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Survey Suggestions
by McMillan, Sally J 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Many thanks to AoIR colleagues who responded to my request last week for help with a survey related to IT purchasing. However, my fellow researchers and I still need some more responses to this survey. If you have any role in IT purchasing at your organization, would you please complete the survey. And/or it would be helpful if you would encourage others in your organization who are responsible of IT purchasing to complete the survey. Have any other AoIR folks tried to survey a similar group? If so, can you suggest lists that we might use for recruitment? Many thanks. Details on the survey (including link to the online questionnaire) are below. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of McMillan, Sally J Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:40 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Your Help with a Survey AoIR colleagues, I am participating with an international group of scholars who are exploring issues related to IT purchasing. If you have ANY role in purchasing IT products for your organization would you please complete the survey for us? Also, if you know of others in your organization (or other organizations) who purchases IT products/services PLEASE forward this survey request to them. Thank you in advance for your help. ***** Please take 20-30 minutes of your valuable time to participate in our questionnaire survey. Your participation will help researchers better understand the adoption and diffusion of information technologies and the processes and relationships in IT purchasing. You will benefit from shared information on the findings if you fill in your contact information at the end of the study. Business leaders in general will benefit from your insights through published reports and articles. The study is not funded by any commercial interests nor will the findings be sold for any commercial gain. All data will be analyzed at the aggregate level. Neither you nor your organization will be identified at any stage of the study. To participate, please go to: http://www.cci.utk.edu/fitpro and type FITPRO to enter. Thank you, Dr. Ulla Ahlfors; ullahlf(a)econ.jyu.fi Project Leader, Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Dr. Sally McMillan, sjmcmill(a)utk.edu Associate Professor and Associate Dean, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, USA Dr. Juha Munnukka, juhmunn(a)econ.jyu.fi Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

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Collaborative Scholarly Writing By/In Digital Communities ?
by Gerry Mckiernan 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Collaborative Scholarly Writing By/In Digital Communities Friends/ I am greatly interested in Collaborative Scholarly Writing by/in Digital Communities. [BTW: Digital Communities Can Be Online Communities / Online Social Networks / Virtual Communities of Practice / Etc.] A Premier Example of What I Seek Is The _Braided Learning_ E-Journal Found Within MirandaNet, A Virtual Community of Practice "The _Braided Learning_ E-Journal provides an environment for MirandaNet fellows and others ***to develop work openly and collaboratively, sharing resources and allowing comments in the form of peer reviews and structured discussions***." Examples of Formal As Well As Informal Collaborative Scholarly Writing (CSW) Are Of Interest. BTW-1: I am particularly interested in CSW by undergraduate / graduate students in any Higher Education Institution, preferably within the context of a Digital Community/Environment[PARTICULARLY SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY] I Strongly Recommend A Visit to MirandaNet, As It Is An Outstanding Example Of A Virtual Community of Practice [Thanks, Dr John P. Cuthell, Research and Implementation Director, MirandaNet Academy] BTW-2: Examples Of Other Outstanding, MultiFaceted Virtual Communities Of Practice / Online Communities / Online Social Networks / Etc. Are Also Of Great Interest [PARTICULARLY SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY] ***---PLEASE COMMENT ON THE BLOG ENTRY---*** at For All Links And A Most Appropriate Image, Please Visit And Comment At [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/02/collaborative-scholarly-wr… ] Thanks! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Re: [Air-L] Content Analysis for Web Discussion Boards
by Anatoliy Gruzd 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Dear Professor Nielsen, Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn(a)uiuc.edu> and I are currently using automated content analysis to analyze bulletin board postings in e-learning communities. Below are couple of our papers that may be of interest to you. As part of this work, I'm also developing a web-based system called Internet Community Text Analyzer (ICTA) for the automated analysis of large size textual data such as bulletin board postings. It's only a prototype at this point, but if you're interested to try it, please email me at agruzd2(a)uiuc.edu and I can provide you access to the system. Haythornthwaite, C. and Gruzd, A.A. (2007). A Noun Phrase Analysis Tool for Mining Online Community. In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Michigan State University. Available at http://www.iisi.de/fileadmin/IISI/upload/C_T/2007/Haythornthwaite.pdf Gruzd, A. and Haythornthwaite, C. (2008). Automated Discovery and Analysis of Social Networks from Threaded Discussions. Paper presented at the International Network of Social Network Analysts, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. Available at http://tinyurl.com/3xsdyu -Anatoliy ====================== Anatoliy Gruzd PhD Student Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign agruzd2(a)uiuc.edu http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~agruzd2/ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:12:45 -0500 >From: Laura B Nielsen <lbn4(a)georgetown.edu> >Subject: [Air-L] Content Analysis for Web Discussion Boards >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Dear Colleagues, >I am looking for reference material for use in my work at EPA. We >are planning to launch a discussion board with a limited number of >comment fields. But we also want to analyze discussion content in >order to better understand the needs and interests of our >customers--in particular those who come to EPA seeking >environmental information. > >1) Have any of you been teaching about content analysis methods >lately? If so, what's your favorite reference? > >2) Has anyone been working on content analysis of discussion >boards as a research method? > >Laura B. Nielsen, Ph.D. >Adjunct Professor of Public Policy >Georgetown Public Policy Institute >3520 Prospect Street, Suite 308F >Washington, DC 20007 >WEB http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/lbn4/ > >Program Analyst >Environmental Analysis Division, MC 2842T >Office of Information Analysis and Access >Office of Environmental Information >U.S. Environmental Protection Agency >(202) 566-0621 > > >_______________________________________________ >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/

