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Re: [Air-l] Community "Critical Mass"? (Dr. T. Michael Roberts) / Research Survey
by Peter Ryan 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Dear all, This is my first post to the AoIR listserv, although Ive been lurking for a few months now. Im currently completing by doctorate in an interdisciplinary graduate research program, and I find this discussion of methodology interesting in that the pedagogy of my university definitely supports the view that methodological issues should be approached from the perspective of using the "best" methods for addressing and observing a researchers object of study. For example, if Im researching best practices for how people interact with and use a particular software, perhaps an ethnographic or qualitative usability study would better serve my needs, rather than a quantitative study that captures the order of icons that a user selects while using the software (and other such statistically measurable items) -- although the survey would definitely add extra elements to the research story if it were well designed, as Dr. T. Michael Roberts is describing. Similarly, on-line content analysis and textual analysis tools are now often helping reduce narrative reports to numbers with ease. In other words, new on-line tools and communities like TAPoR, for example, are adding to the ease with which quantitative analysis can now be conducted. Often it is an issue of simply adding an automated survey, or other form of reporting, that could lend itself to later quantitative analysis, for an added perspective to a qualitative study story. For example, heres a shameless self promotion, if anyone has any free time this holiday break, Id greatly appreciate anyone interested in the topic of how literature affects research and development filling out my quick little doctoral research survey which can be found at the following link: * <a href="https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm">https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm</a> * https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm *Please take the time to fill the survey out, especially if you are either 1) a published author or 2) employed in the information communication technology sector. The survey should take about 15 minutes of your time, depending on your level of involvement. I appreciate any and all comments and feedback the more information recorded here, the better because it will help both my quantitative and qualitative research analysis in the long run. *Also, if you know any other interested networks or listserves that might not mind this type of research circulating on its servers, I would appreciate the survey being forwarded on... More information on my research can be found by following the link above. At this point, I hope that the survey will travel far and wide like a stolen garden gnome that will one day come back to its owner. *Importance of this Research* I hope that you will take the time to help this research because of its importance in the following listed areas of study. Specifically, this research aims to develop: 1) a better understanding of how to improve the potential of networked research via the use of computers. Computers have been called the imagination machine, but are we using our new abundance of information effectively and imaginatively? 2) an interdisciplinary understanding of how the two cultures of the Arts and Computer Sciences do in fact work together (if they do at all). 3) recommendations for economic policy that is being led by the creative sector. In particular, funding for the Arts have been cut in recent years, despite the huge economic impact that the cultural industries have on local economies; while the funding for ICTs continues to increase without any apparent regard for the environmental problems caused by the development of the infrastructure that is required by a technological society how can these two policy arcs be realigned in a focused and mutually beneficial way? 4) maps of ICT networks that emphasize and link these two cultures. If we can visualize how research networks overlap with artistic and literary capital, then perhaps improvements can be made to the systems of communication between the agents of these two cultures. Such an analysis can also be used as a valuable case study for other communities. Thank you for your time and consideration of this message, and I hope it helps add to this conversation of methodological considerations. Sincerely, Peter Malachy Ryan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Malachy Ryan, PhD Candidate Rogers Fellow, Communication and Culture Ryerson University Blog: www.cprobes.com/pr ************************************************************************************ Today's Topics: 1. Re: Community "Critical Mass"? (Dr. T. Michael Roberts) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:08:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. T. Michael Roberts" <dr_haqiqah(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Community "Critical Mass"? To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <701748.35560.qm(a)web36804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mary-Helen, I