In 2003, the AoIR conference was held in Toronto Canada. The largest-ever conference – with nearly 500 delegates and more papers than ever before (who can forget 9 parallel sessions!!) – ‘Broadening the Band’ was organised by a local team led by Catherine Middleton with Matthew Allen as Program Chair. Keynote speakers were Jane Fountain, Pierre Levy, Lucy Suchman and, in his last conference as inaugural AoIR President, Steve Jones. Click ‘visit’ below for the conference website.

KEYNOTES
Fountain, Jane
Jones, Steve
Lévy, Pierre
Lucy Suchman

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Conference papers

(We are in the process of setting up links to the archived papers.)

Aaron, Susan: Meaning Structures Dissolve – Art As Cultural Structure
Allen, Gove, Dan L. Burk, Gordon Davis: Ethical And Legal Issues In Research Using Data Collection Agents
Allen, Matthew: Broadband Technologies, Techno-Optimism And The ‘Hopeful’ Citizen
Antonijevic, Smiljana: From Nation to Virtual Community:The Ethnogenesis of Cyber Yugoslavia
Aubin, France: Intellectuels, globalisation et Internet ( Intellectuals, globalization and Internet)
Aviv, Reuven , Zippy Erlich, Gilad Ravid, Aviva Geva: Network Analysis Of Knowledge Construction In Asynchronous Learning Networks
Bailey, Steve: Identity, Intersection, Irony: Doubling The Self In The Digital Age
Barnett, George, and Han Woo Park: The Structure Of International Internet Flows
Barney, Darin: The Vanishing Table, or, Community in a World that is No World
Baym, Nancy: Stories of online social life: Revealing what surveys obscure
Benitez, Jose: Representations Of Salvadoran Immigrants In The United States On The Internet.
Bicaïs, Migali: Une sociologie des pratiques : vers de nouvelles perspectives d’analyse de l’Internet (A sociology of practices : towards new viewpoints in the analysis of the Internet )
Birringer, Johannes: Dance, the body and the internet: The Flying Birdman
de Blanco, Claudia Ivón Rivera: Foreign Selves in Foreign On-line Environments: The Lack of Anonymity for Non-native Speakers
Bonneville, Luc: Les problèmes posés par l’e-santé sur le terrain de la pratique médicale
Brockington, Wanda: Searching The Internet: Black Space In The Public Sphere
Brophy, Enda: The Politics of Cyberspace: ICANN and the Contested General Intellect
Bruns, Axel: Stuff That Matters: Slashdot And The Emergence Of Open News
Burg, Thomas: MonsterMedia – Monster disguised as new media (weblogs)
Bødker, Mads, and Martin Sønderlev Christensen: Trust in the Network Society
Campbell, Heidi: What is so “New” about New Media? Considering How Language and Beliefs Shape Religious Internet Usage
Carmagnat, Fanny: Les Réseaux Libertaires Du Wifi (Libertarian networks of “Wifi”)
Carolan, Brian: Participation Across Time In An Online Learning Venue
Chee, Florence, and Richard Smith: Is Electronic Community An Addictive Substance? Everquest And Its Implications For Addiction Policy.
Cheong, Pauline Hope, and Holley A. Wilkin: The Internet for Hispanic immigrants: Health communication and the Digital Divides
Coopman, Ted M.: Dissentworks: Identity and Emergent Dissent as Network Structures
Coopman, Stephanie, Myria Watkins Allen, and Joy Hart: Submit, Resist, Or Subvert?: Organization Members’ Responses To Electronic Surveillance
Demont-Heinrich, Christof, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Scott A. Webber: The Bloom is Off the Rose: Families of Limited Socio-Economic Means and the Rhetoric of Computers and Success
Dincki, Sandri: MSNBC.com vs. TF1.fr: France Lagging Behind or Cultural Differences?
Ducke, Isa: The Effectiveness Of Internet Tools For Citizens’ Groups In Japan
Dziekan, Vince: Beyond the Museum Walls: The Situation of Art in Virtual Space
Epley, Nathan S.: Citizen Cynic: Culture and Politics of ‘No-Collar’ Professionals
Ford, Sarah Michele: ASL Everyone! The Presentation of Gendered Identities in Web-Based Chat Rooms
Ford, Sarah Michele: “ROFLMAO! ”: (Re)Embodying The Web-Based Chat Room
Fortin, Andrée, and Duncan Sanderson: The Internet and Local Politics and Government : Critique of a Utopia with Empirical Observations from Quebec
Fragoso, Suely: The Multiple Facets Of The Digital Divide
de Freitas, Christiana Soares: Hierarchy and Power in Contemporary Societies: Science in Cyberspace
Frost, Catherine: Digital Consciousness: Does it presage a new source of political legitimacy in a post-Internet world?
