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FW: mode differences across cultures
by Ellis Godard 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Shared w/ Dr. Leeuw's permission... -----Original Message----- > > -----Original Message----- > > From: AAPORNET [mailto:AAPORNET@asu.edu] On Behalf Of Edith de Leeuw > > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:24 AM > > To: AAPORNET(a)asu.edu > > Subject: mode differences across cultures > > > > > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > > > A colleague asked me a very intriguing question, but unfortunately I > > could not give him a detailed answer, except the suggestion, to > > look up Internet > > penetration in each country, and treat this as a proxy of 'being > > acquainted/used to Internet technology in a specific country. > > > > I am posting his question below. Please send your reply to him > > directly. A.DeBeuckelaer(a)fm.ru.nl > > I will ask him to send me a summary of answers to share with > > the list again. > > > > Thanking you on his behalf, Edith > > > > Dr. Edith D. de Leeuw, MethodikA > > Plantage Doklaan 40, NL-1018 CN Amsterdam > > tel + 31 20 622 34 38 fax + 31 20 330 25 97 > > e-mail edithl(a)xs4all.nl > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > God do you still have a blue print of my cat? > > J.B. Charles (Willem Hendrik Nagel > > 1910-1982) > > > > __________________text question________________________ I > > am struggling with the following issue: > > Topic: Are between-mode (survey) effects expected to be > > CONDITIONAL on > > culture/nation? > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > In the literature on mixed-mode surveys (in particular: online and > > paper-and-pencil), the issue of measurement equivalence of a survey > > instrument across both modes of data collection has been (and > > still is) > > highly debated. Although many empirical studies in the U.S. > > (and Spain) > > have reported no violations of measurement equivalence of the > > survey across > > online and paper-and-pencil surveys (e.g., Stanton, 1998; > > Buchanon & Smith, > > 1999; Vispoel et al., 2001; Cole et al., 2006), some studies > > actually did > > find some important differences (e.g., Taylor, 2000 in terms > > of choosing > > extreme responses with Likert-type of scales; Ployhart et > > al., 2003 showing > > differential effects in mean- and variance structures, > > internal consistency > > of measures, and item correlations). > > I am wondering whether the literature has provided any > > "STRONG" ARGUMENT to > > believe that the extent of between-mode effects (online and > > paper-and-pencil) would show substantial cross-cultural or > > cross-national > > variation. So far, I did not find such strong arguments in > > the literature. > > One possible argument could relate to differential > > familiarity with the > > Internet (as a research tool) across nations or cultures. As > > the population > > I am investigating is highly 'computer literate', this > > argument is not > > relevant for my study. > > Actually, I just wonder whether a STRONGER ARGUMENT could be > > given (based > > on cross-cultural or cognitive psychology). Please help me > > (if you can). Please send your reaction to: > > A.DeBeuckelaer(a)fm.ru.nl THANKS A LOT! Alain DE BEUCKELAER, > > PhD Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen School of Management > > Thomas van Aquinostraat 1 6500 HK Nijmegen The Netherlands > > A.DeBeuckelaer(a)fm.ru.nl T +31 (0)24 361 14 67 F +31 (0)24 361 19 33 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Archives: http://lists.asu.edu/archives/aapornet.html . Please ask > > authors before quoting outside AAPORNET. Unsubscribe?-don't reply to > > this message, write to: aapornet-request(a)asu.edu > >

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Re: [Air-l] Community and our Conceptual Lexicon
by Ellis Godard 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Ian Goodwin wrote: > ...community has always been tied to normative > prescription as well as empirical description. Yet the most > important point about community is that it pervades everyday > life. I'd go so far as to say it seems to be indispensable to > social discourse. That's pretty far. > Thus, as Peter Hamilton put it in his > perceptive introduction to Cohen's (1985) classic study (The > Symbolic Construction of Community), community would have > long ago been "discounted as grist to the scholarly mill were > it not for the remarkable hold that the idea of community > exerts over both the intellectual and popular mind" (p.7). The popularity of a notion, within or beyond scholarship, is a poor criteria for the evaluation of its use in describing anything other than its popularity. > It is for this reason we should be careful about discounting > community. People manifestly believe in community and use the > term in their everyday discourse. In this sense community > motivates, sustains, and structures social action. By what logic does the publicly consequential nature of a term render it having descriptive or explanatory value? > ...For example fears of 'community decline', whilst > difficult if not impossible to verify from an objective > perspective, often motivate residents of localities to become > involved in online initiatives (and structure how they then > interact online - the topics they deem 'relevant', the goals > of the online group etc) - this was certainly the case in the > community informatics initiatives I studied in Birmingham (UK). Fears of goblins do not goblins make. -eg

