We are very excited to announce the location of #AoIR2025: São Paulo, Brazil! The conference will be hosted by the Universidade Paulista (UNIP) campus in the Paraiso neighborhood, central São Paulo. We will be close to hotels, culture, food, and public transport....
#AoIR2022 Special Issue of ICS is out
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...
2023 Best Dissertation Award
The winner of the 2023 award is Tuğçe Bidav of Maynooth University for her dissertation, "Global Platform, Local Labour: Precarious YouTubing in Ireland and Turkey". Congratulations, Dr. Bidav! Bidav's dissertation offers a unique perspective by comparing creative...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Gilad Be’ery
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you?...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Ochega Ataguba
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you?...
#AoIR2023 Travel Scholarship Recipient – Silas Udenze
Each year a small portion of AoIR conference fees go toward 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 research interests. Who are you? ...
AoIR Moving to Mastodon
In October 2022, Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter. Almost a year later and we have witnessed the gutting of the content moderation department, a huge increase in hate speech, and in real terms the end to API-based researcher access to data. Twitter (or...
Student Paper Award for #AoIR2023
The 2023 AoIR Student Paper Award has been awarded to Nermin Elsherif for her paper “The Not-so-revolutionary Facebook: Nostalgia and the return to a centralized state.” Specifically, we selected this paper because of the author's use of multi-year ethnographic...
AoIR 2023 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award Announcement
The committee for the Association of Internet Researchers 2023 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award is delighted to announce this year’s winner. Many excellent books were submitted for consideration by the committee and the task of narrowing down the list to one clear winner...
Call for Proposals to host AoIR Flashpoint Symposiums in 2024
To supplement our annual October conference, the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking proposals for a one-day AoIR Flashpoint Symposium to take place before the end of August 2024. As the 2024 AoIR conference takes place in Sheffield, UK, only proposals for...
