You should be able to find some useful information and resources (generally from a UK perspective, however) on the Politics subsection of the Learning and Teaching Support Network's Sociology, Anthropology and Politics subject centre at http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/politics.htm. Best wishes Rowin -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Kenneth Cousins Sent: 16 July 2003 13:41 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] IT and political science research Hello, all. I am hoping the community here may be able to help me understand the extent to which information technologies (IT) are being used in Political Science research and teaching. My colleagues rarely use computers for anything other than word processing or statistical analysis; by documenting the breadth of IT-usage in research and teaching, I hope to begin persuading some of them to be more creative with these technologies. With this in mind, I am seeking citations to published research which presents a new, IT-based approach, along the following (or additional) modes of inquiry or analysis: * Surveying (e.g., dynamic or internet-based) * Interviewing (e.g., digital recording, e-mail) * Focus-groups (e.g., instant messaging, "chat rooms") * Internet media (e.g., usenets, weblogs, websites) * Traditional media (distributed electronically) * Process tracing, cognitive mapping * Experiments / simulations * Socio-economic mapping (e.g., GIS, GAP analysis) * Content / textual analysis (e.g., lexical, syntactic, semantic) * Code and retrieve * Boolean analysis (i.e., discrete or fuzzy-set) * Theory-building (mapping relationships via hyperlinks, Forester diagramming) Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I am willing to provide a compiled bibliography to interested parties. Regards, Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-4133 C: (301) 758-4490 F: (301) 314-7619 kcousins@gvpt.umd.edu "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein