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What I haven’t been blogging

Yes, I know it’s been a while. I started this semester out on the wrong foot, and have been scrambling for the last several months. If I haven’t answered your email (and there many hundred that need to be answered), I am very sorry. I promise I will get back to you. I considered email [...]
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Get outa town: Internet Research 8.0

Next week is conference time. No, not CMJ–that’s right here in the Big Apple. And not 4S either–are all the conferences in Montreal these days? No, I’m making my regular trip out to the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, appropriately entitled Internet Research out in Vancouver. I had initially intended to make [...]
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Supporting Internet Research 8.0 in Vancouver

It’s not too late to become a sponsor of the Internet Research conference in Vancouver this year. On my about page, I note that I will sometimes promote organizations I’m involved in, and this is one of those cases. The IR conference is a great opportunity to make clear your commitment to social research on [...]
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PodCamp & Virtual Hermits

The whole idea of living in Manhattan was that, unlike Buffalo, I would be at the center of universe, and could go and do everything. And yet, I hardly have time to blog this semester (yes, I’m still alive), let alone go a mile downtown to do cool things. What cool things? Well, I managed [...]
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Dr. W. Reid Cornwell

I help out with technical matters for the Association of Internet Researchers. Anyone who does social research on the internet knows about the AIR-L listserv. As a graduate student, it was a bit of a lifeline. At the time, people interested in the social aspects of networked technology were fewer and farther between, and this [...]
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[IR7.0] Blogs, identities, and epidemics

I split sessions this morning. The sessions are not named this year, but I started in a program that seemed to circle around issues of identity. Social Class in Online Discussions The first presentation was on disclosure of class in parenting groups (Karen Farquharson of Swiburn). She was interested in the ways in which class [...]
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[IR7.0] Pre-conference on mobile learning

Well, I was blogging this as we were working, since I had a machine in front of me. But somehow as we came to our break, I was chatting with someone and my left hand, entirely without my permission, reached up and Apple-Qed away my post. Too bad, too, since it was an exemplar of [...]
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