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Re: [Air-L] Fw: Re: Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research
by Max Spotti 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Dear all, I take it that we all know what is an interpretive ethnographic perspective. I wonder though when and whether one can say that there are missing data when engaged in fieldwork. Take the case of entering a primary school classroom, you might have access to the teacher's log, yet again the school's head may refuse you access to a school policy either because the document is outdated, or not in place. In this case the ethnographer should report what has happened, or base him/herself on what she can have access to. As for online qualitative research, then again we should ask ourselves first whether the screen is a viable fieldwork and whether the screen either hinders or helps the ethnographer to reconstruct the cultural ecology of the space that s/he is engaged with. One thing is for sure, one has to go deep and, in so doing, I mean that it is worth looking beyond the boundaries of the socio-cultural space one is trying to reconstruct. Take the case of fan cultures. A fan may well be part of a fan group on Fb, s/he might flag off a certain identity, say certain things (appropriate himself of the genre that s/he thinks he should use in order to be part of this fan group). In my view though it is also worth looking beyond that fan group and see whether the fan in question has a blog or a webpage, and maybe through this webpage of his, one can have access to his writings and to how his inhabited identity of being a fan is constructed (beyond) the fan wall on Fb. That may lead to cater for those data that one has not been able to collect and it may also cater for triangulation. I hope this helps a little. Best wishes, Max Spotti -----Original Message----- From: "Mohammad H. Hasani" <mh_hasani(a)yahoo.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Air-L] Fw: Re: Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research --- On Sat, 8/7/10, Mohammad H. Hasani <mh_hasani(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Mohammad H. Hasani <mh_hasani(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research To: "William Dutton" <william.dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 12:59 PM Generally speaking, 1. I think missing data in a Qual research is data could make a significant contribution to the grounded concept or theory but researcher neglects or fails to collect. Repeating some phases in data collection/analysis, conducting parallel Qual research or reverse previewing of the research phases seems to help. 2. The same for CMR, but here, the researcher should also pay more attention to the cases; inappropriate cases may cause collecting poor data could be seen as missed. Triangulated observations may help in this case. Mohammad H. Hasani, Instructor in Sociology Payame Noor University --- On Fri, 8/6/10, William Dutton <william.dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> wrote: From: William Dutton <william.dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> Subject: [Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 8:17 AM Dear List Members, My colleagues and I would greatly appreciate your input to an exploratory project on missing data in qualitative and online research.* We would appreciate anything from your immediate reactions while reading this e-mail to detailed references to literature that has addressed our questions. There are two very general but heuristically useful questions. Your views on either would be welcomed. Feel free to reply privately or to the list, as you wish. 1. What is ‘missing data’ in the context of qualitative research and how is it dealt with? 2. Likewise, in computer-mediated research, are researchers missing particular kinds of data, or believe that they are missing particular kinds of observations, and how are they compensating or otherwise addressing this gap? Thoughts? Thank you, Bill *This is a collaborative project between the ESRC’s National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) ‘hub’ (Graham Crow, Rose Wiles), WISERD (Amanda Coffey), Oxford eSocial Science ‘node’ of NCeSS (Bill Dutton, Alison Powell), and Qualidata/Timescapes (Libby Bishop), based on our recognition of a shared but not well developed problem. William Dutton, Director Professor of Internet Studies Oxford Internet Institute 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UK e-mail: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=1 Phone: +44 (0)1865 287 212 Cell: +44 (0)7768 823906 _______________________________________________ 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/ Dr. Massimiliano Spotti Babylon/ Dept. of Culture Building D, Room 219 Faculty of Humanities Tilburg University 5000LE - Tilburg The Netherlands Phone: *31-13-4662258 Fax: *31-13-4662892 http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/babylon ------------------------------------ Researcher Finland Distinguished Professor Scheme Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä Tel.: +358 14 260 1372

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Re: [Air-L] Facebook Journalism and Twitter Journalism
by Carmel L. Vaisman 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Hey Naz. i didn't hear of facebook journalism but you could read this one for twitter journalism: Hermida, A. (2010). Twittering the News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism. Journalism Practice, 4 (3), 297 - 308. Carmel Vaisman http://www.absolutecarmel.com Twitter @carmelva

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Facebook Journalism and Twitter Journalism
by Naziat Choudhury 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

I would appreciate if anyone can assist me with understanding these two terms: Facebook Journalism Twitter Journalism Thank you Naz

