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origin of the species
by Barry Wellman 09 Feb '02

09 Feb '02

Can't one safely assume that an e-address ending in .edu is an American address? (I've never seen one that I know originated elsewhere.) If so, then whoever is doing the counts, can simply add the .edu to other US signifiers. Barry, the .ca (which ain't California). ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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Post doc fellowship
by Bunz, Ulla K 09 Feb '02

09 Feb '02

Apologies for cross-posting The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Postdoctoral Research Associate Starting Immediately The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position. Candidates should possess a strong interest in broadening career development for PhD students. This is a full-time position for an 18-month grant, located at the Foundation's headquarters in Princeton. The position will contribute greatly to the Foundation's efforts to promote innovations in doctoral education, and it reports to a Program Officer in the Office of Program Development. The candidate will be responsible for developing a methodology to assess innovative approaches to training doctoral students in the arts and sciences for careers outside of academe as well as in teaching and research. As the primary lead for this effort, the candidate will interact with the leadership, graduate faculty and doctoral students at major research universities, as well as with leaders in non-academic sectors of the economy. Chief Responsibilities: Design a method for analyzing the efficacy of alternative approaches to the preparation of PhDs; conduct research using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods; organize and coordinate the administrative aspects of the project; develop and maintain a database of best practices; plan and organize a best practices conference; prepare manuscripts (reports, presentations, white papers, articles) and promotional material through production and release; promote the project through various media (a web site, listservs, etc.); and participate in efforts to cultivate outside funding. The ideal candidate will have: * A PhD or equivalent in experience, preferably in a discipline of the Arts and Sciences, especially the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology, anthropology or others), or public policy, higher education administration/leadership; * Experience with educational program assessment and evaluation, preferably with programs at the graduate level * Applied research and/or gov/private sector experience a plus * Excellent organizational and administrative skills * Keen interest in improving graduate education processes and outcomes * Ability to manage complex, fast-paced projects individually and as a team member * Strong desire to learn the world of grant writing, grant making and fellowships * Polished oral and written communication skills * Proficiency with standard office computing and database management Compensation is competitive, commensurate with experience, and well above the national average for post-doc positions. The Foundation provides an excellent benefits package. Position is open to U.S. residents with work permits. To apply, please send or fax a resume, contact information for three references and cover letter tailored to this position to: Bettina Woodford, Program Officer, WWNFF, 5 Vaughn Drive, Suite #300, Princeton, NJ, 08543. Tel: 609.452.7007 Fax: 609.452.0066. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is a dynamic, non-profit organization promoting excellence and partnerships in the liberal arts from K-12 through doctoral education. www.woodrow.org ************************* Ulla K. Bunz University of Kansas 102 Bailey Lawrence, KS 66045 785-864-1160 ulla(a)ukans.edu *************************

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RE: [Air-l] Research on Internet in German & French
by Bunz, Ulla K 09 Feb '02

09 Feb '02

Robert, For information on German Internet Research, I suggest www.gor.de, the website of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer online Forschung. Also very useful is www.netzwissenschaft.de. Hope these provide a good starting point. ulla PS: GOR has their next conference very close (both in time and geographic distance) to AoIR, so you might want to investigate that on their website. I attended last year's conference in Goettingen, Germany, and was very positively impressed. ************************* Ulla K. Bunz University of Kansas 102 Bailey Lawrence, KS 66045 785-864-1160 ulla(a)ukans.edu ************************* -----Original Message----- From: arpo(a)joyx.joensuu.fi [mailto:arpo@joyx.joensuu.fi] Subject: [Air-l] Research on Internet in German & French Hi, I´d like to know where I can find information on research about Internet in German & French. Can someone inform me? Robert ***************************************** Robert Arpo, M.A Researcher ETNICA-Joensuu Centre for Ethnic Studies University of Joensuu

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roundtable for air 3.0
by david silver 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

