Thread: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in Online Communities
Hi all, Any chance this will be of interest to some of our Community Members? Was wondering whether it's worth putting a news item up for it or something. It's not directly related to PostgreSQL specifically, but more of virtual communities in general. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Freesw] Fwd: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in Online Communities Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:33:36 -0500 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Reply-To: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software discussion <freesw@conecta.it> To: Games Research Network <GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi>, discuss@opensource.mit.edu CC: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software discussion <freesw@conecta.it> sorry for cross-posting > > Call for submissions > Deadline: 15/01/2005 > > > Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual > Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power > in Virtual Communities'' > > Editors: > Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto > Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia > Tech > > Submissions due January 15, 2005 > > Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual > Communities > > The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on > virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral > locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within > the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves > form mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online > communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant > forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of > researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have > heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as > LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount > the value of teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of > Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar > territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue > will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership > to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the > edges of the event horizon. > > Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the > overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual > communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community; > hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the > value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism > of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten > virtual communities; and the code beneath the community - exploring > programmer and system administrative communities. > > Submissions should be sent to both: jason.nolan@utoronto.ca and > jhuns@vt.edu Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup > > Templates for SIGGroup submissions: > http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ Freesw mailing list Freesw@conecta.it http://mail.conecta.it/mailman/listinfo/freesw -- "One who sees the invisible can do the impossible." + Frank Gaines
I could see forwarding it to -advocacy or maybe even -general, but it just seems too off-topic to put up on our website. Now if someone is accepted and plans to speak on postgresql I could see this being event worthy. Robert Treat On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 06:05, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi all, > > Any chance this will be of interest to some of our Community Members? > > Was wondering whether it's worth putting a news item up for it or > something. It's not directly related to PostgreSQL specifically, but > more of virtual communities in general. > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Freesw] Fwd: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in > Online Communities > Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:33:36 -0500 > From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> > Reply-To: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software > discussion <freesw@conecta.it> > To: Games Research Network <GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi>, discuss@opensource.mit.edu > CC: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software discussion > <freesw@conecta.it> > > sorry for cross-posting > > > > Call for submissions > > Deadline: 15/01/2005 > > > > > > Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual > > Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power > > in Virtual Communities'' > > > > Editors: > > Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto > > Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia > > Tech > > > > Submissions due January 15, 2005 > > > > Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual > > Communities > > > > The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on > > virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral > > locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within > > the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves > > form mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online > > communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant > > forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of > > researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have > > heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as > > LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount > > the value of teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of > > Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar > > territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue > > will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership > > to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the > > edges of the event horizon. > > > > Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the > > overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual > > communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community; > > hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the > > value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism > > of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten > > virtual communities; and the code beneath the community - exploring > > programmer and system administrative communities. > > > > Submissions should be sent to both: jason.nolan@utoronto.ca and > > jhuns@vt.edu Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup > > > > Templates for SIGGroup submissions: > > http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html > > > > > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
No, I think we already have lots of PostgreSQL news and adding a non-pg one seems wrong because it pushes out a pg one. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Clift wrote: > Hi all, > > Any chance this will be of interest to some of our Community Members? > > Was wondering whether it's worth putting a news item up for it or > something. It's not directly related to PostgreSQL specifically, but > more of virtual communities in general. > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Freesw] Fwd: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in > Online Communities > Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:33:36 -0500 > From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> > Reply-To: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software > discussion <freesw@conecta.it> > To: Games Research Network <GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi>, discuss@opensource.mit.edu > CC: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software discussion > <freesw@conecta.it> > > sorry for cross-posting > > > > Call for submissions > > Deadline: 15/01/2005 > > > > > > Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual > > Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power > > in Virtual Communities'' > > > > Editors: > > Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto > > Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia > > Tech > > > > Submissions due January 15, 2005 > > > > Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual > > Communities > > > > The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on > > virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral > > locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within > > the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves > > form mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online > > communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant > > forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of > > researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have > > heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as > > LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount > > the value of teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of > > Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar > > territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue > > will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership > > to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the > > edges of the event horizon. > > > > Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the > > overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual > > communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community; > > hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the > > value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism > > of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten > > virtual communities; and the code beneath the community - exploring > > programmer and system administrative communities. > > > > Submissions should be sent to both: jason.nolan@utoronto.ca and > > jhuns@vt.edu Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup > > > > Templates for SIGGroup submissions: > > http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html > > > > > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > _______________________________________________ > Freesw mailing list > Freesw@conecta.it > http://mail.conecta.it/mailman/listinfo/freesw > > -- > "One who sees the invisible can do the impossible." > + Frank Gaines > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073