It’s personal, isn’t it? What personalization means for internet research methods By: Elinor Carmi, New Political Communication Unit, Politics & International Relations Department, Royal Holloway, University of London. “It wasn’t uncommon to have 35 to 45...
2018 Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award for 2018 goes to Dr. Stacy Blasiola for her work “The Privacy of Others” (University of Illinois at Chicago). Dr. Blasiola's dissertation asked the question, "What does privacy look like when it is the privacy of others at stake?" Using a...
2018 Nancy Baym Book Award
It's a great honor to announce that AoIR's book award committee has unanimously decided that Lynn Scofield Clark and Regina Marchi’s book Young People and the Future of News is this year’s Nancy Baym Book Award winner! The committee found it an important book that is...
Making Twitter research reproducible through archiving
Making Twitter research reproducible through archiving In an article now published in Big Data & Society Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Katrin Weller, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, Jürgen Pfeffer and Fred Morstetter present a solution to sharing social media data with the...
Travel Scholarships for #AoIR2018
In order to increase the diversity of participation in the annual AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available several conference fee waivers and travel stipends each year. These stipends are mostly funded through the generosity of our...
Facebook Shuts the Gate after the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
A public response from leading members of the Internet research community. In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of Facebook,...
ICS Special Issue for #AoIR2017
AoIR is grateful each year for the hard work of the editors of our special conference issue of Information, Communication & Society. For #AoIR2017 our editors were Koen Leurs, Assistant Professor in Gender & Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, and Alison...
4 Inches of Embarrassment: Humour, sex and risk on mobile devices
4 Inches of Embarrassment: Humour, sex and risk on mobile devices Kylie Jarrett National University of Ireland, Department of Media Studies, Maynooth, Ireland. Email. kylie.jarrett@um.ie Twitter. @kylzjarrett Ben Light* University of Salford, School of Health and...
Publishing Partnership with Internet Policy Review Continues
For #AoIR2018, the Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to again partner with Internet Policy Review on a special issue of the best internet policy-related papers from the conference. Internet Policy Review is an interdisciplinary open access journal...
Engaged Students Learning and Wikipedia – Developing Information Literacy and Finding a Purpose
Engaged Students Learning and Wikipedia – Developing Information Literacy and Finding a Purpose Zachary J. McDowell, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago danah boyd (2014) points out in “It's Complicated: The Social...
