[Air-L] Sad News: Death of Brenda Danet

[Jankowski]

Having been offline the past week, this sad news only now reaches me....

One of Brenda's contributions Steve did not mention was that she 
served on the editorial board of New Media & Society during its early 
years, performing that all-too-often unacknowledged labor of 
reviewing journal submissions and pointing young scholars in the 
direction of NM&S at a time when the title was far from recognized. 
Brenda did all of this, and more. I particularly remember, and 
cherish, the personal conversations we had across the years, usually 
in some corner of a conference venue. Thank you, Brenda....

Nick Jankowski

At 05:47 24-11-2008, you wrote:

>My sympathies go out to Brenda's family and friends. I, too, will
>mourn her death. She was one of the earliest supporters of AoIR, and
>my conversations about internet research predate AoIR's formation by
>quite a few years. She always spoke up and had interesting things to
>say and interesting questions to ask. I will miss her.
>
>Sj
>
>On Nov 23, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Naomi Susan Baron wrote:
>
>>Yesterday, the world of internet research lost a dear friend and
>>colleague. Brenda Danet died in New Haven, CT, following a heroic (and
>>most graceful) battle with leukemia. Despite her years of ups and
>>downs
>>with the disease, she continued to produce work that guides many of
>>us and
>>our students.
>>
>>Brenda was a pioneer -- intellectually and personally. She did her
>>BA at
>>Radcliffe and PhD (in Sociology) at the University of Chicago, but
>>spent
>>most of her professional life in Israel. She taught at Hebrew
>>University,
>>where she was appointed Danny Arnold Chair of Communications in 1998.
>>Following her retirement in 2000, she migrated back to the US, where
>>she
>>became a Research Affiliate in Anthropology at Yale.
>>
>>Most of us know Brenda from her delightful book CyberPlay, and her
>>more
>>recent co-edited volume (with Susan Herring) on The Multilingual
>>Internet.
>>Those of us fortunate enough to have known Brenda in person cherish
>>our
>>memories of a strong, self-confident woman who inspired us to think,
>>was
>>full of wit, wore the most lovely scarves, and helped us laugh at
>>ourselves.
>>
>>Brenda will be very sorely missed.
>>
>>Naomi Baron
>>American University
>>Washington, DC  USA
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