Hi Joan, Several students from UIC and and myself completed a white paper on the growth of the community using both qualitative data from interviews as well as an analysis of the listserv archive. I presented the results of this study at AOIR 2016 in Berlin and we submitted the paper to the executive committee. From what I understand, there were also students under Annette Markham at Aarhus University doing something similar at that time as well. The details are fuzzy since I haven’t looked at the information since presenting it, but I’d be willing to share some of the public data on the history of AOIR that I organized if it is helpful. Additionally, if you wanted to see the rest of the paper it would be worth contacting Adrienne Massanari or the executive committee from 2016. It’s possible Thomas Kannampallil might have the historical data on the listserv itself. -- Nathanael Bassett PhD Candidate | Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago t# 203.400.8203 twitter: mrliterati <http://twitter.com/mrliterati> url: mrliterati.com On February 9, 2018 at 7:45:40 AM, jc u (jcu@execulink.com) wrote: Hello, I am a graduate student of the MLIS program at University of Alberta and I have been a subscriber to this list for many years. I am currently taking a course on Human Information Interaction and I am currently researching listservs and their continued usefulness. For this purpose, I would like to write about the history and growth of this email discussion list. Would anyone be willing to share this information, or be willing to point me to a source that includes this information? The AIR-L website does not seem to include its own history. Your help would be so greatly appreciated. Thank you, Joan U _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/