Leonardo Foletto
Professor at School of Communication and Arts (ECA-USP), São Paulo, Brasil. Communication and digital culture, with focus in free culture/knowledge, artificial intelligence, technopolitics, critical plataform studies and digital counterculture. Free culture/software/knowledge activist. Publisher of @baixacultura
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This account is now archived. You can find me at @scroeser
Researcher, teacher, and activist when I can manage it, but mostly a dorky mama covered in hummus. Living on Noongar Boodja (in western australia). Incredibly enthusiastic about bicycles, including cargo bikes and slow bicycling. Μαθαίνω Ελληνικά.
Jill Walker Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.
Jamie T
PhD candidate at Indiana University Media School. Research interests include alternative social media, online harassment, privacy, internet history, and (counter)surveillance.
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Video editor, videographer, graphic design and wannabe motion graphics artist. I sometimes play in punk bands. Jack of all media trades, master of none.
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Liberation and abolition for all means the internet too.
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Tama Leaver
🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
🌏 Past President, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
🔬 ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
➡️ Views mine; clicked, starred, bookmarked things aren't necessarily endorsements.
➡️ he/him
Nik (Nicholas) John
Assoc. Prof. at the Dept of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. VP of #AoIR. I study the #internet, especially #unfriending and #sharing (but not so much the latter these days). I #drum a bit. I'm a big fan of #democracy.
Instance Coffee
Admin of aoir.social, which means I must enjoy Internet Cats.
Currently run by @rwg (he/him)
This account follows other admins, and it boosts posts by aoir.social members (images boosted only if they have alt text)
Banner image from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, photo by hageatama: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cats_%288224186812%29.jpg
Nathalie Fridzema
Doctoral Researcher in Dutch Early Web Cultures & Vernacular Digital Heritage | University of Groningen | Media Studies & Digital Humanities
Ashwin Nagappa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Investigating the Diversity of Search Results
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Queensland University of Technology
Patricia Aufderheide
University Professor, School of Communication, American University
Aram Sinnreich
Writer, professor, musician.
The lesser ½ of Dunia & Aram.
The lesser ½ of @RASinn.
The lesser ⅛ of Comm Studies @ AU.
New book from @themitpress: THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA
Nathalie Van Raemdonck
Belgian PhD researcher of Communication Science at VUB, IMEC-SMIT. Researching the mutual shaping of platforms affordances and social norms.
Anna 👩🏻💻
Senior researcher & lecturer at the Human-IST institute (University of Fribourg)
Associated researcher at the HIIG Berlin
Science & technology #STS | #DigitalSociety | #AIpolicy #AIgovernance #AIethics | Internet & society
President of the Swiss Federal Media Commission #EMEKCOFEM
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch
Associate Professor in Communication at University of Connecticut, researching online misinformation, algorithmic literacy, and social media for science communication and well-being.
Portland State (BA), Penn State (PhD), Northwestern (postdoc), and Uni Duisburg-Essen (Fulbright) alum.
Often outdoors: running, hiking, exploring. Violinist in the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. First generation academic. 🏳️🌈
Fabio Giglietto
Associate Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it - WP4 leader at https://www.veraai.eu/ - Leading developer http://www.coornet.org
Kevin Driscoll 📳
Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media Studies at the University of Virginia. (he/him)
Robert W. Gehl
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press this year.
Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping set up AoIR.social
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Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.
AoIR
The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. https://aoir.org/about/
Esteban Morales
Postdoc fellow @ Royal Roads University
Ph.D. interested in digital violence and critical data studies. Latinoamericano
Axel Bruns
social media and journalism researcher at http://bit.ly/qutdmrc - views are my own
🐤: @snurb_dot_info
🟦: @snurb.bsky.social
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