am one of those rare birds thoroughly trained in both qualitative and quantitative Research Methodology. I started out with degrees in philosophy and literature and was drawn into the Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education by an interest in Transpersonal Psychology. I was told once admitted that I would have to take at least four courses in Statistics and Research Methodology to become a doctor and was a damn fool if I did not take every course offered by the department in number crunching. Qualitative Research Methodology was not mentioned during this conversation or, at the time, in the catalog of courses. The folks over in Psychology looked down on the folks over in the education school but granted us the left-handed compliment of being better statisticians than they were and better trained in Psychology than the average math nerd. I had never taken Algebra. I took business math with Coach Vickers in high school and then majored in Philosophy at a small, liberal arts college which cross-listed logic courses as both PHIL and MATH. So, you can imagine how splendidly self-confident I felt as I stood in Dr. Donald Ary?s office explaining to him that I would be taking his Educational Statistics 1 next term because I really had no choice. I had dropped by to apologize in advance for the ineptitude I was sure I would display and, perhaps, to convince him that I was, when allowed to speak English rather than being forced to express myself through numbers, at least slightly brighter than a turnip. I enjoyed Dr. Ary?s course tremendously and took every course offered by the department in number crunching for the pure joy of it. I realized at some point that much number crunching is done for the pure joy of it and developed a bit of a habit in that direction myself. I spent so long finishing the degree I started while doing another simultaneously that I passed comps and became officially ABD the same term the department?s first semiotican was hired. I did a quantitative dissertation but probably would not have if the semiotican had burst upon the scene a year earlier. Upon graduation, I began teaching Psychology for a community college. My greatest success came teaching Psychology 2317 (Basic Statistics) both online and in the traditional classroom. I never got a single math nerd in that class in all the times I taught it. My classes closed shortly after opening every term after the first, filling up quickly with would-be nurses told by the State of Texas that 3 hours of statistics were required for licensure. These nurses genuinely loved my Education School approach to teaching statistics, an approach that involved dealing with statistics at the level of concept rather than getting bogged down with all those elaborate formulas and tricky computations. You can get away with that if you have them buy SPSS ($80.00) instead of a text-book. Anyway, I now teach English rather than Psychology. I miss my nurses but enjoy working with my composition students even more. I was always a story-teller. My fascination with statistics was an attempt on my part to embrace my opposite. That fascination began during a time in my life when I felt that I was drowning in an ocean of competing stories and desperately needed to feel something solid beneath my feet, something that was there before anyone started interpreting and which refused to be interpreted away. Will that do as a definition of reality? Patterns in numbers that were just numbers standing in abstract relationship without anything being defined except within the web of those relationships felt like solid ground to me. Later, I faced the awful fact that these patterns only come to mean when you turn them into a story by saying that 17i is the length of Jessica?s nose which is why Roger and Jessica eloped to Vegas. The truth is ?out there?, as Fox Moulder used to say, but can only be lived ?in here? in the form of a story that must go beyond the information given in order to become a fit place for human beings to live, love and occasionally try to jump out of the story like cat nipped kitties chasing their own lovely tails. I hope I have made all this perfectly clear. My students tell me that my learned discourse holds together at least as well as jazz and that they do profit in some vague way by exposure. Then again, I tell them that their essays will make fascinating reading if they just capture themselves in a net of words. I try to be kind and, perhaps, they do also in return. T. Michael --- Mary-Helen Ward <mhward(a)usyd.edu.au> wrote: > But why? Why reduce people's words, thoughts and > emotional responses > to mathematical coding? Why not use qualitative > methods to capture/ > represent/investigate the interactions? I understand > that it's still > a reduction; a distillation from the original, but > it speaks in clear > ways too. > > Theory can be developed from life using many > methods; maths is only > one of them. Maybe when we talk about the 'body of > knowledge' we need > to think about its blood and guts (the messy stuff) > and well as bones > and ligaments. > > M-H > >

