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
  • 2020 - AoIR 2020: Life, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2019 - AoIR 2019: Trust in the System, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2018 - AoIR 2018: Transnational Materialities, Montreal, Canada
  • 2017 - AoIR 2017: Networked Publics, Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2016 - AoIR 2016: Internet Rules! Berlin, Germany
  • 2015 - Internet Research 16: Digital Imaginaries, Phoenix, United States
  • 2014 - Internet Research 15: Boundaries and Intersections, Daegu, South Korea
  • 2013 – Internet Research 14: Resistance + Appropriation, Denver, United States
  • 2012 – Internet Research 13: Technologies, Salford, United Kingdom
  • 2011 – Internet Research 12: Performance and Participation, Seattle, United States
  • 2010 – Internet Research 11: Sustainability, Participation, Action, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2009 – Internet Research 10: Internet: Critical, Milwaukee, United States
  • 2008 – Internet Research 9: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2007 – Internet Research 8: Let's Play!, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2006 – Internet Research 7: Internet Convergences, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2005 – Internet Research 6: Internet Generations, Chicago, United States
  • 2004 – Internet Research 5: Ubiquity?, Brighton, England
  • 2003 – Internet Research 4: Broadening the Band, Toronto, Canada
  • 2002 – Internet Research 3: Net/Work/Theory, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 2001 – Internet Research 2: InterConnections, Minneapolis, United States
  • 2000 – Internet Research 1: The State of the Interdiscipline, Lawrence, United States

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
9 Axel Bruns 2017–2019

References
  1. 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.
  2. McLemee, Scott (30 March 2001). "Internet studies 1.0: a discipline Is born". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 47 (29). p. A24.


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