[Air-l] bio for open seat candidate

[Andrea Baker]

Hello, all--
The slate of nominees contains many excellent candidates so far. 
Nominated by another member of our group for an open council seat,  I 
decided to put my bio on this list too.  An idea is to make use of 
all the nominees for future committees and projects.
thanks,
andrea

Andrea Baker, Ohio University
bakera at ohiou.edu
open seat nominee

Research about Cyberspace:  Presented papers and wrote published 
articles from an ongoing, long-term study of people who become 
couples after meeting online, 1997-present.  Interested in ethical 
issues in online research, and methodologies of studying online 
communications.  Previously followed group efforts to pass and defeat 
the Communications Decency Act.

Online Activities:  Host of Life Online, a discussion forum at Howard 
Rheingold's Brainstorms and of the Culture forum at the Utne Café. 
Teach distance education classes at the undergraduate level since 
1998.

A(O)IR:  For first conference 1.0, organized a panel of two 
psychologists and a sociologist on "Online Relationships", and 
moderated a panel including an anthropologist, a sociologist and a 
psychologist from Spain on, "Discourse of Chat".  For IR 2.0 will 
present  how online couples communicate, and attend pre-conference 
workshop on designing web research.

Upcoming Call for Papers:  Organizer and moderator of open session, 
"The Internet and Society", American Sociological Association, 
Chicago, IL, 2002.  Deadline for submitted papers, January 10, 2002.

Goals: 
(1) To further ties to other disciplines, making sure announcements 
of A(O)IR's conferences go into newsletters of national and 
international associations, including library science, linguistics, 
and computer technology, in addition to the traditional social 
sciences and humanities.
(2) To foster more participation among the applied specialists and 
activists who create and maintain online social networks in business, 
in local communities, and in political arenas.
(3) To continue the practice of involving students in the conference, 
on panels and with special awards and inducements to attend.





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