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Due Today Aug 27 - GovLab's Academy Course Online Participation - Solving Public Problems with Technology
by Steven Clift 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

This crossed my radar today just in time for you to apply - by Aug 27: http://bit.ly/govlabacademycourse The GovLab Academy’s new course can help you solve problems that matter. Are you passionate about civic tech? Are you… Working in government with an innovative project you want to bring to life? An independent social innovator who wants to expand your toolkit for real-world change? Someone with an important idea for tackling a social problem but who needs to develop the key skills to take your vision from idea to implementation? Spaces for online participation are now available for the GovLab Academy’s flagship 14-week, Masters-level course, Solving Public Problems with Technology. Learn about the program here. http://bit.ly/govlabacademycourse In the Fall Semester of 2014 this course is being taught live for students at the MIT Media Lab (Wednesdays from 11am to 1pm) and NYU students (Thursdays from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm). You can apply to join either session as an online participant in the program (credit will not be granted at either institution for online participants). The course will be taught by Professor Beth Simone Noveck (Director of the Governance Lab, author of Wiki Government and the forthcoming Smart Citizen, Smarter State, and former Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration), with contributions from the GovLab Faculty and a wide range experts in the fields of open governance and civic technology. Details on the subject matter covered, the work assigned, the supplementary readings and videos, and participation logistics are all contained in the online syllabus. Solving Public Problems with Technology is not a traditional course. We offer a hands-on learning and mentoring program designed to help you shape and implement an innovative project using civic technology. To that end, we will prepare you to take advantage of the latest innovations in open and participatory problem-solving, including the application of open data, crowdsourcing, expert networks and systems, game mechanics, and prizes. We will prepare you to work with real-world institutions and partners, such as agencies and NGOs, to develop more effective and scalable initiatives. We will also give you ready access to a community of like-minded practitioners and experts, who will provide a network of support as you take your project through to implementation. Individuals and teams are both eligible to apply. Online participation is free of charge thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. While online participants will not receive academic credit the GovLab will recognize satisfactory completion of all course requirements with a certificate and demonstration of relevant skills and capabilities with appropriate open badges. Students enrolled at other institutions wishing to explore the possibility of being granted independent study credit at their home institution should contact us. We will be happy to collaborate. If you wish to apply, please fill out our application form here. Applications for Fall 2014 semester are due by August 27th, but additional courses will be offered later this year and throughout 2015. Can’t participate in this semester’s course? Stay updated on future offerings by signing up here. If you have questions please contact us at: info-academy(a)thegovlab.org. About The GovLab The Governance Lab (The GovLab) strives to improve people’s lives by changing how we govern. We endeavor to strengthen the ability of people and institutions to work together to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict and govern themselves more effectively and legitimately. We design technology, policy and strategies for fostering more open and collaborative approaches to governance and we test what works. The goal of the GovLab Academy is to support a new generation of public entrepreneurs to tap the intelligence of citizens and create actionable projects that improve people’s lives. Follow us on Twitter @TheGovLab Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

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text analysis -nostalgia
by Barry Wellman 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

The discussion for Corpus Analysis reminds me of the General Inquirer, created (almost solely) by the late great Philip J Stone III. It was a major basis for my 1969 dissertation, analyzing "Who Am I?" statements of 9th graders in Pittsburgh. Did a few early papers on it too. There's a book on the GI that some libraries may have. While Phil is gone, supposedly there is a Foundation. I was initially asked to be on the board, but I never heard anything. So everything old is new again Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter
by Cristina Aced 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook! Cristina Aced 2014-08-27 12:52 GMT+02:00 Shulman, Stu <stu(a)texifter.com>: > DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the > Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for > collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data: > > - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser > - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly > via an API > - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a > peer network > - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater > reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT) > - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities > - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering > - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to > 'clean' social data sets > - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning > - free for the first 30 days > https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration > > We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000 > historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth > more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free > historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and > then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo. > > These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research > lab specifically to improve measurement. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced <blogocorp(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of >> Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are >> using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but >> previously I need to extract the content. >> >> I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs >> and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it >> is >> due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> *Cristina Aced * >> >> PhD Candidate >> Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society >> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >> | caced(a)uoc.edu >> www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. Stuart W. Shulman > http://people.umass.edu/stu > > Founder and CEO, Texifter > http://texifter.com > > LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman > > Twitter > https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman >

