[Air-L] qual/quant and all that
Işık Barış Fidaner
fidaner at gmail.com
Thu May 8 23:26:54 PDT 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/#.U2hqAleYhFE
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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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> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:09:23 -0400
> From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
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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 at csun.edu>
> To: 'Barry Wellman' <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>, 'aoir list'
> <air-l at 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-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at 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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> Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building
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> 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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> From: Charles Ess <charles.ess at gmail.com>
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> Dear AoIRists,
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> On behalf of the conference organizers - please distribute as you judge
> best.
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> The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (NoE) is an EU-funded academic research
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> impacts of Violent Online Political Extremism and responses to it.
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> discussing cutting-edge research on violent extremism and the Internet,
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> international relations, internet studies, law, media studies, philosophy,
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> - - Online radicalisation;
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> 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;
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> - - Children/youth, violent extremism, and new media;
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> - - 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
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> journals Policy and Internet, and Perspectives on Terrorism.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 09:32:35 +0000
> From: "Deller, Ruth A" <R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk>
> To: 'aoir list' <air-l at 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 at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:
> air-l-bounces at 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at 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.
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> 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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> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 17:58:56 +0800
> From: radian ye <radianye at gmail.com>
> To: air-l at 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:05:03 +0000
> From: Janna Anderson <andersj at elon.edu>
> To: radian ye <radianye at gmail.com>, "air-l at listserv.aoir.org"
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Asking for readings about Digital Life
> Message-ID: <CF90E92F.3F39C%andersj at 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 at 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 at 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
> >_______________________________________________
> >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 09:22:31 -0300
> From: "M.E. Luka" <meluka at gmail.com>
> To: Janna Anderson <andersj at elon.edu>
> Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at 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>*
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> web: http://moreartculturemediaplease.com
>
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Janna Anderson <andersj at 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 at 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 at 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
> > >_______________________________________________
> > >The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> > >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> > >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
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> > >
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 14:15:03 +0000
> From: Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg at lle.uib.no>
> To: list list <air-l at 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=sharing
>
>
> 2. Email your registration form and your abstract (two MS Word documents)
> to Daniel.Apollon at 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 at uib.no
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:20:24 -0400
> From: Andrew Russell <arussell at stevens.edu>
> To: AoIR mailing list <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] New book: Open Standards and the Digital Age
> Message-ID: <0A3D1E2A-17EA-419A-AD57-4E83CB6EC792 at stevens.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> 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 at cambridge.org).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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 at 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)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 08:14:42 -0700
> From: Ellis Godard <egodard at csun.edu>
> To: "'Deller, Ruth A'" <R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk>, 'aoir list'
> <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] qual/quant and all that
> Message-ID: <049f01cf6ad0$3d4c5bf0$b7e513d0$@edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Deller,
> 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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at 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 at umail.iu.edu>
> To: air-l at 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:22:08 -0500
> From: Jeanine Finn <jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Looking for the data about google's market share
> in the search engine market
> Message-ID: <4B3672EC-B6CD-4027-8B6F-E4ABF1D960DC at ischool.utexas.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> 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_March_2014_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings
>
> 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
>
>
> <---------------------------------------------------->
> Jeanine Finn
> Doctoral Student
> School of Information
> University of Texas at Austin
> jefinn at ischool.utexas.edu
> https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~jefinn/
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Sung Wook Ji <jis at 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 at epolitics.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Ebook: digital politics guide for 2014
> Message-ID: <1199083598.10991300.1399579539147.JavaMail.root at his.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> 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
> cpd at epolitics.com
> @epolitics
>
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