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- (This issue has been distributed jointly over InterCom & Newsline.)
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- Three items in this issue:
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- 1. Conference: Innovative Research Trends in the Human Sciences
- (U. of Alberta, Nov. 27 - 28); Includes Comserve/CIOS Presentation
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- 2. Call for Book Manuscripts
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- 3. Ethno Hotline Discusses Proposals for Name Change, New Hotline
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- INNOVATIVE RESEARCH TRENDS IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES
- University of Alberta
- Nov. 27-28 '92
-
- Submitted by R. L. Busch, Vice President for Research
- RBUSCH@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
-
- (Note: A presentation on Comserve and other CIOS projects will take
- place at this conference during an afternoon session on Saturday
- November 28.)
-
-
- Session descriptions (A full conference schdule will be available
- in Comserve's database within the next week.)
-
-
- I.PLENARY SESSION
-
- This Session will hear three twenty-minute presentations. The
- first, representing SSHRC, will address the growing importance of
- collaborative research for the Council. This will include thoughts on
- bridging disciplines and making the case for research collaboration
- among constituents of Canada's three Granting Councils. The next
- presentation will address newly emergent types of research resulting
- from technological change - for example, the use of hypercard for
- relational databases, research on computer-assisted education, etc. A
- third speaker will review the alternatives to a traditional research
- model, e.g., single-scholar approach, publication essentially by paper
- only. This speaker will endeavour to bring out the strengths of the
- alternatives, including their value added in terms of research
- outcomes and enabling structures. Conversely, this speaker will also
- address the putative limitations of the alternatives, as well as the
- human and institutional barriers that can be encountered in pursuing
- them. Emphasis in this presentation will be on a balanced introduction
- of the issues to be addressed in the sessions to follow.
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- II.BUILDING TEAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS
-
- The Canadian Tri-Council communique of April 24, 1992 has emphasized
- the Councils increasing commitment to a growing trend in interdis-
- ciplinary and collaborative research both within and across the
- Councils' boundaries. Successful collaboration cannot be imposed, but
- rather needs to be a natural fit whose advantages in terms of enriched
- perspectives, critical mass, ability to undertake and complete large
- tasks within a reasonable time, and educational rewards to student
- participants are readily justifiable. That the Councils are making
- collaboration and networking more of a priority should occasion
- researchers to explore the possibilities for a natural fit. This
- Session will emphasize the necessary conditions for successful team
- research, and will present a variety of case studies that embody the
- collaborative concept and strengthen its rationale.
-
- III RETHINKING THE RESEARCH AGENDA
-
- This Session will relate an Alberta experience of setting up an
- extensive Government-University interchange program to help share and
- generate knowledge of use to the broader community. Additionally, it
- will examine, the issue of finding credible and valuable supplements to
- the scholarly book and article for disseminating the results of
- human-sciences scholarship to decision makers in government and the
- private sector, as well as to the general public.
-
- IV SUPERVISORY RELATIONSHIPS
-
- An important trend in education involves fostering a learner-centred
- process as distinct from an instructor/professor-centred process.
- Learner-centred education has undoubtedly been highly characteristic of
- graduate studies at their best, particularly at the doctoral level where
- creativity is expected of candidates. However, there may be further
- room to move in this direction. While some human-sciences may be more
- conducive than others to promoting collaborative supervisory approaches,
- and, indeed, disciplinary constraints on collaboration will be
- addressed, nevertheless collaborative relationships are conceivable for
- almost any field. Several of these will be exemplified.
-
- V INNOVATIVE USES OF RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
-
- One can maintain that computers not only aid research, but sometimes
- make new sorts of research possible. This will be demonstrated on the
- basis the automated Index of Christian Art and on the basis of ICONCLASS
- a hierarchical, automated classification system that allows the
- retrieval of information from image data-bases in response to queries
- from researchers in different fields, using unregimented natural
- language. Additionally, this Session will demonstrate ways that
- computers can be used for advanced research in education delivery, and
- University of Alberta Library staff will present on the innovative use
- of library network resources. Another Session under this rubrique will
- focus on the challenges and opportunities inherent in the rapid
- emergence of electronic journals. If scholars in the human sciences can
- meet refereeing responsibilities, dispense with traditional dependence
- on paper and be at home on modern high-speed networks electronic
- journals offer a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly way to handle
- the information explosion at the speed-of-light. In addition to hearing
- about the Canadian experience with Surfaces and strategies for getting
- electronic journals up and running, and an American experience with
- Comserve: an on-line Disciplinary Centre for Communications Scholars
- and Students, attendees will learn of the forthcoming Manitoba
- Conference to promote the Establishment of a [North-American] Consortium
- to Sponsor the Computer Network Publication of Refereed Journals.
