[NORSLIS] Call for Participation: NORSLIS roadshow in Oslo on 'Studying the Web and its use'

[Nils Pharo]

Dear doctoral students and colleague researchers,


The second stop of the NORSLIS roadshow on 'Studying the Web and its
use' takes place in Oslo, September 27-28 (the first roadshow stop was
in Tallinn, March 30-31).

The aim of the roadshow is to present new developments in Web studies
including research on user-created web spaces (e.g., blogs, wikis,
social bookmarking and folksonomies), users' seeking behaviour on the
Web, as well as statistical methods for measuring web phenomena, also
known as webometrics.

The road show is placed in connection with the 11th Nordic Bibliometric
Workshop, September 28-29, Oslo. (The road show ends at 12.15 on
September 28 as the Workshop starts at 13.00).

We want to stress the opportunity on the second day of the roadshow on
Thursday, September 28, for PhD students to discuss and receive feedback
on Web-related aspects (not necessarily main aspects) in their PhD
projects. Please note that Ph.D. students who want to participate on the
second day should register by e-mail to Dr. Nils Pharo
(nils.pharo at jbi.hio.no) already on July 1, 2006 at the latest.


ROADSHOW LECTURERS/SUPERVISORS:

Prof. Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK -
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/mycv.html
Dr. Nils Pharo, Oslo University College, Norway -
http://home.hio.no/~nilsp/index_eng.htm
Dr. Lennart Björneborn, Royal School of LIS, Copenhagen, Denmark -
http://www.db.dk/lb


TENTATIVE PROGRAMME:

Day 1 (September 27): Open Roadshow for researchers, Ph.D. students and
other selected students

09.00 - 09.10 Welcome
09.10 - 10.10 Web characteristics and emerging user-created web spaces / 
L. Björneborn
10.10 - 10.25 Coffee break
10.25 - 11.25 Methods for studying Web searching / N. Pharo
11.25 - 12.25 Webometrics: A social science perspective on link analysis 
/ M. Thelwall
12.25 - 13.20 Lunch
13.20 - 14.20 Webometrics: Some tools and techniques / M. Thelwall
14.20 - 15.20 A study of bridging links across academic web boundaries / 
L. Björneborn
15.20 - 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 - 16.40 Web searchers in transit: an empirical study / N. Pharo

Day 2 (September 28): Closed Roadshow for supervision of Ph.D. students

09.00 - 12.15 Student presentations of projects, supervision and discussion.

The Nordic Bibliometric Workshop starts at 13.00. This means that only a
limited number of Ph.D. students may take part in the roadshow in the
morning.

The roadshow seminar is equivalent to 1 course ECTS.



PARTICIPATION:

Pre-Registration is mandatory due to space allocation. Deadline for the
registration to the Open Roadshow on September 27 is by August 15, 2006
by e-mail to Dr. Nils Pharo (nils.pharo at jbi.hio.no).

Ph.D. students who want to participate also in the Closed Roadshow on
September 28 should register by e-mail to Dr. Nils Pharo
(nils.pharo at jbi.hio.no) already on July 1, 2006 at the latest.
Descriptions of Ph.D. projects should be sent 3 weeks in advance of the
road show to all three lecturers.

Ph.D. students under the NORSLIS programme may apply for travel support
to the NORSLIS Board, i.e. Olle Persson (olle.persson at soc.umu.se), no
later than July 1, 2006.
See more information on how to apply:
http://www.norslis.net/general/norslishowtoapply.html




You are very welcome to spread this Call for Participation to others who
might be interested to take part in the NORSLIS roadshow in Oslo.


Best regards,
Nils Pharo and Lennart Björneborn
-- 
Nils Pharo, førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor
Høgskolen i Oslo/Oslo University College
Avd. JBI/Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science
Mail address:Postboks 4 St. Olavs plass, N-0130 Oslo;
Visiting address: Pilestredet 48; Tel: +47 22 45 26 84