Travel Scholarship Recipient – Suwana

Each year, through the generous donations of AoIR conference attendees, we are able to fund 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...

2016 Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award goes to Paula Kiel for her paper The emerging practices of the collective afterlife: multimodal analysis of websites for post-mortem digital interaction. The program committee was particularly impressed by the contribution's strong...

AoIR Book Award 2013

It gives us great pleasure to announce the winner of the 2013 AoIR Book Award, which celebrates an outstanding book published in the previous year that addresses issues relating to our field. The book is Julie E. Cohen's "Configuring the networked self : Law, code,...

AoIR Dissertation Award, 2013

Congratulations to the recipient of this year's AoIR Dissertation Award. The award-winning dissertation, “Programmed sociality: A software studies perspective on social networking sites,” was written by Taina Bucher. Bucher received her PhD from the University of Oslo...