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Re: [Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Great sources Denise ... which reminds me that one should always look at the Edward Tufte books for the relation between visual imagery and information. (see http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/) /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:53:20 -0800 (PST) >From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall(a)yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >Dera Anders - > >Very interesting topic here. > >Kress at least mentions a grammar of visual design >which I think would be helpful (if it were possible). >After one builds the grammar, then the analysis would >be possible. > >Here is an interesting little book on how to read the >visual from an art historical perspective. Don't think >that's wanted here but at least shows an insertion >point into the study of images from a cultural >perspective. > >Dikovitskaya, M. (2005). Visual culture: the study of >the visual after the cultural turn. Cambridge, MA, MIT >Press. > >Kress, with a link: >Kress, G. and T. van Leeuwen (1996). Reading images: >The grammar of visual design. London, Routledge. >Here's a link to one of his newer papers. >http://www.knowledgepresentation.org/BuildingTheFuture/Kress2/Kress2.html > >This went around on the list a while ago: > >VIRTUAL ART > From Illusion to Immersion >by Oliver Grau >A Leonardo Book published by MIT Press >(January 2003, ISBN 0-262-07241-6, 7 x 9, 360 pp., 89 >illus) > ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Analyzing user generated multimedia content
by Nicole Reinhold 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Dear AoIRers Since blog users and online community members are increasingly posting multimedia content and not only text, discourse analysis seems no longer sufficient to analyze this content. Therefore, I am looking for ways to classify and analyze images as such. One important aspect is certainly given by the context where the images are posted, but how can images be handled? I looked at ethnographic and semiotic approaches to get some background, but so far I could not find a suitable way to classify or analyze this type of content. Does anybody have experience in this area, or can anybody suggest a suitable approach for this problem? best wishes Nicole MA. Nicole Reinhold, Senior Research Consultant Philips Design nicole.reinhold(a)philips.com, http://www.design.philips.com

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myspace/orkut/facebook survey questionnaire
by Jeremiah Spence 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

All, I am in the process of preparing a survey to be applied online both in the US and in Brazil examining user habits in the use of Myspace, Orkut and Facebook. My primary interests are why are they using the service and what are they doing while they are there.... I would like to see if anyone on the listserv has any suggestions as to ideal questions that should be included. Also, once the survey is online, would it be possible to promote to your students or mailing list you'all are on? Thanks, Jeremiah Spence Dept. of RTF University of Texas at Austin, USA jspence5(a)mail.utexas.edu / jeremiah(a)petraz.be

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Survey about OpenOffice
by Frank Thomas 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

I hope this announcement is not off topic. Hi, IDC, the world’s leading IT market intelligence and analysis firm (www.idc.com) and OpenOffice.org (www.openoffice.org) are conducting research to better understand the usage of OpenOffice.org software, and we'd like you to participate! This survey will take 15 to 20 minutes to complete. All respondents who complete this survey will be entered into a draw for one of five US $100 cash awards. IDC and OpenOffice.org will respect the confidentiality of the information you provide. You may view the terms of data usage and confidentiality in the introduction to the survey. Aggregate results of this survey will be published on the OpenOffice.org web site within 3 months of the close of the survey. The survey will remain open for respondents until 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 22 November. The survey is conducted online. Please click on the following URL to take the survey now: ** http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/74052/IDC-OOo-Nov-06.htm ** Your participation will help the community better understand the adoption and usage of OpenOffice.org--and you may win US $100! -- IDC & The OpenOffice.org Team -- .......................................... Dr. Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois France

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survey questionnaire
by Frank Thomas 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, I might do a survey for an association, i.e. on a low budget. Is there anywhere a free or low-cost survey questionnaire programme with whom you can write & format survey questionnaires ? Either for the web or just for paper and pencil surveys ? And in particular, besides the info about a programme can you recommand one ? Thanks, Frank Thomas -- .......................................... Dr. Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois France

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Re: [Air-l] survey questionnaire
by Kevin Guidry 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On 11/15/06, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> wrote: > A number of our grad students are using Survey Monkey > (www.surveymonkey.com) for posting web surveys. I have heard mixed > things about the extent of its data analysis components and > flexibility with layout, but those I know working with it say it > seems to basically function well. I think that's an accurate evaluation of SurveyMonkey. It's pretty cheap and very good at what it does (basic surveys). It does not really have any analysis tools to speak of other than some *very* basic descriptive stats. I don't know how well it would work for non-English surveys. GMU's Center for History and New Media (the same people that brought us Zotero) has what appears to be a free online survey tool at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/. I played with it for about 30 seconds once, long enough to figure out that it doesn't appear to support branching logic. I could be wrong and I'd love to hear if anyone else has experience with that or other free, easy-to-use survey tools. Kevin

