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Fwd: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
by joshua raclaw 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Apologies for cross-posting. -------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:12:24 From: Michael Beisswenger < michael.beisswenger(a)uni-dortmund.de > Subject: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis Full Title: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis Short Title: Corpora & Methods in CMDA Date: 08-Jul-2007 - 13-Jul-2007 Location: Göteborg, Sweden Contact Person: Michael Beisswenger Meeting Email: michael.beisswenger(a)uni-dortmund.de Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 05-Sep-2006 Meeting Description: Corpora and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis We invite contributions to a panel proposal for the 10th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), 8-13 July 2007, Göteborg, Sweden. Proposals are expected to discuss aspects of the panel topic (see detailed CfP above), based on empirical research on computer-mediated discourse in any language. Panel organizers: Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hannover, Germany Michael Beisswenger, University of Dortmund, Germany The purpose of this panel is to discuss methodological issues in computer-mediated discourse studies. Computer-mediated discourse (CMD) is used here as an umbrella term for all kinds of interpersonal (private and public) communication carried out on the Internet by e-mail, instant messaging systems, mailing lists, newsgroups, web discussion boards, Internet Relay Chat, and web chat channels (cf. Herring 2001, 2004). While CMD in the last decade has attracted a great deal of research attention from the pragmatic, discourse-analytic, and sociolinguistic points of view, methodological reflection still lags behind when compared to other areas of discourse studies. While the collection of linguistic data on the Internet seems trivial at first sight, researchers are confronted with a variety of non-trivial questions in the further process, relating to e.g. the size of a data sample, its representativeness or typicality, data processing techniques, delimitation of genres, kind and amount of necessary contextual information, as well as ethical issues of anonymity and privacy protection. Much research in the field has been based on rather small, individually compiled data sets. There is a lack of generally acknowledged guidelines of corpus design as well as of publicly available, dedicated corpora of CMD. In terms of methodology, language-focused research on computer-mediated communication has drawn on methods and key concepts from a variety of research traditions in linguistics (including pragmatics and conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, genre analysis, and the ethnography of communication). These methods and concepts have been fruitfully applied, and sometimes combined, to study how individuals use linguistic resources to establish contacts, manage interactions, and construct identities within computer networks. This panel will focus on the need for critical reflection about the problems and challenges that arise when these research traditions, originally developed for the study of face-to-face discourse, are applied to the new settings and environments of computer-mediated discourse. Does a one-to-one transfer of research frameworks really lead to contextually rich understandings of language use and interactional processes in CMD, or rather conceal some of its essential new aspects? Research findings suggest that CMD creates important implications for our understanding of key concepts such as interactional coherence, participant frameworks, intertextuality, language-identity-relationships, and the notion of community. To that extent, an adaptation or even reconceptualization of existing concepts and methods seems a necessary step in the further development of CMD studies, and new research frameworks are already emerging (e.g. Herring's approach to the study of online communities; Herring 2004). Against this background, the contributions to this panel will focus on questions such as: - challenges, problems and solutions in the compilation and design of CMD corpora, including the presentation of relevant new projects; - corpus linguistics issues in CMD, e.g. acquisition, preprocessing and annotation of data, ethical issues in Internet data collection, representation and exchange of CMD data, collection and representation of meta-data, tools for corpus storage and maintenance; - social and technical conditions of CMD that need to be taken into account when adapting concepts, frameworks or descriptive categories to CMD analysis; - case studies that exemplify how established concepts and methodologies are applied to sites of online discourse; - ways of doing 'online' or 'virtual' ethnography as a point of contextually rich entry into the study of online activities and communities; - the benefits and challenges of combining various data sets (e.g. logfiles, online participant observation, user observation, statistical information, and user interviews) for specific research questions; - the potential of combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to language data in CMD research. References: - Herring, Susan C. 2001. Computer-mediated discourse. In Deborah Schiffrin et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden: Blackwell. 612-634. - Herring, Susan C. 2004. Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An approach to researching online communities. In Sasha A. Barab, Rob Kling and James H. Gray (eds.) Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. 338-376. Panel organizers: Jannis Androutsopoulos, German Seminar, University of Hannover, Germany. E-Mail: jannis.androutsopoulos(a)germanistik.uni-hannover.de Michael Beisswenger, Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Dortmund, Germany. Email: michael.beisswenger(a)uni-dortmund.de Submission: Short abstracts are invited for 30 min. paper slots (20 min presentation and 10 min discussion). Please send your submission electronically to the contact email above by September 5, 2006. Authors will be notified individually about the further process. Before sending us your abstract, please make sure you will be able to attend the conference, thereby bearing in mind the IPrA conditions, which include a full membership. More information on the IPrA homepage: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/ Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/

