[Air-l] September 11 & The Web

[Steve Schneider]

Dear Fellow Internet Researchers,

We have been working with the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress
to create an archive of web materials related to the September 11 terrorist
attacks in the United States.  A limited version of the publicly accessible
materials is available at http://september11.archive.org.

We are hoping to put together a panel of papers for the IR 3.0 Conference
[http://aoir.org/2002/] next fall featuring analyses based on these archived
materials.

If you are interested in joining this panel, please read on.  If you know of
someone who might be interested, please forward this email to them.

The archive consists of several thousand web sites collected on a daily
basis from September 11, 2001 through December 1, 2001.  There is a
primitive categorization based on "producer type" available for a limited
number of sites.  Additional cataloguing and indexing work will soon be
underway, and participating scholars would have early access to this data.
In addition, some limited assistance with using the archive for research
purposes will be available.

If you are interested in writing and presenting a study of some aspect of
the post-September 11 web at the AOIR conference next October, please let us
know by email before January 30th.  In your response, describe the kind of
work you'd like to do, mention how you would plan on using the archived
materials to address your research question, and include an abstract of your
proposed paper for possible inclusion in the AOIR panel proposal.

Thanks --

Steve Schneider (steve at sunyit.edu)
Kirsten Foot (kfoot at u.washington.edu)