis of Portal Privacy Statements <abstract>
Zizi Papacharissi, USA
Jan Fernback, USA
Panopticon.com: Online
Surveillance and Commodification of Privacy <abstract>
Matt
Carlson, USA
John Edward Campbell, USA
The Work of Being Watched:
Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure <abstract>
Mark Andrejevic, USA
Auditorium
Am I an Author Too ? Or,
Interactivity as a Source of Hope and Despair on the Internet <abstract>
Annie Gentes, FRANCE
URBAN CONCERT <abstract>
Carol-Ann Braun, FRANCE
How to Get into an Artistic
Site: Web Art Uses in Question <abstract>
Genevieve Vidal, FRANCE
0.9 Athens
(Chair: Klaus Bruhn Jensen, DENMARK)
E-commerce and Developing Countries: Deconstructing the
Myth <abstract>
Daniel Pare, UNITED KINGDOM
E-Commerce / E-Business in the People's Republic of China
<abstract>
Simona Thomas, GERMANY
Perspectives for B2C E-Commerce in South America:
Evidence from Chile <abstract>
Michael Shohat, CHILE
Panel 3F
0.1 London
Issue-Networks on the Web: Theory, Method,
Politics <abstract>
(Moderator: Richard Rogers, THE
NETHERLANDS)
All Networks Aren't Equal <abstract>
Jodi Dean, USA
Issue-politics May Be ”Merely
Cosmetic,” But What about Its Make-up? The Case of the Development
Gateway and Its Shadows on the Web <abstract>
Noortje Marres, THE NETHERLANDS
The Issue Has Left the
Building - The Web, New Democratic Practice, and the Challenges of
De-territorialisation <abstract>
Richard Rogers, THE NETHERLANDS
Panel 3G
0.2 Berlin
Linguistic
Practices on the Internet
(Chair: Naomi S. Baron, USA)
Causes of Linguistic Interferences in Spanish and Catalan
IRC Sessions <abstract>
Marta Torres i Vilatarsana, SPAIN
Some Cultural and Linguistic Implications
of Computer-Mediated Greeklish <abstract>
Theodora Tseligka, UNITED KINGDOM
Web
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Less Common Languages <abstract>
Ewa Callahan, USA
16:00
Break
16:15
Auditorium
Keynote speaker:
Professor Dr. Robin Mansell, London School of Economics:
The
Internet and the Forces of Capitalism - The Policy Challenge <abstract>
17:15
Break
17:30
Panel session 4
Panel 4A
0.5 Paris
Ethical
Decision-making and Internet Research:
The
AoIR Ethics Working Committee's Recommendations <abstract>
(Roundtable -
Moderator: Charles Ess, USA)
0.9 Athens
(Chair: Gina Neff, USA)
Role of ICT in Knowledge
Sharing Processes in Organizations <abstract>
Marieke Wenneker, THE NETHERLANDS
Martine van Selm, THE NETHERLANDS
Paul Nelissen, THE NETHERLANDS
The Role of Online Working in
Combating Barriers to Employment <abstract>
Chris Lane, UNITED KINGDOM
Internet Training in Context <abstract>
Steve Walker, UNITED KINGDOM
Panel 4C
0.4 Brussels
Dynamics
of Online Fan Communities
(Chair: T.L. Taylor, USA)
Consuming Vampires in
Cyberspace: Online Fandom and Intellectual Property Law <abstract>
John Campbell, USA
On-Line
AIBO Discussion Forums: Talking Robotic Pets or Just Plain Talking? <abstract>
Jennifer
Hagman, USA
Batya
Friedman, USA
Peter
H. Kahn Jr., USA
From Fans to FoLCs: Online
Community and the Case of Kerth Awards <abstract>
Amy Lauters, USA
Music, Meaning, and Digital
Exchange <abstract>
Chris McVey, UNITED KINGDOM
0.8 Rome
The Form and the Feel: Combining Approaches for the Study of Networks on the Internet <abstract>
(Moderator:
Anne Beaulieu, THE NETHERLANDS)
Mapping
Discursive Networks in Controversies <abstract>
Paul Wouters, THE NETHERLANDS
Tracing
Networks of Trust in Scholars’ Internet Use: Connectivity as Ethnographic
and Formal Object <abstract>
Anne
Beaulieu, THE NETHERLANDS
Han