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Re: [Air-l] mothers online
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Here are two references specifically about parents, plus work under domestication. /Caroline Miyata, Kakuko, (2002). Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline . In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet In Everyday Life (pp. 520-548). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Mickelson, K. D. (1997). Seeking social support: Parents in electronic support groups. In Kiesler, S. (Ed.), Culture of the Internet (pp. 157-178). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Venkatesh, A. (2006). Introduction to the Special Issue on “ICT in Everyday Life: Home and Personal Environments”. The Information Society, 22(4), 191-194. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M. M. (2002). Bringing the Internet home: Adult distance learners and their Internet, Home and Work worlds. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (pp. 431-463). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Salaff, Janet (2002). Where home is the office: The new form of flexible work. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (pp. 464-495). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Kraut, R., Mukhopadhyay, T., Szczypula, J., Kiesler, S., & Scherlis, B. (2000). Information and communication: Alternative uses of the Internet in households. Information Systems Research, 10, 287-303. Cummings, J. & Kraut, R. (2002). Domesticating computers and the Internet. The Information Society, 18(3), 221-32. Silverstone, R. & Haddon, L. (1996). Design and the domestication of information and communication technologies: Technical change and everyday life. In R. Silverstone & R. Mansell (Eds.), Communication by Design. The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies (pp. pp.44-74). Oxford: Oxford University Press Kraut,R. Internet@Home, Communications of the ACM, special issue. Kiesler, S., Lundmark, V., Zdaniuk, B., Kraut, R. E. (2000) Troubles with the Internet: The dynamics of help at home. Human Computer Interaction, 15, 323-351. Turow, J. & Kavanaugh, A.L. (2003). The Wired Homestead: An MIT sourcebook on the Internet and the family. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:52:22 +0100 >From: "Asi Sharabi" <asi.sharabi(a)thegrandunion.com> >Subject: [Air-l] mothers online >To: <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > >Hi everyone, > > > >This is my first post to this forum. > > > >Can anyone recall a good research / database related to families' online >behaviour? > >Mums online > >Kids online > >Relationship between both > > > >Any thing will help. > > > >Many thanks in advance, > > > >Asi. > > > > > >Asi Sharabi, PhD >Planner >http://nomansblog.typepad.com/no_mans_blog/ > >GRANDUNION >www.thegrandunion.com ><file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\asis\Application%20Data\Microsoft >\Signatures\www.thegrandunion.com> >t: +44 (0)20 7908 0700 >f: +44 (0)20 7908 0701 >Grand Union >Eardley House >182 - 184 Campden Hill Road >London W8 7AS > > > >_______________________________________________ >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/ ---------------------------------------- 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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mothers online
by Asi Sharabi 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi everyone, This is my first post to this forum. Can anyone recall a good research / database related to families' online behaviour? Mums online Kids online Relationship between both Any thing will help. Many thanks in advance, Asi. Asi Sharabi, PhD Planner http://nomansblog.typepad.com/no_mans_blog/ GRANDUNION www.thegrandunion.com <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\asis\Application%20Data\Microsoft \Signatures\www.thegrandunion.com> t: +44 (0)20 7908 0700 f: +44 (0)20 7908 0701 Grand Union Eardley House 182 - 184 Campden Hill Road London W8 7AS

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Online MSc in E-learning: University of Edinburgh
by Sian Bayne 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

AIR colleagues may be interested to learn about the MSc in E-learning being offered by the University of Edinburgh. We are currently recruiting for January 2007 - more at our web site: http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/e-learning The programme is delivered part-time and fully online. It aims to give professionals working in higher or further education, or in training and development, the practical skills and critical insight they need to become confident within this fast-moving field. Courses on offer include: An introduction to digital environments for learning Understanding learning in the online environment E-learning strategy and policy Online assessment Effective course design for e-learning E-learning and digital culture E-learning, politics and society Information literacies for online learning An introduction to digital game-based learning Language, culture and communication in online learning For more information, please see the web site, or contact the programme leader: Dr. Sian Bayne Higher and Community Education University of Edinburgh Paterson's Land 37 Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AQ +44 (0)131 651 6337 sian.bayne(a)ed.ac.uk MSc in E-learning http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/e-learning/

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JCMC volume 11, issue 4
by elw＠stderr.org 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

The JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION is pleased to announce its latest issue: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/ --------- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Volume 11, Issue 4, July 2006 --------- Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as 'Third Places' - Constance A. Steinkuehler and Dmitri Williams Gender and Computer Games: Exploring Females' Dislikes - Tilo Hartmann and Christoph Klimmt The Internet at Play: Child Users of Public Internet Connections - Christian Sandvig Metropolitan Websites as Urban Communication - Leo W. Jeffres and Carolyn A. Lin Developing 'Third Space' Interculturality Using Computer-Mediated Communication - Tracey Bretag Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in Computer-Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Exclamations Posted to Two Electronic Discussion Lists - Carol Waseleski The Construction of Away Messages: A Speech Act Analysis - Jacqueline Nastri, Jorge Pena, and Jeffrey T. Hancock A Sign of the Times: An Analysis of Organizational Members' Email Signatures - Stephen A. Rains and Anna M. Young Homophily of Network Ties and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in Computer-Mediated Distributed Teams - Y. Connie Yuan and Geri Gay The Pass-Along Effect: Investigating Word-of-Mouth Effects on Online Survey Procedures - Andrew T. Norman and Cristel A. Russell Online Word-of-Mouth (or Mouse): An Exploration of Its Antecedents and Consequences - Tao Sun, Seounmi Youn, Guohua Wu, and Mana Kuntaraporn Management, Market, and Financial Factors Separating Winners and Losers in E-Business - Pradeep Korgaonkar and Bay O'Leary --------- The contents of this issue and all back issues of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication are openly accessible at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ ---------

