We are happy to announce that the new guidelines for Internet Research Ethics (IRE) are now available on the AoIR Ethics page: "Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0" IRE 3.0 serves as a supplement to the IRE guidelines from 2002, 2012 and addresses among other...
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,...
Top Student Paper: IR 14.0
We are happy to announce the best student paper for this year. Matthew Crain, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will be presenting "Financial Markets and Online Advertising Demand: Reevaluating the Dotcom Investment Bubble." The conference committee...
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...
Call for Papers, IR 14.0
Call for Papers Internet Research 14.0: Resistance and Appropriation 23-26 October 2013 Denver, USA Internet Research 14.0 will focus on the theme of Resistance and Appropriation. Many people think of the internet and related technologies as basic infrastructure — a...
Call for Proposals: Ignite-IR, Internet Research 12.0
Call for Proposals: Ignite-IR, Internet Research 12.0, Seattle, Washington, October 10-13, 2011 Given the theme this year, "Performance and Participation," it seemed a particularly good time to introduce a new format of presentation to the Internet Research...
IR12.0 (Seattle) Call for Papers
Internet Research 12.0 – Performance and Participation The 12th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) October 10-13, 2011 Renaissance Hotel, Seattle Seattle, Washington, USA People perform identities,...
IR11.0 Registration Open
If you haven't already, be sure to register for IR11.0, this October in Gothenburg, Sweden!
Special issue of Information, Communication & Society
The third Association of Internet Researchers special issue of Information, Communication & Society has recently been published, edited by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Lori Kendall. It includes papers selected from the Internet Research 10.0 conference in...