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U of Ottawa law and technology podcast.
by Peter Timusk 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

I hope some of you are like me, more novice researchers who consumer the research of others. From my school there is a law students of technology lecture series. You may have heard of DR. Micheal Geist from this law school. I study in the systems science program not the law program. This series is on podcasts I just found out here http://web5.uottawa.ca/techlaw/en/podcasts/techlaw-podcast- technojuridique/ Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.

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Specify. Then Build. Seeking round two Knight News Challenge in-kind University partners - From E-Democracy.Org
by Steven Clift 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

E-Democracy.Org is into round two for the Knight News Challenge - http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/127 . With our round two "Specify. Then Build." proposal we are looking for universities interested in partnering to host (in-kind) citizen media and engagement open source programming sprints. The partner would agree to provide space, bandwidth, and use of high speed (Internet 2) IP video conferencing equipment on a in-kind basis likely over a long weekend. We will likely be connecting a site in the U.S. to a U.K. site for virtual developer teams (typically 4 to 6 teams with 4 or 5 programmers at each site). We would also need discounted or in-kind on-campus lodging within reason for up to 20 to 30 people. We will be providing transportation to the site for the selected participants. If we win the grant, we expect to hold at least four programming sprints - two in 2009 and two in 2010. I want be up front and note that the tight $500,000 US proposal does not allow us to share funding to cover the physical space for hosting the sprints assuming we find appropriate in-kind offers. Also, we are interested in learning about existing or proposed research that might be connected to this initiative. Prior to the programming, sprints, we will be hosting very public citizen media and engagement module/plug-in software specification efforts. Instead of developing stand alone modules or modules/plug-ins for one open source tools used for locally-oriented citizen media/online engagement efforts, we are proposing an open specification process that will lead to the competitive build out of modules for key open source content management platforms (Drupal, Plone, etc.). Finally, we may be able to leverage our evaluation budget to support some research based on this rather experimental initiative. If this effort matches your project's existing mission or goals we might have a match and your endorsement will increase our chances of winning the News Challenge. For a copy the draft application, drop me an e-mail ASAP - clift(a)publicus.net - because the final deadline for submission is Nov. 30. Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org P.S. For a short description of our round one proposal see - http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/127 and below is information about the scope of the Knight News Challenge: THE KNIGHT NEWS CHALLENGE INITIATIVE SEEKS • New ways for people to communicate interactively to help people better understand one another in geographic communities, share know-how and generate passion in solving local problems; • New ways for people to use information, news and journalism in geographic communities to imagine their collective possibilities as communities, and to set and reach common community goals; • New ways to dig for news and act on it in geographic communities, including new ways to collect, prepare and distribute information, news and journalism that reveals hard-to-know facts, identifies common problems, clarifies community issues or points out practical courses of action. Keep in mind the purpose of the contest is to develop digital communication projects that will help better connect people in physical space, in the communities in which they work, live and vote. In the words of Jack Knight: Thus we seek to bestir the people into an awareness of their own condition, provide inspiration for their thoughts and rouse them to pursue their true interests.

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Immigrant internet use refs request
by Andrew Whelan 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hi all, We have a project at Trinity starting, researching immigrants' internet use here in the Irish context. In particular, we're interested in how immigrants are accessing local government and social services online, but also how the internet is used for political activity, including political activity related to the country of origin. I'd be very grateful if anyone could suggest useful reading in this area (somewhat to my surprise, an archive search yielded few results). Best, Andrew -- http://231074.blogspot.com/ http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/ http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 40, Issue 19
by Jason Gallo 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