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New Political Communication Unit facebook group
by Nick Anstead 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Dear all, Some of you may be aware of the New Political Communication Unit, which was founded last year in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway College, the University of London. Already, the unit has held a successful events (with many more planned) and published a number of working papers. If anyone is interested in being kept up to date with the research in the unit, we have just set up a Facebook group which we are going to use to publicise events and news. The Facebook group can be found here: http://rhbncac.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10289706338 This site offers more information on the unit's work: http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/ Do feel free to forward the link on to anyone else you know who might be interested. Best wishes, Nick P.S. Also, if anyone is interested, the NPCU is holding a two day conference in April which is going to have some really good panels and keynote speakers. For further details: http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/ P.P.S. Apologies for any cross-posting. -- Nick Anstead Graduate Researcher New Political Communication Unit Department of Politics and International Relations Royal Holloway College, University of London [e] n.m.anstead(a)rhul.ac.uk [t] 07788 413 443 [w] http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/ [b] http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/

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Call for Informational Submission about Degree Programs and Research Centers related to internet research.
by Jeremy Hunsinger 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Please distribute broadly as appropriate-jh Call for Submissions deadline March 1, 2008. Information on Internet Research Degrees and Research Programs. In the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2008), we intend to include two appendices. This call includes information for each submission. Internet research is broadly conceived in this call, so if you have material that you think will fit, please submit it. Appendix 1 will be a listing of Research Degree Programs, that is programs that offer either an Master's or Doctoral level degree relating to internet research. We intend to include as many programs as we can collect within editorial discretion and space limitations. To have your degree program/s included in this listing, please send the following information: Name of Program: Departmental home/s of Program: University/Institutional home of Program: Address of Program: Short description of Program (250 words): Listing of contributing faculty working in internet research: and other pertinent information to be included at editor's discretion. Appendix 2 will be a listing of Major Research Centers/Institutes in the field of Internet Research. Inclusion in the list will be at the editors' discretion, but we will strive to be reasonably inclusive given space limitations. To have a Center included in this listing please send the following information: Name of Center/Institute: Institutional home of center/institute: Address of center/institute: Short Description of Program (250 words): Listing of fewer than 10 research topics/keywords: Listing of leading members of the center/institute: Listing of founders of the center/institute: Listing of recent research projects/publications (up to 5 bibliographic citations with up to 50 word descriptions which may be edited because of space limitations): Listing of affiliated research centers as appropriate: Please submit this information to: handbook08(a)gmail.com with the subject 'degree' for degree programs and the subject line 'center' for research centers. The deadline for submission is March 1, if you need more time, please contact us at the address above. Thank you, Handbook Editors Jeremy Hunsinger Matthew Allen Lisbeth Klastrup

