Et Al, Who were the orginal organizers of AOIR? Was there a diad? If so who were they? Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership) Sam --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com
Sam: On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Sam Tilden wrote:
Et Al,
Who were the orginal organizers of AOIR?
The story's been told in a couple of different places, including in the first AoIR Research Annual, but, in short...the idea for it came at a conference at Drake University (thank you Thom Swiss, Andrew Herman, and all of the attendees) in 1998. Greg Elmer, Stefan Wray and I were the ones who sort of "decided" that there should be an association. Greg and Stefan were both grad students at the time (or it may be that Greg had just earned his Ph.D., I can't quite recall at the moment, sorry Greg!) so as the more "senior" (I don't know why I put that in quotes, I expect I'm "senior" to them in age, perhaps I don't want to admit it) person I more or less took it upon myself to get the ball rolling. At the NCA conference that year about a dozen people (including Nancy Baym) got together for what might be called "the first AoIR organizational meeting" I suppose. But, IMHO, everyone who joined the AoIR email list prior to the first conference in 2000 is in some way an "original organizer," and so far as I'm concerned anyone and everyone who puts their shoulder to the wheel is an AoIR organizer, no matter the task (so long as it's related to the association in some way or another).
Was there a diad?
Nope.
If so who were they?
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
This is a really difficult question. Of course I wouldn't count anyone in the current leadership, though it might not be erroneous to consider that President Bush is probably quite important, for better or worse. It also isn't clear quite what the dimensions of "importance" are. I could approach it from the standpoint of science, but there are so many luminaries, and even if I were to constrain myself to living people...Hawking...Tarter...Wong- Staal...Dawkins...there are too many. I could approach from a spiritual standpoint but that's probably even more difficult than from science. I could think about it in terms of family but there's more than one family member and they're all most important. So, I'm stumped. Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me. (Alas, poor hubris, I know you well.) Sj
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me.
It is not hubris for Steve Jones to say this, it's a simple fact. Although many of us contributed to getting it off the ground, the association would never have happened without Steve's leadership. And although he has stepped back from that role considerably now, his legacy looms large in the association's ethos. Jeremy Hunsinger should also be noted for having built the technical structures through which AoIR has operated since 1998 (a role now served by Alex Halavais) and serving as program chair of our first conference. Nancy
Let me second Nancy's comments below ... while also noting (since she's too modest to do so) that she hosted the very first AoIR conference, and I'd suggest that any list of the association's major early organizers has to include her name as well. As long as I'm writing, though, I've got a quick question about Steve's mini-history: Was that first "let's do this" meeting at NCA or ICA? I've got a ragged brown T-shirt suggesting that this was ICA in May 1999 in San Francisco ... but maybe that was the second "let's do this" meeting? cheers gil Nancy Baym wrote:
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me.
It is not hubris for Steve Jones to say this, it's a simple fact. Although many of us contributed to getting it off the ground, the association would never have happened without Steve's leadership. And although he has stepped back from that role considerably now, his legacy looms large in the association's ethos.
Jeremy Hunsinger should also be noted for having built the technical structures through which AoIR has operated since 1998 (a role now served by Alex Halavais) and serving as program chair of our first conference.
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I'm pretty sure NCA was first...the Drake conference was, I think, in October 1998, then NCA was in November in New York, and I think we had that first meeting at the Marriott, the conference hotel, followed by a meeting at ICA in San Francisco. Nancy, is that your recollection as well? And Gil, you're quite right, Nancy deserves special recognition for hosting that first conference. It was the first "realization" if you will of what had been a largely virtual association until then, and it set the tone for future conferences. All those who attended that conference in Lawrence deserve a nod, too, because it was more than a bit of a leap of faith to attend. I mean, it was an association in name only, there was no track record of good conferences (or bad ones for that matter), so it was pretty amazing, and gratifying, that so many people showed up. It certainly got AoIR conferences off on the right foot! And Jeremy deserves special recognition for enabling the association's...virtuality (that sounds more fun than "technology" somehow). He was tireless, brimming with ideas, and a great colleague. The Pratt Institute is lucky to have snagged him. Sj On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Gilbert B. Rodman wrote:
Let me second Nancy's comments below ... while also noting (since she's too modest to do so) that she hosted the very first AoIR conference, and I'd suggest that any list of the association's major early organizers has to include her name as well.
As long as I'm writing, though, I've got a quick question about Steve's mini-history: Was that first "let's do this" meeting at NCA or ICA? I've got a ragged brown T-shirt suggesting that this was ICA in May 1999 in San Francisco ... but maybe that was the second "let's do this" meeting?
cheers gil
Nancy Baym wrote:
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me.
It is not hubris for Steve Jones to say this, it's a simple fact. Although many of us contributed to getting it off the ground, the association would never have happened without Steve's leadership. And although he has stepped back from that role considerably now, his legacy looms large in the association's ethos.
Jeremy Hunsinger should also be noted for having built the technical structures through which AoIR has operated since 1998 (a role now served by Alex Halavais) and serving as program chair of our first conference.
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Yes, NCA in New York it was.... I distinctly remembering all going out to a deli afterwards and encountering my first $15 sandwich ;-) On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
I'm pretty sure NCA was first...the Drake conference was, I think, in October 1998, then NCA was in November in New York, and I think we had that first meeting at the Marriott, the conference hotel, followed by a meeting at ICA in San Francisco.
