Algorithms, resistance, and the global information crisis: prefiguring alternative data futures in the tech industry?

Thomas Wright

The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

REPELLENT MUSK? RETHINKING SOCIAL MEDIA MIGRATION

Nathaniel Tkacz¹, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo², Fangzhou Zhang²

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

#YourSlipisShowing: Afroskepticism and Black Resistance to Digtial Disinformation

Kevin Winstead

University of Florida, United States of America

From Controversy to Codification: Post Lee-Luda AI Ethics and Sociotechnical Imaginaries of South Korea

Jiwon Jenn Oh¹, Jane Pyo²

1: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2: University of Massachusetts at Amherst

TIKTOK’S AI HYPE - CREATORS’ ROLE IN SHAPING (PUBLIC) AI IMAGINARIES

Vanessa Richter

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

AI AS “UNSTOPPABLE” AND OTHER INEVITABILITY NARRATIVES IN TECH: ON THE ENTANGLEMENT OF INDUSTRY, IDEOLOGY, AND OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURES

Zhasmina Tacheva¹, Sarah Appedu¹, Mirakle Wright²

1: Syracuse University, United States of America; 2: University of Colorado Denver, United States of America

“A.I. IS HOLDING A MIRROR TO OUR SOCIETY”: LENSA AND THE DISCOURSE OF VISUAL GENERATIVE AI

Kate Miltner

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

The Entrepreneurial Gaze: On the Subjectivity of the Tech Elite

Robert Dorschel

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Policing Immigrant Indebtedness on Social Media: Navigation of Gratitude, Political Subjectivation, and ‘Surveillance from Home’.

Limichi Okamoto

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Predictions of the Self: AI and The Political Economy of Subjectivation

Luciano Frizzera

Concordia University, Canada

The elite among users: Identity formation of vendors and customers on darknet drug trade sites

Piotr Siuda

Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Craft and the Digital Industries

Kylie Jarrett¹, Alessandro Gandini², Giulia Giorgi², Gaia Casagrande², Adam Arvidsson³, Roberto Graziano³, Vincenzo Luise³, Luca Recano³, Arianna Petrosino³, Viriya Sawangchot⁴, Siriporn Somboonboorana⁴, Camilla Volpe³, Maitrayee Deka⁵

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: University of Milan, Italy; 3: University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 4: Walailak University, Thailand; 5: University of Essex, UK

Sextech Industries and Cultures: Towards Mediated Pleasures and Data Justice

Zahra Stardust^1,6, Kath Albury^2,6, Jenny Sundén³, Jenny Kennedy^4,6, Emily van der Nagel⁵, Caitlin Learmonth^2,6

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 3: Södertörn University, Sweden; 4: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; 5: Monash University, Australia; 6: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI AS PLATFORM: INFRASTRUCTURES, POWER, AND THE AI INDUSTRY

Fernando N. van der Vlist¹, Anne Helmond², Dieuwertje M. R. Luitse¹, Bernhard Rieder¹, Sam Hind³, Max Kanderske⁴

1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 4: University of Siegen, Germany

MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY, AND POLITICIZATION IN DIGITALLY MEDIATED SCIENCE

Rod Abhari¹, Lai Ma², Jodi Schneider³, Simone Tosoni⁴, Zachary Loeb⁵

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: University College Dublin, Ireland; 3: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 4: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; 5: Purdue University, United States of America

GROOMERS, ‘TITTIES’, & STREAMERS, OH MY!: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF ANDROCENTRIC PLATFORM GOVERNANCE ON TWITCH

Brandon C. Harris¹, Jessica Maddox²

1: University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States of America; 2: University of Alabama

RECONTEXTUALIZING VIOLENCE IN REAL TIME: LIVE STREAMING & THE GOVERNANCE OF INCONSISTENCY ON TWITCH.TV

Brandon C. Harris¹, Christine H. Tran², Christopher J. Persaud³

1: University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States of America; 2: University of Toronto; 3: University of Southern California