D-train- Check this out. Don't know if this is up your alley. -j On Nov 23, 2007 3:33 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Coding Analysis Toolkit - A new resource for researchers with > large text annotation tasks (Stuart Shulman) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Stuart Shulman" <stuart.shulman(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:37:40 -0500 > Subject: [Air-L] Coding Analysis Toolkit - A new resource for researchers with large text annotation tasks > Members of the list may be interested in this narrated slide show about the > Coding Analysis Toolkit developed by QDAP. It is viewable through a web > browser at: > > http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/catshow.htm > > The Coding Analysis Toolkit, colloquially known as "CAT", was developed in > the summer of 2007. It was designed by QDAP Director Dr. Stuart Shulman and > created in collaboration with Mark Hoy, a Senior Programmer in the Carnegie > Mellon University School of Computer Science. It is maintained by UCSUR > Technology Director James Lefcakis. CAT is is hosted on UCSUR servers and > made available on the web at: http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/. The system > consists of a web-based suite of tools custom built from the ground-up to > facilitate efficient and effective analysis of text datasets that have been > coded using the commercial-off-the-shelf package ATLAS.ti (www.atlasti.com) > We have recently posted a narrated slide show about CAT online. > > The Coding Analysis Toolkit was designed to use keystrokes and automation to > clarify and speed-up the validation or consensus adjudication process. > Special attention was paid during the design process to the need to > eliminate the role of the computer mouse, thereby streamlining the physical > and mental tasks in the coding analysis process. We anticipate that CAT will > open new avenues for researchers interested in measuring and accurately > reporting coder validity and reliability, as well as for those practicing > consensus-based adjudication. The availability of CAT can improve the > practice of qualitative data analysis at the University of Pittsburgh and > beyond. > > Currently about 50 beta testers located in several countries have accounts > on CAT. They have been given free access to the system for the rest of the > calendar year. Systematic user feedback will be gathered via a beta tester > web survey and will shape the future development of CAT. The capabilities of > CAT and its reliability as a software tool may be sufficiently robust to > merit commercial licensing to users starting in 2008. The CAT system allows > a user to register for an account to log on, upload exported coded results > from ATLAS.ti into the system, and run comparisons of inter-rater > reliability measured using Fleiss' Kappa and Krippendorff's Alpha. The user > can also choose to perform a code-by-code comparison of the data, revealing > tables of quotations where coders agree, disagree, or overlap. For any > comparisons, the user can view the data on the screen, or alternatively, > download the data file as a rich-text file (.rtf). > > CAT's core functionality allows for the adjudication of coded items by an > "expert" user who is a sub-account attached to the primary account holder of > the system. The website and database itself resides on a Windows 2003 UCSUR > server and the programming for the website is done using HTML, ASP.net > 2.0and JavaScript. An expert user can log onto the system to validate > the codes > assigned to items in a dataset. While the expert user is validating codes, > the system also keeps track of which codes are valid and which coders > assigned those codes. This information is used to keep a historical track > record of coders for assessing coder accuracy over time. It also allows the > account holder to see a rank order list of the coders most likely to produce > valid observations, report the overall validity scores by code, coder, or > entire project, and end up with a 'clean' dataset consisting of only valid > observations. > > In a newly developed CAT module, which is being beta tested internally > during the fall 2007 semester by five QDAP coders, the project manager is > able to upload raw datasets and have users code those datasets directly > through the CAT interface. As is the case with the original adjudication > toolkit, this new module features automated loading of discrete quotations > and requires only keystrokes, instead of mouse clicks and drags, to apply > the codes to the text. We estimate coding tasks using CAT are completed 2-3 > times as fast as identical coding tasks conducted using ATLAS. While this > high-speed "mouse-less" coding module would poorly serve many traditional > qualitative research approaches, it is ideally suited to annotation tasks > routinely generated by computer scientists. > > ~Stu > > > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. Shulman > Director, Sara Fine Institute > School of Information Sciences > Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program > University Center for Social and Urban Research > http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu > University of Pittsburgh > 121 University Place, Suite 600 > Pittsburgh, PA 15260 > 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) > http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu > Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics > http://www.jitp.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Jason Gallo PhD Candidate Media, Technology and Society Program School of Communication Northwestern University Project Coordinator WebUse Project http://www.webuse.northwestern.edu/

