Adding to Caroline's very useful recommendations, I would suggest that conference abstract submissions (such as the 750 word case here) include some mention of the literature used in this project. It is a lot easier to situate a proposal/abstract if a few familiar names are "dropped". If you state your theoretical orientation (or straw man), and indicate important sources with whom your work does dialog, it helps reviewers interpret other keywords, methodological terms and so forth. For instance, When you say "survey", do you mean positivist (Popper), geographical (USGS), gastronomical (Zagat), classificationist (Darwin), etc.? When you say "genre", is this Orlikowski or Derrida? Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli Center for the Study of the Information Society and the Graduate School of Business University of Haifa. Tel +972-4-8249578 sheizaf@rafaeli.net http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
-----Original Message----- From: jeremy hunsinger [mailto:jhuns@vt.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:38 AM To: Association of Internet Researchers Subject: [Air-l] Aoir Submissions -- content recommendations
Greetings all. Jeremy has sent out the conference submission site while I try to figure out why my emails to the list are not getting through.
Meantime, I wanted to add here a note about what should be in your submissions. Often people do not know what to put in an
abstract. As a
reviewer, I thought I'd share what I look for -- perhaps others can also add their ideas on what makes a good abstract.
So, my personal view ...
Submissions for the conference are more like a *proposal* than a final paper. You need to win the reviewer over by convincing them the work is important, new, groundbreaking, and doable. As a reviewer, I like to see:
-- a clear description of what the paper / presentation / panel will be about
-- why this work is important -- why the topic warrants all the work that goes into the final version
-- what kind of paper it is -- a literature review, a report of a study, a proposal of a theory?
-- the goal of the paper: e.g., to describe the state of the art in area x, to review the historical background to area x, to solve problem x by doing a study, to suggest a theoretical resolution to conflicting results, to outline a research agenda to explore issues extant in area x.
-- how the goal will be accomplished? e.g., reviewing literature, asking key informants, reading archives, conducting a study
-- when you are done, what will you have added to the world's stock of knowledge? Why will the effort have been worthwhile?
-- a project of a manageable scope -- i.e., something that can be completed in the 3 months or so between acceptance and time of presentation
/Caroline
At 03:36 PM 1/17/2005 -0500, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
IR 6.0 SITE READY FOR SUBMISSIONS
The day you have all been waiting for ... the Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations website is up and ready for submissions.
Please go to ...
http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=3
where you can submit your abstracts for the conference. Some details about the conference site are still coming, so please check back on the website later for such information.
Please provide keywords with all submissions -- either in the text of the abstract or where indicated at submission. These will be used to assess who reviews the submission, and to allocate papers to sessions.
The deadline for abstracts is February 15, 2005. So do not delay! Submit your abstracts as soon as possible.
Please direct questions about the program to Caroline Haythornthwaite, Program Chair, IR 6 (haythorn@uiuc.edu)
/Caroline
PS. Please distribute this notice to relevant lists.
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