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	Welcome Vita Reprints Contact Me UIPhotos UIHistories UITours Profile of a Campus My Guidebooks		Kalev Leetaru: Publications / Preprints / Reprints Please see my Vita for my complete publication list. Not all publications may be available on this page due to publisher restrictions. This page contains a list of manuscripts, white papers, preprints, reprints, and other publications that I've received requests for in the past and have been able to make available online. JOURNAL REPRINTS/PREPRINTS Some of my journal publications are available online as reprints/preprints: New media vs old media: A portrait of the Drudge Report 2002-2008. First Monday. Vol. 14, Issue 7. (July 6, 2009). Cover article of issue. Covered in several hundred blogs and independent media outlets, along with: Columbia Journalism Review (Drudge Has Lost His Touch by Ethan Porter, Sep/Oct 2009 Feature) Gawker: How Reuters Underwrote Andrew Breitbart's Budding Right-Wing Web Empire Politico Gawker: Matt Drudge By the Numbers Gawker: The Drudge Report Power List The New York Observer KFWB All News Radio in Los Angeles IMDB (The Internet Movie Database) The Wrap Airbrushing History, American Style: The Mutability of Government Documents in the Digital Era. D-Lib. Vol 15, Num 1/2. (January/February 2009). With Scott Althaus. Covered in the New York Times. Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance. First Monday. Vol. 13, Issue 10. (October 6, 2008). Covered in interview with Que Leer magazine. An Open Source Study of International Media Coverage of the WorldCom Scandal. Journal of International Communication, Vol 14, Issue 2. (2008). BOOK CHAPTER REPRINTS/PREPRINTS My book chapter is available as a reprint: Instant Messaging as a Hypermedium in the Making. Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication. (2008). Editors: Kelsey, Sigrid & St.Amant, Kirk. IGI, Inc. CONFERENCE PAPERS/POSTERS Some of my conference publications and posters are available online as reprints: The use of data mining methods to evaluate public interest in carbon sequestration. Fifth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia, May 8-11, 2006. (Poster presentation on CD-ROM proceedings as Poster 075). ShadowLight: A Flexible Environment for Multipurpose Design and Evaluation. IS&T / SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, San Jose, California, January 16-20, 2005. [Presentation Slides] ShadowLight: A Flexible Architecture for Immersive Rapid Prototyping and Design. SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California, July 7-12, 2004. [Abstract] [Video] POPULAR MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS I was interviewed earlier this year in Que Leer, the preeminent Spanish cultural magazine, on where I saw the future of the library going in the digital era: Como Sera el Mundo del Libro en el 2020? Seis expertos predicen el futuro (What will the world of the library look like in 2020? Six experts predict the future). Interview in Que Leer, article by Alvaro Colomer. January 2009 issue, pp. 38-45. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MAGAZINE ARTICLES I was involved with the University of Illinois section of the Society of Women Engineers for more than half a decade, serving as their Staff Advisor from 2008 to 2009, and as the co-lead and special advisor to their diversity and historical initiatives, as well as helping to plan their 2010 regional conference. Under the leadership of UIUC Section President and Diversity Lead Jessica Wood, SWE launched an ambitious diversity initiative beginning in 2007 that conducted two surveys of the gender diversity climate in the University of Illinois College of Engineering, involved reaching out to student organizations, faculty, and sponsors across the campus and College, and a final report and proposal that was presented to the Dean of the College. The College is now launching a series of diversity initiatives to address the findings of the report and working towards several of the recommendations of the proposal. In the addition to the Diversity Initiative, we also launched a History Initiative in advance of UIUC SWE's 50th anniversary in 2010. Illinois was the 4th Collegiate Section founded and thus has a rich history that had largely been lost to time. We published two articles in the National SWE magazine, one outlining the Diversity Initiative, and the other a how-to guide for other Collegiate SWE sections on how to research their section's history. Diversity from the Ground Up. With Jessica Wood. SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers. Society of Women Engineers. Conference 2008 issue, pp. 40-46. Read an overview of UIUC's student-led Diversity Initiative. Your Collegiate Section History is Waiting to be Discovered. With Jessica Wood. SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers. Society of Women Engineers. Fall 2008 issue, pp. 62-64. Read an overview of UIUC's history initiative, along with tips on how to research your own student organization's history. For those intested in the diversity summary report that we submitted to the College of Engineering, or our final recommendations that we proposed to the Dean, both are available below. Status and Summary of Gender Diversity in the College of Engineering.. With Jessica Wood. Presented to the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. Pathways