I'm pleased to announce that the AoIR special issue derived from papers from the 2008 IR conference is now published. Here are the contents, and thanks for the great work to all contributors from your editors Caroline Haythornthwaite and Lori Kendall! ----------------------------------- INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY Vol.12, No. 3, 2009 Special Issue: AoIR Special Issue Guest Edited by Caroline Haythornthwaite & Lori Kendall CONTENTS Editorial Comment: Introduction to the 2nd Association of Internet Researchers special issue of Information, Communication & Society Caroline Haythornthwaite & Lori Kendall ARTICLES New media, mediation & communication study Leah Lievrouw Homeland re-territorialized: revisiting the role of geographical places in the formation of diasporic identity in the digital age Ting-yu Kang Life on the wire: deconstructing race on the internet André Brock Children and online risk: powerless victims or resourceful participants? Elizabeth Staksrud & Sonia Livingstone Digital media and the generation gap: qualitative research on US teens and their parents Lynn Schofield Clark Tunes that bind?: predicting friendship strength in a music-based social network Nancy Baym & Andrew Ledbetter Collect yourself: negotiating personal music archives Marjorie Kibby Do dugg diggers digg diligently? feedback as motivation in collaborative moderation systems Alex Halavais -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 haythorn@illinois.edu OR haythorn@uiuc.edu