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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:07:45 -0600
From: "Edward J. Valauskas"
Dear Reader,
The March 1999 issue of First Monday (volume 4, number 3) is now available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_3/
Table of Contents
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Policy and Participation on the Canadian Information Highway by William F. Birdsall
The debate over universal access is focused on too narrow a concept by all sides of the argument. Furthermore, this debate continues to be an exclusive one dominated by special interest groups operating in a legalistic regulatory process. As an alternative, this paper proposes that the issue of universal access be addressed in the broader conceptual framework of the right to communicate. As well, the policy debate should be moved to the political arena through an initiative to incorporate the right to communicate in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_3/birdsall/
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DNS: A Short History and a Short Future by Ted Byfield
his paper examines some of the basic premises that typify the rhetoric of the DNS debates. It challenges the assumption that these problems are new; instead, they reiterate the text-to-number mapping problems that plagued the national and international integration of telephony systems. The later telephonic transitions were marked by an interplay between the phasing-out of telephonic addressing systems and marketing innovations. DNS is faced with an analogous problem: DNS policies inflexibly founded on past conditions have conspired with marketing forces to create an illusory scarcity of domain names. The easy correspondence between domain names and names used in other spheres of life, a correspondence that business interests demand, is untenable; and reforms geared toward facilitating such a situation are undesirable. Newer techniques that offer even higher levels of abstraction than DNS are paving the way practical solutions: domain names will cease to be a primary interface for navigation, and in ways that will facilitate the exploitation of the entire name space.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_3/byfield/
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Consumers as Subcontractors on Electronic Markets by Wilfred Dolfsma
With the Internet, the relation between the consumer and retailers will change dramatically. Customization will mean that retail businesses in electronic markets will need information about the preferences of consumers to alter products competitively. Consumers, in turn, will invest time and energy in establishing relations with certain retailers; retailers will collect and process consumer-derived information easily and cheaply using information technology. The economic literature on transaction costs suggests that, as a result, consumers may become locked into certain relationships with retailers. Consumers may ultimately become dependent subcontractors to retailers.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_3/dolfsma/
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Technology and Education: Between Chaos and Order by Mohammad Khalid Hamza and Bassem Alhalabi
More than any period in recorded history, today's heterogeneity of emergent technology has transformed daily life, particularly the lives of the many fascinated by it. The American educational system and its sense of direction have not been spared from the chaos and distress that accompanies this unprecedented era. Many educators await the promise of technology's power to improve the educational system. The purpose of this paper is not to validate the pros or cons of technology, but to explore current issues facing the American educational system and to better use technologies in a productive and a creative manner. This article explores contemporary issues of technology in education, investigating its impact upon the American educational system, and examining the nature of its unprecedented relationship to the posthaste changes of the information age. This article also suggests systematic procedures that may be used to assess the needs of an institution's educational information system (EIS), and the dimension of building creative educational climate to better meet instructional goals and to sustain the continual needs of a quality educational system.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_3/hamza/
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