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Yooopeeeee !!!

Three days over due but still … I finished the Oxford paper. But the party isn’t over just yet. Friday, deadline for Cambridge paper. Ok, off to work, Bojana!

And … and … and … less then a month and then I am off to London. For almost six weeks … I am so much looking forward to going.

By Nana | June 7, 2005 | Topics: Conferences, Research | No Comments »

Been working all days …

… yeh I know. Lousy excuse for not blogging. But it’s so much true these days. If I ever had used ‘I am oh so busy’ excuse for not blogging before, now it’s for real. I am working nites, I never did before. I lack time so much that I even skip my morning habit of reading all my favorite blogs. I took a moment today tho to discover that Michael changed Carniola’s looks - wow, Michael! Anyway, I am busy with something extremely pleasant for a change: my PhD. The ‘mixed-method experiment’ is in a full run and I can’t wait to discover what comes out of it. I am keeping the details for myself so far. I am gonna be presenting the preliminary results at Cambridge conference in July.

Things that also occupy my mind lately:
-what the heck is wrong with my laptop (ventilator on all the time);
-when am gonna be playing with my cute nephews again, I am starting to miss them;
-my friend is getting married this Saturday (my first friend getting married, mind I found out three days ago, cos my mum didn’t tell me about her snail mail invitation), so what should I buy as a wedding present;
-(no,I am not worried what am gonna be wearing, tho);
-been busy finding a flatshare for my London summer stay, quite successfully I dare say;
-trying to prepare my brain to the idea of writing up my Oxford paper, deadline approaching fast;
-daydreaming about various things;
-being worried about one specific thing.

Gnite;))

By Nana | April 18, 2005 | Topics: Conferences, General, PhD | No Comments »

More of GOR

The third presentation on this session addressed the future of blogging. Author (Rasco Perschke) introduced a new technique for analysing blogs, called COM (communication-oriented modelling). We can use it for describing a large-scale communication networks, focusing on “message to message” relations, or for social variability and different levels of connectability. COM theory is a social theory, concentrating on messages and communication operations (inception and reception). Authors made a study of linking, since links are the central elements of weblog posting. They looked at how links were integrated into blogs entries. The last presentation I listened to in this session was a very interesting Jan Schmidt’s presentation on Blogging as social action. Firstly, he introduced various styles of blogging: private journals, expert communication, corporate communication and political communication. Then he introduced how a blogging episode is framed by various structural elements, such as codes, rules and relations. Those interested can find the whole stuff here.

After lunchtime I went to listen to session Digital Divide & Digital Inequality, which included three presentation (one of them was Vesna’s Advanced Measuring of Digital Divide). But in was particularly intrigued by the one on Non users of internet, presented by Maren Hartmann. She conceptualised the internet non-user as a research category. They don’t use internet due to lack of trust, luck of abilities, they either have no need or desire. To find out more about non-users, please read this report from Pew Internet.

The last three sessions I listened to on Tuesday were session on Website evaluation, session on Interaction Processes in Online Groups and last one Response rates in Online Surveys. The most impressive presentations: Uwe Matzat on Theory of relational signals in online groups and Adam Joinson (who also chaired the blogger session) with Personalisation, authentication and self-disclosure in self-administered web surveys. Well, this one was really something. That nice British accent, a cup of coffee and very relaxed appearance made it the winner of the conference for me;)). Tho I must not forget Lars with his progress indicators and Katja’s meta-analysis. I was really tired by the end of the day so I made very little or no notes at all. But after the first day, I was very happy with the conference. A delicious conference dinner was a nice closure to it.

To be continued …

By Nana | April 1, 2005 | Topics: Conferences, Les Voyages | No Comments »

Catching up - GOR 05 conference in Zurich

I came to Zurich on Sunday morning and Raph was waiting for me at the airport. It was really nice to see her again. We had loads of stuff to catch up so we kept chatting and chatting and chatting. We did a lot of work (I was still working on my presentation, she was preparing her lessons for her Monday classes) and a bit of walking around.

Monday: In the morning, Raphaela went to work and I worked a bit more, too. In the afternoon, we took a walk thru the city and visited few shops. We were meeting Vesna and Katja at about 3 pm. The nicest coincidence happened when I ran into Vesna immediately when entering a specific shop we both like;). So we waited for Katja, had some quick lunch and did some more walking around. And, me and Raph finally got to buy our sleeping masks so we eagerly tried them on when going to bed after some relaxation with SATC.

Tuesday: The first conference day. I got to registration desk and again ran into Katja and Vesna (good, we didn’t have to phone). After a keynote speaker, I went to listen the session on The Social use of Weblogs. It was really interesting, with five presenters. First one being was Martin Welker, who talked about The journalist’s use of blogs. In the beginning he presented some statistics, like that there are much more blog readers than blog writers, that in Germany, 65% of internet users don’t know what blog is, that only 3% of German users are actually writing blogs and that 80% of blogs terminate after one month or so. He posed some provoking questions like: Are mass media and gate keepers losing their power over publishing? The most frequently asked question Are bloggers journalists? This is quite unproductive question and we rather need to ask: Are journalists using blogs for their reporting?

The second speaker Nicola Doring talked about moblogs. Most interesting! Moblogs are mobile blogs, short text and photos published from wireless mobile devices. She suggested to check out some links: http://bubus.ch, http://belly.textamerica.com (collective moblog), http://stopbush.textamerica.com (political moblog) and a very creative http://www.09h09.com (the author uploads pictures of himself every morning at exactly 9.09 am). In 2004, 16% of mobile users use cam phones, and that influences on expansion of moblogs. Many mobloggers are also conventional bloggers. For searching thru moblogs we can use http://icerocket.com search engine. To sum up and make a distinction, moblogs are a form of communication about every day life, really small things, usually very personal things – some call it data garbage.

To be continued later …

By Nana | March 31, 2005 | Topics: Conferences, Les Voyages | No Comments »

Busy Busy

I am still around, haven’t escaped from the blogosphere yet. I am just so busy busy writing up papers for all those conferences. I always have the same problem when I sit down to write something. It’s a quite routine procedure:

Ahhh, what a pleasant escape, this blog, and I have just written 334 words in a blink (if only was so quick when it comes to papers). I should get back to my paper …

By Nana | March 15, 2005 | Topics: Conferences, Research | No Comments »

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