[Air-L] AoIR2021 Keynote will be live streamed on Facebook

[Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers]

Hello All,

*#AoIR2021 Live* starts today with our Keynote Address!!


*Race and Racism in Internet StudiesAndré Brock will deliver the Keynote
Address for AoIR 2021*
12 Oct. 2021, 22:00 UTC
( what time is that for me?
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André Brock is an Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies and Media in
the Department of Literature, Media and Communication at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. He is a leading academic in Black Cyberculture and
the study of racial representations in social media, including
groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. Other research interests include
racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness,
and technoculture. His award winning book, *Distributed Blackness: African
American Cybercultures* was published by NYU Press in 2020 and offers
insights into understanding Black everyday lives mediated by networked
technologies.

Anyone who would like to watch the Keynote is welcome to on AoIR's Facebook
page <https://www.facebook.com/associationofinternetresearchers>.

This will be the only portion of AoIR2021 that does not require conference
registration. If you would like to join us for more events this week,
please renew or create your AoIR membership <https://members.aoir.org/join>
and make sure to register for the conference
<https://members.aoir.org/event-4396398>. Don't have a FOMO - join us!

Michelle
AoIR Association Coordinator