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Internet Research Methods Syllabus Inquiry
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Jennifer, Sounds like a great opportunity to introduce emerging researchers to a wide range of methods. On the qualitative side, you might consider exploring methods for collecting elicited data from interviews as well as extant data from posts, archives and documents. Online communications tools allow for many ways to interact with participants through text, verbal and/or visual exchanges. By building interview exercises into your course, students can practice collecting (and analyzing) data. I've posted a number of resources, including assignment ideas and syllabi, to complement my books, and in shameless self-promotion I share it here: http://blog.vision2lead.com/2013/12/12/teach/. *Online Interviews in Real Time* provides both theoretical foundations and practical tips for using text-based, videoconference, web conference or virtual world technologies. *Cases in Online Interview Research* offers examples from across disciplines and across the globe. An analytic E-Interview Framework helps to explain each study's research design, ethical issues and approach. FYI, a new book, *Qualitative **Online ** Interviews*, will be available this spring from Sage http:// <http://bit.ly/1e7SexM>bit.ly/1e7SexM. If you (or anyone) would like specific ideas for teaching students about how to design and conduct online interviews, feel free to contact me off list. Happy researching! Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc.*Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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7 days left to apply to the Digital Methods Winter School Amsterdam January 2014
by Liliana Bounegru 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Call for participation in the Digital Methods Winter School, Amsterdam, January 2014 https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2014. Deadline: 18 December 2013 Dear all, We would like to remind you that the 6th annual Digital Methods Winter School, Mini-conference as well as International Workshop and Data Sprint will take place 13-17 January 2014 at the University of Amsterdam. The Winter School this year is dedicated to online data analysis, and has as its workshop and data sprint theme the study of hate violence as well as extremism, using software tools for social media data collection and analysis. We are pleased that Wendy Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, will be joining us at the School, together with representatives of Human Rights Watch. For PhD candidates and scholars attending there is also an opportunity to present a paper, and/or be a respondent, during the mini-conference. (Presenting papers is not a requirement for participating in the Winter School.) Each paper is shortly introduced, and two respondents provide 5-7 minute responses followed by author’s retort and general Q&A. For all questions please consult the co-organizers, Natalia Sanchez (N.SanchezQuerubin at uva.nl) and Liliana Bounegru (liliana.bounegru at digitalmethods.net) The call for participation to this year’s Digital Methods Winter School is below. I hope to be able to welcome you to Amsterdam in the new year! Regards Richard Rogers Digital Methods Initiative University of Amsterdam http://www.digitalmethods.net/ My Sentiments Exactly: On Methods of Early Warning, Detection and Monitoring through Online and Social Media Digital Methods Winter School 2014, Mini-Conference and International Workshop and Data Sprint 13-17 January 2014 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to announce its 6th annual Winter School, entitled "My Sentiments Exactly: On Methods of Early Warning, Detection and Monitoring through Online and Social Media." The Digital Methods Winter School provides the opportunity for PhD candidates, advanced MA students and motivated scholars to work on timely research methods as well as present a short paper on digital methods and new media related topics, with feedback from the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and international participants, often drawn from previous Digital Methods Summer and Winter Schools. This year's Winter School is five days, with one day devoted to the Mini-conference, where the papers are presented and participants also serve as respondents, and four days to the workshop. The theme of the workshop is "methods of early warning," and includes a data sprint. This year's edition will feature, among other interventions, guest lectures by eminent scholars and practitioners. Participants do not have to present a paper to take part in the workshop. Digital Methods Winter School Workshop The 2014 Digital Methods Winter School is devoted to methods of early warning, detection and monitoring with social media data. Animal spirits in the stock market, the mood of the people before the elections, the buzz leading up to the Oscars. Emmys and Grammys - these are some of the common use cases, and for some analysts "data fantasies", put forward for deploying digital detection programs. Occasionally expressed as opportunities in big data, early warning systems and other societal monitoring devices using social media data are of interest as an alternative social research arena even competing with the more conventional social scientific instrumentarium. Google Flu Trends and Dengue Fever Trends signalled the use of engine queries to study incidence of ailment and its geography. The work using Twitter as anticipatory space has been less effective, perhaps summarised in the academic paper entitled, "I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper." The 2014 Digital Methods Summer School takes stock but also applies software techniques to study resonance, salience as well as sentiment using online data. Where are the fruitful realms of application for such monitoring techniques? Are the techniques well suited to the comment and review spaces online? May we characterise hashtags as polemical, comical, highly substantive or nonsensical? How to geo-locate hate