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Dear All,

I would like to inform you that FQS 8(3) -- "Virtual Ethnography" 
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-07-e.htm), edited 
by Daniel Domínguez, Anne Beaulieu, Adolfo Estalella, Edgar Gómez, Rosie 
Read & Bernt Schnettler -- is available online (see 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm for former 
issues).

In addition to articles relating to "Virtual Ethnography", FQS 8(3) 
provides a number of selected single contributions, contributions 
belonging to the FQS Debates "Quality of Qualitative Research" and 
"Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Methods in the Social 
Sciences", as well as articles belonging to FQS Reviews and FQS 
Conferences.

A.	FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"
B.	Conferences and Workshops
C.	Links
D.	Open Access News

Best regards,
Katja Mruck

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A) FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"

http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-07-e.htm English
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt3-07-d.htm German
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt3-07-s.htm Spanish

Daniel Domínguez (Spain), Anne Beaulieu (The Netherlands), Adolfo 
Estalella (Spain), Edgar Gómez (Mexico), Bernt Schnettler (Germany) & 
Rosie Read (UK): Virtual Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-E1-e.htm

Rubén Arriazu Muñoz (Spain): On New Means or New Forms of Investigation. 
A Methodological Proposal for Online Social Investigation through a 
Virtual Forum
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-37-e.htm

Blanca Callén, Marcel Balasch, Paz Guarderas, Pamela Gutierrez, 
Alejandra León, Marisela Montenegro, Karla Montenegro & Joan Pujol 
(Spain): Riereta.net: Epistemic and Political Notes From a 
Techno-Activist Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-1-e.htm

Adolfo Estalella & Elisenda Ardèvol (Spain): Field Ethics: Towards 
Situated Ethics for Ethnographic Research on the Internet
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-2-e.htm

Michaela Fay (UK): Mobile Subjects, Mobile Methods: Doing Virtual 
Ethnography in a Feminist Online Network
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-14-e.htm

Heike Mónika Greschke (Germany): Logging into the Field -- 
Methodological Reflections on Ethnographic Research in a Pluri-Local and 
Computer-Mediated Field
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-32-e.htm

Simona Isabella (Italy): Ethnography of Online Role-Playing Games: The 
Role of Virtual and Real Contest in the Construction of the Field
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-36-e.htm (will 
follow soon)

Kip Jones (UK): How Did I Get to Princess Margaret? (And How Did I Get 
Her to the World Wide Web?)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-3-e.htm

Natalia Rybas & Radhika Gajjala (USA): Developing Cyberethnographic 
Research Methods for Understanding Digitally Mediated Identities
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-35-e.htm

Maurizio Teli, Francesco Pisanu (Italy) & David Hakken (USA): The 
Internet as a Library-of-People: For a Cyberethnography of Online Groups
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-33-e.htm

Single Contributions

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

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

Anja Kraus (Germany): A Study of Media Influences on the Learning 
Strategies of Students in the First Years of Secondary School by Means 
of "Subtexts"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-11-e.htm

Mark Mason, Oswin Baker & Rebecca Hardy (UK): Drugwatch: Establishing 
the Practicality and Feasibility of Using Key Professionals and Illicit 
Drug Users to Identify Emerging Drug Tendencies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-9-e.htm

Nadia Rizzo (Argentina): Gender and Migration: Meanings and Impacts 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

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

FQS Debate: "Quality of Qualitative Research"

Philipp Mayring (Austria): On Generalization in Qualitatively Oriented 
Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-26-e.htm

FQS Debate: "Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Methods in the 
Social Sciences"

Britta Stiefel (Germany): The Use of Archived Research Data in the 
Training of Qualitative Research Methods -- Concept and Evaluation of a 
Pilot Model for Learning that is Closely Linked to Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-15-e.htm

FQS Reviews

Claudia Brunner (Austria/Germany): Review, Manuela Boatca, Claudia 
Neudecker & Stefan Rinke (Eds.) (2006). Des Fremden Freund, des Fremden 
Feind: Fremdverstehen in interdisziplinaerer Perspektive [The Stranger's 
Friend, the Stranger's Enemy: Conceiving Foreignness in an 
Interdisciplinary Perspective]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-23-e.htm

