Does anyone have a favorite discourse analysis software?
Thanks,
JW
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I INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTATION
EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE KNOELEDGE SOCIETY
February 14th, 15 th and 16 th, 2007
Palma de Mallorca - Spain
Objectives:
To create a space for relection in which researcher, teachers,
documentalists, educational entities and anyone else interested in the field
of educational documentation and documentary networks can exchange
experiences resources and procedures.
To foster cooperation between different documentation projects and
educational documentary networks in Latin America and Europe, and generate
new coordinated initiatives in this field.
Topic Areas:
1. Practical experiences on education databases
2. Documentation and educational innovation
3. Grey literature and educational research. Interest in documentary data collection
4. Emerging documentary areas and their processing in databases
5. New technologies applied to educational documentation
Speakers:
Dr. Michael Vorbeck /EUDISET (Germany), Dr. Phil Sheffield / The British
Education Index. University of Leeds / The Perine Pedagogical and Educational
Research information Network Project for Europe, Dra. Marisa Trigari,
Instituto Nazionale di Documentazione per l! innovazione e la Ricerca
Educativa. INDIRE and other.
More information in: www.sidoc2007.org
info(a)sidoc2007.org
Regs,
Rosa María Merino
Directora Ejecutiva
Bibliotecas Académicas y Especializadas
Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas
BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DEL PERÚ
URL: www.bnp.gob.pe
Teléfono: 01-428-7690 anexo 605
Fax: 01-427-7331 Móvil: 0511 -98705966
El servicio de Correo Electrónico de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, está
normado en la Directiva Nº011-2005-BNP/ODT aprobada por la R.D.N. 095-2005-
BNP.
_____________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director
Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto
455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
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Patrick Purcell died at his home in London, February 8, 2007. Many of us
met Patrick at conferences, in my case ICS conferences at Oxford in 2003
and York this past September 2006. In addition, I -- and my Connected
Lives -- colleagues benefited from his incisive and enthusiastic editing
of our chapter for his recent _Networked Neighbourhoods_ book (Springer,
whom Patrick was always pushing to do better marketing -- quite he was,
too!)
Patrick was always inquisitive, charming, smart and original. At the end
of the York conference, we trained down to London and spent the evening
together. What a congenial partner, who's sunny side was marred only when
the Goethe Institute restaurant (across from his Imperial College of
Science) had not reserved his favourite table for us. His eyes sparkled
and has cane flashed, because he dearly wanted me to have the best view
for dinner. We had a jolly time. In his 80s, he was a lad in his 60s.
Patrick had a varied career. He was proud of his family's Irish
revolutionary background, and made it clear to me that he had "never
become English".
As a computer scientist, he was an enthusiastic convert to the social side
of things, and especially to network analysis. I always felt minded
encouragement from him. Not only was he a pleasure to work with
editorially, he was a pleasure to be with as a person.
Here is what the official Imperial College site says (with a great
picture): "Purcell's, work for over four decades, has reflected an abiding
interest in the application of media technology to various aspects of
human affairs, both from the perspectives of the social group and the
single personal user.... The underlying impetus informing this work seeks
to identify how advances in the technology of the information society may
be utilized most constructively in various social and personal
situations.... His career as an academic researcher has included
professorial appointments and/or senior research fellowships in a number
of leading academic institutions, including Imperial College of Science,
Technology & Medicine, London (1994 - to date), University of Ulster, UK
(1990 - 1994), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (1982 - 1990)
and the Royal College of Art, London (1964 - 1981). During this time, he
has participated as a founding member, in the establishment of four
research laboratories, both in the UK & USA. His publication list extends
to over seventy papers and the editing of several books in his research
domain."
http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/p.purcell/
Sunny Bains, Patrick's colleague, wrote to me that Patrick's death was a
surprise to all.
They had just lunched last week. "Although, like most people of his age,
he had many health issues, he was nevertheless completely functional as
far as we could tell, so his death has been a great shock among his
colleagues here. He was a fantastic character to the end and we will truly
miss him."