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Phenomenographic research methodology
by 'Gail Taylor 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

I am currently doing a literature search to locate articles reporting the findings of phenomenographic studies of human-technology relationships. In particular, studies where the researcher had participants produce a drawing of their relationships as one of the data collection methodologies. I am doing some brainstorming on how this research methodology might be used to explore employee-technology relationships in work environments where social and technical system interactions are self-goverened or governed by policies and procedures developed and enformed by members of management. I am finding this research method is popular among researchers in the medical sciences, and looking for studies that have been conducted in other fields of practice. Any assistance and/or advice about using this research methodology would be appreciated! --------------------------------------- Gail Taylor, M.Ed. Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant

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Searching for materials on "Cyber-friendship"
by Nurullah 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi all, I'm from a Malaysian university, preparing for my thesis (initially) entitled 'Cyberfriendship: the patterns of virtual friendship on the internet'. Therefore, I'm looking for materials/ literature related to this topic/ theme. Please let me know if you have the source of the available materials/ literature/ researches that have been conducted in this area. Cheers !!! *********************************************************** Abu Sadat Nurullah Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Homepage: http://nurullah786.blogspot.com/ Phone no: (+6)0192572423 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Community "Critical Mass"?
by Chris Modzelewski 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Hello Everybody, I've got a (hopefully) quick question: is anyone familiar with research into when an online community attains a "critical mass" and becomes self-sustaining? In terms of community, I'm thinking of online communities such as wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, etc. that specifically require participatory involvement. In terms of "critical mass" I'm thinking of audience size / reach, ratio of "posters" to lurkers, etc. Does anyone know of research into this area? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. All the best, Chris Modzelewski -- Chris Modzelewski Emerging Analysis Corporation

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Games and Culture CFP
by Larissa Hjorth 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Apologies for cross posting. ^^ Call for papers Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media Special issue: Gaming in the Asia-Pacific As a region, the Asia-Pacific is marked by diverse penetration rates of gaming, mobile and broadband technologies, subject to local cultural and socio-economic nuances. Two defining locations – Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan) – are seen as both “mobile centres” and “gaming centres” to which the world looks towards as examples of the future-in-the-present. Unlike Japan, which pioneered the keitai (mobile) IT revolution and mobile consoles such as playstation2, South Korea – the most broadbanded country in the world – has become a centre for MMOs (online massively multiplayer) games and convergent mobile DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadband i.e. TU mobile). Adorned with over 20,000 PC bangs (PC rooms) in Seoul alone and with professional players (Pro-leagues) making over a million US per year, locations such as South Korea have been lauded as an example of gaming as a mainstream social activity. In a period marked by convergent technologies, South Korea and Japan represent two opposing directions for gaming – Korea emphasizes online MMOs games played on stationary PCs in public spaces (PC bangs) whilst Japan pioneers the mobile (privatized) convergent devices. These two distinct examples, with histories embroiled in conflict and imperialism, clearly demonstrate the importance of locality in the uptake of specific games and game play. This issue seeks to explore the politics of game play and cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Housing sites for global gaming production and consumption such as China, Japan and South Korea, the region provides a wealth of divergent examples of the role of gaming as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Drawing from micro ethnographic studies to macro political economy analysis of techno-nationalisms and trans-cultural flows of cultural capital, this issue will provide an interdisciplinary model for thinking through the politics of gaming production, representation and consumption in the region. Topics of papers will discuss the region in terms of one of the following areas: - Case study analysis of specific games and game play - Is there such thing as a culturally specific aesthetic to the production and consumption of certain games? - What is the “future” of gaming? - Emerging and re-occurring productions of techno-nationalism in the region - New media and experimental gaming in the region - Convergent technologies and the impact on established modes of game play - Gendered consumption and production of games - Government regulations and types of game play - Pervasive gaming and the role of co-presence Deadline for this special issue of Games and Culture: 15th March 2007. Authors should submit all inquiries, expressions of interest and papers to Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University) larissa.hjorth(a)rmit.edu.au. Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media invites academics, designers and developers, and researchers interested in the growing field of game studies to submit articles, reviews, or special issues proposals to the editor. Games and Culture is an interdisciplinary publication, and therefore it welcomes submissions by those working in fields such as Communication, Anthropology, Computer Science, English, Sociology, Media Studies, Cinema/Television Studies, Education, Art History, and Visual Arts. All submissions are peer reviewed by two or more members of the distinguished, multi-disciplinary editorial board. Games and Culture aims to have all papers go through their initial review within three months of receipt. Manuscripts should be submitted with four paper copies and electronically in Word or Word Perfect format and conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Fifth Edition) and should not exceed 10,000 words in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be returned to the author(s).

