I had a few requests for a few extra days and said yes, so if anyone else wants one more chance, I've extended the deadline for the doctoral colloquium until this Friday, June 1. Thanks! Nancy _______________________________________________________________________ The AoIR 8.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers Ph.D. students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 where they will have a chance to briefly present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length with peers and established senior researchers. Interested students should prepare a 2 page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Faculty mentors include: - Ronald Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, University of California-Santa Barbara, United States. - Maria Bakardjieva, Associate Professor. Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Canada. - Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Education & Counselling Psychology and Special Education, The University of British Columbia, Canada. - Robert Burnett, Professor and Chair, Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden. - Lori Kendall, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States. We hope to announce additional mentors shortly. Please submit your 2 page application by Friday, JUNE 1 2007 to: Nancy Baym : nbaym [at] ku.edu Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 15 June 2007. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an 8 page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by 1 August 2007. For further details please visit the conference website at http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=6 or contact the organizer of the AoIR Doctoral Colloquium, Nancy Baym : nbaym [at] ku.edu The AoIR 8.0 Doctoral Colloquium is sponsored by Microsoft Research.