Greetings from AoIR 2.0 at the University of Minnesota! I will try to provide a daily report...call it an AoIRblog if you will...but given the various demands on my time I can't promise much depth to them or even that they'll be daily and regular. In any event, it's my great pleasure to say that the conference has begun without a hitch (or at least without one that I've seen!). John Logie and his colleagues at the university have done a splendid job of organizing things (including coordinating with Apple Computer for a technology room and for a wireless network). And the program looks terrific, due to Leslie Shade's hard work and the work of the program committee. I'm very glad to see that attendance has remained strong and the program has remained diverse and interesting. As was the case last year it is difficult to choose among so many promising sessions! As I said in my opening remarks this morning, this is the first academic conference that I have been to since September 11. I had never appreciated an academic conference quite so much, and I am more grateful than ever for the colleagues, students, and friends who I see. As my colleague and director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project said in a USA TOday story published today (in which Kirsten Foot, AoIR member and co-presenter at yesterday's well-attended pre-conference workshop, was also quoted), "The Internet was all about community and sharing" after the attacks last month. I think we all know that the obverse is true as well -- community is not only on the Internet. One of the greatest gifts we can give one another is to simply be together, and I feel extraordinarily grateful that we have been given that gift here at this conference, and via the medium of air-l. I will hope that we can continue to meet year after year and that all will have an opportunity to attend what has, after a scant two years, become a terrific annual event. Prof. Anita Allen's keynote speech started the conference by encouraging us to think about the Internet in relation to law and policy, the first round of concurrent sessions is under way, and there is much more to come. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend sessions in the way that I would were I not president of the association, so it is for selfish reasons as well as unselfish ones that I hope I can encourage other attendees to post their impressions and observations on air-l or on the member web site as they have time. My thanks again to our hosts at the University of Minnesota. Ski-U-Mah! Yours, Steve Jones Sjj
Hello from Montreal, Enjoy your visit. I hope you will be interested in some articles about Internet and ICT and our regular features. Eric GEORGE http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/d256020/CVEG.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Begining of the COMMmuniqué ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ COMMposite, the electronic journal of young communication researchers, is pleased to announce the release of its fifth edition, hot off our Web presses : http://commposite.org/ V 2001.1 includes The following articles : __ |"JOINING TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE: | From Mass Media to Multimedia" | by Hélène Bourdeloie, Université de Paris II __ |"COMPUTING'S OPEN STANDARDS and Digital Public Space" | by Michael Totschnig, Université du Québec à Montréal __ |"DIGITAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION of Municipalities in South-West France: | Comparative Perspectives" | by Stéphanie Wojcik, Université de Toulouse I __ |"TEMPORALITY AND THE INTERNET: | The Psychology of Time in Domestic Practice" | by Luc Bonneville, Université du Québec à Montréal __ |"THE ARTICULATION OF CITIZENSHIP in the television series Jasmine" | by Patricia Clermont, Université de Montréal __ |"TEACHING SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION to Researchers and Journalists: | A Timeline of Brazilian Programmes and the Labjor/Unicamp Experiment" | by Mônica Macedo, Université méthodiste de Sao Paulo/Université de Poitiers (with article abstracts in French, English, Spanish and German.) Book Note... __ | Médias, temporalités et démocratie. | (Sous la direction d'André Vitalis, Jean-François Tétu, Michaël Palmer | et Bernard Castagna), | by Jean-Claude Domenget, Université de Bordeaux III all this at http://commposite.org/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ PLUS our regular features: * PERSPECTIVE: our editorial, this time entitled "Information et démocratie à l'ère des réseaux". * TRANSIT: yet more carefully-culled links to journals, research centres, and other key sites in communications research ... with a slight French accent. * AFFLUENTS: upcoming communication studies conferences right around the world. * SÉDIMENTS : full text of the four previous editions, plus the trilingual virtual conference on "The Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights". Yes, that includes English-language content. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you're a young researcher, perhaps a grad student, don't hold back : MAKE YOUR MARK with COMMposite! For all questions about COMMposite, please write to: courriel@commposite.uqam.ca ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ COMMposite Editorial Group, mailto:courriel@commposite.uqam.ca ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ End of the COMMuniqué ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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