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New Doctoral Programme
by OII Enquiries 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES MULTIDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL PROGRAMME FOCUSED ON INTERNET STUDIES The Oxford Internet Institute is now accepting worldwide applications from candidates who want to study the Internet and its social impact. We are a department of Oxford University chartered to pioneer the multidisciplinary study of the Internet. The Institute is dedicated to engaging in fruitful collaboration with policy makers, technologists, businesspeople, teachers, scholars and civil society entrepreneurs to inform and ground our research. We seek to understand the most difficult and relevant social puzzles, problems, and opportunities as the mainstream Internet enters the second decade of a multi-year buildout transforming the fundamentals of work, politics, education, entertainment, social interaction, and conflict. A small group of full-time doctoral students will join the OII in October 2006. Candidates must demonstrate talent, creativity, and zeal to perform outstanding research that will make a difference to the world -- to ask original, concrete questions, to adopt incisive methodologies by which to approach those questions, and ultimately to help positively shape the development of digital networked space and the peoples whose lives it affects. For more information on the OII's D.Phil programme in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences, please visit <www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/>. Kind Regards, Eleanor. ------- Administrative Officer Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Tel: 01865 287210 Fax: 01865 287211

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Fwd: [ISOC-members-announce] Announcing the IETF Journal - a new ISOC Publication
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: David McAuley <mcauley(a)isoc.org> > Date: October 7, 2005 9:45:24 AM CDT > To: isoc-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org > Subject: [ISOC-members-announce] Announcing the IETF Journal - a > new ISOC Publication > > > Dear Members: > > ISOC is pleased to announce the "IETF Journal", a new Internet Society > publication produced in cooperation with the Internet Engineering Task > Force. Our aim is to provide an easily understandable overview of > what's > happening in the world of Internet standards with a particular > focus on the > activities of the IETF Working Groups (WG). Each issue of the "IETF > Journal" > will highlight some of the hot issues being discussed in IETF > meetings and > in the IETF mailing lists. Our first issue takes a look back at the > recent > 63rd meeting of the IETF in Paris. > http://ietfjournal.isoc.org/ > > Best wishes to you all. > David > > > David McAuley > Membership Director > Internet Society > 703-326-9880, ext 104 > 703-963-5887 (mobile) > mcauley(a)isoc.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > ISOC-members-announce mailing list > ISOC-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org > http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isoc-members-announce > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to: isoc-members-announce- > leave(a)elists.isoc.org > > Please note that by leaving this membership list you will also be > resigning ISOC membership. > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers

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Reminder - IR 6/Chicago blogging, tagging, wiki, IRC, survey, etc.
by Steve Jones 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Greetings to those of you in Chicago for IR 6 and to those of you not here with us! This is but a quick note to reiterate the information already sent (see below), to inform those of you not in Chicago for the conference that internet access had been spotty yesterday (Thursday), and to encourage all of you to please use the options we've made available this year for online participation. Thank you, and take care, Sj -------------------- I write to remind everyone of the several internet options we are making available for online participation in this year's conference. I have pasted below the text of a message previously sent to air-l that includes information about these options. Several people have emailed concerning blogging, so let me say a bit more about it. The easiest way to find who's blogging the conference and to access the blogs is to tag blog postings and to use the conference wiki. For more information about tagging the conference see http://emt.url123.com/aoir6. All of the following services use tags: Flickr Smugmug Wists Technorati BlogMarks 43 Things del.icio.us Tagsurf Furl Upcoming.org Jots de.lirio.us Consumating For those of you who are blogging from the conference using another service or your own server, you can set up an account at del.icio.us, or, if you don't want a del.icio.us account but you want to share links (be they to your own blog or whatever you'd like) just sign in with login aoir and password chicago and start bookmarking. Similarly, if you are not blogging but just want to read blogs, look at the bookmarks and tags once you have logged in with that common username/password. If you don't have a blog but you'd like to write about the conference just email it to erickaakcire.aoir -at- blogger d0t com. This is not a person's email address but a direct way to actually post to the group blog. The title of your message is the title of the blog post and the body of the message is the post itself. Please include your name and affiliation. For any questions/problems email Ericka at emtrevino -at- gmail d0t com or AIM erickaakcire. Sj -----------text of previous air-l message------------ We have made arrangements for several internet-based tools to be used during the upcoming conference in Chicago, for both participants who will be at the conference as well as for those of you unable to be here. All should be up and running by Thursday, Oct. 6, and some, like the wiki, are already available. 