tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107925302024-03-08T01:30:09.132+01:00:: .. :: zerzaust :: .. :::: zerzaust :: dishevelled :: unkempt :: tousled :: strubbelig :: ébouriffé ::Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-87036050238525661672007-07-20T20:57:00.000+02:002007-07-20T20:58:29.705+02:00new adressthis blog is now continued at: <a href="http://andreabenlassoued.at">andreabenlassoued.at</a>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1140008586355462022006-02-15T13:27:00.000+01:002006-02-15T14:03:06.383+01:00vulgarity debate...revisitedIn an Anthropology News article called "<a href="http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6.805/admin/admin-fall-2005/weeks/Persian_Blogging.pdf">Persian blogs against the dual language</a>" <a href="http://www.perston.blogspot.com/">ORKIDEH BEHROUZAN, </a>a PhD-student at Oxford makes an interesting point connected to the vulgarity debate, that was brought up by <a href="http://www.doostdar.com/articles/vsob.pdf">Alireza Doostdar in the American Anthropologist</a>. She says:<br /><blockquote>Today in Iran many experience a dual life, and<br />speak what I call a “<span style="font-weight: bold;">dual language</span>.”There is an<br />expansion of ambiguous talk routinely affecting<br />all aspects of a person’s daily life. Lying,<br />hypocrisy, fear of punishment and being judged,<br />and an urge to please superiors are all common.<br />In opposition to dual life in Iran, many young<br />Iranians are increasingly turning to Persian blogs<br />as gateways for speaking out.<br /> <br />Regardless of how we understand the vulgarity<br />debate, and whether or not vulgarity applies to<br />all non-literary forms of writing and all taboo<br />subjects discussed, this so-called <span style="font-weight: bold;">“vulgar sprit” in</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Persian weblogs is a means of confronting dual</span><br /> language, by which some bloggers intend to use<br />somewhat unconventional modes of writing to<br />express what they understand as their “pure” and<br />“real self.”<br /> <br />Whether certain trends in blogging can make a<br />difference in the future of Persian society is a<br />tempting question. Although we can’t determine<br />where this path of uncensored self-expression is<br />leading to at present, there are clues that they will<br />lead to a promising destination<br /></blockquote>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1139078564817580382006-02-04T19:16:00.000+01:002006-02-04T19:51:53.133+01:00Mohammad caricatures...The last few days I had a lot of discussions with friends and family about the <a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/artikel/2888.html">cartoons </a>in <a href="http://www.jp.dk/">Jyllands Posten. </a>I read lots of newspaper-articles online as well as Blogposts.<br /><br />The sources which I found most interesting were Daniel Variscos blog post: <a href="http://www.ahjur.org/tabsir/?p=113">Much Ado about Something Rotten in Denmark </a>as well as a blog post by Mona Eltahawy (also quoted by Varisco) called <a href="http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/2006/01/a_mountain_out.php">A Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Danish Cartoons.</a><br /><br />If you read german, there's a good <a href="http://perlentaucher.de/artikel/2886.html">overview at perlentaucher</a> on the reactions of european media and an <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed-Karikaturen_von_Jyllands-Posten">entry at wikipedia.</a><br /><br />Here is a <a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/">link </a>to the "mohammed image archive" - <blockquote>"an archive of numerous depictions of Mohammed to serve as a reminder that such imagery has been part of Western and Islamic culture since the Middle Ages -- and to serve as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression." </blockquote>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1137657469975646372006-01-19T08:46:00.000+01:002006-01-19T14:31:43.980+01:00german-muslim-hiphopI went for a coffee with a friend after classes yesterday. She converted to Islam some time ago and told me about muslim hiphop in german - something I never even knew existed. The band she was so fascinted from is called "ammar114" and all of their songs are freely downloadable. I just tried, but their website seems to be down currently. Anyway, I found a link to a songtext (<a href="http://lyrics.songtext.name/Ammar114/Liebe-Schwester-57420.html">Schwester</a>) and some of their songs are <a href="http://mp3.de/musik/genre/band/020000/257244/1">free for download </a><a href="http://www.mp3.de/musik/genre/band/020312/257244/31_187322">here</a>.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1137438793307380002006-01-16T19:44:00.000+01:002006-01-16T20:13:13.326+01:00commenting essays...For the next few days I've got the "pleasure" of commenting about 60 student essays on <a href="http://geschichtetutorium.blogspot.com/2005/10/fragen-fr-essays-bis-130106.html">three different questions </a>(Boas; Levi-Strauss; Mauss & Van Gennep). I've already read a few and what's really surprising to me is the range of quality, because most of my students are in their first year of studies and should therefore have roughly the same background. And for those of you, whoe are curious, here are <a href="http://almuthethnohisto.blogspot.com/2006/01/essay-lvi-strauss-strukturalismus.html">two positive</a> <a href="http://reinstellungen.blogspot.com/2006/01/essay-die-zweite-in-meinem-zweiten-als.html">examples</a>...Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1136920537626484712006-01-10T19:55:00.000+01:002006-01-10T20:15:37.646+01:00fighting with complexityI'm trying to find a nice'n'easy explanation of the term "complex society" and seem to get more lost, the more I am searching.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.uio.no/english/about_uio/honorary-doctors/2005/hannerz.html">Ulf Hannerz: </a>[the term complex society]"is used somewhat imprecisely to refer mostly to societies with a developed <span style="font-weight: bold;">division of labour </span>and with <span style="font-weight: bold;">sizeable populations. </span>State organiszation, urbanism, organized social inequality and literacy tend also to be aspects of the complexity involved. (in <a href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415285585/qid=1136919450/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/028-4303961-6783766">Barnard & Spencer 2002</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sydel Silverman: </span>The term complex societies haslong been used in anthropology to refer to <span style="font-weight: bold;">state-organized systems, </span>including those of premodern times [...], those of the modern industrialized era, and those whose states stem from postcolonial or other recent political transformations.