WARTOK: NETWORKED SOUNDSCAPES OF MEMETIC WARFARE

Elena Pilipets², Marloes Geboers¹, Tom Divon³, Marcus Bösch⁴, Dariia Delavar-Kasmai¹, Marc Tuters¹, Boris Noordenbos¹, Richard Rogers¹, Xiaoke Zhang⁵

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Siegen, Germany; 3: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israël; 4: University of Münster, Germany; 5: Renmin University of China

Visualising Attitudes to Data: A Lego-based exploration

Alexander Hardy, Suzanne McClure, Simeon Yates

Liverpool University, United Kingdom

AUTHENTIC OVER ACCURATE: UNDERSTANDING THE ECOLOGY OF CLIMATE PROTEST, POLICY, AND DISASTER ON TIKTOK, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR NEWS AND EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS

Ryland Shaw

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Outsourcing Environmental Damage: The Life Cycle of Digital Eco-Imperialism

Sebastian Lehuede¹, Ana Valdivia²

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Mineral exploration in indigenous lands: The discursive normalization of illegal mining in Brazil

Taiane de Oliveira Volcan

Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil

Theorizing Environmental Mediation through Ireland's Peatlands

Patrick Brodie

University College Dublin, Ireland

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL ATTENTION ON SUBREDDIT COMMUNITY PRACTICES: THE CASE OF /R/HONGKONG

Dmitry Kuznetsov¹, Milan Ismangil²

1: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands

INVITATION TO LISTEN: MAPPING CLUBHOUSE’S EARLY INVITE-ONLY SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORK

Cindy Fang, Andrew Iliadis

Temple University, United States of America

FOOL ME TWICE: (HOW) CAN WE PREVENT THE FEDIVERSE FROM SUCKING?

Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide

American University, United States of America

GROUPS ARE EASY, FEDERATING IS HARD

James J Brown

Rutgers University, United States of America

Dark Patterns and Pedagogy: Expanding Scholarship and Curriculum on Manipulative Marketing Practices

Mathew Iantorno, Dan Guadagnolo, Adrian Petterson

University of Toronto, Canada

Exploring How U.S. K-12 Education Addresses Privacy Literacy

Priya Kumar, Lily Hyde

Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Vernacular Pedagogies for the synthetic media age

Anthony McCosker¹, Luke Heemsbergen²

1: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: Deakin University, Australia

BELIEFS, VALUES AND EMOTIONS IN PRACTITIONERS’ ENGAGEMENTS WITH LEARNING ANALYTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Itzelle Medina Perea¹, Jo Bates¹, Monika Fratczak¹, Helen Kennedy¹, Erinma Ochu²

1: The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: University of the West of England Bristol

Rainbows without queers: Representation of LGBTQIA+ members in fashion luxury brands’ social media.

Anthony Duane Washington Jr., Ruth Tsuria

Seton Hall University, United States of America

Get With The Program: Programmatic Advertising and the Datafication of Podcast Audiences

John L. Sullivan

Muhlenberg College

Platforms, Power & Advertising: Analysing relations of dependency in the digital advertising ecosystem

David Nieborg¹, Thomas Poell²

1: University of Toronto; 2: University of Amsterdam

THE AFTER PARTY: CYNICAL RESIGNATION IN ADTECH’S PIVOT TO PRIVACY

Lee McGuigan¹, Sarah Myers West², Ido Sivan-Sevilla³, Patrick Parham³

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: AI Now Institute; 3: University of Maryland

Exploring Facebook’s “Why Am I Seeing This Ad” Feature: Meaningful Transparency or Further Obfuscation?

Daniel Angus¹, Jean Burgess¹, Nicholas Carah², Lauren Hayden², Abdul Obeid¹

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: The University of Queensland, Australia

Pushing back: Digital resistance as a sensitizing concept

Stéphane Couture¹, Sophie Toupin², Guillaume Latzko-Toth³

1: Université de Montréal, Canada; 2: Concordia University, Canada; 3: Université Laval, Canada

Data Representation as Epistemological Resistance

Rahul Bhargava

Northeastern University, United States of America

Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal Strategies

Jonathan Zong¹, J. Nathan Matias²

1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: Cornell University, United States of America

Technological Practices of Refusal: Radical Reimagination in M Eifler’s Computational Prosthetics