speech? Whilst disparate the list of questions seeks to invite application of monitoring software to wide-ranging online data sets, and experimentation. How to determine the spaces and derive metrics for unrest, collective nervousness, and other such constructions. May we derive signatures of affective states? Data Sprint: Hate Violence As Object of Online Study Traditionally, victim studies have relied on two main sources of data: police reports and self-reporting aka victimisation data. Another way to gather instances of hate violence is to conduct press monitoring. More recently, projects have attempted to crowd-source hate crime reports but without great success. This workshop aims to fill in the gaps of these traditional forms of gathering victimisation data by building an apparatus that uses Facebook and Twitter to monitor instances that may lead to hate violence. In doing so we ask: Is there a link between incitements of violence on social media and wider violence? How can we find social media hate activity measures that correlate with violence acts? Could social media give us early warning tool for hate violence? Extremist sympathiser networks, activists as well as victim spaces online will be monitored. An activity measure that will be explored on both Facebook and Twitter is the content (images, URLs, videos) that is most circulated and that animates particular groups. Another approach takes selected events at its core and investigates hate incitement activity around these events on social media retrospectively, and correlates these online activities with violent acts. Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference The data sprint is the Winter School workshop. There is also the annual Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference. The mini-conference provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar. Winter School Schedule 13 January 9.30-17.00 Sentiments and extremism. Subject matter experts and sentiment analysts present. Location: TBA 14 January 9.30-17.00 Mini-conference, per paper: 5-minute paper presentations, two 5-minute responses, 5-minute author response, 5-minute Q&A.Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. 15 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop. Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. 16 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop. Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. 17 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop and afternoon presentations. Location: Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, rooms 0.12, 0.13 and 0.04. Afternoon presentations: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, room 3.01. Maps How to get to/from Schiphol Airport, a guide<http://www.schiphol.nl/Travellers/ToFromSchiphol.htm>. We recommend taking the train. How to get to the University of Amsterdam, Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT, Amsterdam. Take tram 4, 9, 14, 16, 24, 25 and get of at Spui/Rokin then walk to Oude Turfmarkt, enter the passage and it's the first building on your left. Map for the different locations: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201538250879417252106.0004d3ca4fa069bc… A) Media Studies. Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT, Amsterdam. Rooms: 0.13 and 0.04 B) Universiteitstheater/University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1012 CP, Amsterdam. Room 3.01 C) Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam Also, Google Maps with all locations of the University of Amsterdam<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=2049942403786499770…> . Sharing content We will have an open Skype channel for all participants. Twitter: #dmiwinter14 Application, Fees & Logistics Application deadline is 18 December 2013. To apply please send along a letter of motivation as well as your CV to info at digitalmethods.net. The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2014 is EUR 245. Bank transfer information will be sent along with the notification on 19 December 2013. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. The Winter School closes with a festive event, after the final presentations. Participants are expected to find their own housing (airbnb and other short-stay sites are helpful). The DMI organisers are happy to provide tips. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene<https://www.digitalmethods.net/MoM/NewMediaAmsterdam> . About DMI The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking method for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (six to date), which are intensive and full time 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2014 Summer School will take place 23 June - 4 July 2014. The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Sabine Niederer and Esther Weltevrede (PhD candidates in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam), and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Digital methods are online at http://www.digitalmethods.net/. The DMI about page includes a substantive introduction, and there is also a list of Digital Methods people, with bios. DMI holds occasional Autumn and Spring workshops, such as Mapping Populism in Europe<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulism> and Climate Change and Conflict<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ClimateConflicts>. There is also a Digital Methods book<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods> . --- Liliana Bounegru | Researcher | @bb_liliana <https://twitter.com/bb_liliana> Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science | Digital Methods Initiative | University of Amsterdam www.emapsproject.com | www.digitalmethods.net | www.uva.nl

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and academia.edu