<br />(p. 292 in <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16576.ctl">Barth, Gingrich, Parkin, Silverman 2005</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_society">entry at wikipedia</a>: a complex society is a social formation that is otherwise described as a formative or developed <span style="font-weight: bold;">state.<br /></span><b></b><br /><a href="http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/glossary/glossary.html">Wilson/Introduction to Archeology: </a>Societies which show in particular <span style="font-weight: bold;">increased specialization and occupational separation. </span>As inferred by the social typology set out by Elman Service, in complex societies, people "no longer combine, say, the tasks of obtaining food, making tools, or performing religious rights but become specialists at one or other of these tasks"<br /><br />interesting comment by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hannerz</span>:<br />The rather loose usage my be criticized - what society is realy not complex? - but anthropologists have obviously found it a convenient alternative to such terms as "modern society", "industrial society" or "civilization", with which it may partly overlap but which entail emphases or connotations one may prefer to avoid.<br />(again in <a href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415285585/qid=1136919450/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/028-4303961-6783766">Barnard & Spencer 2002</a>)Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1136878453645885272006-01-10T08:35:00.000+01:002006-01-10T08:36:44.616+01:00THE at SM<p><a href="http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/">Thomas Hylland Eriksen</a> is <a href="http://savageminds.org/2006/01/09/a-drop-of-complexity/#comments">blogging</a> at <a href="http://savageminds.org/">Savageminds</a> since yesterday:<!--StartFragment --></p><blockquote><p>I expect to submit a handful of blogs on a daily or bi-daily basis for a week or two, and my chosen topic is a staple on this site, namely the role of anthropologists and anthropology in a wider public sphere.</p></blockquote><p>So he will write on a topic that he also adresses in his book <a href="http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Engaging_Anthropology.html">Engaging Anthropology</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845200659/qid%3D1136843420/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Dsr%5F2%5F1%5F1/202-6501738-4226205">Amazon</a>)(see <a href="http://antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/index.php?p=1493&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1">here</a>, <a href="http://antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/index.php?p=1497&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1">here</a> and <a href="http://antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/index.php?p=1593&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1">here</a> for a review by Lorenz Kazaleh at <a href="http://antropologi.info/">antropologi.info</a>)</p><blockquote><p>Instead of repeating myself, I'll make a new proposal for productive public engagement in each posting on this site. Tomorrow, I'll give you the story of a sport club in Drammen (a town near Oslo, where I live) and its struggles to incorporate minority children in its activities, and suggest how anthropologists might intervene. It goes without saying that I'm keen to receive your views, objections and suggestions as we go along.</p></blockquote><p>Apart from interesting discussions that will surely follow his posts, there's something else happening here, which I want to keep an eye on: How are relations within academia influenced if well established anthropologists start blogging? I guess, <a href="http://savageminds.org/2006/01/09/a-drop-of-complexity/#comment-2830">like</a> <a href="http://www.anthroblogs.org/nomadicthoughts/">Will</a>, I can say: <!--StartFragment --> "I'm looking forward to reading your posts, Thomas."</p>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1135692104143432362005-12-27T14:40:00.000+01:002005-12-27T15:07:30.503+01:00Cultural choices in the aftermath of the TsunamiI listened to a <a href="http://oe1.orf.at/programm/20051227140500.html">broadcast </a>on <a href="http://oe1.orf.at/">Ö1</a> today, it was about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicobar_Islands#History">Nicobar Islands. </a>The presenter (Andreas Obrecht) spoke to Simron Jit Singh and Oliver Lehman who published a book called: <a href="http://www.czernin-verlag.com/czerninverlag/bookshow.xml?id=326">Die Nikobaren. Das kulturelle Erbe nach dem Tsunami. </a>[<a href="http://www.czernin-verlag.com/czerninverlag/bookshow.xml?id=336">The Nicobar Islands. Cultural choices in the aftermath of the Tsunami.</a>] <a href="http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/staff/singh_en.php">Singh</a> is research fellow at the <a href="http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/">IFF Social Ecology</a>, Lehman chief editor of "Universum Magazin".<br />The book is published in both english and german and aimed at helping the survivors of the catastrophe to revive their traditions and customs. 50 of these books were sent to the Nicobar Islanders to "give these people a manual for their own, lost culture".<br /><pre class="bookshow_longtext_pre"><blockquote>"The publishing house Czernin will donate all profits from the book’s<br />sale to the Sustainable Indigenous Futures (<a href="http://www.sifutures.at/">SIF</a>) Fund, which supports<br />medium and long-term development projects for indigenous peoples from<br />Tsunami-affected areas on the Nicobar and Andaman Islands." </blockquote><br /><br /></pre>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1134550197443174912005-12-14T09:49:00.000+01:002005-12-14T09:49:57.443+01:00Magic orange peelI was waiting on the airport, having a coffee and chatting to some tunisians when we started talking about the cold weather and heating systems here (in Tunisia) and there (Europe). Quite commonly used here for heating a room are kanun (what I’d describe as coal in a clay pot). The danger connected to them is CO2 development. So what I was told by my newly met tunisian friends was, that one puts orange peel on top of the kanun, which stops CO2 development. I later checked if I had understood correctly, but even Nasr insisted: out of experience this is what works best against the dangers of CO2. I’d really like to know how that works.