Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward several Kelly Quinn 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 research interests....
AoIR2024 Student Paper Award
We are delighted to announce two joint winners for this year’s Student Paper Award: Yarden Skop (University of Siegen, Germany) and Anna Schjøtt Hansen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for their paper, How Fact-Checkers are Becoming Machine Learners: A Case...
2024 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award
The AoIR Nancy Baym Annual Book Award committee is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s competition. Close to 30 excellent books were submitted for this year’s award and that fact alone is an index of the intellectual vibrancy of AoIR as a community of...
2024 Dissertation Award Winner
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2024 Annual Dissertation Award is Dr. Robert Dorschel from the University of Cambridge, UK. Our congratulations to Dr. Dorschel! Dr. Dorschel’s dissertation, titled "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On...
Call for Proposals to host 2025 AoIR Flashpoint Symposium
The Association of Internet Researchers is seeking proposals for one-day AoIR Flashpoint Symposia to take place before the end of August 2025. As the 2025 AoIR conference takes place in São Paulo, Brazil, only proposals for locations outside of South America will be...
AoIR 2024 Kelly Quinn Travel Scholarship Application Information
In order to increase the diversity of participation in the annual AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available a number of conference fee waivers and travel stipends each year. Applications are invited from authors whose proposals have...
Call for Nominations for the 2024 AoIR Dissertation Award
The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to call for submissions for the 2024 AoIR Dissertation Award. To be eligible for the AoIR Dissertation Award, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2023 calendar year....
2024 Nancy Baym Book Award Nominations
We are delighted to issue the call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of...
Call for Expressions of Interest Conference Hosts for AoIR2026
The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from prospective Conference Hosts for AoIR’s annual meeting in October 2026, which will take place in North America. We will consider two kinds of...
Announcing AoIR2025 – Brazil
***Please note*** Due to local logistics, the conference location was changed in October 2024 to Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.*** We are very excited to announce the location of #AoIR2025: São Paulo, Brazil! The conference will be hosted by the Universidade...
