[Air-l] CFP: Graduate Student Research Group

[elw at stderr.org]

1)  What, exactly, does the exec have in mind?

2)  Wouldn't it have been a good idea to discuss the formation of such a
     group on the air-grad list *first*, to see if there's interest in it?
     (I haven't seen any such discussion, which is why I'm asking...)

--elijah


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ted M Coopman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:43:41 -0800 (PST)
> From: Ted M Coopman <coopman at u.washington.edu>
> Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] CFP: Graduate Student Research Group
> 
> Hello All,
>
> I am happy to announce the formation of the Association of Internet 
> Researchers Graduate Student Research Group (AoIR-GSRG) and a call for 
> participants.
>
> The purpose of the GSRG is to recruit graduate student members of AoIR 
> who wish to take a more active role in the association. GSRG members 
> would agree to serve one year as part of a pool of volunteers from which 
> specific Graduate Student Research Teams (GSRT) would be drawn. GSRT 
> participation would be on a voluntary basis. Individual teams would be 
> tasked with a research project that would benefit the association and 
> its members. The AoIR Executive Committee would determine the projects, 
> the scope, and the disposition of the research performed.  The rationale 
> is that the association and its members can make better decisions with 
> accurate information on topics of interest.  More details on potential 
> projects are below.
>
> It is envisioned that any project would be distributed among team 
> members so that the time commitment would be on par with an average 
> research paper or less.
>
> Members wanting to serve for more than one year may be renewed at the 
> discretion of the Graduate Student Representative to the Executive 
> Committee who acts as overall project coordinator.
>
> Teams are largely self-managing, but will be required to submit research 
> plans and meet specific deadlines. The Executive, through the Graduate 
> Student Representative, would work collaboratively with each team to 
> ensure that projects are successfully completed within the terms 
> originally approved by the Executive.
>
> GSRG and GSRT members will be recognized by the association at the 
> annual conference, receive tasteful certificates (suitable for framing) 
> and most of all the gratitude of the Executive Committee and the 
> association. Service for AoIR in this way provides a significant credit 
> to members' vitae and valuable experience working in a 
> multi-disciplinary, distributed research team. In many cases, data and 
> results will be made available to GSRT members for their own use in 
> publications or presentations if they so desire.
>
> It is the hope of the Exec that the experience will help reinforce the 
> concept of the association as a field for action and interaction, and 
> build strong ties across geography, disciplines, and outside of thematic 
> interest areas.
>
> GSRG applicants must be a graduate student and a paid member of AoIR.
>
> Interested graduate students should contact Ted M. Coopman, Graduate 
> Student Representative, at coopman at u.washington.edu.
>
>
> Project Details Please note that all protocols concerning ethical 
> research methods and the protection of personal data will be strictly 
> adhered to.  In the case of AoIR member information, all identifying 
> data will be stripped out prior to any release to a GSRT.
>
> Students who favor social scientific as well as humanistic approaches 
> are welcome.
>
> Research approaches could include both qualitative and quantitative 
> methods or (more likely) a combination of both.  Potential projects 
> would include analyzing data that would give the Exec more accurate 
> information on the demographic make-up of AoIR membership and/or 
> conference participants (disciplines, affiliation, nationalities, etc.), 
> identification of Internet related graduate programs, and creation of 
> annotated subject related multi-disciplinary bibliographies to name a 
> few. The research would result in professional-practice publications 
> that would be available via the AoIR website some of which will be 
> exclusively for AoIR members.
>
> This initial effort is a pilot program to see if there is sufficient 
> interest in participation, the ability to execute association directed 
> tasks, and the quality/utility of results.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> -TED
>
> Ted M. Coopman
> AoIR Graduate Student Representative
> Department of Communication
> University of Washington
>
>
>
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