Day 3 of the AoIR Conference
Oct. 18th, 2003 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onefixedstarAs indicated by my title, I spent most of my day at the AoIR conference. While I was there, I ran into a prof from McMaster who was at my session on Thursday and apparently liked my paper. She asked if I might be willing to come and give a guest lecture in her class sometime. Someday I'm going to view such requests as a burden, but since it's the first time I've been asked to do that, I'm quite excited by it. :)
Sadly, I had to miss yesterday's papers on LiveJournal in order to attend a session that dealt with my (possible) dissertation topic, but I did mange to make today's session on fandom, which included a paper on TWoP. The paper was based on a survey of a number of posters from the forums, and was fairly positive overall, although a couple of us had our doubts about how much this guy actually knows about online fan communities or the academic literature in the area. (Yes, there is academic literature dealing with fan communities.)
I went to the fourth and final keynote address in the afternoon. It was on the Internet and bureaucracies, which is a topic that normally interests me, but a full morning of sessions had left me a little burned out and I ended up using much of that hour to plot out a new story. I think it's a good idea, and eventually I'd like time to write it.
Sadly, I had to miss yesterday's papers on LiveJournal in order to attend a session that dealt with my (possible) dissertation topic, but I did mange to make today's session on fandom, which included a paper on TWoP. The paper was based on a survey of a number of posters from the forums, and was fairly positive overall, although a couple of us had our doubts about how much this guy actually knows about online fan communities or the academic literature in the area. (Yes, there is academic literature dealing with fan communities.)
I went to the fourth and final keynote address in the afternoon. It was on the Internet and bureaucracies, which is a topic that normally interests me, but a full morning of sessions had left me a little burned out and I ended up using much of that hour to plot out a new story. I think it's a good idea, and eventually I'd like time to write it.
