[Air-l] Public Sphere

[Andrew J Perrin]

Is there one offline?

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl


On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, V.Petkovic at lse.ac.uk wrote:

> Open Question to all: Is there a public sphere online?
>
> I am very curious to see what you all think.
> VP
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> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Lilia Efimova
> Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 4:09 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] PhD blogring proposal
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>
>
> Mary,
> I'd be happy to join - I definitely like the idea of having a button
> on my own weblog linking to the list of others (or a random weblog
> from the list). I believe that having a button (or link) is important
> - it indicates my "membership" to my visitors.
>
> Lilia
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> Lilia Efimova
> PhD researcher, Telematica Instituut
>
> Telematica Instituut: http://www.telin.nl
> PhD: http://iceberg.telin.nl
> Weblog: http://blog.mathemagenic.com
>
>
>
> On 18/10/06, Mary-Helen Ward <mhward at usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>> At the AoIR conference in Brisbane a group (well, three is a small
>> group!) of us PhD students met with the graduate student representative
>> on the AoIR board, Ted Coopman. One of the things that was suggested at
>> that meeting was that some kind of central place be set up with a list
>> of the blogs of graduate student members of the Association - a blog
>> ring, I guess, although it could be as simple as a click able listing of
>> all the sites with some details about their owners and their research
>> interests.
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's somewhere this could be done on the Association
>> website, or whether one of us should just take the initiative and call
>> for addresses to create this page and stick it somewhere. I'm happy to
>> have a go at designing a button we could have on our sites - it could
>> link to this (as yet uncreated) list if we decided not to have a
>> 'proper' blogring or it could be the blogring button.
>>
>> The advantage to this would be that this could be a kick start to
>> forming a community of common interest - many of us are already linking
>> to each other and have each other on RSS feeds, but this would create a
>> quick way to connect with and for new student members. Also, at the PhD
>> colloquium many PhD presenters found the input from faculty to be really
>> helpful, especially as we're all working in such a multi-disciplinary
>> and 'out there' academic area and many have supervisors with more
>> traditional research experience. Having our blogs linked would mean that
>> we could bring up issues we were concerned about for discussion among a
>> wider audience that has a deeper understanding of the issues of our
>> research areas than many of the people we are in face-to-face contact with.
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> Mary-Helen
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