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Missing data
by Gonzalo Bacigalupe 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Yes, in general this is how I would think about it in relation to your question. Yes, in general, sampling (or what sort of interviews one may carry out or change from) is related to the idea of repetitive information that it is not adding more meaningful data to the research in question. On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, William Dutton <william.dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Gonzalo, > > Many thanks: this fits nicely with one theme that has come through our interviews. Do you mean by saturation that you interview everyone, or keep interviewing until you stop hearing new information, or what? If you have a moment to respond,that would be great, but you've already been helpful. > > Bill > > On 6 Aug 2010, at 23:34, Gonzalo Bacigalupe wrote: > >> Interesting question >> Missing data in qualitative research? I think of saturation as an >> important principle, if saturation is accomplished, then we would not >> have missing data. >> In quantitative research, missing data is usually similarly treated as >> its opposite, the outliers, as noise. >> >> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:17:44 +0100 >> From: William Dutton <william.dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> >> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >> Subject: [Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research >> Message-ID: <8B138436-DD99-4B3E-BF52-3A89D026938E(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" >> >> Dear List Members, >> >> My colleagues and I would greatly appreciate your input to an >> exploratory project on missing data in qualitative and online >> research.* We would appreciate anything from your immediate reactions >> while reading this e-mail to detailed references to literature that >> has addressed our questions. >> >> There are two very general but heuristically useful questions. Your >> views on either would be welcomed. Feel free to reply privately or to >> the list, as you wish. >> >> 1. What is ?missing data? in the context of qualitative research and >> how is it dealt with? >> >> 2. Likewise, in computer-mediated research, are researchers missing >> particular kinds of data, or believe that they are missing particular >> kinds of observations, and how are they compensating or otherwise >> addressing this gap? >> >> Thoughts? Thank you, >> >> Bill >> >> *This is a collaborative project between the ESRC?s National Centre >> for Research Methods (NCRM) ?hub? (Graham Crow, Rose Wiles), WISERD >> (Amanda Coffey), Oxford eSocial Science ?node? of NCeSS (Bill Dutton, >> Alison Powell), and Qualidata/Timescapes (Libby Bishop), based on our >> recognition of a shared but not well developed problem. >> >> William Dutton, Director >> Professor of Internet Studies >> Oxford Internet Institute >> 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UK >> >> e-mail: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk >> Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=1 >> Phone: +44 (0)1865 287 212 >> Cell: +44 (0)7768 823906 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > William Dutton, Director > Professor of Internet Studies > Oxford Internet Institute > 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UK > > e-mail: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk > Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=1 > Phone: +44 (0)1865 287 212 > Cell: +44 (0)7768 823906 > > -- Gonzalo Bacigalupe

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The Scientist > August 2010 > Peer Review Rejected
by Gerry McKiernan 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

The August 2010 Issue Of The Scientist Features Great Articles About Peer Review Editorial > Peer Review and the Age of Aquarius / Sarah Greene Article 1 > Breakthroughs from the Second Tier / The Scientist Staff Article 2 > I Hate Your Paper / Jef Akst > Associated Podcast / Comments Available At Article 3 > Is Peer Review Broken? Related > Citations: Too Many, or Not Enough? / William J. Pearce >>> As Some May Know I've Long Had An Interest In Alternative Peer Review >>> "Alternative Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st Century Scholarship" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/APR-1.ppt ] > >> It's A Large PPT (200+ Slides) >>> >>> But IMHO ... Well Worth The Experience [:-)] <<< A Synopsis Of The Presentation In Article Form >>> "Peer Review in the Internet Age: Five (5) Easy Pieces," Against the Grain 16, no. 3 (June 2004): 50, 52-55. Self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/FiveEasyPieces.pdf ] See Also > Invisible Hand(s): Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2007/11/invisible-hands-quality-assurance… ] >> Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ACRL2005.ppt ] / 110+ Slides [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ACRL2005.pdf ] Links To The Scientist articles available from [ http://bit.ly/algWTg ] e-JOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs "It's Not About Publication; It's About Ideas"

