[Air-L] The World Social Forum is coming to North America (for the first time) in August 2016 (Montreal) - what might be the AOIR's community's interests in convening there?

[Andrew Herman]

Becky

In the course of the ongoing elections for the AOIR executive, these kinds of initiatives where AIR organizes an event on such occasions has been discussed positively. What do you have in mind. Something informal like a "birds of a feather" gathering or something more official.

Andrew Herman
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Becky  this would be interesting to explore - what (and how) are you
suggesting?

Radhika Gajjala

Professor
School of Media and Communication
and
American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio
http://www.radhikagajjala.org <http://www.cyberdiva.org>

Co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender and New Media
http://adanewmedia.org

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> To pick up on Elodie¹s question, 'we need to add an international view on
> how the Internet is defined and used¹, an opportunity is forthcoming to
> get at least one of some of those views at the forthcoming World Social
> Forum in August 2016 in Montreal. Might the global aoir community consider
> proposing a convergence of interested aoir scholars and friends for the
> next Forum as part of the process of reimagining internet studies given
> all the changes that have taken place of late and that will clearly
> continue to evolve re the nature of what we understand to be ¹the
> internet¹? Some on this list may know about the recent Internet Social
> Forum conversation convened at the 2015 Forum in Tunis, which is another
> link that might be cultivated/pursued.
>
> Best,
> Becky
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