Dear all, I seem to have been lucky, not to have been sitting in many sessions with people missing.. except for my own panel on identities and internet... (localities)... out of 6, three were present.. one panelist was cancelling on monday .. so not much to do about that... then only 7 people showed up for the session at all... but nonetheless it was worth it and for those of you that haven't been there .. you can take a look at http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/seminars/AOIR2004/aoir_2004.h... to see the abstracts and soon the full papers of the people that presented...... I hope that we can keep the discussion going for a bit, as it was interesting and many important issues as to how we are researching on identity issues, diaspora and migrants use of internet technology came up. interesting to note, that the sesson was only attended by non-native english speakers.. which may say something about the importance of the issue for groups tha tdo not live in their home countries or people that are dealing with these issues... the breakdown was 5 Germans, 1 Brasilian, 1 Polish, 1 Russian, 1 German-American-English and 1 Indian. On the conference: Praise for Kate and all her work (and that of her staff of course) some remarks for next year. I was a bit dissappointed with the sessions, as most had no chair that could focus the issues and tried steer through the papers. Many times the papers seemed isolated from each other, when in fact there were common issues... a chair could bundle them and thus a discussion would be much more fruitful. the last day... I know there are many papers and too little time.. but given the travel schedules and the attendance concentration, would it be worth to think about less session on the last slot of the last day... because I believe many participants are gone by then, or are about to leave... so less people could then hear fewer session and it would be better for the presenters and the audiences on the last day... the first can have 2 or three more sessions, even longer on that day... as most people are already there and still curious and not too tired... ??? comments welcome.. best and thanks for a great and stimulating time in Sussex. nilz -- Dr. Nils Zurawski Universität Hamburg Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung Allendeplatz 1 20146 Hamburg Germany tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 6185 fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328 Projekt zu Videoüberwachung: http://www.surveillance-studies.org