Every year, AoIR in conjunction with the journal, Information, Communication & Society publishes a special issue of the best work presented at our conference. As we all catch our breath from the fantastic event that was #AoIR2023, you are invited to browse the...
AoIR’s Internet Research Ethics 3.0
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...
It’s personal, isn’t it? What personalization means for internet research methods
It’s personal, isn’t it? What personalization means for internet research methods By: Elinor Carmi, New Political Communication Unit, Politics & International Relations Department, Royal Holloway, University of London. “It wasn’t uncommon to have 35 to 45...
Making Twitter research reproducible through archiving
Making Twitter research reproducible through archiving In an article now published in Big Data & Society Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Katrin Weller, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, Jürgen Pfeffer and Fred Morstetter present a solution to sharing social media data with the...
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,...
A Bold, Bipartisan Plan to Return the U.S. to the Vanguard of 21st-Century Technological Innovation
A Bold, Bipartisan Plan to Return the U.S. to the Vanguard of 21st-Century Technological Innovation (republished with permission from The Conversation.) How can we ensure technology brings prosperity to us all? ra2studio/Shutterstock.com Sascha Meinrath, Pennsylvania...
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 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...
When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive
Tama Leaver, Curtin University and Crystal Abidin, Curtin University
The US YouTube channel DaddyOFive, which features a husband and wife from Maryland “pranking” their children, has pulled all its videos and issued a public apology amid allegations of child abuse.
The “pranks” would routinely involve the parents fooling their kids into thinking they were in trouble, screaming and swearing at them, only the reveal “it was just a prank” as their children sob on camera.
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.