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Open Access - NIH and Harvard
by burkx006＠umn.edu 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Given the ongoing discussion, this should be of interest. DLB On Feb 13 2008, Michael Carroll wrote: > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > Dear all, > > I write to draw your attention to two important, copyright-related > developments affecting open access to the scholarly literature. Both > signal that faculty authors are now paying, or will have to pay, greater > attention to how they handle their copyrights. > >1. Harvard. > > Yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted in favor of a policy > under which each faculty member agrees to grant to Harvard a > non-exclusive license to make their scholarly articles freely available > through the institution's digital repository or otherwise so long as it > is not done for profit. This is a pre-commitment strategy that means the > license will have been granted prior to any copyright transfer to a > journal publisher. When an article has been accepted for publication, the > faculty member will have to alert the publisher to the previously-granted > license. In many cases, this will also mean the publisher's copyright > transfer form will have to be amended. Faculty can seek a waiver of the > university's license on an article-by-article basis. This is big news > because it's a bottom-up initiative driven by faculty authors. The > mechanics of the pre-commitment strategy are not as new as they may seem. > Every federally-funded researcher grants the funding agency a > non-exclusive copyright license at the time the copyright vests as part > of the funding agreement. For more information on the Harvard policy, see > my blog www.carrollogos.com. > >2. NIH. > > In December, Congress voted to require that NIH make the author's final > manuscript of any peer reviewed journal article reporting NIH-funded > research publicly accessible over the Internet through PubMed Central not > later than 12 months after the date of publication. Since universities > are the recipients of NIH grants, it is the university that is > contractually bound to make sure that (1) NIH receives the author's final > manuscript (after peer review) when the article is accepted for > publication and (2) a copyright license to make the article publicly > accessible not later than a year after publication. The policy becomes > effective in April, and universities are now scrambling to figure out how > they're going to ensure that their faculty authors don't sign away too > many rights under copyright such that the university is non-compliant > with its grant obligations. (Non-compliance can result in a range of > sanctions including ineligibility for future funding.) Again for details, > see my blog. > > In my view, both of these developments signal better alignment between > copyright practices and the progress of science in the age of the > Internet. > >All the best, >Mike > > > >Michael W. Carroll >Professor of Law >Villanova University School of Law >299 N. Spring Mill Road >Villanova, PA 19085 >Research papers: http://law.bepress.com/michael_carroll >http://ssrn.com/author=330326 >blog: http://www.carrollogos.org/ > >See also www.creativecommons.org > >_______________________________________________ >IPProfs mailing list >IPProfs(a)listserv.piercelaw.edu >http://listserv.piercelaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/ipprofs > -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 **********************************

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EGOV 2008 - Torino, Italy -Final Call for Papers
by Jochen Scholl 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

-- Please apologize for multiple postings! -- Final call for papers EGOV 2008, Turin, Italy, 1-5 September 2008 URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGVInf/Conferences/EGOV08 The international EGOV conference series gives annual state of the art overviews in e-Government and e-Governance research, implementation and application. Thereby, the conferences provide important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. The annual EGOV conferences bring together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. Over the years, the interest has increased tremendously. The 2007 conference attracted some 140 participants from more than 30 countries all over the world including developing countries, with 37 contributions in outstanding research, 31 contributions in ongoing research, 5 projects contributions and 6 workshops. Also, 20 PhD papers were accepted and presented at the doctoral colloquium preceding the conference. Hence the EGOV Conferences have proven once again its capacity to serve as a platform for academics and professionals and as an important ground for networking in the community. The EGOV Conference Series 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 work in progress, and studies of practical e-Government projects and systems implementation. The conference also includes a PhD student colloquium providing doctoral students with an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Over the years, organizational and user-related issues long discussed among researchers have finally gained influence on practice. Conversely, e-Government practice has influenced and inspired e-Government research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention over the years. In recent years, the assessment of e-Government efforts, the prospects of e-Government as a research discipline, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among the top topics on the research agenda. The seventh series of EGOV conferences, hence, includes, but is not limited to the following topics around e-Government, e-Governance, e-Participation, and other fields of application in the public sector: * Research directions and foundations * Research methods, method integration and techniques * Transforming Government * Strategies and frameworks, motivators, and contexts * Domain-specific innovation and governance models * ICT4D * Transnational government * Comparative analyses of current practices * Assessment, evaluation and benefit models for ICT investments * Economics and economic impacts * Trust, data privacy and security * Complexity management * Mobile Government research and applications * Innovative concepts and implementations (technical and organizational) * Information preservation * Information quality * Integration and interoperation * Domain-specific social networking cases and solutions * Applications of semantic technologies, and lessons learned * Emergency and disaster response * Exemplars and cases of innovation * Education, training courses, and curricula Submissions may qualify as follows: * Completed research papers * Ongoing research, projects, and general development issues * Workshops and panels on pertinent issues * PhD colloquium submissions We seek for innovative and rigorous contributions. Online submission is open. Deadline for papers is 29th February 2008. For further details see http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGVInf/Conferences/EGOV08

