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...
It’s personal, isn’t it? What personalization means for internet research methods
It’s personal, isn’t it? What personalization means for internet research methods By: Elinor Carmi, New Political Communication Unit, Politics & International Relations Department, Royal Holloway, University of London. “It wasn’t uncommon to have 35 to 45...
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...
Facebook Shuts the Gate after the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
A public response from leading members of the Internet research community. In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of Facebook,...
2017-2019 Incoming Executive Committee – Open Seat
At the annual meeting, AoIR transitions its Executive Committee. Over the next few weeks, we will post interviews from our incoming Executive Committee, as we welcome them into the leadership of the Association. Jack Qiu 2017-2019 AoIR Executive Committee – Open Seat...
2017-2019 Executive Committee Introduction – Incoming Vice President
At the annual meeting, AoIR transitions its Executive Committee. Over the next few weeks, we will post interviews from our incoming Executive Committee, as we welcome them into the leadership of the Association. Lynn Schofield Clark 2017-2019 AoIR Executive Committee,...
A Bold, Bipartisan Plan to Return the U.S. to the Vanguard of 21st-Century Technological Innovation
A Bold, Bipartisan Plan to Return the U.S. to the Vanguard of 21st-Century Technological Innovation (republished with permission from The Conversation.) How can we ensure technology brings prosperity to us all? ra2studio/Shutterstock.com Sascha Meinrath, Pennsylvania...
Things to do in Tallinn
If you want to explore Tallinn before or after the conference, we would like to give you a few places for your list:
