IR 8.0 – Let’s Play! (2007)
The conference for 2007 was held in Vancouver, with the theme Let’s Play!
Photos from IR 8.0
Some more photos from IR 8.0
Archived papers
The following papers presented at the IR 8.0 conference have been made available by their authors. Unless otherwise noted, access is only available to current members of AoIR.
Julia Ahrens, Let’s play and work with the Internet at home: Domestic Internet use of Australian and German couples,” doc
Anne-Mette Albrechtslund, “Gender and the Player Cyborg: Ideological Representation and Construction in Online Games”. pdf
Stephen Andon, “Evaluating computer-mediated communication on the university campus: the impace of Facebook.com on the development of romantic relationships,” pdf
Daniel Ashton, “Becoming serious and translating realms: Online games in educational contexts?” doc
Naomi S. Baron, “My best day: presentation of self and social manipulation in Facebook and IM,” doc
Roy Bendor, “Web 2.0 and the politics of co-production,” pdf
Evangelia Berdou, “Seasonal workers, distant relations? Nonprogramming contributors in mature free/open source software projects,” pdf
Regina Bernhaupt, Thomas Mirlacher, Andreas Boldt, Manfred Tscheligi, “Emotional Flower: How Social Community Building is Influenced by an Emotional Interface Game?” doc
F. Mutlu Binark and Günseli Bayraktutan Sütcü, “The internship for the real life in silkroad online: The experience of Turkish tribes,” pdf
Bradley J. Bond, Veronica Hefner, and Kristin L. Drogos, “Coming Out of the Cyber Closet: The Internet as a Tool During the Sexual Self-Realization of LGBT Youth,” doc
Robert E. Boostrom, Jr, “The Social Construction of Virtual Reality and the Stigmatized Identity of the Newbie,” doc
Niels Brügger, “Website History: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in an Emerging Field,” pdf
Ulla Bunz and Kristin Carlton, “A Closer Look at Internet Research: Who, What, Where, and When?” doc
Pauline Hope Cheong, “Playing God? : (Re)examining Religious boundaries and Epistemic Authority online,” pdf
Chris Clemens, “Replaying the Classics: The Internet’s Role in Creating Hybrid Scene in the Videogame Music Remix Community,” doc
Yen-Shen Chen, Li-Shiue Gau, Felipe Korzenny, “The effects of the internet and electronic games on the ethnic identity and self-expression of young adults,” pdf
Anthony Cocciolo, Hui Soo Chae, and Gary Natriello, “Does Web 2.0 Matter? Investigating How Learning Environment Design Affects User Community Engagement,” doc
Katie Conrad, Bradley J. Bond, and Jacqueline Roe, “Self-disclosure on online social networking communities: the impact of privacy perceptions and gender,” doc
Anupam Das, “Keeping in touch through metadiscourse: bilingual Bengalis’ ‘scraps’ on Orkut,” pdf
Malin Sveningsson Elm, “Exploring and negotiating femininity: young women’s production of style in a
Swedish internet community,” pdf
Beate Elvebakk, “Philosophy on Wikipedia: a comparison with other web-based philosophy resources,” doc
Vidar Falkenberg, “Decomposing the newspaper: a typology of online newspapers,” pdf
David M. Faris, “Crashing the Bab: predicting patterns of IT activism and regime response in the Middle East,” doc
Suely Fragoso, “What we give and what you get,” pdf
Maryse de la Giroday, “Writing nanotechnology: first investigation,” doc
Sara M. Grimes, “Saturday morning cartoons go MMOG,” pdf
Mirjam Gollmitzer, “Long-distance romantic relationships mediated through Skype,” doc
Edgar Gómez, Adolfo Estalella, and Elisenda Ardèvol, “Playful embodiment and identity performance on the Internet,” doc
Nanette Gottlieb, “Lanugage play on the internet in Japan,” doc
Miriam Greenfeld, “Online conflict as a source of play: the new peanut gallery,” doc
Mark Anthony B. Gubagaras, Neil Jerome C. Morales, Stephen Norries A. Padilla, and Jun Daryl N. Zamora, “The playground is alive: online games and the formation of a virtual subculture,” doc
Todd Harper, “The six-process gameplay model: a proposal for examining meaning and gameplay,” doc