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1134550158697469072005-12-14T09:48:00.000+01:002005-12-14T09:49:18.713+01:00Where’s home?I’m back in Tunisia with my husband. It’s a weird feeling to go shopping to study, to cook, to just have my daily life here again. For some reason I feel more at home here now than back in Vienna. Well, my husband is here, true. But all my friends are in Vienna – sure I know quite a lot of Nasr’s friends, but there’s still some language barriere between us and chatting with them remains in quite general topics due to lack of fluency. However, studying works much better here – there’s less distraction through meeting or calling someone quickly, but getting online requires more effort than at home: I have to go to the internet café (“PUBLINET”).Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1133541286429025942005-12-02T17:17:00.000+01:002005-12-02T17:34:46.450+01:00Joerges, Winner, STSI spent the last few days studying for an exam I had yesterday. And although I'm a bit exhausted today, I'm already preparing for my nextone on Wednesday (which will be my last exam ever - if I don't decide to do a doctorate!)<br /><br />Here are just a few links I came accross while studying (or maybe rather procrastinating) for the exam yesterday which was in STS (<a href="http://www.univie.ac.at/virusss/index_teaching.html">Einführung in die Wissenschaftsforschung </a>- Wissenschaft, Technik, Gesellschaft):<br /><br /><a href="http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/%7Erfrost/courses/Women+Tech/readings/Winner.html">Langdon Winner: Do Artifacts have Politics?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wz-berlin.de/alt/met/pdf/do_politics.pdf">Bernward Joerges: Do Politics have Artifacts?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wz-berlin.de/alt/met/pdf/stille_post.pdf">Bernward Joerges: Die Brücken des Robert Moses</a><br />This one is very similar to the english one above, but very inspiring to read as it's written beautifully. By the way - the article that I enjoyed reading most, was one by Bruno Latour:<br /><br />Latour, Bruno. 1995. Ein Türschließer streikt. <i>In</i> Latour, Bruno: <i>Der Berliner Schlüssel - Erkundungen eines Liebhabers der Wissenschaft</i>. Berlin: Akadmie Verlag, 63-83.<br /><br />Bernward Joerges has got lots of his <a href="http://www.wz-berlin.de/alt/met/members/joerges_publ.en.htm">publications available online</a><br />too and I also found interesting course material for <a href="http://www.ethnologie.uni-halle.de/studium/rr_kultur.htm">"Kultur und Technik" </a><br />by <a href="http://www.ethnologie.uni-halle.de/personal/rottenburg.htm">Richard Rottenburg </a>at the University of Halle.<br /><span class="tags"><span class="tagspaces"><br />Technorati</span> : <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/STS" rel="tag">STS</a></span>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132571925186215312005-11-21T12:15:00.000+01:002005-11-21T12:23:29.836+01:00backside of blog-readingI was browsing a few more blogs of people who attended the <a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/">WSIS </a>and some of them are still in Tunisia today. What then happened was that I really got "Reisefieber" (travel nerves, itchy feet?). So, if you want to see <a href="http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/11/images_of_tunis.php">a few nice pictures </a>or <a href="http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/11/rain_in_tunis_r.html">descriptions</a> or haven't planed the next holiday yet - here's some inspiration.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132480799599566142005-11-20T10:59:00.000+01:002005-11-21T12:23:48.646+01:00WSIS - notes & quotes<p>Just a few <strong>notes & quotes</strong> about the <a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/">WSIS </a>- am not trying to give a good overview here, much more want to relate experiences of attendees:</p><blockquote><p>Yesterday, we [i.e. Ethan Zuckerman and "his partners in crime", I guess] were warned that our session [called Expression under Repression] could be cancelled by the Tunisian authorities. We also discovered that the <strong>session wasn't listed in the official program</strong> guide. Today, we came to the room where the session was to be held and there was a <strong>sign</strong> on the door stating that the <strong>workshop was cancelled</strong>. Friends who passed by the UNDP booth on the WSIS floor earlier today heard gossip that the <strong>security forces would appear</strong> at our session and anyone who attended would be arrested. And I got a few SMSs from people who'd asked about our session at the information booths and had been told there was no information on our session.This low-grade harrasment did nothing to dampen our turnout for the session. <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=260">Ethan Zuckerman</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>here's <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=855">some more information</a> by the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/">Berkman Center for Internet and society</a> on the same incident.</p><blockquote><p>the obvious presence of military, police and tourism police should strengthen that sense of security. In three kilometres around the airport and around the Kram Expo, there was a policemen at every 250 meters and the closer you got to the Kram Expo, there were even policemen on horseback and special forces. <strong>Tunesia must be a country with more policemen than inhabitants.</strong> In front of every official hotel was a policemen with a stengun and in the hotel secret service people were just chatting as natural Tunesians, while in the meantime checking potential contacts with Tunesian dissidents. more from <a href="http://buziaulane.blogspot.com/2005/11/tunis-wsis-and-wsa-part-7.html">Jak Boumans</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Another post by Ethan Zuckerman about <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=259">the "Citizen's Summit</a>":</p><blockquote><div><!--StartFragment -->a <strong>counter-summit</strong>, [...] where issues like the Internet and human rights - which have been difficult to get onto the main WSIS agenda - can be discussed.</div><div><!--StartFragment -->A <strong>meeting</strong> Monday to plan the summit was <strong>disrupted by Tunisian security forces</strong>, who prevented organizers from entering the Goethe Institute, where the meeting was being held. Since then, there have been reports that <strong>human rights activists have been beaten by government-based thugs</strong> after meeting with summit attendees, and a <strong>French journalist attacked by security forces</strong>. In other words, it hasn't looked like a welcoming climate for a citizen's summit.