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CFP - Doctoral Colloquium 2008, pre- Internet Research 9.0 conference
by Lisbeth Klastrup 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Dear all, Greetings from the IR9 (conferences.aoir.org) conference chair: I'm very pleased to announce that Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen will be organising this year's Doctoral Colloquium in relation to the Internet Research 9.0 conference. The colloquium, which is sponsored by Danish National Research School for Media, Communication,and Journalism, will take place on Wednesday October 15th at the IT University of Copenhagen (at which the conference also take place). Further details below! Best Lisbeth Klastrup Please circulate :) **************************************************::: Call for Participation Doctoral Colloquium Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R) Annual Conference 2008 Internet Research 9.0 Copenhagen, Denmark =================== The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers Ph.D. students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on Wednesday,October 15, 2008 where they will have a chance to briefly present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length with peers and established senior researchers. Interested students should prepare a two page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Faculty mentors include: Axel Bruns, Australia Sue Fragoso, Brazil Alex Halavais, USA Caroline Haythornthwaite, USA We hope to announce additional mentors shortly. SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION Please submit the two page application by Friday, May 23, 2008 to: Klaus Bruhn Jensen : kbj(a)hum.ku.dk. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2008. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an eight page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 15, 2008. For further details, please visit the doctoral colloquium webpage at http://conferences.aoir.org/dc.html or contact the organizer of the Doctoral Colloquium, Klaus Bruhn Jensen : kbj(a)hum.ku.dk The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium is sponsored by the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism.

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Science Studies 2/2007
by Yuwei Lin 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Science Studies Vol.20, no.2 is available now! Special issue on Socio-technical Dynamics in the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Social World <http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2> Contents: Sampsa Hyysalo and Tarja Knuuttila: Editorial http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Editorial Yu-Wei Lin and Lars Risan: Guest Editorial: Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2GuestEditorial Articles: Mary L. Darking and Edgar A. Whitley: Towards an Understanding of FLOSS: Infrastructures, Materiality and the Digital Business Ecosystem http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2DarkingWhitley Didier Demazière, François Horn and Marc Zune: The Functioning of a Free Software Community: Entanglement of Three Regulation Modes - Control, Autonomous and Distributed http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2DemaziereHornZune Stephanie Freeman: The Material and Social Dynamics of Motivation: Contributions to Open Source Language Technology Development http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Freeman Anita Say Chan: Retiring the Network Spokesman: The Poly-Vocality of Free Software Networks in Peru http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Chan Book reviews: Patrice Flichy: The Internet Imaginaire by Mikkel Flyverbom http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Flyverbom Adrian Mackenzie: Cutting Code. Software and Sociality by Susanne Bauer http://www.sciencestudies.fi/v20n2Bauer For further information visit the Science Studies web-site www.sciencestudies.fi

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topics in e-activism
by Marius Johannessen 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

I'm about to write an assignment on e-activism for my master's degree, and I'm out looking for possible topics. Does anyone know of any interesting articles or web sites covering the subject? regards, Marius Johannessen student, msc information systems university of Agder

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