Hello #AoIR2024 Sheffield bound tomorrow! Excited to get there, I accidentally attended my first #AoIR 2010 in Sweden. Currently writing a book on interpersonal surveillance, live in Philly, work in the Bronx. It’s a long commute without teleportation: I miss European trains, some Swedish foods, & Stockholms arrogance #introduction
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@cscw @estellesmith I’d like to recommend cscwz24 abandon the bird site en mass, but of course that will surprise no one and sound like Janet’s crazy opt out stuff again instead of the fact that hey, admit it, Xitter is now overrun by Nazis. #Aoir took an active stance against X and increased productive fedi conversation immensely. If you agree then please email the incoming chairs too, because there is strength in numbers and community organizing.
I think I just registered the youngest member of #aoir ever. My 13 year old who is going with me to Philly and wants do attend the conf to understand what I do and how she can use her internet user knowledge for something. 
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Excited to have the opportunity to ask Alex Winter and Gale Anne Hurd all about their unmissable new #film #TheYouTubeEffect in London next week! 
Check it out and BUY TICKETS HERE: https://mailchi.mp/princecharlescinema/alexwinter_thu20jul #disinformation #algorithms #technology #media #commodon #aoir #politics #socialmedia
NEW!! Excited to share this pre-Summit online event!
Join myself, Alan Jagolinzer and Sander van der Linden for an open online discussion on July 26 about: "Combatting disinformation; Threads and solutions" as we prepare for the Cambridge #Disinformation Summit
https://dcnglobal.net/posts/news/july-26-combatting-disinformation-threads-and-solutions-online-discussion-in-the-context-of-the-cambridge-disinformation-summit #propaganda #comodon #media #aoir #technology #socialmedia
The most important social media question for academics right now is: how are we going to create networking opportunities for junior scholars as Twitter declines?
That's why I'm so impressed with #AoIR , the Association of Internet Researchers, who are offering scholars a Mastodon account as part of membership at https://aoir.social/about
Mastodon hosted on aoir.socialMastodonThe Association of Internet Researchers is sponsoring this Mastodon server for its members. Members in good standing are welcome to join and have a home on the fediverse!
Say, I won the #AoIR election and will be its vice-president starting in October, and will assume the presidency in 2025. I’m thrilled and honored!
It's so good to be here! (I mean kolektiva.social is also nice, but still…)
I am a Professor for Media and Communication @zemki @unibremen Previously, I was at hiig.de where we hosted #AOIR2016 (who remembers this?)
I am interested in the ways communication, technology and governance shape each other – currently particularly with regard to the formation of platforms and their governance, as well to the making of 21st century AI https://platform-governance.org
#AoIR is my academic home
platform-governance.orgLab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT) – Research on Platform Governance and AI
RIP John Monberg an AoIRista that had the original Aoir spirit #aoir
Hey #AoIR folks, remember to vote for the executive committee election. I am running for one of the open seats!
Voting is now open for #AoIR executive leadership positions. I am running for vice-president, which leads to presidency of the org after a period of apprenticeship. I hope colleagues and friends will support me in that effort. Thanks so much. #aoirelections #AoIR
MastodonSarah T. Roberts, Ph.D. (@ubiquity75@aoir.social)Dear friends and colleagues — voting is now open for a slate of leadership positions for our org. Please vote! I hope you will please vote for me as your vice-president. It would be my honor to serve you. Thanks so much.
UK based #AoIR members and friends - does anyone know if there has been an attempt to get AoIR on this list of officially recognised professional organisations/learned societies in the UK? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/professional-bodies-approved-for-tax-relief-list-3/approved-professional-organisations-and-learned-societies
cc @Ozlem @ZoeGlatt
@karengregory
@nikicheong
@claudia_aradau
@mrsbunz
GOV.UKApproved professional organisations and learned societies (list 3)
Internet research community: please hit me up with your favorite articles (by you or other people) that do a great job of demonstrating different types of qualitative research online.*
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* Purposely ambiguous: this could be research conducted online, or research about something online, or something else I’ve not yet thought of. I’m trying to create a small library of exemplars for my seniors who are dipping their toes into #research #methods for the first time. #AoIR
Announcement time! I am running for the vice-presidency of the Association of Internet Researchers (#aoir). This position leads to the presidency after two years in the vp role. Please support me in this run, friends and members!