Woo Park, THE NETHERLANDS
“Dynamic Networks”
– Concepts and Models from Non-linear Physics and Consequences for the
Analysis of Networked Research <abstract>
Andrea Scharnhorst, THE NETHERLANDS
Auditorium
The Promise and Peril of Human
Conscious Evolution Brought on by the Internet – Psychological and
Spiritual Reflections <abstract>
John Van Ness, USA
How the Internet Is
Transforming Human Consciousness through Its Transformation of the Workplace
and Business Relationships: A Creative Demonstration <abstract>
Peter W. Van Ness, USA
Challenges in Developing User
Interfaces That Are Intuitive† for Both Men and Women: A Creative†
Demonstration <abstract>
Vickie Van
Ness, USA
Panel 4F
0.1 London
Carl
J. Couch Internet Research Award Panel <abstract>
(Moderator: Mark D. Johns, USA)
19:00
Refreshments
08:30
Panel
session 5
Panel 5A
0.8 Rome
Space
and Time Online: Theoretical Perspectives
(Chair: Maren Hartmann, BELGIUM)
The Sensed Dimensions of Cyberspace
- Three Modes of Spatial Interpretation in Online Social Life <abstract>
Stine Gotved, DENMARK
From Online to Offline and
Back: Distinctions and Continuities Between the Offline and the Online <abstract>
Shani Orgad, UNITED KINGDOM
Internet Use and the
Socio-cognitive Construction of Time <abstract>
Luc Jaeckle, FRANCE
Ideas and Metaphors of Space on the Internet
... and How These Help or Restrict Us in Research <abstract>
Nils Zurawski, GERMANY
Panel 5B
0.9 Athens
International
Contexts of Internet Use
(Chair: Sandra Braman, USA)
Three Histories of the
Internet: A Comparative Analysis of Information Networks Between the U.S., the
U.K., and Japan <abstract>
Junghoon Kim, USA
Tomoaki Watanabe, USA
How Do French Internet Users Search
the Web? <abstract>
Houssem Assadi, FRANCE
Valerie Beaudouin, FRANCE
A Structural Analysis
of the Use of Internet by Households in Four European Towns <abstract>
Alain d'Iribarne, FRANCE
The
Influence of Cultural Factors on Patterns of ICT Adoption and Adaptation in
Uzbekistan <abstract>
Beth Kolko, USA
Latin American Telecenters: The
Long Road toward Empowerment <abstract>
Paul Bonilla, ECUADOR
Karin Delgadillo, ECUADOR
Klaus Stoll, ECUADOR
Michael Menou, UNITED KINGDOM
Panel 5C
0.1 London
Identities
Across Media
(Chair:
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, DENMARK)
Dutch Web Radio as a Medium
for Audience Interaction <abstract>
Martine van Selm, THE NETHERLANDS
Nicholas W. Jankowski, THE NETHERLANDS
Private Domains in the Public
Domain: The Synthetic Institutionalization of Personal Web Space <abstract>
John Killoran, USA
Panel 5D
0.4 Brussels
Community
Online and Offline
(Chair:
Tim Jordan, UNITED KINGDOM)
The
Social Construction and Early Shaping(s) of a
Community
(Network) Database <abstract>
Christina Prell, USA
Geography
and On-line Community: The Relationship between State-level Social Capital and
Emergence of Virtual Communities <abstract>
Sorin Matei, USA
Jonathan Sabella, USA
David Williams, USA
Social Network Incentives or
Hope for Reciprocity as Stimuli for the Information Transfer in Electronic
Groups? An Empirical Test of Two Theories with the Help of Academic Internet
Discussion Groups <abstract>
Uwe Matzat, GERMANY
Online Communities in a
'Glocal' Context <abstract>
Christoph Mueller, SWITZERLAND
Panel 5E
0.2 Berlin
E-Government
and Democratic Participation
(Chair: Kathleen O’Riordan, UNITED KINGDOM)
Internet Voting: a Universal Remedy? <abstract>
Anne-Marie Oostveen, THE NETHERLANDS
Peter van den Besselaar, THE NETHERLANDS
Surfing the Net or Serving the
