Call for Papers:
Association of Internet Researchers

Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2007
This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://conferences.aoir.org/submit.php?cf=6.

Presentations can include:
• Single papers (abstract max of 750 words)• Creative or Aesthetic Presentation (abstract max of 750 words)• Panels (abstract max of 2500 words)• Roundtable (abstract max of 750 words)• Pre-conference workshop (abstract max of 1000 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

LET’S PLAY!

We call for papers, panel proposals, and resentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and communities, that address the (playful) blurring of boundaries online. The following TOPICS are suggestions simply intended to spark initial reflection and creativity:

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here we go!

sleepless nights with steve woolf:
No accountability = no community.

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accountability has no necessary relation to community, it may be present, it may not. two things are necessary for community, a shared space (this may be imaginary, virtual, etc.) and the capacity to exclude others. once you establish the capacity to identify that ‘this is us’ and ‘they are them’ then you have the locus communus that establishes community in people’s minds… holding something in common, this ‘us’-ness in relation to that ‘them’-ness.

Introducing: FISH:
FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. But never, ever tell your patrons that (unless they want to know). Backranym it to “FISH Isn’t So Hard” or “Finding Instead of Searching Helps.” But let’s break down the orignial meaning:
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this looks like a nifty tool for drupal using libraries.

sleepless nights with steve woolf:
No accountability = no community.

——

accountability has no necessary relation to community, it may be present, it may not. two things are necessary for community, a shared space (this may be imaginary, virtual, etc.) and the capacity to exclude others. once you establish the capacity to identify that ‘this is us’ and ‘they are them’ then you have the locus communus that establishes community in people’s minds… holding something in common, this ‘us’-ness in relation to that ‘them’-ness.