Internet Research 1.0:The State of the Interdiscipline 
The First Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers 
September 14-17, 2000 
University of Kansas 
Lawrence, Kansas

Thursday Schedule 

Woodruff

• Internet Enabled Pathology

Storm King, International Society for Mental Health Online 
• Cyber-love. Creating Romantic Relationships on the Net

Malin Sveningsson, Linkoping University 
• The Quality of Electronically Maintained Relationships

Diana Odom Gunn and Christopher W. Gunn, McNeese State University
• Attraction of the Pink Internet: Do On-Line Personals Facilitate Succesful Mate Selection Based On "Inner" Qualities?

Charlie Breindahl, University of Copenhagen 
• Computer-Mediated Communication Effects on Self-Disclosure and Questions in Impression Development

Joseph B. Walther, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lisa C. Tidwell, Telecheck Services

Jayhawk

• An Examination of Textual Relations on Television and the Internet: Defining New Ground for Mass Media Theory

Elisia Cohen, Annenberg School for Communication, Univerity of Southern California 
• Converging Cultures: Television, the Internet and the Fans of Lois and Clark 

Amy Lauters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
• The Internet Music Revolution: Addressing Technological and Structural Change in the Music Economy

Mark Latonero, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California 
• Broadcasters and the Internet: The Early Years

Margot Emery, University of Tennessee 

Pine

• Teaching Spatial Rhetoric

Eric Gardner. Saginaw Valley State College 
• Communication in an E-learning Environment: Frequent, Honest, and Open

Anne Daugherty, University of Kansas 
• Integrating Diverse Learning Environments

Len Hatfield, Virginia Tech 

Centennial

• The Internet and Campaign 2000: The Structure and Function of Political Web Space

Steve Schneider, University of Pennsylvania 
• How Eligible Voters "See" Political Internet Sites: The Dimensional Structure of Political Internet Site Perceptions

R. Kirkland Ahern, W. Russell Neuman, and Jennifer Stromer-Galley, University of Pennsylvania 
• Comparison Shopping for Candidates Online: The Internet's Role in Constructing Citizenship as Consumption

Kirsten Foot and Ilyse Stempler, University of Pennsylvania 
• Voting Over the Internet: Cultural Implications of New Technology

Jennifer Stromer-Galley, University of Pennsylvania

Jayhawk

• Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace: Obtaining Consent for Online Qualitative Research in the Absence of an Established Operational Framework

Caroline Bennett, Department of Humanities & International Studies, University of Southern Queensland
• Ethical Issues in the Use of Internet Posts

Craig Murray, Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University 

Pine

• The Dangerous Web: Economic Consequences

George Ure, ISA 
• The Emerging Duality of Social vs Economic Uses of the Internet: Evidence from User Surveys

Naomi Sunderland, Queensland University of Technology and Greg Hearn, Queensland University of Technology 
• Virtual Consumption: The Commercial Discourse of The Web

Karen Gustafson, Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin 
• Rhetorical Features of Website Communication

Anne Ellerup Nielsen, The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark 

International

• Online Survey Research Methods and Data Collection 

Ryan Burns, University of Oklahoma 
• What's Wrong with the Internet: Consumer Views of Internet policy Issues 

Josephine Ferringo, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania 
• Increasing the validity and representativeness of on-line surveys by the "closed pool"-method: Evidence from On-Line Replications of Questionnaire-Based Evolutionary Psychological Findings 

Martin Voracek, University of Vienna 
• Cybersex: Pornography, Games or Just Safe Sex?

Franc Trcek Centre for Spatial Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Woodruff

131 Keynote: The Rise of Networked Individualism
Barry Wellman, Department of Sociology and Centre for Urban & Community Studies, University of Toronto

Centennial

• M or F? Some Methodological Notes on Studying Gender in Cyberspace

Jennifer Trias, Temple University 
• Female Cyberbodies: Imaging on the Web 

Kate O'Riordan, University of Brighton 
• "The Woman Question": Addressing Female Net Users 

Susanna Paasonen, Cinema and TV Studies, University of Turku 
• Selling the Internet to Women: The Early Years 

Mia Consalvo, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 

Jayhawk

• When Literature Meets the Web: German Examples of Netliterature

Roberto Simanowski, University of Göttingen 
• Learning to Write at a Distance: Lessons from the Past for the Future of Email

Naomi Baron, Department of Language and Foreign Studies, American University 
• Women's Websites: Confessions of Non-Normative Heterosexual Practices

Elissa Fineman, University of Texas at Austin 
• Management of Virtual Interactions: Packaging Messages for Transmission

Sherri Condon, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

Pine

• An Australian Case Study of a Rural Community in Transition: the Influence of an Outback Internet Cafe 

Lyn Simpson, Communication Center, Queensland University of Technology 
• Civic Networks, a comparative view

Mattia Miani, University of Bologna 
• Integration of Adaptive Technologies in Building Information Infrastructure for Rural Based Communities in Coastal Belt of Bangladesh.

Hakikur Rahman, SDNP Bangladesh 
• Reviewing the Law - Assessing Australia's On-line Content Regulations

Sherman Young, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland 

International

Woodruff

• The CyberChild

Angela Thomas, University of Western Sydney 
• An Investigation of Internet Content and On-line Safety Issues in Canada

Leslie Regan Shade, Department of Communications, University of Ottawa 
• Families Courting the Web: The Internet in the Everyday Life of Household Families

Vivienne Waller, Sociology Program, Australian National University 
• Surfing the Family@home

Sue Cranmer, Institute of Education, University of London 
• Outlook and Insight: Young Danes' Uses of the Internet, Navigating Global Seas and Local Waters

Gitte Stald, Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen 

Centennial

• Joan Korenman, Center for Women and Information Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Patrick Leary 
• Michéle Ollivier , Département de sociologie, Université d'Ottawa
• Wendy Robbins, Department of English, University of New Brunswick, Canada
• Gilbert B. Rodman, Department of Communication, University of South Florida

Jayhawk

• "Sites" of Resistance: Charting the Alternative and Marginal Websites in Singapore

K.C. Ho and Zaheer Baber, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
• Zapatistmo: The Electronic Web of Third World Solidarity

Fredi Avalos-C'deBaca, California State University, San Marcos 
• Arenas of Innovation: Fringe Groups and the Discovery of New Liberties of Action

S. Lee & H. Sawhney, Indiana University
• Sleepless in Belgrade: Virtual Community During the War

Smiljana Antonijevic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade 

Pine

• Philip Howard, Northwestern University and Pew Internet and American Life Research Fellow 
• David Snowball, Augustana College 
• Storm King, International Society for Mental Health Online 
• Sarina Chen, University of Northern Iowa 
• Sanyin Siang, American Association for the Advancement of Science 
• Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago 
• Rob Kling, Indiana University

International

• Scientists Users of the Internet in Brazil: the Geneticist Biologists

Christiana Freitas 
• The Uses of Networking for Sociological Research

Ran Chermesh, Behavioral s Department, Ben-Gurion University 
• The Informational Turn in Science

Paul Wouters, NIWI, Royal Netheraland Academy of Arts and Sciences 
• The Internet as a New Medium for the Sciences? Effects of the Internet Use on the Use of Traditional Media of Scientific Communication

Martin Eisend, Science Center Berlin for Social Research 

Woodruff

161 Keynote:Systematic Studies of Social Behavior that Involve the Internet: A Social Informatics Perspective
Rob Kling, Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University