[Air-L] Happy birthday, AoIR!

[Peter Joseph Gloviczki PhD]

Yes, thank you, Steve.

There's a lot of belonging-related value in spaces like this one, and I'm
grateful to be here and better for it.

Peter
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On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 7:30 AM Radhika G via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:

> Thankyou Steve for creating this “discipline endorsed” space for those of
> us who had either just graduated with our PhDs or were still working on
> them!
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 6, 2023, at 8:01 AM, Jones, Steve via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> >
> > 25 years ago, on November 6, 1998, toward the end of a conference at
> Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, the idea for AoIR was born. That
> conference, the WorldWideWeb and Contemporary Theory, organized by Andrew
> Herman and Thom Swiss, brought together a number of people who have
> continued to be part of the AoIR community, including Andrew of course,
> Greg Elmer, Stefan Wray and Terri Senft.
> >
> > Less than a year later, in 1999, AoIR was (in)formally launched in San
> Francisco at the International Communication Association meeting. And, a
> year after that, Nancy Baym hosted the first AoIR conference, IR 1.0, at
> the University of Kansas, and AoIR as we know it came to life.
> >
> > As we reach these milestones I am continually amazed and endlessly
> grateful to all who have put in the effort to shape and maintain AoIR as an
> open and special scholarly community. All who have served over the years on
> the executive committee deserve special acknowledgment, but everyone who
> has participated in some way, whether via air-l, attending conferences,
> hosting conferences, however you have chosen to be involved, to you I want
> to say: Thank you. When AoIR was first discussed in 1998 one of the goals
> was for it to be unlike the existing disciplinary associations to which
> most of us belong, to be an inclusive, welcoming and supportive community.
> I shall hope we can keep it that way for the next 25 years; we have plenty
> of long-running traditional disciplinary conferences, let’s make AoIR
> better.
> >
> > I thank you all for being part of the AoIR community during the past 25
> years. I’m looking forward to the next 25. Happy birthday, AoIR!
> >
> > Steve Jones
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