Recap of AoIR 2018

I just returned from the 2018 annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Montréal, Québec. I believe this was the largest AoIR conference yet, and it was exciting to see so many new faces join the ranks of folks researching the internet and the digital. 

It was a real pleasure to be a part of the Experimental Session, Digital Critical Race Mixtape with Catherine Knight Steele, Sarah Florini, Kishonna Gray, and André Brock (who couldn't be there with us, but was there in spirit!). We appreciated the support,  attendance, and participation of the audience who came to collaborate with us! (Shout out to Adam J. Banks for his book Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age that inspired the theoretical framework for our session.) This session was a highlight for me and really captured the joy of thinking with/in community with fellow scholars whom I respect so much. 

It was a wonderful conference, and I look forward to catching up with everyone again soon!

Photo credit Mylynn Felt.

Interactive session! #AoIR2018 #criticalmixtape @AoIR_org @sflorini @EquityinGaming @Miriam_Sweeney and Catherine Knight Steele pic.twitter.com/Ao4XR5v7j2

— Louise Romain Watson (@lou_digianthro) October 13, 2018