Didn't see it on the previous digest, but gotta announce that Jeremy Hunsinger got his PhD today (Monday) at VaTech. (We won't count the minor tweaks he has to do.) Yay, yay, yay (and it's about time). IMHO, Jeremy was THE main man in keeping AoIR going, with all his behind the scenes computer / dbase/ listserve work. And I say this with thanks to Steve Jones (the non-spam one) and Nancy Baym. Now let's get him a job near Toronto, and make me and wifey happy. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
Congrats, Jeremy! "Me and wifey"??? No further comment. Rhiannon Bury ________________________________ From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:30:54 PM Subject: [Air-L] Yay for Jeremy Didn't see it on the previous digest, but gotta announce that Jeremy Hunsinger got his PhD today (Monday) at VaTech. (We won't count the minor tweaks he has to do.) Yay, yay, yay (and it's about time). IMHO, Jeremy was THE main man in keeping AoIR going, with all his behind the scenes computer / dbase/ listserve work. And I say this with thanks to Steve Jones (the non-spam one) and Nancy Baym. Now let's get him a job near Toronto, and make me and wifey happy. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Here is a hip hip and a hurrah for Jeremy! I am awaiting my examination and one of these days, hopefully, I will get to announce the getting of my PhD on the list! In the meantime, Jeremy, it would be great if you could share the thesis with us - if (and when) it is up for public distribution and circulation. Cheering loudly Nishant ________________________________
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Didn't see it on the previous digest, but gotta announce that Jeremy Hunsinger got his PhD today (Monday) at VaTech. (We won't count the minor tweaks he has to do.) Yay, yay, yay (and it's about time).
IMHO, Jeremy was THE main man in keeping AoIR going, with all his behind the scenes computer / dbase/ listserve work. And I say this with thanks to Steve Jones (the non-spam one) and Nancy Baym.
Now let's get him a job near Toronto, and make me and wifey happy.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
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Thanks everyone. as for reading the thesis, I'd recommend reading the things i've already published, that will give you basically all of it, more or less. I'll likely post the abstract to my blog eventually and the title has already been available on twitter and facebook:) It is Constructing a politics of knowledge in the age of the internet. As for AoIR, I have to say that while I did my share back in the day, I was no where near the main man, i was just one person among many over several years. I blame AoIR primarily on Steve Jones, who we should thank immensely, and I blame the success of the first conference on Nancy and her willingness to put up with an email barrage from me that would likely overwhelm anyone else and everything since then has been a group effort. I do know that i wouldn't have been able to do my work in aoir without Charlie Breindahl, who was responsible for the listservs and the webpage designs, he was the sancho panza to my don quixote, Ben Bates who took care of membership management, which was a very different and difficult job. Ulla Bunz also, who worked on IR 1.0 locally in Kansas was seemingly indefatigable, and saved my bacon by doing quite a lot of work quite a few times in fairly short notice. I lay the early success of AoIR at the feet of this group, however, I don't think anyone would be remiss in saying that the conference and program chairs over the years were also very significant people and contributed immensely. Our contributions though are fading into the past, and I think... That's great! Today, I think AoIR is moving on to bigger and better things. While the management styles have varied over the years, one has to admit that the Executive committee, which is still an all-volunteer operation, is doing a great job and making a series of difficult decisions and difficult workloads seem easy, and they should be heartily congratulated. One page that i demanded (as i am want to do about web pages) be transferred to the new site when it was last recreated is this one: http://aoir.org/?page_id=45 page 45.... it lists the executive board members of the association of internet researchers. they aren't the only people that should be remembered though, there are people like Jenny Stromer-Galley who was our vote counter for years, Matt Stoner who organized the only cross-institutional, cross-faculty graduate seminar to prepare student's work the conferences that we ever had, http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/seminar/ . There is the AoIR Ethics working group and publishing working group, the conference chairs mentioned above, the graduate student representatives and graduate students that help with the conferences. The people who were on the initial listserv that arose out of the conference at UIowa that Thom Swiss put and the people that joined thereafter that contributed to early discussions, people like Greg Elmer, Gil Rodman, Christine Hine, Michel Menou, etc. All in all, there must be around 100 or more people that have made AoIR work at it's operating level, but there is clearly a community of participants of several thousand now. So while I appreciate Barry's intent and I welcome the congratulations on passing my defense and I thank my committee for that, I think that for AoIR to speak of a main man is somewhat misleading, what we have is a community of people doing many many things over the years and in the end, we are still here 11+ years later.... To me that's something wonderful.
_Very_ nicely and graciously said, Dr. Hunsinger! Or as my former Dean (God rest his soul) constantly reminded us: what we do best is what we do together. And let me add my heartiest congratulations to the chorus ... - charles ess President, AoIR (but not much longer!) Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 On 9/23/09 2:45 PM, "Jeremy hunsinger" <jeremy@tmttlt.com> wrote:
what we have is a community of people doing many many things over the years and in the end, we are still here 11+ years later.... To me that's something wonderful.
Well said ! I am sure I can speak for many when I say that Jeremy earned his doctorate in our AoIR community long ago !!!! Congratulations Jeremy! Monica Murero (Treasurer, but not much longer either ;-)
Congratulations Jeremy! Welcome to the club! Although in truth you have been a member in deeds for some time. Everyone knows the great behind the scenes work that you have done on it, and it is great to see good people rewarded for doing great work! The list serve helped me to find obscure things and solve one heck of a stat problem on a few occasions. Congratulations! It is big deal! Chris -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Monica Murero Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:24 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Yay for Jeremy Well said ! I am sure I can speak for many when I say that Jeremy earned his doctorate in our AoIR community long ago !!!! Congratulations Jeremy! Monica Murero (Treasurer, but not much longer either ;-) _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Here here! On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Monica Murero <murero.monica@gmail.com> wrote:
Well said ! I am sure I can speak for many when I say that Jeremy earned his doctorate in our AoIR community long ago !!!!
Congratulations Jeremy!
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congratulations Jeremy - but I hadnt we already given you the degree at AOIR? :) r On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Didn't see it on the previous digest, but gotta announce that Jeremy Hunsinger got his PhD today (Monday) at VaTech. (We won't count the minor tweaks he has to do.) Yay, yay, yay (and it's about time).
IMHO, Jeremy was THE main man in keeping AoIR going, with all his behind the scenes computer / dbase/ listserve work. And I say this with thanks to Steve Jones (the non-spam one) and Nancy Baym.
Now let's get him a job near Toronto, and make me and wifey happy.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
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Barry Wellman -
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Monica Murero -
Nishant Shah -
Radhika Gajjala -
Rhiannon Bury