Digital infrastructures and environmental justice: policies, practices, and visions

Janna Frenzel¹, Sophie Toupin¹, Jenna Ruddock², Jen Liu³, Fieke Jansen⁴, Shawna Finnegan⁵, Jennifer Radloff⁵

1: Concordia University, Canada; 2: Harvard Kennedy School, USA; 3: Cornell University, USA; 4: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 5: Association for Progressive Communication

Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy

Tama Leaver^1,2, Kate Mannell^1,3, Anna Bunn^1,2, Gavin Duffy^1,3, Rebecca Ng^1,4, Andy Zhao^1,3

1: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child; 2: Curtin University; 3: Deakin University; 4: University of Wollongong

Revolutionary Models for Collaborative Data Archives

Megan A. Brown¹, Libby Hemphill², Cameron Hickey³, J. Nathan Matias⁴, Kaiya Soorholtz⁵, Josephine Lukito⁵

1: Center for Social Media & Politics; 2: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Social Media Archive (SOMAR); 3: National Conference on Citizenship; 4: CATlab; 5: Center for Media Engagement

Different Platforms, Different Plots? The Kremlin-Controlled Search Engine Yandex as a Resource for Russia’s Informational Influence in Belarus During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Daria Kravets, Anna Ryzhova, Florian Toepfl, Arista Beseler

University of Passau, Germany

TECHNO-POLITICAL PROMISES OF PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT: A SITUATION OF APPS AND EXCEL IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Monique Mann¹, Luke Heemsbergen¹, Catherine Bennett¹, Anthony McCosker²

1: Deakin University, Australia; 2: Swinburne University, Austrlia

Epistemologies of Missing Data: COVID Data Builders and the Production and Maintenance of Marginalized COVID Datasets

Youngrim Kim¹, Megan Finn²

1: Rutgers University, United States of America; 2: American University

COMPARING THE ROLE OF PARLER AND TWITTER IN THE BUILD-UP TO THE JANUARY 6th INSURRECTION ON THE U.S. CAPITOL

Shawn Walker, Michael Simeone, Ben Gan

Arizona State University, United States of America

THE INSURRECTIONIST PLAYBOOK: JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRAZIL

Marco Bastos¹, Raquel Recuero²

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: Universidade Federal de Pelotas

ONE HUNDRED NAZI SCREENS: INTERFACES AND THE STRUCTURE OF U.S. WHITE NATIONALIST DIGITAL NETWORKS ON TELEGRAM

Reed Van Schenck

University of Pittsburgh, United States of America

Confessions of Influencer Shopaholics: ‘Deinfluencing’ and the Neoliberal Logics of Consumer Citizenship on TikTok

Aidan Moir

University of Windsor

Communicating care - Healing, therapy and influencer practices on social media

Maria Schreiber¹, Natalie Ann Hendry²

1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: University of Melbourne, Australia

The rise of the health influencer: interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment influencers as digital peer-educators

Lisa Jane Garwood-Cross, Anna Mary Cooper-Ryan, Ben Light, Cristina Mihaela Vasilica

University of Salford, United Kingdom

THE RANCH MALIBU: OPERATIONALIZING WELLNESS TOURISM ON TIKTOK

Mariah L Wellman, Eloise Germic

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

The politics of platform exceptionalism(s): How food-delivery platforms conceal their control over workers in China and the United States

Jiacheng Liu

Penn State University, United States of America

“Would You Date a Maid?”

Krittiya Kantachote

Srinakharinwirot University

SOVEREIGNTY: THE PARADOXICAL RELATIONSHIP OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS IN SINGAPORE

Elisha Lim

University of Pennsylvania

The infrastructural power of programmatic advertising networks: analyzing disinformation industries in Brazil

Marcelo Alves Dos Santos JR¹, Carlos D'Andrea²

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

‘BATTLING’ BAD ACTORS OR ‘INOCULATING’ AGAINST FALSITY? A POLICY ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM REPRESENTATIONS OF MISINFORMATION IN AUSTRALIA

Nadia Jude

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

RECOVERING MISINFORMATION’S MISSING CHILDREN: APPROPRIATING REANALYSIS FOR SELF-REFLEXIVITY IN CRITICAL MIS/DISINFORMATION STUDIES

Izzi Grasso, Anna Lauren Hoffmann

University of Washington

Revealing coordinated image-sharing in social media: A case study of pro-Russian influence campaigns

