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, Jonathon Hutchinson and Steve Jones, who, in accordance with the terms of...
2021 Nancy Baym Book Award Nominations
We are pleased to 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 networked media. To...
2021-23 AoIR Executive Committee Nominations
On 11 March 2021, AoIR will open your nominations for the new Executive Committee, to take office in October of this year and serve until October 2023. Below, you will find: a) a timeframe for the election, b) a description of the AoIR governance system and of the...
2020 Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award for 2020 goes to Dr. Elisabetta Ferrari's dissertation, "The Technological Imaginaries of Social Movements: The Discursive Dimension of Communication Technology and the Fight for Social Justice?" Dr. Ferrari's study investigates the...
Update on AoIR2020
The Association of Internet Researchers has decided that the annual conference that was scheduled to take place in Dublin on October 28 - 31, 2020 will now be hosted as a virtual event to take place over a two-week period in October. The conference is still six months...
2020 Dissertation Award Nominations
The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2020 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 2019 calendar year. Nominations (self...
2020 Nancy Baym Book Award Nominations
** Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic authors must submit books electronically ** We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Named after former Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) president Nancy Baym, this award recognizes...
Honoring Michael Haley, AoIR Conference Coordinator
We are saddened to announce the passing of Michael Haley, Ph.D., who served as the AoIR Conference Coordinator from Fall of 2016 until his death on January 2, 2020. Michael worked with AoIR for the Tartu, Montreal, and Brisbane conferences, following 16 years in his...
Best Student Paper Award for #AoIR2019
The Student Paper Award for the #AoIR2019 for Brisbane goes to Alice Witt for their paper, ‘A New Black Box Methodology: The challenges and opportunities of interrogating the moderation of images depicting women’s bodies on Instagram’, was reviewed amongst the 45...
Travel Scholarship Receipient #AoRI2019 – Godofredo Ramizo Jr
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? ...
