Dear community members, Is it your first AOIR at Sheffield? You’re not alone! Join us for the First Timers Meet-Up on day one of the conference—October 31st, during lunchtime. Grab your lunch box from The Octagon (our daily lunch spot) and head over to the INOX Lounge Area—just a short 2-minute walk down the corridor. Don’t worry; the directions will be clear during the day! The plan is to hang out for an hour before the afternoon sessions—a chill chance to connect and chat with friendly faces. Look out for me, Tom Divon (AoIR's PhD representative), and Ludmila Lupinacci (from the University of Leeds) for more details. We fully recognize the magnitude of this conference, with its vast array of panels and people. It can certainly feel overwhelming at first—but rest assured, everyone is navigating this shared experience together. So come hang out, meet others like you, and make some new friends! Also, if you feel lost or confused—before or during the conference—please drop me a message at +972547532681 (WhatsApp) or reach out on Twitter (@divon.tom) Welcome to your new (AoIR) family! Tom and Ludmila -- *Tom Divon* Media & Culture R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> *Publications*: Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>. Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377439020_Playful_publics_on_TikTok_The_memetic_Israeli-Palestinian_war_of_CHALLENGE> . #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>. Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 Seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/> TikTok(ing) Ukraine: Meme-based Expressions of Cultural Trauma on Social Media <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moa-Eriksson-Krutroek/publication/378460815_TikToking_Ukraine_Meme-based_Expressions_of_Cultural_Trauma_on_Social_Media/links/65d9f11be7670d36abda037e/TikToking-Ukraine-Meme-based-Expressions-of-Cultural-Trauma-on-Social-Media.pdf> Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation & Anti-publics <https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/17/18> Performing Death and Trauma? Participatory Mem(e)ory and The Holocaust In TikTok #POVchallenges <https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995> visit my web! https://tomdivon.com/