BREAKING THROUGH THE NOISE: MONETIZED STRUCTURES OF VIEWER VISIBILITY AND INTIMACY IN LIVESTREAMING

Celeste Wyn Wyn Oon

University of Southern California, United States of America

Visibility in the Shadows: Tips in Mainstream vs. Niche Streaming on Chaturbate

Emilija Jokubauskaitė, Stijn Peeters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Digital Platform Industries and Climate Governance: A New Frontier for Platform Power

Emily Elizabeth West

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

Do you see what I see? Emotional reaction to visual content in the online debate about climate change

Luca Rossi¹, Alexandra Segerberg², matteo magnani², Luigi Arminio¹

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Uppsala University

TRACING THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC PATTERNS OF POLARIZATION IN THE FACEBOOK DEBATE ON CLIMATE ACTION

Luigi Arminio, Luca Rossi

IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

How TikTok shapes the capacity for climate communication: an app walkthrough of TikTok through the lens of climate change

Keara Caitlyn Martina Quadros

The University of Melbourne, Australia

NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL WAVE: THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF ORDINARY ELDERLY SHORT VIDEO CREATORS IN CHINA

Yingwen Wang

London College of Communication, United Kingdom

Older Adults’ Responses to Misinformation on Social Media

Annalise Baines¹, Eszter Hargittai²

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Automating Eldercare? Visions, problems, and expertise in the “Age Tech” Industry

Elizabeth Nixon Fetterolf

Stanford University, United States of America

Latet anguis in herba: unveiling ageism of generative AI

Juan Linares-Lanzman, Andrea Rosales

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

LLMs and the generation of moderate speech

Emillie de Keulenaar

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

ONLINE POSITIVE SOCIAL ACTIONS (OPSA) AS TECHNO-SOCIAL AFFORDANCES: A FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE DIGITAL SOCIALITY

Roni Danziger¹, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai²

1: Lancaster University, UK; 2: The Hebrew University, Israel

Auditing the Closed iOS Ecosystem: Is there Potential for Large Language Model App Inspections?

Jennifer Pybus¹, Signe Sophus Lai², Stine Lomborg², Kristian Sick Svendsen²

1: York University; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

DOES ALGORITHMIC CONTENT MODERATION RPOMOTE DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE? RADICAL DEMOCRATIC CRITIQUE OF TOXIC LANGUAGE AI

Dayei Oh¹, John Downey²

1: Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University

GOVERNING FROM BLACK TO WHITE: DISINFORMATION IN NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES

Seungtae Han, Brenden Kuerbis, Amulya Panakam

Georgia Institution of Technology, United States of America

Governing and defining misinformation: A longitudinal study of social media platforms policies

Christian Katzenbach¹, Daria Dergacheva¹, Vasilisa Kuznetsova¹, Adrian Kopps²

1: University of Bremen, Germany; 2: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany

The dark side of LLM-powered chatbots: misinformation, biases, content moderation challenges in political information retrieval

Joanne Kuai¹, Cornelia Brantner¹, Michael Karlsson¹, Elizabeth Van Couvering¹, Salvatore Romano²

1: Karlstad University, Sweden; 2: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

HEALTHY INFLUENCE? A CROSS-PLATFORM ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA HEALTH INFLUENCER CULTURES

Lisa Garwood-Cross

University of Salford, United Kingdom

First glass of wine in 8 months!: an examination of sober curious communities on TikTok

Kate Orton Johnson

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Content Creators vs The Healthcare Industry: A Case Study of the Techno-Cultural Authority of ADHD TikTok

Deanna Holroyd

The Ohio State University, United States of America

PERFORMING PREVIVORSHIP ONLINE: EXAMINING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ON TIKTOK

Hannah Ditchfield, Stefania Vicari

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

THE HUMMINGBIRDS: CLAIMING “DE-INFLUENCING” AS AN AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE

Mariah Wellman

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

“want boyfriend ❌❌❌”: Porn Bots, Authenticity and Social Automation on Instagram

Elena Pilipets¹, Sofia Caldeira², Ana Marta M. Flores³

1: University of Siegen; 2: Lusófona University; 3: NOVA University of Lisbon/University of Coimbra

“I’m An E-Commerce Streamer, Not Influencer” ——The Logistical Struggle For Performing Authenticity On Douyin

Shichang Duan

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Navigating The Digital Identity Industry

Emily van der Nagel

Monash University, Australia

Chat GPT’s Ingestion of News Content: Traffic, Revenue and Erasure of Journalistic Labor

Sangeet Kumar

Denison University, United States of America

A Sociology of Expectations: Understanding AI Hype in Journalism

Nadja Schaetz¹, Anna Schjøtt Hansen²

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

“ARG! THE WORLD DOESN’T FIT THE MODEL!”: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF HOW DATA SCIENCE PROJECTS DEVELOP AND NEGOTIATE WORLD MODELS IN THE NEWS INDUSTRY

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup¹, Jannie Møller Hartley²

1: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Roskilde University

Platformization Intermediaries: Optimizing News for Platforms in India

Simran Agarwal

LabEx ICCA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

HOW FACT-CHECKERS ARE BECOMING MACHINE LEARNERS: A CASE OF META’s THIRD PARTY PROGRAMME

Yarden Skop¹, Anna Schjøtt Hansen²

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

Sex as/and/on Social Media

Alexander Monea¹, Shaka McGlotten², Susanna Paasonen³, Jenny Sundén⁴, Katrin Tiidenberg⁵, Robert Jacobsson⁴

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: SUNY Purchase, United States of America; 3: University of Turku, Finland; 4: Södertörn University, Sweden; 5: Tallinn University, Estonia

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION

Thomas Poell¹, Tinca Lukan², Arturo Arriagada³, Ergin Bulut⁴, Zhen Ye⁵, David Nieborg⁶, Brooke Erin Duffy⁷, Tommy Tse¹, Jeroen de Kloet¹, Bruce Mutsvairo⁸, Sun Ping⁹, Tonny Krijnen⁵, Qian Huang¹⁰, David Craig¹¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 4: Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom; 5: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The; 6: University of Toronto, Canada; 7: Cornell University, United States; 8: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 9: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; 10: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; 11: USC Annenberg

What does a good internet look like, and how do we get there?

Helen Kennedy¹, Jean Burgess², Jack Qiu³, Rhia Jones⁴, Jonathan Corpus Ong⁵

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, UK; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 4: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Uk; 5: University of Massachusetts, USA

All politics is local: News influencers and audience engagement in local and state politics discourse dynamics on TikTok

Sebastian Svegaard, Samantha Vilkins

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

“OH, YOU MEAN… GAY?”: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS

Anthony Patrick Kelly

University College Dublin, Ireland

Influencer Creep in Parliament: Platform Pressures in the Visibility Labour of French MPs

Annina Claesson

Sciences Po/Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Boycott Wokeness, Shop like a Patriot: A Discursive Analysis of Conservative MLM Promotion on Instagram

Diana Casteel

University of Illinois at Chicago

“We’re having to eat poison, but we also get some nectar”: Censorship and surveillance in Indian queer digital cultures

Tanvi Kanchan

SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom

“I HAVE SEEN IT, HAVE YOU SEEN ME?”: THE LOGIC OF ENGAGEMENT ON UGANDAN LGBT+ ORGANIZATIONS DIGITAL PLATFORMS

Jakob Svensson¹, Anders Olof Larsson²

1: Malmo University, Sweden; 2: Kristiania University, Norway

Merging Queer Readings and Games: An Analysis of Co-Created Queer Narratives of Sidon and Link Through Play in Tears of the Kingdom

Kimberly Grace Dennin

University of California, Irvine, United States of America

Nostalgic Kinship: Young Queer Women's Search for Elders Online

Niamh White

Monash University, Australia

My Product, Your Green Choice: exploring the interplay between influencer’s sustainability communication and green marketing strategies on TikTok