Guangnan Zhu¹, Timothy Graham¹, Daniel Whelan-Shamy¹, Robert Fleet²

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Digital Observatory, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

ALGOSPEAK AND ALGO-DESIGN IN PLATFORMED BOOK PUBLISHING: REVOLUTIONARY CREATIVE TACTICS IN DIGITAL PARATEXT TO CIRCUMVENT CONTENT MODERATION

Claire Parnell

University of Melbourne, Australia

PLATFORM PR – THE PUBLIC MODERATION OF PLATFORM VALUES THROUGH TIKTOK FOR GOOD

Rebecca Scharlach

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Global Content Moderation on YouTube: A Large-Scale Comparative Analysis of Channel Removals Across Countries, Time, and Categories

Adrian Rauchfleisch², Jonas Kaiser^1,3

1: Suffolk University, United States of America; 2: National Taiwan University, Taiwan; 3: Harvard University

Mental Health and the Digital Care Assemblage: Moderation practices & user experiences

Anthony McCosker, Jane Farmer, Peter Kamstra

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Moderating (Through) Emotions: Technologies of Content Mood-eration and the Shifting Foundations of Speech Governance

João C. Magalhaes¹, Holly Avella²

1: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2: Rutgers University, United States of America

A LIFESTYLE OF SECRECY: THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS' PRIVACY PROTECTION

Lukas Hess, Eszter Hargittai

University of Zurich, Switzerland

YIK YAK IS BACK: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF HYPERLOCAL ANONYMITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Dannah Dennis

Social Science Research Council, United States of America

AUTOMATED FACIAL RECOGNITION AND MASS INDIVIDUALIZED GOVERNANCE

Mark Andrejevic, Neil Selwyn, Chris O'Neill, Gavin Smith, Xin Gu

Monash University, Australia

BODIES, GENDERS, PLEASURES AND SEXTECH: RESEARCH AND DESIGN WITH/FOR COMMUNITIES

Kath Albury¹, Oliver Haimson², Jenny Kennedy³, Maya Mundell⁴, Jenny Sundén⁵

1: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Michigan; 3: RMIT University; 4: Cornell University; 5: Södertörn University

Using Interpretive Methods to Study Credibility Evaluation of Online Information

Pranav Malhotra¹, Natalie-Anne Hall², Andrew Chadwick², Brendan Lawson², Cristian Vaccari², Louise Stahl³, Yiping Xia⁴

1: University of Washington, USA; 2: Loughborough University, UK; 3: University of Ottawa, Canada; 4: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Revisiting Key Concepts in Digital Media Research: Influence, Populism, Partisanship, Polarisation

Axel Bruns¹, Anja Bechmann², Marina Charquero-Ballester², Jessica G. Walter², Jennifer Stromer-Galley³, Brian McKernan³, Fabio Giglietto⁴, Nicola Righetti⁵, Anna Stanziano⁴, Tariq Choucair¹, Katharina Esau¹, Sebastian Svegaard¹, Samantha Vilkins¹

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Datalab – Center for Digital Social Research, Aarhus University, Denmark; 3: Syracuse University, USA; 4: University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy; 5: Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria

Stitching Politics and Identity on TikTok

Parker Bach^1,2, Adina Gitomer³, Melody Devries⁴, Christina Walker⁵, Deen Freelon^1,2, Julia Atienza-Barthelemy⁶, Brooke Foucault Welles³, Diana Deyoe⁵, Diana Zulli⁵

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 3: Northeastern University, United States of America; 4: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 5: Purdue University, United States of America; 6: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Exploring the contextual complexities of violence on digital platforms: Intersections, impacts, and solutions

Esteban Morales¹, Tom Divon², Martin Lundqvist³, Nour Halabi⁴

1: University of British Columbia, Canada; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Lund University, Sweden; 4: University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Digital Ethnography: Reassembling, reimaging, and reinterpreting the social

Elisabetta Ferrari¹, Jeff Lane², Jessa Lingel³, Fernanda R. Rosa⁴, Amy Ross Arguedas⁵

1: University of Glasglow; 2: Rutgers University; 3: University of Pennsylvania; 4: Virginia Tech; 5: University of Oxford

Algorithmic Resistances, Tactics, and the Body

Dora Bartilotti¹, Helen Thornham², Piren Benavidez Ortiz³, Edgar Gómez Cruz⁴, Laura Nieves³, Leonardo Aranda¹, Marlin Nexzaura Velasco³, Joanne Armitage²