by Suely Fragoso 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Hi again. Great and enlightening discussion! I would like to comment two points: First, I'm with Daren - why publish with the big companies after tenure? I confess I never understood the logic of the US academic environment, or even if and why the same rules and values apply in Europe, Canada, Asia, etc. It seems that Latin America is the only exception in a world where everybody runs the same tenure system (there are reasons to publish with the big business here as well, but I will not bore the majority describing what appears to be a strictly regional set of oddities). It seems that everyone aggrees that open access is better in that it makes our work available to a much larger group of readers. However, it is not so easy to locate good reliable open access journals that run a proper and well intentioned peer review system and that will not surprise us at the end of the reviewing process by charging a 'publication fee to cover the costs' (I know publishing have costs, I have been involved in all parts of the process, from scientific editor to support in the printing factory. Believe me, the fees are disproportionate). I remember having heard of a wiki listing open access journals with information about their reviewing practices, who is 'behind the curtains', etc. Does it exist? If not, I think it is time we start one. My second point is why we make our work available in Academia.edu. I would say it is because papers in Academia.edu get higher rankings from big bad giant Google (I suppose Academia.edu *is* Google. Is it?) Ranking higher means that more people get to read our work, as Academia.edu profits from it but does not charge the reader (or the author). I am not saying it is good or we can't do better - of course we can. I'm just trying to locate what is needed to lead our initiatives to success. Suely Enviado do Yahoo Mail no Android

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New article on Wikileaks, Anonymous, and global activism
by Wendy Wong 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi Everyone: I just wanted to let you know about an article I (and co-author Pete Brown) have in the new issue of Perspectives on Politics on the role of Wikileaks, Anonymous, and other “e-bandits” in global activism . Here is the link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=pps Here is the abstract for “E-Bandits in Global Activism: Wikileaks, Anonymous, and the Politics of No One." In recent years, WikiLeaks and Anonymous have made headlines distributing confidential information, defacing websites, and generating protest around political issues. Although many have dismissed these actors as terrorists, criminals, and troublemakers, we argue that such actors are emblematic of a new kind of political actor: extraordinary bandits (e-bandits) that engage in the politics of no one via anonymizing Internet technologies. Building on Hobsbawm's idea of the social bandit, we show how these actors fundamentally change the terms of global activism. First, as political actors, e-bandits are akin to Robin Hood, resisting the powers that be who threaten the desire to keep the Internet free, not through lobbying legislators, but by “taking” what has been deemed off limits. Second, e-banditry forces us to think about how technology changes “ordinary” transnational activism. Iconic images of street protests and massive marches often underlie the way we as scholars think about social movements and citizen action; they are ordinary ways we expect non-state actors to behave when they demand political change. E-bandits force us to understand political protest as virtual missives and actions, activity that leaves no physical traces but that has real-world consequences, as when home phone numbers and addresses of public officials are released. Finally, e-banditry is relatively open in terms of who participates, which contributes to the growing sense that activism has outgrown organizations as the way by which individuals connect. We illustrate our theory with the actions of two e-bandits, Anonymous and WikiLeaks. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Wendy H. Wong Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Associate Director, Munk School Global Justice Lab Munk School of Global Affairs | University of Toronto 315 Bloor Street West | Room 214 Toronto, ON M5S 1A3 Phone: 416-946-8703 | Fax: 416-946-5566 www.munkschool.utoronto.ca individual.utoronto.ca/wendyhwong JOIN THE GLOBAL CONVERSATION

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Invitation to be a member of ERB: International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)
by Hakikur Rahman 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues, We are looking forward to include a few active members in the editorial review board (ERB) of the International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD) who assist in reviewing 3-5 papers per year. You may please send your intention to be a distinguished member of the ERB with your CV by accapting this invitation. Thanking you. Best regards, Hakikur Hakikur Rahman Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD) www.igi-global.com/ijicthd

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A modest proposal [was: Re: Open access and academia.edu]
by Mathieu ONeil 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi all In the last 24 hours several CFPs have been posted to this list, if I'm not mistaken all of which were for closed journals. We are enmeshed in the old ways: how do you shift the battleship? (As an aside, even if you have tenure, your performance is evaluated every year and you are expected to publish a certain number of papers in certain categories of journals. The same goes for when you apply for research grants, you have to point to a track record of publications.) So what can be done? We need to change the perception of what is "valuable". First - of course - publish and review for open access journals as much as possible. Second, a simple idea would be: when applying for a grant or writing a performance assessment, we should use the term "open access" as if it were as "valuable" and praiseworthy as "highly ranked". In other words open access should be framed as a central characteristic of excellence in scientific / academic publishing. The same goes for when we review others' research grant applications or promotion / job applications. Just my 2c, cheers Mathieu ________________________________________ From: Scott MacLeod [scott(a)scottmacleod.