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INTERNET RESEARCH 1.0: THE STATE OF THE INTERDISCIPLINE

FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE KS, USA

Conference Website: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/

The growth of the Internet is one of the greatest cultural phenomena of our time, impacting almost all areas of life. It is crucial to build knowledge about the Internet's socio-cultural dimensions. Despite great interest, knowledge-building in Internet research is hindered by a lack of international, centralized opportunities for scholars from different disciplines to interact. This international conference, the first meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, will focus on the Internet as a distinct interdisciplinary field for research. It will bring together prominent scholars, researchers, and students from multiple disciplines for keynote addresses, paper presentations, formal and informal discussions.

The Association of Internet Researchers (A.(o).I.R.) invites submissions of between 150 and 250 words on all topics that address any social, cultural, political, economic, or aesthetic aspects of the internet. We welcome submissions from any discipline and encourage international and interdisciplinary work as well as submissions from those producing new media or working in multimedia studies.

The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 15 MARCH, 2000.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

(More to be announced in the next few months.)

Research Associate and Lecturer at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and founding editor of the international journal, Ethics and Information Technology.

Professor of Information Systems and Information Science at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is the editor of Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, and editor-in-chief of the international journal The Information Society.

Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her recent edited collections include Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis.

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS

All proposals should be submitted electronically at:

http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/confman/

Average time allotted for a panel will be 1 hour and 30 minutes, including discussion time.

Average time allotted for a paper or presentation will be 15 minutes.

If these time constraints are not appropriate for your panel/presentation, please include that in your abstract. Please include any equipment or special considerations that might affect your presentation. Proposals can be of three types.

PAPERS

Proposals for papers :150-250 word abstract.

CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS/DEMONSTRATIONS

Creative presentations (surprise us!) and Internet-related project demonstrations (including digital art) are encouraged. The format for these proposals are the same as those for regular papers.

PANELS

Panels will generally include three to four papers or presentations. The session organizer should submit a 150-250 word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of up to 100 words for each paper or presentation, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session. Presenters should plan on using around half of the panels' time for presentation, and the rest of the time for discussion of the issues raised by these papers.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate students are highly encouraged to submit proposals. They should note their student status with submission for consideration of a special Student Award. The winner of the Student Award will have conference fees waived.

FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be accepted at http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/confman/

It is preferred that you use HTML to minimally format your paper .

Conference Coordinator: Nancy Baym, nbaym@ukans.edu

Program Chair: Jeremy Hunsinger, jhuns@vt.edu

A(O)IR President: Steve Jones, sjones@uic.edu

More Information can be found on the Conference Website:

Http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir

For more information about the Association of Internet Researchers visit

our website at http://aoir.org

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