'ISA XIV World Congress of Sociology 'Social Knowledge: Heritage, Challenges, Perspectives
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RC35 'Research Committee on Conceptual & Terminological Analysis'
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President: George Graham, Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville
Preliminary Programme:
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Sessions 'Social Sciences in the
World Wide Web I/II'
Monday, July 27 14:00-18:30
(Chair: Peter Ohly, Informationszentrum
Sozialwissenschaften Bonn)
At the 14th World Congress of Sociology
there will be held by RC35 a session on concept representations
and conceptual aids concerning the Social Sciences in the World
Wide Web. Themes to be discussed in connection with the WWW will
be: automatic indexing, internet-o-metrics, content analysis,
browsing schemes, meta information, standardization, clearinghouses.
This session is a joint session with RC 33 'Logic and Methodology
in Sociology' (President: Ray Pawson, Univ. Leeds, UK; <http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/isa/rc33.htm>)
Papers to be presented:
Carl Cuneo,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
Internet Quality Standards for Sociology
(paper will not be presented during the session)
Larry R. Ridener,
Radford, Virginia, USA:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Cyberspace:
Ups and Downs of the Dead Sociologists' Society from the Creator's
Perspective
Debra Hiom,
Bristol, UK:
The Quest for Quality on the Web
Session
II, Monday, July 27 16:30-18:30:
Paul Pelowski,
Colchester, UK:
Developing HASSET, a Web-based Thesaurus for the Social Sciences
Harald Klein,
Jena, Germany:
Text Analysis of Data in the World Wide Web
Albert Benschop,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
Sociology of Skywriting:
The Internet as a medium and object of sociological research
updated: Peter Ohly, July
21st 1998