We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media. To...
Report on the #AoIR2020 conference
Read about the awards given at the AoIR2020_AGM_Presentation This is what many virtual conferences look like. And these images are two of many from the #AoIR2020 conference. So what was different about AoIR2020? Here’s how...
#ShutDownAcademia and #Strike4BlackLives
Today, the Association of Internet Researchers joins in the worldwide movements to #ShutDownAcademia and #Strike4BlackLives. We condemn anti-Black racism and brutality and support those who have been participating in demonstrations and working against systemic racism....
Update on AoIR2020
The Association of Internet Researchers has decided that the annual conference that was scheduled to take place in Dublin on October 28 - 31, 2020 will now be hosted as a virtual event to take place over a two-week period in October. The conference is still six months...
Honoring Michael Haley, AoIR Conference Coordinator
We are saddened to announce the passing of Michael Haley, Ph.D., who served as the AoIR Conference Coordinator from Fall of 2016 until his death on January 2, 2020. Michael worked with AoIR for the Tartu, Montreal, and Brisbane conferences, following 16 years in his...
AoIR’s Internet Research Ethics 3.0
We are happy to announce that the new guidelines for Internet Research Ethics (IRE) are now available on the AoIR Ethics page: "Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0" IRE 3.0 serves as a supplement to the IRE guidelines from 2002, 2012 and addresses among other...
Call for Proposals to host the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium in 2020
To supplement our annual October conference, and to follow up on the success of the Inaugural AoIR Flashpoint Symposium to be held in Urbino, Italy on 24 June 2019, the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking proposals for a one-day AoIR Flashpoint Symposium...
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...
Remembering Ben Bates
Ben Bates served as the first Treasurer of AoIR from 1999 to 2005. He was not only one of the first to step up and volunteer his time to AoIR in 1999, but he was also one of the first to spread word of it at other conferences that he went to, such as AEJMC (the...
Travel Scholarship Recipient #AoIR2018 – André Mintz
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...