1. Tag This Conference! aoir and aoir6 You're it. We need your help to make it easy for all of us to find the websites, pictures & blog entries related to the conference. Just use the tags aoir and aoir6 in del.icio.us, Flickr or with Technorati, then check out http://www.technorati.com/tag/aoir or aoir6 for the combined results. What is tagging? It's a way to give online content a little extra context by adding keywords called tags. Usually people tag their own collections of bookmarks or photographs so that they can find them later, but they can also be used to help other people find online content. When we agree to use the same tag it's easy for everyone to find things. What are del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati? Del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager where users save their links. Anything with a URL can be bookmarked in del.icio.us and described by tags and extended notes. Flickr is a popular photo sharing site that uses tags. Technorati is a blog indexing site and it collects the tags that bloggers use to describe their posts. It also displays information from del.icio.us and Flickr in its results. Don't want to sign up for these services? No signing up required! Visit http://emt.url123.com/aoir6 for details. 2. The Backchannel Don't wait until the question and answer session to discuss an interesting presentation with your colleagues. Share ideas and comment on papers as they're delivered via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Each of the AoIR conference rooms has a corresponding chat room for backchannel discussion. Connection details and recommended chat clients will be posted in each room. Increasingly popular at technology conferences and in college classrooms, backchannel discussions allow for quick fact checking and can create a greater sense of community amongst both audience members and presenters. More details about the server and channels will be made available soon. 3. The Conference wiki A wiki is available for each conference session (organized by session, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0, as well as by meeting room, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0: _Theme_Pages). Whether you are a presenter, conference participants, AoIR member or air-l subscriber, share your thoughts about each session here. 4. Internet Survey How familiar are you with some of the trendiest Internet developments (such as wikis and blogs)? Would you like to compare your media consumption with that of your parents (and/or children)? Please take 10 minutes of your time to complete a "Generations Survey". When you finish the questionnaire, you will see a snapshot of the general results. The resulting data will be available to the conference attendees, AoIR members and subscribers to the AoIR e-mail list (air-l). All respondents will be anonymous. Link: http://generations-survey.notlong.com These efforts to use the internet to enhance conference participation are part of a project organized by graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Data from them will be made anonymous and analyzed for coursework. Thanks particularly to David Elfving and Ericka Menchen Trevino for their work on the technology for it. _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org(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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Re: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
by Paul Chenoweth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Charlie, Indeed, the $100 Laptop initiative targets some of the poorest countries in the world and indeed there are human rights, social problems, and health crises that need as much or more attention...but let's be careful of 'throwing the baby out with the bath water', in essence saying that a continent is somehow unworthy of joining the technologically enabled world due to current problems, racial demographics, or geography. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Breindahl <charlie.breindahl(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, October 3, 2005 6:35 am Subject: Re: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop > I agree. Still, the stereotype might apply to a large proportion of > Africancountries and even the rest of the world's poorest > countries. Poor as in > "selling your child into slavery so that the child can at least > survive"poor. Under such circumstances, I just don't see the kid > proudly toting a > brand-new laptop strolling down the street to school. Denise has a > goodpoint (and so has Radhika). It is very, very unlikely that > those laptops are > going to do much good for the kids they were intended for. > > Best, > Charlie > > On 10/3/05, Paul Chenoweth <chenowethp(a)mail.belmont.edu> wrote: > > > > Denise, > > Ouch! I do not doubt your experience in Africa, however, your > comment> sounds like a terribly generalised condemnation of an > entire continent. > > > > Paul > > > > -- > Charlie Breindahl > External Lecturer > University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen > > Web: http://staff.hum.ku.dk/hitch/ > Phone: +45 35 32 81 14 > Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 > E-mail: hitch(a)hum.ku.dk > > "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed > to turn > into knights" > - Janet H. Murray > _______________________________________________ > The Air-l-aoir.org(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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Re: [Air-l] role playing in MUDs
