Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that

9 May 2014

      qual is academy, quant is industry, and qual/quant distinction is their
divide as presently comprehended within both sides

http://www.publicseminar.org/2013/12/against-social-determinism/#.U2hqAleYhF...

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   3. CFP - (Charles Ess)
   4. Re: qual/quant and all that (Deller, Ruth A)
   5. Asking for readings about Digital Life (radian ye)
   6. Re: Asking for readings about Digital Life (Janna Anderson)
   7. Re: Asking for readings about Digital Life (M.E. Luka)
   8. CFC: Workshop: Paratext in Digital Culture: Is Paratext
      Becoming the Story? University of Bergen 28-29 August 2014
      (Jill Walker Rettberg)
   9. New book: Open Standards and the Digital Age (Andrew Russell)
  10. Re: qual/quant and all that (Ellis Godard)
  11. Looking for the data about google's market share in the
      search engine market (Sung Wook Ji)
  12. Re: Looking for the data about google's market share in the
      search engine market (Jeanine Finn)
  13. Ebook: digital politics guide for 2014 (Colin Delany)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:09:23 -0400
From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>
To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
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I am disappointed in the implicit assumption that folks are either qual or
quant.
When I had influence in the Toronto Sociology dept, I helped lead the way
to ensure all grad students took a basic stats course and a basic
ethnography course. They don't have to use both, but they have to be
literate readers of both, and not shy away from use in fear or ignorance.
I continue to think it is the only way forward for serious IR scholarship
Barry Wellman, who was doing "mixed methods" before it was called that.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:39:53 -0700
From: Ellis Godard <egodard@csun.edu>
To: 'Barry Wellman' <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>, 'aoir list'
        <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
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I'm less interested in the methods folks employ than in their epistemology
about their methods. Many ideas - that numbers are bad, that science is
evil, that "positivism" is dead, etc. - are pollutive nonsense that
perpetuate a qual/quant distinction that's partly spurious. Numbers are
great, as is exploratory work that can't quite yet be subjected to
quantification. Ethnographers can count things, and we can count things
about ethnographies. Kumbaya.
-eg
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
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To: aoir list
Subject: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
I am disappointed in the implicit assumption that folks are either qual or
quant.
When I had influence in the Toronto Sociology dept, I helped lead the way
to
ensure all grad students took a basic stats course and a basic ethnography
course. They don't have to use both, but they have to be literate readers
of
both, and not shy away from use in fear or ignorance.
I continue to think it is the only way forward for serious IR scholarship
Barry Wellman, who was doing "mixed methods" before it was called that.
  _______________________________________________________________________
NetLab                        FRSC                      INSNA Founder
   Faculty of Information (iSchool)                 611 Bissell Building
   140 St. George St.    University of Toronto    Toronto Canada M5S 3G6
   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman          twitter: @barrywellman
                  NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen
   NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
   MIT Press            http://amzn.to/zXZg39      Print $14  Kindle $16
                  Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 06:44:11 +0200
From: Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Air-L] CFP -
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Dear AoIRists,
On behalf of the conference organizers - please distribute as you judge
best.
- charles ess
==
Call for Papers
INAUGURAL VOX-POL CONFERENCE: ?VIOLENT ONLINE POLITICAL EXTREMISM: SETTING
A RESEARCH AGENDA?
WHEN: August 28 ? August 29, 2014 a
WHERE: King?s College London
The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (NoE) is an EU-funded academic research
network focused on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and
impacts of Violent Online Political Extremism and responses to it.
The inaugural VOX-Pol conference will be held at King?s College London on
28-29 August 2014, and will feature panels and papers describing and
discussing cutting-edge research on violent extremism and the Internet,
and addressing frontiers in social science methodologies for this
research. The conference will include hands-on workshops on using
free/open-source software packages for social network analysis, content
analysis, and data collection.
Perspectives from any academic discipline are welcome, particularly:
communications, computer science, cultural studies, information science,
international relations, internet studies, law, media studies, philosophy,
political science, psychology, and sociology.
