Anna 👩🏻‍💻May 21

#aoir2026 So here‘s where we celebrate our accepted abstracts right? And thank the reviwers for their thoughtful feedback? I found all except one to be helpful and collegial, even when they were not convinced of our submission.

All of this to say: I‘m going to Mexico and sooo stoked about it 🙌🙌🙌

Robert W. GehlMay 20
Hey, #AoIR2026 peeps! Don't forget we can cross-post about the conference from Blacksky/ATproto to the fedi and back! I wrote about how here: fossacademic.tech/2025/09/01/a... (please boost this if you see it to spread the word)

A Guide for #AOIR2025 and Soci...
Reading the Digital Safety Act with My Mastodon Admin Hat On

Back in 2024, I published a reading of the Online Harms Act from my perspective as an admin of a Mastodon instance. The Online Harms Act was a proposed Canadian bill meant to regulate social media to prevent harmful content, particularly hate speech and child abuse materials. While the Online Harms Act ultimately did not come to pass (due the proroguing of Parliament later that year), the Carney Liberal government is bringing much of it back with a new Digital Safety Act. In this post, I am also giving the new Act a look from the perspective of a Mastodon admin.

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Robert W. GehlMay 20
As #AoIR2026 acceptances start, we start posting more about going to the conference. As a reminder, folks on the fediverse (especially AoIR.social) and folks on #Bluesky can interact and share #AoIR2026 posts! Here's how: https://fossacademic.tech/2025/09/01/aoir-socials-guide.html
(If you see this on Bluesky please boost it!)
Reading the Digital Safety Act with My Mastodon Admin Hat On

Back in 2024, I published a reading of the Online Harms Act from my perspective as an admin of a Mastodon instance. The Online Harms Act was a proposed Canadian bill meant to regulate social media to prevent harmful content, particularly hate speech and child abuse materials. While the Online Harms Act ultimately did not come to pass (due the proroguing of Parliament later that year), the Carney Liberal government is bringing much of it back with a new Digital Safety Act. In this post, I am also giving the new Act a look from the perspective of a Mastodon admin.

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Damny May 20

México, I'm coming!
Super happy porque o trabalho de pesquisa BEYOND CORPORATE PLATFORMS: GOVERNANCE, LEGITIMACY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA, que estou fazendo com @gui e @leofoletto foi aceito pra apresentar no #aoir2026

Vamosle manitos!  

Instance CoffeeMay 20
hey, #AoIRFriends, it's that time of the year! Conference proposal reviews are coming in! Let us know what you're going to present at #AoIR2026!
Ludmila LupinacciMay 20
See you in Mexico I guess? #AoIR2026
Axel BrunsApr 7

And that's my first five #AoIR2026 reviews done; if all of you do yours in time perhaps they won't need to assign me any more, either... 🙏

And remember, folks: these are your peers, so give useful feedback rather than just a score, even (especially) when you recommend rejecting a paper proposal...

Anna 👩🏻‍💻Mar 2
What a start into the academic week: I submitted to #Aoir2026 (🤞), I filed a grant application for #stsCH2027 (the bi-annual Swiss #STS conference I will be hosting at the University of Fribourg), and I learned that our #4s open panel for Toronto was accepted 🙌
AoIRMar 1
#AoIR2026 proposals in, #AoIR2025 papers OUT! AoIR SPIR 2025 Ruptures is now available. Check out the papers of our annual conference online 🔗https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir 🥳
Ben PettisMar 1

Every year I tell myself I’ll learn my lesson for next year.

Every year I have this same last-minute realization.

Perhaps 2027 will be my year….

#aoir2026 #academicchatter