[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 86, Issue 8

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Today's Topics:

   1. Arizona Methods Workshops 2012 (Jennifer S. Earl)
   2. web survey software/services (Jonas Fransson)
   3. Re: [cultstud-l] Professionalization Website (Jonathan Gray)
   4. (no subject) (Hillis, Kenneth J)
   5. Call for Participation: 'Bringing MT to the User: Research
      Meets Translators' Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011)
      (????????? ????? (Ventsislav Zhechev))
   6. FW: [JoCI] Special Double Issue: The Internet and Community
      Informatics in Brazil (michael gurstein)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:53:51 -0700
From: "Jennifer S. Earl" <jearl at soc.ucsb.edu>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Arizona Methods Workshops 2012
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I thought this might be of interest to some on the list:

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Arizona Methods Workshops 2012

Please join us for the 2nd annual Arizona Methods Workshops, January 5-10, 
2012

Hosted by the Department of Sociology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS:

Please join us for the 2nd annual series of Arizona Methods Workshops. 
These 2-3 day workshops are open to everyone and are hosted by the 
Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, where all workshops 
are held.  The goal is to share the methodological expertise of our 
department and college with the wider community of social scientists.  The 
workshop topics and instructors vary from year to year; this year we are 
offering six workshops January 5-10th, 2012 (see descriptions in the 
textbox to the right, and the schedule below).  Tack on a few days to enjoy 
a January vacation in sunny Tucson!

SCHEDULE:

Thursday, Friday, & Saturday ? January 5-7, 2012

   Session A (9-10:30 and 2-3:30 each day):

Workshop A1. Introduction to Survey Design
Professor Jane Zavisca
           -or-
Workshop A2. Assessing Discrimination in Organizational Settings
Professor William T. Bielby

    Session B (11-12:30 and 4-5:30 each day):

Workshop B1. Matching Methods & Causal Inference
Professor Chad Westerland
           -or-
Workshop B2. Introduction to Social Network Analysis Methods
Professor Ronald L. Breiger

Monday & Tuesday ? January 9-10, 2012

     Session C (9-11:30am and 1-3pm each day):

Workshop C1. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets
Professor Charles C. Ragin
          -or-
Workshop C2. Introduction to Multi-Level Modeling
Professor Erin Leahey

For more details, including registration information, fees, and lodging 
information, visit: http://sociology.arizona.edu/methods


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Jennifer Earl
Professor of Sociology
SS&MS 3129
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-9430

P: (805) 893-7471
F: (805) 893-3324
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/earl/
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 10:10:54 +0000
From: Jonas Fransson <jf at iva.dk>
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Subject: [Air-L] web survey software/services
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In my phd-project I plan to use pop-up web surveys on a couple of large online cultural heritage collections. Now I am looking for recommendations on software and web services that could be used for the surveys. Good or bad experiences, lessons learned and other tips are of interest.

Thanks in advance,
Jonas

Jonas Fransson
Ph.D.stud.

IVA / Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Birketinget 6
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
T +45 32 58 60 66
D +45 32 34 15 10
www.iva.dk/jf<http://www.iva.dk/jf>





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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 19:04:38 +0000
From: Jonathan Gray <mrtetley at hotmail.com>
To: <cultstud-l at lists.comm.umn.edu>, <cultstud-l at comm.umn.edu>,
	<air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] [cultstud-l] Professionalization Website
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I just wanted to follow up on Jonathan Sterne's email here to say that his site's excellent and probably the best place for advice for cultural studies folk on the net. I'd highly recommend anyone go check it out, and applaud Jonathan's efforts in putting it together

> From: jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca
> To: CACS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA; crtnet at natcom.org; CCA-LIST at LISTS.MCGILL.CA; CULTSTUD-L at comm.umn.edu; air-l at listserv.aoir.org; mlg-ics at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 02:16:26 +0000
> CC: 
> Subject: [cultstud-l] Professionalization Website
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Apologies for crossposting.
> 
> Since 1999, I have maintained a collection of web pages that provides links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find the materials useful as well.  In recent years, I have added material on other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so.  You can find it at:
> 
> http://sterneworks.org/Academe
> 
> I am always looking for good suggestions for material to add to the site, and as you'll see, I have used it to archive some material that has been circulated in other fora.  If you have a suggestion for a link or a document worth archiving, please email me at jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca.  Please note that I do not post or keep track of job ads, nor am I particularly interested in promoting commercial services.  I intend to continue building the site, so suggestions for other areas to cover would be appreciated. There are also probably typos and other small errors on the new pages that need correction.
> 
> Thanks for reading.
> 
> Sincerely,
> --Jonathan
> 
> --
> http://sterneworks.org
> http://mcgill.ca/ahcs
> http://media.mcgill.ca
> 
> 
> 
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 19:09:02 +0000
From: "Hillis, Kenneth J" <khillis at email.unc.edu>
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Hello All--I have a grad student, not a member of this list yet, who is interested in representations of nuclear war, as part of this interest, is researching the "Fallout" video game series.  He wonders if there's any existing scholarship that list members might point him to about 1) nuclear representations in video games, and 2) the need to teach video game literacy as either a subset of media literacy or a parallel to it. Any thoughts and suggestions much appreciated. AoIR is just around the corner!

Thanks,

Ken Hillis
Professor of Media and Technology Studies
Department of Communication Studies
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285 USA

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:23:58 +0200
From: ????????? ????? (Ventsislav Zhechev)
	<contact at ventsislavzhechev.eu>
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Subject: [Air-L] Call for Participation: 'Bringing MT to the User:
	Research	Meets Translators' Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
????????????????????????????????????????
?Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators?
Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011)
http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011
????????????????????????????????????????
The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled ?Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators?. 
The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion.


