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Mixing Methods and Theory to Explore Web Activity
No full textWeb Science is now well recognized as an interdisciplinary field, drawing on research from the computational, natural and social sciences. These disciplines bring diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, providing alternative perspectives and insight into Web activity. Consequently, Web Science faces the challenge of developing research methods that transcend disciplines, not least in dealing with the epistemological tensions between different methodological approaches. As a start, this paper argues that, a mixed methods approach is required. To demonstrate the affordances of this, the activities of the UK Open Government Data community are analyzed by combining quantitative computational science techniques with qualitative social science methods underpinned by social theory. This provides a richer and more detailed analysis than either approach alone could offer and one which enables us to apprehend the Web as a complex socio-technical phenomenon.<br/
Notes from an author: Garrett Carr
No full textGarrett Carr on Ireland's Borderland. A tour of the border, looking at sites that would be of interest to a broad range of travellers and hikers
Notes from an author: Garrett Carr
No full textGarrett Carr on Ireland's Borderland. A tour of the border, looking at sites that would be of interest to a broad range of travellers and hikers
Oral history interview with Catherine Carr
No full textLength: 00:55:35.Video download at: https://mediapilot.georgetown.edu/ssdcms/i.do?u=105993992d5942
(Re)integrating the Web: beyond ‘socio-technical’
No full textIn this paper we present a socio-technical framework for understanding the Web, which attempts to re-integrate the micro perspective of engineered activity with the macro perspective of emergent global phenomena. Our conceptualization of the Web’s growth is grounded in a social theoretical approach to the interactions between humans and technologies and draws upon a three year study of Open Government Data as an emerging Web activity. The study, which has been conducted using a mixed methods approach to explore Web data, reveals a number of elements shaping the growth of this particular area of Web activity. Abstracting these elements, we have constructed an alternative paradigm to the popular micro-to-macro understanding of the Web’s evolution (build in lab, release to the public). The new paradigm presented in this paper argues that the Web grows through continuously emergent interactions, phases, and re-configurations. This transcends the separation of micro from macro in previous models and redefines the boundaries of what constitutes the Web, as a highly coupled social and technical phenomenon
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Letter From Wilbur John Carr to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, May 28, 1931
No full textA typed letter from Wilbur John Carr to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated May 28, 1931. Within, Carr discusses author Tracy Lay\u27s book about the Foreign Service and the passing of the Rogers Act.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_commerce_documents/1028/thumbnail.jp
Author's gift inscription in The Illini: A Story of the Prairies
No full textEdition includes a gift inscription from author Clark E. Carr, "Presented to my friend Hon. WB. Brinton with my sincere regards. Clark Elarr. Christmas 1905."Carr, Clark Ezra, 1836-1919
Letter from Ray E. Carr, Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Ray E. Carr to Carl Hayden with an invitation to celebrate the crossing of L.D.S. pioneers at Lee's Ferry
Carr, Wilfred, For Education: Toward Critical Educational Inquiry. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1995.
No full textReprints eight previously published articles by the author; includes new material by Carr in introduction and epilogue and by Stephen Kemmis in prologue; demonstrates use of philosphical inquiry on theory/practice issues and educational inquiry generally
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