Building an Alternative Social Media Network

Jessa Lingel¹, Robert Gehl², Ashwin Nagappa³

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: York University; 3: Queensland University of Technology

AI-systems for the public interest at the AoiR2023

Theresa Züger, Hadi Asghari

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Workshop on Responsible Recommender Systems

Jean Burgess¹, Natali Helberger², Julian Thomas³, Sanne Vrijenhoek², Patrik Wikström¹, Stanislaw Piasecki², Nick Seaver⁴, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez¹, Jeffrey Chan³

1: Queensland University of Technology; 2: University of Amsterdam; 3: RMIT University; 4: Tufts University

Image Analysis Workshop

Ganaele Langlois¹, Matt Canute², Rory Sharp¹, Sasha Akhavi¹, Anthony Burton², Mel Racho¹, Craig Fahner¹

1: York University, Canada; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada

THE SOCIAL MOVING IMAGE: MEME ANALYSIS WITH TIKTOK METADATA

Lucia Bainotti¹, Elena Pilipets², Marloes Geboers¹, Stijn Peeters¹, Jason Chao²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: University of Siegen, Germany

Undergraduate Teaching Workshop

Holly Kruse¹, Kelly Boudreau²

1: Rogers State University, United States of America; 2: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, United States of America

The future of conspiracy: New epistemologies and imaginaries in scholarship

Zelly C Martin¹, Alice E Marwick², Yvonne M Eadon², Stephen C Finley³, Brooklyne Gipson⁴, Rachel Kuo⁴, Inga K Trauthig¹, Samuel C Woolley¹, Kamile Grusauskaite⁵

1: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 3: Louisiana State University, United States of America; 4: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 5: KU Leuven, Institute for Media Studies, Belgium

20 Years of Situational Analysis: Workshopping Methods for Mapping Complex Information Systems

Gabriel Pereira¹, Abel Guerra¹, Annette Markham², Aleesha Rodriguez⁴, Riccardo Pronzato³, ‪Ane Kathrine Gammelby⁵, Sophie Toupin⁶, Luke Heemsbergen⁷, Anthony McCosker⁸

1: London School of Economics, UK; 2: RMIT University, AU; 3: IULM University, IT; 4: QUT, AU; 5: Aarhus University; 6: Laval University; 7: Deakin University; 8: Swinburne University of Technology

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

If Not, Else: Standards, Protocols, Networks and How They Make a Difference

Tero Karppi¹, Britt Paris², Robert W. Gehl³, Corinne Cath⁴, Sarah Myers West⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Rutgers University, USA; 3: York University, Canada; 4: University of Delft, Netherlands; 5: AI Now Institute, USA

Misogyny, Survivorship, and Believability on Digital Platforms: Emerging Techniques of Abuse, Radicalization, and Resistance

Sarah Banet-Weiser¹, Kathryn Claire Higgins¹, Nelanthi Hewa², Debbie Ging³, Catherine Baker³, Maja Brandt Andreasen³, Azsaneé Truss¹

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: University of Toronto; 3: Dublin City University

Ideology and Affect in Political Polarization and Fandom Online

Sebastian Svegaard¹, Renee Barnes², Eloy Vieira³, Maria Clara Aquino³, Driele Ferreira³, Beatriz Blanco³, Adriana Amaral⁴, Cassia Schuch³, Kyle Moody⁵, Allegra Rosenberg⁶, Samantha Vilkins¹

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of the Sunshine Coast; 3: Unisinos University; 4: Universidade Paulista; 5: Fitchburg State University; 6: New York University

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

AoIR Ethics 2: Platform & Pragmatic Challenges

Michael Zimmer¹, Ylva Hård af Segerstad², Erin McInerney³, David Myles⁴, Martin Blais⁵, Nidhi Nellore¹, Anja Bechmann⁶, Lynge Møller⁶, Jessica Walter⁶

1: Marquette University, United States of America; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: Université de Strasbourg, France; 4: Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada; 5: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; 6: Aarhus University, Denmark

Ten Years of Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis

André Brock¹, Kevin Winstead¹, Ruth Tsuria², Rianna Walcott³, Sananda Sahoo⁴, Raila Melo⁵, Jingyi Gu⁶, Sacha Nicole Sharp⁹, Melanie Vidakis⁷, Jessica Rauchberg⁸

1: Georgia Tech, United States of America; 2: Seton Hall University, USA; 3: University of Maryland - College Park, USA; 4: University of Western Ontario, Canada; 5: University of Brasilia, Brazil; 6: University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, USA; 7: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 8: McMaster University, Canada; 9: Indiana University, USA

Care-less data pop cultures: An investigation of the data imaginaries and data cultures of the pandemic

Jeehyun Jenny Lee¹, Jin Lee²

1: University of Washington, United States of America; 2: Curtin University, Australia

Reproductive Health Apps and Empowerment – A Contradiction?

