In 2005, the sixth annual AoIR conference was organised by Steve Jones (conference chair) and Caroline Haythornthwaite (program chair) in Chicago (USA). Under the theme Internet Generations, nearly 400 delegates came together to hear and present around 250 papers. Keynote speakers were Ang Peng Hwa, Sonia Livingstone and Saskia Sassen.

The following are Quicktime videos of the presentations at Internet Research 6.0 in the autumn of 2005 in Chicago. Thanks are due to Soo Jeong An, Marisha Pathak, Francisco Seoane, and Evan Venie for shooting and preparing the videos.

“The UN and Internet Governance: Fears, Hopes, and Possibilities,” Ang Peng Hwa, Nanyang Technological University. (Available soon.)

“Digital Formations: the Intersection of Technical and Social Logics in Electronic Space,” Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago (Based on her chapter in Digital Formations: New Architectures in the Global Realm Princeton University Press, 2005.) (Available soon.)

Youthful Experts: A Critical Appraisal of Children and Young People’s Emerging Internet Literacy, Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics. (Available soon.)

Archived papers

The following papers were submitted as part of the Internet Research 6.0 conference. If you presented at the conference and would like your paper to appear here, you may send it to help@aoir.org for assistance. Unless otherwise noted, papers are available only to AoIR members. They are arranged alphabetically by author. Any questions or changes should be directed to help@aoir.org.

Avery Alix, “Gratifications of the Hardcore ‘Net Gladiator,” html

Franz Barjak, Mike Thelwall, & Xuemei Li, “Which factors explain the web impact of scientists’ personal home pages?” pdf

James Barry, “Gamers in Motion:A Study of Online Gamer ‘Guild’ Migrations,” html

Ulla Bunz, “Wireless Coffee Instead of Internet Café: Mapping Access in Manhattan,” pdf

Jenna Burrell, “Telling Stories of Internet Fraud: how word-of-mouth shapes Internet use in Accra, Ghana,” html

Sally Chandler, Joshua Burnett, Mark Sutton, & Jacklyn Lopez, “Changing Literacies/Changing Mindsets: Talking across Digital Generations in Composition Instruction and Research,” pdf

Ted Coopman, “Technologies of dissent: new media, free media, and parallel media infrastructures,” doc

Lilia Efimova, Stephanie Hendrick, & Anjo Anjewierden, “Finding ‘the life between buildings’: An approach for defining a weblog community,” pdf

Nien-hsuan Leticia Fang, Shwu-jiunn Wu, & Holin Lin, “The Analysis of Cohort, Awareness, and Dropouts in Internet Usage in Taiwan,” html

Richard Forno, “Technological Determinism: Is the Future Behind Us?” pdf

Suely Fragoso, “Mapping Brazil’s connectivity: do we really get more than we give?” pdf

Alla Genkina, “Customer-Centered Copyright Solutions,” pdf

Roman Gerodimos, “Democracy Reloaded? Generation Y and Online Civic Engagement in the UK,” pdf

Itai Himelboim & Brian Southwell, “Are blogs actually an alternative information source compared to traditional media? Linking patterns in news blogs,” pdf

Chheng-Hong Ho, “Transnational Family Communication across National Borders – A Case Study Between Taiwan and the United States,” pdf

Jennie M. Hwang & George Barnett, “The Use of the Internet for Health Information and Social Support: A Content Analysis of Online Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer Discussion Groups,” pdf

Julie Jones & Itai Himelboim, “A news generation gap? Framing blogs in mainstream media,” pdf

Mun-Cho Kim & Jong-Kil Kim, “Avatar and the Development of ‘Net Identity’ of Korean Youths,” html

Randolph Kluver, Sahul Hameed Shahiraa, Wai Peng Lee, Shyam Tekwani, Paul Horng Jyh Wu, Yin Leng Theng, Jap Hendry, and Xiaoying Tu, “The Internet and the Asian Tsunami Crisis,” pdf

Anett Kralisch & Martin Eisend, “Risk Reduction and Website Satisfaction in a Cross-cultural Context,” pdf

John Lannan & Edward F. Halpin, “The Evolution of Human Rights Activism in the Internet Age,” pdf

John Lannon, “The Internet and Collective Consciousness: An Exploration of Spiritually-Based Social Movements Online,” pdf

Kiley Larson, “Formation of Group Identities: Pro-Anorexia Mission Statement,” pdf

Jia Lin & Alex Halavais, “Blogs as indicators of social relationships in the US,” pdf [free access]

Kris M. Markman & Craig R. Scott, “Who Do You Think I Am? Comparing Sender and Receiver Perceptions of Email,” pdfIdentifiability

Alice Marwick, “‘I’m a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile’: Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking Services,” pdf

Sorin A. Matei, Lance Madsen, Laura Arns, Gary Bertoline, Drew Davidson, & Meiqi Ren, “Socio-spatial cognition and community identification in the context of the next generation of location-aware information systems,” pdf

Sorin A. Matei & John Hooker, “Wireless networks: social capital, diffusion and encryption practices,” pdf

Siddhartha Menon, “A participant observation analysis of the ‘Once & Again’ Internet message bulletin boards,” html

Eric T. Meyer, Howard Rosenbaum, & Noriko Hara, “How photobloggers are framing a new computerization movement,” pdf

Christine Ogan, Nathan Ainslie, Jacki Bauer, Kevin Makice, Jeremy Leventhal, and Younei Soe, “Online and Offline Behaviors of College Students: How Embedded is the Internet?” pdf

Tobias Olsson, “The Internet as a Resource for Political Engagement: Use and Perception of the Internet in Alternative Political Movements,” html

Vincent Pham, “The Influence of Place on the virtual ‘3rd Place,’” html

Siddhartha Raja, “Generations of Privacy and Anonymity on the Internet,” pdf

Kate Raynes-Goldie, “Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Social Norms and Friendship on Livejournal,” pdf

Jack Rosenberry, “Cyber-Democratic Engagement and the Online Newspaper: A Case Study,” pdf

Craig Scott & Scott D’Urso, “Comparing Students in Traditional and Online Courses: Communication Technology Use and the Effects on Student Learning,” pdf

Francisco Seoane Perez, “The UIC college student weblogs at Xanga.com: A content analysis,” pdf

Minsun Shim & Min Ju Lee, “Photoblogging and Socio-communicative Orientation: A Case study of “Cyworld” in Korea,” pdf

Tamara A. Small, “normalization.ca: The state of online party competition in Canada,” pdf

Felicia Song, “From Hanging in The WELL to going to Meetups:An Analysis of the Evolution of Online Communities and their Democratic Potential,” pdf

Andrea Stach & Alexander Serenko, “A Framework of Impacts of the Internet on the Travel and Tourism Industry,” pdf

Kjerstin Thorson & Brian Hamman, “Will you participate? The effects of interactive and psychological factors on intention to participate in a virtual community,” pdf

Lindsay Welter, “Listening to Lurkers: Recognizing Alternative Modes of Discussion in Political Virtual Communities,” pdf

Andrew Whitworth, “The Chronotopes of E-learning Research: Justifying a Critical Approach,” pdf

Dmitri Williams, Scott Leo, & Caplan Xiong, “Can You Hear Me Now? The Impact of Voice on Internet Communities,” pdf

Jan Mateusz Zajac, “Cybersoccer: Impact of the Internet on communities of amateur soccer leagues,” html

Quan Zhou & Mary Evans, “Involvement of ICTs in the Response to the SARS Outbreak,” pdf