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Sofware to capture content
by Eulalia Puig Abril 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi everyone, I was wondering if any of you know about software to capture website content – specifically, to capture online news outlets (CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times…) as well as blog-types news. We are about to engage in a research involving content coding these sites and were wondering if anybody has information on costs (any free out there?), ease of use, effectiveness in capturing content, time needed to capture content at a point in time, time needed to capture 24-hour content, and any other pertinent information that you may want to share. Thanks in advance to ya all! Eulàlia Puig Abril

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Re: [Air-l] AIR in Vancouver in 2007?
by Miraj Khaled 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

that's a great idea! it would be really fantastic if AOIR 2007 is held in beautiful vancouver. as the last canadian venue of AOIR was in toronto, hopefully in 2007 AOIRers would be able to enjoy the best weather in canada and appreciate the wonderful resources [academic, cultural and natural] vancouver could offer. miraj khaled --- air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:18:55 -0800 From: Richard Smith <smith(a)sfu.ca> Subject: [Air-l] AIR in Vancouver in 2007? To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Dear fellow AIR members, As a break from the current discussions on teens and IM and SMS and all that, I have a question. Want to come to Vancouver in 2007? I had a wonderful time at the AIR conference in Chicago last fall, and I am looking forward to Brisbane this fall (spring there, I guess). A few years ago I was at the Maastricht and Toronto AIR conferences and enjoyed those, as well. All of which is a preface to my seeming madness at what I am about to propose - hosting the next, next AIR (2007) in Vancouver, Canada. I think it is time to give something back. I haven't done a formal proposal yet, and only spoken about it to a few people here in Vancouver, so if others are thinking similarly and are further along, let me know and I can tag along. If others think this is a good idea and would like to help out - please contact me directly (smith(a)sfu.ca) If you think this is a bad idea and I should NOT pursue it, I'd certainly like to hear about that, too! I will be approaching the executive in the next week or so, with a few cost estimates and suggestions for venues. I think we can have a fun, interesting, and exciting conference here in Vancouver, and I look forward to showing you our lovely home. In the mean time, feedback is most welcome. ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 604 291 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ Mobitus: 2001 1070 0578 skype - callto://richard_k_smith PGP Public Key: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/ richardsmithpublickey.asc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Air-l] teens and myspace
by Bunz, Ulla 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Danah says, "They definitely don't have a stigma attached to the Internet" and actually, this I find very interesting, because while my early 20s students seem to think it's perfectly normal to be on MySpace or Facebook, and while they find it normal to have relationships there, they think that people who made friends in LambdaMoo must be really weird, socially inept weirdos and that online communities are a thing of the past (not realizing that they are, indeed, part of one themselves). Just a fun-fact. Ulla

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Re: [Air-l] "It can't be legal unless you pay for it"
by Marj Kibby 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

The corollary of this is, of course, "I paid for it so it must be legal" I'm in the early stages of looking at the use of Russian MP3 sites, using sense making theory to examine how users rationalise their downloading. Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby(a)newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604

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Re: [Air-l] AIR in Vancouver in 2007?
by Bunz, Ulla 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

No, I think air-meet is for more specific stuff concerning one particular conference. I think it's in everyone's interest to see/hear/speak regarding potential conference venues. When Monica Murero and I did a short survey on this a while ago there were some very fierce opinions. Ulla

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AoIR conferences 2007 and 2008
by Matthew Allen 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Dear all As indicated by Nancy, the Executive is currently finalising both the general locations for the conferences in 2007 and 2008 and the process by which we will select a particular city. I would expect that we will be able to announce those locations shortly. The key factors we will be weighing up reflect several different 'needs' for the conference, including but not limited to, the financial security of the association, internationalisation and diversity, managing costs for participants, availability of effective local organisation and venues. Best wishes Matt Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor in Internet Studies President Association of Internet Researchers Faculty of Media Society and Culture Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/allen.htm +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 92663166 (f)

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Re: [Air-l] teens and myspace
by Thiel, Shayla 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, all. I'm usually a lurker here, but... Another helpful resource on adolescents/identity/new media that I think could help contextualize what has been happening with MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites is a book that was published last year on Peter Lang titled "Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity" (Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives), edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella. And it's a shameless plug, but I also have a book coming out in the late summer/early fall about adolescent girls, gender identity and Instant Messaging that I think incorporates a lot of the subject matter that has been discussed here this week (and a section on the significance of social networking sites in terms of identity and the commodification of online communication in the youth culture). It's also on Peter Lang and will be called "Instant Identity." It's based on ethnographic research I've done with adolescent girls using IM over the past several years. Shayla Thiel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Communication Department DePaul University 2320 North Kenmore Avenue (576 SAC) Chicago, Illinois 60614 773-325-7659 sthiel1(a)depaul.edu

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Re: [Air-l] Sofware to capture content
by Julio Meneses Naranjo 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Eulàlia, *I was wondering if any of you know about software to *capture website content specifically, to capture online *news outlets (CNN, The Washington Post, The New York *Times) as well as blog-types news. *We are about to engage in a research involving content *coding these sites and were wondering if anybody has *information on costs (any free out there?), ease of use, *effectiveness in capturing content, time needed to capture *content at a point in time, time needed to capture 24-hour *content, and any other pertinent information that you may *want to share. Have a look on this book available online for a recent discussion about websites archiving: http://cfi.imv.au.dk/pub/boeger/bruegger_archiving.pdf and, for concrete applications, I could point you (if you can read Catalonian as I imagine) to a recent final report for a project based on a similar methodology (but different goals, for sure) making some use of Atlas TI to the content analysis: http://www.uoc.edu/in3/psinet/docs/publicaciones/tecnico01.pdf Obviously, its necessary to clarify the specific goals for later considerations about the software solution to use. In this sense, it's not the same to collect some information, to collect all the websites or just to track changes in some specific web pages. In any case, have a look at some software catalogs as Snapfiles (http://www.snapfiles.com/) or Tucows (http://www.tucows.com/) They have some restrictions for thematic software and specific conditions to search only under the freeware pieces. I hope it helps! *Thanks in advance to ya all! Eulàlia Puig Abril *_______________________________________________ *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/ _________________________________________________________ Julio Meneses (blog: http://www.zanadoria.com) Dept. Psychology and Educational Sciences. The Open University of Catalonia http://www.uoc.edu/ Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3 - UOC) Research Staff. Project Internet Catalonia (PIC) - Schools on the Network Society http://www.uoc.edu/in3/pic/

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Re: [Air-l] Sofware to capture content
by Don Holeman 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

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Re: [Air-l] AIR in Vancouver in 2007?
by Bunz, Ulla 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Canada as a north American venue has a lot of appeal for many of our members for various reasons, one of the more important ones being visa issues (most say it's easier to get visas for Canada than the US, and also some are uncomfortable with the fingerprinting procedure in the US and don't want to do that). I like the idea of having a conference in Vancouver, be it 2007 or afterwards. I also would like to see a conference in Europe again, maybe somewhere in Scandinavia. I know one city in a Scandinavian country had been under pretty serious discussion when I was still on the exec, but I do not know what has happened to that discussion since October. I think it would help if someone from the exec clarified whether there already is a definite location for 2007 or not, even if they don't want to reveal what that location is. Ulla Bunz

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