People? Local E-Government in Fujian and Guangdong <abstract>
Jens Damm,
GERMANY
Public Spheres on the Internet - Anarchic or
Government-sponsored: A Comparison <abstract>
Jakob Linaa Jensen, DENMARK
Auditorium
Getting Serious Online: A
Longitudinal Study <abstract>
Susannah Fox, USA
The Impact of Broadband at
Home <abstract>
John Horrigan, USA
Barriers to Online Access
& Use <abstract>
Amanda Lenhart, USA
The Rise of the e-Citizen: How
People Use Government Agencies' Web Sites <abstract>
Lee Rainie, USA
10:00
Break
10:15
Panel
session 6
Panel 6A
0.8 Rome
The
Internet as Research Instrument: Potentials and Problems
(Chair:
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, USA)
Beyond
Usability: Using the "Webpage Interview" to Explore Literary
Practices <abstract>
Dena Attar, UNITED KINGDOM
Health Information on the
Internet: an Investigation of the Methodological Dilemmas and Opportunities
Offered by Email Interviewing <abstract>
Joelle Kivits, UNITED KINGDOM
Gender Identity and HIV Risk:
An Internet-based Study <abstract>
Walter O. Bockting, USA
Laura Gurak, USA
The
Internet and HIV: An Examination of High Risk Sexual Behaviour among London Gay
Men Who Seek Sex on the Internet
Jonathan
Elford, UNITED KINGDOM
Graham
Bolding, UNITED KINGDOM
Mark
Davis, UNITED KINGDOM
Lorraine
Sherr, UNITED KINGDOM
Graham
Hart, UNITED KINGDOM
Examining the Determinants of Who is Hyperlinked to Whom <abstract>
Han Woo Park, THE NETHERLANDS
Chiung-Wen Hsu, USA
Panel 6B
0.9 Athens
Communities
of Practice and Learning
(Chair: Matthew Allen, AUSTRALIA)
Locating Possibility - Telling
Stories Across Frontiers <abstract>
Sandra Semchuk, CANADA
Vince Dziekan, AUSTRALIA
Using a Journalism Course Web
Site to Construct Knowledge in a Community of Practice <abstract>
Bruce Henderson, USA
0.4 Brussels
(Chair: Myriam Diocaretz,
THE NETHERLANDS)
A Copyright "Cold
War": The Polarized Rhetorics of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing <abstract>
John Logie, USA
CD
Copy-Protection: Proprietary Stealth and the Pragmatics of Noise <abstract>
Alana
Lowe-Petraske, UNITED KINGDOM
Copyright’s Black Box:
How Intellectual Property Aligns Creative Networks <abstract>
Dan L. Burk, USA
Copyright in the Web:
Proposing New Paradigms for Copyright in Digital Media <abstract>
Benjamin Bates, USA
0.1 London
Presenters:
Mia Consalvo, USA
Radhika Gajjala, USA
Marj Kibby, AUSTRALIA
Susanna Paasonen, FINLAND
Karen Riggs, USA
Panel 6E
0.2 Berlin
Productive Surveillance: Consumption, Community, and the Commercial Exploitation of Interactivity <abstract>
(Moderator: Mark Andrejevic, USA)
Using Community to Sell: The
Commodification of Community in Retail Web Sites <abstract>
Jan Fernback, USA
The Panoptic "State"
of the Web: Cutting the Cookies, Crashing the Web <abstract>
Greg Elmer, USA
Space: the Final Frontier for
E-commerce <abstract>
Mark Andrejevic, USA
Psychogeography and the
Virtual Society of Control <abstract>
Rob Shields, CANADA
Panel 6F
Auditorium
International Perspectives on a National Internet Study: The Pew Internet Project in a Global Context <abstract>
(Roundtable -
Moderator: Steve Jones, USA)
Presenters:
Sandra Braman, USA
Andrew Clement, CANADA
Stine Gotved, DENMARK
Phil Graham, USA
John Horrigan, USA
Nick Jankowski, THE NETHERLANDS
Robin Mansell, UNITED KINGDOM
Uwe Matzat, GERMANY
Michel Menou, UNITED KINGDOM
Rivki Ribak, ISRAEL
Joe Turow, USA
11:45
Break
12:00
Panel
session 7
Panel 7A
0.4 Brussels
Presenters:
Rob Kling, USA
Paul Wouters, THE NETHERLANDS
Sally Wyatt, THE NETHERLANDS
