Internet Research 12.0 Performance and Participation
The 12th Annual International and
Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
October 10-13, 2011
Renaissance Hotel, Seattle
Seattle, Washington, USA
People perform identities, worry about economic
performance, expect better performance from
technologies, and feel pressure to perform as
employees or in other roles in life. We observe
or participate in artistic performances, ritual
performances, and the performance of
experiments. Join us in considerations,
analyses, and celebrations of the many types of
performance and participation online and in
blended online/offline contexts. We look forward
to creative articulations of the many meanings
of the term performance and to the many ways of
considering types of participation.
To this end, we call for papers, panel and
pre-conference workshop proposals from any
discipline, methodology, community or a
combination of them that address the conference
themes, including, but not limited to, papers
that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:
* Creative performances and digital arts
* Participatory culture and participatory design
* Critical performance and political participation
* Identity performance
* Exclusion from participation
* Economic performance of Internet-related industries
* Game performance
* Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.)
* Ritual performances and communal participation
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. We particularly invite
proposals from scholars in the areas of digital arts and digital humanities.
SUBMISSIONS
We seek proposals for several different kinds of
contributions. As in the past, we welcome
proposals for traditional academic conference
PAPERS, organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a
coherent group of papers on a single theme, as
well as PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS which focus on
a particular topic. We also invite proposals
that will focus on discussion and interaction
among conference delegates. A common form of
this type is the ROUNDTABLE SESSION, but we
would also like to encourage other formats, such
as OPEN FISHBOWL SESSIONS. (See the Wikipedia
entry under ?Fishbowl (conversation)? for a
description of this format. Fishbowl sessions
should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community.)
DEADLINES
Submissions Due: 1 March 2011 (Papers, Panels
and Pre-Workshops. Details below)
Notification: 1 May 2011
Full Papers Submissions Due: 1 July 2011
NOTE: The submission deadline this year is later
than in previous years, but for this reason, it
is a HARD DEADLINE; there will be no extensions to this date.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All papers and presentations will be evaluated
in a standard blind peer review.
Format
* PAPERS (individual or multi-author) submit abstract of 600-800 words
* PANEL PROPOSALS submit a description of
600-800 words on the panel theme, plus a
250-500 word abstract for each paper or
presentation. The panel organizer must assemble these materials for submission,
* ROUNDTABLE and FISHBOWL PROPOSALS
submit a statement indicating the nature of the
discussion and form of interaction, and listing
initial participants. (In the case of a
fishbowl proposal, this will include the name
of the moderator, and the names of the first four speakers for the fishbowl.)
* PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS please submit
all workshop proposals via email to
(ir12chair /at/ aoir.org)<mailto:(ir12chair /at/ aoir.org)>.
Workshop proposals should include names of
presenters, and a 1,000-word description.
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 may present only one paper during the
conference, though they may be listed as a
co-author on multiple papers. In addition to
this one presentation, they may also appear on a
panel, roundtable, or performance.
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Full papers submitted by the 1 July 2011
deadline will undergo review to be published in
an open-access, online collection, Papers of the
Internet Research Conference (ISSN forthcoming).
Selected papers from the conference will be
published in a special issue of the journal
Information, Communication & Society. Authors
selected for submission for this issue will be
contacted prior to the conference.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
On October 10, 2011, there will be a limited
number of pre-conference workshops and symposia
that 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 1, 2011.
CONTACT INFORMATION
* Program Chair: Lori Kendall, Graduate
School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, email: loriken(at)illinois(dot)edu
* Conference Chair: Karine Nahon,
Information School, University of Washington, email: karineb(at)uw(dot)edu
