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Netizens-Digest Monday, March 7 2005 Volume 01 : Number 538
Netizens Association Discussion List Digest
In this issue:
[netz] about research on transatlantic internet
[netz] FCC Internet History Exhibit
[netz] A netizen honored
Re: [netz] A netizen honored
[netz] Interesting article about E-democracy and its problems in Germany
[netz] Future Generation Internet Architecture papers
[netz] about netizens and the wsis meeting ongoing now
[netz] Crisis in the US Media and the 2004 Election
[netz] Missed Lessons of the Dean Campaign - the Need for a Netizen Press
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:07:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] about research on transatlantic internet
Hi all
I wonder if there has been any research done on the early history of
the Internet, especially the early 70- and 80-ties? Focus on the
international (trans-Atlantic) collaboration is of special interest.
Do anybody know of research on the development of the governance of
the Internet infrastructures, away from control of the researcher
communities and towards control by private entities? Away from
*public* US control towards private US control.
We are also interested in the previous and future role for netizens in
the governance process.
The reason why I ask is that myself and Ronda Hauben, co-author
"Netizens" want to make a proposal to do this research and we are
interested in knowing more what has been done and of others who may be
interested.
If you are interested, please send Ronda an email.
Anders
Ronda
ronda@panix.com
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:15:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Hauben <jrh@umcc.ais.org>
Subject: [netz] FCC Internet History Exhibit
June 10, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
News Media Contact: Audrey Spivack 202-418-0512
FCC INTRODUCES NEW EXHIBIT ON HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
Washington, D. C. -- The FCC today introduced the
third in a series of exhibits on the history of
various communications technologies. The new exhibit
focuses on the history of the Internet, including the
communication technologies used to access the
Internet.
Although the popular perception is that the Internet
is a relatively new phenomenon, its roots go back to
the early 1960s. It was in 1966 that the FCC first
indicated its interest in the emerging integration of
computers and communications with a Notice of Inquiry
commonly called Computer 1. This, and the subsequent
Computer II and Computer III proceedings, established
the distinction that remains today between regulated
telecommunications services and unregulated
information services. Nearly forty years later,
market forces have driven the Internet's growth, and
the FCC played an important role in carving out a
deregulatory environment in which the Internet could
flourish.
The new web site (http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history)
briefly covers the public needs that led to the
development of the Internet, the common standards that
underpin the Internet, and the underlying
communications that made the Internet possible. From
the web site, pictures of the related exhibit and
display cases found in the FCC's headquarters building
can also be accessed from the web site.
The exhibits, displays, and web site of the FCC's
history project are designed to highlight the rich
technological heritage that underlies todays vibrant
communications marketplace.
Office of Managing Director contact: Karen Wheeless
202-418-2910 or Renee Licht at 202-418-2604.
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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Hauben <jrh@umcc.ais.org>
Subject: [netz] A netizen honored
Hi All,
This year, 2004, Columbia University in NYC is celebrating the 250th
anniversary of its founding as King's College in 1754. As part of the
celebration, nominations were solicited honoring alumni whose
contributions were before their time. Michael Hauben was nominated for
his research and writings concerning netizens and the Internet. The
nomination was chosen for display on the website commemorating the 250
years of Columbia University. It can be accessed at:
http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/michael_hauben.html
The text at that website reads:
Michael F. Hauben
Columbia College 1995
Teachers College 1997
Internet Pioneer, Author
Michael F. Hauben (1973-2001)
While the prevalence and universality of the Internet today may lead
some to take it for granted, Michael Hauben did not. A pioneer in the
study of the Internet's impact on society, Hauben helped identify the
collaborative nature of the Internet and its effects on the global
community. Credited with coining and popularizing the term netizen
(net + citizen), Hauben, with his mother, Ronda, co-wrote the seminal
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (IEEE
Computer Society Press, 1997), which outlined the growth and role of
the medium in the world and was published in both English and
Japanese.
