In light of the United States’ January 27, 2017 executive order restricting entry to its borders, based upon intersectional stereotypes of Islamic religious faith as embodied within Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian identity, we hereby restate our commitment to...
Facebook’s accidental ‘death’ of users reminds us to plan for digital death
Facebook's accidental 'death' of users reminds us to plan for digital death (republished with permission from The Conversation.) Tama Leaver, Curtin University The accidental “death” of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and millions of other Facebook users is a timely...
AoIR’s YouTube Channel and Travel Scholarships
We are happy to announce the newest AoIR social media platform - YouTube! Subscribe to our YouTube channel get first access to our videos. As we approach the holiday season, a time of great generosity, we want to show you a video interview with one of...
Looking for volunteers for AoIR 2016 award committees
Happy AoIR2016 day-after-submissions-were due day! While you’re thinking about our upcoming conference in Berlin, note that we need volunteers to serve on two important award committees: AoIR Best Dissertation Award, and the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Volunteers...
Call for Self-Nominations: AoIR Award Committees
Each year, AoIR presents three awards at its annual meeting: the Best Student Paper Award, the AoIR Dissertation Award, and the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. (You can find more information about these awards here.) We are calling for self-nominations to serve on the...
Information Regarding Member-Created Committees
During the Association General Meeting at #IR15 last week, there was considerable interest in developing ways for the AoIR community to better and more efficiently organize around pressing social, ethical, and methodological issues related to internet research (and...
2013 Executive Committee Election Results
Congratulations to the Executive Committee elected for the 2013-2015 term: Vice President: Jennifer Stromer-Galley Treasurer: Michael Zimmer Secretary: Andrew Herman Open Seat: Sun Sun Lim Open Seat: Annette Markham Open Seat: Kelly Quinn Graduate Student: Anna Lauren...
AoIR Dissertation Award, 2013
Congratulations to the recipient of this year's AoIR Dissertation Award. The award-winning dissertation, “Programmed sociality: A software studies perspective on social networking sites,” was written by Taina Bucher. Bucher received her PhD from the University of Oslo...
2013 Executive Committee Election: Candidate Statements & Voting Information
Candidate statements for the 2013 Executive election are now available. For more information on each candidate, please click here. Please be aware that in order to vote in this year's election you must be an active member of AoIR no later than 23:59 Eastern time...
IR14.0 Travel Grant Applications
In order to increase the diversity of participation in the AoIR annual Internet Research (IR) conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available up to four conference fee waivers and travel stipends per year. This year we will especially favor...