Steve Woolgar, UNITED KINGDOM
Wiebe Bijker, THE NETHERLANDS
John Monberg, USA
Panel 7B
Auditorium
E-Health:
Project, Research, and Policy Interactions <abstract>
(Moderator: Hratch L. Karamanoukian, USA; Monica Murero, THE NETHERLANDS)
Presenters:
Jonathan Kay, Oxford Internet Institute, UNITED KINGDOM <abstract>
Susannah Fox, Pew Internet & American Life Project, USA <abstract>
Monica Murero, International Institute of Infonomics, THE
NETHERLANDS <abstract>
Panel 7C
0.8 Rome
Interaction
Management in Listservs and Email
(Chair: Ulla Bunz, USA)
Managing Face and Conflict in
Cyberspace: The Discourse Dynamics of a Discussion Group <abstract>
Ibolya Maricic, SWEDEN
Politeness Accommodation in
Electronic Mail, or: Up to what is Dr. Aitken? <abstract>
Ulla Bunz, USA
Scott Campbell, USA
How Useful Are Online
Community Guidelines? - A Case Study of Two Fan Communities <abstract>
Elizabeth Longmate, UNITED KINGDOM
Chris Baber, UNITED KINGDOM
0.9 Athens
(Chair: Michel Menou, UNITED KINGDOM)
Information Society
Development in Yugoslavia <abstract>
Smiljana Antonijevic, YUGOSLAVIA
Internet, Democracy, and
Politics In Ghana <abstract>
Eric Osiakwan,
GHANA
Orbiting Orba: The Internet,
Civic Space, and Identity Politics in Indonesia <abstract>
Merlyna Lim, INDONESIA
Panel 7E
0.1 London
Aesthetic
Forms of Interactivity
(Chair: Gitte Stald, DENMARK)
Digital Storytelling (CREATIVE
PRESENTATION) <abstract>
Edward Lenert, USA
”Close Encounters of the
Nerd Kind:” A Case Study in Interactive Narrative <abstract>
Ira Nayman, CANADA
Videoecriture: Interactive
Video Vernaculars <abstract>
Adrian Miles, NORWAY
A Virtual World Aesthetics:
Theorising Multi-user Textuality <abstract>
Lisbeth Klastrup, DENMARK
0.2 Berlin
(Chair: Charles Ess, USA)
Religious Identity Online: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Church <abstract>
Katerina Diamandaki, GREECE
Dionysis Panos, GREECE
Nikos Demertzis, GREECE
BeliefNet: Commercial Enterprise
or Community? <abstract>
Mark D. Johns, USA
Religion and Meaning in the
Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion <abstract>
Stewart Hoover, USA
13:30
Free time / lunch
14:30
Plenary
session III
Auditorium
Keynote speaker:
Professor Dr. William H. Dutton, Director, Oxford Internet Institute:
An Internet Research Bubble?
15:30
Break
15:45
Panel session 8
Panel 8A
0.8 Rome
Economic
Structures and Consequences of the Internet
(Chair: Venkataramana Gajjala, USA)
From "Cyber City" to
"Silicon Harbor": the Internet Industry and the Reconfiguration of
Urban Spaces <abstract>
Gina Neff, USA
When The NET Doesn't WORK: The
Case of Enron <abstract>
Hamid Ekbia, USA
Rob Kling, USA
Internet Antique Auctions: Class Dispersion,
Misclassification and Spelling Variations in
eBay.de <abstract>
Daniel D. Meir, ISRAEL
Towards a Sociological
Understanding of the Motivations for Value Production on the Internet <abstract>
Hector Postigo, USA
0.9 Athens
(Chair: Charles Ess, USA)
The Social Challenges of
Internet to Japanese Society <abstract>
Jane Bachnik, JAPAN
Learning
to use ICTs in a Gulf Arab Context <abstract>
David
Palfreyman, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The
Cybersword Cuts Both Ways: A Case Study and Theoretical Framework for Looking
at Appropriation and Diffusion of Native Technologies through the Internet <abstract>
Constance E. Kampf, USA
Panel 8C
0.4 Brussels
Alice in CyberLand and 'Through the Looking Glass': Theory and Research about Online and Offline Realities in Playing, Pairing, and Power <abstract>
