Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 18/Oct/2023
8:00am
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4:00pm
Registration
Location: HGSC 200 entrance area
8:30am
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12:00pm
189: Building an Alternative Social Media Network
Location: HGSC 217A
 

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

265: AI-systems for the public interest
Location: HGSC 200B
 

AI-systems for the public interest at the AoiR2023

Theresa Züger, Hadi Asghari

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

ECR: Early Career Researcher Workshop
Location: HGSC 217B
Chair: Ludmila Lupinacci

Organizers:

Eedan Amit-Danhi, University of Groningen

Ludmila Lupinacci, University of Leeds

Florence Madenga, University of Pennsylvania 

 
8:30am
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4:30pm
325: Workshop on Responsible Recommender Systems
Location: HGSC 200A
 

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

328: Image Analysis Workshop
Location: HGSC 217C
 

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

457: The Social Moving Image
Location: HGSC 217D
 

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

DC: Doctoral Colloquium
Location: HGSC 200C
Chair: Adrienne Massanari
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: HGSC 200D
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm
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4:30pm
139: Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
Location: HGSC 200B
 

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

315: The future of conspiracy
Location: HGSC 217B
 

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

428: 20 Years of Situational Analysis
Location: HGSC 217A
 

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

 
2:30pm
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3:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: HGSC 200D
4:30pm
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6:30pm
Registration
Location: Mitten Hall
5:00pm
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6:15pm
Opening Reception
Location: Mitten Hall
6:30pm
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8:00pm
2023 KEYNOTE: Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture
Location: TPAC
Date: Thursday, 19/Oct/2023
8:00am
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4:45pm
Registration
Location: Wyeth Foyer
8:30am
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10:00am
183: Digital infrastructures and environmental justice: policies, practices, and visions
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
 

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

430: Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy
Location: Whistler A
 

Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy

Tama Leaver1,2, Kate Mannell1,3, Anna Bunn1,2, Gavin Duffy1,3, Rebecca Ng1,4, Andy Zhao1,3

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

627: Revolutionary Models for Collaborative Data Archives
Location: Wyeth C
 

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

P12: COVID-19
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Steve Jones
 

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

P16: Extremism
Location: Homer Room
Chair: Natalie-Anne Hall
 

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

P23: Influencers 1
Location: Wyeth B
Chair: Kai Prins
 

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

P2: ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF PLATFORM-DEPENDENT EXPRESSION
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Brendan Daniel Mahoney
 

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

P33: Misinformation 1
Location: Wyeth A
Chair: Pawel Popiel
 

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

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

P42: Privacy and Anonymity
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
Chair: Jošt Bartol
 

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

10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee break
Location: Wyeth Foyer
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

320: Using Interpretive Methods to Study Credibility Evaluation of Online Information
Location: O'Keefe Room
 

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

383: Revisiting Key Concepts in Digital Media Research: Influence, Populism, Partisanship, Polarisation
Location: Wyeth C
 

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

437: Stitching Politics and Identity on TikTok
Location: Wyeth B
 

Stitching Politics and Identity on TikTok

Parker Bach1,2, Adina Gitomer3, Melody Devries4, Christina Walker5, Deen Freelon1,2, 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

476: Exploring the contextual complexities of violence on digital platforms: Intersections, impacts, and solutions
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
 

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

671: Digital Ethnography
Location: Homer Room
 

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

722: Algorithmic Resistances, Tactics, and the Body
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
 

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

P10: Collective Sensemaking
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Maria Schreiber
 

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

P28: Livestreaming
Location: Wyeth A
Chair: T.L. Taylor
 

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

P31: Memory and Activism
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Brooklyne Jewel Gipson
 

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

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch

Lunch on your own. Check out the Philly Guide for suggestions and info!

1:30pm
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3:00pm
312: Gender and Misinformation in Global Contexts
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
 

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

379: Latinx Internet Studies
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
 

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

521: AoIR Ethics 1: Emergent Challenges
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Ylva Hård af Segerstad
 

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

593: Dispatches from the early internet: histories, imaginaries, and archaeologies
Location: Wyeth C
Chair: Kevin Driscoll
 

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

602: Visibility Economies: Platform Labor across cultures, communities, and contexts
Location: Wyeth B
 

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.