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

Sascha Demarmels (Switzerland): Review, Katrin Doeveling (2005). 
Emotionen -- Medien -- Gemeinschaft. Eine kommunikationssoziologische 
Analyse [Emotions -- Media -- Society. A Communication-Sociological 
Analysis]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-28-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

Birgit Griese (Germany): Review, Birgit Schreiber (2006). Versteckt. 
Juedische Kinder im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und ihr Leben 
danach [Hidden. Jewish Children in National Socialist Germany and Their 
Lives Afterwards]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-16-e.htm

Peter Hilger (Finland): In Search for Criteria: The State of Qualitative 
Media Research. Review Essay: Lothar Mikos & Claudia Wegener (Eds.) 
Qualitative Medienforschung. Ein Handbuch [Qualitative Media Research. A 
Handbook]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-7-e.htm

Matti Hyvaerinen (Finland): Narrative Contestations. Review Essay: 
Michael Bamberg & Molly Andrews (Eds.) (2004). Considering 
Counter-Narratives: Narrating, Resisting, Making Sense
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-34-e.htm

Daniela Jauk (Austria): Review, Ralf Bohnsack, Aglaja Przyborski & 
Burkhart Schaeffer (Eds.) (2006). Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren in der 
Forschungspraxis [Group Discussions in Research Practise]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-12-e.htm

Gerhard Jost (Austria): Review, Gerhard Niedermair (2005). Patchwork(er) 
on Tour. Berufsbiografien von Personalentwicklern [Patchwork(er) on 
Tour. Occupational Biographies of Human Resources Managers]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-31-e.htm

Sunil Khanna (USA): Review, Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead (2006). All You 
Need to Know About Action Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-8-e.htm

Nina Leonhard (Germany): Memory and Culture -- Notes on the Concept of 
"Memory Cultures" Within Cultural Studies. Review Essay: Guenter 
Oesterle (Ed.) (2005). Erinnerung, Gedaechtnis, Wissen. Studien zur 
kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedaechtnisforschung [Memory and Knowledge. 
Studies on Memory from a Cultural Perspective]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-25-e.htm

Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Donald K. Sharpes (2006). Sacred Bull, 
Holy Cow: A Cultural Study of Civilization's Most Important Animal
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-24-e.htm

Wolfgang Mack (Germany): Review, Wolfgang R. Koehler (2004). 
Personenverstehen. Zur Hermeneutik der Individualitaet [Understanding 
Persons. On the Hermeneutics of Individuality]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-30-e.htm

Sebastian Schroeer (Germany): Review, Wilfried Breyvogel (Ed.) (2005). 
Einfuehrung in Jugendkulturen. Veganismus und Tattoos [Introduction to 
Youth Cultures. Veganism and Tattoos]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-27-e.htm

Julia Simonson (Germany): Review, Sandra Gruner-Domiæ (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

Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review, Zygmunt Bauman (2005). 
Verworfenes Leben. Die Ausgegrenzten der Moderne [Wasted Lives: 
Modernity and Its Outcasts]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-29-e.htm

FQS Conferences

Flora Cornish (UK), Tania Zittoun (Switzerland) & Alex Gillespie (UK): 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

Davina Hoeblich (Germany): Conference Report, Auf unsicherem Terrain -- 
Ethnographische Forschung im Kontext des Bildungs- und Sozialwesens [On 
Unfamiliar Terrain -- Ethnographical Research in the Fields of Education 
and Social Work]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-10-e.htm

Paul Wainwright & Frances Rapport (UK): Conference Report, Circles 
within Circles -- Qualitative Methodology and the Arts: The Researcher 
as Artist
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-5-e.htm


B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2-5 December, Faculty of Education, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania
Conference "Information and Communication Technology in Natural Science 
Education"
http://iktgu.projektas.lt/indexen.htm

