Who are you? My name is Job Mwaura Twitter @JobMwaura Where are you from? I am a Kenyan citizen from Nairobi. I am currently residing in Johannesburg, South Africa. What is your current area of study? Media Studies. Describe the research you will present at AoIR 2017....
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Omar Daoudi
Who are you? My name is Omar Daoudi and I am a PhD researcher based at Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at University of Glasgow in Scotland. My twitter handle is @OmarSdaoudi Where are you from? I am from Syria. What is your current area of study? My thesis...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Justin Grandinetti
Who are you? Justin Grandinetti Where are you from? Place: North Carolina State University, North Carolina USA Department: Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media What is your current area of study? I am interested in scholarship on mobilities, particularly the...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Kat Braybrooke
Who are you? Kat Braybrooke (@codekat) I am a designer, curator and digital anthropologist. Over the past 10 years, my work with open technology organizations like Mozilla and the Open Knowledge Foundation has explored unexpected and rebellious interactions between...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno
Who are you? Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno (@amandajurno). PhD candidate at the Post Graduate Program in Communication Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil). I am a researcher at the New Media Convergence Center and at the Intermedia Connections...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Olga Boichak
Each year, through the generous donations of AoIR conference attendees, we are able to fund several travel scholarships for junior scholars to attend the conference. We want to recognize our scholarship recipients and share with you a little bit about them and their...
AoIR partnering with Internet Policy Review for Special Issue
AoIR is happy to announce a collaboration with the Internet Policy Review for a special issue highlighting research presented at the #AoIR2017 Networked Publics conference taking place from 19 to 21 October 2017. The open access journal on internet regulation Internet...
2017 Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award for 2017 goes to Dr. Julia Beth Ticona for her work “Left to Our Own Devices: Navigating the Risks of Work & Love with Personal Technologies” (University of Virginia). Dr. Ticona’s work studies our personal technologies with a...
Reminder: AoIR 2017 Early Bird Registration Deadline Coming Up
As we're getting closer to the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers conference in Tartu, Estonia, please remember that the deadline to register at the lower cost, Early Registration rate is 1 August 2017. At least one author from each accepted paper, panel, or...
2017 Carl J. Couch Award Winner
AoIR offers congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award, Chris Julien, a Ph.D. student in Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. We look forward to meeting him and discussing his work this year in Tartu. The Couch Award is...