</div><div>But then he talks about the actual meeting: <!--StartFragment --> I kept waiting for a commotion in the back of the room that never came. Later the same eveingn: <!--StartFragment --> the barriers to free expression in Tunis became all too clear as we walked out of the compound to catch taxis for dinner. Walking down the narrow street that from the human rights center to the main road, we past a block lined with tough looking men in street clothes, some on motorcycles. There was no apparent reason for thirty men to be standing on this corner of the street - no cafe, no shops of any sort - and no indication that the group was moving at all. [read more <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=259">here</a>]</div><br /></blockquote><p>More information about all that? Ndesanjo at "<a href="http://digitalafrica.blogspot.com/">Digital Africa</a>" has got a few more links, the <a href="http://www.opennetinitiative.net/">OpenNet Initiative</a> has a <a href="http://www.opennetinitiative.net/blog/?p=77">report on internet filtering in Tunisia.</a></p><p>Want to read <strong>something more positive?</strong></p><p>A very sweet blogger I met in Tunis was representing Jordan in the summit...in the "Reach out"-Initiative</p><blockquote><p>which is basically a <strong>dialogue between UK and Arab youth</strong> that aims at connecting both the western and Arabic culture, in an attempt to break stereotypes, spread awareness, and work together to make a difference. <a href="http://aquacool.blogspot.com/2005/11/wsis-feedback-1.html">more here.</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p id="zoundry_bw_tags"> <!-- Tag links generated by Zoundry Blog Writer. Do not manually edit. http://www.zoundry.com --> <span class="tags"><span class="tagspaces">Technorati</span> : <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/WSIS%20tunis" rel="tag">WSIS tunis</a></span> </p>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132446805921940052005-11-20T01:31:00.000+01:002005-11-20T01:45:44.226+01:00CFP: Communities & Technologies 2007<span style="font-weight: bold;">Conference Website:</span> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007" target="_blank"><script><!-- D(["mb","http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu<wbr>/cct2007</a><br /><br />Following the success of two prior conferences, we cordially invite<br />submissions to the third International Conference on Communities and<br />Technologies (C&T 2007), hosted by Michigan State University. This<br />biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating<br />research on the complex connections between communities - both<br />physical and virtual - and information and communication technologies.<br /><br />C&T 2007 welcomes contributions from researchers in many fields,<br />given the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of inquiries<br />into the interaction between community and technology. Past meetings<br />have involved researchers working in such areas as computer supported<br />cooperative work, computer supported collaborative learning,<br />artificial intelligence, information retrieval, human computer<br />interaction, information systems, community informatics, knowledge<br />management, and Internet studies; across such fields as anthropology,<br />communication, computer science, economics, geography, information<br />studies, information systems, management science, political science,<br />psychology, sociology, and telecommunication. The conference program<br />includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as<br />workshops, tutorials, and a small number of invited speakers.<br /><br />Important Dates:<br />November 13, 2006: Paper submission deadline<br />December 4, 2006: Deadline for submission of workshop proposals<br /><br />Conference Themes:<br />There are many definitions of community. We focus on the notion of<br />communities as social entities comprised of actors who share<br />something in common: this common element may be geography, needs,<br />interests, practices, organizations, or other bases for social<br />connection. Communities are considered to be a basic unit of social<br />experience. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can<br />",1] ); //--></script>http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu<wbr>/cct2007</a><br /><br />Following the success of two prior conferences, we cordially invite<br />submissions to the third International Conference on Communities and<br />Technologies (C&T 2007), hosted by Michigan State University. This<br />biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating<br />research on the complex connections between communities - both<br />physical and virtual - and information and communication technologies.<br /><br />C&T 2007 welcomes contributions from researchers in many fields,<br />given the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of inquiries<br />into the interaction between community and technology. Past meetings<br />have involved researchers working in such areas as computer supported<br />cooperative work, computer supported collaborative learning,<br />artificial intelligence, information retrieval, human computer<br />interaction, information systems, community informatics, knowledge<br />management, and Internet studies; across such fields as anthropology,<br />communication, computer science, economics, geography, information<br />studies, information systems, management science, political science,<br />psychology, sociology, and telecommunication. The conference program<br />includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as<br />workshops, tutorials, and a small number of invited speakers.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Important Dates:</span><br />November 13, 2006: Paper submission deadline<br />December 4, 2006: Deadline for submission of workshop proposals<br /><br />Conference Themes:<br />There are many definitions of community. We focus on the notion of<br />communities as social entities comprised of actors who share<br />something in common: this common element may be geography, needs,<br />interests, practices, organizations, or other bases for social<br />connection. Communities are considered to be a basic unit of social<br />experience. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can<br /><script><!