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#AoIR2023 Philadelphia, PA
Theme: Revolutions
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2023/
Programme: https://aoir.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AoIR2023_Conference_Schedule.pdf
SPIR: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/issue/view/744
ICS: https://aoir.org/ics-special-issues/
Conference and Programme Chair: Adrienne Shaw
Organizing Committee: Adrienne Shaw, Andrew Iliadis, Jessa Lingel, Larisa Kingston Mann, Jan Fernback
Keynote: AJ Escoffery, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture
Plenary Panel: Global Challenges to a “Green Revolution” for the Internet, Ingrid Burrington, Vusumuzi Maphosa, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Seyram Avle
#AoIR2022 Dublin
Theme: Decolonising the internet
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2022/
Programme: https://aoir.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AoIR2022_Conference_Schedule-1.pdf
SPIR: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/issue/view/729
ICS: https://aoir.org/ics-special-issues/
Conference and Programme Chair: Kylie Jarret
Organizing Committee: Kylie Jarrett, Aphra Kerr, Caroline O’Sullivan, Eugenia Siapera
Keynote: Nanjala Nyabola, Decolonizing the Internet
Plenary Panel: Critiquing Technocolonialism, Mirca Madianou, Patrick Bresnihan, and Andrea Medrado
#AoIR2021 Virtual
Theme: Independence (online)
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2021confinfo/
Programme: None. #AoIR2021 included specially curated themed playlists for asynchronous viewing, early publication of SPIR, and 4 days of live events which included group themed discussions, Keynote Q&A, social hours, pub quizzes, and karaoke.
SPIR: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/issue/view/700
ICS: https://aoir.org/ics-special-issues/
Conference and Programme Chair: Adrienne Shaw
Organizing Committee: Adrienne Shaw, Andrew Iliadis, Jessa Lingel, Larisa Kingston Mann, Jan Fernback
Keynote: Dr. André Brock
#AoIR2020 Virtual
Theme: Life (online)
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2020/
Programme: None. AoIR2020 was a month long event what included specially curated themed playlists for asynchronous viewing, early publication of SPIR, and 30 live events which included group themed discussions, Keynote Q&A, Plenary Panel, social hours, pub quizzes, and karaoke.
SPIR: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/issue/view/679
ICS: https://aoir.org/ics-special-issues/
Conference and Programme Chair: Kylie Jarrett
Organizing Committee: Kylie Jarrett, Aphra Kerr, Caroline O’Sullivan, Eugenia Siapera
Keynote: a fireside chat with Kate Crawford
Plenary: LIVING DATA with Rob Kitchin, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Helen Kennedy
#AoIR2019 Brisbane
Theme: Trust in the System
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2019/
Programme: AoIR2019_ConferenceProgram
Edited collection:
SPIR: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/issue/view/676
ICS: https://aoir.org/ics-special-issues/
Conference chair: Michael Dezuanni
Programme chair: Jonathon Hutchinson
Local organizing committee:
Axel Bruns, Michael Dezuanni, Ariadna Matamoros Fernández, Peta Mitchell, Elija Cassidy.
Keynote: Bronwyn Carlson
Indigenous Internet users: Learning to trust ourselves
Plenary Panel:
Moderator: Jean Burgess
Panel: Yik Chan Chin, Mark Andrejevic, Aim Sinpeng
#AoIR2018 Montreal
Theme: Transnational Materalities
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2018/
Programme: AoIR_2018_ConfSched
Edited collections:
SPIR
ICS
Internet Policy Review
Conference/Programme chair: Andrew Herman
Local organizing committee:
Cindy Tekkobe
Melanie Millette
Jeremy Hunsinger
Mary Elizabeth Luka
Nathan Rambukkana
Keynote:
Jason Edward Lewis
White Supremacy – It’s Not Just for People Anymore!
Plenary Panel:
Melissa Gregg, Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Alison Powell, Sarah Sharma
Transnational Materialities and the Future of Critical Internet Studies
#AoIR2017 Tartu
Theme: Networked Publics
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2017/
Programme: AoIR2017_Conference_Schedule
Edited collections:
SPIR
ICS
Internet Policy Review
Conference / Programme chair:
Andra Siibak
Local organizing committee:
?
Keynote #1:
Andrew Chadwick
Donald Trump, the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign, and the Intensification of the Hybrid Media System
Keynote #2:
Marju Lauristin
Will algorithms kill deliberative democracy?
Plenary Panel:
Adi Kuntsman, Kaarina Nikunen, Eugenia Siapera, Cindy Tekobbe
Social media and digital activism – #powerful or #meaningless?
