Dear David and others who will be at the ISA, There is certainly, as you observed a great deal of cross-fertilization between different sociological research areas and the focus on the internet. The internal process, I believe is that you start out as a thematic group, and after time you become a working group, and then meeting certain requirements for numbers (I guess) you apply to become a research committee. The conference will host over 5000 delegates and the abstract book alone is over 1000 pages, so I tend to stay within Visual Sociology, which often includes a great deal of internet research. Feel free to reach out and connect in Toronto. Kindly, carolina cambre On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:13 AM, David Dueñas Cid <david.duenas@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear AOIRs,
I don't know if this is the place where to debate this issue, if not, just tell me and I will find another way of doing so.
Next week will take place the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, where I plan to take part with, I guess, many other members of this list of distribution.
As it usually happens in big/generalistic conferences, checking the program to find interesting presentations focused on internet and society represents a big effort of patience. Commonly, internet scholars are widely distributed in different Research Comittees, showing the diversity of our researh topics and making difficult the connection between us. An interesting congress schedule, as a result, means a complicated set of overlapped presentations amongst which one needs to blind-decide what to see and what to discard.
There, my debate/question/almost-proposition: *Does anybody feels like trying to discuss something for next ISA conferences in order to gather "Internet Sociology" scholars/contents? *
I am not aware of the internal processes of ISA, I do not know if it is possible to create a new "Reserch Comittee" on this topic, or, even, if it would be convenient. Or if, simply, we could think on different way of organizing the information regarding this topic on ISA Conferences (having some sort of inter-group label to identify the topic). Even that, I think that it might be an interesting debate.
If there is some people interested, maybe we could:
*1) Use this mail as a discussion thread* *2) Find a moment/place to meet in Toronto next week and talk face-to-face about it.*
Best regards,
David Duenas-Cid
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