As part of our fishbowl session at the Association of Internet Researchers’ (AoIR) 2020 Conference, this live online session invites discussion of how to teach about digital research and its associated methodological approaches. As internet scholars, we develop and engage with new methods for researching digitally mediated life and digital technologies, even as they are ever-changing and updating. We also pass along methods collegially (such as through the AoIR listserv), in post-secondary classrooms, and through other forms of knowledge transfer. This pedagogy often necessitates unconventional and unique approaches that address the realities of digital research, which include difficulty accessing data, unexplored platforms, shifting cultures of use, and evolving research tools, among other complications. Rapid expansion in the realms of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things further challenge us to make these unfolding areas intelligible to our students while we simultaneously grapple with how to study them.
Join us to think through these topics and discuss approaches to teaching about digital research methods. This session is open to all AoIR attendees and more broadly to scholars not registered for the conference. The speakers will pose initial routes of inquiry and open the floor for discussion as a scholarly community.
Please register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link prior to the event. This event is hosted by the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab at Concordia University.
Speakers:
Stefanie Duguay, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Pablo Rodrigo Velasco González, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Tim Highfield, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.