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Coding Analysis Toolkit - A new resource for researchers with large text annotation tasks
by Stuart Shulman 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Members of the list may be interested in this narrated slide show about the Coding Analysis Toolkit developed by QDAP. It is viewable through a web browser at: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/catshow.htm The Coding Analysis Toolkit, colloquially known as "CAT", was developed in the summer of 2007. It was designed by QDAP Director Dr. Stuart Shulman and created in collaboration with Mark Hoy, a Senior Programmer in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. It is maintained by UCSUR Technology Director James Lefcakis. CAT is is hosted on UCSUR servers and made available on the web at: http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/. The system consists of a web-based suite of tools custom built from the ground-up to facilitate efficient and effective analysis of text datasets that have been coded using the commercial-off-the-shelf package ATLAS.ti (www.atlasti.com) We have recently posted a narrated slide show about CAT online. The Coding Analysis Toolkit was designed to use keystrokes and automation to clarify and speed-up the validation or consensus adjudication process. Special attention was paid during the design process to the need to eliminate the role of the computer mouse, thereby streamlining the physical and mental tasks in the coding analysis process. We anticipate that CAT will open new avenues for researchers interested in measuring and accurately reporting coder validity and reliability, as well as for those practicing consensus-based adjudication. The availability of CAT can improve the practice of qualitative data analysis at the University of Pittsburgh and beyond. Currently about 50 beta testers located in several countries have accounts on CAT. They have been given free access to the system for the rest of the calendar year. Systematic user feedback will be gathered via a beta tester web survey and will shape the future development of CAT. The capabilities of CAT and its reliability as a software tool may be sufficiently robust to merit commercial licensing to users starting in 2008. The CAT system allows a user to register for an account to log on, upload exported coded results from ATLAS.ti into the system, and run comparisons of inter-rater reliability measured using Fleiss' Kappa and Krippendorff's Alpha. The user can also choose to perform a code-by-code comparison of the data, revealing tables of quotations where coders agree, disagree, or overlap. For any comparisons, the user can view the data on the screen, or alternatively, download the data file as a rich-text file (.rtf). CAT's core functionality allows for the adjudication of coded items by an "expert" user who is a sub-account attached to the primary account holder of the system. The website and database itself resides on a Windows 2003 UCSUR server and the programming for the website is done using HTML, ASP.net 2.0and JavaScript. An expert user can log onto the system to validate the codes assigned to items in a dataset. While the expert user is validating codes, the system also keeps track of which codes are valid and which coders assigned those codes. This information is used to keep a historical track record of coders for assessing coder accuracy over time. It also allows the account holder to see a rank order list of the coders most likely to produce valid observations, report the overall validity scores by code, coder, or entire project, and end up with a 'clean' dataset consisting of only valid observations. In a newly developed CAT module, which is being beta tested internally during the fall 2007 semester by five QDAP coders, the project manager is able to upload raw datasets and have users code those datasets directly through the CAT interface. As is the case with the original adjudication toolkit, this new module features automated loading of discrete quotations and requires only keystrokes, instead of mouse clicks and drags, to apply the codes to the text. We estimate coding tasks using CAT are completed 2-3 times as fast as identical coding tasks conducted using ATLAS. While this high-speed "mouse-less" coding module would poorly serve many traditional qualitative research approaches, it is ideally suited to annotation tasks routinely generated by computer scientists. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Director, Sara Fine Institute School of Information Sciences Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program University Center for Social and Urban Research http://qdap.ucsur.pitt.edu University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net

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New Media Research - Call for Papers
by Vanessa Higgins 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I apologize if this is a duplicate, wasn't sure if the other message was sent successfully Dear colleagues, I'd like to extend this invitation to an upcoming event to be held in April 2008, at The University of Texas at Austin. This is a good opportunity to present your new media/online journalism research. The symposium combines presentation by online journalism professionals with academic research presentations. For the fifth year, the International Symposium on Online Journalism will include presentations of original research into online journalism. All presentations will take place on the second day of the conference. The first day is devoted to presentations and panels of online journalism professionals. Prior symposia have included professionals from around the world from news organizations such as the NYTimes.com, OhMyNews, ep3.es (El Pais' multimedia magazine in Spain), MSNBC.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, WashingtonPost.com,ElTiempo.com (Colombia), ElComercio.com.pe <http://elcomercio.com.pe/> < http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/online/> (Peru), and several others. Deadlines for papers or three-page abstracts: January 25, 2008. Symposium dates are April 4-5, 2008 Submission requirements: Academic papers should present original research into any aspect on online journalism including, but not limited to, changes in news content and presentation, business models for online journalism, shifting roles of journalists and readers, and the legal and ethical implications of globally accessible journalism. For submission details and requirements, visit this site for more details: http://online.journalis m.utexas.edu/callforpapers.php<http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/callforpapers.php> The symposium also has a website containing transcriptions, videos and other documents from previous year's presentations. Visit the site at http://online.journalism.utexas.edu Thank you and hope to see you there, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins PhD candidate The University of Texas at Austin

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communicating online
by joana ro 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Dear List, I am using a Wiki for my undergraduate class - something relatively new for most of my students. We are using it at the moment to publish summaries of theoretical texts and give feedback to those summaries. I am worried about the way the students are communicating in the Wiki. The usual problems of short, unrevised and heated language are turning the feedback into a competitive space - something I really wanted to avoid. I have passed out feedback and discussion guidelines but I am lacking a good set of guidelines for communicating online. The Netiquette lists I know are too technical and not specific enough. I would be very happy about any suggestions how to deal with a situation like this and where to find a good set of rules. Thank you very much for your help, Johanna Roering University of Tuebingen Sfb War Experience Brunnenstrasse 30 72070 Tübingen www.johannaroering.wordpress.com

