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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

AoIR is aware that many of our UK-based colleagues are currently on strike, and may have difficulties meeting the 1 March submission deadline for AoIR 2018 conference submissions. If your plans to submit a proposal to the conference are affected by the strike, please...

The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2018 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 2017 calendar year. Nominations (self...

We are very excited to announce our #AoIR2018 Keynote Speaker! Jason Edward Lewis Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media poet, artist, and software designer. He is presently the Concordia University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future...

Reaching rural America with broadband internet service (republished with permission from The Conversation.) Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin All across the U.S., rural communities’ residents are being left out of modern society and the 21st century...