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Online Vigilance task
by ps201nf＠gold.ac.uk 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

hi, I would appreciate it if any members could take part in the following or forward the following standard message to anyone they know who may be interested in taking part in the following study many thanks Nick Forbes MSc Occ. Psych. student Goldsmiths College Hello, > > I would be grateful if you could take part in my MSc Psychology project. > It is an online version of the SART vigilance test, and assesses > sustained attention. > > The study consists of 2 tasks, and requires a little personal information > for data analysis purposes. > > The entire study should take no more than 12 minutes to complete. > > All data will be kept confidential during the study, and will be deleted > afterwards. You are not required to give your name in any part in the > study. > In order to participate you will need to make sure you use either a PC or > Mac running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and that you have the Flash > plugin installed. If you do not have the Flash Plugin you can download > it from here > > www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ > > > If you would like to take part please point your browser to the following > website > > www.bikerwales.com/nick > > Please note the website is password protected, the password which must be > typed in lower case is zx212 > > Many thanks > > Nick Forbes > MSc Occupational Psychology Student. >

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Re: [Air-l] network density (or just dense!)
by Irene Berkowitz 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Denise, Look at Mapping Cyperspace. They also have a website. Not exactly what you are looking for but certainly will map network density for you in very interesting terms. My suggestion is that you look in the geography and maybe economic literature. Hope this helps! Good Luck, looking forward to seeing your work. If you have anything interesting to share at this point, I would be interested. Thanks, IB Irene Berkowitz Program Director, Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu >>> denrall(a)yahoo.com 08/04/2003 10:19:14 PM >>> Dear AIR-ers - I have tried to isolate a seminal text on communication theory as it relates to the formation of virtual communities - and failed! I have read broadly in communication, cyberculture (particularly from the titles included in the cyberculture canon list that went around recently) and anthropology, sociology, education. Clearly I am missing the forest for the trees and I am hoping for some light. Thanks, Denise ===== "Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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codes of group communication online
by Alexandru Leonties 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Hello, I am doing some research on the interaction and semiotic codes of online group communication (online communities, mailing lists, forums, chat rooms). Could you offer me some information on similar research work? thank you, ===== Alexandru Leonties Assistant Lecturer Journalism Department A.I.Cuza University Iasi + 40 740 049 246 aleonties(a)yahoo.com, leonties(a)uaic.ro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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RE: [Air-l] Was Communication research Methods; now qualitative research methods
by amarkham 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Hi Denise, I agree that _Landscapes of Qualitative Inquiry_ is a key text in qualitative research and very useful for laying out the various traditions of inquiry. This book is actually the first half of Denzin and Lincoln's _Handbook of Qualitative Research_, published as one unit in 2000 and split in two paperback books in 2003 (which makes it more affordable). You'll also be interested in the other half: _Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry_. Incidentally, they're in the process of putting together the 3rd edition. Cheers, Annette Markham >===== Original Message From "Denise N. Rall" <denrall(a)yahoo.com> ===== >Dear Air-ers: > >Going through my Endnotes, and found this very >interesting new book. First time I've understood >comprehensibly what the different methodological >approaches in qualitative research are. Might not >relate to comm. research, but excellent nonetheless. > >The landscape of qualitative research : theories and >issues / Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors. > >Edition : 2nd ed. >Imprint : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2003. >Description : xi, 684 p. ; 23 cm. > >Denise > > >===== >"Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" >Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & >PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross University, >PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia >Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 >Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 >http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication (M/C 132) 1007 W. Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607-7137

