Boxu & Frank, et al. I'll bet 10 Renben that that almost all emails and SMS are boringly prosaic on a percantage basis: I Love You; See you in 10 minutes, Where are You?, etc. Nevertheless, the political ones are iportant.
Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Yang Boxu wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:17:21 +0800 > From: Yang Boxu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Subject: [mobile-society] Re: CfP COST 298: THE GOOD, > THE BAD AND THE UNEXPECTED. The user and the future of information and > communication technologies. Moscow 23 - 25 May 2007 > > Here we just closed a three-day conference called Beijing Forum at Peking > (Beijing) University and heard the news on the research conference in > Moscow, 23-25 May 2007. > > The Beijing Forum had a theme called "creative industries" which was very > much related to the concept of "active and creative" users. And personally I > trust that the everyday use of mobile phones has demonstrated some very > interesting aspects in regard to the creative thing in the Mainland China. > > It is interesting because, based upon my own observation, the SMS users sent > to each other in a huge volume contains a large proportion of political > content. The nature of those of SMS often very ironic. They make the users > laugh and think. (To do a rough comparison, sometimes I think that some of > the SMS is as good as [if not better] than the comedy shows that feature > political matters on American TV). Some of the phrases have been adopted in > people's daily conversations. Of course, the SMS is sent to each other > through and within social networks. But probably the communication is not > merely among best friends. Moreover, those SMS might not be written entirely > by professional SMS writers. It seems that some of the grass roots users are > also the creative ones. There is more to it. The internet firms (websites) > that are related to SMS business have made a decent profit from the SMS thing. > > What I am trying to say is that the Moscow conference might be a very > interesting gathering judging from its themes. > > Boxu Yang > Peking University > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:31 PM > Subject: [mobile-society] CfP COST 298: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNEXPECTED. > The user and the future of information and communication technologies. Moscow > 23 - 25 May 2007 > > > I think this meeting can be very interesting for researchers who work > about the mobile aspects of the Information Society. > > We are also looking for addresses of researchers that work in East > Europe. There are special tariffs for these countries. So, if you know > about researchers from Eastern Europe that might be interested please > let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > - Apologies for eventual cross postings - > > The European network COST 298 Participation in the Broadband Society > invites you to actively participate in our research conference in > Moscow, 23-25 May 2007. > > The main objective of the conference is to create new knowledge about > users creativity and facilitate their empowerment in a broadband > information society. This knowledge requires an examination of the > factors that can both constrain and enhance users abilities to shape > and use ICTs. > > From our perspective, the broadband society refers to a possible, but > not inevitable, substantial transformation of our experience of > telecommunications based on these technologies allowing information and > communication technologies to be used everywhere, all the time and by > everybody. Given the widespread aspirations of Governments and companies > to achieve this goal, the extent to which any such transformation has > occurred needs, of course, to be evaluated in a balanced manner. > > Broadband technologies have resulted mainly from technological and > institutional imperatives. > To what extent have potential users managed to find ways in which such > technologies can be useful, worthwhile and attractive? > > We certainly know from previous research this can require those users to > be creative in terms of fitting ICTs into their activities or using them > to find solutions to the everyday problems that they already encounter. > But how much is being demanded of those users, what considerations have > a bearing upon whether these technologies actually find a place in their > lives and what new issues, of indeed problems, can these ICTs themselves > create, especially if they really are disruptive technologies? > > Ultimately, we also need to acknowledge that users may well decide that > their existing solutions suffice, in which case these new technological > options may find only a modest place in their lives. Indeed, they may > even be resisted or ignored. > > Whatever strategies users employ for assessing and dealing with such > innovations, we need to learn more about these social processes, > including strategies for dealing with the up and coming generation of > new information and communication products and services. Only by so > doing can we hope to empower them further in their relationships to > technology and through this hope to increase the quality of their lives. > > In this conference, the organisers - COST Action 298 > <http://coference.cost298.org> - invite technology and product > developers, designers, social scientists, policy makers, community > representatives and others who are interested in the conference topics, > to join our attempt to develop this discussion on a common, shared and > transdisciplinary ground. We ask participants to > > 1) strive to present their topic from a human-centric point of view as > opposed to a technology-, product- or business-centric one, and to > > 2) present their topic in a language that attempts to transcend > disciplinary boundaries, a language that non-experts can also > understand, and to > > 3) not only report on their work, but also to engage in the conference > debate which aims to develop ways to understand the interests of people > and society, to evaluate developments against such an evolving > understanding, and to chart interesting and desirable future directions. > > The emphasis of this event will be on networking and promoting a > dialogue with colleagues from around Europe and the rest of the world. > > We look forward to seeing you in Moscow for a conference designed to be > exciting, thought-provoking and challenging. > > *Dates:* > *Deadline for submission: 10 January 2007* > Notification of acceptance : 28 February 2007 > > For further details please visit http://conference.cost298.org/ > Cheers > F. 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