Mael Bombaci, Francesco Nespoli

Università Lumsa, Italy

REUSE OF IT EQUIPMENT FOR SOCIAL GOOD

Jeanette D'Arcy¹, Rebecca Harris¹, Emma Stone²

1: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2: Good Things Foundation

Data Landfills: re-interpreting our understanding of data centre expansion and pollution within post-colonial Ireland

Dylan Murphy

University College Dublin, Ireland

The Digital Afterlife Industry

Paula Kiel³, Tal Morse^1,2, Edina Harbinja⁴, Katarzyna Nowaczyk- Basińska⁵

1: Hadassah Academic College, Israel; 2: Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK; 3: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK; 4: Aston Univerity, UK; 5: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), University of Cambridge, UK

ADDING TO THE PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR THE DIGITAL AFTERLIFE INDUSTRY (DAI)

Carrie O'Connell

The Univerisity of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

Educated users: Refining manners through social media corporate curriculums

Niall Docherty¹, Matías Valderrama Barragán²

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

Amateur Podcasts and Self-Narrativization: Personal Storytelling and Identity in Digital Pedagogy

Meghan Grosse, Sara Clarke-De Reza

Washington College, United States of America

ALL IVYS, NO SAFETIES: THE DRAMA OF COLLEGE DECISION REACTION VIDOES ON YOUTUBE

Bethany Monea

University of the District of Columbia, United States of America

PROTOTYPING AN EDTECH ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: TOWARDS TECHNICAL DEMOCRACY

Kevin Witzenberger¹, Teresa Swist², Kalervo Gulson²

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

Community PechaKucha and Demo Session: Gaps and Interoperability of Platform Governance Datasets

Dennis Redeker¹, Daria Dergacheva¹, Vanessa Richter², Paloma Viejo Otero¹, Fee Cohausz⁴, Ariadna Matamoros Fernández⁵, Nadia Jude⁵, Taylor Annabell⁶, Cătălina Goantă⁶, João Vieira Magalhães⁷, Adrian Kopps³, Christian Katzenbach^1,3

1: University of Bremen, Germany; 2: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 3: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany; 4: National Chengchi University, Taiwan; 5: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 6: Utrecht University, the Netherlands; 7: University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Imagining an attention economy: Advertising and content creation 2010 to 2015

Stephanie Angela Hill¹, Jeremy Shtern²

1: University of Leicester, United Kingdom; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Hairy industries: The politics of advertising hair products and services to South Africa on Facebook and Instagram

Marion Walton, Deborah Aderibigbe

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Algorithmic gossip in young people’s accounts of ‘unhealthy’ advertising on social media

Brady Robards¹, Nicholas Carah², Lauren Hayden², Amy Dobson³

1: Monash University, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia; 3: Curtin University, Australia

Connecting with Sports Fans: Gambling Marketing Strategies on Instagram

Tugce Bidav¹, Erin McEvoy², Aphra Kerr¹, Paul Kitchin²

1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: Ulster University, Northern Ireland

"I HAVE STOPPED CARING IF I SHOULD THINK BEFORE POSTING ONLINE": JOURNEY OF INDIAN WOMEN TO DIGITAL ACTIVISM AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Nivedita Chatterjee

University of Surrey, United Kingdom

THE HARMS OF AIRDROP MISUSE: TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF YOUNG WOMEN

Nicolette Little¹, Tom Divon²

1: University of Alberta; 2: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

It’s A Joke, Not A Dick. So Don’t Take It Too Hard”: Online Sexual Harassment In Indian Universities

Adrija Dey

University of Westminster, United Kingdom

TOXICITY & SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE: A framework for studying violence on social media platforms

Raquel Recuero¹, Camilla Tavares²

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

De-constructing ‘gender ideology’ myths on reproduction and digital storytelling through CDA: a case study of women’s NGOs social media engagement on Twitter and Facebook”

