[Air-L] For those attending ISA World Congress of Sociology

[Deborah Lupton]

I think a digital sociology stream at ISA would be very timely.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:13 PM, David Dueñas Cid <david.duenas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear AOIRs,
>
> I don't know if this is the place where to debate this issue, if not, just
> tell me and I will find another way of doing so.
>
> Next week will take place the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto,
> where I plan to take part with, I guess, many other members of this list of
> distribution.
>
> As it usually happens in big/generalistic conferences, checking the program
> to find interesting presentations focused on internet and society
> represents a big effort of patience. Commonly, internet scholars are widely
> distributed in different Research Comittees, showing the diversity of our
> researh topics and making difficult the connection between us. An
> interesting congress schedule, as a result, means a complicated set of
> overlapped presentations amongst which one needs to blind-decide what to
> see and what to discard.
>
> There, my debate/question/almost-proposition: *Does anybody feels like
> trying to discuss something for next ISA conferences in order to gather
> "Internet Sociology" scholars/contents? *
>
> I am not aware of the internal processes of ISA, I do not know if it is
> possible to create a new "Reserch Comittee" on this topic, or, even, if it
> would be convenient. Or if, simply, we could think on different way of
> organizing the information regarding this topic on ISA Conferences (having
> some sort of inter-group label to identify the topic). Even that, I think
> that it might be an interesting debate.
>
> If there is some people interested, maybe we could:
>
> *1) Use this mail as a discussion thread*
> *2) Find a moment/place to meet in Toronto next week and talk face-to-face
> about it.*
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Duenas-Cid
>
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