1: Medialabmc, Mexico; 2: School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 3: Electrohacedoras, Argentina; 4: School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Is it (Micro)Cheating? How Social Media Confound Assumptions in Romantic Relationships

Margaret E. Foster, Aspen K.B. Omapang, Marina Johnson-Zafiris

Cornell University, United States of America

“Are We Dating the Same Guy?”: Collective sensemaking as a moral responsibility in Facebook groups

Diana Michelle Casteel, Sarah Leiser, Zizi Papacharissi

University of Illinois at Chicago

Stable Science and Fickle Bodies: An Examination of Trust and the Construction of Expertise on r/Skincareaddiction

Cara Maria Carmel DeCusatis

University of Maryland, United States of America

COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING AND INTERSEMIOTIC DISSONANCE: A STUDY OF CRISIS DISCOURSE ON TIKTOK

Christy Khoury, Jeff Hemsley

Syracuse University, United States of America

Sisters Who Hustle: Inspirational Labor and Platformed Community of TikTok Live Shopping Streamers on Xiaohongshu

Jingyi Gu

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, United States of America

Resistance Live!: Historically Marginalized Content Creators and Their Organized Response to Hate Raids on Twitch.TV

Elizabeth Phipps

University of Maryland, United States of America

Amplifying affects: Synchronous chat and the attenuation of activism on Twitch

David Thomas Murphy, Joshua Levi Jarrett

Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

Bleeding Purple, Seeing Pink: Domestic Visibility, Gender & Social Reproduction in The Home Studios of Twitch.tv

Christine H. Tran

University of Toronto, Canada

When Is the Party Over?: An Oral History of Cryptoparties in New York City

Samuel DiBella

University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America

«I need you to...»: visibility and social protest in TikTok

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Elisabetta Zurovac, Valeria Donato

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

BREONNA’S GARDEN: A LIMINAL HOMEPLACE IN VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS

Alisa Hardy

University of Maryland, United States of America

*EXPLORING NIGERIA`S ENDSARS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE NEXUS OF MEMORY*

Silas Udenze

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Gender and Misinformation in Global Contexts

Yvonne Eadon¹, Marie Hermanova², Omneya M Ibrahim³, Edith Hollander³, Suay Melisa Özkula⁴, Terrin Rosen⁵

1: Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; 3: The University of Texas at Austin; 4: Università degli Studi di Trento; 5: Independent Researcher

Latinx Internet Studies

Yonaira Rivera¹, Julian Posada², Melissa Villa Nicholas⁷, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez⁵, Esteban Morales³, Joao Magalhaes⁴, Carlos Jimenez⁶, Lynn Schofield Clark⁶

1: Rutgers University, United States of America; 2: Yale University, United States of America; 3: University of British Columbia, Canada; 4: University of Groningen, the Netherlands; 5: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 6: University of Denver, United States of America; 7: University of Rhode Island, United States of America

AOIR Ethics 1: Emergent Challenges

Michael Zimmer¹, Ylva Hård af Segerstad², Sarah Ann Gilbert³, Kate Miltner⁴, Tim Highfield⁴, Huichuan Xia⁵

1: Marquette University, United States of America; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: Cornell University, United States of America; 4: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 5: Peking University, China

Dispatches from the early internet: histories, imaginaries, and archaeologies

Alexander Rudenshiold¹, Avery Dame-Griff², Liam MacLean³, Katie MacKinnon⁴

1: University of California – Irvine; 2: Gonzaga University; 3: Northeastern University; 4: University of Toronto

Visibility Economies: Platform Labor across Cultures, Communities, and Contexts

Arturo Arriagada¹, Sophie Bishop², Brooke Duffy³, Ashley Mears⁴

1: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 2: Sheffield University, UK; 3: Cornell University, U.S.; 4: Boston University, U.S.

