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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] The inaugural conference was organised by Nancy Baym, Jeremy Hunsinger and Steve Jones at the University of Kansas in 2000, and attracted 300 scholars.^[2] 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.^[3] 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. It also hosts a Mastodon instance, AoIR.social.

Activities edit

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.
As part of its annual conference, it hosts an annual one day interdisciplinary Doctoral Colloquium for Ph.D. students and an Early Career Researchers event for professionals who are in their first academic positions following the completion of the Ph.D.
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 researchers 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.
It publishes Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR), an open access online collection of papers presented at the annual conference ^[4]
It curates videos of its keynote and some of its other speakers on its YouTube page. ^[5]

Conferences edit

2023 - AoIR 2023: Revolutions, Philadelphia, United States
2022 - AoIR 2022: Decolonising the Internet, Dublin, Ireland
2021 - AoIR 2021: Independence (online)
2020 - AoIR 2020: Life (online)
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 edit

#	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
10	Lynn Schofield Clark	2019–2021
11	Tama Leaver	2021–2023
12	Nicholas John	2023–2025

References edit

^ 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.
^ Wellman, Barry (2000). "Social scientists in cyberspace: report on the founding conference of the association for internet researchers". ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin. 21 (2): 13–14. doi:10.1145/605660.605664. ISSN 2372-7403. S2CID 41384277.
^ McLemee, Scott (30 March 2001). "Internet studies 1.0: a discipline Is born". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 47, no. 29. p. A24.
^ "Conference Papers: SPIR".
^ "Association of Internet Researchers - YouTube". YouTube.