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Announcing JCMC v13 no1
by elw＠stderr.org 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

A new issue of the JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION is available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/ Be sure to check out the special theme section on Social Network Sites, guest edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison! A Table of Contents is included below. --------- Volume 13, Issue 1, October 2007 The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones - Jonathan Donner IM=Interruption Management? Instant Messaging and Disruption in the Workplace - R. Kelly Garrett and James N. Danziger Email Flaming Behaviors and Organizational Conflict - Anna K. Turnage Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback Machine - Jamie Murphy, Noor Hazarina Hashim, and Peter O'Connor The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions - Kenny W. P. Tan, Debbie Swee, Corinne Lim, Benjamin H. Detenber, and Lubna Alsagof Every Blog Has Its Day: Politically Interested Internet Users' Perceptions of Blog Credibility - Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye, Shannon L. Bichard, and W. Joann Wong Writing for Friends and Family: The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs - Michael A. Stefanone and Chyng-Yang Jang Mein Nick bin ich! Nicknames in a German Forum on Eating Disorders - Wyke Stommel University Instructors' Acceptance of Electronic Courseware: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model - Namkee Park, Kwan Min Lee, and Pauline Hope Cheong The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses - Minjeong Kim --- Special Theme: Social Network Sites --- Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship - danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison Signals in Social Supernets - Judith Donath Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances - Hugo Liu Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites - Eszter Hargittai Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site - Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com - Dara N. Byrne Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball - Lee Humphreys Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube - Patricia Lange ---- This issue and all past issues of JCMC are available at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ ----

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computer self help press
by Peter Timusk 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

About activism and the net. I am put off by most computer self help books being written for business applications. I wonder if anyone else is studying the explosion of the Diummies books, the Complete Idiot guides and the more serious less funny books on how to "program computers". What if I want to program in XML or AJAX and don't want to sell anything? Am I really in the computer self help book audience? Does any one care to discuss this? I have written an undergrad paper introducing the semiotics of the computer self help press. Is anyone working in this area of study? Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.

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CFP -- Design: Management: Organization -- 4th Art of Management Conference
by Ken Friedman 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

---> Design: Management: Organization <--- ---> Call for Papers to the 4th Art of Management Conference <--- The fourth Art of Management Conference meets from September 9 to 12 at the Banff Center in Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm This call invites papers and presentations for the stream on Design: Management: Organization The potential of design in management and organizations is now the focus of a growing body of knowledge in practice and theory. Theoretical results appear in books and journal articles, education programs, and research projects, while businesses of all kinds put the findings into practice, along with design firms, consulting firms, and universities. Design is a practice of making. We realize design in many ways: as artefact, system, and experience. The complexity and seemingly endless potential of design is visible in fascinating and continuously evolving ways. In this stream, we ask what design thinking can mean, examining how we can interpret and enact design thinking in thought, artifact, experience, and action. We invite contributions to this stream from practitioners and scholars who explore the intersection of design, management, and organization. We are particularly interested in discovering how people engage design in management and organizational contexts. We welcome case study accounts from designers, design managers, general managers, and scholars in design theory and organization theory. We also welcome theoretical and conceptual presentations. Many questions will interest participants in this stream: Why is design important to the future of management and organizational contexts? Can design help us to save organizations? How do design organizations enact design within their own management and organizational contexts? What is design management? Is there a space for poetic design in managerial and organizational contexts? We hope to explore design as creative practice, design as critical thinking, design as systems management, and design as The conveners of the stream hope to develop the presentations from this stream into a special journal issue. For papers, please submit abstracts of 500 words. For other presentations, we will accept any appropriate media submission. Please send submissions to Dr. Laurene Vaughan at <laurene.vaughan(a)rmit.edu.au> with a copy to Ms. Jane Malabar at <artofman(a)essex.ac.uk> The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2008. For more information on the conference, visit URL http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm Stream Convenors: Prof. Ken Friedman Norwegian School of Management, Oslo Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen <ken.friedman(a)bi.no> Dr. Laurene Vaughan RMIT University Melbourne, Australia <laurene.vaughan(a)rmit.edu.au>

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