Infrastructures of Manipulation

Andrew Iliadis¹, Francesca Tripodi², Aashka Dave³, Leslie Kay Jones⁴, Amelia Acker⁵, Heather Ford⁶

1: Temple University, United States of America; 2: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 3: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 4: Rutgers University, United States of America; 5: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 6: University of Technology Sydney, Australia

MOBILIZING ARAB TIKTOK FOR YOUTUBE: JUXTAPOSING GOOD AND BAD CRINGE CONTENT IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY TIMES

Heather Radwan Jaber

Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar

Potholes and Power: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of ‘Look At This F*ckin’ Street’ on Instagram

Alex Turvy

Tulane University, United States of America

#AverageYetConfidentMen: Chinese Stand-Up Comedy and Feminist Discourse on Douyin

Xingyuan Meng, Ioana Literat

Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America

PROACTIVE MEMEFICATION AND POLITICAL CATHARSIS: HOW ONLINE HUMOR PROMPTS POLITICAL EXPRESSION AMONG SUDANESE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS

Abubakr Abdelbagi

Teachers College, United States of America

The Trust Project: How to Train Your Algorithm

Robyn Caplan

Duke University, United States of America

THE ROLE OF NETWORKED GENERIC VISUALS IN ASSEMBLING PUBLICS

Helen Kennedy¹, Taylor Annabell², Giorgia Aiello³, Chris W Anderson³

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: Kings College London, United Kingdom; 3: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

The WEIRD governance of fact-checking: from watchdogs to content moderators

Otavio Vinhas¹, Marco Bastos^1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City, University of London, United Kingdom

Cruising TikTok: Using Algorithmic Folk Knowledge to Evade Cisheteronormative Content Moderation

Alexander Monea

George Mason University, United States of America

Hook-up apps complicate visibility for rural queer people: results of a qualitative scoping study in the United Kingdom

Richard Rawlings¹, Genavee Brown¹, Lynne Coventry², Lisa Thomas¹

1: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: Abertay University, United Kingdom

Exploring the Current Landscape of Trans Technology Design

Oliver L. Haimson

University of Michigan, United States of America

'If We Look at It from an LGBT Point of View…’ Mobilizing LGBTQ+ Stakeholders To Queer Algorithmic Imaginaries

David Myles¹, Alex Chartrand², Duguay Stefanie²

1: Institut national de la recherche scientifique; 2: Concordia University

“THIS TWEET IS UNAVAILABLE”: #BLACKLIVESMATTER TWEETS DECAY

Yiran Duan, Jeff Hemsley, Alexander O. Smith

Syracuse University, United States of America

Tracing Media Solidarities with Muslims: Contesting Islamophobia on Twitter

Elizabeth Poole¹, Ed de Quincey¹, Eva Giraud², John Richardson¹

1: Keele University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Mapping Tumblr Through Fannish Homophilies

Lauren Rouse, Mel Stanfill

University of Central Florida, United States of America

Mapping the political economy of social media manipulation

Fatima Gaw¹, Jon Benedik A. Bunquin², Jose Mari H. Lanuza³, Samuel I. Cabbuag², Noreen H. Sapalo², Al-Habbyel Yusoph⁴

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines; 3: University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America; 4: Bocconi University, Italy

Reparative Media: Revolutionary Storytelling and Its Enemies in a Streaming Era

Aymar J Christian², Patricia A Aufderheide¹, Antoine Haywood³, Jessica Clark⁴

1: American University, United States of America; 2: Northwestern University, United States of America; 3: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 4: Independent Scholar, United States of America

Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa: Complexities, Ambivalences, and Contextual Realities

Job Mwaura¹, Tamar Dambo², Ochega Ataguba³, Admire Mare⁴, Lusike Mukhongo⁵, Wallace Chuma³, Winston Mano⁶

1: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; 2: Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus; 3: University of Cape Town; 4: University of Johannesburg; 5: Western Michigan University; 6: University of Westminster

PANEL: INTERNET SUBJECTIVITIES

Laura Forlano¹, Trevor Jamerson², Emma Stamm³, Aram Sinnreich⁴, Jesse Gilbert⁵

1: Northeastern University; 2: Virginia Tech; 3: Farmingdale State College-SUNY; 4: American University, United States of America; 5: Dark Matter Media

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE MOBILE

Adriana de Souza e Silva¹, Jeffrey Boase², Scott Campbell³, Colin Agur⁴, Ragan Glover-Rijkse⁵

1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: University of Toronto, Canada; 3: University of Michigan, United States of America; 4: University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States of America; 5: Methodist University, United States of America

Histories.biz: Reassessing Internet Economies

Daniel Greene¹, Moira Weigel², Lin Zhang³, Elena Maris⁴

1: University of Maryland, United States of America; 2: Northeastern University, USA; 3: University of New Hampshire, USA; 4: University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