Fung, Timothy K. F.: Searching for Website Customization: An Adoption of Educational Taxonomy for Conceptualization and Application
Gajjala, Venkataramana: Entrepreneurship and Globalization Processes: A Look At Indian Software Companies
Gallo, Jason: Online Oppositional Communities As Discursive Counterpublics
Goldie, Janis: Privacy In Public: How Online Group Participants Understand Privacy
Gotved, Stine: Online Spatiality as Part of Cybersocial Reality
Granjon, Fabien, and Dominique Cardon: Mouvement altermondialiste et militantisme informationnel: Le cas d’Attac-info lors du FSM 2003
Guzzardo, Paul: Design Prototypes For A Networked City
Göritz, Anja S: Material Incentives in Web Surveys – A Meta-Analysis
Hayden, Lance: High Risk Information (HRI): A Proposed Theoretical Framework
Herman, Andrew, and Rosemary J. Coombe: Property, Propriety and the Digital Public Sphere
Hillis, Ken: Web-Based Graphical Chat Environments And The Novel’s “Middle Voice”
Hofmokl, Justyna: The Internet – The New Commons?
Hogan, Bernie: Media Multiplexity: An Examination of Differential Communication Usage
Humphreys, Sal: “You just got better at alteration [135]” The shifting relations of players and developers in multi-user online games
Ikeda, Ken’ichi, Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Kakuko Miyata: The Social Implications of Internet Use in Japan: Collective use of Internet can be a Lubricant of Democracy
Jacobs, Gloria E.: Fast Times and Cyber Space: Understanding the Relationship between Fast Capitalism and Instant Messaging
Jakubowicz, Peter: Online Learning Community: A Case Study of the CUForum at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jensen, Jakob Linaa: The effects of long-term online political participation – Minnesota E-democracy as a critical case
Johansson, Troels Degn: The Virtualization Of Place: Art, Culture, Technology
Johnson, Camille: Social Interaction And Meaning Construction Among Pro-Anorexic Community Websites
Keegan, Te Taka, and Sally Jo Cunningham: Indigenous Language Presence On The Web? – The Mâori Example
Kendall, Lori: Diary of a Networked Individual: Interpersonal Connections on LiveJournal
Khardouche, Ali: Le SMS TV chat – apport de l’internet dans le cadre d’un produit issu des trois secteurs (informatique, audiovisuel et télécommunications)
Kien, Grant: Internet Time: Socio-spatial Coordination Online
Kluver, Randolph: National variation in the political deployment of the Internet: the role
of political culture in Internet politics
Kutscher, Nadia, and Hans-Uwe Otto: The Internet As Social Space For Self-Regulated Appropriation Of Education
Kwak, Nojin, Marko M. Skoric, Ann E. Willilams, Nathaniel D. Poor: The Faster, the Better? Assessing the Impact of Broadband Internet on Knowledge and Participation
Lagos, Taso, and Alex Halavais: Parallel Society: Weblogs, Micromedia, And The Fragmentation Of The Public Sphere
Lally, Elaine: At home with information: the informatisation of domestic life
Langman, Lauren, and Douglas Morris: Another World Is Possible
Lee, Han: Defining Human
Logan, Robert: The Internet is the Medium and Collaboration is the Message
Macintyre, Maria: Internet: Changing the medical encounter?
Markham, Anette N.: Metaphors Reflecting and Shaping the Reality of the Internet: Tool, Place, Way of Being
Markman, Kris M.: Taking the Flesh With Me: Embodied Interaction as Framework for Studying Internet Communication
Massanari, Adrienne: Financial News Media Coverage of Amazon.com: 1995-2001
Matzat, Uwe: The Social Embeddedness of Academic Online Groups in Offline Networks as a Norm Generating Structure: An Empirical Test of the Coleman Model
McCombe, Colleen, and Michal Morris: Victorian Non-English Speaking Communities and the Internet: Findings from community consultations conducted in June-July 2002
Mei, Wu: The Internet and civic protest in China: Emerging online petitions
Merkel, Cecelia: Uncovering the Hidden Literacies of Technology “Have-nots”
Merrick, Helen: “Will the Real Barbarian please stand up?”: Gender and online gaming
Meyer, Eric T., and Rob Kling: Communication regimes and digital images: Understanding communication regimes, digital photography and the internet
Miyata, Kakuko, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman, and Ken’ichi Ikeda: The Users, Uses and Social Networks of Mobile Phones and PCs in Japan
Montilla, Armando, and Alejandra Salas: The E-Xquisite Corpse: Bridging Distance And Cultural Gaps Through Web-Based Collaboration – The Kolleg Satellite Cluster Caracas
Natriello, Gary: Beyond Courses: The Search For New Patterns Of Education Online
Nazarova, Muzhgan: The Internet in Azerbaijan: Its Impact on Everyday Life
Ndiaga, Loum: Internet et Régulation : Pourquoi une primauté de l’Éthique et de la Déontologie sur le Droit?
