We are very excited to announce the location of #AoIR2025: São Paulo, Brazil! The conference will be hosted by the Universidade Paulista (UNIP) campus in the Paraiso neighborhood, central São Paulo. We will be close to hotels, culture, food, and public transport....
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Gilad Be’ery
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you?...
AoIR Moving to Mastodon
In October 2022, Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter. Almost a year later and we have witnessed the gutting of the content moderation department, a huge increase in hate speech, and in real terms the end to API-based researcher access to data. Twitter (or...
AoIR 2023 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award Announcement
The committee for the Association of Internet Researchers 2023 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award is delighted to announce this year’s winner. Many excellent books were submitted for consideration by the committee and the task of narrowing down the list to one clear winner...
Expressions of Interest to host #AoIR2025 and #AoIR2026
The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from prospective Conference Hosts for the annual meetings of the Association for October 2025 and 2026. With this call, AoIR will return to our regular rotation...
2023-25 AoIR Executive Committee
We are happy to announce the results of the AoIR Executive Committee election. But first, some thank yous and some information about the election. AoIR would like to thank our election monitors, Fabio Giglietto and Jennifer Stromer-Galley, who, in accordance with the...
AoIR2023 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...
2023 AoIR Dissertation Award Nominations
The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2023 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 2022 calendar year. Nominations (self...
2022 Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award for 2022 goes to Dr. Sebastián Lehuedè "Governing Data in Modernity/Coloniality: Astronomy Data in the Atacama Desert and the Struggle for Collective Autonomy." Congratulations, Dr. Lehuedè! Dr. Lehuedè’s dissertation is a fascinating study...
2022 Nancy Baym Book Award Winner
We are excited to announce Catherine Knight-Steele's Digital Black Feminism as the 2022 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award winner. Digital Black Feminism reclaims feminism for Black women and directly intervenes in Internet scholarship. The book is historically informed,...
