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FACCT Online Forum - Empowering Patients Online
by Aryne Blumklotz 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Join us for a FACCT online forum Empowering Patients Online* featuring Gary Schwitzer Health care journalist and communications authority Tuesday, June 18 - Thursday, June 20 We invite you to participate in an online discussion about Web-based decision-support tools. Learn how these tools work, how they are developed, who is using them and how they benefit consumers. Log on for a few minutes each day to: * Learn about the top Web-based consumer support tools for online decision-making. * Discuss the pros and cons of the most popular tools. * Find out what consumers want and what these online products offer. * Generate ideas for building a consumer-centered model for online decision-making. *Empowering Patients Online is a free event - but you must register to participate. To register simply reply to this e-mail listing your name and e-mail address in the message space. We'll send you instructions on how to log onto the site and participate in the discussion. Aryne Blumklotz, MPH - Communications Coordinator FACCT - The Foundation for Accountability 1200 NW Naito Parkway, Suite 470 Portland, OR 97209 Phone: (503) 546-9717 Fax: (503) 223-4336 www.facct.org

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FYI - index of journals
by Irene Berkowitz 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

I just got this on another listserv and thought I would pass it along. The Iowa guide online at (http://fmp2.its.uiowa.edu/iowaguide/indexpage.html) has a list of journals for media related articles. It gives details as to content covered, if it is blind reviewed, page lengths, bibliography format, etc. Thanks, IB Irene Berkowitz Program Director, Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu

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RE: [Air-l] Communication research Methods
by Andrew Herman 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

Thanks Komiko. I hadn't thought about Babbie--I used when I was in grad school. It is a very nice text. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793-2531 >>> kaoki(a)bu.edu 06/12/03 13:44 PM >>> I've been teaching communication research methods courses for five years and found the following textbooks useful. Wimmer, R.D. and Dominick, J.R. (2003). Mass Media Research: An Introduction. 7th ed. * Good introductory textbook with ample examples of practical applications in mass media research. I use this textbook for my undergraduate research course. Frey, L R., Botan, C. H., and Kreps, G L. (2000). Investigating Communication: An Introduction Research Methods. 2nd Ed. * Introductory, but comprehensive textbook with detailed explanation of statistical analyses. I used to use this book for my graduate research course. Reinard, J.C. (2001). Introduction to Communication Research. 3rd ed. * Another introductory textbook focusing on quantitative research in communication. Babbie, E. (2004). The Practice of Social Research. 10th ed. * This is more for sociological research than communication research. But, the author explains concepts well in a friendly manner. I use this textbook for my graduate research course. Hope this helps. Kumiko Aoki, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Boston University 640 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 tel: 617/358-1305 fax: 617/358-1301 email: kaoki(a)bu.edu homepage: http://people.bu.edu/kaoki "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:13:50 -0400 > From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman(a)holycross.edu> > To: <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-l] Communication research Methods > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Friends- > > I wil be teaching a graduate level course on communications research = > methods next year for the very first time. Can any of you > recommend some = > good texts to use? > > Thanks, > > AH > > Andrew Herman, Ph. D. > Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology > College of the Holy Cross > Worcester, MA 01610 > (508) 793-2531 > _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Warchalking does not exist: a wager.
by Christian Sandvig 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi Steve and air-l colleagues, Steve: Remember the hallway conversation we had last fall about whether or not 'true' Warchalking exists? If I remember, it was your contention that it does and that you'd seen it in the Loop. As you know I'm doing a research project on Wi-Fi and I've been trying to settle this for a while. I'm writing this note to air-l because I need help. For background, Warchalking is the use of symbols (marked with chalk) to indicate the presence of a Wi-Fi hotspot. In pure form, the story of warchalking is that there is a subculture of Wi-Fi users that use chalk to communicate with each other about Wi-Fi locations. Hip/cool businesses then co-opted the subcultural warchalking to advertise their own hotspots. More at: http://www.warchalking.org/ My contention is that the first (subcultural) story about warchalking above is entirely a media phenomenon -- it is a beautiful idea, but it doesn't make any sense as a directory service to find Wi-Fi. It is too easy to miss a warchalk mark, and the chalk wears away (or washes away in the rain) too quickly. Warchalking symbols were heavily promoted in the New York Times just *48 hours* after they were first made public on the Web. There was a subsequent wave of media stories about warchalking, giving everyone ideas. Every single occurrence of chalk I've found can be attributed to chalkers who want to self-promote their own mark. So I believe that people *do* rarely make warchalking marks for various reasons (to be cool, to advertise for their own network) but I *don't* believe that people use warchalking marks in a meaningful way to find Wi-Fi. After the conversation with Steve, on December 18th I posted an call to many colleagues around the world asking for verifiable instances of warchalking that work the way that warchalking describes itself. Reports to date: zero. If warchalking worked as a directory location service, shouldn't I be able to find it? I just had a close call -- a friend told me that my office at Oxford had been warchalked. Since it is a WEP (non-open) node and I didn't do it, this could be half of a "true" instance of warchalking! I ran out as soon as I heard but couldn't find the mark. It must have washed away? (Here in England, it is raining.) So I am willing to propose a wager, or a bounty. I'll bet one dollar that warchalking is not a meaningful way of locating Wi-Fi hotspots. To win the bounty, can anyone deliver someone that uses warchalking to locate Wi-Fi hotspots? Caveats: (1) Warchalking done by the provider of the hotspot does not count -- it is supposedly a co-option of the "pure" subculture. I dispute the subculture, not the self-promotion. (2) I am not disputing that wardriving, warwalking, and online hotspot mapping (warchalking with bits in GIS databases, not with chalk) exist as advertised. (Though others have.) My beef here is only about the chalk part. I've made a web page for this bet that has the relevant emails I've sent and some links: http://www.niftyc.org/bet/ As you may have guessed I'm writing a paper about this. Email me if you want a copy when I finish. Thank you for any help! Christian -- http://www.niftyc.org/