Nancy, is that your recollection as well?
And Gil, you're quite right, Nancy deserves special recognition for hosting that first conference. It was the first "realization" if you will of what had been a largely virtual association until then, and it set the tone for future conferences. All those who attended that conference in Lawrence deserve a nod, too, because it was more than a bit of a leap of faith to attend. I mean, it was an association in name only, there was no track record of good conferences (or bad ones for that matter), so it was pretty amazing, and gratifying, that so many people showed up. It certainly got AoIR conferences off on the right foot!
And Jeremy deserves special recognition for enabling the association's...virtuality (that sounds more fun than "technology" somehow). He was tireless, brimming with ideas, and a great colleague. The Pratt Institute is lucky to have snagged him.
Sj
On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Gilbert B. Rodman wrote:
Let me second Nancy's comments below ... while also noting (since she's too modest to do so) that she hosted the very first AoIR conference, and I'd suggest that any list of the association's major early organizers has to include her name as well.
As long as I'm writing, though, I've got a quick question about Steve's mini-history: Was that first "let's do this" meeting at NCA or ICA? I've got a ragged brown T-shirt suggesting that this was ICA in May 1999 in San Francisco ... but maybe that was the second "let's do this" meeting?
cheers gil
Nancy Baym wrote:
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me.
It is not hubris for Steve Jones to say this, it's a simple fact. Although many of us contributed to getting it off the ground, the association would never have happened without Steve's leadership. And although he has stepped back from that role considerably now, his legacy looms large in the association's ethos.
Jeremy Hunsinger should also be noted for having built the technical structures through which AoIR has operated since 1998 (a role now served by Alex Halavais) and serving as program chair of our first conference.
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Just back from teaching, I want to thank people for the kind words, but also I want to say that there were a ton of people that helped out with that first conference both at Kansas and virtually that will have my continual gratitude. The volunteers at that first conference helped set the standard in my mind for what AoIR can be in terms of interdisciplinarily, internationally and collegially. The ongoing spirit of collaboration, collegiality and mutual support goes back to the tone established by those early AoIR participants with Steve and Nancy standing out, but there are many, many others, involved in AoIR, some served on exec, but many more have served as conference chairs, reviewers, session chairs, working group members, and have done all kinds of jobs. I know that the work that Ben Bates, Charlie Breindahl and Ulla Bunz was immense by any normal standard and they will always have my gratitude (amongst many) for the work they did. The organization... is the members, and the members do the work, and they make the organization great. The founding story of AoIR in my mind is two fold... there is the canonical print story, which is well published. Then there is the perpetual refounding... when we help the next young scholar, when we point someone to a different resource, when we make a difference in someone's life, that is building a foundation. AoIR is its members, and each member, contributing and participating in the spirit of the organization, in part... continues to found it.
Et Al, Thanks you for the history. Clearly you did a great job. We're luck to have you guys. Thanks again, Sam Steve Jones <sjones@uic.edu> wrote: I'm pretty sure NCA was first...the Drake conference was, I think, in October 1998, then NCA was in November in New York, and I think we had that first meeting at the Marriott, the conference hotel, followed by a meeting at ICA in San Francisco. Nancy, is that your recollection as well? And Gil, you're quite right, Nancy deserves special recognition for hosting that first conference. It was the first "realization" if you will of what had been a largely virtual association until then, and it set the tone for future conferences. All those who attended that conference in Lawrence deserve a nod, too, because it was more than a bit of a leap of faith to attend. I mean, it was an association in name only, there was no track record of good conferences (or bad ones for that matter), so it was pretty amazing, and gratifying, that so many people showed up. It certainly got AoIR conferences off on the right foot! And Jeremy deserves special recognition for enabling the association's...virtuality (that sounds more fun than "technology" somehow). He was tireless, brimming with ideas, and a great colleague. The Pratt Institute is lucky to have snagged him. Sj On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Gilbert B. Rodman wrote:
Let me second Nancy's comments below ... while also noting (since she's too modest to do so) that she hosted the very first AoIR conference, and I'd suggest that any list of the association's major early organizers has to include her name as well.
As long as I'm writing, though, I've got a quick question about Steve's mini-history: Was that first "let's do this" meeting at NCA or ICA? I've got a ragged brown T-shirt suggesting that this was ICA in May 1999 in San Francisco ... but maybe that was the second "let's do this" meeting?
cheers gil
Nancy Baym wrote:
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me.
It is not hubris for Steve Jones to say this, it's a simple fact. Although many of us contributed to getting it off the ground, the association would never have happened without Steve's leadership. And although he has stepped back from that role considerably now, his legacy looms large in the association's ethos.
Jeremy Hunsinger should also be noted for having built the technical structures through which AoIR has operated since 1998 (a role now served by Alex Halavais) and serving as program chair of our first conference.
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Boulieu (2004) suggests that cyberspace as a site is not para- social and represents communities of deep social involvement, The issues that arise within cyberspace are "real" and therefore need to be examined to examine their social effects. This panel comprises of papers that look at new media technology and examine the social issues and mechanisms that are unique to them. Ideas like social interaction, identity creation, social need fulfillment and anonymity are explored in various cyber-sites like Facebook, Blogs and Instant messaging portals.
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Gilbert B. Rodman -
Jeremy Hunsinger -
Nancy Baym -
Nicole Ellison -
radhika gajjala -
Sam Tilden -
Steve Jones