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State of the Blogosphere 2009 Now Available
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

State of the Blogosphere 2009 Colleagues/ Since 2004, Technorati ... ] has followed the growth and trends in the blogosphere. For the second time, we surveyed bloggers directly. They were generous with their thoughts and insights. Thanks to all of the bloggers who took the time to respond to our survey. In a world that's constantly changing - shocked by financial catastrophe and political upheaval, yet still moving faster every day - not much is constant. But as the 2009 State of the Blogosphere survey demonstrates, the growth of the blogosphere's influence on subjects ranging from business to politics to the way information travels through communities continues to flourish. In a year when revolutions and elections were organized by blogs, bloggers are blogging more than ever, and the State of the Blogosphere is strong. The Report > Day 1 - Who Are the Bloggers? Day 2 - The What and Why of Blogging Day 3 - The How of Blogging Day 4 - Monetization And Revenue Generation, Brands in the Blogosphere Day 5 - 2009 Trends: Political Impact of Blogging, Twitter Usage Links to The Reports Are Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yhnwsuy ] BTW: A few of my blogs are in the Technorati Top 1% ; Others in the Top < 5% !!! [WoW] Keep Those Hits A-Comin' ... [:-)] Go Yankees ! / Show Us The You're The Best Team That Money Can Buy [:->] Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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Berkman Center Opportunity: Academic Fellowship
by Amar Ashar 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi all, The Berkman Center is on the lookout for innovative academics, and we're pleased to announce our 2010-2011 Academic Fellowship. It's a fantastic opportunity for a rising scholar to take focused time for deep thinking and the production of compelling, potentially paradigm-shifting research as they prepare for or continue an academic career. Please see the announcement below, and at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/academicfellow. The application deadline for this academic fellowship is November 30, 2009.// Please also note: other fellowship opportunities -- for not only academics, but also researchers, practitioners, technologists, scholars, and more -- are open for the 2010-2011 academic year as part of our general, yearly open application process with an application deadline of December 31, 2009. If you or someone else has an idea you'd like to explore with the Berkman Center in this context, please check out information about the fellows program at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships! As always, please feel free to forward along to relevant lists or potential future fellows! ----- *Call for Applications: Berkman Center Academic Fellowship* <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/academicfellow> The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University seeks an academic to join the community as fellow for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Berkman academic fellowship is designed to support an early-to-mid career academic conducting research expected to yield valuable data and/or new insights related to Internet and society. The Berkman Center looks forward to facilitating and advancing significant works of scholarship achieved through both traditional and experimental methods. The academic fellowship provides a focused opportunity for the production of such works as articles, books, and other considerable contributions to our understanding of cyberspace. Beyond executing the plan proposed by the fellow, interaction with, support from, and contributions to the fellows and Berkman Center communities play a vital part of the academic fellowship experience. *Qualifications:* The academic fellow should have a highly distinguished academic record, and should be a rising scholar - either a recent recipient of an advanced degree, a postdoc, or a university lecturer/professor developing their teaching and research career. The academic fellow should be an outstanding leader or future leader in their field. We will consider applicants from all disciplines. The fellow must also possess a blend of knowledge, curiosity, openness and ambition, as well as a desire to work with a dynamic, mission-driven organization. A commitment to interdisciplinarity is also necessary. *Stipend and Benefits:* A stipend of $48,000 is awarded for the academic year. Access to Harvard University resources, including health benefits and library and ID privileges, are also provided. *About the Berkman Fellowship Program: * The Berkman Center hosts a robust and diverse community of fellows in Cambridge, MA. Berkman Center fellows play a crucial role in discovery, learning, and engagement, helping to drive projects from within and to bring fresh ideas and skills into our community. They are essential to the Berkman Center's network as nodes of intelligence, insight, energy, and knowledge-sharing. More information about the fellowship program can be found at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships. * Additional Information: *The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center now is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the intersections among innovation, democracy, learning, law, technology, and policy. *Application Materials:* 1.) A concise yet comprehensive outline for a research and writing project to be conducted over the course of the fellowship. We are particularly interested in knowing how your project will relate to and interact with ongoing Berkman research projects and subject areas. 2.) A curriculum vitae. 3.) Recent academic transcripts. 4.) Two letters of reference, including contact information 5.) A digital copy in English of either your most recent publication or any other piece of your work that is related to Internet research. URLs for online copies of such material are preferred. *To apply: * Please batch and email the application materials to Berkman Community Coordinator Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu. Please make the subject of your email 'Academic Fellowship Application'. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through 11:59 ET on Monday, November 30, 2009. *Questions:* Please email questions about the academic fellowship or the Berkman Center fellowship program to Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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First CfP IFIP EGOV Conference 2010 (Lausanne/Switzerland)
by Hans J. Scholl 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

