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2009 Elections - candidates, statements, voting instructions and schedule
by Charles Ess 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Dear AoIR-ists, I'm very pleased to announce the candidates for election to the Executive Committee, 2009-2011: Vice President (President, 2011-2013) Alex Halavais Monica Murero Secretary Catherine Middleton Treasurer Michael Zimmer Graduate Student Representative Gordon Carlson Open Seat (please vote for three) Elizabeth Buchanan Ted Coopman Suely Fragoso Marj Kibby You can find their statements describing their reasons for running for election, qualifications, goals for AoIR, etc. on the AoIR blog/wiki: http://aoir.org/ You are more than welcome to add a question, comment, etc. for any specific candidate to respond to: we hope this will serve as a lively forum for discussion that will help everyone get to know the candidates better and thereby help us all make informed decisions in the voting process. VOTING SCHEDULE / INSTRUCTIONS * voting begins today, 19. August 2009 To make your ballot: just copy the position/candidate list above, and eliminate the names of those you do _not_ want to vote for. Please send your ballot to: Lori Kendall <loriken(a)uiuc.edu> (_thanks_, Lori!) * Voting ends for four officer positions - 30. August (10 days' voting period required by bylaws) * Voting ends for 1 grad student and 3 open seats - 24. September (30 days' voting period required by bylaws). While the time and energy of many, many people make AoIR what it is - the Executive Committee takes on much of the responsibility for the day-to-day operations as well as larger planning and decision-making for AoIR. The direction, goals, and tenor of our Executive Committee for the next two years - indeed, in the case of the Vice President who automatically becomes President, four years - and thus of AoIR in large measure will be determined by your vote. Please give this very important matter the time and attention it deserves. Many thanks to all the candidates for their willingness to take on these crucial tasks - and many thanks to you for your attention to and participation in this important process! Cheers, - c. Institute for Information- and Media Studies University of Aarhus Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9235 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Fwd: Credentials
by Peter Timusk 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca> > Date: August 18, 2009 12:25:11 PM GMT-04:00 > To: "Dr. Rasha Abdulla" <rasha(a)aucegypt.edu> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Credentials > > I am sorry I can not stay where I am working because I am not > allowed to speak for my workplace or allow my voice to be > interpreted as my workplace speaking. > > It is enough that I say I am a graduate student. > > I work in government as well. > > Peter > > On 18-Aug-09, at 8:56 AM, Dr. Rasha Abdulla wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been wanting to ask this of the list members for a while, but >> was >> afraid it might be offensive to some. But I'm increasingly >> convinced that >> it's important. >> >> Could list members please list their full names and titles as a >> signature to >> their messages? It may not make much difference if you're asking a >> question, >> but it certainly does when you're providing an answer or even >> making a >> comment. I think it adds to the credibility of the message, and >> gives other >> list members a chance to assess such credibility. >> >> Thank you. Take care. >> Rasha >> -- >> Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D. >> Assistant Professor >> Journalism and Mass Communication >> The American University in Cairo >> www.rashaabdulla.com >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> > > Peter Timusk, > B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton > University > Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. > just trying to stay linear. > Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. > kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading. > > > > > > Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading.

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Want to know who your friends are? Ask your cellphone
by Yosem Companys 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Want to know who your friends are? Ask your cellphone - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17624-want-to-know-who-your-friends-a… You might think you are the world authority on your network of friends and acquaintances. But the cellphone in your pocket may be better at tracking your relationships than you are. That's a finding of a study which opens new possibilities for social scientists, epidemiologists and other researchers who want to know how people connect and interact socially.

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Text Sample Size?
by Karyn Hollis 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hi All-- This is a newbie question. I am planning to do a quantitative data analysis to study blogs for gender differences in CMC. Are there any rules for the size of samples? Would comparing male to female blog texts of a total of 50,000 words each be enough to claim statistical significance for any differences I find? Thanks for any advice, Karyn Hollis Villanova University

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FW: Vacancies at the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam
by Holly Kruse 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Forwarded on request. Holly ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Vacancies at the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam From: "Jeannette Haagsma" <jeannette.haagsma(a)vks.knaw.nl> Date: Tue, August 18, 2009 9:48 am To: air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear site keeper, Could you please put the message below as an announcement on your forum site? Thank you and kind regards, Jeannette ________________________________________________________________________ _____________ 2 Positions at the Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences is looking for a postdoctoral researcher and a scientific programmer (each position 38 hours per week.) for its new 18 month project, Knowledge Space Lab: mapping knowledge interactively. Deadline: 1 September 2009 Please find more information on the VKS website: www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/vacancies.php ________________________________________________________________________ ______________ Kind regards Jeannette Haagsma Organizational Coordinator Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS-KNAW) Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 8500 270 Fax: +31 20 8500 271 Email: jeannette.haagsma(a)vks.knaw.nl www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl

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Re: [Air-L] Text Sample Size
by Murray Turoff 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

It gets more complicated and some of our early studies in the late 70's showed that 1`. the design influences how much is written in replies. if the design encourages immediate response like opening a window for the user to type there reply (done today in gmail when you use the slow verison) or when the user has to issue a command to reply then the instant reply was like 5-7 lines and when they had to issue a command it was more like 10-14 almost double. usually that meant they came back and did a reply later which we could tell in those days becuase there was no browser inteh way of tracking the data. however when the reply was made is a factor you want to measure to see if it is any different. If people wait and thnk about it they usually have more to say. some of the early work in this area were in cacm articles by hiltz and turoff back in those days. since i am on vacation i cannot easily reference the other work. remind be after mid sept.l you will need to know how many replies and how many males and females to look at significance tests to see what you can do. first you take the distribution of size of all comments by males and separately all comments by females and do a test to see if it is a normal distribution. If it is for both you can find the easy test to see if the normal has different peaks for each of the two distributions. If it is not normal you need to use non parametric statistical tests. you are also going to have to check the length of time of the creation of the item being replied to and the time interval for each reply. i suspect this will be zipf curve of the frequency of replies over the length of time as will be the number of items over time. That might also lead to some discovery of the older items get the larger they might be which would be interesting to discover and it might be a property of the subject matter. I think some studies by Roxanne hiltz on virtual classroom showed that females made longer comments then males in response to questions and that was correlated with higher verbal test scores they had on entering college. You have to check with her.

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Second call for papers - New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
by Cunliffe D J (AT) 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Call for papers New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2009(3) / 2010 (1) Deadline for paper submission 7th September 2009 We invite papers for forthcoming issues of NRHM on the following topics and related issues: - Conceptual basis of hypertext systems cognitive aspects, design strategies - Intelligent and adaptive hypermedia personalisation, adaptation, knowledge organisation systems / services, semantic web, Web 2.0 - Multimedia issues time and synchronisation, link dynamics, link metrics, multimedia authoring, content-based retrieval - Interaction navigation and browsing; search systems, studies of information seeking and navigation behaviour, testing and evaluation user interfaces, experience design, multi-modal interaction - Tools for hypermedia (automatic) authoring systems - Applications literary and creative hypermedia, social networking, physical hypermedia, virtual environments, applications in commerce, digital libraries, e-learning, e-Government, the professions, etc. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is published by Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital formats. For more details and indicative topics, see the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical notes and should be submitted electronically at the Journal's Manuscript Central site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Informal enquiries may be sent to the Editors: Editor: Doug Tudhope (dstudhope(a)glam.ac.uk) Associate Editor: Daniel Cunliffe (djcunlif(a)glam.ac.uk) Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK

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2010 Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Prize
by Catherine Middleton 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

The $20,000 2010 Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Prize The inaugural Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Prize for Telecommunications and Disability – launched in June 2009 – commemorates the ground-breaking work that Dr Christopher Newell undertook within the Australian telecommunications industry from 1990 to 2008 in representing the needs of people with disabilities. A tribute to Dr Newell by Professor Gerard Goggin was published in TJA Vol. 58 Nos 2&3. The AU$20,000 prize will be awarded to the best original paper offered for publication to the Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) by 15 January 2010 that demonstrates the tangible benefits that the innovative use telecommunications technology can deliver to assist individuals with disabilities. The competition is world-wide, and the deadline for entries is 15 January 2010. The best entries, including the winning paper or papers, will be published in TJA in 2010. For more details: http://www.acs.org.au/acstsa/index.cfm?action=load&temID=noticedetails&notI… http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/full/10.2104/tja09034

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Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge for the Sustainable Environment
by Catherine Middleton 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

