[Air-l] Call for participation

[Amy Mattson Lauters]

 I hope this will be of some interest to the list -- Amy

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Call for Participation
New Research for New Media:  Innovative Research Methods 
September 4-6,2003
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Application deadline:  April 15, 2003
Notification of acceptance:  May 1, 2003
Information and application:
http://www.inms.umn.edu/convenings/newresearch/main.htm

The Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, in
collaboration with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the
Department of Rhetoric, invites you to apply for participation in an
upcoming symposium: New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods
Symposium.    

The Internet and evolving new media and communication technologies offer
researchers two sets of opportunities:  the development of new research
techniques and a new, wide-open communication arena to be studied.  New
techniques such as email surveying, chat space interviewing, electronic
brainstorming, user session statistics analysis, and eye-tracking are
joining tried and true research methods.  New communication phenomena and
emerging media usage scenarios are calling for analysis.  Studies using the
results of these new techniques and on the new media arena are well into
the mainstream of research agendas in universities, but the focus of the
papers tend to be on the findings, not the determination and effectiveness
of the methods used to get those findings.  This is what the New Research
for New Media:  Innovative Research Methods Symposium intends to do.    

This will be a working symposium in which participants will contribute as
much to the conference proceedings as the presenters of papers. 
Researchers have been selected to present papers that represent a variety
of disciplines and research methods.  Now we need the participants who
will, after presentation of the papers, discuss in small groups the
implications of using new research methods and traditional methods in new
ways.  The discussions and recommendations of the symposium participants
will be the core of the conference proceedings with the intention of
setting an agenda of examination of new research methods and to identify
research implications that require further attention.  

We are looking for participants who would like to engage in a three days of
deep thought about research methods.  As a participant you will part of a
task force, not just an audience.  If you would like to help take the
thinking about research methods to the next level, we hope you will apply
to attend.  Attendance will be limited to 50 participants.  

Application Form: 
http://www.inms.umn.edu/convenings/newresearch/application.htm
Application Deadline:  April 15, 2003
Notification of Application Acceptance:  May 1, 2003
Symposium Dates:  6 pm - Thursday, September 4   to   4 pm - Saturday,
September 6
Cost:  $100 registration (covers all meals)

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Amy Mattson Lauters
PhD student
Instructor/Teaching Assistant
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Minnesota
laut0026 at umn.edu