We are pleased to present the Keynote Speakers for AoIR's Flashpoint Symposium. Dr. Crystal Abidin Dr Crystal Abidin is a digital anthropologist and ethnographer of vernacular internet cultures. She researches young people’s relationships with internet celebrity,...
2019 AoIR Dissertation Award
The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2019 AoIR Dissertation Award. To be eligible for the AoIR Dissertation Award, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2018 calendar year. Nominations (self...
Remembering Ben Bates
Ben Bates served as the first Treasurer of AoIR from 1999 to 2005. He was not only one of the first to step up and volunteer his time to AoIR in 1999, but he was also one of the first to spread word of it at other conferences that he went to, such as AEJMC (the...
2018-2019 Executive Committee – New
Kat Tiidenberg 2018-2019 AoIR Executive Committee – Secretary Who are you? Tell us a little bit about yourself. I always want to say: “I don’t know,” in answer to this question, and then I always worry it’s a bad sign I don’t know. I suppose that might be telling in...
Travel Scholarships for #AoIR2018
In order to increase the diversity of participation in the annual AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available several conference fee waivers and travel stipends each year. These stipends are mostly funded through the generosity of our...
ICS Special Issue for #AoIR2017
AoIR is grateful each year for the hard work of the editors of our special conference issue of Information, Communication & Society. For #AoIR2017 our editors were Koen Leurs, Assistant Professor in Gender & Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, and Alison...
4 Inches of Embarrassment: Humour, sex and risk on mobile devices
4 Inches of Embarrassment: Humour, sex and risk on mobile devices Kylie Jarrett National University of Ireland, Department of Media Studies, Maynooth, Ireland. Email. kylie.jarrett@um.ie Twitter. @kylzjarrett Ben Light* University of Salford, School of Health and...
Publishing Partnership with Internet Policy Review Continues
For #AoIR2018, the Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to again partner with Internet Policy Review on a special issue of the best internet policy-related papers from the conference. Internet Policy Review is an interdisciplinary open access journal...
Engaged Students Learning and Wikipedia – Developing Information Literacy and Finding a Purpose
Engaged Students Learning and Wikipedia – Developing Information Literacy and Finding a Purpose Zachary J. McDowell, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago danah boyd (2014) points out in “It's Complicated: The Social...
2018 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award
We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Named after former Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) president Nancy Baym, this award recognizes the best scholarship of AoIR and highlights the breadth of work relating to the...