Ingrid M. Hoofd, “The neoliberal consolidation of play and speed: ethical issues in serious gaming,” doc
Dal Yong Jin and Florence Chee, “Age of Korean empires in the new media: a critical interpretation of the online game industry,” doc
Michelle M. Kazmer and Bo Xie, “Qualitative interviewing in internet studies: playing with the media, playing with the method,” pdf
Slava Kozlov and Nicole Reinhold, “To play or not to play: can companies learn to be n00bs, LFG, and lvl-up?” pdf
Aleks Krotoski, “The social life of Second Life: an analysis of the social networks of a virtual world,” doc
Malene Charlotte Larsen, “Understanding social networking: on young people’s construction and co-construction of identity online,” pdf
Sean Lawson, “Loosing the blogs of war: the advent of “milblogging” in the post-9/11 U.S. military,” pdf
Hangwoo Lee, “Negotiating the public/private boundaty and informal public life in cyberspace: a case study of ‘Cyworld’ in Korea,” doc
Yeon-ok Lee, “National context and the use of online knowledge databases,”pdf
Rich Ling and Naomi S. Baron, “Does American texting look like IM: the mechanics of text messaging and instantmessaging among American college students,” doc
Elizabeth Losh, “‘Blogspats’ and digital images: race, gender, and Photoshop in digital arguments,” doc
Mia Lövheim, Rethinking cyberreligion? Teens, religion and the internet in Sweden,” doc
Astrid Mager, “‘Virtual’ networks meet ‘real’ surfers? Multiple internet/s in the context of online health information,” pdf
Sue Malta, “Love actually? Older adults and their (intimate) internet relationships,” doc
Alice Marwick, “The People’s Republic of YouTube? Interrogating rhetorics of internet democracy,” doc
Keith Massie, “Race, sex, and a perpetually (re)constructing world: Everquest and representation,” doc
Andrew McStay, “Repositioning creativity in online advertising: exploring relevance and divergence,” pdf
Jensen Moore and Amy Lauters, “Rules online: coordinated management of meaning in chat rooms,” doc
Anil Narine, “Technologies of memory: interactive media and holocaust museums,” pdf
Marianna Obrist and Manfred Tscheligi, “Making it for me: the internet as playground for user innovation,” pdf
Raquel Recuero, “Communities in social networks: a case study of Brazilian fotologs,” doc
Justin Reedy and Chris Wells, “Information, the internet and direct democracy,” doc
Nishant Shah, “The curious incident of the people at the mall: how flashmobs came to be banned in India,” doc
Hebatallah El Semary, “Use of the internet by Egyptian children: interactive relationship between parents and children,” doc
Adriana de Souza e Silva, “Conceptualizing locative social mobile networks: a brief look into personal locative media, mobile social networks and multiuser location-aware applications,” pdf
Jeremiah Spence, “Orkut: catalysis for the Brazilian Internaut,” doc
Lauren M. Squires, “On Netspeak’s destruction of English: locating language ideologies in online discourse,” pdf
Gregory Stratton and Jeremy Northcote, “Operating system communities: brands and fans,” pdf
Daniel M. Sutko, “Mobile technology and spatial discourses: location-aware, internet-enabled mobiles as heterotopic interfaces,” pdf
Tang Tang, “Predicting internet use with opposing theoretical schools,” doc
Paul Teusner, “Christianity 2.0: a new religion for a new web,” pdf
Mary-Helen Ward and Sandra West, “Blogging PhD process: foregrounding the pedagogy,” pdf
Matthew Wong, Alison Powell, and Andrew Clement, “Reading service set identifiers (SSIDs): marking and locating publc and private wireless spaces,” doc
Cristian Berrío Zapata, “Evaluating the digital divide in Colombia: in search for a methodology to assess ICTs differential impact in developing countries,” doc
Jingjing Zhang, Chris Davies, Setsuo Yokoyama, and Youzou Myadera, “A hybrid online research instrument: beyond the traditional survey and its application,” pdf
Michael Zimmer, “Search 2.0: Web 2.0, personal information flows, and the drive for the perfect search engine,” pdf
