FQS Newsletter 2/05

[Katja Mruck <mruck@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

A) Articles from former FQS issues, now also available in additional
languages 
B) Articles, published in February 2005
C) Call for papers, FQS Special Issue "The State of the Art of
Qualitative Research in Ibero America"
D) From our readers
E) Conferences
F) Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck
FQS-Editor

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A) ARTICLES FROM FORMER FQS ISSUES 

The article "Laura Gets Her PhD. A Satire in Seven Acts", published in
the German language in FQS 4(2), is now also available in English. The
text was translated after Angelika's unexpected death by her long time
companion, Dinu C. Gherman. 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03birck-e.htm 

The article "On the Potentials and Problems of Secondary Analysis. An
Introduction to the FQS Special Issue on Secondary Analysis of
Qualitative Data" by Louise Corti, Andreas Witzel & Libby Bishop,
published in the English language in FQS 6(1), is now available in
German too. 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-49-d.htm


B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2005

Volker Barth (France): Claudia Bruns & Tilmann Walter (Eds.) (2004). Von
Lust und Schmerz. Eine Historische Anthropologie der Sexualitaet [Lust
and Pain. A Historical Anthropology of Sexuality]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-6-e.htm

Brian Christens (USA): Review Note, Robert Neuwirth (2005). Shadow
Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-8-e.htm

Daniel Dominguez Figaredo & Laura Alonso Diaz (Spain): Conference
Report: II Online Congress for the Observatory of the Cybersociety:
Towards what Knowledge Society?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-2-e.htm
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-2-s.htm

Robert B. Faux (USA): To Reveal Thy Heart Perchance to Reveal the World.
Review Essay: Ronald J. Pelias (2004). A Methodology of the Heart:
Evoking Academic and Daily Life
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-7-e.htm

Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review Note, Thomas Kuehn (2004).
Berufsbiografie und Familiengruendung. Biografiegestaltung junger
Erwachsener nach Abschluss der Berufsausbildung [Vocational Biography
and Family Planning: The Shaping of the Biographies of Young Adults
After Vocational Training]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-3-e.htm

Lawrence J. Hammar (Papua New Guinea): From Margins to Centers ...
Hopefully. Review Essay: Judith Green & Nicki Thorogood (2004).
Qualitative Methods for Health Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-4-e.htm

Reinhard Kacianka (Austria): Review Note, Mathias Spohr (2003). Das
gemeinsame Mass. Ansaetze zu einer allgemeinen Medientheorie [The Common
Measure. Approaches to a General Media Theory]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-5-e.htm

Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note, Heinz Bonfadelli (2002).
Medieninhaltsforschung. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen [Media Content
Research. Foundations, Methods, Applications]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-1-d.htm

Barbara Zielke (Germany): The Case for Dialogue. Reply to: "Social
Constructionism as Cultism," Carl Ratner, December 2004
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-13-e.htm

 
C) CALL FOR PAPERS, FQS SPECIAL ISSUE "THE STATE OF THE ART OF
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN IBERO AMERICA"

The CfP for the planned issue on "The State of the Art of Qualitative
Research in Ibero America" is available online: see
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/CfP_Ibero_America-s.htm
for the Spanish and
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/CfP_Ibero_America-e.htm
for the English version.

We are looking forward to your submissions!


D) FROM OUR READERS

Telefon focus groups
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/39/62.html?1107882509#POST176 

Action research and the adoption of computer technologoes in rural
general practice 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/18/107.html?1108602545

Software related to photo analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/18/83.html?1109008535#POST178 


E) CONFERENCES

- June 24-25, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
1. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung [1st Berlin Meeting on
Qualitative Methods; German language only] 
http://www.berliner-methodentreffen.de/
 
- October 21-23, Velden, Austria
Workshop "Generalization in Qualitative Psychology" of the Center for
Qualitative Psychology, Tuebingen, Germany 
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/qualitative-psychologie/Me05.htm 

- November 4-6, Utrecht, The Netherlands
International Practioner Research and CARN conference 
http://www.prar2005.nl/

- November 14-16, Renaissance Tunis Hotel, La Marsa, Tunisia
IRFD World Forum on Information Society Digital Divide, Global
Development and the Information Society
http://www.irfd.org/events/wf2005/

See
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm
(English) and
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm
(German) for additional Conference Announcements.


E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

The February SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-05.htm 

A new service, called DOAR -- the Directory of Open Access Repositories
-- started to support the emerging movement towards Open Access to
research information; see http://www.opendoar.org/. The web site of the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is still available at
http://www.doaj.org/.
 
Conferences:
- February 28 - March, University of Southampton, UK 
Workshop "Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access
to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities"
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html

- October 5-7, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany
International Conference on Open Access within the tradition of the
Berlin Declaration
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html 

Documents:
- Southampton Workshop on UK Institutional OA Repositories in January
2005 http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/programme.html and
http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/presentations.html

- PhD Defence Stuart Hamilton "To what extent can libraries ensure free,
equal and unhampered access to Internet-accessible information resources
from a global perspective?"
http://www.ifla.org/faife/news/2005/Free-equal-accessInternet05.htm

- Study by Jennifer De Beer about "Open Access in South Africa: current
status, significance, and the role of National Information Policy in the
National System of Innovation"
http://www.jenniferdebeer.net/research/DeBeerJenniferThesisMPhil2004.pdf
(PDF file, 914 KB). 

Journals:
- Ariadne, Issue 42: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/ 
- International Journal for Ideographic Sciences (new journal):
http://www.valsiner.com/
- M/C - Media and Culture 7(6): http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ 
- Organdi Quarterly's, Issue 7:
http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/OQ7/index7.htm
- Qualitative Sociology Review (new journal):
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/index_eng.php 
- Social Research Update, Issue 44: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/ 

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