Beatrice Tylstedt, Helga Sadowski, Lina Eklund, Maria Normark

Uppsala University, Sweden

Care, Inc.: How Big Tech responded to the end of Roe

Zelly C Martin, Dominique A Montiel Valle, Samantha Shorey

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

THE POLITICS OF PLATFORM IMAGINARIES

Vanessa Richter, Thomas Poell

University of Amsterdam, Germany

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

Where in society will AI agents fit? A proposed framework for understanding attitudes toward AI occupational roles from theoretical perspectives of status, identity, and ontology

Ekaterina Novozhilova¹, Mays Kate², Dongpeng Huang¹, Hongchan Lee¹, James Katz¹

1: Boston University, College of Communication; 2: Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

ANTECEDENTS OF PRIVACY PROTECTION BEHAVIORS AT THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEVELS

Jošt Bartol^1,2, Vasja Vehovar¹, Andraž Petrovčič¹

1: Centre for Social Informatics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Evaluating ADM – citizen attitudes towards automated decision-making across three domains and three welfare regimes

Anne Kaun¹, Anders O Larsson², Anu Masso³

1: Sodertorn University, Sweden; 2: Kristiania University College; 3: Tallinn Tech

FROM NOVEL HYPE TO HYBRID MEDIUM - CITIZENS’ USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN FIVE DANISH ELECTION CAMPAIGNS 2007-22

Jakob Linaa Jensen

Aarhus University, Denmark

DEALING WITH RISK ON MERCADO LIBRE: THE VENTURE LABOR OF LATIN AMERICAN THIRD-PARTY SELLERS

Arturo Arriagada¹, Ignacio Siles²

1: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 2: Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Digital Labor under the state/capitalist duopoly: State labor and playful workaholics in Chinese digital space

Qingyue Sun

Drexel University, United States of America

THE IT CROWD MEETING THE WORLD ON STACK EXCHANGE: PLACE-MAKING AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN MIGRATION DISCUSSIONS

Kateryna Kasianenko¹, Sam Hames², Earvin Cabalquinto³

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia; 3: Deakin University, Australia

Failing Fast: Startup Culture and the Silicon Valley Creep

Jenny L Davis

The Australian National University, Australia

The Emergent r/Antiwork Revolution and Managerial Allies

Ari Stillman

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Data, Privacy and Surveillance: Book Session

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre¹, Blayne Haggart², Alice Marwick³, Aram Sinnreich⁴, Natasha Tusikov⁵

1: University of Quebec In Montreal, Canada; 2: Brock University, Canada; 3: University of North Carolina, USA; 4: American University, USA; 5: York University, Canada

Deepfakes, Generative Media, and Consent

Graham Meikle¹, Sam Gregory², Anthony McCosker³, Katrin Tiidenberg⁴

1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: WITNESS; 3: Swinburne University, Australia; 4: Tallinn University, Estonia

GENDER AND MISINFORMATION: DIGITAL HATE AND HARASSMENT (Part II)

Narayanamoorthy Nanditha¹, Marie Hermanova², Rosella Rega³, Jennifer Henrichsen⁴, Sheila Babulal Lalwani⁵, Marília Gehrke⁶

1: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; 3: University of Siena; 4: Edward R. Murrow College; 5: University of Texas-Austin; 6: University of Groningen

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

High Reach Content Disclosures and Research Ethics

Anna Lenhart¹, Rebekah Tromble¹, Brandon Silverman⁴, Michael Zimmer², Sarah Gilbert³

1: Institute for Data Democracy and Politics, George Washington University; 2: Center for Data, Ethics, and Society, Marquette University; 3: Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University; 4: Former CEO & Co-Founder, CrowdTangle (acquired by Facebook)