First Call for Papers Ninth International EGOV Conference 2010 (Organized by IFIP WG 8.5) Dates: August 29 - September 2, 2010 Location: University of Lausanne (Switzerland) Please note: As in past years, the IFIP WG 8.5 group will again organize the International EGOV Conference in 2010. However, for the first time, the ninth conference of this of IFIP-directed conference series will be held outside the conference cluster of DEXA. Important dates: Submission of papers: February 15, 2010 Submission of workshop/panel proposals: March 15, 2010 Submissions to PhD colloquium: March 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels: April 30, 2010 Camera-ready papers due: Papers in Springer proceedings: May 31, 2010 Papers in Trauner Druck proceedings: June 15, 2010 Details: The Europe-based Annual International EGOV conference has developed into one of three core conferences, which present the state of the art in the study domains of eGovernment and eGovernance. Over the years, the International EGOV conferences have provided important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. This time for the first time, the EGOV conference will be a full IFIP working conference, organised by the officers of the IFIP working group 8.5. The International EGOV conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and from a number of disciplines. Over the years, the interest in this domain of study has steadily increased. The 2009 conference attracted more than 130 participants from 32 countries including developing countries, with 35 contributions in completed research, 25 contributions in ongoing research, 7 projects contributions and 3 workshops. eGovernment research has demonstrated its relevance to practice and consequently has influenced and even shaped government strategies and implementations. Conversely, eGovernment practice has inspired eGovernment research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention. In recent years, the assessment and evaluation of eGovernment projects, the foundations of eGovernment as a research discipline, integration and interoperation in government, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among leading topics on the research agenda. Topics at the ninth International EGOV conference include but are not limited to: - Foundations of eGovernment and eGovernance research - Future directions in research and practice of ICT in the public sector - Research theories and frameworks for public sector modernization with the support of ICT - Research methods, method integration and techniques - Designing and assessing systems for the public sector: innovative cases and systems - ICT usage, acceptance and performance of technology-supported public sector activities: methods and contemporary case analyses - Innovation management, change management and complexity management in shaping public sector advancements - Mass collaboration of stakeholders in government modernization: participative governance and policy modeling - Stakeholder-driven public sector reengineering - Mobile services and methods in government - Cloud computing and social networks in the public sector - Information preservation, information management, and information access - Trust and privacy in eGovernment - Emergency and disaster response management - Education, training courses, and curricula The Ninth International EGOV Conference 2010 hosts four distinct formats of contributions: Scientific papers (distinguished between completed research and ongoing research), project presentations, and workshops. These formats encourage scientific rigor and discussions of state of the art in the study domain, but also welcome innovative research approaches, work in progress, and studies of practical eGovernment or eGovernance projects, as well as reports on systems implementation. We seek innovative and scholarly sound contributions. Accepted papers of completed research will be published in Springer. Ongoing research and project papers will be published in Trauner proceedings. Read more in the submission guidelines and review criteria Prior to the conference (August 29 and 30) a PhD student colloquium will be held providing doctoral students with an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. For 2010, EGOV will be second time co-located with ePart, the new International Conference on eParticipation, which will be dedicated to topics on eParticipation and eDemocracy. ePart will be parallel to EGOV at the conference venue. http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2010/call-for-papers Conference chairs: Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Jean-Loup Chappelet, IDHEAP, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Chairs of PhD Colloquium Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, NY/USA Björn Niehaves, ERCIS, Universität Münster, Germany, Dr. Hans J (Jochen) Scholl, MBA Associate Professor The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Suite 310C Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl

