[Air-l] Conference Program General Online Research (GOR06)

[Uwe Matzat]

Dear colleagues,

the detailed program of the 8th international conference 
General Online Research (GOR06) is available. The conference will 
take place March 20-22, 2006 in Bielefeld, Germany. It is 
organized on behalf of the German Society for Online Research 
(DGOF) .   

The program includes more than 140 oral and poster presentations 
on topics such as the digital divide & digital inequality, e- 
commerce, e-democracy, e-learning, blogs etc. 

As traditionally, there is a continuing stream of sessions focusing 
on methodological questions concerning issues of online data 
collection and web surveys. Also there is a stream of sessions on 
online communities and social networks. 

On Tuesday, March 21, there will be a Keynote given by Dr. Marc 
Smith (Microsoft Research) on "Social Networks of the Digital 
Individual: Visualizing Computer-Mediated Social Interaction".

On Monday, March 20, we offer a tutorial workshop program that 
covers key topics of the field of internet research.   

Prof. Dr. Bernard Batinic & Timo Gnambs (Universität Linz):
Internet Surveys 

Dr. Martin Welker (University Leipzig): 
Weblogs & Blogging: Potential and practical Opportunities within 
Academia & Journalism 

Christian Escher (Psychonomics GmbH):
Usability Tests 

Prof. Dr. Chris Snijders (Eindhoven University of Technology): Social
network analysis and its application to Internet research

Dr. Marc Smith (Microsoft Research):
Working with MSR Community Tools and related social software 

Also, on March 20, there will be the Early Bird Meeting of internet 
researchers. You can find the program, information about 
registration, and many more details at the following url:  

http://www.gor.de/



Hope to see you, 
Uwe Matzat




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Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section
Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
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email: u.matzat at tm.tue.nl
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