[Air-L] Interest in AoIR-sponsored webinars?

[Michael Zimmer]

But that's the benefit of webinar format (low cost to produce, nearly zero cost to participate). You can have specificity (not "exclusivity") to help easily incorporate a wider range of interests. Each doesn't have to be attractive to everyone. 

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns at vt.edu>
To: "Michael Zimmer" <zimmerm at uwm.edu>
Cc: "air-l Aoir" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 10:05:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Interest in AoIR-sponsored webinars?

I think webinars could work, but I think we'd have to be extremely careful to not be exclusive, topics like discipline and irb could be exclusive, whereas tools, methods, theories, ethics, and similar are less likely to be exclusive.  here i am thinking about how to actually recognize the international/interdisciplinary nature of our work and how to best share that.  I also think we might be able to reprise this sort of thing: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/2000/seminar/index.html
On Jun 1, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:

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> Is there interest in having AoIR-sponsored topical webinars? The association could invest in a GoToMeeting or WebEx platform (or get an institution to sponsor), select 4 topics per year (focusing on discipline, method, theory, IRBs, tools, etc), and then invite members with expertise to provide mini presentations, opening up for discussion, etc. 

Jeremy Hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech



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