In your view, how should the list be managed? I feel as though you are accusing me of colluding with tyrants (although I don't agree with this characterisation of my colleagues list members), but I am not really sure about what alternatives you propose. I also think many are deterred from interacting with you on this matter (not on academic matters, where as far as I recall the discussions have been productive) for fear that you will label them - it goes both ways, in other words. Elizabeth On 9 Nov 2006, at 18:48, Sam Tilden wrote: <snip>
There are 1500 people who own this list. AOIR claims ownership but there are autocrats who rule this list as a whim of agreement or diagreement. <snip>
I abhor tryrany in any form. I believe that this list is controled by intellectual tyrants. They do it with velvet words, but it is tryranny none the less. I have enjoyed my association with most of you.
Elizabeth Van Couvering PhD Student Department of Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vancouve/ e.j.van-couvering@lse.ac.uk