Carolina Oliveira Matos

City, University of London, United Kingdom

DOCUMENTING THE IMPACT OF ABORTION MYTHS ON HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND ADVOCATES

Rachel Elizabeth Moran, Julia Simoes, Taylor Agajanian, Izzi Grasso, Amanda Swarr, Anna Beers, Emma Spiro

University of Washington, United States of America

Cultures of Sex Advice: Examining TikTok Communities around Sexual Health in the US

Annika Pinch, Facundo Suenzo

Northwestern University, United States of America

Biometric Governmentalities: The Rise of Datafication and the Unique Health Identification Project in India

Faheem Muhammed M. P

Pondicherry University, India

VISUAL TRUST ON SOCIAL MEDIA – MEANING, MONEY AND MOTIVATION

Katrin Tiidenberg¹, Jaana Davidjants¹, Gillian Rose², Josie Hamper², Maria Schreiber³, Marius Liedtke³

1: Tallinn University, Estonia; 2: University of Oxford; 3: University of Salzburg

States, Platforms and AI

Lina Dencik¹, Stine Lomborg², Thomas Poell³, Mark Andrejevic⁴

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Copenhagen University, Denmark; 3: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 4: Monash University, Australia

VIRTUAL CELEBRITY INDUSTRIES IN EAST ASIA

Rachel Berryman¹, Crystal Abidin¹, Do Own Donna Kim², Seol Hwang³, Esperanza Miyake⁴

1: Curtin University; 2: University of Illinois at Chicago; 3: Chung-Ang University; 4: University of Strathclyde

Micro-Autoethnographies of Influencer Creep in the Academy

Christine H. Tran¹, Nelanthi Hewa¹, Brooke Erin Duffy², Jessica Maddox³, Carolina Are⁴

1: University of Toronto; 2: Cornell University; 3: University of Alabama; 4: Northumbria University

THE PHOTOJOURNALISTIC GIF: VISUAL JOURNALISM IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA

Sara Kopelman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

“Why does the air siren work?”: How Telegram Channels in Ukraine Use Open Source Data About Military Danger for Constructing Knowledge about the War

Kateryna Bystrytska

Rutgers University, United States of America

Stories from the Double Lockdown: Digital Liberty in Gaza during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yuval Katz

Loughborough University, United Kingdom

The Unfriending Performance: The Logic of Disconnective Action in Crises

Gregory Asmolov¹, Olga Logunova²

1: King's College London, United Kingdom; 2: King's College London, United Kingdom

Autonomy, Alienation And Algorithms: The Case Of Gig Workers On Digital Platforms In India

Aditya Singh, Raktima Kalita, Janaki Srinivasan, Balaji Parthasarathy, Bilahari Madhu, Meghashree Balaraj, Mounika Neeruokonda

International Insitute of Information Technology, India

PLATFORMED IDENTITY OF AYI: FEMALE MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE CHINESE GIG ECONOMY

Guanqin He, Koen Leurs

Utrecht University

Freelancing in the Digital Age: Understanding Fiverr within the Gig Economy

Jason Whalley¹, Volker Stocker², Christoph Lutz³

1: Northumbria University, UK; 2: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany; 3: BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

BEYOND PLATFORM CONTROL: GENDERED FRICTIONS IN FOOD DELIVERY WORK

Guanqin He¹, Yijia Zhang²

1: Utrecht University; 2: University of British Columbia

Endemic identities: Social media self-representation in “the long pandemic”

Chelsea Paige Butkowski

American University, United States of America

Pandemic Pals: Online Communities of Mutual Aid in India

Dyuti Jha, Jeremy David Foote

Purdue University, United States of America

“They will destroy Telegram” – Narratives of platform censorship in the German-speaking COVID-19 conspiracy community on Telegram

Ricarda Drüeke, Corinna Peil, Charlotte Spencer-Smith

University of Salzburg, Department of Communication Studies, Austria

The offline strikes back: complicating the role of digital technologies in Covid-19 mutual aid activism