Born on May 1, 1973, in Boston, Michael Hauben was an early
participant in electronic bulletin boards. He graduated from Columbia
University in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in computer science;
following that, he entered the program Communication, Computing and
Technology at Teacher's College and received a master's degree in
1997. Of particular interest to Hauben was understanding the
democratization of the Internet and the participation of netizens in
the global community to build the Net. He viewed the Internet as a
reflection of democracy at work. An editor of the online newsletter
"The Amateur Computerist," Hauben gave talks on the Internet in
locales ranging from Beppu, Japan, to Corfu, Greece, to Montreal,
Canada, to the Catskills region in New York. After sustaining injuries
resulting from an accident in December 1999, when he was hit by a cab,
Hauben died in June 2001. A champion of the Internet, he truly was a
netizen.
"I like to think of you as a netizen."
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/pioneers.html
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I hope if others are honored for their role as a netizen that such
honors are announced here on the netizens mailing list.
Take care.
Jay
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:10:14 +0200
From: Dan Duris <dusoft@staznosti.sk>
Subject: Re: [netz] A netizen honored
I've published a notice on this on my blog http://www.ambience.sk (in
Slovak)
Dan
Jay Hauben wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This year, 2004, Columbia University in NYC is celebrating the 250th
> anniversary of its founding as King's College in 1754. As part of the
> celebration, nominations were solicited honoring alumni whose
> contributions were before their time. Michael Hauben was nominated for his
> research and writings concerning netizens and the Internet. The nomination
> was chosen for display on the website commemorating the 250 years of
> Columbia University. It can be accessed at:
>
> http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/michael_hauben.html
>
> The text at that website reads:
>
> Michael F. Hauben
> Columbia College 1995
> Teachers College 1997
> Internet Pioneer, Author
> Michael F. Hauben (1973-2001)
>
> While the prevalence and universality of the Internet today may lead some
> to take it for granted, Michael Hauben did not. A pioneer in the study of
> the Internet's impact on society, Hauben helped identify the collaborative
> nature of the Internet and its effects on the global community. Credited
> with coining and popularizing the term netizen (net + citizen), Hauben,
> with his mother, Ronda, co-wrote the seminal Netizens: On the History and
> Impact of Usenet and the Internet (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997),
> which outlined the growth and role of the medium in the world and was
> published in both English and Japanese.
>
> Born on May 1, 1973, in Boston, Michael Hauben was an early participant in
> electronic bulletin boards. He graduated from Columbia University in 1995
> with a bachelor's degree in computer science; following that, he entered
> the program Communication, Computing and Technology at Teacher's College
> and received a master's degree in 1997. Of particular interest to Hauben
> was understanding the democratization of the Internet and the
> participation of netizens in the global community to build the Net. He
> viewed the Internet as a reflection of democracy at work. An editor of the
> online newsletter "The Amateur Computerist," Hauben gave talks on the
> Internet in locales ranging from Beppu, Japan, to Corfu, Greece, to
> Montreal, Canada, to the Catskills region in New York. After sustaining
> injuries resulting from an accident in December 1999, when he was hit by a
> cab, Hauben died in June 2001. A champion of the Internet, he truly was a
> netizen.
>
> "I like to think of you as a netizen."
> http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
> http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/pioneers.html
> --------
>
> I hope if others are honored for their role as a netizen that such
> honors are announced here on the netizens mailing list.
>
> Take care.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:18:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ronda Hauben<ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] Interesting article about
E-democracy and its problems in Germany
For those who can read German or who want to try to use an online
translator to read an interesting German article:
There is an interesting article in Telepolis about a study in Germany
on whether e-government initiatives in Germany are helping to spread
citizen participation in government
The article explains that:
"The requirement of good eGovernments lies in the fact that citizens
require more of their government than multicolored Websites and
on-line forms for the tax declaration."
The study, however, finds that the local governments ignore the
political participation possibilities that the new media makes it
possible to increasingly use in the society.