(Moderator: Andrea J. Baker, USA)
How Did They Get
’There’? Perception and Metaphor in the Analysis of Virtual Cues
and Construction of Real Bodies <abstract>
Frank Schaap, THE NETHERLANDS
The Heart Has Its Reasons: A Comparison of
the Development of Online and Offline Romantic Relationships <abstract>
Robert E. Rosenwein, USA
Elisa Wiherin, USA
Intimate Bonding Through Online Communities:
Just Like Real Life? <abstract>
Andrea J. Baker, USA
Governance, Elites,
and the Online/Offline Divide <abstract>
Tim
Jordan, UNITED KINGDOM
0.1 London
Candidate Web Presence and
Strategies in the 2002 U.S. Elections <abstract>
Steven M. Schneider, USA
Kirsten A. Foot, USA
Types of Communication on
Political Party Websites During the 2002 Dutch National Elections <abstract>
Carlo Hagemann, THE NETHERLANDS
Nicholas Jankowski, THE NETHERLANDS
Political Strategy and ICTs
Combined: Japanese National Elections 2000-2001 <abstract>
Leslie Tkach, JAPAN
Internet Campaign Strategies
in the 2001 Singapore General Election: Party Mobilization and Political
Discourse in an Authoritarian Democracy <abstract>
Randy Kluver, SINGAPORE
Panel 8E
0.2 Berlin
Categorization
and Organization of Electronic Written Interaction <abstract>
(Moderator: Julia
Velkovska, FRANCE)
Categorization
and the Cooperative Definition of Activity Types <abstract>
Hillary Bays, FRANCE
Panel 8F
Auditorium
The
Impact of ICTs on Research Practice
(Chair:
Jeremy Hunsinger, USA)
The
Influence of New Media Technologies on Academic Research Paradigms <abstract>
Irene Berkowitz, USA
How
the Content of Research May Be Affected in the Age of Cyberscience <abstract>
Michael Nentwich, AUSTRIA
Studying
Scientific Communication through the Internet: A Theoretical Framework <abstract>
Eleftheria Vasileiadou, GREECE
Computer
Mediated Science <abstract>
Gaston Heimeriks, THE NETHERLANDS
Peter van den Besselaar, THE NETHERLANDS
17:15
Break
17:30
General Assembly of the
Association of Internet Researchers <abstract>
Auditorium
(Chair:Steve Jones)
20:00
Conference
dinner
Wednesday October 16
08:30
Panel session 9
0.4 Brussels
(Chair: Mark Andrejevic, USA)
The Internet and Web as Code,
Content, and Control <abstract>
James R. Beniger, USA
Pauline Hope Cheong, USA
Internet Policy From Below:
Toward Grounded Regulation <abstract>
Christian Sandvig, USA
Shaping the Development of
Information Technologies to Meet Societal Concerns <abstract>
Rajiv C. Shah, USA
Jay P. Kesan, USA
The Impact of 9-11 on
Regulation of the Internet <abstract>
Sandra Braman, USA
0.8 Rome
Controlling Narrative Space:
Four Chinese Internet Case Studies <abstract>
Kay Hearn, AUSTRALIA
Brian Shoesmith, AUSTRALIA
Communicating Styles:
Balancing Specifity and Diffuseness in Developing China's Internet Regulations <abstract>
Ian Gregory Weber, SINGAPORE
Chinese Hacktivism <abstract>
Jeroen de Kloet, THE NETHERLANDS
Panel 9C
0.9 Athens
Evaluating
Online Education
(Chair: Robin Cheesman, DENMARK)
Social and Technical
Constraints on Electronic Courseware <abstract>
Pauline Hope Cheong, USA
Namkee Park, USA
William H. Dutton, UNITED KINGDOM
Web Mining in Education: Using
Students’ Log Files as an Indicator of On-Line Learning and as a Tool for
Improving On-Line Teaching <abstract>
Gilad Ravid, , ISRAEL
Edna Yaffe, ISRAEL
Edna Tal,
ISRAEL
Surveying Target Audiences
Makes the Difference: Best Practices in Designing Internet Based Continuing
Medical Education Programs in Underserved Areas <abstract>
Christine L. Pistella, USA
Senol Duman, USA
Adrian S. Petrescu, USA
Pinar Ipek, USA
Edward Born, USA
