Sexual Content Moderation

Alexander Monea¹, Carolina Are², Hanne Stegeman³, Rébecca Franco³, Zahra Stardust⁴

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 3: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4: Queensland University of Technology, Australia

NAVIGATING THE GRAY: THE ECONOMIC UNDERBELLY OF TIKTOK'S SIDE HUSTLES

Massimo Terenzi

University of Urbino, Italy

The Limits of Virality: Music Creators and Platform Negotiation in Later Stage TikTok

Alexandria Arrieta

University of Southern California, United States of America

Infrastructuring Trends: Templates, Samples, and the Making of the Short Video Format on TikTok

Stephen Yang

University of Southern California, United States of America

COMMERCIAL BREAKS ON INSTAGRAM STORIES: TELEVISION HERITAGE ON BRAZILIAN DIGITAL INFLUENCERS’ CONTENT AND IMPACTS ON AUTHENTICITY WORK

Issaaf Karhawi

Universidade Paulista (UNIP), Brazil

TO SCREENSHOT OR NOT TO SCREENSHOT? TENSIONS IN REPRESENTING VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM POSTS

Joseph S. Schafer, Brett A. Halperin, Sourojit Ghosh, Julie Vera

University of Washington, United States of America

PROPOSING RECIPROCAL DIGITAL METHODS: A USER-CENTRIC METHOD FOR ALGORITHMIC SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN A POST-API WORLD

Jessica Yarin Robinson, Sebastian Cole

University of Oslo, Norway

Screenshot methodologies to collect and analyse social media platform advertising

Lauren Hayden¹, Nicholas Carah¹, Brady Robards², Amy Dobson³

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

‘GUERILLA ANALYSIS’ AND THE INSTITUTIONAL VOICE: THE TELEGRAM’S PRODUCTIVE MESO-SPACE OF CORONAVIRUS VISUALIZATIONS

Eedan Amit-Danhi

University of Groningen,

Why does authenticity (still) matter on social media?

Katrin Tiidenberg¹, Crystal Abidin², Jing Zeng³, David Kneas⁴, Stefanie Duguay⁵

1: Tallinn University, Estonia; 2: Curtin University; 3: Utrecht University; 4: University of South Carolina; 5: Concordia University

Monetizing Queerbaiting: Boyfriend Daily Check-Ins as A Strategy To Engage Queer Fandom

Fancheng Meng

University of the Arts London, United Kingdom

Money, magic, machines: Algorithmic conspirituality and New Age content creators on TikTok

Maria Gemma Brown

University of Queensland, Australia

(MIS)LABELLING BRAND PARTNERSHIPS: HOW PLATFORM POLICIES AND INTERFACES SHAPE COMMERCIAL CONTENT FOR INFLUENCERS

Taylor Annabell¹, Laura Aade², Catalina Goanta¹

1: Utrecht University; 2: University of Luxembourg

“I would never become an influencer!”: the industrious digital economy of second-hand creators

Camilla Volpe

Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

AI and Disinformation: Global Perspectives

Sahana Udupa¹, Dani Madrid-Morales², Jonathan Corpus-Ong³, Thales Vilela Lelo⁴, Kerry Mclnerney⁵, Vincent Obia⁶, Sam Gregory⁷

1: LMU Munich, Germany; 2: Sheffield University, UK; 3: University of Massacchussets, Amherst; 4: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil; 5: Cambridge University; 6: Birmingham City University; 7: WITNESS

Buying State Power: News And Social Media Advertising in Democratic Backsliding Countries

Gabrielle Dora Beacken, Inga K Trauthig, Samuel Woolley

The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Investigating the platform logics of Twitter through its structural network mechanisms

Fatima Gaw¹, Jon Benedik Bunquin²

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: University of Oregon,United States of America & University of the Philippines, Philippines

Industry influence on content moderation regulation: Tensions for Civil Society Organisations

Elizabeth Erin Farries¹, Eugenia Siapera²

1: School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD; 2: School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD

FROM FLORIDA AND TEXAS TO KARLSRUHE: ONLINE PLATFORMS AS PUBLISHERS OF YORE OR AS (UN)COMMON CARRIERS?