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Lexicon
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

On August 11 at 5:21 p.m. Mountain time, I posted to the listserve. At 5:54 that same day I received a response from J.J. At 6:19 I received an email that contained the below quote and 6:34 I received an email from Jeremy. This confused me because it happened before the daily list serve could have been published. My questions are. Is there a back channel for communication of postings in the listserve? Are the three of them editors or censors? Are "drillhole" and "Piss" academic language that I should know. Could you define "Regular Folk." Because I really like transdisciplinary work, allow me to provide a Regular Folks translation of the call, below. Let the record show that I am doing this with real trepidation. On one hand, I don't really want to encourage more of your dillhole behavior. On the other, it would piss off if nobody else challenged you for the sake of the AIR-Archive, given that you've just accused Jeremy and Ellis of being intellectually bogus. (Terri Senft) ________________________________________ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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Ellis and Jeremy
by Dr. W. Reid Cornwell 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

In an attempt to send the following paragraph to my editor (for translation) my spell checker had a psychotic episode. "Transdisciplinary Studies is an internationally oriented book series created to generate new theories and practices to extricate transdisciplinary research from the confining discourses of traditional disciplinarities. Within transdisciplinary domains, this series will publish empirically grounded, theoretically sound work seeking to identify and solve global problems that conventional disciplinary perspectives cannot capture. Transdisciplinary Studies seeks to accentuate those aspects of scholarly research which cut across todays learned disciplines in an effort to define new axiologies and forms of praxis. This series intends to promote a new appreciation for transdisciplinary research to audiences that are seeking ways of understanding complex, global problems that many now realize disciplinary perspectives cannot fully address. Scholars, policy makers, educators and researchers working to address issues in technology studies, public finance, discourse studies, professional ethics, political analysis, learning, ecological systems, modern medicine, and other fields clearly are ready to begin investing in transdisciplinary models of research. It is for those many different audiences in these diverse fields that we hope to reach, not merely with topical research, but also through considering new epistemic and ontological foundations for of transdisciplinary research." This was taken from Jeremy Hunsinger's website at: http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Evidently, science as Jeremy understands it, is properly described by crafting words of his own making. In my judgment, it suffers from a di-flucass of the ugang and is further compackliated by a clogged zortch. Reid _____ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) <mailto:wrc@tcfir.org> wrc(a)tcfir.org http://tcfir.org

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atlas etc at ASA
by Barry Wellman 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

If you're at the American Sociological Association meetings in Montreal thru Sunday, Ray Maieta (sp) is demo'ing and selling Atlas.ti and MDQ (I know I spelt that wrong) with knowledge and enthusiasm. He's in the book exhibits room, to the left as you walk in. Barry, who valued his grounded acquaintanceship with Anselm Strauss _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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clothing Nud*ist
by Barry Wellman 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Denise and someone else recommended Nud.ist and NVivo6. These are notes, and are by no means a recomendation or a disuassion. 1. There is now NVivo7 which is a combo of Nud.ist and NVivo. 2. Early reports say it is resource hungary and perhaps slow to run. 3. Tom and Lynn Richards, the Aussies who founded QSR (which begat Nud.ist and NVivo) have left active running of the company. 4. We haven't tested NVivo7 at NetLab yet. Would love to hear from those who have. I understand the program has already been upgraded, perhaps to install, load and run faster. I may have told this story before, but I love it. In the early 1990s, my wife took a Nud.ist workshop in the USA. (I think Lynn ran it.) A month later, we were in Bielefeld at the World Congress of Sociology. In an elevator, my wife saw someone who had taken the workshop with her. "Didn't I see you at the Nudist workshop?" she asked him abmidst a packed elevator! Gasps!! And the sound of silence. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] Ellis and Jeremy
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Just to be clear here, I have not, nor will I likely ever have a private conversation/dealings with Dr. Cornwell, his center or his work. My work and the work of my colleagues on Transdisciplinary Studies and other endeavors stands as is, in the context of its production, its editing and related affiliations, editorial boards and advisory boards. I just wanted to state the 'null relationship' because some people may have inferred that there is some past argument or discussion in the private sphere and there has been none. The current discussion appears to have been started by my discussion with Ellis about whether or not we can describe non-atomistic, systemic, or ecological effects. I think that discussion was fruitful for me, though I could have spent more time on it and I apologize to the list for spawning this recent interchange. jeremy hunsinger Assistant Professor Pratt Institute www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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