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:

Conferences

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

  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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