The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is taking place this year from October 18-21 at the University of Salford.
Internet Research 13.0 will focus on the theme of technologies, understood in the broadest sense as crafts, techniques, and systems. The conference will examine the place of the Internet in the contemporary world and in relation to a range of existing and emerging technologies, considering its impact in a context where life is entangled with technologies of all kinds as never before. The conference will bring together scholars, researchers, students and practitioners from many disciplines to map and situate the development of the Internet as part of the history of human technology. To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:
- the speed and acceleration of technological change
- the past, present and future of technology
- emerging and converging technologies
- educational technology
- cultures of crafting
- connectivity and access
- space, location and mobile technologies
- technology, networks and attachments
- technology and the body
- technologies of the self
- technology, regulation and ethics
Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members.
More details about the event can be found at: http://ir13.aoir.org/