Irini Katsirea

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

‘We are all in this psyop together’: Psyop realism as vernacular media critique

Daniel de Zeeuw¹, Peter Knight², Clare Birchall³

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Manchester, UK; 3: King's College London, UK

COALITIONS OF DISTRUST: CONSPIRICIZATION VIA HASHTAG HIJACKING

Marc Tuters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

‘CONSPIRACY THEORIES SHOULD BE CALLED SPOILER ALERTS’: CONSPIRACY THEORIES AS AFFECTIVE COMMUNITES ON RUSSELL BRAND’S YOUTUBE COMMENT SECTION

Robert John Topinka

Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

UNEARTHING CONNECTIONS: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN A CONSPIRACY BELIEVERS’ FACEBOOK GROUP

Alma Kalisky, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Curating Concealment: Frameworks for Emerging AI in research and teaching

Noopur Atul Raval¹, Nishant Shah², Maya Indira Ganesh³, Jonnie Penn³, Lukas Beckenbauer⁴

1: University of California Los Angeles; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: University of Cambridge; 4: Technical University of Munich

STOICISM, TRADWIVES AND ANTI-TRANS PANIC: THE NEW ‘MANFLUENCER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX’ ON TIKTOK AND YOUTUBE SHORTS

Debbie Ging¹, Catherine Baker¹, Maja Brandt Andreasen²

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: University of Stavanger, Norway

TRANSPHOBIC MEMES IN THE QUEBEC ALTERNATIVE NEWS INDUSTRY

Michelle Robin Stewart, Samuel Laperle, Dominique Gagnon

UQAM, Canada

“I took a deep breath and came out as GC”: Excavating Gender Critical Information Literacy Practices and Anti-Trans Radicalization on Ovarit and Mumsnet

PS Berge¹, Madison Schmalzer²

1: University of Central Florida, United States of America; 2: Ringling College of Art & Design, United States of America

Hostile digital archives: dynamic risks and records of queer and trans life online

Kathryn Brewster, Oliver Haimson

University of Michigan, United States of America

Social Media as a Key Actor in Redefining Healthcare Industry Dynamics

Beatrice Tylstedt¹, Hannah L. Westwood², Krysten Stein³, Deanna Holroyd⁴

1: Uppsala University; 2: Coventry University; 3: University of Illinois at Chicago; 4: The Ohio State University

Gauging platform observability under the EU’s Digital Services Act

Charis Papaevangelou, Fabio Votta

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Platforms on trial: Mapping the Facebook Files/Papers controversy

Matías Valderrama Barragán

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

UNFAIR PLAY: DIGITAL PLATFORM'S ABUSE OF POWER TO INFLUENCE BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDA

Rose Marie Santini, Bruno Mattos, Débora Salles, Marcela Canavarro

Netlab UFRJ, Brazil

Between the Cracks: Blind spots in the EU’s efforts to regulate platform opinion power and digital media concentration

Theresa Josephine Seipp¹, Natali Helberger², Claes De Vreese³, Jef Ausloos⁴

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 3: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 4: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Revitalising the concept of the everyday in internet research

Ludmila Lupinacci¹, David Hesmondhalgh¹, Raquel Campos Valverde¹, Ignacio Siles², Luciana Valerio-Alfaro², Arturo Arriagada³, Jean Burgess⁴, Kath Albury⁵, Anthony McCosker⁵, Rowan Wilken⁶

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica; 3: Universidad Adolfo Ibánez, Chile; 4: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 5: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 6: RMIT University, Australia

MASCULINE OPTIMIZATION INFLUENCERS AND THE SACRALITY OF SELF-OPTIMIZATION

Sara Reinis

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

“Society failed men”: Self-help influencers, toxic masculinity and online radicalisation in the UK

