Each year, through the generous donations of AoIR conference attendees, we are able to fund 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...
Travel Scholarship Recipient #AoIR2018 – Jane Harris
Each year, through the generous donations of AoIR conference attendees, we are able to fund 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...
Travel Scholarship Recipient #AoIR2018 – Skina Ehdeed
Each year, through the generous donations of AoIR conference attendees, we are able to fund 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...
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...
2018 Nancy Baym Book Award
It's a great honor to announce that AoIR's book award committee has unanimously decided that Lynn Scofield Clark and Regina Marchi’s book Young People and the Future of News is this year’s Nancy Baym Book Award winner! The committee found it an important book that is...
#AoIR2017 Best Student Paper Award
The Best Student Paper Award goes to Katja Kaufmann for her paper Navigating a new life: Syrian refugees and their smart phones in Vienna. The program committee was particularly impressed by the relevance and timeliness of the the topic, and emphasized that the...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Omar Daoudi
Who are you? My name is Omar Daoudi and I am a PhD researcher based at Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at University of Glasgow in Scotland. My twitter handle is @OmarSdaoudi Where are you from? I am from Syria. What is your current area of study? My thesis...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Justin Grandinetti
Who are you? Justin Grandinetti Where are you from? Place: North Carolina State University, North Carolina USA Department: Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media What is your current area of study? I am interested in scholarship on mobilities, particularly the...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Kat Braybrooke
Who are you? Kat Braybrooke (@codekat) I am a designer, curator and digital anthropologist. Over the past 10 years, my work with open technology organizations like Mozilla and the Open Knowledge Foundation has explored unexpected and rebellious interactions between...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno
Who are you? Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno (@amandajurno). PhD candidate at the Post Graduate Program in Communication Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil). I am a researcher at the New Media Convergence Center and at the Intermedia Connections...