Linda J. Kanzleiter, USA
How University Students View
Online Study: A PCP Perspective <abstract>
Wei Wang, AUSTRALIA
Panel 9D
0.1 London
Magic, Ritual, Performance: Work, Play,
Religious Praxis, and Digital Technologies <abstract>
(Moderator: Brenda Danet, USA /
ISRAEL)
Mastering the Digital Image:
New Technologies, Professional Performance, Magical Instruments <abstract>
Paul Frosh, ISRAEL
Play, Art, and Ritual on IRC <abstract>
Brenda Danet, USA / ISRAEL
Mundane Religion, Sublime
Technology: Performativity of the Digitally Communicated Word in Jewish Law <abstract>
Menahem
Blondheim, ISRAEL
Panel 9E
0.2 Berlin
Online
Health Information: Availability, Accessibility, and Use
(Chairs: Hratch L. Karamanoukian, USA; Monica Murero, THE NETHERLANDS)
Online Health
Information-seeking Behavior among Low-income Internet Users <abstract>
David Laflamme, USA
Attempting To Bridge The
Digital Divide For Breast Cancer Patients <abstract>
Suzanne Pingree, USA
Robert Hawkins, USA
David H. Gustafson, USA
Karen Julesberg, USA
Fiona McTavish, USA
William Stengle, USA
Panel 9F
Auditorium
Meet
the Editors: A Roundtable
(Moderator: Ulla Bunz, Rutgers University, USA)
Presenters:
Michel Menou, City University of London:
International Journal of Information Management (editorial board)
Leah Lievrouw, University of California, Los Angeles:
New Media and Society (editorial board)
Leslie Shade, University of Ottawa:
Computers & Society (Editor)
Rob Kling, Indiana University:
Information Society (Editor-in-Chief)
Miriam Lips, Tilburg University
Information Polity (editorial board)
10:00
Break
10:15
Panel session 10
0.8 Rome
(Chair: Tim Jordan, UNITED KINGDOM)
Privatization of the
Internet’s Backbone Network <abstract>
Rajiv C. Shah, USA
Jay P. Kesan, USA
Network Enclosure and the
Re-embedding of Empire: Regional Integration, The Internet, and Communication
Technologies <abstract>
Christopher Bodnar, CANADA
Bordering on Insanity? The
Challenge of National Borders for Global Network Policy <abstract>
Matthew Allen, AUSTRALIA
Bordering the Net: The State's
Interventions in Cyberia <abstract>
Tim Luke, USA
Digital Skins: Consuming and
Producing Internet Bodies <abstract>
Donald Snyder,
USA
Panel 10B
Auditorium
Digital
Divides in China
The Digital Divide of Internet Use in China <abstract>
Eric Harwit, USA
Digital Divide and
China’s Possible Solution <abstract>
Junhua Zhang, GERMANY
Panel 10C
0.4 Brussels
Perceptions
and Practices of Internet Privacy
(Chair: Mark Andrejevic, USA)
Attitudes Toward Internet Privacy: Slovenian Internet
Users’ View <abstract>
Matej Kovacic, SLOVENIA
Vasja Vehovar, SLOVENIA
Shifting Articulations of
Internet Privacy in the United States <abstract>
Karen Gustafson, USA
Restricted Privacy: Information Privacy as a
Culture-specific Construct <abstract>
Rivka Ribak, ISRAEL
Privacy Perceptions and Online
Practices <abstract>
Ana Viseu, CANADA
Andrew Clement, CANADA
Jane Aspinall, CANADA
Panel 10D
0.9 Athens
Texts
in Digital Contexts
(Chair: Klaus Bruhn Jensen,
DENMARK)
Text in the Fast Lane <abstract>
Naomi Baron, USA
Mobile Text Messaging and Home
Flexibilis <abstract>
Ylva Haard af Segerstad, SWEDEN
”It’s Just Easier
to Text. Really”: Young People and New Communication in the UK and the US
<abstract>
Nina Wakeford, UNITED KINGDOM
Nalini Kotamraju, USA
Panel 10E
0.1 London
Reconceptualizing
Patients and Therapists on the Internet
(Chair:
Monica Murero, THE NETHERLANDS)
Internet as an Intermediary in the Transformation of the
Patient Role <abstract>
Ulrika Josefsson, SWEDEN