Ozge Ozduzen¹, Hannah V. Guy²

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: Independent Researcher

“THE LEFT IS FAILING MEN”: BREADTUBE & THE ONLINE PRODUCTION OF “MASCULINITIES IN CRISIS” (WORK-IN-PROGRESS PAPER)

Alexis de Coning¹, Brendan D. Mahoney²

1: West Virginia Wesleyan College; 2: The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

LIVELIHOOD-RELATED INTERNET USE AMONG LOW-PRIVILEGED YOUNG MEN IN KOLKATA

Subham Basak

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Reciprocal Platform Labour In The Nigerian Social Media Video Industry

Godwin Iretomiwa Simon¹, David B. Nieborg²

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Toronto, Canada

AFFECTIVE LABOUR AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR IN THE COMMODIFICATION OF ‘SELF’ IN INDIAN WOMEN’S FAMILY VLOGGING (Working title)

Debopriya Roy, Prof. Joya Chakraborty

Tezpur University, India

THIS IS A MOVEMENT, NOT A MOMENT: BLACK FEMMES' DIGITAL AFFECTIVE LABOR IN THE 2020 RACIAL UPRISINGS

Nicole Veronica Bush

University of Southern California, United States of America

UNRAVELING ALGORITHMIC BIAS: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF POLITICIZED ALTERNATIVE CREATORS

Nora Suren

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

A Cultural Clash? Privacy Framing in Legislative Hearings After Cambridge Analytica

Dmitry Epstein¹, Rotem Medzini²

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: University of Birmingham, UK

A Game of Privacy Tug of War: A Historical Analysis of Privacy Settings

Chelsea Leigh Horne

American University, United States of America

Temporal Dynamics of Chilling Effects of Dataveillance: Empirical Findings from a Longitudinal Field Experiment

Céline Odermatt, Kiran Kappeler, Noemi Festic, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Hackers’ privacy approaches: How privacy violation and privacy protection go hand in hand

Keren Levy-Eshkol, Rivka Ribak

University of Haifa, Israel

Rendering Regulability in AI Supply Chains: Technical and Political Challenges

Robert Gorwa¹, Michael Veale²

1: Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Germany; 2: University College London

Generative AI and the Information Commons: Controversy, Copyright, and Closure

Fenwick McKelvey, Bart Simon, Luciano Frizzera

Concordia University, Canada

Mapping AI Policymaking (2016-2024) in China: Policies, Actors, and Instruments

Xiufeng Jia¹, Lianrui Jia²

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

RETHINKING AI FOR GOOD: CRITIQUE, REFRAMING AND ALTERNATIVES

Faranak Hardcastle¹, Sujatha Raman¹, Christer de Silva¹, Jenny Davis², Ehsan Tavakoli-Nabavi¹

1: Australian National University, Australia.; 2: Vanderbilt University, USA.

“THE ALGORITHM IS YOUR MOM”: PLAYFUL ALGORITHMIC AGENCY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC FELLA ORGANISATION

Kateryna Kasianenko¹, Olga Boichak²

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

Hiding in plain sight: How algorithms’ conspicuous invisibility engenders conspiratorial views of platform power

Jun Yu¹, João C. Magalhães²

1: National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2: University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Algorithmic Vibes: The Intuitive Sense-Making of Self-Employed Women on Social Media

Rebecca Ruddock

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

MY FYP, MY IDENTITY: THE ROLE OF ALGORITHMIC CONSPIRITUALITY IN IDENTITY SHAPING

Shaheen Kanthawala¹, Amy Ritchart¹, Haley McAtee¹, Ankolika De², Kelley Cotter²

1: University of Alabama, United States of America; 2: Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Platforms, Valuation and Inequalities

Ashley Mears¹, Elif Birced², Jeff Sheng³, Alison Hearn⁴, Daniel Joseph⁵, Sophie Bishop⁶, Arturo Arriagada⁷, Karis Wilson⁸

