[Sigcr-l] FW: First Monday July 2005
Richard Hill
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Thu Jul 7 09:06:38 EDT 2005
Forwarded. Dick Hill
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Richard B. Hill
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Dear Reader,
The July 2005 issue of First Monday (volume 10,
number 7) is now available at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/
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Table of Contents
Volume 10, Number 7 - July 4th 2005
Less is more in Web search interfaces for older adults
by Anne Aula and Mika Käki
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/aula/
Abstract:
We have previously found the elderly users to
face several usability problems with the current
search engines. Thus, we designed an
elderly-friendly search interface, Etsin. To
evaluate the success of the design, a usability
study was conducted for comparing the usability
of Etsin and Google. The participants faced fewer
usability problems when using Etsin than Google
and they valued the clarity of the Etsin
interface. In conclusion, elderly users benefit
from a simplified search engine interface that is
easy to understand and that takes into account
age-related issues.
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The challenges of classification: Emerging VOIP
regulation in Europe and the United States
by David Bach and Jonathan Sallet
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/bach/
Abstract:
Internet telephony - or Voice over Internet
Protocol (VOIP) - has the potential to transform
the world of voice communications more profoundly
than anything since the invention of the
telephone itself. As telecommunications
incumbents and a range of new entrants begin
rolling out commercial VOIP services,
policymakers around the world are grappling with
the regulatory implications. In the United States
and the European Union, the two largest near-term
VOIP markets, efforts are underway to fit VOIP
into existing regulatory frameworks. This process
of "regulatory classification" is by no means a
purely administrative act. A lot is at stake and
different interest groups have therefore
mobilized to shape the respective outcomes.
Because legacy regulatory systems in Europe and
the United States differ, the regulatory
treatment of VOIP in the two markets is beginning
to differ as well. Yet in both markets there is a
substantial danger that fitting VOIP into
existing classifications will force VOIP to look
more like regular telephony, thereby limiting its
innovation potential.
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Communicative practice and transgressive global
politics: The D'ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany
by Michael Dartnell
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/dartnell/
Abstract:
Walter Benjamin noted the transformative impact
of information technology when he said that
"photography greatly extends the sphere of
commodity exchange... by flooding the market with
countless images of figures, landscapes, and
events which had previously been available either
not at all or only as pictures for individual
customers." Echoing his assessment, multimedia
activism has emerged as a practice through which
multiple-user communication by non-state actors
highlights transgressive values and issues. This
paper focuses on Islamic extremist Web activism
by discussing a multimedia file, the "d'ua of
Sheikh Muhammed Al-Mohaisany." The file is
examined to illustrate how the Web and other IT
provide once inaccessible information and
potentially alter communication by directly
addressing targeted publics. Multimedia activism
introduces issues of identity, boundaries, and
perceptions into global politics and culture
through telecommunication practices that were
formerly state regulated.
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Towards professional participatory storytelling in journalism and
advertising
by Mark Deuze
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/deuze/
Abstract:
The Internet - specifically its graphic
interface, the World Wide Web - has had a major
impact on all levels of (information) societies
throughout the world. For media professionals
whose work has primarily been defined as creative
storytelling - whether in advertising,
journalism, public relations or related fields -
this poses fascinating opportunities as well as
vexing dilemmas. The central question seems to be
to what extent storytelling can be content- or
connectivity-based, and what level of
participation can or should be included in the
narrative experience. Although these two issues
have been part of creative decision-making
processes in media work before the Web, new
technologies of production, distribution and
communication are 'supercharging' them as the
central dilemmas in the contemporary media
ecosystem. This paper discusses the history and
contemporary examples of media work combining
various elements of storytelling as a hybrid form
between content and connectivity, and considers
the normative and economical implications for the
professional identity of media workers in
journalism and advertising.
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E-deliberation and local governance: The role of
computer mediated communication in local
democratic participation in the United Kingdom
by Joss Hands
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/hands/
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the use of local government
Web sites in the United Kingdom to encourage and
facilitate democratic deliberation. The question
addressed is to what end, and on whose terms,
citizens are being encouraged to engage local
government via computer-mediated communication.
