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Location: Whistler B
Sonesta Hotel
Date: Thursday, 19/Oct/2023
8:30am
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10:00am
P37: Moderation
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Emillie de Keulenaar
 

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 Kaiser1,3

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

10:30am
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12:00pm
249: Bodies, Genders, Pleasures, and Sex Tech
Location: Whistler B
 

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
P21: Humor, Affect, and Politics
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Rebekah Willett
 

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

3:30pm
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5:00pm
P41: Policy
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Dmitry Kuznetsov
 

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

Salvatore Romano1, Natalie Kerby1,2, Miazia Schüler1,2, 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

Date: Friday, 20/Oct/2023
8:30am
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10:00am
P40: Platforms
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Maggie MacDonald
 

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Slime Tutorial: How Contradictory User Behaviors Reveal Platform Contradictions

M.R. Sauter, Nathan Beard, Edgar Lizardo

University of Maryland, United States of America



ALGORITHMS, AESTHETICS AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF CULTURAL CONSUMPTION ONLINE

Sara Bimo1, Aparajita Bhandari2

1: York University, Canada; 2: Cornell University, USA



The politics and evolution of TikTok as platform tool

Kaushar Mahetaji, David Nieborg

University of Toronto



‘NOT LIKE OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS’? BEREAL AND THE REMEDIATION OF LIVENESS IN THE PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT

Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

10:30am
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12:00pm
P8: Authenticity
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Adriana da Rosa Amaral
 

The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized: Negotiating Platformization Values and Social Justice in the Online Knitting Community

Megan L Zahay

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America



Exploring authenticity on the social media app BeReal

Ananya Reddy, Priya Kumar

Pennsylvania State University, United States of America



THE AUTHORITATIVE SHARE: HOW WELLNESS INFLUENCERS BALANCE AUTHENTICITY AND CREDIBILITY ON INSTAGRAM

Mariah L Wellman

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America



“Why I’ve Been Distant Lately”: The “Authentic” Persona, Reverse Parasocial Relationships, and the Perceived Need to Confess in YouTube Travel Vlogs

Kai Prins, Alicen Rushevics

University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America



Real But Fake, Real Because Fake: Technologically Augmented K-pop Idols and Meta-authenticity

Do Own {Donna} Kim

University of Illinois Chicago, United States of America

1:30pm
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3:00pm
598: Sound and Aurality: The ‘Deafspot’ of Internet Studies?: A conversation at the interstices of sound studies and critical internet studies
Location: Whistler B
 

Sound and Aurality: The ‘Deafspot’ of Internet Studies?: A conversation at the interstices of sound studies and critical internet studies

Andrew Herman1, Andrew Bottomley2, Holly Kruse3, Aram Sinnreich4, Anne MacLennan5

1: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 2: State University of New York-Oneata, USA; 3: Rogers State University, USA; 4: American University, USA; 5: York University, Canada

3:30pm
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5:00pm
605: After deplatforming: methods for retracing content moderation effects across platforms and a post-American Web
Location: Whistler B
 

AFTER DEPLATFORMING: RETRACING CONTENT MODERATION EFFECTS ACROSS PLATFORMS AND A POST-AMERICAN WEB

Emillie de Keulenaar1, João Magalhães1, Marcelo Alves dos Santos Junior2, Richard Rogers3

1: University of Groningen; 2: Pontifícia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro; 3: University of Amsterdam

Date: Saturday, 21/Oct/2023
8:30am
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10:00am
P4: Affordances
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Tim Highfield
 

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

10:30am
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12:00pm
P54: Work 2
Location: Whistler B
Chair: Daniel Greene
 

(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


 
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