2019 Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award for 2019 goes to Erhardt Graeff for "Evaluating Civic Technology for Citizen Empowerment" (MIT Center for Civic Media). Dr. Graeff’s dissertation posed the question: “How might we design civic technologies for citizen empowerment and...

2019 Nancy Baym Book Award

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...

2019 AoIR Dissertation Award

The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2019 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 2018 calendar year. Nominations (self...

#AoIR2018 Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award for #AoIR2018 Montreal goes to David Myles for his paper Anne Goes Rogue for Abortion Rights! Exploring Discursive Materialization Across and Beyond Online Platforms. This presentation examines the social media campaign #SupportIslandWomen...