FQS-Newsletter February 2005

Dear All,

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

Articles from former FQS issues, now also available in additional languages
Articles, published in February 2005
Call for papers, FQS Special Issue "The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Ibero America"
From our readers
Conferences
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES FROM FORMER FQS ISSUES

The article "Laura Gets Her PhD. A Satire in Seven Acts", published in the German language in FQS 4(2), is now also available in English. The text was translated after Angelika's unexpected death by her long time companion, Dinu C. Gherman.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03birck-e.htm

The article "On the Potentials and Problems of Secondary Analysis. An Introduction to the FQS Special Issue on Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data" by Louise Corti, Andreas Witzel & Libby Bishop, published in the English language in FQS 6(1), is now available in German too.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-49-d.htm

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2005

Volker Barth (France): Claudia Bruns & Tilmann Walter (Eds.) (2004). Von Lust und Schmerz. Eine Historische Anthropologie der Sexualitaet [Lust and Pain. A Historical Anthropology of Sexuality]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-6-e.htm

Brian Christens (USA): Review Note, Robert Neuwirth (2005). Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-8-e.htm

Daniel Dominguez Figaredo & Laura Alonso Diaz (Spain): Conference Report: II Online Congress for the Observatory of the Cybersociety: Towards what Knowledge Society?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-2-e.htm
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-2-s.htm

Robert B. Faux (USA): To Reveal Thy Heart Perchance to Reveal the World. Review Essay: Ronald J. Pelias (2004). A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-7-e.htm

Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review Note, Thomas Kuehn (2004). Berufsbiografie und Familiengruendung. Biografiegestaltung junger Erwachsener nach Abschluss der Berufsausbildung [Vocational Biography and Family Planning: The Shaping of the Biographies of Young Adults After Vocational Training]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-3-e.htm

Lawrence J. Hammar (Papua New Guinea): From Margins to Centers ... Hopefully. Review Essay: Judith Green & Nicki Thorogood (2004). Qualitative Methods for Health Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-4-e.htm

Reinhard Kacianka (Austria): Review Note, Mathias Spohr (2003). Das gemeinsame Mass. Ansaetze zu einer allgemeinen Medientheorie [The Common Measure. Approaches to a General Media Theory]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-5-e.htm

Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note, Heinz Bonfadelli (2002). Medieninhaltsforschung. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen [Media Content Research. Foundations, Methods, Applications]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-1-d.htm

Barbara Zielke (Germany): The Case for Dialogue. Reply to: "Social Constructionism as Cultism," Carl Ratner, December 2004
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-13-e.htm

C) CALL FOR PAPERS, FQS SPECIAL ISSUE "THE STATE OF THE ART OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN IBERO AMERICA"

The CfP for the planned issue on "The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Ibero America" is available online: see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/CfP_Ibero_America-s.htm for the Spanish and http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/CfP_Ibero_America-e.htm for the English version.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

D) FROM OUR READERS

Telephone focus groups

Action research and the adoption of computer technologies in rural general practice

Software related to photo analysis

E) CONFERENCES

June 24-25, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
1. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung [1st Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Methods; German language only]
http://www.berliner-methodentreffen.de/

October 21-23, Velden, Austria
Workshop "Generalization in Qualitative Psychology" of the Center for Qualitative Psychology, Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/qualitative-psychologie/Me05.htm

November 4-6, Utrecht, The Netherlands
International Practitioner Research and CARN conference
http://www.prar2005.nl/

November 14-16, Renaissance Tunis Hotel, La Marsa, Tunisia
IRFD World Forum on Information Society Digital Divide, Global Development and the Information Society
http://www.irfd.org/events/wf2005/

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.

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

The February SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-05.htm.

A new service, called DOAR -- the Directory of Open Access Repositories -- started to support the emerging movement towards Open Access to research information; see http://www.opendoar.org/. The web site of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is still available at http://www.doaj.org/.

Conferences

February 28-March 1, University of Southampton, UK
Workshop "Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities"
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html

October 5-7, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany
International Conference on Open Access within the tradition of the Berlin Declaration
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html

Documents

Southampton Workshop on UK Institutional OA Repositories in January 2005
http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/programme.html
http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/presentations.html

PhD Defence Stuart Hamilton "To what extent can libraries ensure free, equal and unhampered access to Internet-accessible information resources from a global perspective?"
http://www.ifla.org/faife/news/2005/Free-equal-accessInternet05.htm

Study by Jennifer De Beer about "Open Access in South Africa: current status, significance, and the role of National Information Policy in the National System of Innovation" http://www.jenniferdebeer.net/research/DeBeerJenniferThesisMPhil2004.pdf (PDF file, 914 KB).

Journals

Ariadne, Issue 42
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/

International Journal for Ideographic Sciences (new journal)
http://www.valsiner.com/

M/C, Media and Culture 7(6)
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

Organdi Quarterly's, Issue 7
http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/OQ7/index7.htm

Qualitative Sociology Review (new journal)
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/index_eng.php

Social Research Update, Issue 44
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/

Last update: 30.07.2007

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