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Looking for CATA program for tweet analysis
by Dave Voelker 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

I'd like to know if someone can recommend -- or knows of -- any computer assisted text analysis (CATA) programs capable of applying predefined concept dictionaries (lists of words and phrases representing a concept) to large datasets of tweets. I'm referring here to traditional, conceptual, content analysis (social science), not the bottom-up, data mining methods (computer science) primarily being used to analyze big data. An example of the kind of program I'm talking about is the freeware Yoshikoder (http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshikoder/wiki/Home/) but I'm unable to open a large (~ 3 GB) text file of tweets with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David Voelker, Ph.D. Department of Communication Stanford University http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/voelker/

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2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open
by Richard Hill 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

ASIST 2014 Annual Meeting See http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ for full information and to register October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA Come to Seattle for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The theme for this year�s conference is Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities - we chose this theme to celebrate the breadth of information science, its historical roots, its user-centeredness, and its unique aim of bringing people together around ideas, thoughts, and the exchange of information and knowledge. The program includes 42 papers, 26 panels, 102 posters, 12 workshops, and many opportunities for socializing at receptions. All in all this conference is packed with intellectually stimulating sessions, lots of opportunities to network and meet new people, and engage in the health and well-being of this wonderful association. We are delighted to present two excellent and accomplished keynote speakers: Kris M. Kutchera is Vice President, Information Technology for the Alaska Air Group Alessandro Acquisti is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900

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Teaching Aid for you to steal: My student workbook for class on Cultural/Media Studies Research Approaches
by Terri Senft 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Well, hi, Pals. I finally put together the whole 67 page student workbook for my class on Cultural and Media studies Research Approaches.It is on my site, here: http://www.terrisenft.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Approaches-S… Note: This is a PDF document that includes all the student exercises tailored to my particular class. I will email you an MS Word copy if you want to mess around with it and make it suit your own needs. Just send a mail my way asking, and throw out a thanks or a howdy somewhere on your doc, and I'm happy :) Btw, I have another workbook for Senior Thesis projects that includes a bit of the stuff in the Approaches doc, but also includes a section on writing formal research proposals and literature reviews that will be in that one. That should be ready by the weekend, I think. Excelsior! T -- <http://goog_689013053> <http://goog_689013053> Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>* (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft

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Rankings of Universities and Research Centers
by Isidro F. Aguillo 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

The new editions of the Rankings Web of Universities (now in its 11th year) and Research Centers have been published with data collected during July 2014. The rankings consist now of close to 22000 Higher Education Institutions and 8000 Research Centers with their own independent web presence. http://www.webometrics.info/ http://research.webometrics.info/ Ranking is built combining the following variables: Web presence, including general information, structure and organization, governance and transparency related documents, learning supporting items, technology transfer or community engagement among other webpages; Visibility, a virtual referendum about the global impact of such web contents; Openness, the commitment of the University to the open access initiatives through its institutional repository, portal of academic journals and availability of the full texts papers in the personal pages of their authors and Excellence, the number of highly cited papers (top 10% most cited) in 21 disciplines by is faculty members. In the current edition the top ranked universities are: 1. Harvard University 2. MIT 3. Stanford University 4. Cornell University 5. University of Michigan 6. University of California Berkeley 7= Columbia University 8= University of Washington 9. University of Minnesota 10. University of Pennsylvania Countries with Universities in the Top Hundred USA 66 Canada 7 UK 4 Germany 3 China 3 Japan 2 Switzerland 2 Netherlands 1 Australia 1 Italy 1 South Korea 1 Taiwan 1 Belgium 1 Hong Kong 1 Brazil 1 Austria 1 Czech Republic 1 Singapore 1 Mexico 1 The Top Ranked in Region are: USA Harvard Canada Toronto Latin America Sao Paulo Caribbean University of the West Indies Europe Oxford Russia Lomonosov MSU Africa University of Cape Town Asia Seoul National University China Peking Japan Tokyo South Asia IIT Bombay Southeast Asia National University of Singapore Middle East Hebrew University of Jerusalem Arab World King Saud University Oceania Melbourne BRICS Sao Paulo -- ************************************ Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr. The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC Grupo Scimago Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo(a)csic.es ORCID 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter @isidroaguillo Rankings Web webometrics.info ************************************ --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter
by Cristina Aced 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hello all, I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but previously I need to extract the content. I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is due to some restrictions of Facebook's API). Any other suggestions? Many thanks! *Cristina Aced * PhD Candidate Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | caced(a)uoc.edu www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp

