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downloading blogs?
by Kinkade, Scott E. 08 May '11

08 May '11

I’m interested to know what people are using to download weblog content for analysis. Since there is a chance they could change, I would like to have a version of my own to then use with QDA software. I’ve seen various programs that download websites. Not much experience with these though. Thanks, Scott Kinkade, MD, MSPH Associate Professor University of Missouri School of Medicine

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Webology: Call for Papers (a Special Issue: Vol. 8, No. 2), Competitive Intelligence and the Web
by Alireza Noruzi 08 May '11

08 May '11

Dear All, Webology: Call for Papers (a Special Issue: Vol. 8, No. 2), Competitive Intelligence and the Web Background and Significance Competitive intelligence (CI) is a systematic and continuous process for gathering, analyzing, forecasting, sharing, and managing external information that can affect an organization's strategic plans, decisions, and actions. The key areas of competitive intelligence that should be considered are competitors, customers (clients), collaborators (partners) and products/services. Some of the areas of research include the following: competitive intelligence; information services; market research; market planning; strategic planning; business analysis; business development; product planning; R&D; counter-intelligence, etc. The Web has directly affected the process and sources of competitive intelligence. The purpose of this Special Issue (Volume 8, Number 2) is to identify the challenges, complexities and opportunities of competitive intelligence on the Web. Contributions to this Special Issue should address, but not limited to, the following areas: - Business Intelligence - Business strategy development - Competitive (theoretical issues) - Competitive intelligence - Competitive intelligence tools, techniques and methodologies - Current trends in competitive intelligence - Economic impacts of the Web - Economic intelligence - International intelligence - Knowledge management and competitive intelligence - Market intelligence - Patents intelligence - Social media and social intelligence - Social networks marketing - Technology watch The topics above are not a comprehensive list of all possible topics for this Special Issue. Submissions to this Special Issue should address the topics above (as well as other related topics). Submissions Submissions should follow the Author Guidelines of Webology (http://www.webology.org/guidelines.html) All Submissions will be acknowledged and then refereed by at least two peer reviewers. Authors should indicate that the submission is intended for the Special Issue on Competitive Intelligence and the Web, in the accompanying cover letter. All submissions must be in English, and should represent the original work of the authors. Improved versions of papers previously published in conference proceedings are welcome, provided that no copyright limitations exist. Submissions must be made electronically via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief ( anoruzi (at) gmail.com ). The manuscript should be included as an attachment in MS-Word. Important Dates: September 30, 2011: Deadline for submission of papers. November 30, 2011: Notification to authors. December 15, 2011: Special Issue is published. Best regards, Alireza -------------------- Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~

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mLearn conference deadline extended
by Yinjuan Shao 08 May '11

08 May '11

Applogies for cross-posting We are pleased to see so many of you sent in your mLearn papers. As we have received a great amount of enquiries, asking for extension. Many of them have a very interesting research project but need more time to write up their papers. We would like to extend our paper/poster submissions deadline to 30 May 2011. We hope this will give your more time to prepare your mLearn papers. The mLearn 2011 paper submission system will still be open until 30 May 2011 - *https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mlearn2011*<https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mlearn2011>. Before uploading your paper, we suggest that you download the paper template * **http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/source/mlearn2011_template.doc*<http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/source/mlearn2011_template.doc> and use it to format your conference papers. Should you experience any difficulties submitting your paper, please let us know via email: mlearn(a)bnu.edu.cn All accepted papers will be considered by the Programme Committee for Outstanding Paper Awards. Certificates will be issued to* 10 outstanding papers *of at least one registered author. There is an opportunity to be invited to deliver the* keynote speech* at mLearn 2011. *mLearn 2011 is still able to subsidise some of the registration fees of a number of delegates to the conference. These subsidies are made possible by a generous fund that mLearn 2011 has received from Beijing Normal University. We are grateful for this opportunity to support delegates from especially the developing world as well as early career researchers. We also wish this fund makes it possible for the mLearn 2011 to be inclusive of all people who are working in the field of mobile learning. ** *** * https://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGlLT0s3b1pvSXF3R29fN0tGR… *** *the deadline for applying for subsidy is 5 June 2011*** ** *Our new submissions deadline:*** * * *30 May, 2011* *Full Paper Submissions*** *10 July, 2011 **Notification of Acceptance*** *26 July, 2011 **Last Date for Early-bird Registration*** *30 August, 2011 **Final Registration*** *1 September, 2011 **Full Paper and/or Slide Show for Technology Showcases*** * the subsidy is 5 June 2011!*** -- Dr. Yinjuan Shao NIE Nanyang Technological University Singapore

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 82, Issue 9
by Karl Grindal 07 May '11