The url is:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/18264/1.html
Breite Burgerbeteiligung durch das Internet noch nicht in Sicht
The study is:
http://www.initiative-eparticipation.de/index.html
It is good to see that there is some effort to suggest that it is a
problem that government is ignoring the increased participation with
citizens that the Internet makes possible, and instead focusing on how
citizens can pay tax online.
Ronda
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:12:30 +0000
From: Greg Skinner <gds@best.com>
Subject: [netz] Future Generation Internet Architecture papers
Available at http://www.isi.edu/newarch/
These are technical papers, however they touch on some issues
discussed here over the years such as how network architecture impacts
cost, competition, etc.
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:07:19 -0500 (EST)
From: <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] about netizens and the wsis meeting ongoing now
About netizens and WSIS
"The International Origins of the Internet and the Impact of this
Framework on its Future"
http://umcc.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/nov4talk2.doc
The above is a written version of a talk I gave in early November
describing the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) activities
and some of the issues that are being raised.
With the exception of those participating in this activity, there
seems little knowledge or discussion about the UN activities with
regard to the governance of the Internet and its future.
This week they are having the first meeting of the Working Group on
(Nov 22, 23, 24) with the purpose "to investigate and make proposals
for action, as appropriate, on the governance of Internet by 2005."
The WGIG is asked to present the result of its work in a report "for
consideration and appropriate action for the second phase of the WSIS
in Tunis 2005."
There appears to be an important contest going on in connection with
the present ands future of the Internet, yet few seem to have a way to
know what is going on or to participate in it.
It would be good if there were a means of having input and
participation from a broader strata of the online community,
particularly from netizens.
Cheers
Ronda
ronda(at)panix.com
co-author "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the
Internet" http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:55:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] Crisis in the US Media and the 2004 Election
I have been working on an article about the crisis in the US media.
The article has just been published in Telepolis. I compare the role
of netizens and the professional media in the US and in Korea during
the recent elections.
Here is the url for the article. I welcome comments and further
thoughts on this issue as it is an important one for netizens in the
US, and also for netizens around the world to understand how to deal
with. - --
"The Crisis in the US Media and the 2004 Election"
by Ronda Hauben
"Without a press that can function independently of government the
public is left disarmed"
A critical question raised by the 2004 election in the US is the role
played by the media.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19296/1.html
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The article was written before the recent inauguration which was but
another example of the problem. There was very little press coverage
of the protest and the protest events, giving a one sided view of what
is happening in the US not only to the public in the US, but also to
the public worldwide.
with best wishes
Ronda
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:40:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@panix.com>
Subject: [netz] Missed Lessons of the Dean Campaign - the Need for a
Netizen Press
Joe Trippi gave a talk last Tuesday about the lessons of the Dean
campaign and the potential of the Internet for politics. Here's an
article I wrote about the talk which appears in Ohmynews. Ronda
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Missed Lessons From the Dean Campaign
Joe Trippi may see the Net's political force,
but he has yet to see the potential of a netizen press
by Ronda Hauben
A talk given by Joe Trippi on March 2, 2005 at Columbia University
provides some insight into why the campaign by Howard Dean for the
Democratic Party presidential nomination failed. (1)
Trippi described how he became interested in the potential impact the
Internet could have on politics. In the mid 1990's he had participated
in an online site where computer games were discussed. When one of the
most influential members of the online gaming community died at age
31, Trippi was amazed to see the impact of this loss on his online
community. Among other responses, some people took up to raise money
to set up a scholarship fund for the children of their deceased
friend. Trippi's experience online stimulated him to understand that
people could learn to know and care about each other in an online
community in a more significant manner than usually occurs with one's
neighbors or other acquaintances.
As Howard Dean's campaign manager, he set out to utilize the online
connection to build an offline community of people working for Dean.
The campaign would utilize the email contacts they had to inform
people in a city that Dean would be making an appearance. Trippi would
be astounded when he found that the people they informed would meet
together, plan how to prepare for the Dean appearance, and work
together to leaflet and inform people of the planned event. He
described how early in the campaign Dean was planning to make an
appearance in Austin, Texas. The Dean campaign emailed the 400
contacts they had in Austin. The Austin contacts held meetings and
worked together to leaflet and spread the word about the Dean visit.
