Announcing AoIR2025 – Brazil

***Please note*** Due to local logistics, the conference location was changed in October 2024 to Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.*** We are very excited to announce the location of #AoIR2025: São Paulo, Brazil! The conference will be hosted by the Universidade...

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 Flashpoint Symposium

On Thursday, 15 June 2023, AoIR held its third Flashpoint Symposium, and the first since the COVID-19 lockdowns. The symposium, Speculating at the End (?) of Times, was held in the remarkable Riot Studio in Naples, Italy, and was organized by Prof. Adam Arvidsson of...