[Air-l] Definitions

[Sam Tilden]

All,
   
  Honestly I don't mean to be dogmatic or pugnacious. I am confused by the contradictions I see in Nacy's interpretation and what I think mission statement is about. I'm trying to learn from the hazards thatat others have experienced.
   
  Pax Electronica,
   
  Sam
   
  Sam

Ellis Godard <egodard at csun.edu> wrote:
  The goal to "promote scholarly and critical research" seems narrower than
"further our understandings of the internet" as you paraphrase. Inquiry
seems broader than research, and this difference is implied by your
suggestion that differentiating the ideas would dismiss or alienate anyone.

I don't mean to dismiss or alienate anyone, of course. I only meant to
inquire, in terms tone and intention less dogmatic than Sam, whether the
words in the association's name provide meaningful boundaries. Their not
doing so wouldn't be *bad* thing, but certainly a curious one - worthy of
inquiry, if not research. :)

=eg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org 
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Baym
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:51 AM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Definitions
> 
> 
> >
> >If "research" is something done by humanists and artists, as well as 
> >scientists and practitioners, is there anyone who isn't a 
> researcher? 
> >Is this, in essense, the Association of Internet Anythingers?
> 
> 
> The #1 goal of AoIR from its outset has been, and I quote from our 
> founding statement of goals:
> 
> "to provide an interdisciplinary and interprofessional organization 
> for promotion of scholarly and critical research into the social, 
> cultural, political, economic and aesthetic aspects of the Internet."
> 
> There are millions of people who use the internet but do not take it 
> as a topic of scholarly or critical inquiry (i.e. "internet 
> anythingers").
> 
> A look around most any university will reveal that there are many 
> ways of conducting scholarly and critical inquiry other than science 
> and social science, a small sampling of which would include time 
> honored traditions such as philosophy, literary analysis, and 
> artistic production and performance. Recasting these modes of inquiry 
> as science or dismissing them as not research do not further our 
> understandings of the internet and alienate those members of AoIR who 
> use them as their epistimological strategies.
> 
> Nancy
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