The Goals for This Policy and Process The Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic...
2024 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award
The AoIR Nancy Baym Annual Book Award committee is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s competition. Close to 30 excellent books were submitted for this year’s award and that fact alone is an index of the intellectual vibrancy of AoIR as a community of...
2024 Dissertation Award Winner
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2024 Annual Dissertation Award is Dr. Robert Dorschel from the University of Cambridge, UK. Our congratulations to Dr. Dorschel! Dr. Dorschel’s dissertation, titled "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On...
#AoIR2022 Special Issue of ICS is out
Every year, AoIR in conjunction with the journal, Information, Communication & Society publishes a special issue of the best work presented at our conference. As we all catch our breath from the fantastic event that was #AoIR2023, you are invited to browse the...
AoIR Moving to Mastodon
In October 2022, Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter. Almost a year later and we have witnessed the gutting of the content moderation department, a huge increase in hate speech, and in real terms the end to API-based researcher access to data. Twitter (or...
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...
2023-25 AoIR Executive Committee
We are happy to announce the results of the AoIR Executive Committee election. But first, some thank yous and some information about the election. AoIR would like to thank our election monitors, Fabio Giglietto and Jennifer Stromer-Galley, who, in accordance with the...
AoIR signs open letter in support of Twitter API open data access
The Association of Internet Researchers has signed an open letter written by the Coalition for Independent Technology Research calling on Twitter to ensure researchers can continue to access Twitter data. There are many good reasons for insisting on free access to...
2022 Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award for 2022 goes to Dr. Sebastián Lehuedè "Governing Data in Modernity/Coloniality: Astronomy Data in the Atacama Desert and the Struggle for Collective Autonomy." Congratulations, Dr. Lehuedè! Dr. Lehuedè’s dissertation is a fascinating study...