1: University of Amsterdam; 2: Boston University; 3: University of Michigan; 4: University of Western Ontario; 5: Manchester Metropolitan University; 6: Leeds University; 7: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 8: New York Univerisity

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal

Rianna Walcott¹, Catherine Knight Steele¹, Aaron Dial², David Adelman³, Kevin Winstead⁴

1: University of Maryland; 2: Purdue University; 3: University of Michigan; 4: University of Florida

The Precarity, Perils, and Promises of Emerging Creator Economies

Malcolm Keith Ogden¹, Gayas Eapen², Sagorika Singha³, Matthew Howard⁴, Fathima Nizaruddin⁵

1: Bridgewater College, United States of America; 2: Coastal Carolina University, United States of America; 3: Center for the Study of Developing Societies, India; 4: Loyola University Chicago, United States of America; 5: University of Passau, Germany

FINANCE APPS AND THE DATAFICATION OF CHILDREN’S ECONOMIC LIVES

Bjørn Nansen, Lauren Bliss

University of Melbourne, Australia

FAMILY PRIVACY, FAMILY AUTONOMY AND COERCION IN DIGITAL HEALTHCARE

Claire Bessant

Northumbria University, United Kingdom

GEOTRACKING FOR CONVENIENCE: EXPLORING THE VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES RELATED TO THE USE OF TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES IN PARENT-ADULT CHILD PAIRS

Andra Siibak, Kelli Aia

University of Tartu, Estonia

DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER DNA PLATFORMS & DIGITAL DISPLAYS OF FAMILY

Giselle Newton

University of Queensland, Australia

Cloud as Infrastructure: Theorising the links between ‘big’ tech and ‘small’ tech

Devika Narayan

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

From Global to Local: A Study of Offline-First Community Infrastructure Development

Zenna Emma Linnea Fiscella

Aarhus University, Denmark

WHO KILLED STADIA: PLATFORM AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN CLOUD GAMING

Jean-Christophe Plantin¹, Alex Gekker², Zichen Hu¹

1: London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; 2: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

SURREPTITIOUS EXPERIMENTATION: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN THE HUMANITARIAN INDUSTRY.

Mirca Madianou

Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

FROM ia_archiver TO OpenAI: THE PASTS AND FUTURES OF AUTOMATED DATA SCRAPERS

Katherine Mackinnon¹, Emily Maemura²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

Taming Ambiguity: Managerial Contradictions in AI Data Production Industry

Julie Yujie Chen

University of Toronto, Canada

Breaking data flows and connecting data practices: examining data frictions in digital platform APIs

Fang Jiao¹, Jo Bates²

1: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

From tech-solutionism to community-centred data capability for disaster preparedness

Anthony McCosker, Yong-Bin Kang, Frances Shaw, Kath Albury

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Generation of Structural Changes through Translation: Effects of SVOD platforms on European Audiovisual Industry

Lixin Lu

Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

THE ZEALOUS PRACTICES OF TECH INDUSTRY LEADERS

Sara Reinis

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

When workers own the newsroom: Mapping the transition from corporate to cooperative media ownership

Caitlin Petre

Rutgers University, United States of America

When Industry Lore doesn't Work: Exploring MCNs' Limited Intermediary Roles in Promotional Culture

Zhen Ye

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The

Artifacts, practices and social arrangements in content curation on TikTok: a study on political and social issues content

Carlos Entrena Serrano, Meyer Trisha

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation--Brussels School of Governance)

Empowering voters and fostering healthy political discourse: Discursive legitimation by digital media platforms in the context of elections

Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Mervi Pantti

University of Helsinki, Finland

THE POPULISTS’ PLAYGROUND: PARTY CAMPAIGNS ON TIKTOK DURING THE BAVARIAN STATE ELECTIONS 2023

Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Julia Niemann-Lenz, Constantin Paschertz, Christian Schneider

