Hi, all. I'm a relative newcomer to AOIR and I've been impressed with the quality and quantity of information being shared here! Many thanks to the generous community for all your efforts. I am particularly interested in tourism, critical discourse, online communities of consumption and the merging of virtual and tangible destinations, i.e. Ascher's hyperplaces with Eglash's (after Sabel and Piore) Flexible Economic Networks. I am not at all sure of the overlap between this list and other tourism/leisure/sociology/geographic lists such as Trinet (sounds like a good SNA project?) and would welcome an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded scholars. My experience to date suggests much good work is being completed in the semiotic or critical analysis of tourism, and a large degree of investment in "hard" informatics to increase operational efficiency (groups such as IFITT), but not much at all happening in the nexus of these two areas. I have been fortunate to work with colleagues at NZTRI on such projects as destination web-raising and community informatics, but am eager to know what else is happening out there? Thanks and best wishes, Gordon Titchener A. Professor in Tourism Management, Thompson Rivers University (on leave 2008-09) http://www.tru.ca/tourism/management/faculty/gtitchener.html Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology http://www.nztri.org/ Director, Dynamic Frontiers Project http://www.tourismresearch.com