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Fwd: Networks, Collective Action and Social Movements Call for Papers
by Moses Boudourides 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

FYI, --Moses ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Tindall <tindall(a)interchange.ubc.ca> Date: Dec 23, 2006 2:41 AM Subject: Networks, Collective Action and Social Movements Call for Papers To: mcadam(a)stanford.edu, ct135(a)columbia.edu, cansell(a)uclink4.berkeley.edu, broad001(a)umn.edu, mische(a)rci.rutgers.edu, wcarroll(a)uvic.ca, mario.diani(a)soc.unitn.it, oliver(a)ssc.wisc.edu, plloyd(a)ucla.edu, C.Baerveldt(a)fss.uu.nl, m-osa(a)northwestern.edu, psb17(a)columbia.edu, kitts(a)u.washington.edu, pg.klandermans(a)fsw.vu.nl, malinick(a)interchange.ubc.ca, jcormie4(a)uwo.ca, rsratner(a)interchange.ubc.ca, knoke(a)atlas.socsci.umn.edu, mgranovetter(a)stanford.edu, khampton(a)asc.upenn.edu, wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca, gartrell(a)uvic.ca, Myers.33(a)nd.edu, tindall(a)interchange.ubc.ca, joannalrobinson(a)yahoo.com, hsampark(a)pitt.edu, pitpat(a)pitt.edu, moses.boudourides(a)gmail.com, c.a.rootes(a)kent.ac.uk, iosif(a)aegean.gr, annaliisa.aunio(a)gmail.com Cc: tindall(a)interchange.ubc.ca As many of you may know, this year's International Sunbelt Social Network Conference is being held from May 1st - 6th, 2007 in Corfu, Greece. The URL for the conference is: http://www.insna.org/2007/Sunbelt%202007.html or http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/conf/Sunbelt2007/ On this webpage there are links for submitting an abstract, registering for the conference, and reserving a hotel room. FYI -- David Tindall, Christopher Rootes, and Mario Diani are organizing sessions on "Collective Action and Social Movements" and we would like to invite you to present a paper. If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please send an e-mail to David Tindall, Christopher Rootes, or Mario Diani (addresses given below) with the title of your paper, and your abstract by January 30th, 2007. You will also need to complete the abstract submission form at: https://cgi.sfu.ca/~insna/confpapers/ When registering online, you should also mention that you intend that your paper be submitted for our session. Sincerely, David Tindall Associate Professor Department of Sociology University of British Columbia E-mail: tindall(a)interchange.ubc.ca Christopher Rootes Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology Director, Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements School of Social Policy, Sociology & Social Research, University of Kent, E-mail: c.a.rootes(a)kent.ac.uk Mario Diani Professor and Dean Faculty of Sociology University of Trento Email: mario.diani(a)unitn.it

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EGOV 2007 - Call for Papers
by Jochen Scholl 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