The following topics are of particular interest:
-            - Online radicalisation;
-             - The Internet and recruitment into violent political
extremist groups;
-            - Methodologies for terrorism-related Internet research;
-            - Network analysis and violent online political extremism;
-            - The content and functioning of violent political extremist
Internet forums;
-            - The role of video in violent online political extremism;
-           -  Children/youth, violent extremism, and new media;
-            - Women/gender, violent extremism, and new media;
-           - Sexual orientation, violent extremism and new media;
-           - Case studies of particular groups? use of new media (e.g.
al-Qaeda and related, FARC, Hamas, Hizbollah, dissident Irish Republicans,
Neo-Nazis, etc.);
-           - Case studies of the manifestation(s) and workings of violent
political extremism on specific online platforms (e.g. Facebook, Flickr,
Twitter, YouTube, etc.);
-            - Policy/legislative responses to violent online political
extremism;
-            - Critical responses to research on, reporting of, and
governmental responses to the conjunction of violent extremism and the
Internet;
-           -  Ethical issues surrounding online extremism-related
research.
-          We welcome papers or panel proposals in all these areas,
particularly where they report significant new results. Innovative
methodological papers are especially welcome.
Authors of individual papers should submit a 300-word abstract at our
proposal submission page,
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vope2014 by 16 May 2014. Panel
proposals should include a 200-word abstract and confirmed list of min. 3
panelists.A selection of papers will be considered for publication in the
journals Policy and Internet, and Perspectives on Terrorism.
Deadlines
-          Abstract deadline: 300 words to be submitted by 16 May 2014
-          Registration: from 14 April 2014
-          Decision on abstracts: 16 June 2014
-          Registration Deadline: 14 August 2014 ? no on-site registration
-          Early bird registration deadline: 13 July 2014
Travel Funding
The conference organisers are able to provide a number of travel grants
for PhD students, early career researchers, end-users, and colleagues from
the developing world. Support may be requested for registration fees,
transportation, and accommodation. Further details will be provided when
decisions are made on selected papers.
For more information, visit http://www.voxpol.eu <http://www.voxpol.eu/>;
for conference-related queries, email conference@voxpol.eu.
Dr. Maura Conway
Senior Lecturer in International Security
School of Law and Government
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland
Tel. +353 1 700 6472
E-Mail. maura.conway@dcu.ie
Skype. galwaygrrl
Twitter: @galwaygrrl
Website: http://doras.dcu.ie/view/people/Conway,_Maura.html
**********
VOX-Pol Project on Violent Online Political Extremism
Website: http://www.voxpol.eu <http://www.voxpol.eu/>
Twitter: @VOX_Pol
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 09:32:35 +0000
From: "Deller, Ruth A" <R.A.Deller@shu.ac.uk>
To: 'aoir list' <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
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I think I may have accidentally started something I didn't mean to!  When
I mentioned stats as an example in my email to the list a couple of days
ago, it wasn't my intention to start a quantitative vs qualitative debate,
I was just using it as a (perhaps extreme) example of how you might be
assigned papers to review that are out of your comfort zone - really as a
response to Jill's suggestion of people identifying their disciplinary
backgrounds in the submissions process because she discussed wishing she'd
been able to review more Humanities papers and submit in a format more
comfortable to Humanities scholars -it was never meant to be a statement
about quant vs qual vs mixed-methods or anything like that!
Ruth
-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:
air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Ellis Godard
Sent: 07 May 2014 23:40
To: 'Barry Wellman'; 'aoir list'
Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
I'm less interested in the methods folks employ than in their epistemology
about their methods. Many ideas - that numbers are bad, that science is
evil, that "positivism" is dead, etc. - are pollutive nonsense that
perpetuate a qual/quant distinction that's partly spurious. Numbers are
great, as is exploratory work that can't quite yet be subjected to
quantification. Ethnographers can count things, and we can count things
about ethnographies. Kumbaya.
-eg
-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org
[mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 3:09 PM
To: aoir list
Subject: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
I am disappointed in the implicit assumption that folks are either qual or
quant.
