Association of Internet Researchers
The Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is a learned society dedicated to the advancement of the transdisciplinary field of Internet studies. Founded in 1999, it is an international, member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research, independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders.
AoIR was formally founded on May 30, 1999, at a meeting of nearly sixty scholars at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers, following initial discussions at a 1998 conference at Drake University entitled "The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Metaphor, Magic & Power".[1] As the Chronicle of Higher Education noted, its rapid growth during the first few years of its existence marked the coming of age of Internet studies.[2] It has continued to grow, with a membership of approximately 400 scholars. It supports AIR-L, a mailing list with over 5,000 subscribers.
AoIR holds an annual academic conference, as well as promoting online discussion and collaboration through a long-running mailing list, and other venues.
Activities
The Association supports scholarly communication in a number of ways:
- It organizes an annual, peer-reviewed scholarly conference, which accepts paper and presentation submissions from all disciplines.
- It hosts the AIR-L mailing list with over 5000 subscribers.
- It has published multiple editions of the Internet Research Annual with Peter Lang
- It hosts working groups that produce reports of interest to researches in the field, most notably the AoIR Guide on Ethical Online Research.
- It co-sponsors an annual issue of the journal Information, Communication and Society consisting of top papers from the annual conference.
Conferences
- 2017 - AoIR 2017: Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia
- 2016 - AoIR 2016: Internet Rules! Berlin, Germany
- 2015 - Internet Research 16: Digital Imaginaries, Phoenix, Arizona
- 2014 - Internet Research 15: Boundaries and Intersections, Daegu, South Korea
- 2013 – Internet Research 14: Resistance + Appropriation, Denver
- 2012 – Internet Research 13: Technologies, Salford, Greater Manchester
- 2011 – Internet Research 12: Performance and Participation, Seattle
- 2010 – Internet Research 11: Sustainability, Participation, Action, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2009 – Internet Research 10: Internet: Critical, Milwaukee
- 2008 – Internet Research 9: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2007 – Internet Research 8: Let’s Play!, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- 2006 – Internet Research 7: Internet Convergences, Brisbane, Australia
- 2005 – Internet Research 6: Internet Generations, Chicago
- 2004 – Internet Research 5: Ubiquity?, Brighton, England
- 2003 – Internet Research 4: Broadening the Band, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 2002 – Internet Research 3: Net/Work/Theory, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2001 – Internet Research 2: InterConnections, Minneapolis
- 2000 – Internet Research 1: The State of the Interdiscipline, Lawrence, Kansas
Presidents
| # | Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Jones | 1999–2003 |
| 2 | Nancy Baym | 2003–2005 |
| 3 | Matthew Allen | 2005–2007 |
| 4 | Charles Ess | 2007–2009 |
| 5 | Mia Consalvo | 2009–2011 |
| 6 | Alexander Halavais | 2011–2013 |
| 7 | Lori Kendall | 2013–2015 |
| 8 | Jennifer Stromer-Galley | 2015–2017 |
References
- ↑ Witmer, Diane F. (1999). "The Association(of).Internet.Researchers: Formed to support scholarship in and of the internet". Information, Communication & Society. 2 (3): 368–370. doi:10.1080/136911899359637.
- ↑ McLemee, Scott (30 March 2001). "Internet studies 1.0: a discipline Is born". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 47 (29). p. A24.
External links
- AoIR Web Site
- Air-L, the AoIR listserv
- Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the AoIR ethics working committee