The 2009 Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge for the Sustainable Environment (the $20,000 Eckermann-TJA Prize) This year represents the third annual round of competition for the Eckermann-TJA Prize. The Prize will be sponsored again by Alcatel- Lucent Australia, who have generously doubled the previous prize money to AU$20,000 in 2009. The competition is known as the Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge for the Sustainable Environment, and is open to authors around the world. The 2009 Eckermann-TJA Prize will be awarded to the best original paper offered to TJA (Telecommunications Journal of Australia) by the deadline of 3 November 2009, demonstrating the tangible benefits of applying broadband telecommunications to supporting the sustainable environment. The best entries, including the winning paper or papers, will be published in the February 2010 issue of TJA. The Prize was instigated by TJA in 2007 at the suggestion of Robin Eckermann, in the course of his 2006 Charles Todd Oration, published in TJA. The Judging Panel will be chaired by TJA’s Managing Editor, Professor Peter Gerrand (University of Melbourne), and includes Robin Eckermann (former Chief Architect, TransACT), Dr Mike Dennis (Australian National University), Associate Professor Craig McDonald (University of Canberra) and Mr Ric Clark (Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel Lucent Australia). Panel members do not vote or provide ratings on entries in which they have any conflict of interest. In addition, thanks to the generosity of AARNet (Australia's Academic and Research Network), $20,000 worth of AARNet's advanced network services, such as high definition video conferencing and international light paths, will be made available for one year to the organization employing the winning authors, to advance their research work. For more information on the 2009 Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge and the AARNet offer, see http://www.acs.org.au/acstsa/index.cfm?action=load&temID=noticedetails&notI… The winning papers in the 2007 and 2008 Broadband Challenges can be found at the following online issues of TJA: TJA Vol. 57 Nos 2&3 and TJA Vol. 59 No 1. http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/full/10.2104/tja09034

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Re: [Air-L] Web Pages and Qualitative Data Analysis
by Becker, mevr. C. (Carmen), MA 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Dear Stefano, I was dealing with the same problem a few months ago. I tested altas.ti and nvivo. As far as I remember there was not other software with the functionality I want. Right now, I am analyzing forum posts (threads) with atlas.ti (version 6). Within atlas.ti I can code pdf's (and mulit-media files etc.) without needing to convert them to rtf. It works quite well for me. Atlas.ti imports the entire document with graphic elements etc. However, it took me some time to find the best html2pdf converter. Since I try to keep one pdf document for every thread it is important that the files do not get too big. Otherwise coding in atlas.ti becomes really slow and sometimes annoying. Adobe is great but for most too expensive. I am using "foxit create" to convert webpages and the "foxit editor" (both around 100 US$) in order to create one pdf document (if threads are paginated) and to delete elements I do not need for my analysis. It takes some time to prepare the documents for coding but I think it is worth doing. Best, Carmen Carmen Becker ----------------------------------------- research.carmenbecker.net Radboud University Nijmegen Postbus 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon Haleva Amir <sharon(a)trebcon.com> Date: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:17 am Subject: Re: [Air-L] Web Pages and Qualitative Data Analysis > Dear Stefano, the 5th version of ATLAS.Ti allowed only the analysis > of texts > saved in RTF format - Rich Text Files. The new 6th version has a > specialfeature which will allow you to convert PDF's to simple text > files - see > here http://www.atlasti.com/downloads/newfeatures6.pdf. Bottom line > everydocument has to be converted to a plain RTF format doc before > you can text > analyze it. > > Its price is my main obstacle as well - there's a free trial > version on site > http://www.atlasti.com/demo.html > > Good luck, Sharon > > > > Best Wishes, > Sharon Haleva Amir, HCLT Fellow > (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, > University of Haifa, ISRAEL. > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stefano De Paoli > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:53 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Web Pages and Qualitative Data Analysis > > Dear all, > > we are starting Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA)of messages taken from > Internet forums that we have > saved as Web Pages (in HTML format) using the Firefox extension > ScrapBook. > We are now looking for QDA software that will allow us to analyse > these Web Pages while keep the layout intact. > Our department has some licenses for NVIVO. > > http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx > > While in the process of importing our data into NVIVo (HTML files that > > we have previously exported in PDF) we discovered that this program > does not keep the original layout of the Web Page. From a PDF file > NVIVOjust imports the text. In other words it seems that we cannot use > NVIVO for our analysis. > > > Surfing around the Internet we discovered that ATLAS.ti (another > QDA software) allows one to manage PDF files in a native mode (i.e. it > keeps the page layout intact). > http://www.atlasti.com/ > > However a single license for ATLAS costs 438 Euros (a bit > expensive), and before we buy a license we would like to > see if there are any other solutions available. > > > Have you ever had similar problems? > What type of software do you use for your QDA of Web Pages? > Do you have other solutions to suggest? > > We look forward to your replies. > > S. > > > -- > > My institutional page > http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/people/postdocs/stefano_de_paoli.shtml > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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