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Re: [Air-l] Online Survey Reviews
by Porsche VanBrocklin-Fischer 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Try these online survey resources: Best, S. J., and Kruger, B. S. (2004). Internet Data Collection. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Baker, LC, M. Kate Bundorf, Sara Singer, and Todd H. Wagner. 2003. “Validity of the Survey of Health and Internet and Knowledge Network’s Panel and Sampling”. Stanford, CA: Stanford University; 2003. Couper, Mick P., Michael W. Traugott, and Mark J. Lamais. 2001. “Web survey design and administration”. Public Opinion Quarterly. 65 (2): 230 (24). Dillman, Don, A. 2000. Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. NY, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Evans, Joel R. and Anil Mathur. 2005. “The Value of Online Surveys”. Internet Research. 15(2):195-219.Porsche VanBrocklin-FischerDoctoral StudentDepartment of SociologyWayne State UniversityDetroit, MI > From: charlie(a)balch.org> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:39:04 -0500> Subject: [Air-l] Online Survey Reviews> > I'm looking for references that review/compare Internet survey delivery> systems. Either there are few or none of these references or I can't figure> out the syntax for a search. I'm aware that Reips recently posted an> indication that he intends to create such a resource.> > Can anyone suggest some good articles that review Internet survey delivery> systems?> > Thanks,> Charlie Balch> LSU Doctoral Candidate, Instructional Technology (in dissertation hell)> Arizona Western College, Professor CIS (my first day is in two weeks)> http://charlie.balch.org> mailto:charlie@balch.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/ _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com: where your online world comes together - with news, sports, weather, and much more. http://www.live.com/getstarted

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from air-l list manager re: HTML vs. plain text
by Holly Kruse 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

I'm about to be away from my home computer for a few days and have only spotty internet access, and before I leave I think it might be useful to post here to let everyone know that, for a number of reasons, there is a size limit on air-l posts. Many people in the past several days have greatly exceeded the limit, and posts larger than 10 KB automatically are held for approval rather than being directly posted to air-l. This means that messages sent in HTML or other formats than plain text may end up languishing for hours, or in some cases, even a day, before I see them and can let posters know what the problem is. Excessively large posts are rejected, and the poster receives the following message: "If your message was rejected for length because you included most or all of an air-l digest in a response, please edit the excerpted material and re-send your post. If it was overly long because it was posted in HTML or MIME, then please try not to post in HTML/MIME - it messes up the digest version of AIR-L and our web archive. This is not a rejection of your posting, only its format, so please re-post in plain text. Instructions for almost all e-mail programs can be found at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html. "Another reason for not using HTML or MIME is that such postings tend to be inordinately large. We don't accept postings larger than 10 KB. If you have information in excess of that limit, a link to a relevant web page is often a better option." So if you want to ensure that your message appears on air-l in a timely fashion, please send it in plain text. Thanks, Holly Kruse List Manager holly(a)aoir.org holly-kruse(a)utulsa.edu

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Re: [Air-l] Statistics Canada - General Social Survey: The Internet and the way we spend our time
by Sarah Stewart 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Thank you everyone for your replies on the topic of measuring time using the Internet. I am carrying out a project comparing online (email) mentoring with traditional face-to-face mentoring for new graduate midwives and nurses. One of the elements I want to look at is time, comparing the time of face-to-face meetings with the amount of time spent reading and replying to emails. Your replies have helped me think about the issues in greater depth. regards Sarah Sarah Stewart PhD Candidate Senior Lecturer School of Midwifery Otago Polytechnic Forth St Private Bag 1910 Dunedin New Zealand Tel: 0800 762786 sarahs(a)tekotago.ac.nz

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FW: Pew biennial media consumption report (plus cell-only analysis)
by Ellis Godard 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

FYI... -----Original Message----- ...Pew Research Center's latest media consumption survey (we do this study every two years). Among other topics, this year's report looks at the online audience for newspapers. ... http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=282

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Statistics Canada - General Social Survey: The Internet and the way we spend our time
by Mark Bell 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Folks, This was posted on Canoe.ca today: "Heavy Internet users are different 2006-08-02 09:40:00 OTTAWA (CP) - There's a new study that says heavy Internet users lead a considerably different lifestyle than people who do not surf the web. Statistics Canada says it found that heavy Net users spent less time to socializing with their spouse or partner, or their children and friends. And they tended to stay at home, showing less interest in outdoor activities than non-users." Rest of article: http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Entertainment/2006/08/02/1715240-cp.html More information about the study can be found here: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060802/d060802a.htm Happy reading, M -- 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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Re: [Air-l] Online Survey Reviews
by Porsche VanBrocklin-Fischer 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Try these online survey resources: Best, S. J., and Kruger, B. S. (2004). Internet Data Collection. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Baker, LC, M. Kate Bundorf, Sara Singer, and Todd H. Wagner. 2003. “Validity of the Survey of Health and Internet and Knowledge Network’s Panel and Sampling”. Stanford, CA: Stanford University; 2003. Couper, Mick P., Michael W. Traugott, and Mark J. Lamais. 2001. “Web survey design and administration”. Public Opinion Quarterly. 65 (2): 230 (24). Dillman, Don, A. 2000. Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. NY, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Evans, Joel R. and Anil Mathur. 2005. “The Value of Online Surveys”. Internet Research. 15(2):195-219.If you need more, let me know. Porsche VanBrocklin-Fischer Doctoral StudentDepartment of SociologyWayne State UniversityDetroit, MI > From: charlie(a)balch.org> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:39:04 -0500> Subject: [Air-l] Online Survey Reviews> > I'm looking for references that review/compare Internet survey delivery> systems. Either there are few or none of these references or I can't figure> out the syntax for a search. I'm aware that Reips recently posted an> indication that he intends to create such a resource.> > Can anyone suggest some good articles that review Internet survey delivery> systems?> > Thanks,> Charlie Balch> LSU Doctoral Candidate, Instructional Technology (in dissertation hell)> Arizona Western College, Professor CIS (my first day is in two weeks)> http://charlie.balch.org> mailto:charlie@balch.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/ _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com: where your online world comes together - with news, sports, weather, and much more. http://www.live.com/getstarted