Emma May

Rutgers University, United States of America

CONSTRUCTING AND MARKETING SEXUAL FANTASY: ANALYZING THE SOCIAL MEDIA OF SEX ROBOTS

Annette Marie Masterson

Temple University, United States of America

Surveillance as Entertainment: the Commodification and Subversion in Peer Surveillance of Sexual Content on Chinese Digital Platforms

Lizhen Zhao

umass-amherst, United States of America

Rethinking the social in social media

Susanna Paasonen¹, Jenny Sundén², Katrin Tiidenberg³, Maria Vihlman¹

1: University of Turku, Finland; 2: Södertörn University, Sweden; 3: Tallinn University, Estonia

INGENIUS CRIP SEX ON THE INTERNET: DISABILITY, DESIRE, SEXUAL CULTURES, AND THE VIRTUAL

David Adelman

University of Michigan, United States of America

Fever Dreams and the Future of Nostalgia on TikTok

Viki Conner

University of Illinois - Chicago, United States of America

Transplatform Affordances of Nigeria’s Contemporary Feminist/Queer Activisms: Perspectives from a Budding Feminist Activist-Scholar/Hashtag Archivist

Ololade Faniyi

Bowling Green State University, United States of America

“HERE TO HAVE FUN AND FIGHT ABLEISM”: #AUTISKTOK USER BIOS AS NEUROQUEER MICRO-ACTIVIST PLATFORM AFFORDANCES

Jessica Sage Rauchberg¹, Meryl Alper², Ellen Simpson³, Josh Guberman⁴, Sarah Feinberg⁵

1: McMaster University, Canada; 2: Northeastern University, United States of America; 3: University of Colorado at Boulder, United States of America; 4: University of Michigan, United States of America; 5: Tufts University, United States of America

THE VALUE AFFORDANCES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT FEATURES

Rebecca Scharlach, Blake Hallinan

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

The fediverse and agonistic pluralism; how do Mastodon’s affordances shape social norms?

Nathalie Van Raemdonck

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Discussing health without adults – youth voices in peer-led discussions on teenagers’ subreddits

Martyna Gliniecka

Western Sydney University

Postdigital Teens: Gender, Violence, and Relationships Online

Jessica Ringrose², Kaitlynn Mendes¹, Tanya Horeck³, Betsy Milne²

1: Western University, Canada; 2: University College London, UK; 3: Anglia Ruskin University, UK

_even more_ complicated: the networked lives of teenagers in a context of exclusion in Brazil

André Cardozo Sarli

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Climate Anxiety as a Lens into Young People's Political Expression on YouTube

Ioana Literat¹, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik²

1: Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America; 2: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL

Maria José Brites¹, Teresa Sofia Castro¹, Margarida Maneta¹, Andreia Pinto de Sousa²

1: Lusófona University, CICANT; 2: Lusófona University, HEI-Lab

Digital memory, pandemic temporalities: Reflections on studying and storing crisis media

Chelsea Paige Butkowski¹, Aparajita Bhandari², Frances Corry¹, Adetobi Moses¹

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: Cornell University, United States of America

Whiteness and Technology

Jessie Daniels¹, André Brock², Sarah Florini³, Nikki Stevens⁴

1: Hunter College, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; 3: Arizona State University, United States of America; 4: Dartmouth College, United States of America

Who relates to whom and according to which rationale? Stratification and meaning negotiation in the Ugandan LGBT+ organization ecology on Twitter

Jakob Svensson¹, Anders Olof Larsson², Cecilia Strand³

1: Malmo University, Sweden; 2: Kristiania University College, Norway; 3: Uppsala university, Sweden

Digital Activism in the Diaspora: The Aftermath of the Arab Spring on the Arab Gulf Oil states

Ahmad Sami Almulla

Ministry of Information - State of Kuwait, Kuwait

IF ONLY WE COULD HAVE NICE THINGS: HOW TWITTER ENABLED A REIMAGINING OF POLICING THROUGH THE 2020 PROTEST MOVEMENT OF #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE

Sharon Meraz

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

#StopMenstrualShaming: Xiaohongshu Users’ Online Advocacy for Women’s Issues in China

Yuejie Gu, Ying Yang, Saiyinjiya ., Wanyu Wu, Qingyun Chen, Siqi Chen, Ioana Literat

Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America

Lodging Complaint Against Platform Power: How Lebanese Journalists and Activists Contest Gender-based Violence on WhatsApp

Azza El-Masri^1,2, Martin J. Riedl¹, Inga K. Trauthig¹

1: Center for Media Engagement; 2: School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin

The Great Reset: “Counterpower” in the context of media concentration and platform dependence

Theresa Josephine Seipp

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Twiplomacy and the War: Untangling networked practices of Russian diplomats during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Miriam Milzner^1,2, Litvinenko Anna¹

1: Free University Berlin, Germany; 2: Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, Germany

EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES ON FACEBOOK AND TELEGRAM: UNCOVERING MEDIA MANIPULATION AND “GET-RICH-QUICK” DECEPTIVE SCHEMES

Massimo Terenzi

University of Urbino, Italy

TOWARD TRAUMA-INFORMED MISINFORMATION STUDIES: A CASE STUDY OF DEPP V. HEARD

Izzi Grasso, Anna Lee Swan, Lauren Weingarten

Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington

Unraveling Disinformation: Examining the Human Infrastructure of Misinformation in Brazil through the lens of Heteromation

David Nemer¹, William Marks²

1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: Harvard University, United States of America

Networked Publics and Digital Imaginaries

Joe Khalil¹, Mohamed Zayani²

1: Northwestern University Qatar; 2: Georgetown University in Qatar

Equality through exclusion? Towards a new conceptualization of democratic exclusion in the context of digital public venues

Malin Charlotte Holm

Uppsala University, Sweden

Civic participation in China: A comparative study between WeChat and Douyin as a democratic arena

Hui Lin

King's College London, United Kingdom

RADICALIZATION WITH STEFAN MOLYNEUX: FANDOM AND FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM ON YOUTUBE

Daniel Jurg¹, Maximilian Schlüter²

1: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark

BLACK PILL ICONOGRAPHY: A LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS OF THE VISUAL RHETORIC OF INCEL SUBCULTURE

Debbie Ging¹, Stephane Baele², Lewys Brace², Shane Murphy¹, Simone Long²

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: University of Exeter

Using “Small Data” to Map How Men’s Rights Came Online (Work-in-Progress)

Alexis de Coning

West Virginia Wesleyan College, United States of America

From ideology to infrastructure: Understanding the construction of Alt-Tech through the discourse of Epik, Inc.

Brendan Daniel Mahoney

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Revolutionary Discourses in a Time Capsule: A Historiographical Analysis of Canonical, Intellectual Literature concerning the Social Impact and Significance of the Internet.

Nathalie Fridzema, Susan Aasman, Rik Smit, Tom Slootweg

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

Digital Labor and Rentier Platform Capitalism: Reform or Revolution?

D. W. Kamish^1,2, Kayla Hilstob^1,2

1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: Digital Democracies Institute

Behold the Metaverse: Facebook’s Meta Revolution and the Circulation of Elite Discourse

Brent Lucia¹, Matthew Vetter², Isaac Adubofour³

1: The University of Conneticut, United States of America; 2: Indiana University of Pennsylvania; 3: Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Trending Resistance: A study of the TikTok #deinfluencing phenomenon.

Lucia Bainotti

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

TIKTOK AND THE UKRAINIAN WAR: THE RISE OF WAR INFLUENCERS AND MEMETIC METHODS OF STORYTELLING

Tom Divon¹, Moa Eriksson Krutrök²

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Umeå university, Sweden

What do "sides" of TikTok mean anyway? BookTok, assemblages, and the curation of taste

Jessica Maddox, Fiona Gill

University of Alabama, United States of America

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TIKTOK: AN OBSERVATORY ON CROSS-NATIONAL CONTENT PRIORITIZATION AND PLATFORM-MEDIATED PROXIMITIES

Natalie Kerby^1,2, Salvatore Romano², Miazia Schueler^1,2, Davide Beraldo¹

1: University of Amsterdam; 2: AI Forensics

Dear baby gays: Investigating the sociotechnical practices of older LGBTQ+ TikTok users

Stefanie Duguay, Özgem Elif Acar, Hannah Jamet-Lange

Concordia University, Canada

(Re)Locating platform power in the gig economy

Niels van Doorn

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

AN URBAN COMMUNICATION APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING FOOD DELIVERY WORK IN NEW YORK CITY

Jeffrey Lane, Sabrina Singh

Rutgers University, United States of America

Human Values behind Algorithmic Management

Angela Li

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Can Ghost Work Become Good Work? Digital Labor and Organizational Culture in a Tech Startup

Benjamin Shestakofsky

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Unplatforming Data Annotation Labor

Julie Yujie Chen

University of Toronto, Canada