by Charlie Breindahl 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hey, and Frank Schaap has written a book based on his master's thesis, *The Words That Took Us There. Ethnography in a Virtual Reality.* ISBN: 90-5589-199-1. He blogs at http://fragment.nl/thewords/ Best, Charlie

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Re: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
by Paul Chenoweth 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Denise, Ouch! I do not doubt your experience in Africa, however, your comment sounds like a terribly generalised condemnation of an entire continent. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall(a)yahoo.com> Date: Monday, October 3, 2005 5:23 am Subject: RE: [Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop > Okay, > > Great on the $100 laptop. But how many people on this > list have actually worked in Africa? > > Well I have, and I lived in a locked compound on an > agricultural resarch station and the number one > problem on the station was theft. I had a full time > cook who checked up on my house during the day and a > guard that patrolled the buildings at night. > > All I had in the building was some furniture, a lamp > and some clothes, no computers. I had a camera in > there. The computers were kept elsewhere in a double > locked room. The gates to the compound were also > locked at night. There were as I mentioned, patrolling > guards. > > Down the road from us was the power station. It was > surrounded by a DOUBLE barbed wire fence with a height > of at least 2.5 meters. To keep people from stealing > the electrical wire. > > Well and fine but how long are those laptops going to > stay in the hands of the children they are meant to > help. Maybe if the kid also has a handy AK-47. > > Cheers, Denise > > > > > > > > Denise N. Rall, PhD candidate, School of Environ. Science, > Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 > Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & Internet Researcher > Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Tuesdays or Mobile 0438 233 344 > http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html > _______________________________________________ > The Air-l-aoir.org(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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Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
by Jeremy Hunsinger 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtslander(a)sask.usask.ca> > Date: September 28, 2005 7:33:45 PM EDT > To: schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net > Subject: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop > Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss(a)schoolforge.net > > > Came across these sites: > > haven't noticed this being discussed here. > > A $100.00 dollar laptop running linux - intended for education in the > developing world - and likely very practical for the developed > world to. > > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935&tag=nl.e589 > > prototype to be released at World Summit on the Information > Society (WSIS) > http://www.itu.int/wsis/ in November. > > It looks like it is intended to support tablet style use (in > addition to a > keyboard)- so one can use it without using a keyboard. This opens > many > avenues. > > Gord > -- > Gordon J. Holtslander / Dept. of Biology > holtslander(a)sask.usask.ca / University of Saskatchewan > tel 306 966-4433 / 112 Science Place > fax 306 966-4461 / Saskatoon, SK Canada > / S7N 5E2 > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers

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FQS 6(3) The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe
by Katja Mruck 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Apologies for possible cross postings! Dear All, We would like to inform you that the 19th issue of the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS), edited by Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick & Christoph Maeder in cooperation with Iain Lang, is available online. FQS 6(3) deals with "The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm) The contributions provide unique insights into the variety and richness of qualitative social research in Europe (without limiting the issue to a solely European perspective). As always, in addition to articles relating to "Qualitative Research in Europe," FQS 6(3) also provides selected single contributions and articles that belong to the FQS Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics, to FQS Reviews, and to FQS Conferences. Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck FQS-Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FQS 6(3) THE STATE OF THE ART OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EUROPE http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm English http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt3-05-d.htm German http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt3-05-s.htm Spanish Katja Mruck, César A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux: Editorial: About Qualitative Research Centers and Peripheries http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-49-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-49-s.htm Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick (Germany) & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Qualitative Methods in Europe: The Variety of Social Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-34-e.htm 1. General Methodological Trends in Qualitative Research Paul Atkinson (UK): Qualitative Research -- Unity and Diversity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-26-e.htm Giampietro Gobo (Italy): The Renaissance of Qualitative Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-42-e.htm David Silverman (UK): Instances or Sequences? Improving the State of the Art of Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-30-e.htm 2. National Overviews: Qualitative Methods in Various European Countries in Comparison to the U.S. Johannes Angermueller (Germany): "Qualitative" Methods of Social Research in France: Reconstructing the Actor, Deconstructing the Subject http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-19-e.htm Ronald Hitzler (Germany): The Reconstruction of Meaning. Notes on German Interpretive Sociology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-45-e.htm Shalva Weil (Israel): Qualitative Methods in Israel http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-46-e.htm Attila Bruni & Giampietro Gobo (Italy): Qualitative Research in Italy http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-41-e.htm Dirk Schubotz (Northern Ireland): Beyond the Orange and the Green. The Diversification of the Qualitative Social Research Landscape in Northern Ireland http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-29-e.htm Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna M. Kacperczyk & Lukasz T. Marcianiak (Poland): Polish Qualitative Sociology. The General Features and Development http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-27-e.htm Frane Adam & Darka Podmenik (Slovenia): Qualitative Research in a Changing Epistemic Context. The Case of a Small Social Science Community http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-40-e.htm Miguel S. Valles & Alejandro Baer (Spain): Qualitative Social Research in Spain: Past, Present, and Future. A Portrait http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-18-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-18-s.htm Thomas S. Eberle & Florian Elliker (Switzerland): A Cartography of Qualitative Research in Switzerland http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-24-e.htm Karen Henwood & Iain Lang (UK): Qualitative Social Science in the UK: A Reflexive Commentary on the "State of the Art" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-48-e.htm Uwe Flick (Germany): Qualitative Research in Sociology in Germany and the US -- State of the Art, Differences and Developments http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-23-e.htm Margarethe Kusenbach (USA): Across the Atlantic: Current Issues and Debates in US Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-47-e.htm 3. Innovations in Special Methods Reiner Keller (Germany): Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology of Knowledge http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-32-e.htm Hubert Knoblauch (Germany): Focused Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-44-e.htm Kai-Olaf Maiwald (Germany): Competence and Praxis: Sequential Analysis in German Sociology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-31-e.htm Eva Nadai & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Fuzzy Fields. Multi-Sited Ethnography in Sociological Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-28-e.htm Michaela Pfadenhauer (Germany): Ethnography of Scenes. Towards a Sociological Life-world Analysis of (Post-traditional) Community-building http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-43-e.htm Single Contributions Karen Cronick (Venezuela): A Rhetorical and Hermeneutic Analysis of Texts Related to Alcohol Use http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-8-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-8-s.htm Anat Kainan, Michal Rozenberg, Miri Munk & Nurit Eilam (Israel): The Descendants of Time and the Lodgers of Space: The Life Stories of Teacher Trainees who Immigrated to Israel During the 1990s http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-10-e.htm Andrea Lauser (Germany): Locating Ethnography and Global Processes http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-7-e.htm Wiebke Lohfeld (USA): Fight for Recognition. The Portrait of the German Physician Paula TOBIAS (1886-1970). A Reconstructive Biographical Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-22-e.htm Katie MacMillan (UK): More Than Just Coding? Evaluating CAQDAS in a Discourse Analysis of News Texts http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-25-e.htm Marcello Maneri (Italy) & Jessika ter Wal (The Netherlands): The Criminalisation of Ethnic Groups: An Issue for Media Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-9-e.htm Henning van den Brink (Germany): Cooperation Relationships in Community Prevention Committees -- Neglected by Qualitative Social Research? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-20-e.htm FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics" Lisa J. Blodgett, Wanda Boyer & Emily Turk (Canada): "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-35-e.htm Rowhea Elmesky (USA): Rethinking Qualitative Research: Research Participants as Central Researchers and Enacting Ethical Practices as Habitus http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-36-e.htm Michelle K. McGinn (Canada): Ethical and Friendly Researchers, but not Insiders: A Response to Blodgett, Boyer, and Turk http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-37-e.htm Catherine Milne (USA): On Being Authentic: A Response to "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-38-e.htm Kathryn Scantlebury (USA): Maintaining Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies: A Quixotic Ideal? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-39-e.htm FQS Reviews Michael Appel (Germany): Review, Birgit Griese, Hedwig Rose Griesehop & Martina Schiebel (Eds.) (2004). Perspektiven qualitativer Sozialforschung. Beitraege des 1. und 2. Bremer Workshops. Werkstattberichte des INBL 14 [Perspectives of Qualitative Research. Contributions to Workshops One and Two in Bremen. Notes on the Workshops of the INBL 14] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-1-e.htm Robin M. Boylorn (USA): Review, Ina-Maria Greverus, Sharon MacDonald, Regina Romhild, Gisela Welz & Helena Wullf (Eds.) (2002). Stability Upon Shifting Ground: Review Note of Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-17-e.htm Charles Lee Cole (USA): Review, Paul ten Have (2004). Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-12-e.htm Birgit Huber (Germany): No More Separation between Paid Work and Leisure? Methodological and Empirical Challenges in the Debate about Post-Fordism. Review Essay, Sabine Hess & Johannes Moser (Eds.) (2003). Kultur der Arbeit - Kultur der neuen Oekonomie. Kulturwissenschaftliche Beitraege zu neoliberalen Arbeits- und Lebenswelten [Culture of Work -- Culture of the New Economy. Cultural Studies in European Ethnology about Spheres of Working and Living in a Neo-liberal Society] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-2-e.htm Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Janet Heaton (2004). Reworking Qualitative Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-15-e.htm Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Mechthild Kiegelmann & Leo Guertler (Eds.) (2003). Research Questions and Matching Methods of Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-16-e.htm Ralf Ottermann (Germany): Constructivism is the Invention of a Critic. Review Essay, Heinz v. Foerster & Bernhard Poerksen (2004). Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Luegners. Gespraeche fuer Skeptiker [Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics. New York: Kluwer] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-3-e.htm Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review, Susan Geideck & Wolf-Andreas Liebert (Eds.) (2003). Sinnformeln. Linguistische und soziologische Analysen von Leitbildern, Metaphern und anderen kollektiven Orientierungsmustern [Meaning Formulas. Linguistic and Sociological Analysis of Models, Metaphors and Other Collective Patterns of Orientation] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-4-e.htm Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review, Ronald Hitzler & Jo Reichertz (Eds.) (2003). Irritierte Ordnung. Die gesellschaftliche Verarbeitung von Terror [Irritated System. The Social Processing of Terror] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-21-e.htm Kara M. Strobel (Canada): After the Aftermath: A Reply to Wolff-Michael Roth's Review of Harry F. Wolcott's "Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath" published in FQS 5(1) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-6-e.htm Wayne Thexton (UK): Review, Birgitta Qvarsell & Christoph Wulf (Eds.) (2003). Culture and Education. European Studies in Education (Volume 16) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-14-e.htm Nicole Westmarland (UK): Review, Lesley Noaks & Emma Wincup (2004). Criminological Research -- Understanding Qualitative Methods / Mark R. Pogrebin (Ed.) (2003). Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice -- Perspectives from the Field http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-13-e.htm FQS Conferences Lars Allolio-Naecke (Germany): How Much Culture is Psychology Able to Deal With? Conference Report, "The 100 Years of the German Society of Psychology" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-11-e.htm Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner & Leo Guertler (Germany): Conference Report, Fifth Annual Meeting of Qualitative Psychology: "Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction" / First meeting of the Special Interest Group No. 17 of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI): "Mixed Methodology in Psychological Research" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-33-e.htm Thomas Kuehn (Germany): The Hunt for the Nibelungen Treasure. Report BVM Conference, "Qualitative Market Research -- State of the Art and Prospects" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-5-e.htm -- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm German -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm Spanish -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm Please sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

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Inselkampf
by Cunliffe D J (Comp) 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any research relating to Inselkampf or similar free to play multiplayer online games of this type? Also, is anyone out there interested in conducting some research, specifically on Inselkampf - if so perhaps best to email me directly djcunlif(a)glam.ac.uk Be seeing you, Daniel.

