Hello, all. I am hoping the community here may be able to help me
understand the extent to which information technologies (IT) are being used in
Political Science research and teaching. My colleagues here rarely use
computers for anything other than word processing or statistical analysis; by
documenting the breadth of IT-usage in research and teaching, I hope to begin
persuading some of them to be more creative with these technologies.
With this in mind, I am seeking citations to published research which
presents a new, IT-based approach, along the following (or additional) modes of
inquiry or analysis:
* Surveying (e.g., dynamic or internet-based)
* Interviewing (e.g.,
digital recording, e-mail)
* Focus-groups (e.g., instant messaging, "chat
rooms")
* Internet media (e.g., usenets, weblogs, websites)
* Traditional
media (distributed electronically)
* Process tracing, cognitive mapping
*
Experiments / simulations
* Socio-economic mapping (e.g., GIS, GAP
analysis)
* Content / textual analysis (e.g., lexical, syntactic,
semantic)
* Code and retrieve
* Boolean analysis (i.e., discrete or
fuzzy-set)
* Theory-building (mapping relationships via hyperlinks, Forester
diagramming)
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I am willing to provide
a compiled bibliography to interested parties.
Kind regards,
Ken Cousins
Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda
Department
of Government and Politics
University of Maryland, College Park
T: (301)
405-4133
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