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Call for submissions to IRMA 2007
by Katy Campbell 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Apologies for any cross-posting. Please consider making a submission to the "IT Evaluation Methods and Management" Track of the 18th annual Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology, to be held in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 19-23, 2007. IRMA is an international professional organization dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information resources management in modern organizations. IRMA's primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing information resources as key enterprise assets among IRM/IT professionals. Submissions are welcome in the following categories: full research papers (4000 words); research-in-progress; and/or panels, workshops, tutorials or symposia. Full conference and submission details can be found at http://www.irma-international.org/ Track Chairs: Katy Campbell, PhD Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Extension Editor, Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education http://www.extension.usask.ca/cjuce/cjuce.html 2-02 University Extension Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2T4 Heather Kanuka, PhD Canada Research Chair, e-learning Centre for Distance Education Athabasca University Peace Hills Trust Tower 1200, 10011 – 109 Street Edmonton, AB Canada T5J 3S8

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Connected Learning
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

I believe that academic discourse it about putting your work forward and allowing others to poke holes in it. To this end I invite all aoir members to criticize this work: http://tcfir.org/whitepapers/Connected%20Learning%20Framework.pdf I will not respond publicly to unless requested. Reid Cornwell ________________________________ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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Transdisciplinary
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

The plot thickens. Apparently there is an understanding of this word for the EU, the U.S. all of the European countries except France which we are to discount because it is found on the web. I failed to mention the UNESCO version which is Nicollescu's. There is also Piaget's version. Again, does anyone know of a version of defined praxis, ontology and axiology that will illuminate this discussion? Please provide the cites? Apparently Jeremy doesn't choose to do it. My conclusion is to still use "interdisciplinary" until there is agreement. Dillhole P.S. I know an excellent specialist in anger management. _____ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) <mailto:wrc@tcfir.org> wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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Transdisciplinary
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