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AoIR elections forum
by Steve Jones 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Dear AoIR members and air-l list participants, We are currently entering the discussion period for the AoIR elections. It will proceed until July 11, 2003. A reminder of the elections timeline: 1. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Elapsed 2. END OF NOMINATION PERIOD: Elapsed 3. DISCUSSION PERIOD BEGINS: <---------------NOW 4. DISCUSSION PERIOD ENDS: July 11, 2003 3. VOTING PERIOD BEGINS: July 14, 2003 4. VOTING PERIOD ENDS: July 28, 2003 5. NEW COMMITTEE ASSUMES DUTIES: At the end of the General Meeting at the fourth annual AoIR conference, October 16 - 19, 2003. This year we are trying a web forum for the discussion period before elections. You will find it at http://aoir.org/forum. To use this forum, please go the above url and read the nominee information (some nominee information is still forthcoming) and ask questions and discuss AoIR, the election positions, and what you would like for AoIR to become or how you might like it to change. In short, nearly any topic related to AoIR is open to discussion in the forum. However, we ask that you maintain a general decorum appropriate for such discussions. (Moderation or other tools may be used to maintain this.) You do not have to create an account, and log in to post, but if you do log in, you can then edit and delete your posts. Limited anonymity is allowed by the system but postings which identify the poster as another known party will be deleted by request or at the discretion of the moderators. The moderators for this discussion are the President, the Vice-President and the two Publication Officers of AoIR, none of which are running for >>> election. Again, the url for the discussion period is: http://aoir.org/forum. Many thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger for the technical work of setting up the forum and to the members of the AoIR Executive Committee for their input and feedback during its testing. Thank you, Steve Jones Sj

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Res: Re: [Air-l] Re: Air-l digest - The Social Movements Question
by rsvasc＠ar.microlink.com.br 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

