[Air-L] Let's talk about AoIR.

[Deller, Ruth A]

Perhaps that is the very thing we should talk about - is the mailing list still the best environment for discussion, or has it become largely a technology (in academia anyway) of information?  I'm on a bunch of academic mailing lists, but the conversation is usually CFPs, job ads and sometimes requests for help.  Discussion is rare - and Air-L is one of the most 'discuss-y' of those I'm on even then.  

I discuss things all the time pertaining to AOIR... face-to-face, on Twitter... on Facebook... on blogs (or via reading others' blogs)... in forums... and in email too - but less so.  Email once felt like a dynamic medium, now it doesn't really.  I'm not saying we 'take it all to Twitter' or blogs, that'd be madness, as I think the list is still incredibly useful but maybe we ought to think about whether our discussion can thrive elsewhere as well?

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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy hunsinger
Sent: 31 May 2013 16:14
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Let's talk about AoIR.

aside from the conference and submission system, are there other significant cultural/structural questions that we should think about in
regards to AoIR?   or is the conference the main issue?

I think one of the issue is that the conference has become the main issue, and the list has basically changed from a fairly dynamic one, to a fairly circumscribed announcement list with a little discussion instead of being, as it once was, a sort of intellectual heart that drives the conference.
 So for me, I'd say list-culture and perhaps other AoIR media cultures need some intervention to transform them toward a more integrative and enabling
structure.  That's always been one of my concerns though...   I'm wondering
what non-conference related matters are out there?
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