AOIR's conferences are true oases for scholars looking for serious discussion of topics too
new for many university catalogues. Equally vital is the listserv run by AOIR, which creates
a year-round network of scholarly exchange, without which this book would have been the poorer.
Naomi Baron,
Always On: Language in an
Online and Mobile World
(Oxford University Press, 2008),
"Preface," p. xiii