-- We kindly apologize for multiple postings -- ================================== Sixth International EGOV Conference 2007 (EGOV-7) within the DEXA conference cluster <http://www.dexa.org> Regensburg (Germany), September 3 - 7, 2007 Call for Papers For more details please see the website of the European EGOV Society: http://www.egov-society.org -> / -> Conferences -> EGVO 07 The international EGOV conference series gives annual state of the art overviews in eGovernment and eGovernance research, implementation and application. Thereby, the conferences provide important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. The annual EGOV conferences bring together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. Over the years, the interest has increased tremendously. The 2006 conference attracted about 130 participants from 28 countries all over the world including developing countries, with 30 contributions in outstanding research, 30 contributions in ongoing research, 15 projects contributions and 5 workshops. Hence the EGOV Conferences have become a reunion for academics and professionals as well as an important ground for networking. The EGOV Conference Series hosts four distinct formats of contributions: Scientific papers (distinguished between completed research and ongoing research); project presentations, and workshops. These formats encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the study domain, but also welcome innovative research work in progress, and studies of practical eGovernment projects and systems implementation. The conference also includes a PhD student colloquium providing doctoral students with an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Over the years, organizational and user-related issues long discussed among researchers have finally gained influence on practice. Conversely, eGovernment practice has influenced and inspired eGovernment research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention over the years. In recent years, the assessment of eGovernment efforts, the prospects of eGovernment as a research discipline, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among the top topics on the research agenda. For the sixth series of EGOV conferences, hence, the list of topics includes the following: * Strategies and frameworks, motivators, contextual biases - Frameworks and guidelines for eGovernment and eGovernance - eGovernment policies, strategies and implementation - Legal, societal and cultural aspects of eGovernment - Public awareness of eServices availability * eDemocracy and eParticipation challenges - Research challenges and frameworks - eParticipation and eVoting tools and technologies - eParticipation socio-technical research concepts and solutions - Applications and cases of eParticipation solutions - Social networking and communities to foster political debates - The role of local communities in eParticipation * Assessment of eGovernment and eParticipation - Methods and tools for assessment - Experiences from assessment trials - Analysis of values for eGovernment stakeholders - Public value generation through eGovernment - Cross-national comparative studies * eGovernment and development (ICT4D) - Transnational eGovernment - International and regional projects, case studies and best practice - International dimensions: cooperation, comparisons, networks - The role of eGovenment in development (ICT4D) * eGovernment research - Methods and tools of eGovernment research - Inter- and multidisciplinary research issues and examples - Bridging single discipline research towards multidisciplinarity - Issues distinguishing the eGov domain of study. * Training courses and teaching eGovernment - Teaching eGovernment - eSkills development: training courses and eLearning solutions for public sector employees - eSkills development: how to train the citizens? - Syllabus for teaching and training eGovernment and eParticipation * Conceptual design and frames - Administrative process design and change, collaborative activities, legal interpretation - Knowledge management, public information, decision process support - eGovernment ontologies - Change management and new organisational arrangements: public-private- partnerships, virtual teams - Enterprise architectures and other whole-government approaches * Implementation aspects - One-stop government, electronic service delivery, mobile services - Interoperability and standards, semantic standardisation - Trust and security: provisions and instruments * mGovernment and emerging technologies for eGovernment and eParticipation - Mobile technologies - Mobile fieldwork in government: Challenges and promises - Media integration, media convergence, e.g. integration of VoIP and mobile phones with eGov services - Digital TV as a means to reach the citizen? - Semantic web technologies Submissions may qualify as follows: * Completed research papers * Ongoing research, projects, and general development issues * Workshops and panels on pertinent issues * PhD colloquium submissions We seek for innovative and rigorous contributions. Further details are available at the conference website: http://www.egov-society.org/ --------------------- Third PhD Colloquium General The 3rd EGOV PhD student colloquium will be held on 2nd and 3rd September in conjunction with the annual EGOV conference. The objective of the Colloquium is to bring together Ph.D. students working on any aspect of eGovernment (technical, organizational, informational, societal, socio- technical, research foundations, tools, and applications, or any combination) from a theoretical or empirical perspective and give them an opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive, and international atmosphere. The Colloquium will particularly provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with leading researchers in the field and with the eGovernment community as a whole. Both the diversity of research avenues and the interactive setting will provide a unique learning opportunity for all participants of the colloquium. A committee of PhD students guided by advice from two international faculty members will organize the PhD Colloquium. Submission guidelines Submissions to the PhD Colloquium should be sent to the PhD program chairs <http://www.uni-koblenz.de/%7Eegov/egov-s/egov2007/organising> by email. Paper submission shall follow the same guidelines as those for general EGOV07 research paper submissions. However, PhD Colloquium submissions should be marked as such. We will group the PhD submissions in a way that early-stage and close-to-defense contributions are grouped separately for presentation and discussion. This will allow for very focused discussion, comments, and support, which will meet the particular needs of the individual study phase. Plenary parts will also be organized to support networking among all students. PhD papers should be single-authored and should indicate the name and affiliation of proposer, abstract (max. 300 words), 3-5 keywords, introduction, research aim, theory, method, results achieved and/or prospective results, references. Since the number of participants is limited, the proposals will be critically reviewed by the organising committee for rigor, quality and relevance. Students may come from any discipline relevant to eGovernment research and practice. There will be a best contribution award. For further details please see : http://www.egov-society.org/ ----------------- Deadlines Submission of research papers, ongoing research, project and case papers): February 15, 2007 Submission of workshop/panel proposals: April 15, 2007 (to be sent to the organising committee via email) Submissions to PhD colloquium: April 15, 2007 (to be sent to the organising committee via email) Notification of acceptance for papers: April 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/PhD submissions: May 15, 2007 Camera-ready copies due: Papers in LNCS proceedings: May 31, 2007 Papers in Trauner Druck proceedings: June 15, 2007 General information for the EGOV conference can be found at www.egov-society.org <http://www.egov-society.org/> ; Info on the location and for further conferences at the DEXA conference cluster: see www.dexa.org Organising chairs of the conference * Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz- Landau (DE) <wimmer(a)uni-koblenz.de> * Ake Grönlund, Orebro University (SE) <ake.gronlund(a)esi.oru.se> * Jochen Scholl, University of Washington (USA) <jscholl(a)u.washington.edu> Organising chairs of the PhD Colloquium * Kim V. Andersen Copenhagen Business School (DK) <kva.inf(a)cbs.dk> * Jochen Scholl, University of Washington (USA)<jscholl(a)u.washington.edu>

