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Re: [Air-L] Online tools and Citizen Engagement
by Susanna Haas Lyons 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi Liubov, There's a proliferation of online tools for public engagement, with still limited knowledge about what really works. The most often used tool for top-down public engagement, since the Obama Administration came to office, has been crowdstorming or ideation, tools like: http://uservoice.com/ http://ideascale.com/ http://sites.force.com/ideaexchange Two collaboratively developed resources that are quite useful on this topic are: http://participatedb.com/ - including case studies https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqytvUDA8bQ9dDI0djFyMjNMUTR4alNJQT… filled out by practitioners Finally, here's just a smattering of examples of a variety of online public engagement: http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-seward <http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-seward%20> http://vancouver.uservoice.com/forums/56390-gc-2020 http://apps.facebook.com/whitehouselive/ <http://apps.facebook.com/whitehouselive/%20> http://apps.facebook.com/speakup-enparler/action/71 <http://apps.facebook.com/speakup-enparler/action/71%20> http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html <http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html%20> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic… http://growthsummit.metroquest.com/#/challenge FWIW, I teach a workshop on this subject at Simon Fraser University DLOG752 http://www.sfu.ca/dialog/study+practice/certificate.html Good luck with your research. Please keep me posted. best, Susanna Susanna Haas Lyons Public Participation Specialist | America*Speaks*<http://www.americaspeaks.org/>Senior Network Associate MA Candidate 2011, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability<http://www.ires.ubc.ca/>, UBC Board Member, Canadian Community for Dialogue & Deliberation<http://www.c2d2.ca/> susanna.haas.lyons(a)gmail.com twitter.com/zannalyons 604-345-0840 > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:31:00 -0800 (PST) > From: Chris Doerr <liebechristopher(a)yahoo.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Online tools and Citizen Engagement > Message-ID: <609594.79517.qm(a)web113303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Greetings everyone! > My name is Liubov Doerr. I am researching some instances of online tools > for > productive civic engagement. I am an intern with the National Policy > Consensus > Center and a graduate student in Portland State University Conflict > Resolution > Program . I am currently working on a research project for NPCC on citizen > engagement and online tools. > > In particular, I am looking for examples or ideas of platforms and tools > that > have been used/could be used online for information purposes and for a > dialogue > between decision-makers and the public. > > > If any of you is interested in discussing those questions with me, feel > free to > write to me at liubovd(a)pdx.edu > Your input will be appreciated. > Thank you for your assistance! > Liubov > > > > > ----------- >

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CfP - WikiSym 2011 in Mountain View, CA
by Andrea Forte 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

CALL FOR PAPERS WikiSym 2011 | 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011 The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley. Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details are available on the conference website: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/submitting:start * Research Papers (long and short), Panels, Workshop: April 1 * Posters, Demos: May 13 * Notification of Acceptance: June 17 The conference program will include a peer-reviewed research track, as well as workshops, a doctoral consortium, invited keynotes and panel speakers. Evening social events will follow, because wiki folks know the value of a good party for sparking conversation and collaboration. As always, Open Space, a participant-organized track will also run throughout the conference. Many of the most innovative technology companies in the world have a presence in Mountain View, which makes it an ideal venue for hatching new ideas and thoughtful debate about collaborative computing among technologists, researchers, educators, and activists. Topics appropriate for research submissions include all aspects of the people, tools, contexts, and content that comprise open collaboration systems. For example: * Collaboration tools and processes * Social and cultural aspects of collaboration * Collaboration beyond text: images, video, sound, etc. * Communities and workgroups * Knowledge and information production * New media literacies * Uses and impact of wikis and open resources in specific fields, such as - Education/Open Educational Resources - Law/Intellectual Property - Journalism - Art - Science - Publishing - Business - Entertainment In addition to research and development topics, WikiSym also invites innovative proposals for wiki-style art and performance. Felipe Ortega, Conference Chair University Rey Juan Carlos http://felipeortega.net/ Andrea Forte, Program Chair Drexel University http://www.andreaforte.net/

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searching for a art gallery
by Pelin Göçmen 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Dear all, I want to hold a dijital press exhibition in one of the european or middle eastern countries. Would you recommend me any art galleries or exhibition halls in your countries? Thank you for your attention in advance. All the best, Pelin -- Pelin ÖZTÜRK GÖÇMEN, PhD in Graphic Design Education Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/pgocmen

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Online tools and Citizen Engagement
by Chris Doerr 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Greetings everyone! My name is Liubov Doerr. I am researching some instances of online tools for productive civic engagement. I am an intern with the National Policy Consensus Center and a graduate student in Portland State University Conflict Resolution Program . I am currently working on a research project for NPCC on citizen engagement and online tools. In particular, I am looking for examples or ideas of platforms and tools that have been used/could be used online for information purposes and for a dialogue between decision-makers and the public. If any of you is interested in discussing those questions with me, feel free to write to me at liubovd(a)pdx.edu Your input will be appreciated. Thank you for your assistance! Liubov

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Information, Communication & Society - informaworld new issue alert (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