“HERE’S WHAT I’VE FOUND”: VISUAL NARRATIVES AND MEDIA SURVEILLANCE PRACTICES ON ITALIAN TELEGRAM CONSPIRACY CHANNELS

Elisabetta Zurovac

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Reactionary Exiles. How Conspiracy Theorists Deal With Their Social Media Deplatforming

Kamile Grusauskaite¹, Jaron Harambam², Stef Aupers¹

1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conspirituality Capitalism: Yoga, Authenticity, and Whiteness on a Streaming Video Platform

Yvonne Eadon

Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America

Feminist queen or conspiracy theorist? Female spreaders of women's health disinformation

Zelly C Martin, Inga K Trauthig, Samuel C Woolley

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

MAKING BREAD FROM CRUMBS: THE DIGITAL ALCHEMY OF BLACK PODCASTS

Briana Nicole Barner

University of Maryland, United States of America

Whitexicans, or the Racial Politics of Digital Culture in Mexico

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Economies of Difference and Identity-based content on a Digital Platform: the case study of “Emily in Korea” on TikTok

Dasol Kim

SUNY New Paltz, United States of America

AMBIGUOUSLY BROWN: THE MYTH OF RACIAL AUTHENTICITY IN GENETIC ANCESTRY TESTING

S. Nisa Asgarali-Hoffman

College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

BUILDING FULL COVERAGE: ASIAN AUSTRALIAN IDENTITIES ON BEAUTY VLOGS

Tisha Dejmanee

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Practices and Participation of Marginalised Youth in Non-Formal and Digitalised Educational Arrangements

Eva Maria Bosse, Amelie Wiese

University of Cologne, Germany

TESTING THE ROLE OF CATEGORICAL AND RESOURCE INEQUALITIES IN INDIRECT INTERNET USES OF OLDER ADULTS: A PATH ANALYSIS

Marina Trkman¹, Bianca C. Reisdorf², Jošt Bartol^1,3, Andraž Petrovčič¹

1: Centre for Social Informatics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2: Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; 3: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

"I worked so hard, and I still didn't succeed”: Coding bootcamp experiences of people with disabilities

Kate Miltner¹, Gitit Kadar-Satat², Emily Ashton²

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

THE HASHTAG SYLLABUS AS CLASS ASSIGNMENT: FROM CRITICAL INFORMATION LITERACY TO CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Meghan Grosse, Sara Clarke-De Reza

Washington College, United States of America

Challenging AI Empire: Data Resurgence as Revolutionary Tactics for the Digital Age

Zhasmina Tacheva, Srividya Ramasubramanian

Syracuse University, United States of America

Another Horizon for Artificial Intelligence: An Inspiration to Live Well

Julian Posada

Yale University

Big AI: The Cloud as Marketplace and Infrastructure

Fernando N. van der Vlist, Anne Helmond, Fabian Ferrari

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The

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

THE TROUBLE WITH ONLINE HUMOR

Mahli-Ann Butt¹, Chris Muller², Benjamin Nickl³, Susanna Paasonen⁴, Jenny Sundén⁵

1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Sydney, Australia; 3: Macquarie University, Australia; 4: University of Turku, Finland; 5: Södertörn University, Sweden

AT THE FOREFRONT OF DIGITAL REVOLUTION: INTERRELATIONS OF TECH, WHITENESS, AND THE FAR RIGHT

Mathlida Åkerlund¹, Ralph Schroeder², Bharath Ganesh³, Jessie Daniels⁴, Eviane Leidig⁵

1: Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM), Umeå University, Sweden; 2: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, UK; 3: Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 4: Department of Sociology, Hunter College, USA; 5: Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University,The Netherlands

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

DISCONNECTED RESPONSES TO CONNECTED VULNERABILITIES? EXPERIENCES OF SCHOLARS FACING NETWORKED HARASSMENT

Beatrys Rodrigues

Cornell University, United States of America

ALGORITHMIC FOLK THEORIES OF ONLINE HARASSMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS ENABLE ONLINE HARASSMENT AND PREVENT INTERVENTION

Cait Lackey, Samuel Hardman Taylor

University of Illinois Chicago, United States of America

Bearing Witness: Capturing Stories of Research Harassment

Natalie Coulter¹, Alexandra Borkwoski², Marion Grant³

1: York University, Canada; 2: York University, Canada; 3: York University, Canada

‘It started with this one post’: the #MeToo revolution in higher education in India

Adrija Dey¹, Kaitlynn Mendes²

1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: Western University, Ontario

Beyond the Disruption: Digital Artist Residencies During and After the Pandemic

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Stefano Brilli, Laura Gemini, Francesca Giuliani

Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy

With or Without the Crowd? The influence of coder characteristics on coding decisions comparing crowdworkers and traditional coders.