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Research: Is the Internet Running Out of Space?
by M ROCHAN 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, My name is Rochan. I am a Mass Communication student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and working on a project for my Convergent New Media module. I have here an online questionnaire, with 5 simple questions. It would facilitate my research if you could answer them... it would hardly take 10 minutes. The link to the questionnaire is, http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=LKEDI_fa70a177 Hoping to hear from you soon. Thanking you, --------------------- M.Rochan Post-Graduate Student School of Communication & Information Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798 Alternate email: MUNI0006(a)ntu.edu.sg

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Beta Testers Invited - The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT)
by Stuart Shulman 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

We are releasing a free, Web-based toolkit for analyzing public comments. I invite anyone interested in public comment research or text analysis more broadly to become a beta tester for the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT), which is actually version 2.0 of the Coding Analysis Toolkit: http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=why_would_i_use_this_system We launch officially tomorrow, but the test site is up and operational: http://pcat-test.qdap.net/app/main.aspx Starting Friday, you can drop the "-test" from the url. Among the reasons to try PCAT: # This is a free service. # The system is fast, secure and scalable. # It is based on carefully researched principles of efficiency, accuracy, validity, usability, and transparency. # It is equally useful to public and private actors and accessible to all. # It is very easy to learn and you can't break it. like CAT, PCAT should be useful to anyone interested in advancing the science of annotation and replication in text analysis research. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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papers on Twitter?
by danah boyd 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

I know many of you presented on Twitter at AOIR and perhaps many more are working on papers about this site (and related microblogging sites). In my ongoing efforts to track the academic work about new social media sites for academics and non-academics alike, I've been trying to keep a bibliography of this work: http://www.danah.org/TwitterResearch.html If you have articles I should add, please send me a citation. I only link to publicly accessible versions of the articles (not locked-in journals), but I'm happy to include any peer-reviewed article in the list. I'm also happy to include scholarly non-peer reviewed articles if there's a publicly available version online. I do not do the hosting myself. This is parallel to my efforts to keep a SNS bibliography: http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html These bibliographies help circulate content from different disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological traditions focused on the same topical area. They are useful to scholars, but they are also especially useful to the companies trying to understand what is known in academia about these systems. If you're working in this area, I'd love to include your work! danah

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Interviewing via MSN
by Becker, C. (Carmen) 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Dear all, I am in the middle of my phd research/fielwork on media practices of young Muslims in Germany and the Netherlands who are inspired by Salafism. My research involves among other things participant observation in chat rooms and also Internet forums. I have done quite some (offline) interviews with both, men and women. Some men that I know from Islamic chat rooms would like to participate in interviews. However, their understanding of Islam does not allow them to talk to women that are not related to them by family. They offered to talk to me via msn (or paltalk). I would like to prepare myself and I am looking for some literature expanding on the methodology and ethcial questions of online interviews (via synchronous chat). I would be happy about any recommendation from the list. Thanks a lot in advance! Best, Carmen Carmen Becker ----------------------------------------- research.carmenbecker.net Radboud University Nijmegen Postbus 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands

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2010 James Carey Award -- Call for Self-Nominations
by Mark D. Johns 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS James W. Carey Media Research Award 2010 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.org/ The Carl Couch Center invites self-nominations for works to be considered for its annual James W. Carey Media Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes works on topics that have been central to Carey's scholarship. Submissions might focus on technology, time, space and communication, the nature of public life, the relation between journalism and popular culture -- among others -- taking these themes in new or different directions. Applications will be evaluated based on engagement with Carey's approaches and concepts, originality, and advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of five: Prof. Stuart Adam, Poynter Institute for Media Studies Prof. Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University Prof. John Pauly, Marquette University Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College Prof. Lance Strate, Fordham University Both single and multiple authored works will be accepted. All submissions must be works that have been published or have been accepted for publication in a book or journal. To be considered for the 2010 award, works should have been published or accepted in 2009. Those interested please submit a copy of their works electronically to Mark D. Johns, executive director of CCCSIR, at mjohns(a)luther.edu in plain text, Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or Adobe Acrobat format. If the work submitted is a paper, a 100-word abstract needs to be included. Paper length is limited to 30 pages plus references. If a book is submitted, a copy of the table of contents and one chapter are sufficient. The application deadline is April 1, 2010. Notification of award application will be sent out by June 15. The Award winner will receive the Carey Award plaque to be presented at the winner's choice of the 2010 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), or National Communication Association (NCA). Questions and comments about the Carey Award, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu OR Shing-Ling S. Chen Dept. of Communication Studies Univ. of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614 Tel: 319-273-6021 E-mail: sarina.chen(a)uni.edu

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Internet research methods syllabi
by Kris M. Markman 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello all, I will be teaching a graduate seminar on internet and technology research methods in the spring, and I'm looking for sample syllabi for similar classes. The class will be taught primarily from a communication standpoint (since that is my discipline) with many of the students coming from a rhetoric or qualitative social science perspective. However, the course will also be open to students from other disciplines, so I'm especially interested in syallabi that take a broader approach and touch on both quantitative and qualitative methods. I've been told not to expect that the students will have had any previous methods courses before this class, so I'm trying to figure out how to design a "survey of internet methods" course. Any links, examples, or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Kris ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication University of Memphis https://umdrive.memphis.edu/kmmrkman/www/index.html

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Twitter Use In Education > Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Colleagues/ A Most Interesting Initiative ! /Gerry Kathleen Kennedy Manzo / Education Week / October 16, 2009 [Online] The Twitter feed for Lucas Ames' class in American history has shown some lively exchanges of ideas and opinions among students at the Flint Hill School. One day this month, 11th graders at the private school in Oakton, Va., shared articles on the separation of church and state, pondered the persistence of racism, and commented on tobacco regulation in Virginia now and during the Colonial period-all in the required Twitter format of 140 or fewer characters. Those are exactly the kinds of interactions Mr. Ames had hoped for when he decided to experiment with the microblogging tool in his classroom this school year. [snip] In discussions on the DEN, which is hosted by the Silver Spring, Md.-based Discovery Education, Mr. Dembo has noticed a significant uptick in questions and recommendations among teachers about using Twitter, mostly addressing how to simplify administrative tasks or encourage students to conduct research or collaborate with classmates and their peers across the country. Mr. Ames, the history teacher, has already seen some results in classroom participation by students, who are given the choice of participating in the Twitter feed or writing an extra research paper. [snip] Dorie Glynn, who teaches a bilingual 2nd grade class at Kirk Elementary School in Houston, has been preparing students for conversations of their own on Twitter. The students have started following other classes at the school, and across the country, as they get ready to share data on regional cultures, weather, and to play a virtual I Spy game, in which they will hunt for geometric shapes in maps and photos sent from Twitter followers in other places. With scant research on the efficacy of social-networking tools such as Twitter, and few clear insights into the best (and worst) uses for them, there is little agreement among researchers and educators about how or whether Twitter-like technologies could or should be used in schools. [more] A Link To More Content And The Full Text Is Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/yfmtjsz ] BTW: I Am Interested In Any/All >>> Significant <<< Literature [or Tweets [:-)] Related To The Use of Twitter/Microblogging For Education / Learning ; Please Post As A Comment On The Posting Thanks For Your Assistance ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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