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Re: [Air-l] Syllabi in Research Methods
by andrew.herman＠comcast.net 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Absolutely! Let the Methods potlatch begin! AH > Andrew - > and can you share in turn with the rest of us? > (smile) > > Charles Ess > Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies > Drury University > 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 > Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 > > [from August 20 - December 19, 2003: > Visiting Professor > Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication > IT-University of Copenhagen > 67 Glentevej > DK-2400 Copenhagen NV > Denmark] > > Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html > Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ > > Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 > > > From: andrew.herman(a)comcast.net > > Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:24:55 +0000 > > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > Subject: [Air-l] Syllabi in Research Methods > > > > Freinds- > > > > I wil be teaching an MA/PHD level course on Research Methods in Communications > > and Cultural Studies. I would be most appreciative if any of you out there > > who > > have had expereince with this type of course could share your syllabi with me. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Andrew Herman > > Visiting Scholar in Communication and Cultural Policy > > Program in Communication and Culture > > York University > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Air-l mailing list > > Air-l(a)aoir.org > > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > Air-l(a)aoir.org > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Syllabi in Research Methods
by andrew.herman＠comcast.net 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Freinds- I wil be teaching an MA/PHD level course on Research Methods in Communications and Cultural Studies. I would be most appreciative if any of you out there who have had expereince with this type of course could share your syllabi with me. Thanks in advance. Andrew Herman Visiting Scholar in Communication and Cultural Policy Program in Communication and Culture York University

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AoiR 4.0 Broadening the Band
by Liss Jeffrey 02 Aug '03

02 Aug '03

Greetings to all Our AoiR conference team is looking forward to welcoming all of you here in Toronto for our annual conference, October 16 - 19. Come early or stay longer if you can. The pre conference workshops take place on October 15. Please note that the early bird registration closes on July 15th, so we hope that you will signal your intention to come (and save some money) by signing up now. <http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=5WS1&&> or click into it from the front page of the Conference web site www.ecommons.net/aoir . We are updating our conference web site frequently, and will be adding the roommate finder (thanks Jeremy), and an easier to navigate program guide soon. You who have done this organizing for AoiR before know that it is always a lot more work than (as volunteers) you are quite prepared to handle. If anyone wants to add a pre conference workshop, please do contact our coordinator, Olivia Robertson - U of T <olivia.robertson(a)utoronto.ca> and the committee will consider your request. So far we have planned some fine workshops which will charge a fee, and a free local labs tour. Details soon on the web site. All is coming along, if a bit more slowly than we might like. We appreciate any help that has been supplied so far. Take care. Liss Jeffrey, PhD McLuhan Program, KMDI, University of Toronto aoir(a)ecommons.net

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August on -empyre- .microsound
by Michael Arnold Mages 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