There is a memorial site for people to record their thoughts:
http://sunnybains.typepad.com/patrick_purcell/2007/02/patrick_purcell.html
Bains further wrote to me, "He was supposed to go to a research group
dinner last night. When he didn't show up (very unlike him) the
administrator of the group decided to check on him on the way home. His
lights were off (again unusual) and she called the police. They found him
sitting in a chair. What exactly he died of we may never know...."
I think it's just like Patrick: sitting in his chair, with a smile,
looking forward to the future. What a way to go!
Barry Wellman
Dear AoIRists,
At a recent meeting on African Information Ethics (the first ever for Africa
- and a wonderful conference!) in Pretoria, South Africa, a colleague raised
questions about possibilities of using the Internet / Web (I've taken a
liking to "the World Wide Inter-Web" from a recent movie...) vis-à-vis the
problem of African scientists moving abroad in Diaspora and the brain drain
that that Diaspora represents.
I know that a number of AoIRists have pertinent research, experience, and
suggestions for contacts (including self-nominations) that would be very
useful indeed to forward to our colleague, who is working with a number of
agencies to develop strategies for using the WWIW (smile) to help offset
such a brain drain.
We would greatly appreciate your forwarding those suggestions either to me
offlist or with the list at large. I'll compile these - including possible
contacts - and then send them on to our colleague in S.A.
Many thanks in advance!
- charles
Distinguished Research Professor,
Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21>
Drury University
900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230
Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435
Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee
<http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ethics.html>
Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org>
Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org>
Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes
<http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php>
Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Communities and Technologies 2007
conference program is now posted, and the conference registration
system is now open.
The conference includes 13 workshops on topics ranging from
communities of practice in work settings, healthcare communities and
technology, online social networks, digital cities, community
informatics, research communities and technology, business
communities, and techniques for visualizing and analyzing community
data. The full list of workshops can be viewed at:
http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/page4.html
Thirty competitively selected papers are organized into 10 sessions,
with contributions from scholars worldwide. In addition, two panels
are planned: one examining ICT use in everyday life, and a second
exploring ethical issues raised by analyses of online communities.
Three keynote sessions are featured, including Judith Donath,
Director of the MIT Media Lab's Sociable Media Group, Rob Malda and
Jeff Bates, the co-founders of Slashdot, and Marc Smith, Director of
Microsoft's Community Technologies Group.
A number of social events are planned as well to help strengthen the
C&T research community.
Please join us in East Lansing from June 28-30 for what is shaping up
to be an excellent forum for sharing the latest research on
communities and technologies.
With best regards,
Charles Steinfield, Brian Pentland, Mark Ackerman, and Noshir Contractor
Conference Organizers
Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Michigan State University
conference email: cct2007(a)msu.edu
conference website: http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/
Dear AOIRers,,
I am a researcher from the Laboratory for Digital Inclusion and
Community Learning, from School of the Future, in Brazil, and I am
currently focusing my research on digital literacy and how online
competences develop among telecentre beginner users.
I would be extremely grateful if anyone could point me to some study,
preferably qualitative but also quantitative, regarding this theme, or
also some study about digital competences and low income population. I
have read some theoretical work about it, but couldn't find yet
empirical data or descriptions of experiences.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Daniela Matielo
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Dani Matielo
dacamat(a)gmail.com
dde_carvalho(a)uoc.edu
dani(a)futuro.usp.br
http://digitaloging.blogspot.com/
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same
time, the ones who never yawn or say an uncommon-place thing, but
burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." ~ Jack Kerouac
Might be of interest to some on the list. Please feel free to
circulate to any you think might be interested.
Thanks!