When I had influence in the Toronto Sociology dept, I helped lead the way
to ensure all grad students took a basic stats course and a basic
ethnography course. They don't have to use both, but they have to be
literate readers of both, and not shy away from use in fear or ignorance.
I continue to think it is the only way forward for serious IR scholarship
Barry Wellman, who was doing "mixed methods" before it was called that.
  _______________________________________________________________________
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                  NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen
   NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 17:58:56 +0800
From: radian ye <radianye@gmail.com>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Asking for readings about Digital Life
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Hi, everyone. I'm preparing for a course about "digital life". Can you
recommend me some books/papers/online materials?
Especially focusing in the following perspectives:
1) human behavior, everyday life and information society
2) the growing importance of ICTs, social and environmental capital in
profiling the competitiveness of cities, in other words, smart home and
smart city
Thanks in advance.
-------------------------------
WeiMing YE
School of Humanities & Social Sciences B402
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
University Town, Nanshan District
Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
TEL: 86-755-26032170
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:05:03 +0000
From: Janna Anderson <andersj@elon.edu>
To: radian ye <radianye@gmail.com>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org"
        <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about Digital Life
Message-ID: <CF90E92F.3F39C%andersj@elon.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Lee Rainie and I just published a research report for Pew Research and
Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center in March 2014 gathering
and analyzing the opinions of hundreds of experts tied to their
expectations for the evolution of digital life by 2025. Of course, what a
survey like this does is measure people's current attitudes about today's
trends and their likely extrapolation.
The "Digital Life in 2025" report is freely available online at the
following links:
The PDF -
http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/PEW-Elon%20DIg
ital%20Life%20in%202025_Report%20I%203-11-14.pdf
The Imagining the Internet site for the report ? with much more additional
content, including nearly all respondents' full responses in two
qualitative data sets that could be further studied and analyzed by other
researchers -
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impac
t.xhtml
The Pew Research site on the report -
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/digital-life-in-2025/
We will be publishing seven more reports this year based on the data
gathered from seven additional questions in the same survey. The next
report - on expectations regarding the development and impacts the
Internet/Cloud of Things and wearable computing - is likely to be
published in May.
Thank you to the many AoIR members who shared their wisdom in this survey.
Best regards,
Janna
--
Janna Quitney Anderson
Director, Imagining the Internet Center
www.imaginingtheinternet.org
Associate Professor
School of Communications
Elon University
andersj@elon.edu
Twitter:  @JannaQ   https://twitter.com/JANNAQ
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jannaanderson
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/janna.anderson
On 5/8/14 5:58 AM, "radian ye" <radianye@gmail.com> wrote:
...
Hi, everyone. I'm preparing for a course about "digital life". Can you
recommend me some books/papers/online materials?
Especially focusing in the following perspectives:
1) human behavior, everyday life and information society
2) the growing importance of ICTs, social and environmental capital in
profiling the competitiveness of cities, in other words, smart home and
smart city
Thanks in advance.
-------------------------------
WeiMing YE
School of Humanities & Social Sciences B402
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
University Town, Nanshan District
Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
TEL: 86-755-26032170
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 09:22:31 -0300
From: "M.E. Luka" <meluka@gmail.com>
To: Janna Anderson <andersj@elon.edu>
Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about Digital Life
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That's a great collection of linked reports. Thanks for sharing it.
ME
Mary Elizabeth Luka
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar | HASTAC Scholar | PhD Candidate (ABD)
Joint Program in Communication, Concordia University
twitter | instagram: meluka01
linkedin: *http://www.linkedin.com/in/maryelizabethluka
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/maryelizabethluka>*
email: meluka@gmail.com | mobile: +1-902-292-9957
web: http://moreartculturemediaplease.com
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Janna Anderson <andersj@elon.edu> wrote:
...
Lee Rainie and I just published a research report for Pew Research and
Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center in March 2014 gathering
and analyzing the opinions of hundreds of experts tied to their
expectations for the evolution of digital life by 2025. Of course, what a
survey like this does is measure people's current attitudes about today's
trends and their likely extrapolation.
