Call for Papers
Internet Research 10.0 -- Internet: Critical
http://ir10.aoir.org/
The 10th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
October 7-11, 2009
Hilton Milwaukee City Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
As the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous and mundane
medium, the analytical shortcomings of the division between the online
and the offline have become evident. Shifting the focus to the
fundamental intermeshing of online and offline spaces, networks,
economies, politics, locations, agencies, and ethics, Internet:
Critical invites scholars to consider material frameworks,
infrastructures, and exchanges as enabling constraints in terms of
online phenomena. Furthermore, the conference invites considerations
of Internet research as a critical practice and theory, its
intellectual histories, investments, and social reverberations. How do
we, as Internet researchers, connect our work to social concerns or
cultural developments both local and global, and what kinds of agency
may we exercise in the process? What kinds of redefinitions of the
political (in terms of networks, micropolitics, participation,
lifestyles, resistant or critical practices) are necessary when
conceptualizing Internet cultures within the current geopolitical and
geotechnological climate?
To this end, we call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations
from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions
of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that
address the conference themes, including papers that intersect and/or
interconnect the following:
? critical moments, elements, practices
? critical theories, methods, constructs
? critical voices, histories, texts
? critical networks, junctures, spaces
? critical technologies, artifacts, failures
? critical ethics, interventions, alternatives.
Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically
address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting,
and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on
topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic,
economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the
conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and
interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations
from both AoIR and non-AoIR members.
SUBMISSIONS
We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We
welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS and we
also welcome proposals for ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS that will focus on
discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as
organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a
single theme.
DEADLINES
Call for Papers Released: 15 November 2008
Submissions Due: 1 February 2009
Notification: 15 March 2009
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All papers and presentations in this session will be evaluated in a
standard blind peer review.
Format
- PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800
words
-FULL PAPERS (OPTIONAL): For submitters requiring peer review of full
papers, manuscripts of up to 8,000 words will be accepted for review.
These will be reviewed and judged separately from abstract submissions
- PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a 600-800 word description of the panel
theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation
- ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of
the roundtable discussion and interaction
Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted
proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and
overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual is invited to submit a
proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. A person may also propose a
panel session, which may include a second paper that they are
presenting. An individual may also submit a roundtable proposal. You
may be listed as co-author on additional papers as long as you are not
presenting them.
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special
issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society, edited by
Caroline Haythornwaite and Lori Kendall. Authors selected for
submission for this issue have already been contacted prior to the
conference.
All papers submitted to the conference system will be available to
AoIR members after the conference.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
On October 7, 2009, there will be a limited number of pre-conference
workshops which will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/
or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-
conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose
workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or
studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and
should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs,
equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its
relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if
they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the
overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or
local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These
proposals and all inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should
be submitted as soon as possible to both the Conference Chair and
Program Chair and no later than March 31, 2009.
Conference Workshops: http://conferences.aoir.org/workshops.htm
CONTACT INFORMATION
Program Chair: Susanna Paasonen, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies
Conference Co-Chairs and Coordinators: Elizabeth Buchanan, Michael
Zimmer, UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies and Center for
Information Policy Research; Steve Jones, University of Illinois- Chicago
Vice-President of AoIR: Mia Consalvo, Ohio University
Association Website: http://www.aoir.org
Conference Website: http://ir10.aoir.org/
SPONSORS (partial list)**
? School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
? Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee
? Department of Communication Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago
? Center for Information and Society and the Department of
Communication, University of Washington
? American Society for Information Science and Technology?Wisconsin
Chapter
**Institutions or organizations interested in sponsorship
opportunities should contact Elizabeth Buchanan?eliz1679 at uwm.edu
--
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: (zimmerm /at/ uwm.edu)
w: www.michaelzimmer.org
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