It’s a great honor to announce that AoIR’s book award committee has chosen The Digital Street by Jeffrey Lane (Oxford University Press) as this year’s Nancy Baym Book Award winner. The committee have also recognized Robert Gehl’s Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on...
AoIR2019 Travel Scholarship Application Information
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 per year. These stipends are mostly funded through the generosity of our...
2019-21 AoIR Executive Committee Election Results
We are excited to announce the results of our recent election for the AoIR Executive Committee. But first, some thank yous and some information about the election. AoIR would like to thank our election monitors, Alex Halavais and Andra Siibak, who, in accordance with...
2019-2021 AoIR Executive Committee Nominations
AoIR is now seeking your nominations for the new Executive Committee, to take office in October of this year and serve until October 2021. Below, you will find: a) a timeframe for the election, b) a description of the AoIR governance system and of the elected...
2019 Nancy Baym Book Award Nominations
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 the best scholarship of AoIR and highlights the breadth of work relating to the...
Remembering Ben Bates
Ben Bates served as the first Treasurer of AoIR from 1999 to 2005. He was not only one of the first to step up and volunteer his time to AoIR in 1999, but he was also one of the first to spread word of it at other conferences that he went to, such as AEJMC (the...
Submissions open for #AoIR2019
We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for AoIR 2019: Trust in the System (Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 October 2019). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for proposals and types of submissions solicited, please see here:...
Call for AoIR2021 Conference Host
The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is now seeking expressions of interest from prospective Conference Hosts for the annual meeting of the Association in October 2021. The AoIR conference draws an international group of 500-600...
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...
2017-2019 Incoming Executive Committee – President
At the annual meeting, AoIR transitions its Executive Committee. Over the next few weeks, we will post interviews from our incoming Executive Committee, as we welcome them into the leadership of the Association. Axel Bruns 2017-2019 AoIR Executive Committee –...
