Association of Internet Researchers

The Association of Internet Researchers ( AoIR ) is a learned society dedicated to the ADVANCEMENT of the Transdisciplinary field or Internet studies . Founded in 1999, it is an international, member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research, independent from traditional disciplines and bestaande across academic borders.

AoIR was formally founded on May 30, 1999, at a meeting or nearly the sixty scholars at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers, volgende 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, haar rapid growth prolongation the first few years of existence zijn Marked the coming of age of Internet studies . [2]It has continued to grow, with a Membership or ongeveer 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, welke accepts paper and presentation Submissions from all disciplines.
  • It hosts the AIR-L mailing list with over 5,000 subscribers.
  • It has published multiple editions of the Internet Research Annual with Peter Lang
  • It hosts working groups therein produce reports of interest to Researches in the field, must 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

# Names 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 streamer-Galley 2015-2017

References

  1. Jump up^ Witmer, Diane F. (1999). “The Association (or) .Internet.Researchers: Formed to support scholarship in and of the internet”. Information, Communication & Society . 2 (3): 368-370. doi : 10.1080 / 136911899359637 .
  2. Jump up^ McLemee, Scott (30 March 2001). “Internet studies 1.0: a discipline is born”. The Chronicle of Higher Education . 47 (29). p. A24.