To Progress: Proposal and Recommendations for Improving Gender Diversity in the College of Engineering. With Jessica Wood. Presented to the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. Letter Presenting Original Survey Results to Dean of College of Engineering. With Jessica Wood. Presented to the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. POPULAR MAGAZINE ARTICLES The University of Illinois Alumni Magazine has used several of my photos in their magazine (including their cover), and in 2005 I wrote an article for them based on my UIHistories site about the Class Tree Wars: Class Tree Wars. Illinois Alumni Magazine. University of Illinois Alumni Association (Urbana, IL). Nov/Dec 2005 issue, p. 48. ELECTRONICALLY PUBLISHED BOOKS I have written five books that have been published electronically: An Analytical Partial Content Analysis Bibliography: 1938-2008. Released in 2008, this project was an attempt to catalog historical books written on content analysis and offer a rough catagorization of them by major focus area. A Student's Perspective: A Crash Course in Career Seeking. I am frequently asked to critique resumes and offer career advice to undergraduate students entering the workforce and developed this guidebook and associated 1-hour presentation series that I offer as a workshop. The guidebook has proved extremely popular and so I've released it as a free download here. A Speaker's Guide to Painless and Successful Public Speaking. I also offer a workshop series on public speaking and conference presentations, and have made that guidebook available here as well. Profile of a Campus: A Research Project to Profile Higher Education Institutions. My landmark 2006 study on the state of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus garnered signficant attention when the University was organizing its Strategic Planning initiative and offers a model for how to understand institutions of higher education through a variety of data-driven dimensions. A Historical Survey of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A Complete Inventory and Biography of its Buildings, Memorials, Gifts, and Collections and Overview of its Founding and Early Student Life. Published in 2004, this work has become the definitive guide to the physical history of the University of Illinois, chronicaling its buildings and major landmarks through time. WHITE PAPERS In November 2008 my colleague Scott Althaus and I released a study on the revisionist history of a key White House press release relating to the Coalition of the Willing for the Iraq War. We found that the list was altered over a period of years to add and remove countries, all without altering the date of the press releases, making it appear that the countries had always (or never) been a member of the coalition. The study was covered by the New York Times: Airbrushing History, American Style. Scott Althaus and Kalev Leetaru (November 26, 2008). Featured in the New York Times. COLLECTIONS I am the Founder and Chief Photographer of UIPhotos/Phantasm, the University of Illinois's primary image collection, featuring more than 80,000 images: UIPhotos/Phantasm. 80,000 images of the University of Illinois, national, and international sites. Published Electronically. Largest single provider of imagery of the University of Illinois. Over 17,000 use licenses issued. http://uiphotos.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ UNIVERSITY INFORMATIONAL PUBLICATIONS While at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications I was heavily involved in giving tours of its scientific visualization and virtual reality facilities and helped organize and oversee its participation in several Engineering Open Houses (EOH). As part of this outreach activity, I wrote a series of one-page informational pamphlets that were given to visitors. These proved extremely popular and became a sort of "souvenir" of a visit to our facilities: VIAS: A Pathway to Knowledge. Overview of the VIAS web mining system we developed at NCSA. Phantasm: UIPhotos / UIHistories: State of the Art Media Management. Overview of the UIPhotos and UIHistories media management technologies. ShadowLight-Mirage: A New Era in Visual Communication. Overview of the ShadowLight-Mirage immersive virtual reality CAVE application for architectural design. Architectural Design in Immersive Virtual Reality. With Emma Smith. Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ShadowLight: A Flexible Architecture for Immersive Rapid Prototyping and Design. Audio/Video Production, Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. July 7th, 2004. Video Production: Jeff Carpenter Tiled Display Wall Information Pamphlet. Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 9th, 2002. Technologies of SciVis/VR Information Pamphlet. Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 8th, 2002. Applications of SciVis/VR Information Pamphlet. Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 6th, 2002. ImmersaDesk2 Information Pamphlet. Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. February 26th, 2001. CAVE Information Pamphlet. Visualization and Virtual Environments Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. February 26th, 2001. AGENDA SETTING I compiled a brief evolutionary overview of Agenda Setting in May 2009 that traces its history through the lens of propaganda research: Agenda Setting: An Overview. An overview of agenda setting that paints a brief evolutionary history of the field using the annotated reading list below. Agenda Setting: An Annotated Reading List. An annotated reading list of key developments in the history of agenda setting theory. EVENT MINING FROM NEWS REPORTS Much of my work on event mining from news reports is not yet published. However, I have included below the final results of a small grant-funded pilot study I conducted in 2009 for the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois (AEL) on the compilation of a global database of entrepreneurship events from newspaper content. Global Entrepreneurship Event Database Project: AEL Grant Final Report. The Final Report of the project, with detailed analyses of geographic and temporal patterns in the event data, with notes on future directions. HISTORIC MANUSCRIPTS The following manuscripts represent older work that I am no longer actively researching, or assorted topics that I've written on in the past. A Preliminary Investigation of Information Consumption, Production, and Need in A Minority-Serving University Student Organization: A Case Study of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Section of the Society of Women Engineers Literature Review. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: February 15th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 9 Pages. Research Topic. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 1st, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 10 Pages. Consent Form. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 15th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 2 Pages. Interview. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 15th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 6 Pages. Contact Email. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 15th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 1 Page. Study Design. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 15th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 14 Pages. Final Presentation Overview. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: April 26th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 4 Pages. Final Paper. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: April 26th, 2005. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 21 Pages. Business A Brief Synopsis of Good to Great. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 18th, 2004. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 5 Pages. A Brief Synopsis of Who Moved My Cheese. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: April 15th, 2004. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 4 Pages. Distributed Knowledge Distributed Knowledge: Case Study 1: E-Science and Awareness. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: October 3rd, 2008. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 5 Pages. Distributed Knowledge: Case Study 2: Personalization and Virtualization in Museums. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: November 6th, 2009. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 5 Pages. Distributed Knowledge: Case Study 3: CSCW Awareness for Memory in Education. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: December 3rd, 2009. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 4 Pages. Geology Methane Hydrate: An Apocalyptic Panacea. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: April 23rd, 2004. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 7 Pages. Graduate School Review of Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process by Kjell Rudestam and Rae Newton. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 13, 2006 FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 3 Pages. History Augustus Caesar: The Forgotten Leader. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: April 13th, 2004. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 7 Pages. Information and Communicative Fusion Information and Communicative Fusion. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: September 6, 2006. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 3 Pages. Interface Taming the Information Jungle: A Brief Treatment of Creation Dichotomy in Content Management Systems. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: May 3rd, 2004. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 6 Pages. The Many Faces of Interface. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: May 3rd, 2004. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 6 Pages. Language Cyc: An Expert Framework for Consensus Knowledge Quantification. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: May 8th, 2002. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 8 Pages. Evaluation of Human Knowledge Validation. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: November 20th, 2000. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 8 Pages. Language Use in Advertising: An Analysis of Linguistic Features Across Readership Domains. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: May 9th, 2001. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 10 Pages. Stochastic Processes in Language: A Classical Quantification of the Anglo-Estonian Dialect. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. RELEASED: March 9th, 2001. FORMAT: Adobe PDF. LENGTH: 24 Pages.