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WebCultures: a new mailing list for web history and allied fields
by Michael Stevenson 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, Please consider subscribing to WebCultures, a new mailing list for web history and allied fields. http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/webcultures_listcultures.org WebCultures aims to bring together a growing number of researchers in the fields of web and internet history as well as the many archivists, artists, theorists, ethnographers, social scientists, critics and practitioners whose work intersects with the history of the web and new media culture. Ideally, the list will provide relevant announcements as well as a space for rich discussion and collaboration, for example around the following topics and questions: Mapping the field What are established and emerging themes in web and internet history? Is it already possible to map a web historiography, in the sense of an overview of canonical questions, approaches and knowledge? How does existing work address the range of possible histories of web cultures, producers and users, media and communication forms, websites and platforms, web aesthetics, standards and protocols, software and programming languages, groups and institutions? Education Where do web and internet history fit in existing media studies and communications programs? What kinds of digital media history courses are being developed? Should students born in the 1990s learn about Gopher or the development of RSS - and if so, what are the best ways to interest and motivate them? Resources and methods What on- and offline archives related to web and internet history are available, and how else is this history being preserved? What methods and tools are available for web archiving and for mining existing web archives? How can knowledge of the specific problems involved in doing web history be pooled? Relationship to other domains How can web history build on existing work in media and communications history? What does it have to offer research focused on newer objects of study such as social media platforms and the Whatsapp generation of communication apps? Conversely, how does the appearance of these new objects affect how we view and research web history? Institutionalization What is the discipline’s status? What conferences, journals, funding opportunities and jobs are out there, or should be out there? Of course, this list of topics may prove to be too ambitious, or not ambitious enough. Hopefully, at the very least, the mailing list will provide a better sense of who’s working in this fast-growing field. For any questions or subscription issues, please contact the list administrator (me) at michael [at] webcultures.org. Michael Stevenson Assistant Professor New Media & Digital Culture Dept. of Journalism Studies University of Groningen http://www.webcultures.org/ http://twitter.com/_mstevenson

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Generous PhD stipends on offer in Hong Kong
by Herold, David [APSS] 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Dear all, Please pass this on to any students who might be interested: Hong Kong Universities are looking for PhD students with evidence of academic excellence, research ability and potential, and good communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities for full-time PhD study in Hong Kong within the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. The scheme pays for: - Full 3 year tuition scholarship - Monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,600) - Annual book and equipment allowance of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,600) - not at all universities !!! - Annual Conference Funding of HK$10,000 (approx. US$1,300) - not at all universities !!! THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS VERY COMPETITIVE! DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: December 1, 2014 for a September 2015 start. HOW TO APPLY: General information: https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html - Identify and approach potential supervisors as soon as possible (see below); - Develop a research proposal with interested supervisor; - Submit application forms (incl. references) and research proposals by the deadline. University websites to start looking for departments and supervisors: Hong Kong University - http://www.hku.edu.hk/ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - http://www.ust.edu.hk/ Chinese University of Hong Kong - http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ City University of Hong Kong - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Polytechnic University - http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Baptist University - http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/ Lingnan University - http://www.ln.edu.hk/ Hong Kong Institute of Education - http://www.ied.edu.hk/ My own info for interested students: Dr. David Kurt Herold, Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS), HK Polytechnic University Email: David.Herold(a)polyu.edu.hk Research interests: - Internet in China; Internet users and their practices (=culture?); online/offline crossovers - Cross-cultural comparisons; cross-cultural (mis-)communication - Qualitative Research Methods, online research methods - Social Theory, Theories of knowledge, Theories of society FROM EXPERIENCE, THE FOLLOWING ARE EXPECTED OF APPLICANTS: - Undergraduate degree and postgraduate degree from different universities, preferably in different countries; - Good universities, very good GPA; - Very good research proposal (incl. literature review, interesting and doable project, etc.); - There is a preference for non-Chinese (there are different programs for Chinese students) to increase their ratio among Hong Kong students. Additional information: http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ro/hkphd-fellowship/ Best, David ==================== Dr. David Kurt Herold Assistant Professor Department of Applied Social Sciences HK Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon Hong Kong Phone: (+852)-3400 3015 Email: David.Herold(a)polyu.edu.hk ==================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. The University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed are only those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the University and the University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.

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