Elisabetta Ferrari

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

RESEARCHING YOUTH PERSPECTIVES – GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN NON-FORMAL DIGITISED EDUCATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

Eva M. Bosse, Amelie Wiese, Nadia Kutscher

University of Cologne, Germany

Researching the EdTech industry for children: Methodological reflections on a design-based approach

Xinyu Zhao¹, Rebecca Ng², Chris Zomer¹, Gavin Duffy¹, Julian Sefton-Green¹

1: Deakin University, Australia; 2: University of Wollongong, Australia

The Platformization of Private Tutoring and the Making of Technopreneurs in Education

Hany Zayed

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

VIRTUAL BODIES: YOUNG PEOPLE’S SELFIE-EDITING AND BODY-TECHNOLOGY RELATIONS

Julia Coffey¹, Amy Shields Dobson², Akane Kanai³, Rosalind Gill⁴, Niamh White³

1: University of Newcastle; 2: Curtin University; 3: Monash University; 4: City University London

INSTAGRAM CLOSE FRIEND STORIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AMONG LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE

Paul Byron

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Tinder for teens: An in-depth exploration of youth intimate cultures and sexual and gender-based violence on Snapchat

Betsy Milne¹, Jessica Ringrose¹, Tanya Horeck², Kaitlynn Mendes³

1: University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Anglia Ruskin University; 3: Western University

Getting Industrious With Others: Workshop(s) on Creative and Crafty Public Engagement Methods

Annette N. Markham¹, Katrina Jungnickel², Mary Elizabeth Luka³, Kishonna L. Gray⁴, Larissa Hjorth⁵

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2: Goldsmiths University, UK; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: University of Kentucky, United States; 5: RMIT University, Australia

Protocols of Whiteness: Universalism, Individualism, and Control in the AT Protocol

Sarah Florini

Arizona State University, United States of America

A People's Community Control of Technology: A Historical Analysis of Decolonial Tech Advocacy

Brooklyne Gipson

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

Stuff (is something) White People Like: On White Prototypicality of Facebook

Sean Rutherford McEwan

UNC, United States of America

PLATFORMIZATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF DARK INDUSTRY OF MOBILITY AND SMUGGLING

Kaarina Nikunen¹, Sanna Valtonen²

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Tampere University, Finland

Breadwinner or breadmaker: Contradictions in tradwives' creator labor, religious vernacular, and aesthetics

Roxana Mika Muenster, Margaret E. Foster

Cornell University

Ambivalent Affective Labour, Datafication of Qing and Danmei Writers in the Cultural Industry

Liang Ge

King's College London, United Kingdom

ERROR 404: SEX WORKER DIGITAL TACTICS RESISTING ENFORCED INVISIBILITY

Nicole Veronica Bush¹, Christianna Clark²

1: Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, United States of America; 2: Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, United States of America

The Collective Individualism of YouTube Makeup Reviews

Blake Hallinan, Tommaso Trillò, Saki Mizoroki, Rebecca Scharlach, Pyung Hwa Park, Avishai Green, Limor Shifman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TikTok ‘Dogshows’ and the Amplification of Online Incivility Among Gen Z Influencers in the Philippines

Samuel Idris Cabbuag^1,2, Crystal Abidin³

1: Hong Kong Baptist University; 2: University of the Philippines Diliman; 3: Curtin University

FAVELA AESTHETICS: DIGITAL INFLUENCERS IN BRAZIL CONTESTING INSTAGRAM VISUAL CULTURES

Issaaf Karhawi¹, Anderson Lopes da Silva²

1: Universidade Paulista (UNIP), Brazil; 2: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

The Professionalisation of Networked and Refracted Misogyny in the Case of Estonian Misogynist Influencers

Kaarel Lott, Maria Murumaa-Mengel

University of Tartu, Estonia

(Re)Attaching Life, Body and Memory Through Breonna’s Garden in Augmented Reality