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:59 To: Mathieu ONeil Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: Re: [Air-L] Open access and academia.edu Hi Mathieu and AoIR, As part of the free, open, Academic Journals' 'ecosystem,' here's startup, C.C. World University and School's Academic Journal's wiki, Subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS#World_Unive… . World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW and planning online, C.C. MIT-centric, university degrees in many languages) is also planning to develop academic journals in large languages to begin. For example, at present anyone can go to any subject on the main, WUAS, wiki, Subjects page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - in English only (at this time), and find Academia.edu near the top, and potentially add the article they've written to that subject. Here's an example of a Subject page ... 'Open_Access_Resources' at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources - and as a C.C. wiki, anyone can start a Subject page in an area they're interested in, using this SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - or similar, which currently includes Academia.edu, since it's free and open, and makes it possible for academics to self- publish. Have AoIR-ers seen Harvard computer science Professor Stuart Shieber's recent blog entry " Thoughts on founding open-access journals," which I've added to this WUaS Open Access Resources' subject using a version of the AAA citation approach: Shieber, Stuart. 2013. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-… Thoughts on founding open-access journals]. November 21. Brookline, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-access-…. Stuart Shieber is one of the leading, tenured academic voices for open access journals, and writing very sensibly. As startup World University and School develops and begins to accredit for university degrees, WUaS's approaches to online journals will move beyond Academia.edu's approach, particularly with respect to the editorial Board per Stuart Shieber's article. (A huge project, wiki WUaS seeks to begin the MIT / Harvard of the internet and in all 7,105 languages and 242 countries, and Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 287 languages and just developed and deployed a CC database, Wikidata. And WUaS plans to become a significant employer eventually, first hiring graduate students from greatest universities, if possible, as journal editors, and instructors in G+ Hangouts for example, to MIT faculty in MIT OCW in video). I think Elsevier and Academia.edu will continue to pursue their publishing strategies, but make questions of Copyright and Creative Commons' licensing ( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law#World_University… ) more significant. Best, Scott - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. On Mon 09/12/13 1:49 PM , Mathieu ONeil mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au sent: > Hi Ivan > > Thanks for explaining! ;-) Well yes, pretty much everything you do online > can be tracked, measured and sold (if that's what you mean by > "control"). Nothing mysterious about that. Facebook and > academia.edu have the same model (they even look the same): you provide > content, we network it. It's a trade-off. If anyone can set up a > non-commercial alternative that offers the same functionalities, I'll jump > in right away (@Rob: I'm looking at you!). > Re. open-access, at the risk of repetition: if you just have volunteers (as > most open access journals do) then you will have inconsistent proof-reading > and hence mistakes and errors (not all researchers can copy-edit or > proofread well, particularly when English is not their first language). > Maybe a slip in text quality is the price to pay? So yes, pools of > university-run journals could pay proofreaders... in the current climate > not sure many will go down that path. > cheers > > Mathieu > > ________________________________________ > From: Iván [ivan.cha > ar(a)gmail.com]Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:26 > To: Mathieu ONeil > Cc: Jonathan Sterne, Dr.; <air-l > @listserv.aoir.org>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Open access and academia.edu > > Dear colleagues, > > I have been following this thread with interest and I would like to thank > you all for the discussion. > Mathieu, I think the walled garden Jonathan is suggeting goes beyond > notions of ease of access. After all, new media devices and social media > are usually designed for easy use. However, this ease is tied to > obfuscatory operations whereby control, data collection and other > procedures are 'hidden' from 'plainview.' I think it is our task to > interrogate these obfuscations. > Though I use academia.edu, this conversation has pushed me to reconsider > how I present my research while contributing to free and open access. > Also, thank you for posting the titles of good open access journals. > > Best, > Iván Chaar-López > PhD Student > Department of American Culture > University of Michigan > @multitudenred > > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Mathieu ONeil <math > ieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> wrote:> > > Hi Jonathan > > > > You probably should stop changing the title of > the messages: breaks the thread :-)> The garden wall does not seem unscaleable, > anyone can create an account on academia...> > > cheers > > Mathieu > > > > > > > ________________________________________> From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Jonathan Sterne, Dr. > [jon > athan.sterne(a)mcgill.ca]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:07 > > To: <air-l > @listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: [Air-L] Open access and > academia.edu> > > Just to be clear for Matthieu, my point wasn't > about services and whether people like academia.edu or not. Many of my > colleagues love it. My concern is profit models and ethical and social > obligations, especially differences between theirs and mine. The walled > garden is reason enough for me not to opt in. I have managed to continue > discovering good new work without it.