#AoIR2016 Berlin
Theme: Internet Rules!
Website: https://aoir.org/aoir2016/
Programme: aoir_2016_confsched
Conference/Programme chair: Cornelius Puschmann
Local organizing committee:
Wolfgang Schulz, Christian Katzenbach, Christiane Matzen, Larissa Wunderlich
Keynote:
José van Dijck
The Platform Society
Recording https://aoir.org/aoir2016/program/
Plenary Panel:
Kate Crawford, Fieke Jansen, Carolin Gerlitz
Who Rules the Internet?
Recording https://aoir.org/aoir2016/program/
IR16 (2015 conference) Phoenix
Theme: Digital Imaginaries
Website: https://aoir.org/ir16/
Programme: IR16 Conference Program
Conference/Programme chair: Alexander Halavais
Local organizing committee:
Alexander Halavais
Pauline Hope Cheong
Alice Daer
Dawn Gilpin
Hazel Kwon
Greg Wise
Keynote:
Micha Cárdenas
Stitching Poetics: Networked Bodies and Algorithmic Identity
IR15 (2014 conference) Daegu
Theme: Boundaries and Intersections
Website: ?
Programme: ?
Conference chair: ?
Programme chair: ?
Local organizing committee:
?
Keynote:
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Social Media on the Picket Line
Plenary Panel:
Jean Burgess, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Daren C Brabham, Sun Sun Lim
[title?]
IR 14.0 (2013 conference) Denver
Theme: Resistance + Appropriation
Website: No longer available
Program: aoir iR14_Schedule
Conference chair: Lynn Schofield Clark
Programme chair: Lori Kendall
Local organizing committee:
Adrienne Russell
Joseph Champ
Chris Coleman
Laleh Mehran
Bill Depper
Erika Polson
Michelle Jackson
Keynote:
Gabriella Coleman
Making Sense of Anonymous’s Hacker Trickery
1st Plenary Panel:
Jenna Burrell, Lisa Nakamura, Christina Dunbar-Hester
Race, Gender and Information Communication Technologies
2nd Plenary Panel: Tarleton Gillespie, T.L. Taylor, Gina Neff
Political Economy of Technoculture
IR 13.0 (2012 conference) Salford
Theme: Technologies
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140722080724/http://ir13.aoir.org/
Programme: IR13 Conference Program
Conference chair: Ben Light
Programme chair: Feona Attwood
Local organizing committee:
Garry Crawford
Ruth Deller
Gordon Fletcher
Helen Keegan
Helen Kennedy
Yuwei Lin
Keynote:
Liesbet van Zoonen
Fixating the fragmented self: Converging cultures and technologies of identity management
1st Plenary Panel:
Mary L. Gray
The Boundary Work Ahead for Internet Studies (or Why the Twilight of the ‘Toaster Studies’ Approach to Internet Research is a Very, Very Good Thing)
Larissa Hjorth
Locating the Domestic: smartphones, mothers and labour
Susanna Paasonen
Notes on materiality and network technology
2nd Plenary Panel:
Daniel Miller
Becoming human
Zizi Papacharissi
Affective news and networked publics: Mediality, engagement, and social change
Theresa M Senft
Hating Habermas, Repudiating ‘Rage’: Ethics and the Actually Existing Internet
IR 12.0 (2011 conference) Seattle
Theme: Performance and Participation
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140705091158/http://ir12.aoir.org/
Programme: ?
Conference chair: Karine Nahon
Programme chair: Lori Kendall
Local organizing committee:
Beth Patin
Lassana Magassa
Maria Garrido
Conference committee:
Mia Consalvo
Alex Halavais
Michael Zimmer
Keynote #1:
Mike Monello
[title?]
Keynote #2:
Tom Boellstorff
Rethinking the “Digital”: Overlay, Indexicality, and Ethnography
Keynote #3:
Richard Harper
The human user of the Internet: a view from ‘inside’ technology innovation
IR 11.0 (2010 conference) Gothenburg
Theme: Sustainability, Participation, Action
Website: ?
Programme: IR11 Conference Program
Edited collections:
ICS
Conference chair: Ann-Sofie Axelsson
Programme chair: ?
Local organizing committee:
?
Keynote #1:
Jon Bing – withdrew due to illness
n/a
Keynote #2:
Peter Arnfalk
What’s green in green IT?
Keynote #3:
Nancy Baym
This song’s for you
IR 10.0 (2009 conference) Milwaukee
Theme:
Internet: Critical
Website: ?
