[Commlist] CfP AoIR Flashpoint Symposium: Imagining and Co-creating methods for Internet Research

*Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Flashpoint symposium*:

Imagining and Co-creating Methods for Internet Research

11-12 August, Malmö University

Malmö, Sweden

In collaboration with *Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and 
Co-Creating Futures*, AoIR invites participants to its annual Flashpoint 
symposium.

For those interested in participating in the symposium, the deadline to 
submit an abstract of up to *300 words is March 30, 2026.*

Confirmed keynote plenary speakers are

  * prof. Annette Markham, Utrecht University, Netherlands
  * prof. Susana Tosca, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  * prof. Kat Jungnickel, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
  * prof. Sarah T. Roberts, UCLA, USA

As technologies evolve, our relationship to the technological world 
changes, and so should our methods of studying the world around us. The 
methods we use to conduct research matter in understanding what can be 
studied, how the studies reflect the world, and how the groups we are 
studying (with) relate to academia. Internet research faces challenges 
in recruitment, data quality, practicality, and ethics, leading to 
questions about sampling bias, data truthfulness, and other issues that 
require creative solutions. We need to question and challenge many of 
the dominant approaches and find ways to reimagine methods that fit 
contemporary research challenges. Research methods need to evolve with 
the world, respect its diversity and be open to inventive ways to 
involve research participants in knowledge co-creation.

Creative research methods can be methods that draw on creative 
self-expressions of research participants or researchers, including 
visual, text, sound, and materials. They may also involve creative use 
of technologies as part of the research process and outcome – apps, 
mash-ups, data visualisations, APIs, etc. In addition, creative methods 
can encompass transformative approaches, including participatory, 
speculative, artistic, worldbuilding, decolonising, activist and 
community-based research approaches that are designed to reduce the 
power imbalances and include diverse voices in academic research. Mixed 
and hybrid methods that challenge researchers to question the 
paradigmatic assumptions of their work may also be understood as 
creative research practices.

In the spirit of challenging established academic traditions, the 
symposium invites scholars interested in method-related discussions to 
join us in imagining and co-creating methods for a new era of internet 
research.

We invite individual abstracts for papers, performances, spoken word 
pieces or artistic creations that highlight creative research methods or 
focus on the process of creating new methods. Please submit an abstract 
no longer than 300 words, five keywords and a
short bio (including contact details) by March 25, 2026.

The symposium will charge a fee of 500 SEK (~47 EUR/~56 USD/~41 GBP) 
that will cover lunches and coffee, and AoIR will also sponsor dinner 
for symposium participants. If you do not want to share any work but 
would still like to be part of the symposium, you can also sign up as a 
participant after March 15. PhD students and early-career scholars are 
particularly welcome, and AoIR will provide some fee waivers for the 
early-career scholars (available at a later stage when registration opens).

Submit your contribution to the symposium: Imagining and Co-creating 
Methods for Internet Research AoIR Flashpoint Symposium at Malmö – Fill 
out form 
<https://forms.office.com/e/yzLEg9T0fb>(https://forms.office.com/e/yzLEg9T0fb 
<https://forms.office.com/e/yzLEg9T0fb>)

*Important dates:*

Deadline for abstract submission: March 30, 2026

Registration opens March 15, 2026

Notification of acceptance: mid-April, 2026

Deadline for registrations June 15, 2026

Symposium in Malmö 11-12 August, 2026

More information about Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and 
Co-Creating Futures: 
https://mau.se/en/research/research-centres/imagining-and-co-creating-futures/ 
<https://mau.se/en/research/research-centres/imagining-and-co-creating-futures/>

The Symposium organiser is prof. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

(contact: (pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt /at/ mau.se) 
<mailto:(pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt /at/ mau.se)>), The scientific committee 
includes Prof. Andra Siibak and prof. Julia Velkova.

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