Newsletter Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS), 3/07

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

Dear All,

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

A) Articles, published in FQS in March 2007
B) Conferences and Workshops
C) Links
D) Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN MARCH 2007

Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): Review: Bettina Voelter, Bettina Dausien, 
Helma Lutz & Gabriele Rosenthal (Eds.) (2005). Biographieforschung im 
Diskurs [Biographical Research in Discourse]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-22-e.htm

Flora Cornish, Tania Zittoun & Alex Gillespie (UK/Switzerland): A 
Cultural Psychological Reflection on Collaborative Research. Conference 
Essay: ESF Exploratory Workshop on Collaborative Case Studies for a 
European Cultural Psychology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-21-e.htm

Nicola Doering (Germany): Review: Irene Ziehle & Ulrich Haegele (Eds.) 
(2004). Fotografien vom Alltag -- Fotografieren als Alltag [Photographs 
of Everyday Life -- Taking Photographs in Everyday Life]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-18-e.htm

Ronald Hitzler (Germany): Which Way Ahead? A Commentary on Recent 
Developments in German-Speaking "Qualitative" Social Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-4-e.htm

Siegfried Jaeger (Germany): In the Trap of Synthesizing Discourse 
Analysis and Sociological Field Theory. Review Essay: Oliver Geden 
(2006). Diskursstrategien im Rechtspopulismus. Freiheitliche Partei 
Oesterreichs und Schweizerische Volkspartei zwischen Opposition und 
Regierungsbeteiligung [Discourse Strategies of Right Wing Populism. 
Austrian Freiheitliche Partei and Swiss Volkspartei in the Transition 
from Opposition to Government Participation]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-07/07-2-7-e.htm

Steven Keen & Les Todres (UK): Strategies for Disseminating Qualitative 
Research Findings: Three Exemplars
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-17-e.htm

Nadia Rizzo (Argentina): Gender and Migration: Meanings and Effects of 
the Migratory Experience on the Biographies of Latin American Women in 
Germany
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-13-e.htm

Stephannie C. Roy, Guy Faulkner & Sara-Jane Finlay (Canada): Hard or 
Soft Searching? Electronic Database Versus Hand Searching in Media Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-20-e.htm

Julia Simonson (Germany): Review, Sandra Gruner-Domic (2005). Latinas in 
Deutschland. Eine ethnologische Studie zu Migration, Fremdheit und 
Identitaet [Latinas in Germany. An Ethnological Study on Migration, 
Foreignness and Identity]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-19-e.htm

Irene Vasilachis de Gialdino (Argentina): Contribution of the 
Epistemology of the Known Subject to the Qualitative Study of Poverty 
Situations, Identity, and Social Representations
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-6-e.htm


B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

18-20 April, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
CAQDAS 07 Conference "Advances in Qualitative Computing"
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/programme.htm

27-28 April, Birmingham, UK
Symposium "Narrative and Multimodality: Language, theory, contexts", 
Narrative Special Interest Group, Poetics and Linguistics Association
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=narrative-and-multimodality

11-12 May, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin, 
Germany
International Workshop "Video Interaction Analysis -- and how to do it", 
DFG-research project, "The Effect of Computerized Knowledge in the 
Operating Theatre, From a Gender Perspective"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/VideoWs_07.pdf (PDF, 
38 KB)

16-19 May, University of St. Thomas, New Brunswick, Canada
The 24th Canadian International Qualitative and Ethnographic Research 
Conference "Towards New Heights"
http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/qualitatives/2007_program.html

8-9 June, Cedarville University, USA
19th Annual Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education (EQRE)
http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/eqre/

8-9 June, Tele, Czech Republic
CfP, International V4 conference "Processes of Redefinition and 
Reconstruction of the Term Nation in Central Europe", organized jointly 
by the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture Bratislava 
(CVEK) and the Institute for the Reproduction and Integration of Society 
(IVRIS)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CVEK_07.pdf (PDF, 66 KB)

24-26 June, Monash University, Australia
Conference "Transitions: Health and Mobility in Asia and the Pacific"
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/conference/index.html

5-7 July, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK
Arts Based Educational Research Conference
http://ocs.ilrt.org/index.php?cf=8

20-23 September, Bologna, Italy
4th Annual Conference "Conversation Analysis of Psychotherapy 2007"
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/CA_Conference/draft%20poster3.html

4-5 October, Reus, Catalonia
International Meeting "Narrating the Nation. Television Narratives and 
National Identities"
http://www.sre.urv.es/web/comunicacio/narratingthenation.htm

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.


C) LINKS

Social Science Research Council, New York: New Collaborative Grants in 
Media and Communications: Large Grants Competition
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/collaborative_grants/, see also 
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/publications/LargeGrantRqtLOI0307.pdf 
for a PDF version

Narrative Research & "Performative" Social Science
http://www.kipworld.net

European Sociology Students' Association, new web site
http://www.essa-sociology.org/

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, new web site
http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/sssi/

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), new web site
http://www.cessda.org

Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian, AHRC ICT Methods Network, UK
http://www.digital-historian.net

The National Archive, media analysis tools
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

Intute: Arts and Humanities blog
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/blog/

Neuage, Terrell (2004). Conversational Analysis of Chatroom Talk, PhD, 
University of South Australia
http://neuage.org/All.htm


D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

March SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-07.htm

Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United 
States http://www.publicaccesstoresearch.org/

Petition for Guaranteed Public Access to Publicly-funded Research 
Results (EU)
http://www.ec-petition.eu/

Open Access News. News from the Open Access Movement
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Knowledge Exchange: Six Expert Reports and Recommendations on 
Institutional Repository Development
http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/

Conferences

13-15 June, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing "Openness in 
Electronic Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Open Access"
http://www.elpub.net

11-13 July, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/index.php

3-5 August, Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Wikimania 2007, the third annual international Wikimedia Conference
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Swiss Meeting on Open Access, organized by the Academy of the Humanities 
and Social Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Publications available online
http://www.sagw.ch/dt/index.asp?seite=liste.asp&pag=Publikationen&;

Texts

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. (2007): The Scholarly Electronic Publishing 
Bibliography: 2006
Annual Edition
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm

Harnad, Stevan (2007): Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research 
Assessment Exercise. To be presented at: Proceedings of 11th Annual 
Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and 
Informetrics, Madrid, Spain. June 25 2006.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/

Journals/Newsletters

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
http://www.doaj.org/

First Monday, 12(3)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/

International Journal of Social Sciences, new
http://www.enformatika.org/ijss/

International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, new
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire.html

Journal of Education for International Development
http://www.equip123.net/JEID/

P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E, 17(1)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmc17.1.html

Scientific Journals International
http://www.scientificjournals.org/current_issue.htm

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