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Ethical issues in the use of Facebook as a health intervention
by Osman Ahmed 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear AIoR's, I am a PhD candidate at the University of Otago, Dunedin where I am looking at the use of Social Networking Sites as a means of facilitating recovery from sports concussion. Our preliminary work (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20367328) showed that concussion groups on Facebook were being using as a support facility for those who had suffered a concussion. As a follow up to this, we conducted Focus Group studies with local individuals who had been recently concussed, and the feedback we got suggested that individuals who had sustained a concussion would be keen to receive support online from their peers and have interaction with a Doctor through a Facebook concussion group. We are in the process of planning a trial of a Facebook group for individuals with a sports concussion(moderated/facilitated by a Doctor and Sport Physiotherapist) in the near future and we are trying to identify all of the potential ethical issues. Obviously the Facebook group would be "secret" (visible only to the Doctor and the users in the group), and everyone in the group would be made aware of the option of adjusting the privacy settings of their Facebook account prior to entering the group. The Facebook profile used by the Doctor would be one created exclusively for the purposes of the study i.e. contain no personal/social information related to the Doctor. The Facebook group would not replace the user's GP as a point of reference, and the users would be instructed to cease participation in the group if they felt it exacerbated their symptoms. I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who has any history or experience in using Social Networking Sites for either health promotion or as a health intervention, as this field is in its infancy. If any of you have any suggestions or ethical issues you can forsee in such a trial then it would be great to hear from you too! Best wishes and thanks for your time, Osman Ahmed PhD Candidate School of Physiotherapy University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand

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Virtual memorials in online-games SURVEY, please pass on!
by Anna Haverinen 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Greetings all! I am a PhD student from the University of Turku, Digital culture, and in my thesis I am researching bereavement, reminiscing, memorials and memorial services in online environments. Currently I am conducting my fieldwork in Second Life and will continue the research in World of Warcraft later this spring. I am looking for people who have created, joined or otherwise participated in virtual mourning phenomenas, such as memorials in online-games, virtual memorial websites, memorials in social media (e.g. Facebook), blogged as a form of memorial, lighted virtual candles in someones honor etc. Please join my research by participating in my survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RC6WBFB If you want to be contacted for further questions, please fill out your e-mail in the survey form. Also, please pass this information on to anyone interested. More about me and my research you find from my blog: http://bittiavaruuteen.wordpress.com/in-english/ Thank you! Sincerely, Anna Haverinen Doctoral student Digital Culture School of Cultural Production and Landscape Studies University of Turku/University Consortium of Pori, Finland +358 45 6308830 http://fi.linkedin.com/in/annahaverinen anna.haverinen(a)utu.fi

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Pass this on: SNS in Japan Survey
by Robert Thomson 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear Fellow AoIR Members, A survey for Japanese users of both Mixi and Facebook or Mixi and Twitter is now live: http://bit.ly/fTN8IS (in Japanese) If you have contacts in Japan, or you yourself are in Japan, it would be great if you could pass the link on. The survey is being conducted by two post-grad research students at the Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University, Japan. The aim is to compare how Japanese users of both Mixi and either Facebook or Twitter view interactions, make connections, and conduct themselves on each different site. An English version of the survey can be found here: http://bit.ly/eSnWvd The survey will be open until the 13th of February 2011, and participants who complete the survey are able to enter into the draw to win one of five 1,000yen Amazon.co.jp gift vouchers. Many thanks, Rob Thomson Japanese Government MEXT Scholar - Research Student Graduate School of International Development Nagoya University, Japan Twitter: @rob_thomson Email: rob(a)zaihoujin.com

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3-Year Oxford Doctoral Studentship Available (Internet, Political Science, Public Policy)
by David Sutcliffe 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hello AoIR: A 3-year DPhil studentship is available to support an Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) doctoral student as part of a research programme on "The Internet, Political Science and Public Policy", commencing October 2011. There is flexibility for the student's thesis project to fall into either or both of the two main research themes of the programme: collective action or digital-era governance. The studentship will cover an allowance for training / conferences, tuition fees and a tax-free stipend of £12,940 per annum, subject to satisfactory progress. The application deadline for this studentship is Friday 18 February 2011. Interviews are planned for the week of 7 March 2011. Details: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/dphil/apply.cfm Application pack (pdf, 100kb) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/dphil/DPhil_IPS_Studentship_201101.pdf Enquiries: Laura Maynard, Graduate Studies Coordinator mailto:teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 87222 Best wishes, David David Sutcliffe Communications Officer Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford

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Integration of Inter-Rater realability for Qualitative Data using Cohen's Kappa and Pearson Correllation in Dedoose online.
by Jason Taylor 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Over at http://www.Dedoose.com we have finished deploying the new training center, a massive step forward in validating qualitative and mixed methods research. The Dedoose Training Center is all about great research and our efforts to include features that support the development and practice of systematic and rigorous qualitative and mixed methods research. After a lot of hard work by our Dedoose team, we're thrilled to finally see the Training Center online. The Training Center is, as one user put it, 'a god-send' for both research individuals and teams who want to insure reliability and validity in their qualitative code system application and quantitative code weighting activity. We began by drawing upon our pioneering implementations in EthnoNotes, and then expanded the Training Center to increase the efficiency of creating tests, reviewing test results, and implemented more rigorous and sophisticated statistics and other test feedback. We are confident that users will find the system a pleasure to use and will appreciate how the Center helps researchers build and maintain scientifically valid and rigorous best practices. Just another step on the road the make Dedoose the best qualitative and mixed-methods research app around. Stay up with the latest on our blog: http://www.dedoose.com/blog/. In other news we changed our pricing model to a simple $11/month per user for most users, and also extended the free trial period to an entire month. That means you can try Dedoose today with no commitment, no credit card. Please help us improve Dedoose and Qualitative and Mixed Methods research by giving us feedback, ideas, and your support! Thanks, ~ Jason Taylor of Dedoose

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