Who are you? Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno (@amandajurno). PhD candidate at the Post Graduate Program in Communication Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil). I am a researcher at the New Media Convergence Center and at the Intermedia Connections...
Travel Scholarship Winner for #AoIR2017 – Olga Boichak
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...
AoIR partnering with Internet Policy Review for Special Issue
AoIR is happy to announce a collaboration with the Internet Policy Review for a special issue highlighting research presented at the #AoIR2017 Networked Publics conference taking place from 19 to 21 October 2017. The open access journal on internet regulation Internet...
2017 Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award for 2017 goes to Dr. Julia Beth Ticona for her work “Left to Our Own Devices: Navigating the Risks of Work & Love with Personal Technologies” (University of Virginia). Dr. Ticona’s work studies our personal technologies with a...
Reminder: AoIR 2017 Early Bird Registration Deadline Coming Up
As we're getting closer to the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers conference in Tartu, Estonia, please remember that the deadline to register at the lower cost, Early Registration rate is 1 August 2017. At least one author from each accepted paper, panel, or...
2017 Carl J. Couch Award Winner
AoIR offers congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award, Chris Julien, a Ph.D. student in Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. We look forward to meeting him and discussing his work this year in Tartu. The Couch Award is...
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:
Things to do in Tartu
If you want to explore Tartu by yourself or with your friends or family, here are some suggestions:
2017 Nancy Baym Book Award
The Nancy Baym book award committee are delighted to announce the 2017 winner. The award goes to Nicholas John for his book ‘The Age of Sharing’. The competition was especially hard this year, with many exceptional books submitted, making our job really difficult. Acknowledging this, the committee would like to specifically mention two books, whose innovative approach, originality and breadth of scholarship make them stand out: Helen Kennedy’s Post, Mine, Repeat, and Holly Kruse’s Off-Track and Online.
#AoIR2017 Travel Scholarship Information
Applications are invited from authors whose proposals have already been accepted via the conference reviewing process, as well as by PhD Students applying to the Doctoral Colloquium. All applications should be emailed directly to the Association Coordinator, Michelle Gardner (ac [at] AoIR [dot] org), and must be received by May 20, 2017. Late applications cannot be considered.