Alisa Hardy

University of Maryland, United States of America

FROM #BODYPOSITIVE TO #WEIGHTLOSSJOURNEY – EXPLORING WEIGHT LOSS NARRATIVES WITHIN THE FAT COMMUNITY

Ella Maria Holi

University of Bergen, Norway

‘You cannot expect such validation in real life:’ Historical continuities and change in women’s romancing with AI chatbot Replika

Iliana Depounti, Paula Saukko

Loughborough University, United Kingdom

“YOU WILL BLOOM IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO WATER YOURSELF:” A CONTENT AND THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF #INSTAGRAMVSREALITY IMAGES AND CAPTIONS ON INSTAGRAM

Meaghan Furlano, Kaitlynn Mendes

Western University, Canada

EXPLORING APPIFICATION

Fernando N. van der Vlist¹, Anne Helmond², Esther Weltevrede¹, Michael Dieter³, Stefanie Duguay⁴, Iain Emsley³, Fangzhou Zhang³, Anthony Glyn Burton⁵, Christopher Dietzel⁴, Eric Filice⁶, Diana C. Parry⁶, Corey W. Johnson⁷

1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Warwick, United Kingdom; 4: Concordia University, Canada; 5: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 6: University of Waterloo, Canada; 7: North Carolina State University, United States

Controversies, Problematic Information, and Polarisation: Case Studies across Six Countries

Axel Bruns¹, Marco Bastos², Otávio Vinhas², Raquel Recuero³, Felipe Soares⁴, Laura Iannelli⁵, Giada Marino⁶, Danilo Serani⁷, Augusto Valeriani⁸, Tariq Choucair¹, Sebastian Svegaard¹, Laura Vodden¹, Daniel Whelan-Shamy¹, Alia Azmi¹, Jennifer Stromer-Galley⁹

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 3: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 4: University of the Arts London, London, UK; 5: University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; 6: University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy; 7: University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; 8: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 9: Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

Global South Creator Cultures

Tugce Bidav¹, Smith Mehta², Arturo Arriagada³, Wangari Njathi⁴, Wilson Karis⁶, Cecilia Ka Hei Wong⁵, Suren Nora⁷, Kaye Bondy⁸

1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: University of Groningen, the Netherlands; 3: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 4: Pepperdine University, United States; 5: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 6: New York University, USA; 7: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA; 8: University of Leeds, UK

FAIRNESS IN THE WORK BEHIND THE AI INDUSTRY: HOW ACTION-RESEARCH APPROACHES CAN BUILD BETTER LABOUR CONDITIONS

Jonas Chagas Lucio Valente, Funda Ustek Spilda, Oguz Alyanak, Lola Brittain, Mark Graham

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

THE SUPPLY CHAIN CAPITALISM OF AI: A CALL TO (RE)THINK ALGORITHMIC INFRASTRUCTURE FROM BELOW AND ON THE LEFT

Ana Valdivia

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

SIMULATING SUBJECTIVITY - BAUDRILLARD AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LLMS

Sebastião Quelhas Freire

University College Dublin, Portugal

Behind the Science at the European Spallation Source: from back stage technicians to front stage data professionals

Katherine Harrison

Linkoping University, Sweden

UTILITY OF INDUSTRY- PROVIDED SOCIAL MEDIA DATA FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES: A SYSTEMATIC AUDIT OF TIKTOK’S API FOR RESEARCHERS

Jessica Yarin Robinson¹, George Pearson², Nathan Silver², Mona Azadi², Jennifer Kreslake²

1: University of Oslo, Norway; 2: Truth Initiative, Washington, D.C.

