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Fwd: IEEE Fellowships
by Steve Jones 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Begin forwarded message: > PROGRAMS OF SUPPORT FROM THE IEEE HISTORY CENTER: 2004/2005 > > The IEEE History Center offers three different programs of support > annually for young scholars pursuing the history of electrical > engineering and computing: An Internship for an advanced > undergraduate, graduate student, or recent Ph.D.; a Dissertation > Fellowship for an advanced graduate student or recent Ph.D.; and a > Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. The Internship and the > Dissertation Fellowship are funded by the IEEE Life Members Committee; > the Post-Doc is funded by Rutgers University. The Internship and the > Post-Doc require residence at the IEEE History Center, on the Rutgers > University Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey; there is no residency > requirement for the Dissertation Fellowship. The Post-Doctoral > Fellowship is currently filled, but the IEEE History Center is pleased > to announce the competitions for the other two 2004 awards: > > > > > > > > IEEE Fellowship In Electrical HistoryAcademic Year 2004/2005 > > The IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History supports either one year of > full-time graduate work in thehistory of electrical science and > technology at a college or university of recognized standing, or up to > one year of post-doctoral research for a scholar in this field who has > received his Ph.D. within the past three years. This award is > supported by the IEEE Life Members Committee. The stipend is $17,000, > with a research budget of $3,000 also supplied. > > Candidates with undergraduate degrees in engineering, the sciences, or > the humanities are eligible for the Fellowship. For pre-doctoral > applicants, however, the award is conditional upon acceptance of the > candidate into an appropriate graduate program in history at a school > of recognized standing. In addition, > pre-doctoral recipients may not hold or subsequently receive other > fellowships, but they may earn up to $5,000 for work that is directly > related to their graduate studies. Pre-doctoral Fellows must pursue > full-time graduate work and evidence of satisfactory academic > performance is required. These restrictions do not apply to > post-doctoral applicants. > > The Fellow is selected on the basis of the candidate's potential for > pursuing research in and contributing to electrical history. > Application forms are available on-line or by request from the IEEE > History Center (see contact information below). The deadline for > completed applications is 1 February. This completed application > packet should be sent to the Chairman, IEEE Fellowship in Electrical > History Committee, IEEE History Center, RutgersThe State University > of New Jersey, 39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538. > Applicants will be notified of the results by 1 May 2003. > > The IEEE Fellowship in Electrical Engineering History is administered > by the IEEE History Committee and supported by the IEEE Life Members > Committee. > > > > > > > > IEEE History Center Internship2004 > > > Scholars at the beginning of their career studying the history of > electrical technology and computing are invited to contact the Center > to be considered for a paid Internship at the Center's offices on the > Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. > > The Intern program seeks to provide research experience for graduate > students in the history of electrical and computer technologies, while > enlisting the help of promising young scholars for the Center's > projects. The Intern generally works full-time for two months at the > History Center on a Center project that is connected to his or her own > area of interest. This time is usually during the summer, but other > arrangements will be considered. Interns are also encouraged to > consult with the Center's staff and its associates, and guided to > research resources in the area. The Internship is designed for those > near the beginning or middle of their graduate careers, but advanced > undergraduates, advanced graduates, and, on rare occasions, recent > Ph.D.s will also be considered. Special consideration is often given > to scholars from outside the United States who might not otherwise > have an opportunity to visit historical resources in this country. > > The stipend paid to the intern is US$3,500. Additional funds may be > available to defray travel costs, depending on the Intern’s > circumstances. This Internship is supported by the IEEE Life Members > Committee. > > There is no formal application form. To apply, please mail a > curriculum vitae showing your studies in electrical history along with > a cover letter describing the sort of project you would be interested > in doing (see contact information below). The deadline for contacting > the IEEE History Center is 15 March 2004. > > > > > IEEE is an AA/EO employers. Women and minorities are encouraged to > apply for all positions. > > The IEEE History Center is cosponsored by the Institute of Electrical > and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)the world’s largest > professional technical society, and Rutgersthe State University of > New Jersey. The mission of the Center is to preserve, research, and > promote the legacy of electrical engineering and computing. The > Center can be contacted at: > > IEEE History Center > Rutgers University > 39 Union Street > New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8538 > email:history@ieee.org > http://www.ieee.org/history_center

