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

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