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Re: [Air-L] Research on OLPC
by Eduardo Villanueva 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

The single best independent source about OLPC, including developed countries implementations, is OLPC News (www.olpcnews.com)

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Visualization tool for conversations?
by gus andrews 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi everyone, My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.) I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow

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Information, Communication & Society - informaworld new issue alert (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Special AoIR issue. Following issue will be special CITASA issue. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:25:48 +0100 From: alerts(a)informaworld.com To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Information, Communication & Society - informaworld new issue alert Receiving plain text alerts? HTML alerts provide active direct links to publication content and enhanced layout. Sign in at http://www.informaworld.com, click on 'My Account' to edit your account settings and check the box to 'Receive emails in HTML format'. Dear Barry Wellman, Information, Communication & Society: Volume 12 Issue 3 (http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&is…) is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com) Special Issue:AoIR Special Issue This new issue contains the following articles: INTRODUCTION, Pages 299 - 302 Authors: Caroline Haythornthwaite; Lori Kendall DOI: 10.1080/13691180802660669 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… NEW MEDIA, MEDIATION, AND COMMUNICATION STUDY, Pages 303 - 325 Author: Leah A. Lievrouw DOI: 10.1080/13691180802660651 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… HOMELAND RE-TERRITORIALIZED, Pages 326 - 343 Author: Tingyu Kang DOI: 10.1080/13691180802635448 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… LIFE ON THE WIRE, Pages 344 - 363 Author: André Brock DOI: 10.1080/13691180802660628 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… CHILDREN AND ONLINE RISK, Pages 364 - 387 Authors: Elisabeth Staksrud; Sonia Livingstone DOI: 10.1080/13691180802635455 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE GENERATION GAP, Pages 388 - 407 Author: Lynn Schofield Clark DOI: 10.1080/13691180902823845 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… TUNES THAT BIND?, Pages 408 - 427 Authors: Nancy K. Baym; Andrew Ledbetter DOI: 10.1080/13691180802635430 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… COLLECT YOURSELF, Pages 428 - 443 Author: Marjorie Kibby DOI: 10.1080/13691180802660644 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… DO DUGG DIGGERS DIGG DILIGENTLY?, Pages 444 - 459 Author: Alexander Halavais DOI: 10.1080/13691180802660636 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=12&… Should you wish to stop receiving these emails or update which email alerts you receive, please go to: http://www.informaworld.com/alerting The email address you are subscribed with is: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Please do not reply to this email. To ensure that you receive your alerts and information from informaworld please add 'alerts(a)informaworld.com' and 'info(a)informaworld.com' to your safe senders list. informaworld is the online home of publications from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare Informa plc ("Informa") Registered Office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London, W1T 3JH. Registered in England and Wales - Number 3099067.

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Looking for a volunteer work on Drupal Web Development
by tata dano 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Greetings! I am expressing my intention for a volunteer work on Drupal Web Development. Currently, I was developing an online store using Ubercart. Please message me privately if anyone here is interested. Thanks. -- Linux Registered User #383849 http://kngphil.proboards58.com/ http://atats.blogspot.com/ http://sedemdbs.blogspot.com/

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Re: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?
by T. Kennedy 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

I've also used NodeXL to analyze connections & conversations in online forums. Handy and effective, and used with excel: http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL Tracy Kennedy Message: 4 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:20 -0400 From: gus andrews <gus.andrews(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations? To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <18fe74ae0904210916l39ce16e2gfe47b905cb324b48(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.) I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which his software could crunch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.youtube.com/user/themediashow

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Visualization tool for conversations?
by Prof. Becky Lentz 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

It's not open source, but it's a powerful tool: http://www.atlasti.com/ and this is a useful to explore as well: Qualitative Research Summer Intensive http://www.researchtalk.com/. -- Becky Lentz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrook Street West, Arts Building, W-265 Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2T6 514.398.4995 (phone) 514.398.7247 (fax) email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca web: http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/ and http://media.mcgill.ca/

