The winner of the 2023 award is Tuğçe Bidav of Maynooth University for her dissertation, "Global Platform, Local Labour: Precarious YouTubing in Ireland and Turkey". Congratulations, Dr. Bidav! Bidav's dissertation offers a unique perspective by comparing creative...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Ochega Ataguba
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?...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Silas Udenze
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? ...
Student Paper Award for #AoIR2023
The 2023 AoIR Student Paper Award has been awarded to Nermin Elsherif for her paper “The Not-so-revolutionary Facebook: Nostalgia and the return to a centralized state.” Specifically, we selected this paper because of the author's use of multi-year ethnographic...
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...
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...
Travel Scholarship Recipient #AoIR2022 – Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst
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? ...
Travel Scholarship Recipient #AoIR2022 – Michele Ferris Dobles
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? ...