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``` [I usually don't find press releases useful, but this one seems important enough, and besides it comes from UCLA. (No, I'm not involved in this study myself, though I know some of the people.) I've reformatted it. Also, here are some more useful URL's:
KosovoNet http://kiwi.netpubsintl.com/kosovonet/index.php3
Vaclav Havel on Kosovo http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?19990610004F
The psychology of art in Kosovo http://www.salonmagazine.com/mwt/feature/1999/06/04/art/
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries: A Continuing Role for Mediating Players in the Electronic Marketplace http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue3/sarkar.html
Interfaces That Kill http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html
Chinese Espionage in Perspective http://www.fas.org/sgp http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/oberg990602.html
The Control Revolution http://www.controlrevolution.com/
Cops Covet DNA Chip http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19878.html
iris scanning http://www.sensar.com/products/products.stm http://www.iriscan.com/technology.htm http://www.iriscan.com/basis.htm http://www.cryptography.com/dpa/
U.S. Supreme Court takes up driver's license data privacy http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/21/license.priv.idg/
Private Personal Computing? http://www.lawnewsnet.com/stories/A1544-1999May17.html
Amazon reverses decision on book ban http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2263095,00.html
Welcome to Occupied Clearwater http://www.xenu-city.net/
Informational Monoculture and the Alternatives http://kongress.ffii.org/
Australia admits participation in Echelon http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990523/news/news3.html
DNA Dragnet http://www.lawnewsnet.com/stories/A1301-1999May7.html
How To Give a Talk http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~brd/Teaching/Giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.html
Some Lecturing Heuristics http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~brd/Teaching/Giving-a-talk/phw.html
computer grading of essays http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/05/25/computer_grading/
computers in teaching at the University of Washington http://chronicle.com/free/99/05/99052401t.htm
Cyborg Seeks Community http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/mann.htm
a defense of "pretext calls" by creditors http://users.netropolis.net/bfason/finanpriv.htm
for-profit distance-education university http://chronicle.com/free/99/05/99052001t.htm
European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work http://www.cti.dtu.dk/CSCW/ECSCW99.html
Battle lines drawn for control of Net http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,36312,00.html
The Great Disruption http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99may/9905fukuyama.htm
Search Engine Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
International Internet Radio Service Amsterdam http://krop.chem.uva.nl/franks/radio.html
Libraries, Children and the Internet http://www.ala.org/parents/librariesandinternet.html
As always, many thanks to the advanced life forms who send me good stuff for the list.]
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Date: Mon, Jun 7, 1999, 2:19 PM
From: UCLA News
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 3 A.M. EDT, JUNE 8, 1999
Harlan Lebo (hlebo@college.ucla.edu) Stuart Wolpert (stuartw@college.ucla.edu) (310) 206-0510
LANDMARK UCLA STUDY WILL EXPLORE THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET
UCLA today launched the first comprehensive study ever conducted of the sweeping changes produced by the Internet -- an international project created to explore how computers, information technology and their users are shaping and changing society.
The UCLA study will explain how the Internet is changing the world -- today, tomorrow, and 20 years from now," said Jeffrey Cole, director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy and principal investigator of the study.
Everyone either loves or hates the Internet, but there's no question that the impact of the Internet is real and profound -- certainly the most important communication technology of the generation to come," Cole said. The UCLA Internet Study will provide the first long-term exploration of how life is being transformed by computers and the Internet, with year-to-year comparisons of the social and cultural changes produced as people use this extraordinary technology. This study is also the first to analyze these broad questions about the Internet on a global scale."
Funded by America Online, Microsoft, The Walt Disney Company, Sony, GTE, Pacific Bell and the university, the UCLA Internet Study will survey computer users -- as well as non-users -- in the United States, Singapore and Italy, and will expand to an additional 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa over the next 3-5 years.
Imagine how much we would have learned if a study of this type had been conducted of television beginning in the early 1950s," said Cole. If we had five decades of data that showed how TV has changed the world, we would have a much better understanding of how society and culture have evolved in the second half of the 20th century. Understanding how people use the Internet is even more important than understanding the impact of television," Cole said. While television is primarily about our leisure time, the Internet is already transforming work, school and play. Virtually every business, political and social activity will be affected by the Internet, and most activities will be dramatically transformed. Child rearing, consumer behavior, education, politics and religion are being changed dramatically by the Internet; these changes have unprecedented effects on our culture that need to be better understood.
The UCLA Internet Study will provide precisely that kind of information and analysis as computer technology becomes an even more powerful catalyst of cultural change."
The UCLA Center for Communication Policy conceived the Internet study, will conduct the U.S. survey, and will coordinate the international partner projects. The implementation of the international partner projects will be directed by teams in each country: The study will be directed in Singapore by Eddie C.V. Kuo, professor and dean of the School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University; and in Italy by Andreina Mandelli, coordinator of the Osservatorio Internet Italia at Bocconi University in Milan.
The U.S. portion of the study will follow the growth and change in computer and Internet use and non-use in 2,000 households in the United States; the same households will be surveyed year after year, as computer and Internet use evolves. Results of the first study will be released in late 1999. "Now is the ideal time to begin this study, said Cole. "The 50 percent of U.S. households with computers -- a number that is growing rapidly -- is large enough to examine changes in behavior and attitudes that are already occurring. The 50 percent of households without computers -- a number that is rapidly shrinking -- will help us examine why these households are not using computing and Internet technology, as well as when and why they do change.
"We will also study the indirect effects of the Internet on life and society," Cole said. "For example, the automobile initially made it easier to visit grandma on Sunday afternoons; before long, it contributed directly to the suburbanization of America. The Internet will have direct effects on the behavior of individuals, and will also inspire a host of other changes, many of which are unimaginable today.
"As important as tracking Internet use -- possibly even more important -- will be surveying non-users," said Cole. "We want to track social and cultural behavior among non-users, and see how attitudes and actions shift as their households obtain computers and Internet access." Though designed as a long-term project that compares results from year to year, the UCLA Internet Study will deliver tangible results beginning with its first release that will be of direct use to policymakers and business. "The information and analysis that will come from this study will strongly influence how technological and non-technological companies alike will make strategic business decisions from the beginning of the project through much of the 21st century," Cole said.
As part of the release of the second UCLA Internet Study in 2000, the university will host an international conference for policymakers and industry leaders who will examine the project's first two sets of findings and appraise the year-to-year results. The results of each year's conference will be compiled into an annual volume containing the analysis of the study's basic findings.
The UCLA Center for Communication Policy, created in 1993, is a forum for the discussion and development of policy that addresses the critical issues in media and communication. The center, which is affiliated with UCLA's College of Letters & Science, the Anderson School, and the School of Public Policy and Social Research, conducts studies and offers courses, seminars, working groups and conferences designed to have a major impact on communication policy at the local, national and international levels. Among the projects organized or co-sponsored by the center are the network television violence study, the first Information Superhighway Summit, and conferences on religion and prime time television, advocacy groups and the entertainment industry, and children in the media.
For more information about the UCLA Internet Study, go to the Web site for the Center for Communication Policy, http://www.ccp.ucla.edu.
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