TL
Two Associate/Assistant Professorships in Game Development
The IT University is seeking applications for two positions as
Associate or Assistant Professor of game development. Candidates
should demonstrate a commitment to innovation in game development and
enthusiasm for multi-disciplinary work that brings together students
and faculty from a range of backgrounds. The ability to conduct
research at the highest international level within game development
and the technical aspects of game production is crucial. Relevant
areas of research and teaching are:
- Game AI,
- Game Interface Design and Playtesting,
- Game Development and Project Management,
- Software Engineering for Game Development,
- Game Systems Architecture,
- Game Graphics and Animation
We are particularly interested in candidates working on innovative
interfaces (be it hardware or software), AI for narrative and
storytelling, technologies to support new game forms (casual,
open-ended, sandboxes, etc.), and independent game development &
distribution methods. The successful candidate must document
internationally recognized research and have experience with teaching
and curriculum development.
The Media Technology and Games program is an international English
language program that focuses on game design, analysis, and
technology (for more information visit http://www.itu.dk/mtg/)
Students follow a shared core curriculum and specialize in either
design & analysis or technology. The program has a strong commitment
to project work and collaboration amongst the students on actual game
productions. We seek applicants who are enthusiastic about helping
build a games program and are interested in teaching & supervising
students who are focused on analyzing and developing games.
Candidates must themselves be pursing a strong research program in
the field of game research & development and the ability to attract
external funding is also highly valued.
The IT University is a multi-disciplinary, research-based institution
with 30 faculty drawn from computer science to the humanities. We
provide graduate education to more than 1000 students in a range of
areas and will be starting a bachelor's program in software
development in 2007 (for more info about our programs visit
http://www1.itu.dk/sw5211.asp) Faculty are expected to actively seek
external funding for research, to establish relations with
organizations outside the university (from companies to non-profits),
and, at the Associate level, be capable of and prepared to supervise
Ph.D. students. Faculty also are core contributors in the development
of their research group. The Center for Computer Games Research group
(http://game.itu.dk) currently consists of 6 people including two
associate professors, one assistant professor, and three Ph.D.
students.
For full information about application procedures please visit
http://www1.itu.dk/sw58262.asp. Application deadline is 16 April 2007
at 12:00 noon. Questions about the position can be directed to
associate professor T.L. Taylor, Center for Computer Games Research,
IT University of Copenhagen, tltaylor(a)itu.dk, +45 7218 5035.
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_____________________________________________
Please make sure to use <mailto:tltaylor@itu.dk>tltaylor(a)itu.dk
(not my GMail account) for correspondence.
T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor and
Head of Media Technology and Games Study Line
Center for Computer Games Research
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
+45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax)
tltaylor(a)itu.dk / http://www.itu.dk/~tltaylor/
In 2006 we did a major improvement to the AoIR membership system and process, and we had to suspend subscriptions via website to complete some works. As many have noticed, we have extended all AoIR memberships that expired in 2006 until now, an extension "gift" from AoIR to its members ! Hope you have enjoyed it :-) As you understand, we will soon need to terminate expired 2006 memberships, but we do not want to see you go!!!
Join or re-join AoIR today! With your contribute you can continue make our unique international and interdisciplinary community grow.
For more information, and direct links, please visit:
http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/852&PHPSESSID=1c87c28cbdcfb6dcbca0ebb989e54068
or our website www.aoir.org
Kind Regards,
Monica Murero
Treasurer, Aoir
I wanted to let everyone planning on coming to Vancouver in October
for our conference know that AoIR is once again hosting a doctoral
colloquium the day prior to the conference. Last year's colloquium,
organized by Marcus Foth, was a huge success, and those who
participated found it a very rewarding experience. This year I'm
handling the organizing. An official call for participants will be
coming in April. Keep it in mind if you are going to be working on
your Ph.D. dissertation around the time of the conference or have an
outstanding student who will be.
If you are interested in being a faculty mentor for this, please let
me know off list. I was a mentor last year, and enjoyed it so much I
took over the planning for this year's!
The costs of this year's colloquium (including registration fees) are
being covered by Microsoft Research.
Thanks,
Nancy
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Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym
Communication Studies, University of Kansas
Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA
Blog: http://www.onlinefandom.com