-- D(["mb","interact with communities in many complex ways. For example, ICTs<br />can support community formation and development by facilitating<br />communication and coordination among members. Conversely, the lack<br />of attention to the surrounding community context may inhibit the<br />design and effective use of ICT innovations. Hence, new research<br />into the creation, use, and evaluation of ICTs aimed at community<br />support is appearing at an increasing rate. New phenomena such as<br />blogs, podcasting, smart mobs, and the popularity of social network<br />software illustrate some of the new areas for research into the<br />powerful and changing connections between community and technology.<br /><br />Empirical, conceptual, and design contributions are invited,<br />involving a range of methodologies and approaches. These might<br />include application designs, innovative frameworks, case studies,<br />ethnographies, experiments, survey research, network analyses or<br />economic studies.<br /><br />Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold.<br />Examples of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology<br />research include, but are not limited to:<br /><br />* virtual community formation and development<br />* communities of interest and practice, knowledge sharing and<br />organizational learning<br />* communities and innovation<br />* community informatics<br />* technical support for communities<br />* innovative applications of communityware<br />* ad hoc communities and ICTs<br />* innovations in community technology design<br />* system platforms for e-community research<br />* design methods for communityware<br />* ICTs and geographical business communities (e.g. clusters and/or<br />regional development)<br />* ICTs and virtual business communities<br />* community e-commerce business models<br />* interactions between online and offline communities<br />* social capital, communities, and technology<br />* communities and e-government<br />",1] ); //--></script>interact with communities in many complex ways. For example, ICTs<br />can support community formation and development by facilitating<br />communication and coordination among members. Conversely, the lack<br />of attention to the surrounding community context may inhibit the<br />design and effective use of ICT innovations. Hence, new research<br />into the creation, use, and evaluation of ICTs aimed at community<br />support is appearing at an increasing rate. New phenomena such as<br />blogs, podcasting, smart mobs, and the popularity of social network<br />software illustrate some of the new areas for research into the<br />powerful and changing connections between community and technology.<br /><br />Empirical, conceptual, and design contributions are invited,<br />involving a range of methodologies and approaches. These might<br />include application designs, innovative frameworks, case studies,<br />ethnographies, experiments, survey research, network analyses or<br />economic studies.<br /><br />Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold.<br />Examples of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology<br />research include, but are not limited to:<br /><br />* virtual community formation and development<br />* communities of interest and practice, knowledge sharing and<br />organizational learning<br />* communities and innovation<br />* community informatics<br />* technical support for communities<br />* innovative applications of communityware<br />* ad hoc communities and ICTs<br />* innovations in community technology design<br />* system platforms for e-community research<br />* design methods for communityware<br />* ICTs and geographical business communities (e.g. clusters and/or<br />regional development)<br />* ICTs and virtual business communities<br />* community e-commerce business models<br />* interactions between online and offline communities<br />* social capital, communities, and technology<br />* communities and e-government<br /><script><!-- D(["mb","* ethnographic and case studies of virtual communities<br />* trust, privacy and security issues in virtual communities<br />* communities, technology and social movements<br />* interaction in large scale online communities<br />* persistent conversation in technology-facilitated communities<br />* supporting collaboration in local and distributed communities<br />* economics of technology-facilitated communities<br />* inter-organizational communities and technology<br />* communities, technology, learning and education<br /><br />Submitting Papers and Workshop Proposals<br />Completed and original research papers of not more 20 pages must be<br />submitted electronically to the conference website, and will undergo<br />a peer review process. We are preparing submission guidelines and a<br />conference management facility to enable online submission. In the<br />meantime, general information about C&T 2007 is available at the<br />conference web site.<br /><br />We also invite the submission of proposals for workshops, which will<br />be held on June 28, the first day of the conference. Workshops can<br />be either half or full day in length and built around specific themes<br />relevant to the conference. Workshop proposals should be 4 pages in<br />length, and should define the theme(s) of the workshop, the main<br />activities and goals, the background and contact information of the<br />organizer(s), the maximum number of participants in the workshop, the<br />means of soliciting participants, and the method of selecting<br />participants. Proposals should also include a brief summary of no<br />more than 150 words suitable for describing the workshop in the<br />conference program.<br /><br />Proceedings<br />As with prior meetings, the Conference on Communities and<br />Technologies Proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic<br />Publishers.<br /><br />Conference Organizers and Contact Information<br />The 2007 meeting is being co-organized by Charles Steinfield and<br />Brian Pentland of Michigan State University, Mark Ackerman of the<br />",1] ); //--></script>* ethnographic and case studies of virtual communities<br />* trust, privacy and security issues in virtual communities<br />* communities, technology and social movements<br />* interaction in large scale online communities<br />* persistent conversation in technology-facilitated communities<br />* supporting collaboration in local and distributed communities<br />* economics of technology-facilitated communities<br />* inter-organizational communities and technology<br />* communities, technology, learning and education<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submitting Papers and Workshop Proposals</span><br />Completed and original research papers of not more 20 pages must be<br />submitted electronically to the conference website, and will undergo<br />a peer review process. We are preparing submission guidelines and a<br />conference management facility to enable online submission. In the<br />meantime, general information about C&T 2007 is available at the<br />conference web site.