Manuel Castells' new book: "Communication Power"
dear colleagues, i am sure that many of you will be interested in manuel castells' new book "communication power". here is a link to some reflections on this book. the journal welcomes further comments and discussions on this issue. Fuchs, Christian (2009) Some Reflections on Manuel Castells’ Book “Communication Power”. tripleC 7 (1): 94-108. http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/136 tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation, see http://www.triple-c.at , http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/editorialTeam ) is a critical studies open access journal that makes use of the advantages of online open access publishing for fostering discourse and making available comments as well as peer-reviewed papers that deal with the emerging information age. we are interested in receiving further comments and papers on castells' book or other journal-related topics. for potential submissions please consult: http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions best, christian fuchs -- - - - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs ICT&S Center University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at http;//www.uti.at editor of: tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society http://www.triple-c.at
Dear All, I am currently engage in some collaborative research looking at minority language use on YouTube and this has raised some methodological and practical issues that I was thinking AoIR folk might have a view on. Firstly there appears to be no reliable way of identifying videos in minority languages (other than by watching them!) - the use of the name of the language as a search term seems unreliable and unrealistic in terms of probable user behaviour (our minority language Welsh speaking users are fluent majority language English speakers too). Ideally it would have been nice to search for the type of material that users are interested in and/or would like in the minority language - but determining that would be a whole other piece of research. As a slightly better (possibly!) approach we are intending to use the location based search (though we are still trying to get to the bottom of how location is actually specified and what it actually specifies). This should the provide us with seed videos and we can then follow various links within YouTube to expand our dataset. The practical point we were wondering about is whether anyone had actually managed to track down a contact point in YouTube to discuss the possibility of them providing datasets for research purposes etc? Your views on any of the above would be much appreciated, particularly any clever tricks or pitfalls we might have overlooked - thanks! Daniel. Daniel Cunliffe Computing and Minority Languages Group, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/djcunlif/
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