Information Technology and Politics Newsletter

  Fall, 2000

 
ITP at the 2000 APSA Meeting:

Business Meeting Saturday 5:30 pm
Reception Saturday 6:30pm

 

Panel 40 - 1 "Information Technology and Public Policy" 

Panel 40 - 2: "Assessing the Use of Technology in the Classroom"

Panel 40-3: "Going Virtual: Online Discussion in Political Science"

Panel 40-4: "Using Technology in Teaching Comparative Politics"

Panel 40 - 5: "Demonstration Panel: Web-Based Courseware Applications"

Panel 40 - 6: Information Technology And Political Science: Roundtable Honoring Gene Rochlin's "Trapped in the Net", Winner of the 1999 Don K. Price Prize for the Best Book on Science, Technology, and Politics

Panel 40-7: "Information Technology and Political Science Research"


Panel 40 - 8: Roundtable: "Global Politics and Technology: Power, Choice and the State at the End of the Millennium"

POSTERS  


Panel 40 - 1 "Information Technology and Public Policy" 
Chair: Jonathan Wilkenfeld, University of Maryland
Thursday 1:30 pm
Papers:

"Assessing Information Networking for Communities, Non-Profits and Local Governments"
Paul Baker, Georgia Tech

"Technology Policy In The Information Era: New Players, New Paradigms & New Possibilities"
Nanette Levinson, American University

"Politics of Online Privacy Policy: Politics as Usual?"
Priscilla Regan, George Mason University

"Visualizing And Deliberating Urban Planning Questions: Community Based Urban Planning And Technology in Minnesota"
Margaret Martin, University of Michigan

"The Cyberspace Challenges to Mainstream Advocacy Groups: The Case of Health Care Activism"
Patricia Siplon, Saint Michael's College
Laurie Brainard, George Washington University

Disc: Kent Portney, Tufts University

Panel 40 - 2 : "Assessing the Use of Technology in the Classroom"
Chair: R.G. Boynton, University of Iowa
Thursday 10:45 am
Papers:

"Multi-Media Classrooms - Bells and Whistles or New Learning for the Millenium?"
Terry Gilmour, Midland College

"Let them Speak!: Students' Assessments of Technology in the Classroom"
Michael Levy, Southeast Missouri State University

"The Multimedia Effect, Political Knowledge and Political Interest in American Politics"
David Rankin, SUNY - Fredonia

"Assessing the Internet's Impact on Teaching and Research in Political Science at a Jesuit University"
Frank Smist, Rockhurst University

"Internet-based Instruction using WebCT: Teaching Law & Politics" 
Artemus Ward, California State University - Chico

Disc: Jeffrey Seifert, Syracuse University

Panel 40-3 : "Going Virtual: Online Discussion in Political Science"
Chair: Robert G. Brookshire, James Madison University
Thursday 3:30 pm
Papers: 

"Using web-based forums to create culturally and politically inclusive virtual communities for enhanced learning"
Boland, Joseph, University of Oregon

"Teaching Current International Problems Using Home-Delivered, Synchronous Internet Video Conferencing"
James Jordan, Ohio University - Zanesville

"One-to-One, One-to-Many, and Many-to-Many Communications" Manrique, Cecilia, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

"Point and Click: The Efficacy of Online Discussion in Political Science"
Michael Molloy, University of California, San Diego

Disc: Tim Groeling, University of California, San Diego 
Robert Brookshire, James Madison University

Panel 40-4: "Using Technology in Teaching Comparative Politics"
Chair: Chip Hauss, George Mason University
Sunday 8:45:  
co-Sponsored by Div 10, Undergraduate Education
Papers: 

"Technology and the Advanced Placement Course"
Jana Eaton, Unionville High School (PA)
Ken Wedding, Hopkins High School (MN)

"MicroCase: Adding a Quantitative Dimension"
Michael LeRoy, Wheaton College

"Teaching the Traditional Way"
Philip Giddings, University of Reading 

"From Web-Based to Web-Assisted Instruction: Teaching Comparative Politics Online and On Campus"
Michael Kenney, University of Florida

Disc: Chip Hauss, George Mason University 

Panel 40 - 5 : "Demonstration Panel: Web-Based Courseware Applications"
Chair: Gary Klass, Illinois State University
Co-sponsored with Division 10, Undergraduate Education 
Saturday 8:45 am
Papers:

Mallard
Gary Klass, Illinois State University

WEBCT
Tracey L. Gladstone-Sovell, University of Wisconsin, River Falls

Eres
Thomas A. Birkland, University of Albany

WCB
Lori Blackmon Humm, Virginia Commonwealth University

Blackboard
William R. Wilkerson, SUNY, College at Oneonta

Panel 40 - 6: Information Technology And Political Science: Roundtable Honoring Gene Rochlin's "Trapped in the Net", Winner of the 1999 Don K. Price Prize for the Best Book on Science, Technology, and Politics
Chair: Edward J. Woodhouse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Saturday, 3:30 PM
Co-sponsored with Division 39, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics.
Part: 

Todd M. La Porte, George Mason University
Chris C. Demchak, University of Arizona
Michael C. Gizzi, Mesa State College
Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gene I. Rochlin, University of California, Berkeley

Panel 40-7: "Information Technology and Political Science Research"
Chair: Steven E. Frantzich, United States Naval Academy
Saturday10:45 am
Papers: 

"Multi-media, Multi-dimensional scholarship"
G.R. Boynton, University of Iowa

"The Future of Academic Knowledge Representation in the Age of Cyberscience"
Michael Nentwich, Austrian Academy of Sciences

"Lessons Learned from an Internet Panel Study"
Stephen S. Meinhold, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

"Using Hypertext Management Technology to Discover and Manage Knowledge in Case Study Research" 
D. Roman Kulchitsky, George Mason University

Discussant:Micah Altman, Harvard University

Panel 40 - 8 : Roundtable: "Global Politics and Technology: Power, Choice and the State at the End of the Millennium"
Chair: Frank Laird, University of Denver
Fri 3:30 pm
Co-sponsored with Div 39, Science, Technology, and Environment
Participants: 

James N. Rosenau, George Washington University
Ronald Deibert, University of Toronto
J. P. Singh, American University
Gillian Youngs, University of Leicester

POSTERS  

"Internet-based Data Analysis in Introductory Research Methods Courses"
Joseph Fletcher, University of Toronto
Robert Burge, Queen's University

"An Interdisciplinary On-Line Approach to Teaching the Modern Presidency"
Thomas Harte, Southeast Missouri State University

"Political Participation and Candidate Web Sites" 
Kimberly Gregson, Indiana University

"The Role of Computing Technology and the New York State Legislature" Antoinette Pole, CUNY, Graduate School and University Center 

"A Uses and Gratifications Theory of Internet Political Campaigns"
Jeffrey Sadow, Louisiana State University in Shreveport 

"The Associations of Cyberspace"
Paul Harwood, The University of Maryland