In order to increase the diversity of participation in the annual AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available a number of conference fee waivers and travel stipends each year. Applications are invited from authors whose proposals have...
2024 Nancy Baym Book Award Nominations
We are delighted to issue the 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...
Call for Expressions of Interest Conference Hosts for AoIR2026
The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from prospective Conference Hosts for AoIR’s annual meeting in October 2026, which will take place in North America. We will consider two kinds of...
Announcing AoIR2025 – São Paulo, Brazil
We are very excited to announce the location of #AoIR2025: São Paulo, Brazil! The conference will be hosted by the Universidade Paulista (UNIP) campus in the Paraiso neighborhood, central São Paulo. We will be close to hotels, culture, food, and public transport....
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Gilad Be’ery
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you?...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Ochega Ataguba
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you?...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Silas Udenze
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you? ...
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...
Expressions of Interest to host #AoIR2025 and #AoIR2026
The Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from prospective Conference Hosts for the annual meetings of the Association for October 2025 and 2026. With this call, AoIR will return to our regular rotation...
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...