07 May '11

On 5/7/11, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > -- Sent from my mobile device Karl T. Grindal MPP Grad Student, Georgetown Cell: 952-250-7466 Website: www.karlgrindal.com

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Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 Workshop and Talks
by Berry D.M. 07 May '11

07 May '11

Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 Workshop and Talks SWANSEA UNIVERSITY 4th floor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building Organised by Dr. David M. Berry and Dr. Tom Cheesman Few dispute that digital technology is fundamentally changing the way in which we engage in the research process. Indeed, it is becoming more and more evident that research is increasingly being mediated through digital technology. Many argue that this mediation is slowly beginning to change what it means to undertake research, affecting both the epistemologies and ontologies that underlie a research programme (sometimes conceptualised as 'close' versus 'distant' reading, see Moretti 2000). Of course, this development is variable depending on disciplines and research agenda, with some more reliant on digital technology than others, but it is rare to find an academic today who had no access to digital technology as part of the research activity and there remains fewer means for the non-digital scholar to undertake research in the modern university (see JAH 2008). Not to mention the ubiquity of email, Google searches and bibliographic databases which become increasingly crucial as more of the worlds libraries are scanned and placed online. These, of course, also produce their own specific problems, such as huge quantities of articles, texts and data suddenly available at the researcher's fingertips, indeed, "It is now quite clear that historians will have to grapple with abundance, not scarcity. Several million books have been digitized...and nearly every day we are confronted with a new digital historical resource of almost unimaginable size" (JAH 2008). In this workshop we will look at how we might use the new digital tools of text aggregation, processing and information or data visualisation to provide the ways of looking at and thinking about Shakespeare. From making data patterns, to narrativising through algorithms and visualisation we aim to examine how these approaches and methods can assist in undertaking humanities research into textual materials. Programme 11.30-12.00 Registration (4th floor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building) 12 noon: Introduction and Welcome (David Berry) 12.15-12.50: The Swansea VVV Project: Visualising Version Variation (Tom Cheesman) 13.00-13.45: Understanding through Visualisation (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 13.45-14.00: Coffee Break 14.00-14.30: Shakespeare in Arabic (Sameh Hanna, Salford) 14.30-15.00: Visualising Textual Corpora (Geng Zhao, Swansea University) 15.15-16.15: Computational Information Design (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 16.15: Reflections on the workshop (Tom Cheesman, Robert S. Laramee) 16.45: Ends There is no charge for the workshop but as space is limited please email d.m.berry(a)Swansea.ac.uk if you are interested in attending. http://www.delightedbeauty.org/ Funded by the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) --- Dr. David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies Room JC015 James Callaghan Building Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/

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Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader (INC Reader #7)
by Geert Lovink 07 May '11

07 May '11

INC Reader #7 Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds) For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point of View moves beyond unflagging praise, well-worn facts, and questions about its reliability and accuracy, to unveil the complex, messy, and controversial realities of a distributed knowledge platform. The essays, interviews and artworks brought together in this reader form part of the overarching Critical Point of View research initiative, which began with a conference in Bangalore (January 2010), followed by events in Amsterdam (March 2010) and Leipzig (September 2010). With an emphasis on theoretical reflection, cultural difference and indeed, critique, contributions to this collection ask: What values are embedded in Wikipedia’s software? On what basis are Wikipedia’s claims to neutrality made? How can Wikipedia give voice to those outside the Western tradition of Enlightenment, or even its own administrative hierarchies? Critical Point of View collects original insights on the next generation of wiki-related research, from radical artistic interventions and the significant role of bots to hidden trajectories of encyclopedic knowledge and the politics of agency and exclusion. Contributors: Amila Akdag Salah, Nicholas Carr, Shun-ling Chen, Florian Cramer, Morgan Currie, Edgar Enyedy, Andrew Famiglietti, Heather Ford, Mayo Fuster Morell, Cheng Gao, R. Stuart Geiger, Mark Graham, Gautam John, Dror Kamir, Peter B. Kaufman, Scott Kildall, Lawrence Liang, Patrick Lichty, Geert Lovink, Hans Varghese Mathews, Johanna Niesyto, Matheiu O’Neil, Dan O’Sullivan, Joseph Reagle, Andrea Scharnhorst, Alan Shapiro, Christian Stegbauer, Nathaniel Stern, Krzystztof Suchecki, Nathaniel Tkacz, Maja van der Velden. Colophon: Editors: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz. Editorial Assistance: Ivy Roberts and Morgan Currie. Copy-Editing: Cielo Lutino. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Cover Image: Ayumi Higuchi. Priner: Ten Klei, Amsterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. Supported by: The School for Communication and Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam DMCI), the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore and the Kusuma Trust. You can download the pdf for free here: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/%237reader_Wikipedia.pdf To order a hard copy of the reader, send an email to books(a)networkcultures.org Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A Wikpedia Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-13-1, paperback, 385 pages.

