it might be that... you are using a problematic interpretative framework and that the framework, the way you are thinking, is actually causing more contradictions than the actual terms themselves. I suggest perhaps investigating the nature of the discourses surrounding the terms. The aoir term 'research' is expansive and not delimitting, there is a boundary, but I'd suggest, pugnaciously, that the end of research is likely on the otherside of pataphysics, and not on this side of society/objectivity. On Oct 21, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Sam Tilden wrote:
All,
Honestly I don't mean to be dogmatic or pugnacious. I am confused by the contradictions I see in Nacy's interpretation and what I think mission statement is about. I'm trying to learn from the hazards thatat others have experienced.
Pax Electronica,
Sam
Sam
Ellis Godard <egodard@csun.edu> wrote: The goal to "promote scholarly and critical research" seems narrower than "further our understandings of the internet" as you paraphrase. Inquiry seems broader than research, and this difference is implied by your suggestion that differentiating the ideas would dismiss or alienate anyone.
I don't mean to dismiss or alienate anyone, of course. I only meant to inquire, in terms tone and intention less dogmatic than Sam, whether the words in the association's name provide meaningful boundaries. Their not doing so wouldn't be *bad* thing, but certainly a curious one - worthy of inquiry, if not research. :)
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-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Baym Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:51 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Definitions
If "research" is something done by humanists and artists, as well as scientists and practitioners, is there anyone who isn't a
researcher?
Is this, in essense, the Association of Internet Anythingers?
The #1 goal of AoIR from its outset has been, and I quote from our founding statement of goals:
"to provide an interdisciplinary and interprofessional organization for promotion of scholarly and critical research into the social, cultural, political, economic and aesthetic aspects of the Internet."
There are millions of people who use the internet but do not take it as a topic of scholarly or critical inquiry (i.e. "internet anythingers").
A look around most any university will reveal that there are many ways of conducting scholarly and critical inquiry other than science and social science, a small sampling of which would include time honored traditions such as philosophy, literary analysis, and artistic production and performance. Recasting these modes of inquiry as science or dismissing them as not research do not further our understandings of the internet and alienate those members of AoIR who use them as their epistimological strategies.
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