The "Digital Life in 2025" report is freely available online at the
following links:
The PDF -
http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/PEW-Elon%20DIg
...
ital%20Life%20in%202025_Report%20I%203-11-14.pdf
The Imagining the Internet site for the report ? with much more
additional
content, including nearly all respondents' full responses in two
qualitative data sets that could be further studied and analyzed by other
researchers -
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impac
...
t.xhtml
The Pew Research site on the report -
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/digital-life-in-2025/
We will be publishing seven more reports this year based on the data
gathered from seven additional questions in the same survey. The next
report - on expectations regarding the development and impacts the
Internet/Cloud of Things and wearable computing - is likely to be
published in May.
Thank you to the many AoIR members who shared their wisdom in this
survey.
Best regards,
Janna
--
Janna Quitney Anderson
Director, Imagining the Internet Center
www.imaginingtheinternet.org
Associate Professor
School of Communications
Elon University
andersj@elon.edu
Twitter:  @JannaQ   https://twitter.com/JANNAQ
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jannaanderson
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/janna.anderson
On 5/8/14 5:58 AM, "radian ye" <radianye@gmail.com> wrote:
...
Hi, everyone. I'm preparing for a course about "digital life". Can you
recommend me some books/papers/online materials?
Especially focusing in the following perspectives:
1) human behavior, everyday life and information society
2) the growing importance of ICTs, social and environmental capital in
profiling the competitiveness of cities, in other words, smart home and
smart city
Thanks in advance.
-------------------------------
WeiMing YE
School of Humanities & Social Sciences B402
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
University Town, Nanshan District
Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
TEL: 86-755-26032170
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 14:15:03 +0000
From: Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg@lle.uib.no>
To: list list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] CFC: Workshop: Paratext in Digital Culture: Is
        Paratext Becoming the Story? University of Bergen 28-29 August 2014
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Workshop:
Paratext in Digital Culture:
Is Paratext Becoming the Story?
University of Bergen
28-29 August 2014
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS
In december 2012, a one-day workshop Exploring Paratexts in Digital
Contexts was organized at the University of Bergen by the Digital Culture
Research Group. The point of departure of this first workshop was
paratextual theory as it was first articulated by G?rard Genette in 1987
(Seuils / English translation Paratexts. Thresholds of Interpretation
1997). This event was followed by the book Examining Paratextual Theory and
its Applications in Digital Culture edited by Nadine Desrochers and Daniel
Apollon (forthcoming Spring 2014). These two initiatives have revealed a
strong interest in the academic community for appraising the potential and
limits of paratextual theory in digital culture.
The Digital Culture and Electronic Literature Research Groups at UiB
invite potential contributors and attendants to a new workshop Pasts,
Presents and Futures of Paratext in Digital Culture: Is Paratext Becoming
the Story? The goal of this workshop is to share ongoing research on
paratextual devices, functions and strategies in digital culture and
brainstorm about new research opportunities. The participants will explore
further how paratext and related concepts may contribute to a better
understanding of the nature and function of digital objects.
KEYWORDS
paratextual theory, paratext, digital culture, digital objects, digital
literacy, multiliteracy, multimedia, digital content, electronic
literature, digital art, remediation, digital materiality, ebooks, text
technology, metadata, markup.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS WORKSHOP?
The submission and acceptance of an abstract is required. Attending
participants without presentation are also welcome. This workshop is opened
to all interested. Feel free to spread this call to whom may be interested.
REGISTRATION INFO
Organizer
:
Digital Culture Research Group and
Electronic Literature Research Group
Dpt.  of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
Faculty of Humanities
University of Bergen , Norway
Workshop Advisory Committee
Nadine Desrochers, UdeM, EBSI, Montr?al
Scott Rettberg, UiB Digital Culture
Patricia Tomaszek, UiB Digital Culture
Jill Walker Rettberg, UiB Digital Culture
Daniel Apollon, UiB Digital Culture
Date
Workshop start: 28 August 2014 09H00
Workshop end: 29 August 2014 13h00
Location:
University of Bergen
, Humanities Faculty, HF-bygget,
Sydnesplassen 7,
5007 Bergen, Norway
Participation is open to:
Participants with accepted abstract
Participants only interested in attending the workshop
Contributions welcomed
:
- Short oral presentation of maximum 20 minutes followed by a 10 minute
discussion (abstract between 300 and 800 words).