29 February-1 March 2008
Center for Urban Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, USA	
29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum "Going Public with 
Ethnography in Education"
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

14-17 May 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	
4th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry "Ethics, Evidence and 
Social Justice"
http://www.icqi.org/

15-16 May 2008, Leuven University, Belgium	
CfP Conference "Families, Constructions of Foreignness and Migration in 
20th Century Western Europe"
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/oe/geschiedenis/MoSa/families_migration.htm

9-11 July 2008, Tampere, Finland	
2nd International Conference "Qualitative Research on Mental Health"
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sospol/qrmh2/

5-8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain
First ISA Forum of Sociology "Sociological Research and Public Debate"
http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/

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

Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: Request for 
Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies:
The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to 
one-year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is 
open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, 
including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century. 
The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or 
permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be 
full-time graduate students who have achieved ABD status by the time the 
proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and 
Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two 
calendar years. Deadline: December 1, 2007. For more complete 
information and an application form, visit the website.
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/

SSRC Eurasia Program: 2008 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships 
Competition:
The Eurasia Program, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased 
to announce its 2008-2009 Title VIII fellowship activities. Eurasia 
Program Title VIII Fellowships serve to expand and strengthen the field 
of Eurasian studies through the support of research, writing, 
advanced-training and curriculum development. All fellowships are 
intended to support work on or related to the New States of Eurasia, the 
Soviet Union and/or the Russian Empire, regardless of the applicant's 
discipline within the social sciences or humanities. Online applications 
and supporting materials, including detailed award descriptions and 
eligibility criteria, are now available on the SSRC Eurasia Program 
website. www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/fellowships/index.page

Centre for Narrative Research, Forthcoming Papers and Works in Progress 
from CNR Members and Associates
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/forthcom.htm

OPEN CODE 3.4
http://www.umu.se/phmed/epidemi/forskning/open_code.html

Digital Arts & Humanities site launched
http://www.arts-humanities.net/taxonomy/term/10/all

semioticsigns.com
http://www.semioticsigns.com/


D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

SPARC Open Access Newsletter September 2007
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-07.htm

The UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is now the 6th of 
the 7 UK Research Councils to adopt a Green Open Access Self-Archiving 
Mandate
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/288-guid.html

The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology: 
Proposed Policy for Open Access Deposit
http://www.ircset.ie/consultation_070907.html

The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) and the 
"Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" 
(DRIVER) project collaborate to build the European digital repository 
research infrastructure
http://www.libereurope.eu/node/245

Conferences

7-9 October, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
The 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science
http://ess.si.umich.edu/index.htm

21-23 October, Palais des Congrs de Montral, Canada
2007 International Symposium on Wikis: Wikis at Work in the World: Open, 
Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/

Texts

Bailey, Charles W. Jr. : Version 69, Scholarly Electronic Publishing 
Bibliography
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

Harnad, Stevan: The "Double-Pay"/"Buy-Back" Argument for Open Access is 
Invalid
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/290-guid.html

Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H.: Measuring and Comparing 
Participation Patterns in Digital Repositories: Repositories by the 
Numbers, Part 1. D-lib Magazine, 13(9/10)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.html

John Willinsky & Ranjini Mendis: Open access on a zero budget: a case 
study of Postcolonial Text. IR 12(3)
http://informationr.net/ir/12-3/paper308.html

Journals/Newsletter

Directory of Open Access Journals:
http://www.doaj.org/

CODATA Data Science Journal, Special Issue: Open Data for Global Science
http://dsj.codataweb.org/special-open-data.htm

Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/

Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management
http://www.ejkm.com/index.htm

First Monday, 12(9)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_9/

International Journal of Design
http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/

Journal of Digital Information
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

Learned Publishing, October issue
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp

Police Newsletter
http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/index_english.php

The Graduate Journal of Social Science
http://www.gjss.org/current_issue.shtml

The Research Journal of Social Sciences
http://www.insinet.net/rjss.html

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