We would like to have one or two more people on a panel for AOIR on social change. Please let me know if you would be interested in participating on the following panel: That was Then, This is Now This panel begins with a thought exercise.Each panelist has chosen a classic text from their home discipline and asks: what would happen if the author of that text revisited that topic today, using tools, techniques, or perspectives shaped by recent innovations in information technology and/or the digital humanities?We are building on a question that one of our panelists, the historian of computing Nathan Ensmenger, asks in his article "The Digital Construction of Technology: Rethinking the History of Computers in Society," about Bruno Latour's ground breaking ethnography of scientific practice, Laboratory Life.If Latour were to revisit the Salk Institute, what would he make of the pervasive presence of computers, computer-based instruments, and computational metaphors?How would this change the ways in which he did his research, his interpretation of the role of (increasingly digital) inscription devices, or his conclusions about the ways in which social interaction shapes the formation of scientific knowledge?Each of our panelists will perform a similar thought experiment as a starting point for thinking about the historical transformations happening both to one's object of analysis and to the practice of scholarship in the Internet era. Please keep in mind that abstracts are due March 13th. Apologies for the short notice, Ilana