Address correspondence to Ronald E. Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020, USA. E-mail: rrice@comm.ucsb.edu; web site: http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/rice flash.htm in membership, paper submission, and conference activities. In an attempt to characterize the concerns of these Internet researchers at this juncture in the development of the association, this article first provides some research context by summarizing prior relevant reviews of new media and Internet research, and the use over time of the term Internet in academic publications and online newsgroups. After describing the sample texts-the session titles and paper titles and abstracts from the 2003 and 2004 AoIR conferences-and the semantic network method, it then analyzes the primary issues and concept clusters of concern to this set of Internet researchers. Note that this study is not a review of Internet research theories or results (of which by now there are many). Rather, it attempts to indicate the current research agenda, at the word and concept cluster level, of one primary interdisciplinary group of Internet researchers, as a way to help identify the state of the field.