Programme: IR10 Conference Program
Edited collections:
ICS
Conference chair:
Elizabeth Buchanan, Michael Zimmer, Steve Jones
Programme chair:
Susanna Paasonen
Local organizing committee:
Elizabeth Buchanan
Michael Zimmer
Anna Lauren Hoffmann
Erin Hvizdak
Jeremy Mauger
Keynote #1:
Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Googlisation of Everything
Keynote #2:
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
The Internet: in theory, in crisis
Keynote #3:
Megan M. Boler
Truthiness and Digital Dissent: Sense-Making in Digital Public Spheres
IR 9.0 (2008 conference) Copenhagen
Theme: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20100103154224/https://aoir.org/?page_id=219
Programme: IR9_Programme
Edited collections:
Archived papers: https://web.archive.org/web/20100103154224/https://aoir.org/?page_id=219
Conference chair: Lisbeth Klastrup
Programme chair: Brian Loader
Local organizing committee: ?
Keynote #1:
Mimi Ito
Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Genres of Youthful Participation in Networked Publics
Keynote #2:
Rich Ling
Taken for Grantedness
Keynote #3:
Steve Graham
[title?]
Multimedia:
Photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20081025010653/http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ir9/
IR 8.0 (2007 conference) Vancouver
Theme: Let’s Play!
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025017/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-8-2007/
Programme: IR8 Conference Program
Edited collections:
Archived papers: https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025017/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-8-2007/
Conference chair: Richard Smith
Programme chair: Mia Consalvo
Local organizing committee:
?
Keynote #1:
John Lester
Virtual Worlds, Real Research
Keynote #2:
Henry Jenkins
[title?]
Keynote #3:
John Willinsky
[title?]
IR 7.0 (2006 conference) Brisbane
Theme: Internet Convergences
Website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061004215648/http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=5
& https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025128/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-7-2006/
Programme: IR7 Conference Program
Edited collections:
Archived papers: https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025128/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-7-2006/
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Conference chair: Axel Bruns
Programme chair: Fay Sudweeks
Local organizing committee:
Peta Mitchell, Elizabeth Ferrier, Melissa Gregg, Marcus Foth
Keynote #1:
John Hartley
Uses of Creativity: The Citizen Consumer and New Media Culture
Keynote #2:
Guo Liang
Online Public Opinion in China
Public Lecture:
Merlyna Lim
Democracy, Conspiracy, Pornography: The Internet and Political Activism in Indonesia
Multimedia
Photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20070116070059/http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/aoir2006
https://www.flickr.com/groups/aoir/
Video interviews: https://web.archive.org/web/20100822234354/http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=1295
IR 6.0 (2005 conference) Chicago
Theme: Internet Generations
Website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051218134640/http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=3
& https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025058/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-6-2005/
Programme: IR6 Conference Program
Edited collections:
Archived papers: https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025058/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-6-2005/
Internet Research Annual Vol.4, 2005:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58500?rskey=SwW1E0&result=4
Conference coordinator: Steve Jones
Programme chair: Caroline Haythornthwaite
Local organizing committee:
Sandra Braman – UW-Milwaukee
Heidi Brush – UW-Milwaukee
Sabryna Cornish – U of I Urbana-Champaign
Jillana Enteen – Northwestern
Jason Gallo – Northwestern
Eszter Hargittai – Northwestern
Emily Noelle Ignacio – Loyola
Camille Johnson – U of I Urbana-Champaign
Steve Jones – U of I Chicago (chair)
Lauren Langman – Loyola
John Laprise – Northwestern
Jennifer Light – Northwestern
Daniel Menchik – University of Chicago
Lisa Nakamura – UW-Madison
Dave Park – Lake Forest College
Gretchen Soderlund – University of Chicago
Howard Sypher – Purdue
Shayla Thiel – DePaul
John Walsh – U of I Chicago
Keynote #1:
Sonia Livingstone
Youthful experts? A critical appraisal of children and young people’s emerging internet literacy
Keynote #2:
Saskia Sassen
Digital formations: The intersection of technical and social logics in electronic space
Keynote #3:
Ang Peng Hwa
The UN and Internet Governance: Fears, Hopes and Possibilities
IR 5.0 (2004 conference) Sussex
Theme: Ubiquity
Website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040813075944/https://aoir.org/2004/
& https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025334/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-5-2004/
Programme: aoir IR5 Program
Edited collections:
Internet Research Annual Vol.3, 2004:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58180?rskey=SwW1E0&result=3
Conference chair: Kate O’Riordan
Programme chair: Sheizaf Rafaeli
Local organizing committee:
Linda Kennedy
?
