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Austrial visiting scholar to join CAST in February

Ursula Maier-Rabler will join CAST in February as a visiting scholar from
Salzburg, Austria.

Maier-Rabler is on the faculty  at the University of Salzburg. She is coming to
CAST and The Ohio State University having been awarded the prestigious
"Erwin-Schroedinger-Auslandsstipendium" from the Austrian Science Foundation.
The grant is one of the most renowned in the Austria scientific community and
is designed for scholars under 35 years of age who work at Austrian
universities. The grants are normally awarded primarily to scholars working in
the physical sciences.

While with CAST, Maier-Rabler will be doing research towards her
"habilitation," a project that is similar to a dissertation in the American
university system. She expects to spend her time with CAST reading, talking
with colleagues and developing several lines of research. In addition, she is
gathering information about the changes under way in the European
telecommunications system and expects to contribute that work to endeavors in
progress at CAST.

Her particular interests in telecommunications center around three areas: the
socio-economic aspects of communication, particularly the relationship between
new communication and information technologies and spatial development and
change; the privatization of telecommunications systems, particularly in light
of moves to privatize the Austrian post-telecommunications company; and
teaching telecommunications. In addition, she also is engaged in a new project
with colleagues that looks at issues of "telecommunications and the right to
communicate."


Maier-Rabler's research towards her habilitation will focus primarily in the
first area. In her grant proposal for her work with CAST she noted that new
information and communication technologies give rise to hope for solving some
communication problems in Austria, particularly in respect to the specific
topographic nature of the country. Some 40 percent of Austria'Us population
live in villages of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, often isolated in narrow
valleys in the mountains.

Until recently, AustriaUs economic development proposals for these areas have
centered around forcing tourism into the mountains, an approach that has
created infrastructure and environmental problems. Maier-Rabler sees potential
in new technologies for offering alternative approaches to economic
development. While with CAST, she wants to locate examples of such projects
already under way in rural communities here and evaluate the success of these
approaches.

Maier-Rabler expects to rent an apartment while in Columbus, and would welcome
suggestions or tips as to where to find something suitable. She can be reached
through the CAST office, or directly at [e-mail].

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CAST Directors welcome new associate members

CAST solicits the nomination of faculty, graduate students and staff at
universities and colleges, and of members of the Ohio and international
telecommunications research and policy communities as associates of CAST. The
nominations are reviewed by the Co-Directors. An individual whose nomination is
approved is awarded the honorary title of CAST Associate. The title is
renewable indefinitely at the discretion of the associate and of CAST.

Associates are expected to have expertise in some area of telecommunications or
to be engaged in research in some area of telecommunications. Associates are
expected to be involved in CAST in some of the following ways:

* Contribution of research papers to the CAST Working Files series;
* Presentation at CAST symposia and workshops;
* Presentations of research to potential donors to CAST;
* Special requests from CAST

The following individuals are currently CAST associates. Unless otherwise
noted, the associate's affiliation is with Ohio State.


Stephen Acker (Communication)
Robert Agunga (Agricultural Education)
Al Albarran (Center for Communication Arts, Southern  Methodist University)
Catherine Murphy Bakes (College of Business Administration, Kent State
University)
Lee B. Becker (Journalism)
Andrew Calabrese (University of Colorado)
Marjorie A. Cambre (Educational Policy and Leadership)
Charles Clift (School of Telecommunications, Ohio University)
Linda Cooper (Communication)
Sally Cousino (Ohio Development Association)
Alex Cruz (American Airlines)
Brenda Dervin (Communication)
Hugh Carter Donahue (Journalism)
Barbara Erdman (Educational Policy and Leadership)
Joseph M. Foley (Communication)
Jane M. Fraser (Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Cheikh Tidiane Gadio (Communication)
Jean-Michel Guldmann (City and Regional Planning)
Diane M. Hockman (Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur)
Bradley L. Johnston (Warner Cable Communications Inc.)
Robert J. Kalal (Academic Computing Services)
Bruce C. Klopfenstein (Radio-Television-Film Department,  Bowling Green State
University)
David Landsbergen Jr. (Public Policy and Management)
Raymond W. Lawton (NRRI)
Mary J. Leugers (CAST)
Gregory F. Lowe (Telecommunication, University of Kentucky)
Walter Mathews (Speech Communication and Theatre,Youngstown State University)
Thomas A. McCain (Communication)
Stanford Garikayi Mukasa (Bethany College)
Roopali Mukherjee (Communication)
Roger D. Musgrave (Fordham University)
Scott J. Patterson (Department of Communication Studies, Virginia Tech)
Dino G. Pezzutti (UNITS)
Charles H. Reilly (Industrial Systems Engineering)
Jeffrey B. Ritter (Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease)
Peter Robinson (Ottawa, Canada)
Anthony Roso Jr. (Colorado Office of Business Development)
Eric W. Rothenbuhler (University of Iowa)
Rohan Samarajiva (Communication)
Anthony P. Scott (Art Education and Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and
Design)
Peter Shields (Communication)
Dave Spooner (Senior Economic Development Officer, Manchester, England, City
Council)
Christopher H. Sterling (Communication, George Washington University)


