[Air-l] More thought on 'Virtual conference'

[Matthew Allen]

And can I ask if there are opinions on whether Australia is close enough to
several important centres of research/scholarship (ie Singapore, Thailand,
Korea and others) to provide some relief from the difficulties of long
flights to Europe or the USA?

(I should add that Australia's visa laws can also be quite onerous but not
as bad as the USA and no fingerprinting/photos - not yet anyway)

Matt 


Dr Matthew Allen 
Associate Professor Internet Studies
Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities
Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia
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Hongladarom
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Subject: Re: [Air-l] More thought on 'Virtual conference'

Dear all,

I just would like to add my two cents on Prof. Wu's comments on virtual
conferences. I used to attend several of them, but my experience is that I
could not find enough time to read all the papers and to follow all the
discussions sitting in my office. There are a lot of distractions --
students coming in demanding answers, committee meetings, phone calls, etc.
These are the normal aspects of life in the office. But when I am away on a
trip to a conference, I can leave all that away and focus on the papers
being presented. And I come back feeling much freshened up. At first I
thought I could focus more on the papers being presented online, but I just
found myself downloading most of the papers for later reading, and the
discussion aspect is limited to posting on email lists.

One way to solve the issue of international travelling, visas, etc. 
is to hold an AoIR conference closer to home. In my and Prof. Wu's case that
would be in Asia. Trip to HK for me is not as daunting as one to the US.
Perhaps someone might want to propose that there be 'regional' conferences
such that those in Asia could attend them.

Cheers,
Soraj

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Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts
Chulalongkorn University
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