Dear colleagues, the detailed program of the 8th international conference General Online Research (GOR06) is available. The conference will take place March 20-22, 2006 in Bielefeld, Germany. It is organized on behalf of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF) . The program includes more than 140 oral and poster presentations on topics such as the digital divide & digital inequality, e- commerce, e-democracy, e-learning, blogs etc. As traditionally, there is a continuing stream of sessions focusing on methodological questions concerning issues of online data collection and web surveys. Also there is a stream of sessions on online communities and social networks. On Tuesday, March 21, there will be a Keynote given by Dr. Marc Smith (Microsoft Research) on "Social Networks of the Digital Individual: Visualizing Computer-Mediated Social Interaction". On Monday, March 20, we offer a tutorial workshop program that covers key topics of the field of internet research. Prof. Dr. Bernard Batinic & Timo Gnambs (Universität Linz): Internet Surveys Dr. Martin Welker (University Leipzig): Weblogs & Blogging: Potential and practical Opportunities within Academia & Journalism Christian Escher (Psychonomics GmbH): Usability Tests Prof. Dr. Chris Snijders (Eindhoven University of Technology): Social network analysis and its application to Internet research Dr. Marc Smith (Microsoft Research): Working with MSR Community Tools and related social software Also, on March 20, there will be the Early Bird Meeting of internet researchers. You can find the program, information about registration, and many more details at the following url: http://www.gor.de/ Hope to see you, Uwe Matzat ======================================= Uwe Matzat Sociology Section Department of Technology Management Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands --------------- phone: + 31 40 247-8392 email: u.matzat@tm.tue.nl http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/ =======================================