Brief biographies of new associates follow:


Catherine Murphy Bakes is an assistant professor in the College of Business
Administration at Kent State University, where her teaching responsibilities
include the graduate and undergraduate telecommunications and networking
courses. Her research interests include telecommunications networks,
communications services, and local area network performance. She has spent
three summers as a faculty fellow in the Telecommunications and Networking
Branch at the NASA Lewis Research Center and is currently the principal
investigator for a grant awarded by NASA Lewis to investigate the role of
telecommunications technologies and services in a research environment. Cathy
received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from The Pennsylvania State
University, majoring in operations research. She also holds a Master of
Engineering Science degree from University College, Dublin, Ireland, and a
Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from University
College Cork, Ireland.


Linda Cooper is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at The Ohio
State University. She completed her M.A. degree in 1990 under the direction of
Professor Samarajiva, with a thesis "The Equity/Economic Efficiency Dichotomy
of the Caller ID Debate." From 1980 to 1988, she was employed by the Ohio
Technology Transfer Organization (OTTO) as a research associate and associate
director. During her tenure at OTTO, she presented and had published several
papers on the communication process of information transfer from the public to
the private sector. Currently, she is investigating the relationship between
communication technologies and the spatial/temporal practices of day-to-day
life.


Barbara Erdman received a masterUs degree in Library Science and a Ph.D. in
education technology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been an
assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership
since 1989, teaching courses in educational telecommunications and school
librarianship. Her research interests include the design and evaluation of
telecommunications applications in educational settings, and the development of
educational media centers. She worked with CAST to arrange the November 1990
symposium on television in the classroom. She currently is conducting a study
of the use of distance education satellite courses in the K-12 schools in Ohio.


Cheikh Tidiane Gadio is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at
The Ohio State University working on a dissertation titled "Cooperation in
Telecommunication Investment Between the World Bank and African States: A
Critical Assessment." Born in Senegal, Tidiane pursued advanced study in Paris
in sociology and journalism. From 1984 to 1988, he was employed by the Center
for Sciences and Techniques of Information Studies at the University of
Journalism in Dakar, Senegal. His responsibilities included being director of
the audiovisual department, and lecturing on "Television and Issues of
Socioeconomic Development." Tidiane's research focuses on 1) the impact of
telecommunications investment policies on the socioeconomic development of
Third World countries; and 2) the Gramscian concept of hegemony and its
application to the search for a viable framework of analysis of power
relationships within the structure of national or international communication.


Robert J. Kalal is an associate director of Academic Computing Services (ACS)
at The Ohio State University, focusing on distributed computing support and
Unix workstation support. He also serves as the ACS liaison to OSU Libraries
and is co-chair of the OhioLINK Library Document Delivery subcommittee, which
was formed to select a document delivery technology for Ohio public higher
education. Bob previously worked with OCLC and Ohio Bell. At OSU, Bob has
worked in mainframe scientific and engineering support, electronic mail and
text processing support, and in CAD/CAM/CIM and computer graphics support. He
managed the project team responsible for the OSU/CICNet Network Fax project,
led the design and implementation of the MAGNUS computer system, (a cluster of
small servers providing electronic news, mail, and information services to
7,000 campus users), and is currently working to build a free community
computer information system, "The Heart of Ohio Free-Net," for the Columbus
area.