699: Infrastructures of Manipulation
Location: Wyeth A
 

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

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

P26: Journalism 1
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Silvia de Freitas DalBen Furtado
 

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 Bastos1,2

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

P29: LGBTQIA+ Internet Studies
Location: Homer Room
Chair: Bryce J Renninger
 

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

P6: Analyzing Big Data
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Daniel Angus
 

“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

3:00pm
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3:30pm
Coffee break
Location: Wyeth Foyer
3:30pm
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5:00pm
184: Reparative Media: Revolutionary Storytelling and Its Enemies in a Streaming Era
Location: Wyeth B
 

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

255: Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa: Complexities, Ambivalences, and Contextual Realities
Location: Homer Room
 

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

473: Internet Subjectivities
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
 

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

484: The Revolution Will be Mobile
Location: Hopper Room
 

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

576: Histories.biz: Reassessing Internet Economies
Location: Wyeth A
 

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

P14: Datafication
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Soyun Ahn
 

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

P25: Intimacies
Location: Wyeth C
Chair: Krysten Nicole Stein
 

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

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

P7: Archives and Memory
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
Chair: Mel Stanfill
 

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

P9: Bots
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Do Own (Donna) Kim
 

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

6:00pm
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7:00pm
Reception
Location: Sonesta 2nd Floor
7:00pm
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8:30pm
Plenary Panel: Global Challenges to a “Green Revolution” for the Internet
Location: Wyeth Ballroom
Chair: Lauren E. Bridges
Date: Friday, 20/Oct/2023
8:00am
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4:30pm
Registration
Location: Wyeth Foyer
8:30am
-
10:00am
278: If Not, Else: Standards, Protocols, Networks and How They Make a Difference
Location: Homer Room
 

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

421: Misogyny, Survivorship, and Believability on Digital Platforms: Emerging Techniques of Abuse, Radicalization, and Resistance
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
 

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

461: Ideology and Affect in Political Polarization and Fandom Online
Location: Hopper Room
 

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

463: Thinking Small: Assessing the role of the micro in online engagement and invisible revolutions
Location: Wyeth B
 

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

525: AoIR Ethics 2: Platform & Pragmatic Challenges
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Ylva Hård af Segerstad
 

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

677: Ten Years of Crtitical Technocultural Discourse Analysis
Location: Wyeth C
 

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

P20: Health Data
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
Chair: Kath Albury
 

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

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

P51: Surveys
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Nicholas David Bowman
 

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 Bartol1,2, 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

P53: Work 1
Location: Wyeth A
Chair: Stephen Yang
 

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

10:00am
-
10:30am
Coffee break
Location: Wyeth Foyer
10:30am
-
12:00pm
172: Data, Privacy and Surveillance
Location: Wyeth C
 

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

305: Deepfakes, Generative Media, and Consent
Location: Wyeth A
 

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

442: GENDER AND MISINFORMATION: DIGITAL HATE AND HARASSMENT (Part II)
Location: Hopper Room
 

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

513: WEB HISTORIES IN THE MAKING: WEB ARCHIVES & THE LOGICS OF PRACTICE
Location: Wyeth B
 

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

552: High Reach Content Disclosures and Research Ethics
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
 

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)

P11: Conspiracies
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Daniel Malmer
 

“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

P13: Critical Race Internet Studies
Location: Homer Room
Chair: Catherine Knight Steele
 

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

P22: Inequalities
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Teresa Castro
 

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 Bartol1,3, 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

P5: AI
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
Chair: Thomas Poell
 

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

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

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch

Lunch on your own. Check out the Philly Guide for suggestions and info!

