[Air-L] New issue of Cultural Science journal published: Internet Research Methods as Moments of Revolution

Henry Siling Li slhenrylee at gmail.com
Thu May 5 00:39:21 PDT 2011


Dear Colleages,

Guest-edited by two emerging scholars, and featuring work from several
continents, a special issue of the *Cultural Science Journal* is (Vol 3.2)
now published, presenting important experimental explorations in a nascent,
fast-changing and potentially vast field of study.



The issue showcases work by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) as well as
established figures, and includes work from The Netherlands, Australia,
Taiwan, Bulgaria and the USA. It was co-edited by doctoral students Thomas
Petzold and Henry Siling Li – while both were in the throes of final
write-up and submission of their own PhD theses.



The idea for the issue was born out of discussions at the CCI Symposium of
mid-2010. In a context where large-scale data generation and collection is
occurring across a wide range of individuals and organisations, the core
questions raised by that discussion were:

·         How to address the need for new ways of researching and theorising
human interactions in the era of the internet?

·         What tools are available to us?

·         What challenges we are facing?

The overarching idea is that not only cultural phenomena but also the tools
to understand them can be treated as points of evolution in a longer
evolutionary process.



With that in mind, the issue has included papers that combine innovative
research design with a large-context treatment of socio-cultural phenomena.



The issue opens with two papers by senior researchers *Mark Deuze *and *Alan
McKee* (co-authored with PhD student *Ben Hamley *and* Christy Collis*) on
the need for an evolutionary and interdisciplinary approach to media culture
in an era of ‘the survival of the mediated.’



These are followed by 5 papers by ECRs – *Denise N. Rall, Hui-Jung Chang,
Nikoleta Daskalova, Jason Tocci, and Han-Teng Liao & Thomas Petzold*. They
address issues of *data and reality, geo-linguistic analysis, cross-cultural
comparison, reflective use of social media and the change and evolution of
internet scholarship itself*. The papers cover a good variety of internet
scholarship, from quantitative to qualitative analysis, from critical to
empirical approaches.



Beyond the fascinating articles themselves, the publication of this special
issue of *Cultural Science Journal* is another example of the CCI strategy
of nurturing next-generation research leaders through practical experience
in the difficult arts of editing and publishing globally networked research.
Congratulations to Thomas and Henry.





Check it out at:
http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience


Henry Siling Li
PhD Candidate,CCI (Z1-515)
Creative Industries Faculty
Queensland University of Technology
Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove
QLD, 4059, Australia
Tel: 07 3138 8775
Mobile: 0449 286 996
e: Slhenrylee at gmail.com



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