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job opportunity - Temple University
by Jan Fernback 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Fellow aoir-ers, this job opportunity may be of interest: * * * * * * * New Media Director: three-year appointment for non-tenure track faculty position. Reporting to the Dean of the School of Communications and Theater, this individual will lead New Media faculty and students in a growing interdisciplinary program of national stature. The program draws from all Departments in the School which include: Advertising; Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media; Film and Media Arts; Journalism; Strategic and Organizational Communication; and Theater. The candidate will be expected to integrate research, teaching, creative, and fund-raising initiatives in New Media, including the development of IRIS LAB (Interdisciplinary Research of Interactive Societies), a cross-disciplinary research initiative for advanced new media study and production. For more information, please see the New Media web site at www.temple.edu/nmic. Industry, research, and/or professional/creative experience required. A record of fund raising is highly desirable. Candidates with national reputation in new media preferred. Salary competitive. Applicants must submit: (1) cover letter indicating interest and relevant experience; (2) c.v./resume; (3) statement of new media philosophy; (4) samples of work and (5) the names, titles, telephone numbers and email addresses of at least three references to: New Media Director's Search Dean's Office School of Communications and Theater Temple University Philadelphia, Pa. 19122 Application review will begin on February 1, 2004 and continue until position is filled. Temple University is an affirmative action employer. Women, minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. ________________________________________________________ Jan Fernback, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media Temple University 2020 N. 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 215-204-3041 fernback(a)temple.edu ________________________________________________________

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Norwegian guidelines for online research available in English
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Dear AoIR-ists: As you may know, the guidelines originally published in 2001 by the National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social sciences and the Humanities (NESH), Norway, played a significant role in the discussion and development of the AoIR guidelines for online research. More recently (September 24, 2003), NESH developed and published (in Norwegian, of course) a set of guidelines specifically oriented to internet research, the "Forskningsetiske retningslinjer for internettforskning" - available at http://www.etikkom.no/retningslinjer/internett I'm pleased to say that NESH has approved an English translation of the guidelines undertaken by Line Gulløv Lundh and me. (Believe me, Ms. Lundh - a student working with ethics committee member Klaus Bruhn Jensen at Copenhagen University- did the majority of the work!) I commend the new guidelines to your attention, not only for their own sake (to my knowledge, they are the only ones explicitly developed by a national authority for online research - please correct me if I'm wrong!) - but also for what they suggest regarding the range of views and approaches on online ethics: http://www.etikkom.no/Engelsk/Publications/internet03 Comments and suggestions welcome! Cheers and all best wishes, Charles Ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Telephone: +45 38 16 89 63 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

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Fw: Hgh/low context on websites?
by Charles Ess ＠ ITU 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Dear AoIR'ists: The following is from one of the students in my Master's course on corss-cultural communication online here at IT-University, Copenhagen. If you have any tips or suggestiions, please pass them on - either to me and/or Elizabeth. Thanks! charles ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac> ----- Original Message ----- From: <elizabeth(a)itu.dk> To: <catac(a)wirth.murdoch.edu.au> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: Hgh/low context on websites? > Can anyone help? > > I'm at student at the IT-University in Denmark, writing a project on IT > across cultures. > > I'm looking for material to do with the ways in which communication on the > Internet differs in relation to high and low context cultures. My interest > lies primarily in the way information is conveyed on websites, and whether > the characteristics such as non-verbal communication are reflected on > websites, for instance through use of certain colours, symbols, visual > metaphors and so on. > > Thanks, > > Elizabeth. >

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how to measure participation rates
by Katerina 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Thank you all for your valuable help. Nescan seems to be a tool applicable to newsgroups and not web-based discussion forums. I have contacted a PERL programmer and I am waiting for a reply. If this doesn't work I will have to carry it through manually. I am thinking that I could use a sample of the messages, for example the two most popular conferences, and analyse their messages instead of attempting the impossible task of analyzing the total of the interactions in the group. Thank you once more, K.D.

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fAf: 2004 Media Arts & Screen Calendar Now Online
by linda carroli 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

fineArt forum Special Notice: 2004 Media Arts & Screen Events & Deadlines Calendar Now Online After scanning recent back issues, fineArt forum presents its 2004 Events & Deadlines Calendar. Until fAf returns from a break in production, it is hoped that the Calendar will provide a quick and easy reference for information about events and calls in 2004. The Calendar is a selected compilation of new media arts postings sifted from fAf back issues, various lists and email inbox. It is by no means comprehensive and is not generated from a database. The Calendar is an attempt to keep information simple, chronological, current and relevant without the pressure of publishing a monthly magazine. fAf will endeavour to update it from time to time and hope it is a useful resource until fAf's return in the first quarter of next year. 2004 Events & Deadlines Calendar http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_18/calendar_index.html fineArt forum art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org editor(a)fineartforum.org

