Having been offline the past week, this sad news only now reaches me.... One of Brenda's contributions Steve did not mention was that she served on the editorial board of New Media & Society during its early years, performing that all-too-often unacknowledged labor of reviewing journal submissions and pointing young scholars in the direction of NM&S at a time when the title was far from recognized. Brenda did all of this, and more. I particularly remember, and cherish, the personal conversations we had across the years, usually in some corner of a conference venue. Thank you, Brenda.... Nick Jankowski At 05:47 24-11-2008, you wrote:
My sympathies go out to Brenda's family and friends. I, too, will mourn her death. She was one of the earliest supporters of AoIR, and my conversations about internet research predate AoIR's formation by quite a few years. She always spoke up and had interesting things to say and interesting questions to ask. I will miss her.
Sj
On Nov 23, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Naomi Susan Baron wrote:
Yesterday, the world of internet research lost a dear friend and colleague. Brenda Danet died in New Haven, CT, following a heroic (and most graceful) battle with leukemia. Despite her years of ups and downs with the disease, she continued to produce work that guides many of us and our students.
Brenda was a pioneer -- intellectually and personally. She did her BA at Radcliffe and PhD (in Sociology) at the University of Chicago, but spent most of her professional life in Israel. She taught at Hebrew University, where she was appointed Danny Arnold Chair of Communications in 1998. Following her retirement in 2000, she migrated back to the US, where she became a Research Affiliate in Anthropology at Yale.
Most of us know Brenda from her delightful book CyberPlay, and her more recent co-edited volume (with Susan Herring) on The Multilingual Internet. Those of us fortunate enough to have known Brenda in person cherish our memories of a strong, self-confident woman who inspired us to think, was full of wit, wore the most lovely scarves, and helped us laugh at ourselves.
Brenda will be very sorely missed.
Naomi Baron American University Washington, DC USA _______________________________________________ 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
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