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[Air-l] Reminder - IR 6/Chicago blogging, tagging, wiki, IRC, survey, etc.
by Steve Jones 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

I write to remind everyone of the several internet options we are making available for online participation in this year's conference. I have pasted below the text of a message previously sent to air-l that includes information about these options. Several people have emailed concerning blogging, so let me say a bit more about it. The easiest way to find who's blogging the conference and to access the blogs is to tag blog postings and to use the conference wiki. For more information about tagging the conference see http://emt.url123.com/aoir6. All of the following services use tags: Flickr Smugmug Wists Technorati BlogMarks 43 Things del.icio.us Tagsurf Furl Upcoming.org Jots de.lirio.us Consumating For those of you who are blogging from the conference using another service or your own server, you can set up an account at del.icio.us, or, if you don't want a del.icio.us account but you want to share links (be they to your own blog or whatever you'd like) just sign in with login aoir and password chicago and start bookmarking. Similarly, if you are not blogging but just want to read blogs, look at the bookmarks and tags once you have logged in with that common username/password. If you don't have a blog but you'd like to write about the conference just email it to erickaakcire.aoir -at- blogger d0t com. This is not a person's email address but a direct way to actually post to the group blog. The title of your message is the title of the blog post and the body of the message is the post itself. Please include your name and affiliation. For any questions/problems email Ericka at emtrevino -at- gmail d0t com or AIM erickaakcire. Sj -----------text of previous air-l message------------ We have made arrangements for several internet-based tools to be used during the upcoming conference in Chicago, for both participants who will be at the conference as well as for those of you unable to be here. All should be up and running by Thursday, Oct. 6, and some, like the wiki, are already available. 1. Tag This Conference! aoir and aoir6 You're it. We need your help to make it easy for all of us to find the websites, pictures & blog entries related to the conference. Just use the tags aoir and aoir6 in del.icio.us, Flickr or with Technorati, then check out http://www.technorati.com/tag/aoir or aoir6 for the combined results. What is tagging? It's a way to give online content a little extra context by adding keywords called tags. Usually people tag their own collections of bookmarks or photographs so that they can find them later, but they can also be used to help other people find online content. When we agree to use the same tag it's easy for everyone to find things. What are del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati? Del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager where users save their links. Anything with a URL can be bookmarked in del.icio.us and described by tags and extended notes. Flickr is a popular photo sharing site that uses tags. Technorati is a blog indexing site and it collects the tags that bloggers use to describe their posts. It also displays information from del.icio.us and Flickr in its results. Don't want to sign up for these services? No signing up required! Visit http://emt.url123.com/aoir6 for details. 2. The Backchannel Don't wait until the question and answer session to discuss an interesting presentation with your colleagues. Share ideas and comment on papers as they're delivered via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Each of the AoIR conference rooms has a corresponding chat room for backchannel discussion. Connection details and recommended chat clients will be posted in each room. Increasingly popular at technology conferences and in college classrooms, backchannel discussions allow for quick fact checking and can create a greater sense of community amongst both audience members and presenters. More details about the server and channels will be made available soon. 3. The Conference wiki A wiki is available for each conference session (organized by session, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0, as well as by meeting room, http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Internet_Research_6.0: _Theme_Pages). Whether you are a presenter, conference participants, AoIR member or air-l subscriber, share your thoughts about each session here. 4. Internet Survey How familiar are you with some of the trendiest Internet developments (such as wikis and blogs)? Would you like to compare your media consumption with that of your parents (and/or children)? Please take 10 minutes of your time to complete a "Generations Survey". When you finish the questionnaire, you will see a snapshot of the general results. The resulting data will be available to the conference attendees, AoIR members and subscribers to the AoIR e-mail list (air-l). All respondents will be anonymous. Link: http://generations-survey.notlong.com These efforts to use the internet to enhance conference participation are part of a project organized by graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Data from them will be made anonymous and analyzed for coursework. Thanks particularly to David Elfving and Ericka Menchen Trevino for their work on the technology for it.

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