So would I. Regards, Camila Drt <drt(a)un.bewaff.net> wrote : > Am Montag, 30.06.03 um 15:47 Uhr schrieb Sandor Vegh: > > > Hans, > > > > I can offer a relevant chapter or two from my dissertation (it has a > > strong > > focus on the mainstream media perspective): > > > > Hacking for Democracy: A Study of the Internet as a Political Force > > and Its > > Representation in the Mainstream Media. Doctoral Dissertation. > > University of > > Maryland. 2003. > > Hi Sandor, > > I would be extremly interested in your theses. > > Regards > > Max > > -- > Maximillian Dornseif - http://md.hudora.de/ > Dipl. Jur., University of Bonn, Germany - ars longa, vita brevis! > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l ___________________________________ Microlink Internet com Qualidade, http://www.microlink.com.br

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sources on Internet Policy - Canadian
by T Kennedy 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Hello; Statistics Canada offers some basis for assessing the market potential for internet services as well as highlighting several 'digital divides' (principally along income, education, and age lines), but they offer little insight on what value these services hold for people nor guidance on how to ameliorate the gaps. I am looking for some sources concerning qualitative studies, in (English-speaking) Canada that address policy concerns or studies that have linked Internet policy and ethnographic fieldwork. Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy Graduate Department of Sociology University of Toronto www.netwomen.ca tkennedy(a)netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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CFP: e-Democracy - Technology, Law and Politics
by Robert Krimmer [e-Voting.at] 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Please distribute --- Call for Contributions E-Democracy: Technology, Law and Politics Report of the working group E-Democracy Forum e-government of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) Content: Numerous applications use the Internet for business and administrative transactions. The question remains, however, how the Internet can be used for the support of democratic decision making and citizen participation ("e-democracy"). In order to achieve this, technical challenges have to be solved; however, also legal and political aspects have to addressed. The OCG working group e-democracy was founded in autumn 2002 and addresses e-democracy in its entirety. The aim of this proceedings volume is to summarize the current state of the discussion not only in Austria, but also on the development of e-democracy on an international scale. This call for contributions addresses mainly the presenters in the course of the working group but contributions from all researchers and practitioners in the field of e-democracy are welcome. Contributions may specialize in the fields of IT-related issues, legal, political or sociological aspects of e-democracy. Both theoretical research, comparative studies and case study reports are welcome. Publication: The volume will be published in the series OCG/ Forum e-Government. Editors: Prof. Alexander Prosser, Mag. Robert Krimmer The members of the working group serve as review board. Language of contributions: German or English Kind of contribution: Either a Full Paper (4.-5.000 words) or a Short Note (1.500 words) shall be submitted. Important Dates: 31st July 2003: Deadline for submitting extended abstracts (500 words) 20th August 2003: Author Notification of Acceptance 30th September 2003: Submission of camera-ready papers The proceedings volume will be presented during the OCG AT21 conference in Vienna (18th November 2003) and Graz (4th December 2003) to the general public (AT21 dates are subject to change). Upload and Submission details are available at http://e-Voting.at/proceedings. --- Mag. Robert Krimmer (robert.krimmer(a)wu-wien.ac.at) ~ Projektassistent e-Voting.at ~ Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien Institut fuer Informationsverarbeitung und -wirtschaft Abteilung Produktionsmanagement Pappenheimgasse 35/5 A-1200 Wien, Austria ~ phone: +43 1 31336 5622, fax: +43 1 31336 90 5622 ~ web: http://www.e-Voting.at, http://www.robert.krimmer.at --- Get the Austrian e-Gov-Mailinglist! Subscribe at http://lists.wu-wien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/e-gov

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Re: <nettime> from the dotcom observatory (geert lovink)
by geert lovink 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

> 6. <nettime> from the dotcom observatory (geert lovink) > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:48:41 +0200 (added by postmaster(a)eta.fastwebnet.it) > From: "geert lovink" <geert(a)springerin.at> > Subject: [Air-l] <nettime> from the dotcom observatory > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org Hi, someone must have used my name to send this file (a virus?) to this list and other addresses. Looks like an Italian hacker or someone in Austria perhaps if you look at the email and header. Sorry about that. It happens more often. I stopped looking into such cases long time ago. The who and why do not bother me but it is annoying anyway. Ciao, Geert > Content-Type: audio/x-midi; > name=treba da.txt.pif > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-ID: <a1f144IBpimiH>