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response on ginis
by Philip Howard 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Max Forte is absolutely right that using gini coefficients this way would require that the researcher make sensible judgments about attribution and content value. To really know your subjects and their relationship a researcher probably would need deep experience with their interactions. However, the graph could be composed even if the researcher had no qualitative experience with the group, using number of people on one axis and number of words, number of lines, number of sentences, number of posts (as Hendricksen does). These things easy to count no need for qualitative judgments. Probably more interesting would be to graph number of people on one axis and good ideas generated, smart repartee or meaningful engagement on the other axis. These things would require deep knowledge of the group and a qualitative researchers instinct for how to define, measure and attribute a good contribution. A qualitative researchers insight would also be needed to figure out any causal connection there might be between being a member of a social elite, writing a lot of text, and generating good ideas. The coding would probably have to be done by hand. I interpreted the original post to be a query about how to measure any deviance from a perfectly egalitarian group, where all the respondents participate equally, generating the same amount of text, ideas, or hot air. Mathematically we can know what that perfect distribution is, so my gini idea is just a way of calculating deviation from that ideal. I absolutely would not argue that ginis can be meaningful alone, for the reasons Forte offers. I like the qualitative approach that then provides some quantitative context to show how qualitative findings are transportable. And anyway multi method triangulation is always best. I originally suggested that the number would be most useful in a comparative context. Lakhani agrees, and even if we did ginis for AIR it would be interesting to compare ginis on different topics or variation over time. He also points out that there would be noise inany database of content, but there must be a way of doing somekind of confidence interval, error term on the datapoints, or significance tests on the gini itself. My math skills end here, so if anyone can develop a significance test for a quantitative measure of deviation from a theoretically perfect distribution of content/ideas in a group of people please post it! But please dont do it to the AIR list too inside baseball I think. p. Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/

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gini coefficients for measuring participation?
by Philip Howard 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

One possibility that would not involve writing a program, would be to calculate the distribution of messages in the same way that economists calculate the distribution of wealth in a country. They create an index of population (0% of the people to 100% of the people) and an index of the wealth (0% of the wealth to 100% of the wealth). In a perfectly egalitarian country 10% of the people have 10% of the wealth, 50% of the people have 50% of the wealth, etc, and you can graph the slope 1=1. In an inegalitarian country 10% of the people have 40% of the wealth, 50% of the people have 80% of the wealth and when you graph all of the points you get a curve of inequality. There is a basic calculus method for calculating the area of the graph between the perfectly egalitarian distribution (1=1 slope) and the ineglitarian distribution (wierd slope), and this is called the gini coefficient. Scandinavian countries ahve a small gini coefficient and Brazil has a big gini coefficient. So you might take a sample day or week, count the messages, and then label each message by the author's name. Say you have 1000 messages but only 100 authors. Graph this, 10% of the authors write XX% of the messages, 20% of the authors write XXX% of the messages, and so on up to 100% of the authors writing 100% of the messages. The area of the graph between the egalitarian distribution of messages and your sample gives you a measure of content inequality - how much of the content is generated by an elite group. If the metric is low your group is pretty egalitarian, if the metric is high you have a clique generating most of the content. The metric would be most meaningful if you could compare it to another group's metric, so if you did this over several sample periods, you could say whether the distribution of message posts was getting more or less egalitarian / elitist as the list was evolving. would make purdy graphs, and could be used for almost any sample of content & authors where you can attribute 100% of the content to 100% of the authors. p. Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/

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RE: [Air-l] Late adolescents and dating on the Internet
by Frank Thomas 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

There is an article on the website of the New York Times today that shows the limits of the business: human feelings, saturation. It might help to situate your issue. And specially, what a term: increasing dating fatigue! Just Saying No to the Dating Industry December 2, 2003 By KATE ZERNIKE BY her own admission, Sara Cambridge was "totally cruising." She spent hours trolling online dating sites, sending e-mail messages to potential mates and creating "a real connection," which would invariably sour into deep disappointment within the first five minutes of an actual date. At which point she would return to the sites, send more e-mail, make another connection and suffer another snap disappointment. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/fashion/30SING.html?ex=1071533063&ei=1&en… Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company -- ...................... Dr. Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research Rosny, France

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post-docs
by Katerina 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

For those interested in post-doctoral opportunities, this is the only web site I found: http://www.postdocjobs.com K. Diamantaki

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