Julia Niemann-Lenz¹, Anja Dittrich², Jule Scheper²

1: University of Hamburg, Germany; 2: Hanover University of Music, Drama, & Media

Using the media go-along with youth: Revolutions in practicing "offline" methods and understanding "at-risk" participants

Amber-Lee Varadi

York University, Canada

Scrolling, Shopping, Sewing: A Creative, Multi-Sited, Multi-Modal Ethnographic Method

Jimil Ataman

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

'It made me feel like an object': Gender and/on anonymous apps.

Ysabel Gerrard

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

EVERYDAY HATE ON FACEBOOK: VISUAL MISOGYNY AND THE ANTI-FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN INDIA

Anand Badola

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

TOXICITY AGAINST BRAZILIAN WOMEN DEPUTIES ON TWITTER: A CATEGORIZATION OF DISCURSIVE VIOLENCE

Camilla Tavares², Raquel Recuero¹

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Maranhão

EVERYDAY MISOGYNY: DISCOURSES ABOUT DEPP V HEARD ON TWITTER

Lucinda Nelson¹, Nicolas Suzor²

1: Queensland University of Technology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, QUT Digital Media Research Centre; 2: Queensland University of Technology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, QUT Digital Media Research Centre

Platformization in Nation Branding Processes

Sarah Elizabeth Edwards

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

THE PLATFORMIZED RHYTHMS OF URBAN NIGHTSCAPE: COORDINATING IN UNDERGROUND ELECTRONIC/DANCE MUSIC SCENES

Stephen Yang

Cornell University, United States of America

THEORIZING AND ANALYZING THE CONTINGENT CASINO

Alexander M Ross

University of Toronto, Canada

Dark design patterns and gamification as the heart of dating applications’ business models

Lene Pettersen, Faltin Karlsen

Kristiania University College, Norway

Super-appification: Conglomeration in the Mobile Ecosystem

Fernando van der Vlist¹, Anne Helmond¹, Michael Dieter², Esther Weltevrede³

1: Utrecht University, NL; 2: University of Warwick, UK; 3: University of Amsterdam, NL

THE ALGORITHMIC MODERATION OF SEXUAL EXPRESSION: PORNHUB, PAYMENT PROCESSORS AND CSAM

Maggie MacDonald

University of Toronto, Canada

PRIVACY IS A NEOLIBERAL ASSET

Elisha Lim

University of Pennsylvania, USA

PRIVACY AS HETERONORMATIVE FRAGILITY

Muna Udbi Ali

York University, Canada

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

When New Technologies Become Older: Lessons for Studying Silicon Valley from the Past

Robyn Caplan¹, Sophie Bishop², Elena Maris³, Ysabel Gerrard², Zoe Glatt⁴

1: Duke University, United States of America; 2: The University of Sheffield; 3: University of Illinois-Chicago; 4: London School of Economics

Anti-Critical Race Theory Movements: How do internet scholars respond?

Cindy Tekobbe¹, Dheepa Sundaram², Amber Buck³, Rosa Martey⁴

1: University of Illinois Chicago, United States of America; 2: University of Denver, United States of America; 3: University of Alabama, United States of America; 4: Colorado State University, United States of America

Screening Surveillance

sava saheli singh

York University, Canada

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

PLATFORM POWER, XR, AND THE METAVERSE: NEW CHALLENGES OR OLD STRUCTURES?

