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Re: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?
by T. Kennedy 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

I've also used NodeXL to analyze connections & conversations in online forums. Handy and effective, and used with excel: http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL Tracy Kennedy Message: 4 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:20 -0400 From: gus andrews <gus.andrews(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations? To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <18fe74ae0904210916l39ce16e2gfe47b905cb324b48(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.) I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow

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Visualization tool for conversations?
by Prof. Becky Lentz 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

It's not open source, but it's a powerful tool: http://www.atlasti.com/ and this is a useful to explore as well: Qualitative Research Summer Intensive http://www.researchtalk.com/. -- Becky Lentz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrook Street West, Arts Building, W-265 Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2T6 514.398.4995 (phone) 514.398.7247 (fax) email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca web: http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/ and http://media.mcgill.ca/

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Research on One Laptop per Child
by Bella Minw 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hello All: I need to pick your brains! I am a doctoral student (Howard University) mass communication and media studies program and very interested in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptops for education for developing countries albeit lately, it is being introduced in developed countries as well. I am thinking of managable and viable ways of conducting a research on the topic. Any suggestions???? I'm currently thinking along the lines of many discontinued countries.... evaluation? assessment? comparative analysis? Kindly provide your input. Greatly appreciate it. Bella Ezumah 2nd year PHD student Howard University

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some yahoo questions
by Barry Wellman 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

For a historical chapter about the Internet that I'm co-writing, I'd appreciate knowing: 1. Does Yahoo's portal-based directory service still exist, and if so how do I get to it. (I want to give an example) (I suppose I could go to the Internet Archive but that seems daunting.) 2. what were the names of the people (usually Bay Area students) who laboriously constructed the hierachy of categories in Yahoo. Such as: Academic Institutions > Universities > Canada > Ontario, etc. No guesses, please. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Second Call for Papers - E-Government Track HICSS-43
by Hans J. Scholl 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Dear Colleague, Only 54 days left until the deadline of June 15, 2009! Time to prepare your contribution! This is an invitation to submit a research paper to one of the minitracks of the E-Government Track at the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43). HICSS-43 (2010) will be held from January 5-8, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa, Kauai, HI/USA. The e-Government Track will host eight minitracks: * Development Methods for Electronic Government * Emerging Topics * E-Participation, e-Citizenship, and Digital Democracy * E-Policy, e-Governance, Ethics, and Law * E-Services and Information * Information Security * Infrastructure and Interoperability * Organization and Management Submission deadline: June 15, 2009 For details please see http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss43/ Among e-Government scholars the HICSS e-Government Track has an excellent reputation. Several times it has been ranked the academically most rigorous research conference on e-Government in the world. Having a paper accepted at the e-Gov Track at HICSS means something. Best wishes, Jochen Scholl HICSS-43 E-Government Track

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FW: doctoral positions at Karlstad University
by Kruse, Holly 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Forwarded on request. Holly -----Original Message----- From: Robert Burnett [mailto:Robert.Burnett@kau.se] Sent: Tue 4/21/2009 6:03 AM To: Holly Kruse Subject: doctoral positions Doctoral Student positions in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University Deadline for application: 20 May, 2009 The Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT at Karlstad University now announces two positions as Ph.D. doctoral students in Media and Communication Studies. There are three prioritised research areas at the department: - Global Media Studies - Digital Media and Cultural Circulation - Communication, Citizenship and Social Change. More information about MKV, Media and Communication Studies in Karlstad is available at http://www.mediewebben.se Research education includes 240 ECTS credit points, inclusive dissertation. The doctoral student is expected to perform a certain amount of department work, for instance teaching. These duties may not constitute more than 20 % of the full work time. The doctoral student is expected to be involved in the daily work at the department. The position is limited to 4 years, but can be prolonged for up to one more year. Prerequisites: Qualified for this position are candidates with a University degree of 240 ECTS, from which at least 60 ECTS were awarded for courses at advanced level and/or have a Master's degree in Media Studies, or equivalent. Admission: On the basis of individual assessment of the candidates' abilities to successfully complete the research education. The earliest date for filling the position is the September 1st 2009. Application dnr FAK1 2009/34 or dnr FAK1 2009/35 shall contain: - Application package from the University web page: http://www.kau.se/forskning/forskarutbildning/var_forskarutbildning.lasso - List of qualifications with certified copies of certificates etc. - Undergraduate and Graduate essays and papers that are referred to - Any other scientific texts that show the ability of the applicant to profit from research education - Report on practical experience and employment of importance - A brief (1 000 words) description of why the applicant is interested in the position and the main area of interest and goals with the training - Two letters of recommendation. Information: Head of department Solveig Nilsson Lindberg, professor Robert Burnett and professor André Jansson. Union representatives are: Thomas Wennstam, SACO and Barbro Berglund, OFR. All are reached on + 46 54 700 10 00 (switchboard). Application with number dnr FAK1 2009/34 or dnr FAK1 2009/35 Karlstad University Faculty for Economics, Communication and IT 651 88 KARLSTAD Final day for applications: 20 May, 2009.