HACK YOUR AGE: OLDER ADULTS AS PROVOCATIVE AND SPECULATIVE IOT CO-DESIGNERS

Joe Bourne¹, Naomi Jacobs¹, Paul Coulton¹, Clare Duffy², Rupert Goodwins², Tom Macpherson-Pope³

1: Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: Civic Digits, United Kingdom; 3: Making Rooms, United Kingdom

Defending human rights in the era of datafication

Maria Normark¹, Karin Hansson², Mattias Jacobsson²

1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Södertörn University, Sweden

Affective datafication for you!: The evolution of platforms' repackaging of user data through the ritualised affect and aesthetics of Spotify Wrapped

Tim Highfield

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Exploitation and Platform Power

Daniel Susser

Penn State University, United States of America

THE INTIMACY TRIPLE BIND: STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES AND RELATIONAL LABOUR IN THE INFLUENCER INDUSTRY

Zoë Glatt

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom

#VLADDYDADDY ON TIKTOK: IMAGINED INTIMACY AND MEMETIC PARTICIPATION IN TIMES OF WAR

Tom Divon¹, Daniela Jaramillo-Dent², Alex Gekker³

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2: University of Zurich; 3: Tel Aviv University

An intimate revolution: digital practices of intimacy during COVID-19 and beyond

Jaime Garcia Iglesias, Brian Heaphy, Neta Yodovich

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Perils of Place: Geofences and Predatory Platform Intimacies

Rebecca Noone¹, Arun Jacob²

1: University College London; 2: University of Toronto

Perceived Entitlement and Obligation between TikTok Creators and Audiences

T.X. Watson

The Online Creators' Association, United States of America

The Impact of TikTok Policies on Information Flows during Times of War: Evidence of ‘Splinternet’ and ‘Shadow-Promotion’ in Russia

Salvatore Romano¹, Natalie Kerby^1,2, Miazia Schüler^1,2, Davide Beraldo², Ilir Rama³

1: AI Forensics, Europe; 2: University of Amsterdam, Nederlands; 3: University of Milano, Italy,

Policy Friction and Platforms' Politics of Scaling

Pawel Popiel

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE VIA AN “ANEMIC” POLICY REGIME? HOW BOUNDARY SPANNING, COMPETING ISSUE DEFINITIONS, LACK OF COHESION, AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAGMENTATION IMPEDE REGULATORY REFORM

Alexander Rochefort

Boston University, United States of America

ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS: CORE, IAHC, AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR EXPANDED GTLDS IN EARLY GOVERNANCE POLICY

Meghan Grosse

Washington College, United States of America

Who Watches The Birdwatchers? Creating A Rogue Archive Of Twitter’s Ongoing Collapse

Ben Tadayoshi Pettis

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

COMMEMORATING AS CRITICIZING: HOW LI WENLIANG’S WEIBO HOMEPAGE BECOMES A PLACE FOR QUESTIONING CHINA’S COVID-19 POLICIES AND A “WAILING WALL”

Bibo Lin

University of Oregon, United States of America

Revolutionizing Death: Solutionism and Closure in the Digital Beyond

Sarah Murray

University of Michigan, United States of America

Zombies in the Web Archive! Leaky Liveness and the Anachronism of Algorithmic Records

Megan Sapnar Ankerson

University of Michigan, United States of America

ARTIFICIAL LOVE: REVOLUTIONS IN HOW AI AND AR EMBODIED ROMANTIC CHATBOTS CAN MOVE THROUGH RELATIONSHIP STAGES

Tony Liao, Debriunna Porter, Elizabeth Rodwell

University of Houston, United States of America

THE IMPERIAL HAIKU COMMISSION APPROVES THIS MESSAGE’: AN EXAMINATION OF AUTOMATED PLAY AND CULTURE AS (RE)DESIGNED BY BOTS.   

Daniel Whelan-Shamy, Dominique Carlon

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Weizenbaum's Performance and Theory Modes: Lessons for Critical Engagement with Large Language Model Chatbots

Misti Yang¹, Matthew Salzano²

1: Vanderbilt University, United States of America; 2: Stony Brook University, United States of America

CALL THE (BOT-)POLICE – INSTAGRAM USERS’ ATTEMPT TO DETECT AND FIGHT AGAINST BOTTING AND FAKE ACCOUNTS

Nathalie Schäfer

Bauhaus University, Germany