When Dean gave his talk, Trippi was surprised that over 3200 people
attended. Over and over again, the Dean campaign was surprised by the
large number of interested people attending Dean campaign events made
possible by the campaign relying on local email contacts to meet in
person and organize effectively for the event.
Trippi focused on the ability of the Internet to make it possible for
people in a community to meet in person and to open their houses to
others in their community. He proposed that the significant
achievement of the Dean campaign was that the Internet helped to
facilitate offline collaboration and cooperation among Dean
supporters. In his talk, Trippi also referred to the novelty of using
the Internet to raise a large amount of campaign funding from multiple
small donations made online. He didn't refer to the online discussion
among the Dean campaign workers and the effect of this process to
invigorate the campaign. Nor did Trippi consider the problem of the
mainstream US media and its negative effect at crucial periods in the
Dean campaign like the Iowa primary.
Unlike the online political campaign in South Korea to elect a
President who was relatively unknown, the Dean campaign did not set
out to create a press that would challenge the corporate media. In
South Korea, Oh Yeon Ho created OhmyNews. This online newspaper helped
the Korean netizen movement to topple the conservative President and
replace him with a more progressive though unknown politician, Roh
Moo-hyun, in the 2002 election. (2) When asked whether he felt there
was a need for a similar force in the US to challenge the US
mainstream media, Trippi said no. His assessment of the weakness in
the Dean campaign was the inexperienced nature of those who campaigned
for Dean, and Dean's own lack of experience running for office. Trippi
did not consider the failure of the campaign to support the creation
of a progressive online press like OhmyNews which would welcome broad
rangingnetizen journalist contributions. (3) Though Trippi agreed that
the mainstream media in the US was a problem for the Dean campaign, he
didn't see the need to analyze how a newspaper like OhmyNews in Korea
could be critical in helping to counter the negative impact of the
mainstream media on the Dean campaign.
Trippi believed that the Dean campaign was but the "tip of an iceberg"
in demonstrating the impact that the Internet will have on US
politics. He compared the experience of the 2004 Presidential campaign
with the early impact of radio and then TV on politics. He proposed,
however, that the impact of the Internet on future campaigns would be
even more profound.
Trippi suggested that new technical developments would provide some of
the tools needed by Internet based political campaigns. He referred
to new entrepreneurial ventures and support for new technologies like
podcasting, as the form that a new media would take in the US, rather
than a form that welcomed broad ranging discussion and articles from
netizen reporters like OhmyNews.
Trippi's talk was helpful to consider the need to evaluate the
strengths and weaknesses of the Dean candidacy in 2004. The talk
didn't provide any indication, however, that Trippi or the Democratic
Party could recognize the power of the press and of the public opinion
that is created by a press in a political campaign. Trippi was
concerned about the growing power of Republican politicians in the
executive, judicial and legislative branches of the US government.
Nevertheless he did not believe there was a need to counter the power
of the mainstream media.(4) Trippi may have seen a tip of the Internet
iceberg, but he was blind to the potential power of netizen journalism
and a netizen press.
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Notes:
(1) Joe Trippi, "Trippi Says Dean's 2004 Run Just the Beginning",
Columbia Spectator, Thursday, March 3, 2005, p. 1
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/03/4226d05ebfee9?in_archive=1
(2) Korean Netizens Change Journalism and Politics
The text of OhmyNews founder Oh Yeon Ho's Harvard Internet and Society
Conference Dec. 11 address
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=8&no=201423&rel_no=1
(3)Will the Internet and Netizens Impact the 2004 US Presidential Election?
Online discussions in China and the netizens movement in South Korea have
demonstrated the power of the internet
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/16/16613/1.html
(4) The Crisis in the US Media and the 2004 Election
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19296/1.html
Published in OhmyNews, March 6, 2005
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=214130&rel_no=1&back_url=
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http://wwww.ais.org/~jrh/netizens.news
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