Folks, I'm putting together a roundtable for AIR 3.0 (aoir.org/2002) which as most of you know will be in Maastricht on October 13-16, 2002 and whose deadline for submission as most of you may wish to forget is, eeks, February 15. I have assembled a number of participants who will discuss RESEARCH GAPS in the field of Internet studies. We are interested in discussing not necessarily what has been done, but rather what hasn't been done, what needs to be done, and what directions can and should be taken by today's and tomorrow's Internet scholars. I am looking for a few more participants to fill out our roundtable. In particular, I am interested in someone who can speak to research gaps in: a) scholarship from outside the USA and English-speaking countries; b) issues of cultural diversity, including race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, and class; and c) questions regarding 'next generation' Internet (cellular phone-based messaging, massively multiplayer games, etc). We are looking for folks who feel comfortable talking about The Big Picture, folks who have a rich grasp upon (and opinions about) where we've been as an emerging field and where we should be going. If interested, please email me (dsilver(a)u.washington.edu) offlist by FEBRUARY 5. Please include a brief description of the kinds of questions/issues you would like to cover, as well as any relevant qualifications. Thank you! david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver

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Redundancy Index: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #293 - 14 msgs
by James Watt 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

Being a hopelessly bound to quantitative measurements, I just calculated the amount of duplicated (quoted or redundant posts) information in the last Air-l digest: 46.8%. Interpretations will probably vary according to "half-full"/"half-empty" perspectives. ======================================================== James H. Watt Professor and Chair, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication Interim Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4708 Troy, NY 12180-3590 email: wattj(a)rpi.edu voice: (518) 276-2784 fax: (518) 276-4092

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Have you received something like this?
by Cristian Berrio 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

THE FOLLOWING IS A OPEN "MONEY LAUNDRY" PROPOSAL THAT HAS REACHED MY E-MAIL. DO ANY OF YOU HAVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS KIND OF CRIMINAL METHODS AND HOW TO TRACK THE ORIGIN? ******************************************* De : "george uduak" <g_dk_55(a)hotmail.com> Para : g_dk_55(a)hotmail.com Asunto: Partnership Proposal Fecha : Thu, 07 Feb 2002 05:20:34 +0000 Dear Sir/MADAM, REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence. We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said trapped funds. The source of this fund is as follows: During the past Military Regimes here in Nigeria, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contract which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. As a result, the Democratic Government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo deemed it neccessary to set up a Contract Review Panel to investigate and recommend accordingly. After a thorough investigation, we discovered a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria. We (members) have unanimously agreed to transfer part of these funds to a foreign account However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this Panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the Panel to look for an Overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US$26,400,000.00 (Twenty Six Million, Four Hundred Thousand US. Dollars). Adequate logistics and strategies had been worked out to ensure a successful transfer with your maximum co-operation. Hence we are writing you this letter. We have agreed to share the money thus: 1. 25% for the account owner (you) 2. 65% for us (the officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses. We wish to commence the importation business with our own share, please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence and conclude the transfer latest in ten (10) banking days from the date of receipt of the following information through the above e-mail: your current tel/fax number, your name/company name and address. The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively and these will be used to apply for payment and doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this mail as soon as possible. I will bring you into the complete picture of this project when I have heard from you. Yours Faithfully, DR. GEORGE UDUAK _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos es la manera más sencilla de compartir e imprimir sus fotos: http://photos.latam.msn.com/Support/WorldWide.aspx

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Re: [Air-l] Re: Lurking
by Uwe Matzat 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

