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

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

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.

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

THINKING SMALL: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF THE MICRO IN ONLINE ENGAGEMENT AND INVISIBLE REVOLUTIONS

Andrea Stanton¹, Dheepa Sundaram¹, Steven Vose², Nermin Elsherif³

1: University of Denver, United States of America; 2: University of Colorado, Denver, United States of America; 3: University of Amsterdam, Media Studies

WEB HISTORIES IN THE MAKING: WEB ARCHIVES & THE LOGICS OF PRACTICE

Johannes Paßmann¹, Lisa Gerzen¹, Martina Schories¹, Jessica Ogden², Emily Maemura³, Katherine MacKinnon⁴

1: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; 2: University of Bristol; 3: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; 4: University of Toronto

THESE GIRLS (STRIP) FOR THE CLOUT: EXPLORING ASPIRATIONAL, EMOTIONAL AND EROTIC LABOR OF BLACK WOMEN HIP-HOP ARTISTS ON ONLYFANS

Jabari Miles Evans

University Of South Carolina, United States of America

SEX ON ONLYFANS, ART ON INSTAGRAM: MAKING ‘BODY CONTENT’

Marissa Willcox, Rebecca Franco

The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Subverting logics, circumscribing ambivalences: Brazilian erotic content creators' uses of spam to antagonise the platformised workplace

Lorena Caminhas

University of São Paulo, Brazil

STRATEGIC (IN)VISIBILITY: HOW MARGINALISED CREATORS NAVIGATE THE RISKS AND CONSTRAINTS OF ONLINE VISIBILITY

Hanne Marleen Stegeman¹, Carolina Are², Thomas Poell¹

1: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2: Northumbria University, the United Kingdom

Public Indecency: The Privacy/Publicity Paradox and Sex Work on OnlyFans

Samantha James, Jamie Jelinek

The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

WOMEN REVOLUTIONISING MONEY?: INVESTIGATING MEANING-MAKING AND GENDER MESSAGING IN FEMALE-TO-FEMALE FINFLUENCING ON INSTAGRAM

Yuening Li¹, Lisa Garwood-Cross², Aphra Kerr¹

1: National University of Ireland, Maynooth; 2: University of Salford

THE RIGHT INFLUENCER AT THE RIGHT PRICE: JUDGMENT INFRASTRUCTURES AND THE MARKET FOR INFLUENCE

Thomas William Lewis MacDonald

Queen's University, Canada

“Getting paid to take care for the ones you love”: Social media influencing as a means for paid social reproduction labor

Tinca Lukan, Jožica Čehovih Zajc

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Manufacturing Influencers: The Revolutionary Roles of MCNs (multi-channel networks) in the Platform Economy

Fan Liang¹, Li Ji²

1: Duke Kunshan University; 2: Wuhan University

Branding the “Bandito Influencer”: Cross-Platform Visibility and Deviance in the Cases Of Er Brasiliano And 1727wrldstar

Nicola Bozzi¹, Stefano Brilli², Laura Gemini²

1: King's College London; 2: Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy

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

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