[Air-L] AoIR2017 keynote announcement!

Andra Siibak andra.siibak at ut.ee
Wed Jan 25 06:15:49 PST 2017


 

Hello Everyone, 

It's my pleasure to announce #AoIR2017's TWO Keynote Speakers! 

Andrew Chadwick (PhD, London School of Economics) is Professor of
Political Science in the Department of Politics and International
Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he founded the
New Political Communication Unit in 2007. His latest book is The Hybrid
Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 2013), which
won the 2016 International Journal of Press/Politics Book Award for an
outstanding book on media and politics published in the previous ten
years, and the American Political Science Association Information
Technology and Politics Section Best Book Award, 2014. His book Internet
Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford
University Press, 2006) won the American Sociological Association Best
Book Award (Communication and Information Technologies Section) and is
among the most widely-cited works in its field. Andrew is also Editor of
the book series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, which currently
features 20 titles. At Royal Holloway, by whom he has been awarded two
Teaching Excellence Prizes, he teaches courses on the internet and
politics, digital political communication, and the politics of
democracy. Andrew is currently writing his next book, Social Media and
the Future of Democracy (Oxford University Press). Twitter:
@andrew_chadwick [1] 

Marju Lauristin is a Professor of Social Communication at the Institute
of Social Studies at the University of Tartu (since 1995). Her main
research interest covers social and cultural transformations on the way
from post-communist to information society. 

Prof. Lauristin was one of the establishing members of 'Rahvarinne' in
1988, the first large-scale independent political movement in Estonia
since the beginning of the Soviet occupation. She has since been
Chairman of the Estonian Social Democratic Party, deputy speaker of the
Estonian parliament, and minister of Social Affairs of Estonia. Since
2014 she is a Member of European Parliament, where she is involved as a
rapporteur in the area of data protection and development of European
digital economy and society. Twitter: @LauristinMarju [2] 

https://aoir.org/aoir2017keynotes/ [3] 

My deepest gratitude to both of them for accepting my invitation to join
us and to you, my fellow AoIR list readers and members, for your ongoing
support of our conference. 

Andra Siibak 

Professor of Media Studies 

Head of the Center for the Information Society 

University of Tartu 

Important Deadline Reminders: 

1 MARCH 2017 Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES 

and FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 

1 APRIL 2017 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book award and Best Dissertation


Award due 

20 MAY 2017 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for 

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 

1 AUGUST 2017 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters 

30 SEPTEMBER 2017 Deadline for uploading accepted, non-blind, final 

version of paper and panel submissions 

Links: 

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[1] https://aoir.org/aoir2017/subinfo2017 

[2] https://aoir.org/aoir2017/aoir2017sub_temp 

[3] https://www.conftool.com/aoir2017 

[4] http://aoir.org/aoir2017 

Links:
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[1] https://twitter.com/andrew_chadwick
[2] https://twitter.com/LauristinMarju
[3] https://aoir.org/aoir2017keynotes/



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