After an initial investigation into the
legislative framework of local e-democracy, this
paper examines opportunities available for
citizens to deliberate by examining 469 local
government Web sites. This information is then
reviewed in the context of empirical evidence on
the practices and attitudes of those responsible
for the management and upkeep of the specific
sites under question. It appears that while
interaction is being encouraged, it is limited
and tends towards an individualistic liberal
model.
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Ethnic media and politics: The case of the use of
the Internet by Uyghur diaspora
by Kilic Kanat
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/kanat/
Abstract:
The role of the active production and consumption
of various forms of media on the ethnic groups
and diasporas has long been debated among
scholars from different disciplines. Currently
the use of the Internet has become the focal
point of these studies. In recent years, the
Uyghur diaspora has been increasingly using the
Internet and cyberspace in order to reach their
goals of "being the voice of the repressed people
of their homeland," disseminating information and
increasing communication among themselves. In
this paper I will try to discuss the influence of
this netizenship of the Uyghur diaspora on Uyghur
politics and identity.
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Usability at 90mph: Presenting and evaluating a new,
high-speed method for demonstrating user testing
in front of an audience
by Paul F. Marty and Michael B. Twidale
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/marty/
Abstract:
This article documents the authors' attempt to
develop a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method
for demonstrating user testing to an audience.
The resulting method, Usability at 90mph, is simple
enough to be conducted at minimal expense, fast
enough to be completed in only thirty minutes,
comprehensible enough to be presented to
audiences numbering in the hundreds, and yet
sophisticated enough to produce relevant design
recommendations, thereby illustrating for the
audience the potential value of user testing in
general. In this article, the authors present
their user testing demonstration method in
detail, analyze results from 44 trials of the
method in practice, and discuss lessons learned
for demonstrating user testing in front of an
audience.
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Survey of Web-based educational resources in selected U.S. art museums
by Robert A. Varisco and Ward Mitchell Cates
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/varisco/
Abstract:
Art museums in the United States share a common
mission to educate many people - from families to
teachers to researchers. But how do these museums
use the World Wide Web to extend their
educational mission? More specifically, what
kinds of educational materials do U.S. art
museums offer to online visitors, and how broadly
available are such resources across the Web? This
study set out to answer these questions and to
tie the findings to the contextual model of
museum learning. Conclusions are drawn about how
museums from the sample fit within a technology
adoption curve.
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Special issue number 1: Music and the Internet
edited by David Beer
Introduction: Collecting the fragments of transformation
by David Beer
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special10_7/beer/
Tracking technological transformations
The Big Bumpy Shift: Digital Music via Mobile Internet
by Daniel P. Dolan (originally published in December 2000)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/dolan/
Technological and Social Drivers of Change in the Online Music Industry
by Mark Fox (originally published in February 2002)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/fox/
Distribution, copyright and democracy
Giving Away Music to Make Money
by Michael Pfahl (originally published in August 2001)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_8/pfahl/
Music in the Age of Free Distribution: MP3 and Society
by Kostas Kasaras (originally published in January 2002)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_1/kasaras/
Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer and Copyright Law
by Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer (originally published in August 2002)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/bowrey/
Gifting technologies
by Kevin McGee and Jörgen Skågeby (originally published in December 2004)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/mcgee/
Culture, community and consumption
The Napster Network Community
by Kacper Poblocki (originally published in November 2001)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_11/poblocki/
Digital music and subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing styles
by Sean Ebare (originally published in February 2004)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/ebare/
Grey Tuesday, online cultural activism and the mash-up of music and politics
By Sam Howard-Spink (originally published in October 2004)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/howard/
Reflection
How Will the Music Industry Weather the Globalization Storm?
by Wilfred Dolfsma (originally published in May 2000)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_5/dolfsma/
Artists' earnings and copyright: A review of
British and German music industry data in the
context of digital technologies
By Martin Kretschmer (originally published in January 2005)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_1/kretschmer/
Reflecting on the digit(al)isation of music
by David Beer (originally published in February 2005)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/beer/
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