Executive Committee

2023-2025 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President: Nicholas John Nicholas John is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Age of Sharing (Polity, 2016), which in 2017 was awarded the...

AoIR2024 Conference Committee

AoIR2024 Conference Committee Dr. Ysabel Gerrard (she/her), #AoIR2024 Local Conference Chair, is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Communication in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield. Uniting her research is an interest in how young people -...

#AoIR2024 CFP

#AoIR2024 Call for Proposals   Sheffield’s history is forged in industry, with steel and metal-working historically dominating the city’s economy. In recognition of this history and in response to the present moment in the development of the internet and digital...

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...

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 Code of Conduct

AoIR Code of Conduct   This Code of Conduct covers all official Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) events. If we can provide you with any further information or advice, please let us know. Please note, this Code of Conduct should be read and understood in...