[Air-l] August 2001 report
Steve Jones
sjones at uic.edu
Wed Aug 15 15:21:57 PDT 2001
August 15, 2001
Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee
Prepared by Steve Jones
AoIR Executive Committee
President: Steve Jones
Vice-President: Nancy Baym
Secretary: Matt Stoner
Treasurer (on leave): Benjamin Bates
Interim Treasurer: Wes Shrum
Open Seats: Beth Kolko and Sean Cubitt
Appointed Seats: Diane Witmer and Fay Sudweeks
Student Seat: Matt Williams
Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl
2001 Conference Coordinator: John Logie
2001 Conference Program Chair: Leslie Shade
Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess
1. Introduction & General (Jones)
Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members.
2. Executive Officers' Reports
2.1 President (Jones)
2.1.1. The AoIR bylaws have been revised to make them better reflect
the shape the organization has taken. They are available on the
members web site for review and comment, and will be made available
generally for review and comment. Please look them over at your
earliest convenience. Our next election will operate under them.
Speaking of which...
2.1.2. AoIR elections are also upcoming, and the call for nominations
will issued soon. Remember that only members who have their dues paid
up are eligible for nomination, to vote, etc.
2.1.3. Without stealing anyone else's thunder, because the credit is
all theirs, we have made tremendous progress over the past couple of
months. The members web site has undergone a major overhaul thanks to
Jeremy Hunsinger, the conference program and planning under the
auspices of Leslie Shade and John Logie are going swimmingly, Nancy
Baym has continued to work with publishers to secure member discounts
to journals, Charlie Breindahl has assisted with air-l and
web-related matters, and while I could go on and on I suspect there
are many others who have helped AoIR of whom I'm unaware -- thank you
all for your efforts! More information about these follows below, and
has been posted to the web site.
2.1.4. I'd also like to thank all those who have been posting to
air-l of late, particularly those who have provided some excellent
suggestions about things we can do with the web site. And I'd like to
add my $.02 that we continue with only one air-l for the time being.
One of the wonderful, albeit not very easy, things about last year's
conference was simply listening to people from different disciplines
talk to one another and come up with translations, if you will, for
conversing about Internet research. I learned a lot by lurking at the
conference, in a sense. Most disciplinary associations end up
sub-dividing themselves to the point that there's very little such
interaction. With the conferences we've divided panels by
theme/topic, so some division does occur. And of course people do
tend to flock together, and I suspect there's some "flocking"
off-list. To me, it's a sign of interest and vitality that we can
accommodate as diverse a group as we are. And it's a sign of the
collegiality and professionalism of all those on air-l that we've
made it a relatively low-traffic, high-info and flame-free list.
Someday we may end up with multiple lists (or threads on the web
site, or...), but I, for one, will stay subscribed to air-l, and hope
that it will continue to be the "melting pot" of interests that it
has become.
2.2 Vice President (Baym)
2.2.1 No report.
2.3 Secretary (Stoner)
2.3.1 No report.
2.4 Treasurer (Bates)
2.4.1 No report.
2.5 Open Seats (Kolko, Cubitt)
2.5.1 Kolko: No report.
2.5.2 Cubitt: No report.
2.6 Appointed Seats (Witmer, Sudweeks)
2.6.1 Witmer: Nothing to report.
2.6.2 Sudweeks: No report.
2.7 Student Seat (Williams)
2.7.1 No report.
2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl)
2.8.1 Hunsinger: Created new membership management system, new
members portal system, replaced static pages. It has news sections
for:
research news
job announcements
conference announcements
etc.
Web site now has:
a calendar
a synchronous chat system
an asynchronous chat system
a faq system
a glossary system
a polling system
a members listing
Members should feel free to use it at your leisure as you see fit.
It is not anonymous.
Ported information on old members page to new members system. Helped
John, Leslie, Charlie
2.8.2 Breindahl: I have taken part in the bylaws revision and the
aoir.org members area discussion. In the next couple of months, I
will try to devote more time to supplying content to the members area.
2.9 2001 Conference (John Logie, Coordinator and Leslie Shade, Program Chair)
2.9.1 Logie: I'm pleased that, according to Jeremy, we're now fifteen
days ahead of last year's schedule. The conference web pages are at
http://aoir.org/2001/program.htm et seq. Leslie will also be sending
out a mass e-mail shortly to alert folks to the program's
availability. Registration is strong to date. We have 80 registrants.
2.9.2 Shade: (See above.)
2.10 AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair)
2.10.1 : The group is concluding its discussion of a case study
provided by Malin Svenningson and the "Guidelines for research ethics
in the social sciences, law and the humanities" recently released by
the National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and
the Humanities (NESH - Norway)
<http://www.etikkom.no/NESH/guidelines.htm>. Members of the
committee attending the aoir conference in Minneapolis this October
will meet the evening of October 9 to finalize their comments to the
conference and plan for subsequent work.
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