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Quant analysis in AoIR
by Barry Wellman 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

I finally took the time to read _Internet Research Annual 2005_ (based on the 2003 conference. I was surprised that none of the 20 chapters used numbers (dare I say quantitative analysis): not even a frequency distribution or x-tab? Was this AoIR policy at the time? Is it now? Were no quant (or mixed-mode) chapters good enough? The volume basically sends an implicit message that only non-quant. analyses are welcomed in AoIR, despite pronouncements to the contrary. I hope that when the next Annual comes out, it will be a different story. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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And a card with a difference
by Dominic Pinto 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

(and possibly a phenomenon worthy of research?) Happy Christmas. Make someone else's day and send a card like this: http://www.everyclick.com/uk/myeveryclick/christmascard Best wishes for a sober thrifty hardworking and prosperous Yule Dominic Dominic Pinto BA MIEEE MCMI MRi FRSA http://www.ecademy.com/user/dominicpinto e-m: dominic.pinto(a)ieee.org M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001

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Location specific blogs
by Barry Wellman 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear CITSniks & AoIRians, Noted urban sociologist Sharon Zukin and grad student Valerie Trujillo are studying location-specific blogs -- those that identify/represent themselves as being from a certain place. (My suggested title: "A Blog Grows in Brooklyn"). Can you help them with lit? Their query is below. Please respond to VTrujillo(a)gc.cuny.edu Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Zukin, Sharon wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:15:53 -0500 > From: "Zukin, Sharon" <SZukin(a)gc.cuny.edu> > To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca > Cc: "Trujillo, Valerie" <VTrujillo(a)gc.cuny.edu> > Subject: Question for listserv > > > For work that I am doing with Prof. Sharon Zukin on creative cultural > producers in Brooklyn (New York), I are looking for studies of blogs > that originate in, and identify with, specific areas of cities. How > common are such blogs? How is it possible to identify blogs > geographically? And what is the sociological research out there on > such blogs? > > Please contact Valerie Trujillo vtrujillo(a)gc.cuny.edu >

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