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searching for examples of online citizens engagement in environmental controversies
by Federica Amistani 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Dear AIR-listers, I am a Phd student in Multimedia Communication at the University of Udine (Italy) interested in studying citizen engagement in environmental controversies, especially when online tools are somehow involved in the participatory processes. Could you maybe suggest me some interesting study cases I can have look at? If any of you is interested in discussing those issues, please write to me at kitamani82(a)hotmail.com Thank you in advance for your assistance! Federica

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Last call! Television 2.0 Survey
by Rhiannon Bury 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Dear AIR-listers Thanks in part to you, I have almost 500 complete responses to my survey on viewing patterns and fan engagement afforded by timeshifting, downloading and streaming technologies. I am planning to end data collection after six months at the end of March. If you haven't completed the survey, here's your chance: http://tinyurl.com/tv2-0-survey2 Depending on your level of engagement with media fandom, the survey takes between 10 and 30 minutes to complete. There are prizes to win as well! The Television 2.0 project has been reviewed by the Research Ethics Board at Athabasca University. Thanks for your consideration! Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury, PhD Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University, Canada's Open University rbury(a)athabascau.ca

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Last call! Television 2.0 Survey
by Rhiannon Bury 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Dear AIR-listers Thanks in part to you, I have almost 500 complete responses to my survey on viewing patterns and fan engagement afforded by timeshifting, downloading and streaming technologies. I am planning to end data collection after six months at the end of March. If you haven't completed the survey, here's your chance: http://tinyurl.com/tv2-0-survey2 Depending on your level of engagement with media fandom, the survey takes between 10 and 30 minutes to complete. There are prizes to win as well! The Television 2.0 project has been reviewed by the Research Ethics Board at Athabasca University. Thanks for your consideration! Rhiannon Rhiannon Bury, PhD Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University, Canada's Open University rbury(a)athabascau.ca

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Tweets & IRBs
by Stuart Shulman 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

How are IRBs responding to research proposals involving Tweets? Would redaction of all user_names from metadata and @<username> from the tweets make it easier to get research approved? If so: Redact email and tweet IDs and other PII from large electronic datasets - Free Webinar 2 pm today http://bit.ly/ep9qfY ~Stu -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/> Have you tried DiscoverText? http://discovertext.com *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*

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top tweeters by location
by Muzammil M. Hussain 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Dear AoIR list, Does anyone know of a twitter search app that can list users by location (e.g., if I wanted to create a list of top tweeters who have listed their location as "Egypt")? I recall seeing something like this but forgot to bookmark it. Thanks, Muzammil

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searching for a term
by Jeneen Naji 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Dear all, there's a word been invented to define our ability to find out the answer to anything through google or online....its something like googlitis or google memory...gah..I can't remember and ironically can't google it either...anyone know what I'm blathering on about? - Jeneen

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Language ideologies & new media
by Aoife.Lenihan 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi everyone, For my Ph.D. research on language policy and new media, I am looking at the Facebook translations app and the language policy processes going on in this language community. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any studies out there published or in progress on language ideologies and the new media domain, particularly those in relation to minority languages. Given that this is still a 'new' and emerging field of research my reading to date has mostly been on language ideologies and for want of a better term the 'traditional' media, so I'd like to find out who else is out there doing this research in new media! I'd also like to chat to anyone else undertaking new media sociolinguistics in general and am contactable at the email below. Many thanks & best wishes, Aoife Lenihan Aoife.Lenihan at ul.ie

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CfP: Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility
by Marcus Foth 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Reminder: Call for Papers Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility Special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net/ Submissions close 31 March 2011. Theme Following on from the successful workshop held in conjunction with Making Links 2010, this special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will bring together contributions from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss how academic researchers and community practitioners and activists can work together to explore the use of information and communication technologies, social media, augmented reality, and other forms of network technologies for research and action in pursuit of social responsibility. The aim is to connect people with ideas, ideas with research projects, and harness new media to further inquiry into socially just outcomes in our communities. Topics Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following: Action research Civic intelligence Community engagement strategies, methods and approaches Community research partnerships for mutual advantage Ethical considerations Funding, managing and maintaining community-university research partnerships Participatory design Research impact assessment Role of university researchers in community-based research Organisation and Submission Details Authors are requested to follow the instructions at http://www.ci-journal.net/. We invite the submission of conceptual or empirical (quantitative and/or qualitative) work up to 6000 words on the special issue's theme. Deadline for completed manuscripts: 31 March 2011. Papers should follow the Author Guidelines, and be submitted online to http://www.ci-journal.net/. Acceptance notifications are sent to authors by 31 May 2011. Final revised papers are due by 30 June 2011. The special issue is scheduled for publication early 2012. Inquiries about possible topics are welcome. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to the guest editors. Guest Editors Professor Matthew Allen (@netcrit) Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology m.allen AT curtin.edu.au Associate Professor Marcus Foth (@sunday9pm) Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology m.foth AT qut.edu.au Making Links 2010 workshop archive http://www.makinglinks.org.au/research-for-action/ -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Lab Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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Participants Needed: Facebook Survey
by Roundtree, Aimee 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I'm an associate professor in the technical communication program at the University of Houston-Downtown. I am conducting survey research to study to what extent people use Facebook for community-building and health-related purposes. (CPHS Log# 38-11a). Please participate in the survey. Completing the survey takes approximately 10 minutes. Participation is voluntary; there is no penalty if you choose not to participate or to withdraw from the study at any time. The survey is anonymous; results of the survey may be published, but participants names will not be solicited or used. If you are a Facebook user who is age 18 or over and who is willing to take the survey, please follow this link--<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z7DXWJ5>--where, in addition to accessing the survey, you will find more information about the study and the survey itself. If you have any questions, please contact Aimee Roundtree at roundtreea(a)uhd.edu or 713-222-5315.

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"Do You CEE?", the second edition of the Gemius report on the internet in Central and Eastern Europe available!
by Mikhail Doroshevich 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Greetings, Gemius, an international research agency, the leader and forerunner in the field of research of the internet and on the internet in Europe and in the MENA region, in cooperation with IAB Europe, has recently released the second "Do you CEE" report. This remarkable compendium of knowledge on the internet markets in the region of Central and Eastern Europe has proved to be a needed and appreciated source of independent and reliable information for all those interested in the latest developments of the CEE web reality. The second "Do you CEE?" report, apart from the most up-to-date data from 15 CEE markets, is enriched with the detailed studies of the online reality in 2 additional countries - that is Belarus and Turkey. Furthermore, as in the previous edition of the report, all those interested will find current internet tendencies, most widely used tools as well as descriptions of key online market players in each of the countries. Download: http://www.internetcee.com/ Best regards, Mikhail Doroshevich http://www.i-policy.org http://twitter.com/infopolicy/

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