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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><o:p><FONT size=3>Anyone registered for
AoIR's Internet Research 2.0 conference is welcome to request registration for a
free preconference workshop on Web research design. The workshop will be capped
at 30 participants. See the announcement below for
details.</FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><o:p><FONT
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<DIV><BR>Sincerely,</DIV>
<DIV>Kirsten Foot<BR>Asst. Professor<BR>School of Communications<BR>University
of Washington<BR><A
href="mailto:kfoot@u.washington.edu">kfoot@u.washington.edu</A><BR>**********************************************************************</FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=Section1>Internet Research 2.0 Preconference
Workshop:<BR> <BR> *Critical Choices in Web Research
Design*<BR> <BR> Wednesday, October 10, 2001<BR>9am - 5pm<BR>The
Gateway Center, University of Minnesota<BR> <BR>Workshop Overview<BR>This
workshop will address the critical methodological concerns and choices <BR>which
researchers face during each of the key phases of studying what's on the
<BR>Web. The workshop will consist of five thematically-focused and moderated
<BR>discussions, led by facilitators with Web research experience. The
facilitators <BR>for each session will provide a brief overview of the
theoretical, ethical, <BR>and/or operational issues that pertain to the phase of
Web research that is the <BR>focus of their session, and questions for
discussion. Topics to be discussed
<BR>include:<BR> <BR>· Situating
Web research approaches in social theory: Implications of <BR>macro-theory for
methodological choices.<BR>· Units
& levels of analysis in Web research (e.g. html features, pages, <BR>links,
sites, web events, web ecologies, web
phenomena)<BR>· Capturing and
archiving Web data<BR>· Processing Web
data (e.g. identification of indicators, sorting, <BR>annotating,
coding)<BR>· Displaying and publishing
Web data and analyses<BR> <BR>Workshop Registration<BR>Funding for the
workshop is being provided by the Association of Internet <BR>Researchers, but
participants will need to pay for their own lunch. Anyone <BR>registered for the
Internet Research 2.0 conference is eligible to submit a <BR>registration
request for the workshop. See <A
href="http://aoir.org/2001/workshop.htm">http://aoir.org/2001/workshop.htm</A> for
registration request instructions.</DIV>
<DIV class=Section1> </DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>Participation in the workshop will be limited to
the first 30 people who submit registration requests. Notification
of registration or waitlist status will be sent in response to every
registration request. Participants will be encouraged to bring 1-2 posters
that provide an overview of their Web research project(s) to display
during the workshop. <BR> <BR>Workshop Organizers<BR>Kirsten Foot
(PhD, Communication, University of California, San Diego), is an <BR>Assistant
Professor of Communications at the University of Washington, and a <BR>co-editor
of the Acting With Technology series at MIT Press. As a Research <BR>Fellow at
the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, she
<BR>co-managed a large research project studying the development and impact of
the <BR>political Web in the US 2000 elections. Her research interests focus on
the dual <BR>relationship between new technologies and sociopolitical
processes.<BR> <BR>K. Ann Renninger (PhD, Education and Human Development)
is a Professor of <BR>Education at Swarthmore College. She conducts
research and evaluation for The <BR>Math Forum (www. mathforum.com). She
and Wesley Shumar are editors of the <BR>forthcoming volume in the Learning and
Doing Series of Cambridge University <BR>Press, Building Virtual Communities:
Learning and Change in Cyberspace. She is <BR>generally interested in (a)
the role of individual interest in cognition, (b) <BR>change in learning and
development, and (c) links between theory, research, and <BR>practice as they
pertain to changed understanding. <BR> <BR>Steven M. Schneider (PhD,
Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of <BR>Technology), is an Associate
Professor of Political Science, SUNY Institute of <BR>Technology at
Utica/Rome. He co-managed a large research project studying the
<BR>development and impact of the political Web in the US 2000 elections while a
<BR>Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of
<BR>Pennsylvania. His research examines the role of the Internet and other
<BR>communication technologies on American political
development.<BR> <BR>David Silver (PhD, American Studies, University of
Maryland, 2000) is an <BR>Assistant Professor of Communications at the
University of Washington, and the <BR>founder/director of the Resource Center
for Cyberculture Studies. Silver's work <BR>on cyberculture has appeared in a
number of books and journals and he is <BR>currently working on a book, Critical
Cyberculture Studies: Essays and <BR>Annotations on an Emerging Field of Study,
to be published by Sage in 2001. For <BR>the last four years, Silver has been
building the Resource Center for <BR>Cyberculture Studies
(http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs), an online, not-for-profit <BR>organization whose
purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create <BR>diverse and
dynamic elements of cyberculture.<BR> <BR>Jennifer Stromer-Galley (M.A.
University of Minnesota, 1997) is a doctoral <BR>student at the Annenberg School
for Communication at the University of <BR>Pennsylvania. Her doctoral research
seeks to understand how people perceive and <BR>use the internet for political
engagement and the implications such perceptions <BR>and use might have for the
public sphere. Stromer-Galley's prior research has <BR>focused on identifying
the social and structural forces that guide how political <BR>campaigns utilize
the web.<BR> <BR>Leslie M. Tkach (M.A., International Political Economy,
University of Tsukuba), <BR>is currently working towards her doctorate in the
same field. She wrote her M.A. <BR>thesis on how Japanese political actors used
the Internet during the 2000 <BR>General Election in Japan by focusing on
political party web-site analysis, <BR>questionnaires, and interviews. Leslie is
currently expanding upon this theme <BR>for her Ph.D. dissertation to include
cross-national comparisons involving <BR>domestic policy, telecommunications
regulations, and sociopolitical issues in <BR>the use of the Internet in
Southeast Asian
countries.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>