MastodonSarah T. Roberts, Ph.D. (@ubiquity75@aoir.social)Dear #aoir friends and colleagues, new and old: I’m thrilled to announce that I am running for vice-president of AoIR this election cycle, meaning that I would assume the role of president in two years. I would be honored to do so on your behalf.
I hope you’ll support me in this run! My statements are available here:
https://members.aoir.org/page-1774394
Thanks so much!
I guess I should do an #introduction here too...
I'm an associate prof at the Department of #Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I research internet culture (very broadly). I'm currently mostly interested in technologies of disconnectivity in social media (#unfriending, #unfollowing, and the like).
I'm Vice Prez of #AoIR. My hobbies include #drumming and #running and watching #sports on TV, especially #arsenal
Just a heads up that, now that the #AoIR instance aoir.social exists, I'm gonna be migrating there again soon - I'm a mod there so better give it my full attention, and maintaining split identities is too much hard work. Thank you so so so much to @ash (& @phocks) for giving me a home in the aftermath of Escape from Mastodon Dot LOL! This is a good place.
On behalf of the Association of Internet Researchers #AoIR, we join the Coalition for Independent Technology Research's call for #Twitter to *not close* their free API access for vital public-interest research & ask policymakers to enshrine this form of access to all big platforms.
https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/
Coalition for Independent Technology Research · Letter: Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest ResearchTwitter's API restrictions threaten essential research, innovation, & knowledge. Stand together to protect the public goods from data access.
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Update on possible #AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers)-hosted instance of Mastodon/Hometown.
I met with the Executive Committee and they let me document our meeting in my blog:
https://fossacademic.tech/2022/12/11/AOIR-social.html
TL;DR version is: they're asking the right questions about what it means for an academic organization to run an instance. I wrote this post to share with the fediverse since there may be questions about what internet researchers may intend towards the fedi.
FOSS AcademicAOIR.social?Elon Musk has crazy timing. He completed his purchase of Twitter right before the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, held in Dublin in November of this year. Coincidence? I think not. The Musk takeover of Twitter prompted a conversation at AOIR’s meeting in Dublin in early November: should AOIR start a Mastodon (specifically, a Hometown) instance? As someone who has been advocating for alternative social media for years, I was all about this. Internet researchers have been among the first to recognize the perils of corporate social media. But of course, AOIR members often deeply engage online, which means using those systems for their pleasures and professional opportunities. As the old commercial says, there’s got to be a better way: a way to do social media but to do it on our terms. If the Musk takeover is the catalyst that pushes AOIR to adopt the fediverse, then as disturbing as things have gotten, at least there will be a positive outcome. Spurred on by Aram Sinnreich, we started having informal discussions at AOIR’s 2022 meeting about starting up our own social media. What would it entail? How would we do it? The informal discussion involved some of my favorite AOIR folks: Nik John, Adrienne Massanari, Nick Couldry, Pat Aufderheide, and Esther Hammelburg (if I left anyone out, please let me know). The conversation went well but we all knew there was a lot of work ahead. Last week, I met with the AOIR Executive Committee to continue the work. They’ve agreed to my posting about this process to this blog. This post is meant to do two things. First, it documents how an academic association deliberates over whether and how to establish a presence on the fediverse. That ought to be useful for other organizations considering doing the same. I know there are quite a few. Second, my hope is that by sharing AOIR’s deliberations, the rest of the fediverse can have some insight into our decision to proceed (should it come to that). Given that AOIR members engage in Internet Research, there may be trepidation about AOIR joining the fediverse – would AOIR come to the fedi to study it? To turn its users into objects of research? Put another way, will AOIR be a good organizational citizen of the fediverse? Will it host a well-moderated instance? Will it respect fediverse cultures and norms? Please read on, fedifriends. I hope that it’s clear AOIR is going to do it right – otherwise, AOIR is not going to do it at all.
Ok let’s try an #introduction. I’m a researcher at Microsoft Research thinking about #sociotechnicalsystems #personalrelationships #professionalrelationships #futureofwork #creatorculture #raceandtech. I have never been able or wanted to separate personal from professional and don’t plan to start trying here. Senior scholars are whole people too. So come on around for work and dog and sunrises and whatever else makes me happy. I am also an #aoir book award. Go figure. #commodon