AoIR offers congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award, Chris Julien, a Ph.D. student in Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. We look forward to meeting him and discussing his work this year in Tartu. The Couch Award is...
2017 Nancy Baym Book Award
The Nancy Baym book award committee are delighted to announce the 2017 winner. The award goes to Nicholas John for his book ‘The Age of Sharing’. The competition was especially hard this year, with many exceptional books submitted, making our job really difficult. Acknowledging this, the committee would like to specifically mention two books, whose innovative approach, originality and breadth of scholarship make them stand out: Helen Kennedy’s Post, Mine, Repeat, and Holly Kruse’s Off-Track and Online.
#AoIR2017 Travel Scholarship Information
Applications are invited from authors whose proposals have already been accepted via the conference reviewing process, as well as by PhD Students applying to the Doctoral Colloquium. All applications should be emailed directly to the Association Coordinator, Michelle Gardner (ac [at] AoIR [dot] org), and must be received by May 20, 2017. Late applications cannot be considered.
2017 Dissertation Award Nominations
The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2017 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 2016 calendar year. Nominations (self...
2017 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award Nomination
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...
2017 Nancy Baym Book Award & Dissertation Award
The Association of Internet Researchers has made slight changes to the submission criteria for both the Nancy Baym Book Award and the Dissertation Award. Specific details on how to submit is forthcoming. Nancy Baym Book Award The Nancy Baym Annual Book Award seeks to...
Travel Scholarship Recipient – Suwana
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 – Pruchniewska
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...
2016 Best Student Paper Award
The Best Student Paper Award goes to Paula Kiel for her paper The emerging practices of the collective afterlife: multimodal analysis of websites for post-mortem digital interaction. The program committee was particularly impressed by the contribution's strong...
Travel Scholarship Recipient – Rossini
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...