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Book announcement
by Olaniran, B 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Just an FYI about the upcoming edited volume from IGI-global Thanks for your attention and help in publicizing this work. Bolanle Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction, which contains your excellent research contribution is scheduled to release for sale on May 21, 2009 from IGI Global!

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Re: [Air-L] Internet and cancer
by Judy Rice 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Antonio, Thank you for the terribly insight research--it is refreshing to see in this world where anyone can publish anything, such quality studies substantiated by such profoundly elucidating representations of the data ;) Have referred some perspective grad students to it on my Facebook--we all need positive role models...keep up the good work! Judy Rice UX Engineer FamilySearch.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:41:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "Antonio A. Casilli" <Antonio.Casilli(a)ehess.fr> Subject: [Air-L] Internet and cancer To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <59f81c6dc40dcb5181b0f9758c93c734.squirrel(a)webmail.ehess.fr> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hi all, recently, an article about "the biological implications of social networking" published in The Biologist by Aric Sigman (Fellow of the English Royal Society for Medicine) has been causing quite a stir. According to the author, intensive use of electronic media is linked to increased morbidity/mortality for cancer. I had already addressed that in post on my blog. Today it is a pleasure to announce that, based on questionable data and on problematic assumptions, I have come out with a seemingly preposterous claim: actually Internet cures cancer! To read all about it, please visit http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2009/04/19/new-discovery-actually-internet-c… Feel free to forward to anyone interested: this may save millions of lives... Best, Antonio ------------------------------------ Antonio A. Casilli Centre Edgar Morin Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (CNRS/EHESS) Paris FRANCE NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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New AoIR relevant Theme@ Digital Arts & Culture Conference 2009
by Lisbeth Klastrup 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi all, The biannual Digital Arts & Culture conference takes place in California in December 2009 (http://dac09.uci.edu) The abstract submission deadline is coming up soon - May 1st! This year, the conference is theme-based (ie paper proposals have be to submitted to a theme), and as one of the theme organisers, Im happy to announce that a new theme, of interest to perhaps some people on this list, has recently been added: "Theme: The Present and Future of Humanist Inquiry in the Digital Field What contributions may literary, poetic, and aesthetic idioms of humanist inquiry -- traditionally associated with problems of lyrical expression, narrativity, linguistic subjectivity, and authorial and readerly agencies -- continue to offer to the analysis of medial practices and systems in the era of mobile, distributed, and social media? The crux of this question, we propose, lies in the specifically historical purchase of humanist method: its ability to (re)situate new symbolic practices in complex and nuanced relation to prior traditions and atavisms of expressive language and action -- in contrast to the reductively progressivist, de-historicizing impulses of much of contemporary digitalism. This theme welcomes exemplary close readings (literary-theoretical, formalist, narratological, ludological, etc.) of electronic literature and poetry, single- and multiple-player computer games, social media, and hard and soft medial apparatuses of the digital field. Especially encouraged are such close readings which also make general claims regarding the significance of humanist investigations of digital arts and cultures." More info at: http://dac09.uci.edu/call.html best, Liz Klastrup ------------------------------------------------------------- Lisbeth Klastrup Associate Professor, Innovative Communication Research Group IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaardsvej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Phone: +45 7218 5029 web/blog: www.klastrup.dk

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Re: [Air-L] Using the term weblog/blog
by Mridula 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi Ann, I too use the term blog because I feel it represents the popular usage. I would always think myself as blogger and not weblogger. I think the earlier term weblog has been replaced in usage by blog and hence my preference. Regards, Mridula Dwivedi IIMT Gurgaon, India http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/ > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:05:40 +0300 > From: Ann-Charlotte Palmgren <apalmgre(a)abo.fi> > Subject: [Air-L] Using the term weblog/blog > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Message-ID: <20090420170540.b15vqc6ugoso48ww(a)webmail2.abo.fi> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; > format="flowed" > > > > I've received a message that my article about blogging and eating > disorders will be published in a Scandinavian journal. At the same > time I received a message from the journal's language expert about my > use of the term weblog. They are questioning the use and asks why I > don't use the term blog. For some reason I have imagined that the term > weblog is being used more often in research. Now I'm not so sure about > it. What is your impression? Does it matter if I use the term weblog > or blog? > > > Ann-Charlotte Palmgren > doctoral student > ?bo Akademi University > Finland > > > > > ------------------------------ > >

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