Joanne Elizabeth Gray¹, Morten Bay²

1: University of Sydney, Australia; 2: University of Southern California

Vicarious nostalgia? Playing retrogames fosters an appreciation for gaming history

Nicholas David Bowman¹, Megan Condis², Koji Yoshimura³, Emily Bohaty²

1: Syracuse University, United States of America; 2: Texas Tech University, United States of America; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Gaming Platforms as Chaotic Neutral?: Toxic Performance, Community Resistance, and Agonistic Potential

Philippa R Adams, Ben Scholl, Maria Sommers

Simon Fraser University, Canada

THE REAL HALFINGS OF WATERDEEP: THE INTERSECTION OF REALITY TELEVISION AND AUDIENCE MOTIVATION IN TABLETOP ROLE PLAYING ACTUAL PLAY

Andrew Phelps, Steven L Dashiell

American University, United States of America

Infrastructural Insecurity: Geopolitics in the Standardization of Telecommunications Networks

Niels ten Oever, Christoph Becker

University of Amsterdam - critical infrastructure lab

"YouTube Doesn't Care About Creators": How YouTubers Use the Platform to Promote Accountability

CJ Reynolds, Blake Hallinan

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Internet governance and moral entrepreneurs

Zachary McDowell¹, Katrin Tiidenberg²

1: University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America; 2: Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

Researching under platforms’ gaze: rethinking the challenges of platform governance research

Carolina Are

Centre for Digital Citizens, Northumbria University, United Kingdom

LIFESTYLE GOVERNMENTALITY IN CHINA: GOVERNING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CITIZEN SUBJECTS THROUGH LIFESTYLE PRACTICES ON XIAOHONGSHU (RED)

Ran Ju

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, 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

REVOLUTION BY OTHER MEMES: ONLINE SUBCULTURES, MODULAR IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL COMPASS

Marc Tuters, Gavin Mueller, Lucia Bainotti

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

The Rhetorical Circulation of Pepe the Frog: Exploring the Structure of Meme Rhetorical Ecology

Eva Jin

Arizona State University, United States of America

Magic in the Air: Memes, Magic, and the Internet

Shira Chess

University of GA, United States of America

Memes, multimodalities, and machines: Assembling multimodal patterns in meme classification study

Guangnan Zhu, Kunal Chand, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham

Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

The robot calls me even at night ….” - Smart farming as everyday practice in the countryside

Corinna Peil, Ricarda Drüeke

Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria

A River of Data Runs through It: Examining Urban Circulations in the Digital Age

Ryan Burns¹, Morgan Mouton²

1: University of Calgary, Canada; 2: Institut national de la recherche scientifique

EVOLVING SPATIALITIES OF DIGITAL LIFE: TROUBLING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SMART CITY/HOME DIVIDES

Miriam E. Sweeney¹, Casey Lynch²

1: University of Alabama, United States of America; 2: University of Twente, Netherlands

DEPLATFORMING THE SMART CITY: GIVING RESIDENTS CONTROL OVER THEIR PERSONAL DATA

Gwen Lisa Shaffer

California State University Long Beach, United States of America

DIMENSIONS OF DATA QUALITY FOR VALUES IN SMART CITIES DATAFICATION PRACTICES

Carl Chineme Okafor

University of Stavanger, Norway

We’ll Return After These Messages: A Content Analysis of Advertising in Children’s Podcasts

Kalia Vogelman-Natan, Breniel Lemley, Ellen Wartella

Northwestern University, United States of America

KIDTECH AND ROBLOX: HOW THE CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FRAMES KIDS AND TECHNOLOGY

Maureen Mauk¹, Natalie Coulter², Rebekah Willett¹

1: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America; 2: York University, Canada

DESIGNING ETHICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEMS WITH MEANINGFUL YOUTH PARTICIPATION: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS

Kanishk Verma¹, Tijana Milosevic², Brian Davis³, James O'higgins Norman⁴

1: DCU Anti Bullying Center, ADAPT Center, School of Computing, Dublin City University; 2: DCU Anti Bullying Center, ADAPT Center, Institute of Education, Dublin City University; 3: ADAPT Center, School of Computing, Dublin City University; 4: DCU Anti Bullying Center, Institute of Education, Dublin City University

EXPLORING PARENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF DARK DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN’S DIGITAL WELL-BEING

Claire Bessant¹, Laurel Aynne Cook², L. Lin Ong³, Alexa Fox⁴, Mariea Grubbs Hoy⁵, Pingping Gan⁶, Emma Nottingham⁷, Beatriz Pereira⁶, Stacey Steinberg⁸

1: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: West Virginia University; 3: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; 4: University of Akron; 5: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 6: Iowa State University; 7: University of Winchester, United Kingdom; 8: Levin College of Law, University of Florida

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