Dear Ben & others, you asked what 'personal goals' like getting status and making contacts have to do with structural properties of e-groups: the point is that structural properties of electronic groups can influence whether active participation in electronic discussions can be a successful means for a researcher to obtain status or to make new contacts. We do not have to regard a researcher's goal to make new contacts or to gain reputation as personal in nature. These are social goals that are induced by the research system and its career system. If we assume that obtaining reputation and making contacts, to some extent, are intrumental for every researcher's career advancement, the question is which properties of electronic groups link the pursuing of these goals to active participation in e- discussions. An example: Let's assume that a researcher's active participation in e-discussions is driven by the wish to obtain reputation in the academic system. We could then expect that academic mailing lists that are embedded in well-integrated research communities with face-to-face meetings stimulate active participation more than academic mailing list consisting of a less integrated community of researchers, since in the latter you cannot obtain much reputation that is helpful for your career advancement. The idea that a hope for reciprocity may stimulate participation in discussions of electronic group can be traced back to <paraindent><param>out</param><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>Thorn BK, Connolly T. 1987. "Discretionary Data Bases: A Theory and Some Experimental Findings." <italic>Communication Research</italic> 14(5):512-28</paraindent> <FontFamily><param>Arial</param>We can use different models based on different ideas about what drives participation in e-discussions (reputation, contacts, hope for reciprocity) for deriving hypotheses about which structural properties of electronic groups stimulate active participation. </color>I elaborated and tested a number of like-wise hypotheses in my thesis (see last email). Best wishes, Uwe <color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> > Uwe, > > Sorry if I'm being dense, but you say first that your focus is more on the > significant structural properties of electronic groups (eg their > embeddedness in face-to-face networks), but then go on to outline the > influences on active participation that are very much more personal in > nature - hope for reciprocity, status and contact. > > Could you clarify. > > Thanks, > > ben > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Uwe Matzat" <<u.matzat(a)t-online.de> > To: <<air-l(a)aoir.org> > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:33 PM > Subject: [Air-l] Re: Lurking > > > > I am busy wading through my saved emails - that's the reason I > > react so lately to the thread on lurking in electronic group > > discussions. > > > > In December I finished my Ph.D. thesis at the Department of > > Sociology, University of Groningen (the Netherlands) which is of > > interest for those analyzing 'lurking' or active participation in > > electronic discussions. > > > > The thesis contributes to answering the question under which > > conditions some electronic groups on the Internet reach a high > > degree of active member participation (posting) in group > > discussions while other Internet groups fail to involve many > > members. > > > > The focus is more on structural properties of the electronic group > > (e.g. does it stimulate the discussion if an electronic group is > > embedded in face-to-face networks of researchers?) than on > > properties of individuals (e.g. does it stimulate the discussion if a > > member is an altruist?) that faciliate the involvement of members in > > group discussions. > > > > You don't have to read the whole book. In chapters 5 and 6 of the > > book, three models for explaining the active participation of > > researchers in discussions of academic mailing lists are presented > > and empirically tested. These models rely on three different basic > > arguments about which incentives influence the provision of help > > and information in discussions of electronic groups: > > > > 1. a hope for reciprocity > > 2. the goal to obtain some status in the research community > > 3. the goal to make new contacts to other researchers > > > > Since these models are instruments for finding out what are crucial > > structural properties, they leave out ideas about altruistic > > motivations, like group attachment etc, that could stimulate group > > discussions. > > > > Matzat, U. (2001). Social Networks and Cooperation in Electronic > > Communities. A theoretical-empirical Analysis of Academic > > Communication and Internet Discussion Groups. Amsterdam: > > Thela Publishers (ISBN 90-367-1541-5) > > > > The models make use of economic price-theory in a very simple > > way, so that the reasoning and results are understandable for > > Internet researcher who may not be familiar with micro-economics. > > > > By the way, the book is also online available at the university > > library of the University of Groningen :-): > > > > http://www.ub.rug.nl/eldoc/dis/ppsw/u.matzat/ > > > > Best wishes, > > Uwe > > PS: The project information on my web-site is not yet up-dated. I > > am sorry! > > <nofill> -------------------------------------------------- Uwe Matzat ICS / Department of Sociology University of Groningen Grote Rozenstr. 31 NL-9712 TG Groningen Tel: (+31)/(0)50/363-6237 Fax: (+31)/(0)50/363-6226 EMail: U.Matzat(a)PPSW.RUG.NL Social Networks & academic Internet Discussion Groups: http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/~matzat --------------------------------------------------

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RE: [Air-l] Have you received something like this?
by Steve Fox (NLG) 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

I would definitely be interested in seeing these. One of my interests is on-line healthcare communities. Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Gina Neff [mailto:ginasue@panix.com] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:24 AM To: AIR (E-mail) Subject: re: [Air-l] Have you received something like this? Indeed this is making the rounds online, and I received a hard copy via old-fashioned post about six years ago. CMC is quite good a mediating older scams. BTW, the breast cancer site and the hungersite--while not scams, per se--encourage people to solict by email traffic for their websites, ostensibly to help raise money for those causes. However, both sites are run by a for-profit company with dubious accounting practices. I can send my clips on it if anyone is interested. --g. Gina Neff Department of Sociology Columbia University ginasue(a)panix.com 212.568.0965 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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re: [Air-l] Have you received something like this?
by Gina Neff 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Indeed this is making the rounds online, and I received a hard copy via old-fashioned post about six years ago. CMC is quite good a mediating older scams. BTW, the breast cancer site and the hungersite--while not scams, per se--encourage people to solict by email traffic for their websites, ostensibly to help raise money for those causes. However, both sites are run by a for-profit company with dubious accounting practices. I can send my clips on it if anyone is interested. --g. Gina Neff Department of Sociology Columbia University ginasue(a)panix.com 212.568.0965

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by Ken Friedman 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

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