AoIR in today's Washington Post
Has no one really posted about this yet? The story about the academic study of social networking sites in today's Washington Post is really all about AoIR'ers. AoIR is mentioned, danah boyd is featured, Nancy Baym and Nicole Ellison weigh in, the latest issue of JCMC is commented upon: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121400 606.htm Holly -- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu or holly.kruse@gmail.com http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse
... and academia is mocked ;-)
Has no one really posted about this yet? The story about the academic study of social networking sites in today's Washington Post is really all about AoIR'ers. AoIR is mentioned, danah boyd is featured, Nancy Baym and Nicole Ellison weigh in, the latest issue of JCMC is commented upon:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121400 606.htm
Holly
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MLA and Popular Culture Association isn't really comparable though. Popular Culture Association accepts every single abstract, which is why it has lost a lot of credibility and became a joke of some sort (assessment heard from others, never been). MLA, on the other hand, is more selective and conducts a lot of interview sessions for the humanities division (not sure if Popular Culture has that angle, maybe it does). So there is a wide gap of difference between the two... MLA is perceived to be a more credible conference and if you want to get hired in the humanities field, you attend it. Not sure if that is the case with PCA. But I agree, AoIR probably got more streamlined and more accepted lately. On Dec 16, 2007 4:03 PM, Holly Kruse <holly-kruse@utulsa.edu> wrote:
... and academia is mocked ;-)
Isn't that always the case with these kinds of articles? Usually though it's either the MLA or the Popular Culture Association. Maybe this means AoIR has now really made it :-)
Holly
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My point was just about the types of newspaper stories one tends to see around the times of those organizations' annual meetings, not about whether they are comparable organizations to AoIR or each other. Regardless of the other factors, MLA and PCA seem to inspire plenty of newspaper stories of the "Look at what silly, irrelevant things those wacky academics are studying now!" variety. Conferences devoted to papers about Bruce Springsteen get the same sort of coverage. As Nancy says, mocking academics. Holly
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