Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

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Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly. (We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.) https://aoir.org/ https://aoir.social/@aoir https://aoir.org/aoir2026/

Poster for the AoIR Roundtable Series, “Community: Past, Present, and Future,” featuring speakers Dr. Susanna Paasonen, Dr. Crystal Abidin, and Dr. Raquel Recuero, moderated by Nathalie Schäfer. The online event takes place on 23 June 2026 from 14:00–15:30 (CEST) and is open to AoIR members only. A QR code and link [https://members.aoir.org/event-6627981] is provided for registration.

Poster for the “AoIR Roundtable Series on Methods” by the Association of Internet Researchers. The design features a yellow and orange theme with photos of speakers: Dr. Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Annette Markham (Utrecht University), and Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology). The moderator is Dr. Meg Jing Zeng (University of Zurich). Event details: 13 April 2026, 18:00–19:30 CEST (Berlin). It is open to AoIR members only. A QR code and link is included for registration.

Poster stating that AoIR Selected Papers in Internet Research 2025 Ruptures current issue is now available. Includes link to check out the papers online: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir

AOIR 2026 Flashpoint Symposium titled “Imagining and Co-Creating Methods for Internet Research.” The event will take place on August 11–12, 2026 at Malmö University in Malmö, Sweden, in collaboration with the Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures.

Prefer your #AoIR2025 programme in an app? Our Sched is love!

Just three weeks until #AoIR2025 Ruptures kicks off in Niteroi, Brazil!

AoIR is pleased to congratulate the winner of this year’s Nancy Baym Book Award ...

Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert for The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance

(MIT Press)

Congratulations!

Kelly Quinn Travel Scholarships

AoIR is very happy to once again offer the Kelly Quinn Travel Scholarships for scholars and researchers who would otherwise face financial barriers to attending the #AoIR2025 conference.

Please see the link below for full details on the scholarships and how to apply.

*Application deadline is July 8th, 2025.*

aoir.org/2025kellyquinntravelscholarship

Excessive smiley face enthusiasm!

room with 6 rows of chairs and a screen at the front

Slide showing panel title "Manaing threats to research academics, featuring Emma Briant, Mutale Nkonde, Alice Marwick and Julia Ebner

Here is your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee,
taking office in October 2025!

President (elected as Vice President in the 2023 Election): Sarah Roberts, UCLA, USA

Vice President (becomes President in two years):
Andra Siibak, University of Tartu, Estonia

Immediate Past President (elected as Vice President in the 2021 Election): Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer,
Weimar University, Germany

Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl, York University, Canada

Graduate Student Representative:
Lynrose Jane Genon, QUT, Australia

Open Seats: Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Rebecca Scharlach, University of Bremen, Germany; and Meg Jing Zeng, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.

The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to call for submissions for the 2025 AoIR Dissertation Awards. To be eligible for the AoIR Dissertation Awards, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2024 calendar year. *Nominations must be received by 12 May 2025*. All methods and disciplines are welcome.

This year, because we are taking our conference to Brazil, where there is a large academic community that writes in Portuguese, we will also be awarding a Dissertation Award for a doctoral dissertation written in Portuguese. This is an occasional award; we will consider offering a similar award when holding the conference in countries in which it makes sense to do so.

Submissions details:
* A nomination letter that explains why the dissertation is deserving of the award and how it contributes to internet research
* A PDF copy of the dissertation should be emailed to dissertationaward [at] aoir.org
* The graduate or their supervisor must be a member of AoIR (by 12 May 2025)
* Self-nominations are permitted
* “Filed in 2024” means that the dissertation has been fully defended, all edits complete, and filed/published in 2024 (this date will usually appear on the front cover or front pages of the dissertation). A letter that the student’s committee has approved the PhD can also establish this.

The recipients of these awards will be announced mid-year 2025. In addition to winning a cash prize, the individual will be presented an award during the Association General Meeting(AGM) at the #AoIR2025 conference in October. In addition, and if relevant, AoIR will contribute up to US$1000 towards the cost of making a publication from the winners’ dissertation Open Access. (Please note, this is not the same as Article Processing Payments; we will support publication in reputable journals only.)

Full details: https://aoir.org/2025dissawardnominations/

2025 Nancy Baym Book Award

We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media.

To be eligible for the award:

The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible).
All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 7, 2025). Memberships may be purchased here: https://members.aoir.org/.
The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2024.

Details: aoir.org/2025nbbookaward

Nominations for the 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee are Now Open!

If you’re interested in helping shape the future of the Association of Internet Researchers, please consider running for the next AoIR Executive Committee.

We’re calling for nominations for: Vice-President; Treasurer; three Open Seats; and a Graduate Student Representative.

Nominations close on 2 April 2025.
(You must be a current, paid AoIR member to be nominated.)

For full details see: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2025-March/194303.html

reminder: submissions for #AoIR2025 are due on 1 March, this Saturday!