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just a short comment on ethical aspects in internet research
by Maria Eronen 07 May '11

07 May '11

Hi, Just a short comment on ethics in internet research. It is very interesting for me as a researcher of moral communities and moral language of forums and discussion boards, how moral uncertainty prevails in internet research as well: we don't know who these mediated others are and what their intentions might be and we are uncertain how we should treat them, regardless whether we are doing research or using forums. Here I cited Roger Silverstone and Shani Orgad who have discussed this topic very interestingly. Maria

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why do people start programming?
by danah boyd 07 May '11

07 May '11

A high school computer science teacher started wondering about what motivated people to start programming. So he created http://ilearnedtoprogram.com/ and quickly the stories poured in. He's now sitting on all of this data and wondering if it's of use to anyone besides his own curiosity. In particular, he's looking for scholars who want to ask questions of the data and help him think about what's going on. I don't know if any of y'all are doing this kind of STS work, but if you happen to be passionate about such kinds of questions, he's looking for folks to talk with: http://itmoves.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/why-i-need-help-from-scientists/ danah

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Help finding resources for successful local online retailing
by Rayed AlGhamdi 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hi colleagues, I am searching for literature of successful countries in domestic/local online retailing. Some countries in developing world still 10-15 years behind in terms of e-commerce in general and e-retailing specifically. I want to find resources of successful development of other countries: how did they address the problems, overcome them and diffuse this service locally. Kind regards, Rayed

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Re: [Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright > in Internet research
by Jennifer Myers 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hello Maria, I am a doc student, but since I am doing my dissertation using publicly available blogs with bloggers who have pseudonymous identities, I've had to think about the issue of privacy quite a bit so I figured I would share my process thus far. First, I searched out researchers doing research such as this, and naturally I went to my advisor and asked her what she did. She explained what she did, but said that I needed to read up on the topic. So I read up on what others were doing. I ran across AoIR's document on ethics and found a lot of useful advice/information in Markham and Baym's edited book Internet Inquiry, which lead me to many other authors that were discussing this topic. If you want to email me privately, I can send you some of the articles and books I found most useful. Second, I decided that since this topic isn't black and white, I would include a section within my literature review on what is currently being done in instances such as this, what privacy in internet research means, , etc. I also discussed measures that I would be taking in my method chapter. I know this isn't typically included but when I defended my proposal my committee was happy I had addressed it so thoroughly, because they had questions about this. Plus, all the reading and research helped me come to my decisions. Third, I contacted the Human Subjects Committee at my university and discussed it with them. They determined that if it was publicly available to anyone with Internet access then they would treat it as such. Of course I would need consent/permission from the participants that I chose to interview. In my most recent discussion over my IRB application, they wanted me to include a statement within my consent form (for the interviewees) saying that if they chose to keep their blog identity that there is a chance it would be linked to their blog. Although, I've decided I will interview all of my bloggers, initially they approved that I would be able to include blog posts from bloggers that I was not interviewing and would not need consent since it was a public text without log-in or password. I was able to work with the review board on creating a consent form that I could send via email and their response indicated consent. Of course there was more to the process and I haven't conducted my research yet so... Since it was technically ok by the review board, I had to figure out my own ethics as a researcher. One main question I had was about perceived privacy - do people really think that what they write or say in a specific context has the potential to be published and brought out to a larger audience that wouldn't normally see what they said (i.e. an academic journal when they are just writing a blog)? Was I comfortable pulling direct quotes from blogs without telling the blogger when they can be traced back to the blog even if I changed the blog name and URL? There were many other questions that I had and it took me many months to figure them out, and I'm sure as I conduct the research more questions will arise. I probably would have email this group if I would have been a part of it then. In the end, I've decided to do what I am comfortable with as a researcher within obvious research ethic boundaries. I hope you don't mind me including these, but here are some questions that I thought might be useful to you as you make your decision. In my process I found answering similar questions helpful so I figured I would include them. Are you quoting all of the comments or are you just categorizing them. If you are categorizing and publishing the results in aggregate then is it likely that where the information came from will be discovered? When you Google (or whatever search engine you use) the quotes do the sources of data pop up? Do people have to log-in in order to post the comments? Can anyone without log-in read the comments? What do you consider sensitive? Would your commenters feel that what you think is sensitive is the same thing as what they consider sensitive (i.e. do you know the groups well enough to make this determination)? Jennifer Myers Doctoral Candidate at Florida State University jennifer.b.myers(a)gmail.com

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