Patient Organizations as Users and Designers of the World
Wide Web <abstract>
Nelly Oudshoorn, THE NETHERLANDS
Andre Somers, THE NETHERLANDS
Internet Visions and Realities: The Case of Consumer
Health Information <abstract>
Flis Henwood, UNITED KINGDOM
Sally Wyatt, THE NETHERLANDS
Angie Hart, UNITED KINGDOM
Julie Smith, UNITED KINGDOM
Qualtitative Interviewing with
International Mental Health Practitioners via the Internet <abstract>
Kate Anthony, UNITED KINGDOM
Panel 10F
0.2 Berlin
Reflecting
on the Field: The State of Internet Research and Dialogue
(Chair: Jennifer Stromer-Galley, USA)
AoIR in Context: An Analysis of Usenet Reaction to the
Association of Internet Researchers <abstract>
Jeremy Hunsinger, USA
Reflexivity in Internet
Discussions <abstract>
Alexandra Petrova, ROMANIA
11:45
Break
12:00
Panel session 11
Panel 11A
0.8 Rome
Designing
Interactive Technologies
(Chair: Anxo C. Roibas, UNITED KINGDOM)
The
Design and Reception of Personal Websites: An Anthropological Perspective <abstract>
Valerie Beaudouin, FRANCE
Christian Licoppe, FRANCE
From Architecture to
Interacture: Virtual World Design Based on Social Interaction Studies <abstract>
Mikael Jakobsson, SWEDEN
The Metastructural Dynamics of
Interactive Electronic Design <abstract>
Patricia Search, USA
0.9 Athens
Constructors and
Reconstructors of the History of Internet <abstract>
Øyvind Thomassen, NORWAY
Reality vs. Linearity in
Creating the Norwegian Internet <abstract>
Unn Kristin Daling, NORWAY
The Epistemic Cultures of
Hackers, Snowboarders and Jazz Performers <abstract>
Trond Arne Undheim, NORWAY
Panel 11C
0.1 London
Virtual Identity Workshops: Constructing Multiple Identities via CMC in China
(Moderator:
Karsten Giese, GERMANY)
Who Provides What for Whom? <abstract>
Britta Uihlein, GERMANY
Conceptualizing Methodology and Data Analysis on Observing BBS in Chinese Internet <abstract>
Ching-Ching Pan, GERMANY
Virtual Identities in Chinese
BBS <abstract>
Karsten Giese, GERMANY
Communicating the
Uncommunicatable <abstract>
Ming Shi, GERMANY
Panel 11D
0.2 Berlin
The
Aesthetics of Digital Space and Physical Space
The Cyber-Geographic Image:
Pictorial Representation in the Visualization of Landscape and Urban Space in
Web-Served Computer-Mediated Communications <abstract>
Troels Degn Johansson, DENMARK
Mutual Assured Deconstruction
- An Exploration of the Nature and Quality of Computer-Mediated Telepresence <abstract>
Michael Arnold-Mages, USA
Mediacy - Exploring
Hypertextuality <abstract>
Johan Elmfeldt, SWEDEN
Panel 11E
0.4 Brussels
Everyday
Meanings of the I nternet
(Chair: Monica Murero, THE
NETHERLANDS)
The Internet and the
Lifeworld: Competing Meanings of a New Medium <abstract>
Maria Bakardjieva, CANADA
Everyday Internet Experiences:
A 'Neighbourhood Ethnography' of Public versus Domestic Access to On-line
Services <abstract>
Andrew Clement, CANADA
Jane Aspinall, CANADA
Ana Viseu, CANADA
Leslie Shade, CANADA
Digital Overflow: Negotiating
the Demands of the Workplace Using the Internet at Home <abstract>
Sue Cranmer, UNITED KINGDOM
Blogs and the ‘Social
Weather’ <abstract>
Alexander Halavais, USA
Auditorium
Presenters:
Brenda Danet, ISRAEL
Steve Jones, USA
Tim Jordan, UK
Rajiv Shah, USA
David Silver, USA
Michele White, USA
Nils Zurawski, GERMANY
13:30
Free time
/ lunch
14:45
Plenary session IV
Auditorium
Keynote speaker:
Professor Dr. Cees J. Hamelink, University of Amsterdam:
Internet and the Right to Communicate <abstract>
Closing: Director of Infonomics Institute Luc Soete
16:00
End of conference