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CFP -- Critical Discourse Studies
by Phil Graham 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Dear All, Please distribute widely. Best regards, Phil ********************** Call for Papers Critical Discourse Studies: An interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences A Routlegde Journal -- New for 2004 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17405904.asp Editors: Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University, UK Phil Graham, University of Queensland, Australia Jay Lemke, University of Michigan, USA Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna, Austria Authors are invited to submit papers for publication in Critical discourse Studies, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Routledge-Taylor & Francis. Critical Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change. The journal has been established in response to the proliferation of critical discourse studies across the social sciences and humanities. We will consider for publication papers that meet the needs of scholars in diverse disciplines and areas of study which develop critical perspectives on the relationship between discourse and social dynamics. Relevant areas and disciplines include, but are not limited to: anthropology communication cultural studies education ethnic studies gender studies geography history legal studies linguistics literary studies management studies media studies migration studies philosophy political economy political science psychology sociology technology studies urban studies The ediitors also welcome papers which connect critical academic research with practical concerns and agendas, including those of activist and grassroots political movements. The scope of critical discourse studies is not limited to linguistic studies, or articles that are primarily empirical or analytical. Critical examination of non-linguistic phenomena that take a significant discourse orientation, as well as theoretical and methodological papers that advance critical understandings of discursive phenomena, are welcomed. Recognising the diversity, depth, and history of scholarship in the growth of critical discourse studies, no particular theoretical, disciplinary, or methodological "schools" or paradigms will be privileged over others in the selection of papers for publication. The primary criteria for publication are originality, scholarly rigor, coherence of argument, relevance and timeliness of research. Critical Discourse Studies encourages contributions from both new and established scholars. The journal recognises that the new and rapidly changing social relations of the current age call for new approaches and new understandings that bridge disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Therefore the editors strongly encourage the submission of papers that help us achieve these aims. Critical Discourse Studies aims to be accessible. It aims for papers that are written clearly, explain key terms and concepts in an accessible way for readers at many levels, and recognise the needs and interests of its diverse community of readers. For further information, or to submit manuscripts, email editorial(a)cds-web.net . Further information, including notes for authors, is available at the Routledge-Taylor and Francis Critical Discourse Studies webpage: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17405904.asp. International Advisory Board John Armitage - Northumbria University, UK Henrik Bang - University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Billig - Loughborough University, UK David Boje - New Mexico State University, USA Dominic Boyer - Cornell University, USA Carmen Caldas-Coulthard - University of Birmingham, UK Eve Chiapello - HEC Grand Ecole, France Paul Chilton - University of East Anglia, UK Lilie Chouliaraki - University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mike Cole - UCSD, USA David Cromwell - Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK Robert de Beaugrande - Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil Konrad Ehlich - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Yrjo Engestrom - University of Helsinki, Finland Susan Gal - University of Chicago, USA Annette Hastings - University of Glasgow, USA Rick Iedema - University of New South Wales, Australia Bob Jessop - Lancaster University, UK Douglas Kellner - UCLA, USA Helga Kotthoff - Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany Robin Lakoff - Berkeley, USA Colin Lankshear - University of Ballarat, Australia Angel Lin - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Allan Luke - National Institute of Education, Singapore Izabel Magalhaes - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Bernard McKenna - University of Queensland, Australia John O'Neill - Lancaster University, UK Ernesto Laclau - University of Essex, UK Bruno Latour - Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Mark Poster - UC Irvine, USA Luisa Martin Rojo - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Carlo Ruzza - University of Essex, UK Ron Scollon - Georgetown University, USA Roger Silverstone - London School of Economics, UK Glenn Stillar - University of Waterloo, Canada Adam Tickell - University of Bristol, UK Teun van Dijk - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Theo van Leeuwen - University of Cardiff, UK Karl Weick - University of Michigan Business School, USA James Wertsch - Washington University in St Louis, USA Stanton E. F. Wortham - University of Pennsylvania, USA ....................................................................................................................... Phil Graham Senior Lecturer UQ Business School www.business.uq.edu.au Editor, Critical Discourse Studies www.cds-web.net www.philgraham.net/philindex.htm ........................................................................................................................

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