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

[David Dueñas Cid]

As I see some interest on the debate, what about an informal lunch-together
next Wednesday (July 18)? Even if it is just to gather different positions
and, if possible, consensus.

David.

El ds, 14 jul 2018 a les 5:01 Deborah Lupton <deborah.lupton at gmail.com> va
escriure:

> 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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>>
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