University of Hamburg, Germany

THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA

Giada Marino, Bruna Almeida Paroni, Fabio Giglietto

University of Urbino, Italy

Low Visibility Practices: Reconsidering Visibility and Value on Social Media

Jessica Maddox¹, Arturo Arriagada², Jeehyun {Jenny} Lee³, Pranav Malhotra⁴, Colten Meisner⁵

1: University of Alabama; 2: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; 3: University of Washington; 4: University of Michigan; 5: Cornell University

Deletion as a Crisis Communication Practice: An Analysis of U.S. State Public Health Agencies’ Social Media Accounts during COVID-19

Muira McCammon

Tulane University, United States of America

De-biasing algorithmic technologies in the public sector: the case of Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)

Hadley Beresford

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

The Technopolitics of Waiting: Case Studies of AI Training in China and Homeless Services Systems in the U.S.

Pelle Tracey, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Patricia Garcia, Oliver Haimson, Michaelanne Thomas

University of Michigan, United States of America

DYING AND BEING DEAD IN XR: IMMERSIVE REHEARSALS OF DEATH; AFFECTIVE ARTEFACTS POST-LIFE

Kiah Hawker¹, Luke Heemsbergen², Tonya Meyrick², Stefan Greuter²

1: The University of Queensland; 2: Deakin University, Australia

INDUSTRY 4.0: DIGITAL TWINS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Tracey Lauriault, Anna Lena Theus

Carleton University, Canada

Nostalgic Neighborhoods of TikTok: Mapping a Topology of Affective Publics

Viki Conner

University of Illinois - Chicago, United States of America

GENERIC WAR IMAGINARIES: AI-GENERATED IMAGES OF THE ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT IN THE ADOBE STOCK CONTROVERSY

Laura Gemini, Chiara Spaggiari, Stefano Brilli

Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy

From _neijuan_ to _bujuan_: Chinese IT Professionals' Changing Philosophy towards Working

Boyang Liang

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

From Farmland to Warehouse: The Impacts of E-commerce Logistic Infrastructure on Rural Chinese Space

Lizhen Zhao

umass-amherst, United States of America

CONSTRUCTING THE DIGITAL: WORKING FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Usha Raman¹, Anuja Premika¹, Chinar Mehta¹, Manisha Madapathi¹, Nimmi Rangaswamy²

1: University of Hyderabad, India; 2: Indian Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad

AI INDUSTRY EXPECTATIONS AND UNDERPERFORMING IMAGINARIES

Natalia Stanusch¹, Richard Rogers¹, Nancy Baym², Chuncheng Liu², Ryland Shaw², Christian Katzenbach³, Vanessa Richter³, Sigrid Kannengießer⁴, Anne Mollen⁴, Saba Rebecca Brause⁵, Heng Yang⁶, Mike Schäfer⁵, Jing Zeng⁷

1: University of Amsterdam; 2: Microsoft Research; 3: University of Bremen; 4: University of Münster; 5: University of Zurich; 6: Shanghai University; 7: University of Utrecht

Play, Polarization, and Participation: Exploring Ambiguous Fannish Practices in Online Networks

Bethan Jones¹, Simone Driessen², Benjamin Litherland³, Line Nybro Petersen⁴, Erika Ningxin Wang⁵, Qian Huang⁶, Samantha Vilkins⁷, Sebastian Svegaard⁷, Adriana Amaral⁸

1: University of York; 2: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 3: Manchester Metropolitan University; 4: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; 5: University of Groningen; 6: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology; 7: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology; 8: Universidade Paulista, Brazil

The Politics of Worrying about Young Lives on Social Media

Ysabel Gerrard¹, Debbie Ging², Craig Haslop³, Jessica Ringrose⁴, Devina Sarwatay⁵

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: Dublin City University, Ireland; 3: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 4: University College London, United Kingdom; 5: City, University of London, United Kingdom

HISTORICIZING THE FAR-RIGHT ONLINE: THE PRODUCTION OF HATE FROM PRINT TO DIGITAL MEDIA

Alexis de Coning¹, Ian Glazman-Schillinger², Kevan A. Feshami³, A.J. Bauer⁴, Olivia S. Gellar⁵