Scott J. Patterson is an assistant  professor of Communication Studies at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he began teaching
this year after earning his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He publishes
and teaches in the broad area of the psychology of communication and culture.
Recently, Scott's work has focused explicitly on individual preferences for
different media communication channels. His current work explores the uses and
impact of high-capacity communication systems on individuals and communities.
Scott's research has been published in the Journal of Media Economics and the
Journal of Personality and Social Behavior. He also edited the proceedings of
the CAST symposia on collaborative strategies for developing telecommunication
networks in Ohio.


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CAST Associate profile: Leugers caps efforts at OSU, seeks new challenge

CAST Associate Mary Leugers has just completed an interdisciplinary master's
degree at The Ohio State University in business and communication. Her thesis,
titled "A Meta-analysis on Causality Patterns in Media Choice Literature,"
reviews the literature in the area of media choice, and derives a framework for
examining causal relationships in some variables affecting, and affected by,
media choice.

After three years as a research associate at CAST, where she provided technical
and general research support to the center and edited the CAST calendar,
Leugers is now looking for a job in telecommunications network management,
maintenance and design. Her goal is a position that would continue to build on
her education and work experience, which includes 15 months interning as a
communication specialist at Cellular One. That job gave her frontline
experience in network and user support, and problem solving in the
telecommunications industry. It also helped develop her interest in
customer-based support -- the process of tailoring telecommunication
infrastructure as much as possible to meet users' needs.

In addition to her focus on network and user support, Leugers has a particular
interest in international telecommunications. She was a participant in last
summer's academic joint venture with the University of Amsterdam that took a
group from Ohio State to Europe to examine European telecommunications
frameworks. Leugers found the project to be valuable in giving her an overview
of the European structure of the telecommunications industry, its regulation
and business. That experience, combined with the year she spent as an exchange
student in northern Germany in 1983-84, has given Leugers a particular interest
in telecommunications in German-speaking countries.  She hopes that at some
point, her telecommunications career will bring her back in contact with the
industry in those areas, allowing her to put her international experience and
German-language skills to good use.

Leugers expects to continue her work with Cellular One for the next few months,
gaining experience in telecommunications, interconnect issues, protocols and
other aspects of network management.


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Summer symposium put experts to work for area small businesses

                    By Linda Cooper
The Center for Advanced Study in Telecommunications and the new Center for
Information Technologies in Management (CITM) at The Ohio State University,
sponsored a half-day workshop on Aug. 28th, "Telecommunications for Small
Business." Registrants to the workshop represented trade associations, and
small- and medium-sized businesses. The workshop was designed to assist those
interested in exploring and expanding their use of telecommunications systems.

Representatives from industry and academia discussed local area networks,
access to information services, selecting telephone systems, and integrating
cellular telephones in the workplace. David Monroe, a research specialist in
Nationwide InsuranceUs advanced technology group, gave an overview of local
area networks and discussed present and future configurations of such networks.
Allyn Ehrhardt, a librarian at Franklin University, presented information on
information services available to small businesses that assist in business and
market planning. He discussed both public and private sector information
intermediaries who identify, collect and synthesize information for the small
business client. Ray Gross from Cellular One and a panel representing Ohio
Bell, spoke about the present and future uses of telephone systems and
services. Ray Gross is a vice president of sales for Cellular One's Ohio
market. The Ohio Bell group was composed of Marsha Greer, Sharon Maynard, Nick
Schneider and Kirby Turner, four individuals who have extensive experience
working with business customers of Ohio Bell. Their presentations focused on
the practical considerations in acquiring a telephone system in the business
startup phase.

Information packets and vendor materials were made available to
registrants.This workshop was the third annual summer workshop presented by
CAST.

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CAST News and Notes:

Old definition for "New Technology"

At a Battelle-Mershon conference on "Mass Media Technologies and Democracy"
held at The Ohio State University campus Oct. 8-11, there was a lively
discussion about the role that the mass media and information technologies had
played in aiding revolution in Eastern Europe in 1989. Several presenters
argued that, while telecommunications played a part, the old Gutenberg
technologies had actually been more effective in disseminating information
about the opposition. In both Poland and Hungary, the 1980s saw a booming
business in smuggling information technologies through the Iron Curtain,
technologies that were used by the opposition to publish and circulate
underground newsletters. But the conference discussion also highlighted the
technological gap existing between the former East Bloc nations and the West.
One of the so-called "New Technologies" identified in the discussion as having
been particularly helpful to the opposition in Poland -- was the photocopy
machine.

