[Air-L] AoIR Awards

Gabriela T Richard gabriela at nyu.edu
Wed Jul 29 09:57:57 PDT 2015


Congratulations to all!

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Kendall, Lori <loriken at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> Each year, AoIR presents three awards for outstanding scholarship on
> topics related to internet research. I am pleased to announce this year’s
> winners.
>
> The recipient of the Nancy S. Baym Book Award is Robert W. Gehl for his
> book Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture and Political
> Economy in New Media Capitalism (Temple University Press, 2014). The
> committee--which included Adi Kuntsman and Kylie Jarrett and was chaired by
> Andrew Herman--found this book to be theoretically sharp and elegantly
> written, with a rich sense of historicity. By taking into account software
> engineering and the power inscribed into its socio-technical affordances,
> the book articulates a valuable method and model for further analysis of
> social media. The committee was particularly impressed with Gehl’s
> presentation of alternative scenarios and alternative possibilities for
> social media.
>
> The AoIR Dissertation Award goes to Nora Draper for her dissertation:
> "Reputation, Inc.: Assessing the industrialization of self-presentation and
> privacy in the digital era." The committee felt her topic was a very strong
> choice. The dissertation expertly attended to commercial exploitation of
> the tensions between the desire to share/self-present and the desire for
> privacy, as well as the commercialization of the internet in general.
> Through her industry study, Draper traces shifts from a right to privacy to
> concerns about reputation management, providing an original and rigorous
> contribution to the field.
>
> The dissertation committee was comprised of André Brock, Helen Kennedy,
> Guillaume Latzko-Toth, and was chaired by Kate O'Riordan. They reviewed 30
> dissertations and report that the field was incredibly strong, making their
> choice a difficult one. They have awarded honorary mentions to three
> additional dissertations: Lisa Silvestri's, "Friended at the Front: Social
> Media and 21st Century War," Nicole Grove's "Gamers, Hunters, Provocateurs:
> Digital Mediations of Violence, Gender and Faith in the Arab World," and
> Tero Jukka Karppi's, "Disconnect.Me - User Engagement and Facebook."
>
> The Best Student Paper award goes to Lillian Boxman-Shabtai, for
> “User-Generated Parody as Negotiation over Meaning: A Typology of Frame
> Alignment in Musical Renditions”. The committee--which included Jeff
> Hemsley and Daren Brabham, and was chaired by Sun Sun Lim--found that the
> paper provides a fresh and innovative perspective to audience studies
> through an analysis of user-generated music video parodies on YouTube. It
> was methodologically robust and analytically elegant, offering an
> illuminating taxonomy of the frames employed by parodists, capturing their
> meaning-making and acts of subversion.
>
> Please join me in congratulating our award winners, who have demonstrated
> the breadth and strength of internet research. I invite you all to attend
> their presentations at the conference in October in Phoenix. Please also
> give your thanks to all of our committee members. Their task was
> time-consuming but very important.
>
> Lori Kendall
> President, AoIR
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-- 
*Gabriela T. Richard, Ph.D.*
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Graduate School of Education | *University of Pennsylvania*
*Center for Collaboration, Computation, Complexity, and Creativity in the
Learning Sciences*
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