Keynote #1:
Ted Nelson
[title?]
Keynote #2:
Sara Kiesler
[title?]
Keynote #3:
Nina Wakeford
[title?]
IR 4.0 (2003 conference) Toronto
Theme:
Broadening the Band
Website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030812034703/http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/
& https://web.archive.org/web/20100613025225/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-4-2003/
Programme: IR4_Schedule
Edited collections:
Internet Research Annual Vol.2, 2003:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58180?rskey=SwW1E0&result=3
Conference coordinator: Liss Jeffries
Co-conference chairs:
Olivia Robertson
Catherine Middleton
Rhianon Bury
Programme chair: Matthew Allen
Working and Steering Committee:
Rhiannon Bury
Catherine Middleton
Christie Hurrell
Chris Cocca
Olivia Robertson
Mark Tufford
Ed Slopek
Dhirender Nirwani
Graig Kent
Fraser McAnnich
Bernie Hogan
Inna Romanovska
Susan Aaron
Eric George
Graham Longford
Jo Ann Delvecchio
Katherine Parrish
Jason Nola
Alex Kuskis
Connie Putterman
Janet Murray
Cathie Salyn
Robin Lobb
Steering Advisory Committee:
C.C Gotlieb
Elaine Toms
Ed Slopek
Caitlin Fischer
Eric George
Roy Roussel
Ron Deibert
Vanda Rideout
Serge Proulx
Barry Wellman
Keynote #1:
Jane Fountain
After the ‘Net Revolution: Or Has It Just Begun?
Keynote #2:
Steve Jones
[title?] about reflecting on the “future past” of Internet studies
Keynote #3:
Pierre Levy
For a Collective Intelligence Oriented Cyberspace
Keynote #4:
Lucy Suchman
Internet Research as Generative Critique: Approaches from Anthropology
IR 3.0 (2002 conference) Maastricht
Theme: Net/Work/Theory
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20021204221226/https://aoir.org/2002/
Programme:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021204221226/https://aoir.org/2002/
Edited collections:
Internet Research Annual Vol.1, 2000-2002:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58179?rskey=SwW1E0&result=2
Conference coordinator:
Monica Murero
Programme chair:
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Local organizing committee: ?
Keynote #1:
Detlef Eckert
[title?]
Keynote #2:
Robin Mansell
The Internet and the Forces of Capitalism – The Policy Challenge
Keynote #3:
William H. Dutton
An Internet Research Bubble?
Keynote #4:
Cees J. Hamelink
Internet and the RIght to Communicate
IR 2.0 (2001 conference) Minneapolis
Theme: InterConnections
Website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010818125201/https://aoir.org/2001/
& https://web.archive.org/web/20100613024921/https://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-2-2001/
Programme:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010818124730/https://aoir.org/2001/program.htm
Edited collections:
Internet Research Annual Vol.1, 2000-2002:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58179?rskey=SwW1E0&result=2
Conference coordinator:: John Logie
Programme chair: Leslie Regan Shade
Local organizing committee: ?
Keynote #1:
Phil Agre
Internet Research: For and Against
Keynote #2:
Anita Allen-Castellito
Minor Distractions: Cyberlaw as Family Law
Keynote #3:
Lisa Nakamura
The Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Keynote #4:
Sheizaf Rafaeli
Out of the Storm and Onward
Keynote #5:
Barbara Warnick
Dangerous Futures: Internet Debates and the Rhetoric of Technoscience
IR 1.0 (2000 conference) Lawrence
Theme: The State of the Interdiscipline
Website:
https://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/2000/index.html
& https://web.archive.org/web/20091207080410/https://aoir.org/?page_id=33
Programme: IR1 Conference Program
Edited collections:
Internet Research Annual Vol.1, 2000-2002:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58179?rskey=SwW1E0&result=2
Conference coordinator:: Nancy Baym
Programme coordinator/Conference system manager: Jeremy Hunsinger
Local organizing committee: ?
Keynote #1:
Manuel Castells
Internet and the Network Society
Keynote #2:
Susan Herring
Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: The State of the Art
Keynote #3:
Rob Kling
Systematic Studies of Social Behavior that Involve the Internet: A Social Informatics Perspective
Keynote #4:
Helen Nissenbaum
Securing Trust Online
Keynote #5:
Barry Wellman
The Rise of Networked Individualism
Virtual Graduate Seminar:
https://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/2000/seminar/index.html
Multimedia:
Photos: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/pictures/snapshots.html
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