-
- VI INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITATION OF ALTERNATIVE MODELS
-
- As a word networking may still grate on some ears, but it, along
- with collaboration, has become increasingly prominent in scholarship.
- This suggests that scholars have already been resourceful in developing
- collaborative and networked relationships. It might be asked whether
- success has resulted from concerted institutional support, from benign
- institutional neglect or in spite of institutional barriers. To put
- matters more constructively, one can ask what institutions and/or their
- sub-units need to do to facilitate scholarly collaboration and
- networking. This might be through encouraging interdisciplinary
- projects, through encouraging the use of telecommunication applications
- by supplying effective support-staff and training opportunities, through
- having the reward system recognize meaningful contributions to applied
- research aspects of networking and collaboration, etc. Perspectives on
- institutional facilitation will be sought from two panels; panel
- discussion; one in which representatives of the the Granting Councils
- state their views on the importance of facilitating collaborative
- research either within or across Council boundaries; a second panel of
- university administrators will share their views on this subject.
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- CALL FOR BOOK MANUSCRIPTS -- HAMPTON PRESS
-
- Submitted by: Ron Rice <RRICE@ZODIAC.BITNET>
-
- Hampton Press is a new press committed to publishing outstanding
- monographs, textbooks, advanced readers, and edited volumes in the field
- of communications. The press is especially oriented toward electronic
- submissions and processing, quick publication turn-around, and paperback
- versions, all intended to reduce costs and make communication books more
- widely accessible.
-
- Its 16 content areas include:
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- - Communication Alternatives
- - Communication and Law
- - Communication and Participation
- - Communication and Social Space
- - Communication, Culture and Social Change
- - Communication, Peace and Development
- - Communication Pedagogy and Practice
- - Critical Studies in Communication
- - Feminist Studies
- - Interpersonal Communication
- - Mass Communications and Journalism
- - Mass Media and Telecommunication Systems, Processes and Effects
- - New Media: Policy and Social Research Issues
- - The Organizational Experience in Modern Society
- - Political Communication
- - Quantitative Methods in Communication
-
- For more information, contact Hampton Press at 23 Broadway,
- Cresskill, NJ 07626; phone: 201-894-1686; fax: 201-894-8732
-
- I am editor of the New Media content area: "New Media" include
- computer-mediated communication and collaborative media, new forms of
- telephone service and mobile communications, regional/national/
- international telecommunications networks, multimedia systems,
- developing applications of cable and television, as well as any other
- medium facilitated by computer capabilities. Approaches to policy and
- social research issues include theoretical arguments and research
- studies of any methodological or paradigmatic persuasion, including
- social science, regulatory, legal, economic, historical, and
- philosophical analyses.
-
- Please feel free to contact me directly concerning possible
- submissions to this area (DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS BULLETIN BOARD):
-
- Ronald E. Rice
- School of Communication
- Information & Library Studies
- P.O. Box 5067
- Rutgers University
- New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5067
- 908-932-7381
- email: RRICE@ZODIAC or RRICE@PISCES.RUTGERS.EDU
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- Ethno Hotline Discusses Name Change, New Hotline
-
- Acting on a suggestion from CIOS Associate Alan Harris, Comserve's
- staff is considering proposals to either change the name of the Ethno
- Hotline (to make it broader and more inclusive of scholars working in
- the area of language and social interaction) or to add a new hotline
- with a broader focus (possibly named LSI).
-
- Discussion of this matter is taking place currently on the Ethno
- hotline. Please join in if you are interested in this change. For a
- compilation of recent contributions, send this message to Comserve:
-
- Send Ethno Notebook
-
- To join the Ethno hotline, send this message:
-
- Join Ethno your name goes here
-
- e.g.:
- Join Ethno Sharon Smith
-
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