<br /><br />We also invite the submission of proposals for workshops, which will<br />be held on June 28, the first day of the conference. Workshops can<br />be either half or full day in length and built around specific themes<br />relevant to the conference. Workshop proposals should be 4 pages in<br />length, and should define the theme(s) of the workshop, the main<br />activities and goals, the background and contact information of the<br />organizer(s), the maximum number of participants in the workshop, the<br />means of soliciting participants, and the method of selecting<br />participants. Proposals should also include a brief summary of no<br />more than 150 words suitable for describing the workshop in the<br />conference program.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proceedings</span><br />As with prior meetings, the Conference on Communities and<br />Technologies Proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic<br />Publishers.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conference Organizers and Contact Information</span><br />The 2007 meeting is being co-organized by Charles Steinfield and<br />Brian Pentland of Michigan State University, Mark Ackerman of the<br /><script><!-- D(["mb","University of Michigan, and Noshir Contractor of the University of<br />Illinois. Questions regarding C&T 2007 should be sent to the<br />conference email address, which is <a onclick="\" href="\">cct2007@msu.edu</a>.<br /><br /><br />______________________________<wbr>_________________<br />Comtech mailing list<br /><a onclick="\" href="\">Comtech@fit.fraunhofer.de</a><br /><a onclick="\" href="\" target="_blank">https://mail.fit.fraunhofer.de<wbr>/mailman/listinfo/comtech</a><br /><br />______________________________<wbr>_________________<br />The <a onclick="\" href="\">air-l@listserv.aoir.org</a> mailing list<br />is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers <a onclick="\" href="\" target="_blank">http://aoir.org</a><br />Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="\" href="\" target="_blank\">http://listserv.aoir.org<wbr>/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org</a><br /><br />Join the Association of Internet Researchers:<br /><a onclick="\" href="\" target="_blank">http://www.aoir.org/</a><br />",0] ); //--></script>University of Michigan, and Noshir Contractor of the University of<br />Illinois. Questions regarding C&T 2007 should be sent to the<br />conference email address, which is <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cct2007@msu.edu">cct2007@msu.edu</a>.<br /><br /><p id="zoundry_bw_tags"> <!-- Tag links generated by Zoundry Blog Writer. Do not manually edit. http://www.zoundry.com --> <span class="tags"><span class="tagspaces">Del.icio.us</span> : <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/CFP" rel="tag">CFP</a></span> </p>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132408928852671102005-11-19T14:53:00.000+01:002005-11-19T15:02:08.920+01:00just trying...<p>After a quick search for possiblities of tagging my blogposts, I just installed "<a href="http://zoundry.com/">zoundry</a>" [lite] - a blogging editor. Sould make blogging easier and tagging no effort at all.</p><p id="zoundry_bw_tags"> <!-- Tag links generated by Zoundry Blog Writer. Do not manually edit. http://www.zoundry.com --> <span class="tags"><span class="tagspaces">Del.icio.us</span> : <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/blogging-technicals" rel="tag">blogging-technicals</a></span> </p>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132128491168284192005-11-16T09:01:00.000+01:002005-11-16T09:08:11.200+01:00Blogtalk Reloadedits <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/10/gossip-blogtalk.html">not gossip any more...</a> <a href="http://blogtalk.net/">blogtalk </a>reloaded will be held at the 2nd and 3rd of October 2006 in Vienna again...<br /><br />via <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/10/gossip-blogtalk.html">randgaenge</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">tag: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Blogtalk2006" rel="tag">Blogtalk2006</a></span>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132050324546282502005-11-15T11:18:00.001+01:002008-03-14T15:17:52.833+01:00Papers on Weblog-Research online...<a href="http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/">Kommunikation@gesellschaft</a>, a web journal dedicated to research into information and communication technologies went online with a new issue yesterday, I guess - and i'ts about weblog-research. I'm really excited to delve into all these papers soon! More backgroundinformation in an <a href="http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/318">entry by Jan Schmidt.</a><br /><br />A few <a href="http://technikforschung.twoday.net/stories/1150896/">papers </a> and links to the presentators of the "<a href="http://www.kultur.uni-hamburg.de/technikforschung/kongress2005/">Kongress kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung</a>" to be held from 25 th - 27 th of November in Hamburg are already online too...<br /><br />via <a href="http://antropologi.info/blog/ethnologie/index.php?p=1469&more=1&amp;amp;c=1&tb=1&pb=1">this entry </a>at antropologi.infoAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132007411145442012005-11-14T23:28:00.000+01:002005-11-14T23:34:09.770+01:00Internet connection problems as result of the WSIS...how ironic...Marouen, a tunisian blogger whom I met when I was there this summer, writes about the internet connection problems he's experiencing now...as a result of the WSIS...there's not much more I can add apart from a slight suspicion of political reasons behind the whole thing...read more <a href="http://www.subzeroblue.com/archives/2005/11/internet_connection_.html#comments">here</a>.<br />Oh, and before I forget: <a href="http://lablogeuse.blogspot.com/2005/11/circulation-pendant-le-smsi.html">here</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">la blogeuse </span>writes about the traffic problems that my husband has been talking about the last few days as well...Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1132006936086718672005-11-14T23:13:00.000+01:002005-11-17T22:22:28.983+01:00Weblogs 2005Wednesday and Friday this week I'll attend a workshop on Weblogs in Linz/Austria, one of the organisers is <a href="http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/">Jan Schmidt</a>.<br /><br />Topics include:<br /><br />Wednesday<br /><ul> <li>basics of weblog research (Jan Schmidt, Klaus Schöneberger)</li> <li>weblogs in organisations - PR and marketing (Tim Fischer, Martin Roell)</li> <li>weblogs and Journalism (Martin Welker)</li> </ul> Thursday<br /><ul> <li>weblogs in organisations - knowledge and project management (Thomas N. Burg, Dieter Rappold)</li> <li>weblogs and political communication (Roland Abold, Martina Kausch)</li> <li>teaching with weblogs / e-learning (Hans Mittendorfer, Tanja Jadin, Bernad Batrinic) </li> </ul> of course there's a <a href="http://weblogs2005.twoday.net/main">weblog</a> as well as a <a href="http://elearn.jku.at/wiki/index.php/Jkublogs05">wiki</a> available - all in German though.<br /><br />I'm really looking forward to meeting and talking to all these people - hope there will be plenty of time in the coffee breaks!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">tag: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/jkublogs05" rel="tag">jkublogs05</a></span>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1131919280121351222005-11-13T22:42:00.000+01:002005-11-13T23:03:12.256+01:00Rites of passage...<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_van_Gennep">Arnold van Gennep</a>, a flemish anthropologist and ethnologist wrote a book called "<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbergangsriten">Les rites de passage</a>" in which he talks about <span style="font-weight: bold;">transitions </span>and the rites people perform with them. Transitions can either be <span style="font-weight: bold;">spatial </span>(house warming parties), <span style="font-weight: bold;">seasonal </span>(e.g. harvest festivals) or "<span style="font-weight: bold;">life cyclical</span>" (birth, death, marriage) and the whole idea is a "universal" - e.g. can be found in many different cultures around the whole world. Almost everywhere life is characterised by turning points, we don't experience it like a calm flow of days after days after days.<br /><br />Now <span style="font-weight: bold;">why do people perform rituals </span>at these turning points in their lifes? Because these transitions don't come naturally, they don't just happen. You're not born as an adult, as a couple or whatever - you're made one and <span style="font-weight: bold;">through the ritual this is made more real for the individual.</span><br /><br />And it's true. Really.<br />When I got married in September, it was actually two days that we celebrated. One day was a very quiet one. The contract was signed with a registrar who came into the home of my husbands family and the only people who celebrated with the two of us were his closest friends and family. We had a nice meal, fotos were taken etc. Then, a few days later, we had a big party with lots of friends in Tunis, where he's living now...and only then, after an exhausting evening, with lots of music and dancing as well as changing my robe twice, did I really "feel" married.<br /><br />I wonder how it will be when we've celebrated our party here in Austria with all my friends and family as well...but alas, there are still some bureaucratic hurdles to jump...until he can join me here.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1131707674807424512005-11-11T12:00:00.000+01:002005-11-11T12:23:22.683+01:00second thoughts on teaching...Today is Friday - one of these Fridays that I'll be <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/10/link-to-my-tutoriums-blog.html">teaching</a>.<br /><br />For the last few weeks lectures went quite well on my part, although I'm not so sure if our students share the same opinion. After all we're asking them to work quite hard(at least compared to local standards!) :<br /><br />reading a (for them surely) difficult <a href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226038297/302-2289621-0103203">chapter </a>every week. In our lessons we don't go through the chapter bit by bit but ask them to work on it themselves - through presentations as well as discussion of different aspects. I'm not so sure if they really appreciate it that much, that we don't take the responsibility of reading from their shoulders - but one day they'll definitely harvest the merits of knowing how to read and get the gist of an article themselves.<br /><br />Another requirement are two articles that they have to write and publish online in <a href="http://geschichtetutorium.blogspot.com">their blogs. </a>We also suggested that they use their blogs for reading reflections ("Lesetagebuch"/reading diary) but as it wasn't compulsory only a <a href="http://almuthethnohisto.blogspot.com/">few </a>of them are into it yet. Alas, there is still lots of time until the end of this term, so they still have the chance of discovering the joy of quick and easy online publishing!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1130459516021877342005-10-28T02:24:00.000+02:002005-10-28T02:31:56.040+02:00Handbook for bloggers and cyberdisidentsToday I skyped a bit with <a href="http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/">Martin </a>about Tunisia, the <a href="http://www.subzeroblue.com/">tunisian </a><a href="http://aquacool.blogspot.com/">blogosphere </a>and the upcoming <a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/">WSIS</a>. I'm still wondering if and how I can afford to attend the conference, but now - as my research interests have changed slightly - I guess I'll stay in cold, rainy Vienna.<br /><br />Anyway, related to Tunisia is an entry that I just read at <a href="http://www.dienstraum.com/archiv/2005/09/22/handbuch_fuer_blogger_und_cybe.php">Dienstraum </a>- about <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyberdissidents. </span>Looks like some people in Tunisia could really make use of this in a few weeks, when reporting online about the <a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/">World Summit of Information Society </a>(WSIS). Here's a link to the <a href="http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542">PDF-Version of the Handbook </a>for free download. More information about the book at the Dienstraum- link provided above.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1130353485026865072005-10-26T20:48:00.000+02:002005-10-26T21:04:45.043+02:00rethinkig research IIIAt the beginning of march I started to use my blog for commenting on all different sorts of things...and I <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/03/few-austrian-blogs-i-discovered.html">discovered a Blogger, </a>just around the corner: <a href="http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/">Jan Schmidts Blog</a> is still one of the ones I read most regularly. He's also one of the few bloggers I've met personally.