Hello, all-- The slate of nominees contains many excellent candidates so far. Nominated by another member of our group for an open council seat, I decided to put my bio on this list too. An idea is to make use of all the nominees for future committees and projects. thanks, andrea Andrea Baker, Ohio University bakera@ohiou.edu open seat nominee Research about Cyberspace: Presented papers and wrote published articles from an ongoing, long-term study of people who become couples after meeting online, 1997-present. Interested in ethical issues in online research, and methodologies of studying online communications. Previously followed group efforts to pass and defeat the Communications Decency Act. Online Activities: Host of Life Online, a discussion forum at Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms and of the Culture forum at the Utne Café. Teach distance education classes at the undergraduate level since 1998. A(O)IR: For first conference 1.0, organized a panel of two psychologists and a sociologist on "Online Relationships", and moderated a panel including an anthropologist, a sociologist and a psychologist from Spain on, "Discourse of Chat". For IR 2.0 will present how online couples communicate, and attend pre-conference workshop on designing web research. Upcoming Call for Papers: Organizer and moderator of open session, "The Internet and Society", American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002. Deadline for submitted papers, January 10, 2002. Goals: (1) To further ties to other disciplines, making sure announcements of A(O)IR's conferences go into newsletters of national and international associations, including library science, linguistics, and computer technology, in addition to the traditional social sciences and humanities. (2) To foster more participation among the applied specialists and activists who create and maintain online social networks in business, in local communities, and in political arenas. (3) To continue the practice of involving students in the conference, on panels and with special awards and inducements to attend.