a modest proposal
Dear AoIR-ists, As a gentle reminder: the list should be used for topics of general interest - comments and queries directed primarily to / at individuals should be sent and responded to privately. Many thanks, - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
Charles, With all due respect, an association of "Internet Scholars" that is not using that best technology available should be a matter of general interest. I simply responded to a public reply that was not forthcoming to the original question. Perhaps, aside from "we've always done this way", you could give an answer. Rasputin -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:50 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] a modest proposal Dear AoIR-ists, As a gentle reminder: the list should be used for topics of general interest - comments and queries directed primarily to / at individuals should be sent and responded to privately. Many thanks, - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 _______________________________________________ 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/
Rasputin (and others who have the same questions), The papers on the AoIR website are accessible to members only. You are able to access some parts of the website without having a confirmed member logon, but one of the exec needs to manually set your status to member for you to see the papers that are up. I know this because I a) uploaded several hundred papers myself when the organization moved websites, and b) approved the member access for several hundred members around the same time. I recommend checking with Alex or Monica (offline) regarding your member status and your website access). Please also note that even the archive online is not complete. It is optional for people to submit their paper to have it uploaded, and maybe the leadership hasn't been pushing people as hard to submit papers in the last year or two as it did before, I don't know that, but it could explain why there are fewer "recent" papers available. And, as was pointed out, the paper edition is not a proceedings, but instead a collection of papers that were submitted separately to be considered for publication in that format. In short, AoIR doesn't have proceedings. Whether we should or not has been debated before and I recommend you or anyone else interested in continuing that debate first peruse the archives to see what arguments have already been exchanged. Times change and maybe AoIR will change as well, but I can tell you that one of the main arguments *against* proceedings (brought up by members, not the leadership) was the fact that it would be considered a publication when many people would prefer submitting their papers to a (presumably) print journal. Not all feel that way, of course, so debating the issue of whether we should have proceedings or not should occur before the discussion of which format (electronic, paper, both, etc.) they should take. Ulla --- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication University Center C, Suite 3100 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 Email: ubunz@fsu.edu Phone: 850-644-1809 -----------------------------------------------
I can confirm that the issue of AoIR's 'publishing' role (or perhaps mediating role between members/conference delegates and publishers) will be discussed at the AGM. We intend to establish a working party to consider issues around the conference (proceedings? journal? volume? etc) further Matt Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen@curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm <https://email.curtin.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm> +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3166 (f) President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org <https://email.curtin.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.aoir.org/>
Subject: Re: [Air-l] a modest proposal - proceedings
I can confirm that the issue of AoIR's 'publishing' role (or perhaps mediating role between members/conference delegates and publishers) will be discussed at the AGM. We intend to establish a working party to consider issues around the conference (proceedings? journal? volume? etc) further
I thought we did this at fairly great length a couple of years ago. [The establishment of a working group / discussion group to hash some of this out, and eventually make suggestions to the exec...] Am I misremembering? I seem to recall that Jeremy, Ulla, Radhika, Lois, a few others were all on that sub-list / semi-working-group. --elijah
There was a journal working group, it did produce a report, i don't think i was on it because i don't have the archives. i probably just sent stuff to it.
Subject: Re: [Air-l] a modest proposal - proceedings
I can confirm that the issue of AoIR's 'publishing' role (or perhaps mediating role between members/conference delegates and publishers) will be discussed at the AGM. We intend to establish a working party to consider issues around the conference (proceedings? journal? volume? etc) further
I thought we did this at fairly great length a couple of years ago. [The establishment of a working group / discussion group to hash some of this out, and eventually make suggestions to the exec...]
Am I misremembering?
I seem to recall that Jeremy, Ulla, Radhika, Lois, a few others were all on that sub-list / semi-working-group.
--elijah
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Yes I was part of the group and I recall that we didn't get past online or offline publication!! But I think that was after the AoIR meeting in Sussex but don't quote me on that! Cheers, Denise --- Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
There was a journal working group, it did produce a report, i don't think i was on it because i don't have the archives. i probably just sent stuff to it.
Subject: Re: [Air-l] a modest proposal -
proceedings
I can confirm that the issue of AoIR's
'publishing' role (or perhaps
mediating role between members/conference delegates and publishers) will be discussed at the AGM. We intend to establish a working party to consider issues around the conference (proceedings? journal? volume? etc) further
I thought we did this at fairly great length a couple of years ago. [The establishment of a working group / discussion group to hash some of this out, and eventually make suggestions to the exec...]
Am I misremembering?
I seem to recall that Jeremy, Ulla, Radhika, Lois, a few others were all on that sub-list / semi-working-group.
--elijah
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Rasputin