A study of industry influence in the field of AI research

Glen Berman¹, Kate Williams², Eliel Cohen³

1: Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; 2: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 3: King's College London, Strand, United Kingdom

Research GenAI: Situating Generative AI In The Scholarly Economy

Peta Mitchell¹, Michelle Riedlinger¹, Jake Goldenfein², Aaron Snoswell¹, Jean Burgess¹

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

Unpacking Expertise in the Privacy Tech Industry

Rohan Grover

University of Southern California, United States of America

THE DIGITAL INDUSTRY OF EDUCATION: SHAPING SCHOOLING THROUGH EDTECH

Meenakshi Mani¹, Gavin Duffy², Carlos David Ortegón Banoy³, Michelle Ciccone⁴, Ted Palenski⁵

1: University of Edinburgh, UK; 2: Deakin University, Australia; 3: KU Leuven, Belgium; 4: UMass Amherst, USA; 5: University of Glasgow, UK

EXPERIENCE GAMES: YOUTH PLAY AND THE ONLINE ‘LADDERS’ OF CREATIVE PARTICIPATION

Darshana Jayemanne¹, Sara Grimes², Seth Giddings³

1: Abertay University; 2: University of Toronto; 3: University of Southampton

Getting Girls into Games: The White Spatial Imaginaries of Nancy Drew Digital Play

Reem Hilu

Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America

HOW DO THE DIVERSE DRIVERS OF CHILDREN’S (6-12) DIGITAL PLAY MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL GAMES AND CHILDREN’S SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING?

Fiona Louise Scott

The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF K-POP DANCE CHALLENGES: CHILDREN’S K-POP DREAM, INTERNET STARDOM, AND CUTE LABOR IN THE EVOLVING CULTURE INDUSTRY

Jin Lee

Curtin University, Australia

A Minimum Digital Living Standard For UK Households With Children

Simeon Yates¹, Katherine Hill², Chloe Blackwell², Emma Stone³, Abigail Davis², Matt Padley², Gianfranco Polizzi¹, Jeanette D'Arcy¹, Rebecca Harris¹, Elinor Carmi⁴, Alexander Singleton¹, Supriya Garikipati⁵, Paul Sheppard⁶, Zi Ye¹

1: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2: University of Loughborough, United Kingdom; 3: Good Things Foundation, United Kingdom; 4: City University, United Kingdom; 5: University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland; 6: Critical Research, United Kingdom

WhatsApp, diaspora youth and ‘digital brokerage’ in transnational family and community contexts

Amelia Faith Johns

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia

DECOLONISING THE INTERNET: EXPERIENCES OF (CYBER)BULLYING AND DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS FOR YOUTH OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN ATHENS

Kainaat Maqbool, Tsaliki Liza

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

GENDER, INTIMACY, AND DIGITAL PRACTICES: INSIGHTS INTO ITALIAN TEENAGERS' EXPERIENCES

Francesca Comunello¹, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli², Lorenza Parisi³, Vittoria Bernardini²

1: Sapienza University of Rome; 2: University of Padova; 3: Link Campus University

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND PROMPTS: TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES

Jing Han, Andrew Iliadis

Temple University, United States of America

Digital Dancing: The Ontology and Ownership of Dance Online

Hetty Blades, Vipavinee Artpradid

Coventry University, United Kingdom

Under the Feet of Shadows: an arts-based speculative inquiry into Ireland’s data industries

EL Putnam

Maynooth University, Ireland

Tapping the "untapped resource": How twentieth-century industrial priorities have shaped contemporary new media art practices

Roopa Vasudevan

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

SCROLL, PRINT, ALGORITHMICALLY CLUSTER: A CO-ANALYSIS APPROACH TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN USERS, PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMIC MODELS ON INSTAGRAM

Nicholas Carah, Maria-Gemma Brown, Rani Tesiram, Hine Kahukura, Lisa Enright, Kiah Hawker

The University of Queensland, Australia

Mixed Feelings: the platformisation of moods and vibes

Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Theorising toggling: being pushed and moved by UI

Simiran Lalvani

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Jewish Entrepreneurial Labor Tiktok: Navigating Visibility, Education, And Algorithmic Harm

Tom Divon¹, Jess Rauchberg², Jessica Maddox³

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2: Seton Hall University; 3: University of Alabama