For those of you who thought the discussion of "transdisciplinary" was pernicious trolling I admit to an ignorance that was fostered by years of using a similar word in common usage. "Interdisciplinary". At the risk of being condescending to you all, my research, led me to an understanding of transdisciplinary as more than a creative change of prefix. This research le me to the writings of Basarab Nicolescu who is president of Centre International de Recherches et d'Etudes Transdisciplinaires (CIRET). In reading his work and the charter of the organization, I have come to understand there are some important distinctions between "transdisciplinary" and "interdisciplinary" particularly and it applies to science, research and empirical methods. It is also important to discussions of whether "Internet studies" is a discipline and what methodologies are considered real scholarship in the context of academia. I invite you to read the charter of this organization and related works and draw you own conclusions. I would appreciate your comments. http://nicol.club.fr/ciret/english/indexen.htm http://nicol.club.fr/ciret/english/charten.htm http://nicol.club.fr/ciret/english/projen.htm http://www.learndev.org/dl/nicolescu_f.pdf I have been unable to find a clearly defined methodology associated with this point of view. Could anyone point me to such a work. Dillhole _____ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) <mailto:wrc@tcfir.org> wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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Re: [Air-l] networked household
by Asi Sharabi 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Thanks Barry, I'd love a prelim version. Best wishes Asi. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: 15 August 2006 21:16 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] networked household Anyone interested in Networks and households can ask me (or Tracy Kennedy) for a prelim version of our "The Networked Household" (hopefully to appear in a journal soon). Also, there are a few pages in our "Connected Lives" paper in Patrick Purcell, ed., The Network Neighbourhood (allegedly published a month ago by Springer, but we haven't seen our copies yet -- prelimn version on our website.) Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-l] networked household
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Barry, Thanks, I will take one of each. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:16 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] networked household Anyone interested in Networks and households can ask me (or Tracy Kennedy) for a prelim version of our "The Networked Household" (hopefully to appear in a journal soon). Also, there are a few pages in our "Connected Lives" paper in Patrick Purcell, ed., The Network Neighbourhood (allegedly published a month ago by Springer, but we haven't seen our copies yet -- prelimn version on our website.) Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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networked household
by Barry Wellman 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Anyone interested in Networks and households can ask me (or Tracy Kennedy) for a prelim version of our "The Networked Household" (hopefully to appear in a journal soon). Also, there are a few pages in our "Connected Lives" paper in Patrick Purcell, ed., The Network Neighbourhood (allegedly published a month ago by Springer, but we haven't seen our copies yet -- prelimn version on our website.) Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
by joshua raclaw 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Apologies for cross-posting. -------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:12:24 From: Michael Beisswenger < michael.beisswenger(a)uni-dortmund.de > Subject: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis Full Title: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis Short Title: Corpora & Methods in CMDA Date: 08-Jul-2007 - 13-Jul-2007 Location: Göteborg, Sweden Contact Person: Michael Beisswenger Meeting Email: michael.beisswenger(a)uni-dortmund.de Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 05-Sep-2006 Meeting Description: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis We invite contributions to a panel proposal for the 10th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), 8-13 July 2007, Göteborg, Sweden. Proposals are expected to discuss aspects of the panel topic (see detailed CfP above), based on empirical research on computer-mediated discourse in any language. Panel organizers: Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hannover, Germany Michael Beisswenger, University of Dortmund, Germany The purpose of this panel is to discuss methodological issues in computer-mediated discourse studies. Computer-mediated discourse (CMD) is used here as an umbrella term for all kinds of interpersonal (private and public) communication carried out on the Internet by e-mail, instant messaging systems, mailing lists, newsgroups, web discussion boards, Internet Relay Chat, and web chat channels (cf. Herring 2001, 2004). While CMD in the last decade has attracted a great deal of research attention from the pragmatic, discourse-analytic, and sociolinguistic points of view, methodological reflection still lags behind when compared to other areas of discourse studies. While the collection of linguistic data on the Internet seems trivial at first sight, researchers are confronted with a variety of non-trivial questions in the further process, relating to e.g. the size of a data sample, its representativeness or typicality, data processing techniques, delimitation of genres, kind and amount of necessary contextual information, as well as ethical issues of anonymity and privacy protection. Much research in the field has been based on rather small, individually compiled data sets. There is a lack of generally acknowledged guidelines of corpus design as well as of publicly available, dedicated corpora of CMD. In terms of methodology, language-focused research on computer-mediated communication has drawn on methods and key concepts from a variety of research traditions in linguistics (including pragmatics and conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, genre analysis, and the ethnography of communication). These methods and concepts have been fruitfully applied, and sometimes combined, to study how individuals use linguistic resources to establish contacts, manage interactions, and construct identities within computer networks. This panel will focus on the need for critical reflection about the problems and challenges that arise when these research traditions, originally developed for the study of face-to-face discourse, are applied to the new settings and environments of computer-mediated discourse. Does a one-to-one transfer of research frameworks really lead to contextually rich understandings of language use and interactional processes in CMD, or rather conceal some of its essential new aspects? Research findings suggest that CMD creates important implications for our understanding of key concepts such as interactional coherence, participant frameworks, intertextuality, language-identity-relationships, and the notion of community. To that extent, an adaptation or even reconceptualization of existing concepts and methods seems a necessary step in the further development of CMD studies, and new research frameworks are already emerging (e.g. Herring's approach to the study of online communities; Herring 2004). Against this background, the contributions to this panel will focus on questions such as: - challenges, problems and solutions in the compilation and design of CMD corpora, including the presentation of relevant new projects; - corpus linguistics issues in CMD, e.g. acquisition, preprocessing and annotation of data, ethical issues in Internet data collection, representation and exchange of CMD data, collection and representation of meta-data, tools for corpus storage and maintenance; - social and technical conditions of CMD that need to be taken into account when adapting concepts, frameworks or descriptive categories to CMD analysis; - case studies that exemplify how established concepts and methodologies are applied to sites of online discourse; - ways of doing 'online' or 'virtual' ethnography as a point of contextually rich entry into the study of online activities and communities; - the benefits and challenges of combining various data sets (e.g. logfiles, online participant observation, user observation, statistical information, and user interviews) for specific research questions; - the potential of combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to language data in CMD research. References: - Herring, Susan C. 2001. Computer-mediated discourse. In Deborah Schiffrin et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden: Blackwell. 612-634. - Herring, Susan C. 2004. Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An approach to researching online communities. In Sasha A. Barab, Rob Kling and James H. Gray (eds.) Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. 338-376. Panel organizers: Jannis Androutsopoulos, German Seminar, University of Hannover, Germany. E-Mail: jannis.androutsopoulos(a)germanistik.uni-hannover.de Michael Beisswenger, Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Dortmund, Germany. Email: michael.beisswenger(a)uni-dortmund.de Submission: Short abstracts are invited for 30 min. paper slots (20 min presentation and 10 min discussion). Please send your submission electronically to the contact email above by September 5, 2006. Authors will be notified individually about the further process. Before sending us your abstract, please make sure you will be able to attend the conference, thereby bearing in mind the IPrA conditions, which include a full membership. More information on the IPrA homepage: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/ Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/