1: West Virginia Wesleyan College; 2: Syracuse University; 3: Independent Researcher based in Northern Appalachia; 4: University of Alabama; 5: University of Texas at Austin

Dating Apps, Emotions and Agency in Times of Emotional Capitalism

Łukasz Szulc

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

“TO BE QUEER, TO BE IN DATING APPS, TO BE QUEER IN DATING APPS”: THE ON-LIFE INDUSTRIOUSNESS OF CREATING STRATEGIES BEHIND STIGMAS AND FEARS OF ONLINE DATING OF ITALIAN AND AUSTRALIAN QUEER YOUNG ADULTS

Rachele Reschiglian¹, Brady Robards², Cosimo Marco Scarcelli¹

1: University of Padova, Italy; 2: Monash University, Australia

Fatherhood on Dating Apps: A Norwegian Twist

Plata Sofie Diesen

Kristiania University College, Norway

‘IT’S A CANDY STORE. YOU CAN SEE THE CANDIES, BUT THE DOOR IS CLOSED.’ (NEURO)QUEERING THE HOOK-UP APP INDUSTRY IN NON-METROPOLITAN FINLAND.

Richard Eric Rawlings¹, Genavee Brown¹, Antu Sorainen², Lisa Thomas¹, Lynne Coventry³

1: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: Abertay University, United Kingdom

Understanding Perceptions And Effects Of Online Intolerance: A Four-Country Experimental Study

Patricia Rossini¹, Cristian Vaccari², Yannis Theocharis³, Rebekah Tromble⁴

1: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 3: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 4: George Washington University, USA

Exploring Survey Instruments in Online Hate Speech Research: A Comprehensive Scoping Review

Živa Šubelj, Vasja Vehovar, Avis Wisteria, Jošt Bartol, Andraž Petrovčič

University of Ljubljana

Between Graphical 'Excellence‘, Literacy, and Polysemy: A Bi-National Study of Digital Political Visualization Reception

Eedan Amit-Danhi¹, Christian Pentzold², Thomas Rakebrand²

1: University of Groningen; 2: Leipzig University

Social identities in Twitter issue publics: Biographical analysis of hyperactive uncivil and intolerant users in American abortion discourse

Dayei Oh¹, Martin Sykora², Suzanne Elayan²

1: Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Centre for Information Management, Loughborough University, UK

PLACE-MAKING AND THE DIGITAL MEDIATION OF QUEER SPACES: INSIGHTS FROM TOPIC AND WORD EMBEDDING MODELS

Randy Jay Canillo Solis, Jonalou San Juan Labor, Jon Benedik A. Bunquin, Maria Jeriesa P. Osorio

University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

REPRODUCING PLACE THROUGH STRUCTURES OF FEELING IN HAWAIIAN RADIO PROGRAMMING

Katie Marie Moylan

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Visualising 10 thousand cities? Uber's data stories on knowing urban space

Abel Guerra

London School of Economics and Political Sciences, United Kingdom

The Digital Remediation of Synth-Pop's Spaces

Holly Kruse

Rogers State University, United States of America

Automoderator As An Example Of Community Driven Product Design

Claudia Lo, Sam Walton

Wikimedia Foundation, United States of America

A Systematic Review of VirtualHumans.org and its Role in Virtual Influencer Research, 2019 to Present

Jul Jeonghyun Park/Parke

University of Toronto, Canada

Tracing the cooperative game on Gig platforms: How gig workers emerge strategies against algorithmic management through sensemaking

Jie Zhao, Tahir abbas Syed

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

IT’S ELON’S GAME; WE’RE ALL JUST PLAYING IT: WHY INTERNET STUDIES NEEDS GAMES

Adrienne Massanari

American University, United States of America

EPISTEMIC-DEMOCRATIC TENSION IN THE BOTTOM-UP GOVERNANCE OF ALGORITHMS

KELLEY COTTER

Pennsylvania State University

Creator Cartels as Emergent Platform Governance

CJ Reynolds, Blake Hallinan

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

BEYOND MAINSTREAM INDUSTRY: UNVAILING SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACHES FOR PLATFORM GOVERNANCE