A significant subtheme of the conference was the political difficulties being
created by the inability of nations to control the flow of electronic
information across their borders. The impact of Radio Free Europe on Eastern
Europe, West German television on East Germany and other European-originated
material on efforts in The Netherlands to preserve that nation's language and
culture were specifically addressed.

Proceedings of the conference are being compiled for publication in book form,
although a publication date has not yet been set.


Warner Cable, United Telephone link schools

Warner Cable  and United Telephone are providing a distance learning link for
Allen County Schools in Ohio. This collaborative effort is the first
cable-telephone company distance learning project in Ohio that has come to
CAST's attention. United and Warner both contributed the planning and
engineering expertise that will allow simultaneous, fully interactive classes
with participation of students in four schools. The students of Allen county
schools will be the beneficiary of this project, which could not have been
accomplished without these two companies' cooperative efforts.


Students present their vision of telecom's future

Communication students from Ohio State addressed participants at the Great
Lakes Cable Expo in Cleveland in September concerning the status of
collaborative projects for OhioUs telecommunications networks. The students,
Holly Brinegar, Amy Vickroy, Niki Kosnick, Tom Hansen and Randy Malloy had been
involved in Thom McCain's senior seminar in telecommunications, where students
wrote case studies of collaborative efforts by Ohio telecommunications users
and providers. The purpose of the conference session was to demonstrate to
current cable industry operators and programmers the kinds of issues
contemporary university students see for the future of telecommunications. A
summary of these case studies will be available from CAST in December.



CAST family grows by one

Sue Brown, CAST Associate and secretary, has welcomed her first grandchild to
the world. Austin Stephen Brown was born Oct. 22 to Sue's daughter Heather.
Austin weighed in at 5 lbs. 12 oz., 19.25 inches long. Mother, son and new
grandmother are all doing fine. New tech congratulations will reach Sue at:
[e-mail].



Winter quarter plans under way

Planning is under way for the CAST roundtables for Winter Quarter. Those who
have suggestions regarding topics they would like to see addressed at a
roundtable, or individuals who they believe should beinvited to speak, should
contact Ann Hollifield at 292-0080 or E-mail [e-mail]
as soon as possible.



Readership survey planned

In the next issue of CAST calendar, we will be asking for your input as to how
CAST can better serve you. What type of news and information about
telecommunications do you need in your research and professional activities?
What information in the CAST calendar do you find most useful? What do you
think we can improve, and what can we add to our offerings that we are not now
providing? Please plan to fill out the survey and return it to CAST. Your needs
are important to us.

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Upcoming Events:


CAST Roundtables
Editor's Note: If you are sponsoring an event in the telecommunications field
to which the public is invited and wish to have it included in the CAST
calendar, or if you have suggestions regarding speakers or topics that you
would like to see presented at a CAST Roundtable, please contact Ann Hollifield
at 292-0080. CAST Roundtables are held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Ohio
Legal Center, 33 West 11th Ave., Room 115, on The Ohio State University campus.
Admission is free and the public is welcome. Parking is available in the
parking garage just north of the Ohio Union on North High Street. For more
information, call Sue Brown at 292-8444 or Ann Hollifield at 292-0080.

Dec. 2
Dr. David Landsbergen of OSUUs Department of Public Policy and Management will
discuss his research into relationships between economic development and
telecommunications infrastructure. Landsbergen is currently surveying cities
and states that are doing telecommunications infrastructure planning to find
out how well the planning approach is working. Landsbergen expects to develop a
typology for different types of telecommunications plans, and to try to define
which strategies, such as free trade zones and tax incentives, are successful.


Conferences and seminars

Nebraska Economic
Development Conference

Jan. 12-13, 1993
The International Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha will join with the Nebraska Department of Economic
Development and an array of other sponsors in offering a two-day symposium. Two
keynote speakers will highlight the agenda: Dr. Don Dillman from the University
of Washington and Dr. Sharon Strover from the University of Texas at Austin.

The symposium will focus on application of telecommunications and information
systems technologies appropriate for organizations in rural areas. The agenda
is designed to provide items of interest to the technological novice in a
policymaking role, as well as to the technologically proficient manager looking
to expand market reach.

For more information contact Tallie Bishop at ICTM, University of Nebraska at
Omaha, 304 CBA, Omaha, NE  68182-0459, [phone].