DK more than this, forwarded by a friend Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ Invitation: Please consider to contribute and distribute to the appropriate groups the following ##################### Call for chapters: University of Leipzig, University of Bamberg and the German Society for Online Research (DGOF): Title: Communication, participation and impact in the Social Web â Weblogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Communities in an interdisciplinary view Editors: Prof. Dr. Ansgar ZerfaÃ, Universität Leipzig, Communication Management and Public Relations Dr. Martin Welker, Universität Leipzig, Journalism; DGOF board Dr. Jan Schmidt, Universität Bamberg, Research Unit âNew Media for Communicationâ Series of publications: New Texts on Online Research, Volume 2 German Society for Online Research (Ed.) Publisher: Herbert von Halem Verlag (Cologne) To be published: January 2008 Size: About 350 pages, 16 to 20 papers á 15 â 20 pages Language: German and English We welcome papers which highlight the discussion of effects in and of the so so called âWeb 2.0â. We appreciate also papers which apply methods of online research like online questionnaires, logfile analysis or experimental approaches like research via avatars. As we promoting a transdisciplinary view we welcome also papers from professional research companies or corporations researching the Web 2.0 phenomenon for their businesses. Possible questions of interest: Does Web 2.0 allow for methodological innovation? How can social science and neighbouring disciplines deal with Web 2.0? How can Web 2.0 applications be used as research tools? How can we conceptualise the heterogeneous spaces of Web 2.0? Please send your paper until 15th of May to onlineforschung2@yahoogroups.de You will receive an answer of acceptance until the 15th of June. Best Regards, ==================================================== Dr. Martin Welker Tel: (0341) 97 35 755 E-Mail: welker@uni-leipzig.de www.dgof.de www.gor.de Universitaet Leipzig Institut fuer Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft Abteilung Journalistik, Management für Abteilungsleitung und Studienfachberatung Burgstrasse 21, 04109 Leipzig