> > > On the services front, just a big +1 to the > points from Daren and Rex.> > > Also: if you want open access journals to have > higher impact factors, don't just submit to them, read the and cite > them.> > > And one more thing: those of us who write tenure > reviews also need to take time in our letters to argue for the significance > of new publishing models when junior scholars take advantage of > them.> > > Jonathan > > > > PS -- Still, I also believe there is a place for > university and independent presses: they do a lot of useful work for > authors and for readers. Even the most committed digital humanists are > still writing books, as are many social scientists who want to reach wider > audiences. And funding for good open access journals remains an > issue.> -- > > http://sterneworks.org> (apologies for iPad typos.) > > > >> On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:38, Matthieu "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote:>> > >> iefly: not sure about comparing the enormous > fees charged by Elsevier etc to a free service like Academia. Now, granted > that Academia.edu may be profiting off users, but - apart from its social > networking functions - it does provide services since it tells you (amongst > other things) (1) when people search for your work, what search terms they > use, where they come from; (2) how many times subscribers have downloaded > specific items; (3) when people upload content that you are interested in. > If it did not do those things people would not use it> > _______________________________________________> The Air-L > @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 > @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 > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, 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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Internet Research Methods Syllabus Inquiry
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi fellow AoIR-ers, I am building a shiny new course at the graduate level that aims to tackle the topic of Internet Research Methods. I am already swimming in more ideas than I can handle about this course, and thought I would turn to this savvy crowd for some advice. Have any of you taught an Internet research methods course? If you have, what were your primary goals in the course? Did you focus primarily on qualitative methods, quantitative methods, or both? Did you critically examine methodological challenges for Internet research or focus primarily on the how tos of Internet research? I ask these questions because I am a bit torn about how to proceed. The topic of Internet research methods is really broad. Textbooks on the topic that I have found focus either only on qualitative approaches, typically critically examining the challenges of qualitative approaches when brought to the Internet. Or if the textbooks focus on quantitative approaches, they are primarily recipe books, like how to suck up and count behaviors online (think "data analytics" or "data science"). I am also a bit torn about whether it is better if the students already have a fairly good handle on traditional "offline" methods before they come into the class. This term, there won't be any prerequisites, but I wonder how much background would be helpful for students to have of methods generally in order to understand the challenges of Internet research. Anyhow, any thoughts of any of this is most welcome. ~Jenny Associate Professor | School of Information Studies Syracuse University 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.1823 f 315.443.5673 e jstromer(a)syr.edu w syr.academia.edu/jenniferstromergalley ischool.syr.edu

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Porn Studies - CfP for Special issue - Audiences
by Sharif Mowlabocus 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues Dr Sharif Mowlabocus (University of Sussex) and Professor William Leap (American University) are editing a special issue of Routledge’s new Porn Studies journal, scheduled for publication in May 2015 (issue 6). The issue will explore the multiple positions from which different audiences engage with pornographic material, and will include articles on research methods, political-economies of pornography and discourses of porn consumption. At the present time, the editors are seeking proposals for papers that specifically address the theme of women as consumers of pornography. Women have historically been underrepresented in discussions of porn consumption and porn audiences and we would like to use this special issue to address this imbalance. Please note that, for this reason, this is a specific call and we are only seeking papers that explore the experiences of female porn audiences / consumers. The publishing schedule is set as follows: January 17th 2014 – Abstracts and biographies due. February 3rd 2014 – Editor’s decision on submission. July 31st 2014 – Articles submitted to editors October 15th 2014 – Reviewers reports returned to authors December 22nd 2014 – Revised articles submitted to journal for typesetting May 2015 – publication of article in 6th issue of Porn Studies. Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words and should be accompanied by a biography (200 words max) of the author(s). We welcome critically-engaged analyses that are underpinned by relevant theoretical frameworks. Final articles to be no longer than 6,500 words. Please send abstracts and biographies to s.j.mowlabocus(a)sussex.ac.uk<mailto:s.j.mowlabocus@sussex.ac.uk> by January 17th 2013. Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus Senior Lecturer - Media and Digital Media University of Sussex s.j.mowlabocus(a)sussex.ac.uk<mailto:s.j.mowlabocus@sussex.ac.uk> http://sharifmowlabocus.com/blog/ www.pornlaidbare.co.uk<http://www.pornlaidbare.co.uk> ***OUT NOW**** Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology & Embodiment in the Digital Age More details at: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358