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Re: [Air-l] mothers online
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Here are two references specifically about parents, plus work under domestication. /Caroline Miyata, Kakuko, (2002). Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline . In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet In Everyday Life (pp. 520-548). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Mickelson, K. D. (1997). Seeking social support: Parents in electronic support groups. In Kiesler, S. (Ed.), Culture of the Internet (pp. 157-178). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Venkatesh, A. (2006). Introduction to the Special Issue on “ICT in Everyday Life: Home and Personal Environments”. The Information Society, 22(4), 191-194. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M. M. (2002). Bringing the Internet home: Adult distance learners and their Internet, Home and Work worlds. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (pp. 431-463). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Salaff, Janet (2002). Where home is the office: The new form of flexible work. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (pp. 464-495). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Kraut, R., Mukhopadhyay, T., Szczypula, J., Kiesler, S., & Scherlis, B. (2000). Information and communication: Alternative uses of the Internet in households. Information Systems Research, 10, 287-303. Cummings, J. & Kraut, R. (2002). Domesticating computers and the Internet. The Information Society, 18(3), 221-32. Silverstone, R. & Haddon, L. (1996). Design and the domestication of information and communication technologies: Technical change and everyday life. In R. Silverstone & R. Mansell (Eds.), Communication by Design. The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies (pp. pp.44-74). Oxford: Oxford University Press Kraut,R. Internet@Home, Communications of the ACM, special issue. Kiesler, S., Lundmark, V., Zdaniuk, B., Kraut, R. E. (2000) Troubles with the Internet: The dynamics of help at home. Human Computer Interaction, 15, 323-351. Turow, J. & Kavanaugh, A.L. (2003). The Wired Homestead: An MIT sourcebook on the Internet and the family. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:52:22 +0100 >From: "Asi Sharabi" <asi.sharabi(a)thegrandunion.com> >Subject: [Air-l] mothers online >To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > >Hi everyone, > > > >This is my first post to this forum. > > > >Can anyone recall a good research / database related to families' online >behaviour? > >Mums online > >Kids online > >Relationship between both > > > >Any thing will help. > > > >Many thanks in advance, > > > >Asi. > > > > > >Asi Sharabi, PhD >Planner >http://nomansblog.typepad.com/no_mans_blog/ > >GRANDUNION >www.thegrandunion.com ><file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\asis\Application%20Data\Microsoft >\Signatures\www.thegrandunion.com> >t: +44 (0)20 7908 0700 >f: +44 (0)20 7908 0701 >Grand Union >Eardley House >182 - 184 Campden Hill Road >London W8 7AS > > > >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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mothers online
by Asi Sharabi 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi everyone, This is my first post to this forum. Can anyone recall a good research / database related to families' online behaviour? Mums online Kids online Relationship between both Any thing will help. Many thanks in advance, Asi. Asi Sharabi, PhD Planner http://nomansblog.typepad.com/no_mans_blog/ GRANDUNION www.thegrandunion.com <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\asis\Application%20Data\Microsoft \Signatures\www.thegrandunion.com> t: +44 (0)20 7908 0700 f: +44 (0)20 7908 0701 Grand Union Eardley House 182 - 184 Campden Hill Road London W8 7AS

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