#AoIR 2020: Life is the 21st annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the place of networked technologies in social processes. What is resistance and how it can be connected to these questions? Presentations can also be done in ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE or SPANISH. Deadline for the submission of this proposal is 1 September 2019, with a decision rendered by the end of October 2019. In recent years, social media brought the opportunity for people to organize themselves around political participation, offered them more information and the tools to make public demands directly to congressmen and congresswomen. Demonstrate capacity for carrying out the symposium in a manner that contributes to the benefit of AoIR and the individual organizer(s). The AoIR Flashpoint Symposium is a small event that provides an opportunity to deepen or foster conversations about internet research among regions, groups, and thematic research areas that have been underrepresented in the Association of Internet Researchers and its conferences. AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2020 - Digital Transformations: Polarization, media manipulation, and resistance uses Galoá to painless manage and increase the impact of the event. Submit your proposals to symposia@aoir.org, AoIR Flashpoint Symposium – 3-4 Sept 2020, AoIR 20th Anniversary 2019-2039 Time Capsule, AoIR2020 Life (Online) Participation Opportunities. Indicate how regional and transnational graduate students will be encouraged to participate. Researchers have long investigated what it means to have a life mediated by the internet, but the increasing sophistication and embedding of its technologies of capture and animation suggest it’s time to focus again on the topic of Life. However, social media have also played an important role in the crisis these young democracies face today, as it also provides a space for hate speech, intolerance, and extremization. Most Latin American countries, such as Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, have a history of several years of violent dictatorships.

Papers must be in trouble-free, high-resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, fishbowls, and preconferences, and we encourage experimental sessions that extend research in unusual directions (via method, topic or presentation structure).

Submit your proposals to symposia@aoir.org by 1 September  2019. There will be a special poster section for undergraduate students. Submissions will go through a double-blind review, so please, send the archive anonymized. This second Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Flashpoint Symposium seeks to investigate the digital transformations regarding the issues of polarization, media manipulation and resistance in the Latin America Context. We welcome literature and humanities calls for papers. 9/8/2020 ICA Online Elections Began 1 September . AoIR 2020 will gather international, trans-disciplinary scholars interested in networked technologies and social processes. AoIR’s commitment to the symposium will include: Proposals will be ranked in relation to their ability to: (This listing does not imply any ranking in the importance of these requirements.). to be allocated for the funding of participant travel costs, staff costs in support of the symposium’s organization, or indirect costs (such costs must be borne by local sponsorship), but may include  keynote honoraria, travel of keynote speakers, meals, venue or labor costs.
Welcome to AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2020 - Digital Transformations: Polarization, media manipulation, and resistance!! A partnership with law, arts and media sectors to develop responses to sexual violence in universities and society, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Project Director and James McGill Professor, Dr. Shaheen Shariff, research assistants Rebecca Katz and Christopher Dietzel, PhD candidate and research assistant Christopher Dietzel, Dr. Shariff Receives a TIAW World of Difference Award, Raising Canada 2020: Top 10 Threats to Childhood and the Impact of COVID-19, Social Media Toolkit from West Coast LEAF, A “Healing Blanket” Against Gender Violence Created by 600 Women from Around the World, Facebook Canada and Ontario Tech University Launch the Global Network Against Hate, Updates from the Institute for Human Development and Well-Being, Op-Ed: What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Living with a Chronic Illness, Quebec Will Abolish Time Limits on Sexual Assault Lawsuits, B.C. ", TRUST IN TRANSLATION: A CASE STUDY OF COPYRIGHT AS A LEGAL TRANSPLANT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN MYANMAR, SUNSET AND MEMORIES: HOW WE BURY AND MOURN DEAD PLATFORMS, A NEW STANDARD OF PROOF? By AoIR Staff Posted on April 4, 2008 Posted in Community, Conferences. Include a preliminary budget that demonstrates in-kind support and/or sponsorship from the host institution(s) and creates a preliminary plan for cost items. As they draw from multi-perspectives, they will address image-based sexual abuse and copyright in Canada, and share excerpts from an in-progress epistolary novel. Conference Papers: SPIR; ICS Special Issues; Internet Policy Review Special Issues; Community. Advance AoIR’s goals and mission and the Flashpoint Symposium’s general goals and mission of contributing to the diversification of membership and the expansion of geographical presence in the annual AoIR conference. What forms of resistance come from these digital contexts?

In the first presentation, Chris will participate in a panel with Australian colleagues. DISCOURSES ON VISUAL DATA AFTER THE 2017 G20-PROTESTS, FROM KNOWLEDGE CATHEDRALS TO NETWORKED CO-CREATION: PUBLIC LIBRARIES, TRUST AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, A NEW BLACK BOX METHODOLOGY: THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF INTERROGATING THE MODERATION OF IMAGES DEPICTING WOMEN’S BODIES ON INSTAGRAM, THE CONCEPT OF ‘SHARING’ IN CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA. Please note that AoIR funding is. Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR) is the open access online collection of papers presented at the annual international conferences of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Membership; Mailing List; Donate; Contact; Awards. A selection of organizers and delegates must make a firm commitment to present key contributions and outcomes from the Flashpoint Symposium at the year’s annual conference. Call for Papers, IR 14.0. Allocation of one session slot (panel, roundtable, fishbowl, experimental session, or pre-conference workshop) on the annual AoIR conference’s program to the symposium organizers. Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR) is the open access online collection of papers presented at the annual Association of Internet Researchers International Conferences. How polarization impacts political conversation in these contexts? Call for Applications: AoIR Preconference Workshop on Labor Read more » Tagged with: AoIR 2016, call for papers.