Nedelcu, Mihaëla: Migrations Et Diasporas À L’ère Du Numérique. E-Stratégies Des Migrants Roumains À Toronto. (Migrations and Diasporas in the digital age. E-strategies of Romanian migrants in Toronto)
Olson, Nils: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game: A Study Of Player Perspectives Of The Game “Lineage”
van Os, Renée, Carlo Hagemann & Nicholas W. Jankowski: Internet & the European Parliament election 2004
Paasonen, Susanna: Net Years, Pioneers and Flat Perspectives: Temporality and Internet Studies
Pannekoek, Frits, and Janice Dickin: The Internet and Community Building within Canada’s First Nations: Alberta’s Supernet as a Case in Point
Park, David: Bloggers and Warbloggers as Public Intellectuals: Charting the Authoritative Space of the Weblog
Pass, Glenn: From Paris to Perth: adopting an Annales perspective on the social history of the Internet in Western Australia
Pearson, Erika: Trust: Is social capital a precondition for democratic activity online?
Petric, Gregor: Freedom on the net: Theoretical and empirical assessment of diverse social usage of web sites
Phillips, David J.: Context, Identity, and Power in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Poor, Nathaniel: When Open Technocultures Are Closed: The Website Slashdot
Postigo, Hector: Copyright Violation on the Internet: Gaps Between Norms and the Law
Powell, Alison: E-Life and Real Life: On- and off-line social life in an Internet Café
Ratliff, Clancy: Sites of Resistance:Weblogs and Creative Commons Licenses
Ravenhill, Cambria: “For the Protection of All?” The Ethical Quandary of Privacy vs Security, Post 9/11: A Canadian Perspective
Raynes-Goldie, Katie: Pulling Sense out of Today’s Informational Chaos: Livejournal as a Site of Knowledge Creation and Sharing
Rehak, Bob: When Great Games Go Bad: Grand Theft Auto 3 And The Interface Of The Everyday
Reynolds, Ren: Commodification of Identity in Online Communities
Reyman, Jessica L.: Determining Value: Distance Education, Copyright, and the TEACH Act
Roldan, Ma. Divina Gracia Z.: Community, E-Government, And The Domestic Digital Divide: Two Case Studies In The Philippines
Rothenberg, Matthew: Weblogs, Metadata, And The Semantic Web
Ryan, Sherida: Don’t Trust Anyone Outside Your Pack: Initial Trust Formation In An Online Social Activist Network
Sanderson, Duncan, and Andrée Fortin: Web Site Development by Locally-Oriented Community Organizations: Characteristics, Problems, and Issues
Serenko, Alexander, and Mihail Cocosila: The Social Impacts of Intelligent Agents on Internet Use
Shah, Rajiv, and Jay Kesan: Manipulating Code: How Society Can Utilize Code As A Regulatory Mechanism
Squires, Lauren M.: College Students in Multimedia Relationships: Choosing, Using, and Fusing Communication Technologies
Stein, Sarah: Hacking Women: Media Representations of the Technically Proficient Woman
Steiner, Robert V., Myles Gordon, Rosamond Kinzler, Maritza Macdonald: Seminars on Science: A Model for the Leveraging of Museum Resources
Stewart, Concetta M., Gisela Gil-Egui, and Mary S. Pileggi: Applying The Public Trust Doctrine To The Governance Of Content-Related Internet Resources
Switzer, Jamie S.: The Use of Gendered Language in Online Communication: A Content Analysis
Tapia, Elias Hernández: Challenges and Opportunities in Internet Cafés in Rural Mexico
Tarkowski, Alek: The Politics of Magic Pixie Dust. Socio-technical Effects of Open-Sourcing Netscape Communicator Code
Thomas, Sue: Mapping The Transition From Page To Screen
Thompson, Gary: Visual factors in constructing authenticity in weblogs
Trammell, Kaye D.: Impact of Source Credibility in Assessing Online Health Messages Based on Culture
Vieta, Marcelo: The Interactional Self and the Experiences of Internet Mediated Communication as Seen Through Heidegger, Mead, and Schutz
Volst, Angelika: Beyond Access: Questioning Internet-Traffic
Warnick, Barbara: Online Ethos: Source Credibility In An “Authorless” Environment
Watters, Craig: Infrastructure, Technology, and Rural Communities: Spatial Issues Lost in a Rural County’s Regional Development
Webber, Scott: Minimal Use, Maximum Hope: The Current Uses of Computers and the Internet in Elementary Schools
Webber, Scott, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Christof Demont-Heinrich: Buying In and Left Behind: Computers and Success among Disadvantaged Families
Whitty, Monica: Cyber-Flirting: An Examination Of How Men And Women Flirt On The Internet
Williams, Jocelyn, Frank Sligo, and Catherine Wallace: Connecting communities in New Zealand: assessing outcomes for novice ICT users
Williams, Dmitri: Bridging, Bonding And Slaying The Evil Foo: Social Capital In An Online Game