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Second CFP: Hypertext 2014, Sept 1-4, Santiago, Chile
by Denis Parra 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hypertext 2014 - 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 1-4 Sept. 2014, Santiago, Chile http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ Regular and short papers: 21 March 2014 Workshop papers, doctoral consortium papers and late-breaking results: 23 May 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. The ACM Hypertext 2014 conference will focus on the role of hypertext and hyperlink theory on the web and beyond, as a foundation for approaches and practices in the wider community - ranging from the usage of social media to the semantics of the 'Internet of Things'. We also welcome submissions that focus on the linguistic aspects of hypertextand user experience with linked entities, resources and events. Hypertext 2014 tracks ===================== - Links and Connections between People (chairs: Daniele Quercia, Johan Bollen) - Open Data and the Semantics of Things (chairs: Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Mathieu d'Aquin) - User Experience and Adaptive Linking (chairs: Rosta Farzan, Vincent Wade) IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full paper submission: 21 March 2014. Workshop papers, doctoral consortium papers and late-breaking results: 23 May 2014. Submission instructions: See http://ht.acm.org/ht2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General chairs: Leo Ferres, Gustavo Rossi Program chairs: Virgilio de Almeida, Eelco Herder Workshop and tutorial chairs: Federica Cena, Christoph Trattner Poster and demo chairs: Carlos Castillo, Jill Freyne Student chairs: Julita Vassileva, Martin Atzmüller Local and publicity chair: Denis Parra Proceedings chair: Altigran Soares da Silva ---------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-posting. Thanks, Denis Parra Assistant Profesor, Department of Computer Science School of Engineering Pontifical Catholic University of Chile +56 (2) 2354.4442 dparra(a)ing.puc.cl

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Re: [Air-L] Emerald Studies in Media and Communications
by Shelia Cotten 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi everyone. Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University) and I are the new editors of the Emerald Studies in Media and Communications. We are beginning to distribute our Call for Submissions for our 2014 volumes. I hope that you will consider submitting some of your work for one of our volumes! I would also appreciate it if you would consider distributing this call to your departmental faculty and students, as well as other listservs and individuals that you think may find this of interest. If you do submit it other listservs, please let me know which ones you send it to so that we avoid duplication. Thanks for your help and we look forward to receiving your submissions by January 6, 2013! Shelia ************************************* Shelia Cotten Professor Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University cotten(a)msu.edu <mailto:cotten@msu.edu> Call for Submissions 2014 Initial Submissions Due: Monday January 6, 2014 midnight GMT By email to editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com <mailto:editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com> http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/Current-Call.html Laura Robinson and Shelia Cotten, the new series co-editors of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications, are inviting submission of original, unpublished papers for two volumes to be published in 2014. Beginning in 2014, the series will consist of two annual volumes bringing together cutting edge research on new media. Thanks to a short publication cycle, authors will see their work in print within 12 months of submission. The series welcomes work from a variety of perspectives from media scholars working in the social sciences, humanities, and related fields such as media studies, information studies, STS, and communication. Submissions may be empirical, theoretical, methodological, or synthetic statements of significant developments in the field. Empirical submissions may make use of any method or approach. Contributions on a wide variety of topics on new media, ICTs, communication, and related themes are welcome from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. For a list of potential themes, please see series' aims and scope. Volume I: Communication and Information Technologies Annual 2014 Each year, one volume will build on the series' newly established association with the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). This annual volume will feature a selection of contributions that will be highlighted at each year's CITASA business meeting. Volume II: Doing and Being Digital: Mediated Childhoods Volume II will assemble cutting edge research focusing on media and youth. Submissions may examine any aspect of the theme of youth and media broadly defined. Youth is defined as infancy to young adulthood. We also welcome submissions on institutions that shape this part of the lifecourse such as the family, school, community organizations, etc. In addition, we are also interested in submissions that address theoretical and/or methodological issues on the topic. Submissions should be 6,000-12,000 words in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. British or American spelling may be used. While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines. Submissions will be considered for inclusion in either volume to achieve the best thematic fit. Contributions will be peer-reviewed through both initial editorial screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two referees. For more information, please email: editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com <mailto:editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com> .

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