1:30pm
-
3:00pm
270: The Trouble with Online Humor
Location: Homer Room
 

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

462: AT THE FOREFRONT OF DIGITAL REVOLUTION: INTERRELATIONS OF TECH, WHITENESS, AND THE FAR RIGHT
Location: Wyeth C
 

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

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

P19: Harassment and Higher Ed
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
Chair: Kristin Gorski
 

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

P32: Methods and Research
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Gina Marie Sipley
 

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

P35: Misogyny
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Alexis de Coning
 

'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

P36: Mobile Platforms
Location: Wyeth A
Chair: Annika Pinch
 

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

P46: REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS: ABOLISH PRIVACY
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
Chair: Katherine Mackinnon
 

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

P48: Sex 1
Location: Wyeth B
Chair: Christopher Jahmail Persaud
 

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

 
3:00pm
-
3:30pm
Coffee Break
Location: Wyeth Foyer
3:30pm
-
5:00pm
432: When New Technologies Become Old
Location: Wyeth A
 

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

562: Anti-Critical Race Theory Movements
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
 

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

603: Screening Surveillance
Location: Wyeth C
 

Screening Surveillance

sava saheli singh

York University, Canada

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

P17: Games
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Sam Srauy
 

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

P18: Goverance
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
Chair: Tarleton Gillespie
 

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

P24: Influencers 2
Location: Wyeth B
Chair: David Craig
 

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

P30: Memes
Location: Homer Room
Chair: Saiyinjiya Saiyinjiya
 

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

P50: Smart farms, homes, and cities
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Scott W. Campebll
 

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

P55: Youth 1
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Amanda Lenhart
 

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

5:00pm
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6:30pm
Memorial: John Monberg Memorial
Location: Wyeth C
Chair: Holly Kruse
Date: Saturday, 21/Oct/2023
8:00am
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1:00pm
Registration
Location: Sonesta 2nd Floor
8:30am
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10:00am
453: WARTOK: NETWORKED SOUNDSCAPES OF MEMETIC WARFARE
Location: Wyeth C
 

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

687: Visualizing Attitudes to Data
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
 

Visualising Attitudes to Data: A Lego-based exploration

Alexander Hardy, Suzanne McClure, Simeon Yates

Liverpool University, United Kingdom

P15: Environmental Internet Studies
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Julian Posada
 

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

P38: Networks
Location: Homer Room
Chair: Asta Zelenkauskaite
 

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

P39: Pedagogy
Location: O'Keefe Room
Chair: Claire Bessant
 

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

P3: Advertising
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Christine H. Tran
 

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

P45: Resistance
Location: Wyeth A
Chair: Ari Stillman
 

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

P49: Sex 2
Location: Wyeth B
Chair: Lisa Jane Garwood-Cross
 

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

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

P56: Youth 2
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
Chair: Ysabel Gerrard
 

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

10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee break
Location: Wyeth Foyer
10:30am
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12:00pm
578: Digital memory, panedemic temporalities: Reflections on studying and storing crisis media
Location: O'Keefe Room
 

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

580: Whiteness and Technology
Location: Homer Room
 

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

P1: Activisms
Location: Whistler A
Chair: Lukas Hess
 

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

P27: Journalism 2
Location: Hopper Room
Chair: Axel Bruns
 

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

Azza El-Masri1,2, 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

P34: Misinformation 2
Location: Wyeth B
Chair: Jennifer Stromer-Galley
 

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

Miriam Milzner1,2, 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

P43: Publics
Location: Warhol Room (8th Floor)
Chair: Yena Lee
 

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

P44: Radicalization
Location: Benton Room (8th floor)
Chair: Fabio Giglietto
 

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

P47: Revolutions
Location: Wyeth C
Chair: Naciye Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen
 

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. Kamish1,2, Kayla Hilstob1,2

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

P52: TikTok
Location: Wyeth A
Chair: Zoë Glatt
 

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 Kerby1,2, Salvatore Romano2, Miazia Schueler1,2, 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

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

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch

Lunch on your own. Check out the Philly Guide for suggestions and info!

1:30pm
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3:00pm
AGM: Annual General Metting
Location: Wyeth Ballroom
7:00pm
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11:00pm
Conference Dinner: Reading Terminal Market "Walking" Banquet
Location: Reading Terminal Market

 
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