August on -empyre- .microsound with Trace Reddell, john hudak, Glenn Bach, John Kannenberg, and tobias c. van Veen Please join us at -empyre- for a month's discussion of .microsound with five practitioners of the art form. Sound at the molecular level - slices of sound that are less than .1 second in length, made accessible by digital sound editing technologies - are the realm of .microsound. Microsound artists stretch and massage these tiny bits of sound into spatially intense, surprisingly expressive works that cover a wide range of styles. subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ ---> Trace Reddell { http://www.du.edu/~treddell/ } has been exploring the intersections of audio and multimedia production, digital networks, media theory, literary criticism, and the history of drug culture for almost fifteen years. He resides in Lafayette, Colorado, where he spends much of his time in Pharmakopolis. Trace's literary sound and multimedia pieces include LITMIXER (2001) { http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/litmix/index.htm }, featured in Electronic Book Review's music/sound/noise issue, and "Machinery for Dreaming" { http://llc.du.edu/faculty/treddell/palimpsest/reddell_machinery_for_dreamin… }, an exercise in .txt-to-.midi conversion exploring the work of Thomas De Quincey. Collaborative projects and affiliations include the pharmakon.t remix { http://www.djrabbi.com/ } work at djrabbi.com with Mark Amerika, Chad Mossholder of Twine, and Rick Silva; and Pharmakopolis Broadcasting Services, an upcoming series of live webcast animations created for Randall Packer's Tel-SPAN network. Publications on networked laptop performances are forthcoming from Leonardo Music Journal and Electronic Almanac and Contemporary Music Review. ---> john hudak { http://www.johnhudak.net/ } bio: I began piano lessons in first grade. I remember the teacher was Japanese, and her home had a feeling of preciseness. The piano I had my lessons on was immaculate... the keys were smooth, cool, ivory, with a definite weight under my little fingers. ---> Glenn Bach { http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/sound.html } is a sound artist who maps the sonic terrain of the city through detailed sound walks, manipulated field recordings, blind sound drawings, and found poems. His audio works include a recently released four-track EP on the Stasisfield label { http://www.stasisfield.com/ }. With a recent appearance at Sound/Shift Oakland, Bach has upcoming performances at the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival and the CPEACH Summer Series in Eureka, California. He improvises with two other musicians as Luminous Flux, and directs a larger group, The Double Blind Ensemble, for his composed works. His poetry has been published in numerous small press literary journals, and he received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his poetry in print. He currently lives in Long Beach, California, with his future wife. ---> Sound and visual artist John Kannenberg { http://www.whistlingpariah.com } formed the experimental improvisational duo Wireshock with guitarist Scott Kane in 1997 and began exploring electronics and computer-aided composition. In 1999, John began work as a solo sound artist using manipulated field recordings as the foundation for loop-based generative electronic pieces. His major audio and visual works deal with a variety of themes, including atmospherics, transmissions and interference { http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/aero/ }, melancholy and nostalgia { http://www.stasisfield.com/releases_02/2002-miles/ }, and abstracted narrative tales. John has exhibited several sound art installations, alone and as part of a collective known as J3. In April 2002 John created Stasisfield.com { http://www.stasisfield.com/ }, an experimental mp3 record label and digital art gallery. ---> tobias c. van Veen { http://www.quadrantcrossing.org } is a sound & net.artist { http://www.thisistheonlyart.com }, curator, techno-turntablist, and writer. He has been enmeshed with musikal resistance culture since 1993 / working with -- tactical radio { http://www.citr.ca }, TAZ occupations { http://www.shrumtribe.com } / performance & tactical media { http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog }. || tobias is currently a researcher on the "Culture of Cities" Project { http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/cultureofcities/ } at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where he is completing his MA in Communications on the politics of sonic microcultures { http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0307/msg00035.html } & remixing a book of collaborative sonic writings on electrofied sounds and events. subscribe to -empyre- at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/

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airport and conference hotel
by Liss Jeffrey 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Greetings all. You may fly into either Toronto airport, however all international flights go to Pearson International. The web site offers more detail on this. The city airport is restricted in terms of flights, which is not surprising considering it is right on the waterfront of Canada's largest city, and a 20 minute cab ride to the Hilton Hotel. The Hilton is offering great services, and we encourage everyone to stay there in the interests of the conference itself. Charles, our logs show no downtime on the web site so I do not know what was up with your connection: please everyone do visit www.ecommons.net/aoir -- The site is updated with the latest information on a continuing basis. Speaking of which, a new version of the program will be up next week. Yes, you will be able to find your papers by name this time around. The pre conference workshops will also go up next week, and you will be able to pre-register via Kagi. More to come... Liss Jeffrey, PhD director, McLuhan global research network, McLuhan Program, University of Toronto

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hotel information for AOIR Toronto: Broadening the Band
by Rhiannon Bury 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

This will be of interest for those of you planning to attend the conference in Toronto: Iin light of the recent post inquiring about accommodation at the Hilton, I am forwarding the direct URL: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/hotel_travel.phtml In brief, you can complete the form on our site and send it to the hotel by email or fax, or call the hotel (toll free if you are in North America). For those of you who wish to keep costs down and yet still be at the heart of the conference action, we now have our roommate finder forum up and running: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/p/list.php?f=2 If you have any further questions, I am in charge of hotel liason and would be happy to assist you in any way I can. See you in October! Rhiannon Bury Steering and Working Committee AOIR Toronto: Broadening the Band

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