<br /><br /><a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-books.html">Interesting thoughts </a>I also discovered now in my posts around mid-march, I was...<br /> <blockquote>wondering what blogging our not-yet-finished works could do to the discussion about the author-reader-relationship in anthropology .</blockquote>Then I spent some time traveling and just by chance I read an e-mail by a young scientist...our mail-conversation developed in a very interesting way and soon Chana (at <a href="http://afstuderen.blogspirit.com/">Tempus Fugit)</a> <a href="http://afstuderen.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/03/30/en_anglais.html">switched to writing in english </a>about her thesis because I convinced her! Seeing her work growing (as well as advising a wee bit) was a very rewarding experience.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1130352364185335392005-10-26T20:28:00.000+02:002005-10-26T21:15:33.036+02:00rethinking research II<a href="http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2004-2/kuntsman_2004_cyberethnography.htm">Adi Kuntsman's Cyberethnography as Home-Work </a>was another article that impressed me...sadly I didn't summarise but just cite it in <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/anthropology-matters.html">this blog-post.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/docs/Vol7_No1/CurrentPractice/Blogs.htm">Blogs as electronic learning journals</a>, an article by Armstron, Berry and Lamshed is <span style="font-weight: bold;">something I should look at again...</span>I had completely forgotten about this one and now I wonder if I should go through my blog-archive more often. Who knows what jewels are hidden there!<br />:-)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/06/24/blog_research_issues.php">Five different ways into Blog research </a>by Liz Lawley is a nice blogpost which I was very excited about when I found it...<a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/every-day.html">end of february...</a><br /><br />[note to self: interesting to see the fun I had in discovering relevant literature]<br /><br /><br />At the same time I <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/do-blogs-offer-plattform-for-ideal.html">started to summarize </a>[and comment] an article about "<a href="http://elmine.wijnia.com/weblog/archives/wijnia_understandingweblogs.pdf">Blogs as plattform for the ideal speech situation</a>" [by Elmine Winja, proper name: Understanding Weblogs: a communicative perspective] in a few blogposts...to see if working this way with my blog was fruitful.<br />To be honest: it wasn't.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792530.post-1130350038443708732005-10-26T19:50:00.000+02:002005-10-26T20:26:36.466+02:00rethinking researchIn January this year I started thinking about a research topic for my final thesis in anthropology...<a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/01/good-news.html">first thoughts </a>(this really feels ages ago now, in hindsight) were about virtual ethnography (I had just looked into Christine Hines' book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761958967/102-0935273-3683333?v=glance">Virtual Ethnography</a> and Miller & Slaters' <a href="http://ethnonet.gold.ac.uk/">The Internet an Ethnographic Approach</a>). I wondered if I coud do an overview of the methods anthropologists used to do research online and wanted to relate them to the outcome - showing that method is never seperate from result. <a href="http://homepage.univie.ac.at/sabine.strasser/homepage_e.htm">My supervisor </a>then asked me to look for a "topic" - a methods-only-thesis was no real option for her.<br /><br />Soon after that I <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/view-links-to-interesting-articles.html">discovered</a> <a href="http://www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/Researching_ICTs_in_context-Ch11-Mortensen-Walker.pdf">Blogging thoughts by Mortensen & Walker</a><br />as well as <a href="http://wiki.oxus.net/Open_Source_Anthropology">an article on open source anthropology </a>by Kerim Freeman and <a href="http://alex.golub.name/log/index.php?p=220">"Making the electronic text canonical" </a>by Alex Golub.<br /><br />Kerim Freeman and Alex Golub were the first anthro-bloggers I started reading, but <a href="http://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/">antropologi.info </a>soon became one of my favourite anthro-blogs too (in those days before <a href="http://savageminds.org/">savageminds </a>I was really searching for long to find some more academic bloggers from my own field).<br /><br /><a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/why-do-people-blog.html">As I see now, </a>by mid Februrary I was already reading Lilias blog - and preparing a presentation about weblogs at the <a href="http://www.univie.ac.at/volkskunde/">department for anthropology of europe.</a><br />(had I known then that this presentation was postponed, I wouldn't have worked so busily...another sign that I really need deadlines for getting going!)<br /><br />At the same time <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/why-do-people-blog.html">I wondered:<br /></a><blockquote>[...] if keeping a blog could be useful for an anthropologist...in keeping and editing "field notes", links, ideas, snippets of thoughts - whatever. What about people stealing your ideas? And isn't a blog through it's very nature of being public going to influence the way you write about "the others"? <em>Does it make sense to keep a blog in "normal" anthropological research? </em>I mean I do see the point in doing so when one's into "virtual ethnography", but what are the limitations of blogging - are there any?</blockquote>Reading Alireza Doostdars <strong> </strong><a href="http://www.doostdar.com/articles/vsob.pdf">The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging</a> was another eye-opener and <a href="http://zerzaust.blogspot.com/2005/02/following-conflict.html">made me think a lot. </a>It was the first article on Weblogs by an anthropologist that I got my hands on! As it was published in the American Anthropologist it made me sure that the direction my interests were heading was a new but "accepted" one in my field of studies.<br />[to be continued]Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484602759393863852noreply@blogger.com0