Association of Internet Researchers 2023
October 18–21, 2023 | Philadelphia, PAWe’re looking forward to meeting with you all in person at the 2023 AoIR conference in Philadelphia! Come by our booth in the exhibit hall and say hi!
Got an interdisciplinary book you want some editing or indexing help with? You can schedule a free consultation with IoF founder Cathy Hannabach to learn how our team of editors, indexers, researchers, and publishing consultants can help get your book out into the world.
- Click here to book an in-person meeting at the conference
- Click here to book a Zoom meeting before or after the conference
Below, you can check out our #AoIR2023 Imagine Otherwise podcast playlist as well as the latest digital studies, media studies, and internet studies books we have edited and/or indexed.
Even if you can’t attend in person, you can follow along with the conversations at the conference hashtag #AoIR2023. AoIR is using Mastodon for this year’s conference, so head over to there to join in.
We want to give a huge shout out and thank you to AoIR conference chair Adrienne Shaw whose tireless dedication, thoughtful care, and organizational brilliance has made this event possible. As just a small example, take a look at this amazing Philadelphia guide she has spent 4 YEARS creating to ensure this event is accessible and enjoyable for everyone involved.
Finally, we’d love to hear from you on the socials! You can catch us here:
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#IoFAuthors at AoIR
We are SO jazzed that the conference keynote is none other than #IoFAuthor and founder of Open TV Aymar Jean (AJ) Christian!
His keynote address is Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture and offers a wonderful preview of his forthcoming book, which we have been privileged to edit.
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, author of Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US–Mexico Underground
- “Latinx Internet Studies”
- “Whitexicans, or the Racial Politics of Digital Culture in Mexico”
- Stay tuned for Juan’s upcoming Imagine Otherwise episode!
Meryl Alper, author of Kids across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age and Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
- “‘Here to Have Fun and Fight Ableism’: #Autisktok User Bios as Neuroqueer Micro-Activist Platform Affordances” (with Jessica Sage Rauchberg, Ellen Simpson, Josh Guberman, and Sarah Feinberg)
- Check out our interview with Meryl on Imagine Otherwise!
Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media (winner of the 2023 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award from AoIR)
- “Dispatches from the Early Internet: Histories, Imaginaries, and Archaeologies” (moderating)
André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (winner of the 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award from AoIR)
- “Ten Years of Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis”
- “Whiteness and Technology”
Christopher J. Persaud, coeditor of Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture
- “Panel: Sex” (moderating)
Jabari Miles Evans, author of Hip Hop Civics
- “These Girls (Strip) for the Clout: Exploring Aspirational, Emotional, and Erotic Labor of Black Women Hip-Hop Artists on OnlyFans”
Jessa Lingel, author of An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist
- “Building an Alternative Social Media Network”
