December 2010 – Page 5 – Silence and Voice

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2010-12-15

#Anonymous4 were fantastic. #
Will see Anonymous 4 in a holiday concert at the Met Museum that begins in a few minutes. #anonymous4 #NYC #MetMuseum #
I walked across Central Park this evening. Very dark with surprisingky few people in it. Very peaceful place. #
How is it already time for lunch? Meeting my teaching assistant for my upcoming January course for lunch today. #

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2010-12-14

Working in our Queens office all morning. Never been here on a Monday morning before. #
Finished all I can on that work research. Now finishing a blind-review I am a week late in submitting for an article I am reviewing. #

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2010-12-13

I again had to unfollow some Twitter accounts. I cannot read more than 200 people; and yes, I really do try to read them. #
Anybody else notice that the current version of #TweetDeck no longer seems to load Tweets marked as unseen at start-up?All are marked seen. #
Taking a break from an article draft I am (again) revising. Needs more resources I do not have access to from home; will finish tomorrow. #
At the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington. #
Between travel to Long Island for Michael Storrings's ornament signing at Bloomingdale's in Huntington, I am working on revising 2 papers. #

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2010-12-12

Good sign for the economy. Walked in to Cafe Loup on 13th St. and they could not seat our table of 3. Packed at 7:00. . #
I just saw Elijah Wood ON 7th Ave. He is one of the few stars I think I recognize. Yes, his eyes are really that piercing. #
New Blog Post: Internet Research 12.0 (2011) Call for Papers http://bit.ly/gODg4g #ir12 #AoIR #
Glad to see #ir12 already has a Twitter stream with followers at @ir12. Let the collaboration begin! #
Wonder if I missed an email about #ir12 or if perhaps it is recently available at http://ir12.aoir.org/ and the buzz begins before the PR? #
The #AoIR 2011 conference website for Internet Research 12 #ir12 is now available http://ir12.aoir.org/ #
Getting a bagel toasted and buttered at 'Snice in #NYC #

Internet Research 12.0 (2011) Call for Papers

Thrilled to see that the AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) call for papers for the Internet Research 12 Conference IR12 is now available on the conference website. I liveblogged and wrote obsessively about the current year’s conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, and took many ideas away with me that are now beginning to influence my own research.

Did I see that the focus this coming year will be Performance and Participation, with a smattering of issues around identity (the interest of mine that is becoming all-consuming)? Take a look at the focus this year in the call for papers:

To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:

Creative performances and digital arts

Participatory culture and participatory design

Critical performance and political participation

Identity performance

Exclusion from participation

Economic performance of Internet-related industries

Game performance

Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.)

Ritual performances and communal participation

This increasingly looks to be a place for my work, as all of it involves Internet Research, focuses on identity formation and development, and is about as interdisciplinary as the social sciences themselves. Hope to attend and present my work for more engaged and constructive peer feedback.