- Book or chapter presentation by author(s) or editor(s) of maximum 15
minutes followed by a 5-minute discussion (required: book description
maximum one page and /or copy of brochure in PDF format).
- Presentation of resources, metadata tools and technologies 20 minutes
followed by a 10-minute discussion (abstract between 300 and 800 words).
Cost
:
Participation in the workshop is free to all.
Participants will cover their own travel and lodging expenses.
Food and beverages will be provided during the workshop.
A dinner will be offered by the University of Bergen to contributing
participants Thursday evening 28
Review form:
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed for acceptance by the Workshop
Advisory Committee.
To register to the workshop:
1. Download the workshop package at
:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4MkGfaDvQfxVXZqZzBOQklJMlE&usp=shar...
2. Email your registration form and your abstract (two MS Word documents)
to Daniel.Apollon@uib.no DEADLINE June 5, 2014
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission : 5 June
Notification of acceptance: 20 June
Preliminary program:  21 June
Final registration of attending non-contributing participants: 7 August
Arrival of participants: 27 August
Workshop start: 28 August 09h00
Workshop end: 29 August 13h00
Business meeting(for those who would like to discuss future research
collaboration):29 august 15h00-17h00
CONTACT
:
Daniel Apollon
Digital Culture Research Group
Dpt. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
University of Bergen
Postal address: PB 7805, 5020 BERGEN, Norway
Office address: Room 349, HF-bygget Sydnesplassen 7, 5007 Bergen
Phone: +47 55 58 24 27
Mobile: (+47) 480 45 347
Email: Daniel.Apollon@uib.no
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:20:24 -0400
From: Andrew Russell <arussell@stevens.edu>
To: AoIR mailing list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] New book: Open Standards and the Digital Age
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Hi everyone -
I?m writing to add my voice to the chorus of our colleagues who, following
list custom, have proudly/sheepishly announced the publication of their
books!   My own book is now available:
Andrew L. Russell
Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
available in paperback, hardcover, and e-book formats
http://www.arussell.org/open
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the
twenty-first century?
Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an
interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention
to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century,
information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American
military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In
the 1970s and 1980s, however, engineers in the United States and Europe
experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the
process, they embraced discourses of "openness" to describe their
ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and
participatory democracy.
The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for
open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but
such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other "open" systems
still depend heavily on hierarchical forms of control.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Ideological origins of open standards I: telegraph and engineering
standards, 1860s?1900s
3. Ideological origins of open standards II: American standards,
1910s?1930s
4. Standardization and the monopoly Bell System, 1880s?1930s
5. Critiques of centralized control, 1930s?1970s
6. International standards for the convergence of computers and
communications, 1960s?1970s
7. Open systems and the limits of democratic design, 1970s?1980s
8. The Internet and the advantages of autocratic design, 1970s?1990s
9. Conclusions: open standards and an open world.
I hope you enjoy it!  If anyone is interested in a review copy, please
contact me or Frances Bajet (fbajet@cambridge.org).
Best regards,
Andy
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Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D.
Director, Program in Science & Technology Studies
Associate Professor, History
College of Arts & Letters
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030
t. 201-216-5400 || f. 201-216-8245
arussell@stevens.edu || @RussellProf
www.stevens.edu/cal/sts || www.arussell.org
Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks
(Now available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon.com, and elsewhere)
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 08:14:42 -0700
From: Ellis Godard <egodard@csun.edu>
To: "'Deller, Ruth A'" <R.A.Deller@shu.ac.uk>, 'aoir list'
        <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
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Unintended consequences are a natural part of conversation - asides,
reminders, etc. :)
I can understand both the suggestion from you that folks might hesitate at
something too statistical and Barry's critique of the idea that someone
would be only a quant or qual person. Partly, it's a disciplinary
difference: You're in Communications (and I've taught methods courses in
such departments, where quant skills are narrower) and he's in Sociology
(my
own discipline, rife with riffs about qual vs quant).