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Research on One Laptop per Child
by Bella Minw 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hello All: I need to pick your brains! I am a doctoral student (Howard University) mass communication and media studies program and very interested in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptops for education for developing countries albeit lately, it is being introduced in developed countries as well. I am thinking of managable and viable ways of conducting a research on the topic. Any suggestions???? I'm currently thinking along the lines of many discontinued countries.... evaluation? assessment? comparative analysis? Kindly provide your input. Greatly appreciate it. Bella Ezumah 2nd year PHD student Howard University

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some yahoo questions
by Barry Wellman 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

For a historical chapter about the Internet that I'm co-writing, I'd appreciate knowing: 1. Does Yahoo's portal-based directory service still exist, and if so how do I get to it. (I want to give an example) (I suppose I could go to the Internet Archive but that seems daunting.) 2. what were the names of the people (usually Bay Area students) who laboriously constructed the hierachy of categories in Yahoo. Such as: Academic Institutions > Universities > Canada > Ontario, etc. No guesses, please. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Second Call for Papers - E-Government Track HICSS-43
by Hans J. Scholl 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Dear Colleague, Only 54 days left until the deadline of June 15, 2009! Time to prepare your contribution! This is an invitation to submit a research paper to one of the minitracks of the E-Government Track at the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43). HICSS-43 (2010) will be held from January 5-8, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa, Kauai, HI/USA. The e-Government Track will host eight minitracks: * Development Methods for Electronic Government * Emerging Topics * E-Participation, e-Citizenship, and Digital Democracy * E-Policy, e-Governance, Ethics, and Law * E-Services and Information * Information Security * Infrastructure and Interoperability * Organization and Management Submission deadline: June 15, 2009 For details please see http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss43/ Among e-Government scholars the HICSS e-Government Track has an excellent reputation. Several times it has been ranked the academically most rigorous research conference on e-Government in the world. Having a paper accepted at the e-Gov Track at HICSS means something. Best wishes, Jochen Scholl HICSS-43 E-Government Track

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FW: doctoral positions at Karlstad University
by Kruse, Holly 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Forwarded on request. Holly -----Original Message----- From: Robert Burnett [mailto:Robert.Burnett@kau.se] Sent: Tue 4/21/2009 6:03 AM To: Holly Kruse Subject: doctoral positions Doctoral Student positions in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University Deadline for application: 20 May, 2009 The Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT at Karlstad University now announces two positions as Ph.D. doctoral students in Media and Communication Studies. There are three prioritised research areas at the department: - Global Media Studies - Digital Media and Cultural Circulation - Communication, Citizenship and Social Change. More information about MKV, Media and Communication Studies in Karlstad is available at http://www.mediewebben.se Research education includes 240 ECTS credit points, inclusive dissertation. The doctoral student is expected to perform a certain amount of department work, for instance teaching. These duties may not constitute more than 20 % of the full work time. The doctoral student is expected to be involved in the daily work at the department. The position is limited to 4 years, but can be prolonged for up to one more year. Prerequisites: Qualified for this position are candidates with a University degree of 240 ECTS, from which at least 60 ECTS were awarded for courses at advanced level and/or have a Master's degree in Media Studies, or equivalent. Admission: On the basis of individual assessment of the candidates' abilities to successfully complete the research education. The earliest date for filling the position is the September 1st 2009. Application dnr FAK1 2009/34 or dnr FAK1 2009/35 shall contain: - Application package from the University web page: http://www.kau.se/forskning/forskarutbildning/var_forskarutbildning.lasso - List of qualifications with certified copies of certificates etc. - Undergraduate and Graduate essays and papers that are referred to - Any other scientific texts that show the ability of the applicant to profit from research education - Report on practical experience and employment of importance - A brief (1 000 words) description of why the applicant is interested in the position and the main area of interest and goals with the training - Two letters of recommendation. Information: Head of department Solveig Nilsson Lindberg, professor Robert Burnett and professor André Jansson. Union representatives are: Thomas Wennstam, SACO and Barbro Berglund, OFR. All are reached on + 46 54 700 10 00 (switchboard). Application with number dnr FAK1 2009/34 or dnr FAK1 2009/35 Karlstad University Faculty for Economics, Communication and IT 651 88 KARLSTAD Final day for applications: 20 May, 2009.

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