PLEASE REGISTER
Attendance of the workshop is free. If you wish to participate, please register at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Registration.html


? Premise:
Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language.
At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general.

? Objectives:
JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles.


? Invited Speakers:
Lucia Specia, RIILP, UK: "Quality Estimation for Machine Translation: Different Users, Different Needs"
J?rg Porsiel, Volkswagen, Germany: "Machine translation at Volkswagen"
Arle Lommel, GALA Global, USA: Panel Discussion Chair


? List of Accepted Papers for Oral Presentation:
1. "Online Self-Serve Access to State-of-the-Art SMT"
	Andy Way, Kenny Holden, Lee Ball and Gavin Wheeldon
2. "User-Focused Task-Oriented MT Evaluation for Wikis: A Case Study"
	Federico Gaspari, Antonio Toral, Sudip Kumar Naskar and Andy Way
3. "Towards Application of User-Tailored Machine Translation"
	Andrejs Vasi?jevs, Raivis Skadi?? and Inguna Skadi?a
4. "A Review of Machine Translation Tools from a Post-Editing Perspective"
	Lucas Vieira and Lucia Specia

? To be Confirmed for Oral Presentation:
5. "Putting Hybrid Machine Translation into Practice through Large-Scale Involvement of Human Translators in SomeProject"
	Christian Federmann, Aljoscha Burchardt, Maja Popovi?, David Vilar and Eleftherios Avramidis
6. "Using Statistical Machine Translation for Computer-Aided Translation at the European Commission"
	Andreas Eisele and Caroline Lavecchia

The preliminary workshop program is available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Preliminary_Program.html
Abstracts of the accepted papers are available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/List_of_Accepted_Papers.html



? Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11):
30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers
6th October: On-line registration closes
14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg


Workshop Chair:
Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk)

Workshop Senior PC:
Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk)
Andreas Eisele (DGT)
Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL)

Program Committee:
Submitted papers were reviewed by a joint industry?academia committee.
Industry members:  Pedro L. D?ez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Michael Jellinghaus (EU Parliament), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), Alexandros Poulis (EU Parliament), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Andy Way (Applied Language Solutions), Zoran Zakic (DGT of the EC), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) 
Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi?ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Pavel Pecina (CNGL), Michel Simard (NCR, Canada), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland)

For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop at me.com 

For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 
For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 
For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 


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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:05:39 -0700
From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
To: <ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>,
	<joci-editorial at vancouvercommunity.net>,
	<ci-research-sa at vancouvercommunity.net>,
	<cracin-canada at vancouvercommunity.net>, <air-l at aoir.org>,	"ISWORLD
	Information Systems World Network" <isworld at lyris.isworld.org>
Subject: [Air-L] FW: [JoCI] Special Double Issue: The Internet and
	Community	Informatics in Brazil
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Colleagues:

The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at
http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of
Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of
interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Special issue Editors: Suely Fragoso and Gilda Olinto
Editor in Chief: Michael Gurstein
Journal of Community Informatics, Centre for Community Informatics Research,
Development and Training, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 Fax
604-602-0624 gurstein at gmail.com

The Journal of Community Informatics
Special Double Issue: The Internet and Community Informatics in Brazil Table
of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/29

Editorial
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Special Double Issue: The Internet and Community Informatics in Brazil
	Gilda Olinto,	Suely Fragoso

Editorial: Community Informatics in Brazil
	Michael Gurstein


Points of View
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Internet use in Brazil: speeding up or lagging behind?
	Gilda Olinto,	Suely Fragoso


Articles
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Participation and Deliberation on the Internet: A Case Study of Digital
Participatory Budgeting in Belo Horizonte
	Rafael Cardoso Sampaio,	Rousiley Celi Moreira Maia,	Francisco
Paulo Jamil
Almeida Marques

Participatory Development of Technologies as a Way to Increase Community
Participation: the Cidade de Deus Web Portal Case
	Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear,	Michel Thiollent

Mastering Of Hypermedia Resources By Virtual Learning Communities:
Possibilities And Constraints For Interaction, Communication And
Construction Of Network Knowledge.
	Carla Lopes Rodrigues,	Jos? Armando Valente

Situating Learning for Digital Inclusion in the Social Context of
Communities
	Fabio Nauras Akhras

Garden of Literacies: ICDT Contributing to the Construction of New Realities
for Digitally-Excluded Senior Citizens
	Ivan Ferrer Maia,	Jos? Armando Valente

Evaluating ICT Adoption in Rural Brazil: A Quantitative Analysis of
Telecenters as Agents of Social Change
	Paola Prado,	Mauro Ara?jo C?mara,	Marco Aur?lio de Figueiredo


Reports
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SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE / USP: TWENTY YEARS OF VANGUARD IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
	Brasilina Passarelli

The Rede Brasil De Bibliotecas Comunit?rias: A Space For Sharing Information
And Building New Knowledge
	Elisa Campos Machado,	Geraldo Moreira Prado,	Abra?o Antunes da
Silva,	Jailton Lira,	Kleber Tadashi

The Development of an Information System for the Solidarity Economy Movement
	Alan Freihof Tygel,	Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear


Reviews
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Welcome to JOCI reviews
	Kate Williams

Fullilove, Mindy Thompson. (2004) Root Shock: How Tearing Up City
Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It. New York: One
World/Ballantine Books, 2004.  USD 14.95.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53970697
	Aiko Takazawa

Melo, J.M. de, Gobbi, M.C. & Sathler, L. (Eds.) (2006). M?dia Cidad?: Utopia
Brasileira. S?o Bernardo do Campo, SP: Universidade Metodista de S?o Paulo.
BRL 32.00 (Brazilian reais). 
http://editora.metodista.br/livro_midiacidada.htm
	Noah Lenstra


________________________________________________________________________ The
Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net



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