Dear All, I would like to nominate for one of the open seats. As a candidate I would: - Get more non-academic members involved - Spread the organization into Europe, Asia and Australia - Get a high quality content list up, next to the Air-l list about methodologies of Internet research - Open a dialogue with the Usability experts and their particular discourse and practice - Encourage to bridge academic work and similar research done in the field of new media culture/arts - Diversity the working definition of 'Internet research' - Encourage the study into social networks and alternative models for global Internet governance (beyond the ICANN debate) My bio: Geert Lovink is a media theorist and Internet critic. He is an organizer of numerous conferences, online forums, publications and projects such as community Internet providers, mailinglists and temporary media laboratories. Over the last two decades he has lived and worked in Berlin, Budapest, throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Japan, teaching media theory and supporting independent media and new media culture. He is a member of the theory association Adilkno, from which two books have appeared in English translation: Cracking the Movement (1994) and The Media Archive (1998). In 1995, he co-founded the international mailinglist Nettime, from which material was brought together in the Readme! anthology (1999). His decade long collaboration with Dutch designer Mieke Gerritzen is documented in Catalogue of Strategies (2001). In 2002 MIT Press will publish two of his books: Uncanny Networks, collected interviews with media theorists and artists and Dark Fiber, a study on critical Internet culture. Since 2000 Geert Lovink is based in Sydney, Australia. In early 2001 together with David Teh he founded fibreculture, a list for Austalian Internet research and culture. Best regards, Geert