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Re: [Air-l] Citing Podcasts
by Richard Berry 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

I've cited a few Podcasts and I agree it would be useful to have an agreed approach but I'd suggest that whilst Podcasts are usually downloaded via an aggregator (such as iTunes or juice) the file will not stay in the xml feed for long and for citation you'd need to link to the actual mp3 file. Inline citation should include the date or episode number for easy reference, e.g "DSC391" and so on cheers Rich Richard Berry Community Radio Project Manager Admissions Tutor: BA (Hons) Media Production (TV & Radio)and BA (hons) Broadcast Journalism The Media Centre University of Sunderland http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/radio http://www.radiostudiesnetwork.org.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Halavais <halavais(a)gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 8:27 pm Subject: [Air-l] Citing Podcasts > On 8/1/06, David Brake <d.r.brake(a)lse.ac.uk> wrote: > <snip> > > Negroponte, N. (2006) "Ted Talk: Nicholas Negroponte". in New York, > > February, 2006, http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/ > > > > But that doesn't tell you it is a podcast and crucially it doesnt > > tell you that the part I cited is 5 minutes, 42 seconds in. This > > useful guide to Harvard citation > http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/> using/harvard_system.html > says BS:5605:1990 http://www.mamc.ac.in/ > > British.pdf doesnt include recommendations for electronic > sources. Is > > there an advanced Harvard Style Lab somewhere coming up with > > standards for this stuff? What would you do? Should I just make > up my > > own style? > > > > I think that David's question worthwhile, and it comes up in citing > blogs and other electronic media as well. In fact, we have earlier > threads here, I believe, about whether citations to web sites should > be by site, or by individual page, or some other indicator. > > I think what is most important about a citation is findability. So, > generally, if I can find the resource at a URL, I'll list the URL. But > given the capriciousness of URLs, more information is often needed as > a "backup," if this original citation fails. > > For net resources I *expect* are likely to change, I have often > considered citing a copy of the page archived by the Internet Archive, > or my archived copy of the page. Or, alternatively, provide a link to > a copy of the bibliography that can be automatically or manually > updated. If the latter were used, it could also provide something like > a trackback mechanism to do links forward. > > - Alex > > > -- > // > // This email is > // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. > // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. > // > // Alexander C. Halavais > // Social Architect > // http://alex.halavais.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/ >

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citing a podcast
by David Brake 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

On 1 Aug 2006, at 21:01, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: >> Negroponte, N. (2006) "Ted Talk: Nicholas Negroponte". in New York, >> February, 2006, http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/ >> >> But that doesn't tell you it is a podcast and crucially it doesnt >> tell you that the part I cited is 5 minutes, 42 seconds in. > I think that David's question worthwhile, and it comes up in citing > blogs and other electronic media as well. In fact, we have earlier > threads here, I believe, about whether citations to web sites should > be by site, or by individual page, or some other indicator. > > I think what is most important about a citation is findability. So, > generally, if I can find the resource at a URL, I'll list the URL. But > given the capriciousness of URLs, more information is often needed as > a "backup," if this original citation fails. > > For net resources I *expect* are likely to change, I have often > considered citing a copy of the page archived by the Internet Archive, > or my archived copy of the page. Or, alternatively, provide a link to > a copy of the bibliography that can be automatically or manually > updated. If the latter were used, it could also provide something like > a trackback mechanism to do links forward. These are interesting issues as well, but not really what I was asking. My problem is that the electronic resource in question is not a web page but a podcast. It is in this case as likely to be permanently available as a web page would be but in other cases with podcasts the only way to provide a URL would be to open the RSS feed and look for the address of the MP3 file there and some podcasts don't retain complete archives (does archive.org try to archive all old podcasts?). It also seems to me important to indicate that the reference is internet-distributed audio not a web page and, as mentioned above, it seemed to me it would be best to have some standard way to indicate that the particular text cited came a certain part of the way in (just as one might do with a page number in a book or journal article). --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)

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