[Air-L] Registration for Internet Research 11.0: Sustainability, Participation, Action, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 21-23, 2010 now open

[Mia Consalvo]

Dear all,

I'm in complete sympathy with Steve's call that we keep costs in line and
let folks allow for planning ahead, as well as keeping costs as reasonable
as possible for graduate students (and faculty too). Here are a few of the
things that we kept foremost in our minds as we planned this conference:

1. AoIR is international and we have a commitment to serving all of our
members. Part of that includes moving our conference around, to offer
different groups the opportunity to attend more easily in certain years.
2. As part of that commitment, we knew that Sweden would be expensive, but
we felt we needed to go back to Europe after holding the conference in the
US in 2009. Due in part to our great success in Milwaukee (with a huge thank
you to Steve for that), we are able to help finance this conference. Even
with the higher registration fees, we will most likely be incurring a loss
as an organization to support this conference.
3. A smaller matter, but lunches for the three days of the conference are
included in this year's registration cost (they weren't included in
Milwaukee). We included them so that attendees didn't have to run out during
a brief lunch break to find food, and could more easily continue the
conversations that had started during the day. Thus, some of the cost of
purchasing meals on your own is offset by that.
4. We are still looking for sites for 2012 and 2013! If maintaining certain
cost levels is important, please consider helping us host a conference and
work towards that goal. We can only go where we are invited.

All the best,

Mia

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steve Jones <sjones at uic.edu> wrote:

> For some reason the url in the email announcement includes the "!" but it
> should not. The url is http://ir11.aoir.org/registration-3/
>
> The registration fees seem very high for this year's conference. Using
> current conversion rates to U.S. Dollars, and assuming a full refund of VAT
> (which may be an incorrect assujption):
>
> Earlybird Rates (through August 31)
>
> $265    • Student:  1980 SEK (plus 495 SEK VAT) = 2475 SEK TOTAL
> $244    • Student with 1-Year Membership: 1580 SEK (plus 395 SEK VAT), with
> student membership (244 SEK) = 2219 SEK TOTAL
> $434    • Professional: 3250 SEK (plus 812.50 SEK VAT) = 4062.50 SEK TOTAL
> $416    • Professional with 1-Year Membership: 2750 SEK (plus 687.50 SEK
> VAT), with professional membership (365 SEK) = 3802.50 SEK TOTAL
>
> Regular Rates (after August 31)
>
> $321    • Student:  2400 SEK (plus 600 SEK VAT) = 3000 SEK TOTAL
> $300    • Student with 1-Year Membership: 2000 SEK (plus 500 SEK VAT), with
> student membership (244 SEK) = 2744 SEK TOTAL
> $488    • Professional: 3650 SEK (plus 912.50 SEK VAT) = 4562.50 SEK TOTAL
> $470    • Professional with 1-Year Membership: 3150 SEK (plus 787.50 SEK
> VAT), with professional membership (365 SEK) = 4302.50 SEK TOTAL
>
> The fees do not include the banquet (at about $60 USD) and pre-conference
> workshops (one of which is free, the others are about $45 USD).
>
> Last year's fees are still online at http://ir10.aoir.org/?page_id=6 and
> were as follows for the non-earlybird registrants (I don't know what the
> early registration fees were off the top of my head, and they are not on
> that page, but I think they were around $30 or so less):
>
>        • 2009-2010 Member, Professional Conference Registration - $ 325.00
>        • 2009-2010 Member, Student Conference Registration - $ 190.00
>        • Non-member Professional Conference Registration - $ 370.00
>        • Non-member Student Conference Registration - $ 220.00
>
> This year's fees are significantly increased from the ones last year (and
> the year before that, as I recall that every effort was made to keep the
> fees the same), and while I am aware of currency fluctuations and the
> relative expense of operating a conference in some places compared with
> others, I am concerned particularly with the cost for students to attend the
> conference in Gothenburg. Furthermore, it is somewhat ironic to see this
> sort of increase given the conference theme, as it might cause _less_
> participation and be _un_sustainable if AoIR continues to increase
> conference fees like this. I would also like to suggest to the executive
> committee that some relative stability in conference fees should be a goal
> so that people can budget for this conference each year and not be surprised
> (sometimes pleasantly, perhaps, and sometimes not) when registration fees
> are announced.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Ann-Sofie Axelsson wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We are pleased to announce, finally, that the registration for Internet
> Research 11.0: Sustainability, Participation, Action, Gothenburg, Sweden,
> October 21-23, 2010 now is open and can be accessed at
> http://ir11.aoir.org/registration-3/!
> >
> > We welcome academics, industrial associates and practitioners from all
> fields to participate in this exctiting conference!
> > Ylva Hård af Segerstad and Ann-Sofie Axelsson
> > Organizing Committee
> >
> >
> > Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ph.D.
> > Department of Technology Management and Economics
> > Division of Technology and Society
> > Chalmers University of Technology
> > SE-412 96 Gothenburg
> > Sweden
> >
> > Phone: +46 31-772 11 19
> > Fax: +46 31-772 37 83
> >
> > E-mail: annaxe at chalmers.se<BLOCKED::mailto:annaxe at chalmers.se>
> > Web(TinyURL): http://tinyurl.com/yw8n9s
> >
> >
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-- 
Mia Consalvo, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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