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Re: [Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content
by Jorgen Skageby 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, I have to agree that the inclusion of user generated multimedia content in CMC is presenting some interesting problems and challenges. My research has looked at end-user concerns and intentions regarding their contribution of multimedia content in online venues. I used qualitative online methods to try to understand 'what is given to whom, how and why?'. While, this research does not try to classify visual elements or types of pictures as such (one of my cases was Flickr), I agree that the contextual approach seems necessary to understand desires, concerns and intentions with multimedia content contributions. Best /Jorgen Skageby PhD Candidate http://www.ida.liu.se/~jorsk/ On 06-11-15 18.28, "elw(a)stderr.org" <elw(a)stderr.org> wrote: > > > You might take a look at the paper "Common Visual Design Elements of > Weblogs", which Lois Scheidt and I wrote for the "Into the Blogosphere" > collection a few years ago. > > Start with http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ > > Our understanding of how best to carry out that kind of (visual) > content-analytic research has advanced since we wrote the paper, but the > paper (and the collection as a whole...) is a good starting point. > > There is certainly a *lot* of work to be done w.r.t. multimedia content > online. > > Best, > > --elijah > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Nicole Reinhold wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:14:12 +0100 >> From: Nicole Reinhold <nicole.reinhold(a)philips.com> >> Reply-To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content >> >> Dear AoIRers >> >> Since blog users and online community members are increasingly posting >> multimedia content and not only text, discourse analysis seems no longer >> sufficient to analyze this content. Therefore, I am looking for ways to >> classify and analyze images as such. One important aspect is certainly >> given by the context where the images are posted, but how can images be >> handled? >> >> I looked at ethnographic and semiotic approaches to get some background, >> but so far I could not find a suitable way to classify or analyze this >> type of content. >> Does anybody have experience in this area, or can anybody suggest a >> suitable approach for this problem? >> >> best wishes Nicole >> >> MA. Nicole Reinhold, >> Senior Research Consultant >> Philips Design >> nicole.reinhold(a)philips.com, http://www.design.philips.com >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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Sociologists Outside Academia
by annika coughlin 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

The Sociologists Outside Academia group (SOAg) is a sub group of the British Sociological Association (BSA) which came together through a common experience of not being employed by academic instituations but still define ourselves as sociologists. We want to represent the concerns of sociologists outside academia. You can find out more about us here; http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/outsideacademia.htm and our forum http://www.britsoc.co.uk/phpbb I am writing to aoir because you have been helpful to me in the past and also I still like to read the air digest and hope you don't mind me posting this group here but maybe one of the members of the list might feel it SOAg is right up their street and would be very welcome to join. Thanks Annika Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [Air-l] survey questionnaire
by Mark Bell 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Dr. Baym, I have started using surveygizmo.com. The re membership is much better and the reporting functions are far broader than surveymokey (plus the surveys look better). It has a web 2.0 feel about it. The Facebook research I am doing now is going very well because of surveygizmo.com. Links: http://www.surveygizmo.com/ http://www.surveygizmo.com/features/ http://www.surveygizmo.com/features/survey-tool-for-researchers/ http://www.surveygizmo.com/the-fine-print/ Let me know if you need more information M On 11/15/06, Nancy Baym <nbaym(a)ku.edu> wrote: > > A number of our grad students are using Survey Monkey > (www.surveymonkey.com) for posting web surveys. I have heard mixed > things about the extent of its data analysis components and > flexibility with layout, but those I know working with it say it > seems to basically function well. I have a colleague who is very > excited about SurveyPro, but it is much more expensive. > > Interested to hear others' recommendations and experiences. > > Nancy > > > > >Hi, > >I might do a survey for an association, i.e. on a low budget. Is there > >anywhere a free or low-cost survey questionnaire programme with whom you > >can write & format survey questionnaires ? Either for the web or just > >for paper and pencil surveys ? And in particular, besides the info about > >a programme can you recommand one ? > > > >Thanks, > >Frank Thomas > > > >-- > >.......................................... > >Dr. Frank Thomas > >FTR Internet Research > >93110 Rosny-sous-Bois > >France > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Mark Bell MA student in Ball State University's Digital Storytelling program http://www.storygeek.com "The future is here...it's just not widely distributed." - Tim O'Reilly

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reminder: open call netporn seminar
by Marije Janssen 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Open Call for Contributions ( C ) lick Me A manifestation about internet pornography Dates: June 1 & 2 2007 Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam Organized by: Paradiso and the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli Paradiso and the Institute of Network Cultures would like to invite you to send in your work for ( C ) lick Me, an international manifestation on internet pornography. This edition will focus on topics as commerce vs. individual, (gender) identity, social and ethnic minority groups, politics and censorship. ( C ) lick Me will take place in Amsterdam on June 1 & 2 in 2007. We are currently looking for people who are working on the subject of pornography and sexuality and would like to present their work to an international audience. If you are a theorist, artist, researcher, producer or in another way engaged in the field of netporn, we encourage you to send in an abstract of your work. Program The event will take place on Friday June 1st and Saturday June 2nd. On both days opening lectures will be held by keynote speakers. After the keynote lectures, each day will be filled with clusters of presentations and lectures concerning one of the four themes. In the evening of the second day there will be an extensive artistic program with screenings, performances and installations. Topics Four main themes shall be used as focus points for the presentations: - The revolution of alt pornography: in what way has alternative and do-it-yourself pornography democratized porn production? What are the reactions of the commercial industry? How does it influence our perception of porn? - Porn niches and trans gender: stereotypical social divisions with groups like hetero, gay, transsexual and transgender seem to matter less and less. What new revolutionary identities are arising? Are old patterns making way for a larger network of sexual possibilities? - Globalization of porn and the influence of ethnic minorities: this session wants to define the way various ethnical groups make use of the possibilities of porn. In what way do they they shape their own sexuality, making use of new technologies like the Internet? - Politics of netporn; censorship, new rights and nightmares: Porn is subject of repression (censorship) as well as progression (emancipation, liberalization). Where do we draw the line? What are the newly acquired rights that we already got out of this still expanding subject? During this manifestation, we want to give an in-depth look and sharper focus, based on the four themes that are provided. The organisation aims to create an atmosphere where people from different backgrounds can meet and exchange views on the topics that are raised. Significant dates Deadline for submission abstract (250 words) and biography (100 words): 30 November 2006 Submit to: marije(a)paradiso.nl Acceptance notification: 21 December 2006 Further enquiries: marije(a)paradiso.nl Organizers Paradiso Institute of Network Cultures Katrien Jacobs Matteo Pasquinelli Location Paradiso Amsterdam www.networkcultures.org www.paradiso.nl

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