[Air-L] Julian Dibbell to Speak in 2009 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture

[Sarina Chen]

Julian Dibbell, author of Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and  
Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot (Basic, 2006), and My Tiny Life:  
Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (Henry Holt, 1999), will speak in  
the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series during the 2009  
annual convention of the International Communication Association  
(ICA), on Friday, May 23, 2009, at 4:30 pm, in Ohio State Room, in  
Downtown Chicago Marriott.  Dibbell’s lecture is entitled, “Kittens,  
Kittens, and the Crisis of Online-Cultural Propriety:  An Exercise in  
Memetic Literacy.

The Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series is sponsored by the  
Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (http://www.cccsir.org 
) and supported by the International Communication Association (ICA, http://www.icahdq.org 
).  The lecture series is designed to bring leading Internet thinkers  
to the ICA Conference to promote Internet research to foster  
collaborations with communication researchers.  For questions and  
comments about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen at uni.edu 
.