ACW-L: Kemp2

S.R. Brown: Q Methodology and Qualitative Research Some of the quantitative obstacles to the wider use of Q methodology have recently been rendered less daunting by virtue of software
packages which have converted to button presses what before were tedious calculations. One such package, QMethod (Atkinson, 1992), is
available as freeware from Kent State University's Listserver, and the way in which QMethod facilitates Q-methodological inquiries, as well as
the way in which such inquiries proceed, is perhaps best illustrated in terms of a concrete example such as the following.

SocioSite: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS:shareware

Diffuse -- WWW9 - The Web:: The Next Generation Meggie provides similar facilities for annotating MP3 files used for aural history interviews by embedding ID3
tags. For Meggie there are also text transcriptions of each interview. The RDF metadata is associated with
separate parts of the transcription/interview, rather than the complete file.

code-a-text

qual-software archives - August 2000: ATLAS.ti - service pack 3 now support MP3 ausio coding

qual-software archives - August 2000: Re: Transcription

Corporate Universities: An Interview with Jeanne Meister

Big Ball of Mud

qual-software archives - February 2000: Codes and headaches and things of that nature

Links to text analysis software - by Harald Klein

Latest issue of Kairos!

http://www.bsu.edu/classes/prince/eng101/Night/index.htm

What the breezeman wants to check out.

THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND AND POST-MODERNISM

The computer underground is a culture of persons who call
computer bulletin board systems (BBSs, or just "boards"), and
share the interests fostered by the BBS. In conceptualizing the
computer underground as a distinct culture, we draw from Geertz's
(1973: 5) definition of culture as a system of meanings that give
significance to shared behaviors that must be interpreted from
the perspective of those engaged in them. A culture provides not
only the "systems of standards for perceiving, believing, evalu-
ating, and acting" (Goodenough, 1981: 110), but includes the
rules and symbols of interpretation and discourse for partici-
pants:

In crude relief, culture can be understood as a set of
solutions devised by a group of people to meet specific
problems posed by situations they face in com-
mon. . . This notion of culture as a living, historical
product of group problem

kuro5hin.org || technology and culture, from the trenches
I am the technology coordinator/network administrator at a high visibility public high school in the capital city of a southern state. Because of the visibility of my position, I found myself last week in a meeting with the Governor, the State Superintendent of Education and several representatives of the local military base's IT program. We were there to discuss how we are going to improve Technology Education statewide. All involved want to make sure our next generation has: a) the IT skills to find a decent job, and b) the IT employers in state to hire them. They all seemed quite sincere about wanting to do something, if less sure about what exactly needs to be done
Now I have been told to write an email with suggestions of some avenues to explore. If you had the opportunity to write this email yourself, what would you suggest?

Word of the day: panopticophobia

From Kathy F. on the now defunct ACW list.

"If you write for God, you will reach many people and bring them joy. If you write for people, you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish you were dead."

-- Thomas Merton

Narrative Psychology: Cultural Psychology and Anthropology

Designing a Wired Life
Once upon a time, Western culture associated information technology with an old and powerful story about the future. The future, according to this story, lies in rationality, and the task of the engineer is to discover optimally rational social arrangements in a scientific manner and then impose them upon the world. This picture was already fashionable in the early 19th century through the works of Henri de Saint-Simon (Hayek 1952), and it remained vigorous until the end of the Cold War (Lilienfeld 1978). Information technology grew up in the midst of this project of social rationalization, and the main tradition of computer system design is still organized around a cycle of studying existing work ractices, rationalizing them, and either automating them altogether or using technology to impose a rational order on them.

genehack: october 2000 archives
And then I remembered: in my haste to get the class together, I'd used the PowerPoint
presentation of the person who was supposed to speak -- a presentation loaded down
with various bits of zinging text and dancing graphics. And at that point, I realized
yet another aspect of the PowerPoint evil. Not only does that crap piece of malware
result in speakers spending more time on useless appearance-based noodling and not
enough time on the actual content of what they're talking about, it encourages the
audience to go into TV watching mode, to sit back and enjoy the little bits of
pixels that go whizzing about the screen.

Plan Gives Computers to Teachers
The $110 million in state funding is a one-time investment, and school districts that
choose to participate will have to come up with money to maintain and replace the
computers in the future.

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