But to the extent there's tension between the two ideas, you win: Reviewers
should have a level of expertise in what they're reviewing that exceeds the
baseline literacy level Barry thinks all Soc students should have.
-eg
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Ruth A
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 2:33 AM
To: 'aoir list'
Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
I think I may have accidentally started something I didn't mean to!  When I
mentioned stats as an example in my email to the list a couple of days ago,
it wasn't my intention to start a quantitative vs qualitative debate, I was
just using it as a (perhaps extreme) example of how you might be assigned
papers to review that are out of your comfort zone - really as a response
to
Jill's suggestion of people identifying their disciplinary backgrounds in
the submissions process because she discussed wishing she'd been able to
review more Humanities papers and submit in a format more comfortable to
Humanities scholars -it was never meant to be a statement about quant vs
qual vs mixed-methods or anything like that!
Ruth
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Sent: 07 May 2014 23:40
To: 'Barry Wellman'; 'aoir list'
Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
I'm less interested in the methods folks employ than in their epistemology
about their methods. Many ideas - that numbers are bad, that science is
evil, that "positivism" is dead, etc. - are pollutive nonsense that
perpetuate a qual/quant distinction that's partly spurious. Numbers are
great, as is exploratory work that can't quite yet be subjected to
quantification. Ethnographers can count things, and we can count things
about ethnographies. Kumbaya.
-eg
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[mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 3:09 PM
To: aoir list
Subject: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
I am disappointed in the implicit assumption that folks are either qual or
quant.
When I had influence in the Toronto Sociology dept, I helped lead the way
to
ensure all grad students took a basic stats course and a basic ethnography
course. They don't have to use both, but they have to be literate readers
of
both, and not shy away from use in fear or ignorance.
I continue to think it is the only way forward for serious IR scholarship
Barry Wellman, who was doing "mixed methods" before it was called that.
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 13:14:40 -0400
From: Sung Wook Ji <jis@umail.iu.edu>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Looking for the data about google's market share in
        the     search engine market
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Hi everyone. This is my first post to Air-L.
I've been trying to find the data about the market share of Google in the
search engine market.
Can anyone let me know where can I find the country-specific Google's
market share in the search engine market (from 2007 to 2012)?
Thank you
Best regards,
Sung Wook Ji
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media
Michigan State University
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:22:08 -0500
From: Jeanine Finn <jefinn@ischool.utexas.edu>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for the data about google's market share
        in the  search engine market
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comScore is the usual go-to for the latest data on this, I believe:
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2014/4/comScore_Releases_Mar...
They post press releases with the US data, but I think they have other
country data deeper in the site.
Search Engine Watch is another good source - maybe better for historical
data: http://searchenginewatch.com
Best,
Jeanine
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Jeanine Finn
Doctoral Student
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
jefinn@ischool.utexas.edu
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jefinn/
On May 8, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Sung Wook Ji <jis@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
...
Hi everyone. This is my first post to Air-L.
I've been trying to find the data about the market share of Google in the
search engine market.
Can anyone let me know where can I find the country-specific Google's
market share in the search engine market (from 2007 to 2012)?
Thank you
Best regards,
Sung Wook Ji
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media
Michigan State University
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:05:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Colin Delany <cpd@epolitics.com>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Ebook: digital politics guide for 2014
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Hi folks, my first post here as well, after soaking up information from
y'all for a while, and it's about another book! The latest version of my
ebook/guide to digital politics is out and available on Amazon (for Kindle
and other e-readers) and as a PDF on Epolitics.com (free or
pay-what-you-like). The title: "How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A
Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates."
Earlier versions (for 2010 and 2012) have been used in undergrad and grad
classes as well as by political campaigns and advocacy groups, and this
edition covers every significant aspect of online politics in 2014,
including political data, social media, email fundraising, targeted
advertising, online-enabled field organizing, budgets and staffing and much
more. Here's a link to details, a chapter list and download info:
http://www.epolitics.com/WinningIn2014
I hope this community finds it useful! Students are encouraged to download
the free version, of course.
--cpd
Colin Delany
Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy
http://www.epolitics.com
202-422-4682
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