Monday, August 22, 2011

WORDij

WORDij

Peter Holme's word stemmer My cool tool for preparing chunks of text for quantitative text analysis.

Peter Holme's word stemmer
My cool tool for preparing chunks of text for quantitative text analysis.

some words in english, spanish, japanese, by Akemi Mochizuki

dance/bailar:「踊る」
drink/beber:「飲む」
erase/borrar:「消す、消去する」
kiss/besar:「キスする」
lower/bajar:「下がる、降りる」
sweep/barrer:「掃除する、一掃する」
take a bath/bañar:「入浴させる、ぬらす」 ※bañarse 「入浴する」

Akemi has many tools designed to learn languages, into the Virtual World Second Life. Visit her marvellous place on the Virtual World.

OpenStack Compute

Open source software for building
private and public clouds

WEFT QDA


A free qualitative analysis software application

http://www.pressure.to/qda/#intro

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Two Views of Communication: Transmission & Ritual

Two Views of Communication: Transmission & Ritual
From James W. Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

IS ‘EMPOWERMENT’ THE ANSWER? Current Theory and Research on Development Communication Robert A. White

IS ‘EMPOWERMENT’ THE ANSWER?
Current Theory and Research on Development Communication
Robert A. White.
GAZETTE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR COMMUNICATION STUDIES
COPYRIGHT © 2004 SAGE PUBLICATIONS
LONDON, THOUSAND OAKS & NEW DELHI 0016-5492 VOL 66(1): 7–24

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Journal of Virtual Studies. VOL 2, NO 1 (2011): 2011 VWBPE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Journal of Virtual Studies. VOL 2, NO 1 (2011): 2011 VWBPE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference is an annual conference which is managed by Rockcliffe University Consortium in trust for the virtual world community. This year's organizers were Kevin Feenan, Kae Novak, and Chris Luch.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Logic of Collective Action

The Logic of Collective Action
Special Interests and Economic Policy
From Mike Moffatt, former About.com Guide

A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication By W. Lance Bennett and Shanto Iyengar

A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication
By W. Lance Bennett and Shanto Iyengar.Journal of Communication. 2008

George Akerlof

George Akerlof
wikipedia

website (Berkeley University)

The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism
George A. Akerlof
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 84, No. 3. (Aug., 1970), pp. 488-500

Steven S. Wildman

Why New Media Services are Different
Steven S. Wildman
Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law
Michigan State University


Trade Liberalization and Policy for Media Industries: A Theoretical Examination of Media Flows
Steven S. Wildman (Northwestern University)Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 20, No 3 (1995)

Peter R. Monge (Publications)

Peter R. Monge. USC. Annenberg School of Communication.
Publications

to hiragana Japanese box, by Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar)

to hiragana Japanese box, created by Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar) is a device which allow avatars to translate the vogals to hiragana. By using this tool, people can take advantage of the virtual world for learning the hiragana symbols in a funny and innovative way. You can find this tool at the shop which Akemi Mochizuki has in Second Life and where you can find a lot of interesting devices for being applied at Virtual Worlds.


The development of social network analysis. A study in the sociology of science. By Linton C. Freeman

The development of social network analysis. A study in the sociology of science.
By Linton C. Freeman.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004111710. Publisher: BookSurge, LLC
North Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 1-59457-714-5

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