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 73, Issue 6
by Gonzalo Bacigalupe 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Interesting question Missing data in qualitative research? I think of saturation as an important principle, if saturation is accomplished, then we would not have missing data. In quantitative research, missing data is usually similarly treated as its opposite, the outliers, as noise. Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:17:44 +0100 From: William Dutton <william.dutton(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research Message-ID: <8B138436-DD99-4B3E-BF52-3A89D026938E(a)oii.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Dear List Members, My colleagues and I would greatly appreciate your input to an exploratory project on missing data in qualitative and online research.* We would appreciate anything from your immediate reactions while reading this e-mail to detailed references to literature that has addressed our questions. There are two very general but heuristically useful questions. Your views on either would be welcomed. Feel free to reply privately or to the list, as you wish. 1. What is ?missing data? in the context of qualitative research and how is it dealt with? 2. Likewise, in computer-mediated research, are researchers missing particular kinds of data, or believe that they are missing particular kinds of observations, and how are they compensating or otherwise addressing this gap? Thoughts? Thank you, Bill *This is a collaborative project between the ESRC?s National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) ?hub? (Graham Crow, Rose Wiles), WISERD (Amanda Coffey), Oxford eSocial Science ?node? of NCeSS (Bill Dutton, Alison Powell), and Qualidata/Timescapes (Libby Bishop), based on our recognition of a shared but not well developed problem. William Dutton, Director Professor of Internet Studies Oxford Internet Institute 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UK e-mail: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=1 Phone: +44 (0)1865 287 212 Cell: +44 (0)7768 823906

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Congratulations to Liz Ellcessor
by Elizabeth Buchanan 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

On behalf of the Center for Information Policy Research, I am pleased to announce this year's CIPR--AoIR Grant has been awarded to Lis Ellcessor, a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Arts Department (Media & Cultural Studies) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Liz will present her paper, “Partici-bility: Theorizing the Rhetoric and Realities of Participatory Culture and Disability," in Gothenburg. CIPR received a number of highly qualified applications for this grant, and while we could only make one award, we wish to acknowledge those those applicants and wish them well in their scholarship. This is the second year of CIPR's grant awards, which promote scholarship in internet studies, information ethics, and policy. Congratulations, Liz! Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D. Director Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414.229.3973 Principal Investigator, Internet Research Ethics Commons internetresearchethics.org (NSF Project # 0924604) elizabeth(a)internetresearchethics.org

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Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research
by William Dutton 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Dear List Members, My colleagues and I would greatly appreciate your input to an exploratory project on missing data in qualitative and online research.* We would appreciate anything from your immediate reactions while reading this e-mail to detailed references to literature that has addressed our questions. There are two very general but heuristically useful questions. Your views on either would be welcomed. Feel free to reply privately or to the list, as you wish. 1. What is ‘missing data’ in the context of qualitative research and how is it dealt with? 2. Likewise, in computer-mediated research, are researchers missing particular kinds of data, or believe that they are missing particular kinds of observations, and how are they compensating or otherwise addressing this gap? Thoughts? Thank you, Bill *This is a collaborative project between the ESRC’s National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) ‘hub’ (Graham Crow, Rose Wiles), WISERD (Amanda Coffey), Oxford eSocial Science ‘node’ of NCeSS (Bill Dutton, Alison Powell), and Qualidata/Timescapes (Libby Bishop), based on our recognition of a shared but not well developed problem. William Dutton, Director Professor of Internet Studies Oxford Internet Institute 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UK e-mail: william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=1 Phone: +44 (0)1865 287 212 Cell: +44 (0)7768 823906

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Plagiarism: student and other!
by Murray Turoff 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

I was very pleased that NJIT early on bought into "turnitin.com" which is an amazing system. Since i have a lot of project type assignments with write ups, before that i had to guess at what might be cases of plagiarism and put in google searches. If you have never used it, it accumulates files of everything on the web and any papers by students for future use. It was amazing to find a paper by a student using un-noted quotes from a paper by a student at some foreign university. It keeps a database of all your student papers and if some other professor gets a match, they ask your permission to give them access to the whole paper. At the graduate level and senior courses i finally gave my students access to put in their papers and modify them using the results till they were satisfied that the only quotes were clearly referenced. I also got in the habit of putting in papers i was asked to review from professional conferences and journals and some of those were rather surprising on the lack of clear attribution for what they were using. I would even put in my own drafts as sometimes you are unaware something you used recently was really something you read many years ago. I think journals, conferences should sponsor access for authors and reviewers. Since retiring i miss the regular use of it. It was also useful in checking for missing references. It even shows quotes of partial sentences where the student was trying to reword the quote without referencing it. Finding 20 or so papers used to make the paper was not unusual. -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff

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mobile media studies
by Greg Wise 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi folks, Any recent (2009-2010) research out there on mobile multimedia (both TV and video watching, internet surfing, etc.) via iPhone, iPod Touch, and the ilk? Looking for a reading or two for an undergrad class on media and everyday life. I'd like to have something current that speaks to everyday uses and habits regarding such devices (besides as a phone). I've got a number of things from 2008 and before. Cheers, Greg Dr. J. Macgregor Wise Professor Communication Studies Arizona State University 4701 West Thunderbird Road Glendale, AZ 85306-4908 (602) 543 6646; (602) 543 6004 (fax) Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Author of Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide (2008, Blackwell)

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