Paloma Viejo Otero

University of Bremen, Germany

Spotify (Un)wrapped: How to critically and creatively examine your repackaged data stories

Taylor Annabell¹, Nina Vindum Rasmussen²

1: Utrecht University; 2: London School of Economics and Political Science

“TIKTOK TEACH-INS”: ASIAN AMERICAN CREATORS PROMOTING BLACK-ASIAN SOLIDARITY

Nora Suren, Jane Pyo

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

Strategic Autonomy in Flux: Examining Power Dynamics in TikTok Shop's Managed Models

Silei Zhu³, Xuanbo Liu², Xinyi Peng², Yaqin Luo¹

1: Shenzhen University, China; 2: Tsinghua University, China; 3: Rutgers University, USA

STILL DANCING ROKENROL: REMEDIATING YUGOSLAV CULTURAL INDUSTRY ON TIKTOK.

Elisabetta Zurovac

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

“PoV: You are Reading an Academic Article.” The Memetic Performance of Affiliation in TikTok's Platform Vernacular

Tommaso Trillò

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

CHEATGPT? THE REALITIES OF AUTOMATED AUTHORSHIP IN THE UK PR AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES

Tanya Kant

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

GPT and the Platformization of the Word: The Case of Sudowrite.

Daniel Whelan-Shamy

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Assessing Occupations Through Artificial Intelligence: A Comparison of Humans and GPT-4

Paweł Gmyrek¹, Christoph Lutz², Gemma Newlands³

1: International Labour Organization, Switzerland; 2: BI Norwegian Business School, Norway; 3: University of Oxford, UK

PODCASTING, VR, AI AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTIMACY

Evi Karathanasopoulou

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

SOUND ASLEEP: MUNDANE PODCASTING, SLEEPCASTS, AND THE RISE OF AMBIENT LISTENING

Andrew Bottomley

SUNY Oneonta, United States of America

Fake Podcasts, Fake Listeners – Podcasting and AI

Jeremy Wade Morris

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

FEELING MYSELF: THE RISE OF INTIMACY AS AUTHENTICITY IN ADDRESSING IMAGINED PODCAST LISTENERS

Tzlil Sharon¹, Nicholas John²

1: University of Amsterdam; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Longtermism, Big Tech, and the rebalancing of historical time: a Benjaminian critique

Asher Kessler

London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Web archiving after platformization: reading archived social media along the grain

Kieran Hegarty

RMIT University, Australia

Containers, consolidation, capital: A history of the logistics of software

Nathan Chan-Yeong Kim

University of Michigan, United States of America

Small-scale Entrepreneurship on the Early Web: Socio-Economical Practices of Local/Regional Businesses

Nathalie Fridzema, Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg, Rik Smit

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

Reading Latent Values and Priorities in TikTok's Community Guidelines for Children

Alex Turvy

Tulane University, United States of America

The ‘Googlisation’ of the classroom: How does the protection of children’s personal data fare?

Kruakae Pothong¹, Louise Hooper², Sonia Livingstone³, Ayça Atabey⁴, Emma Day⁵

1: LSE, United Kingdom; 2: Garden Court Chambers, United Kingdom; 3: LSE, United Kingdom; 4: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 5: Techlegality, United Kingdom

RESISTANCE TO THE PARENTAL PANOPTICON

Mathias Klang¹, Nora Madison²

1: Fordham University, United States of America; 2: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Who Has the Power?: A Comparative Analysis to Parental Controls on Social Media Platforms

Chelsea Leigh Horne

American University, United States of America

Industry Tensions: Labor Subjectivities and Self-Reinvention in Platform Work

Arturo Arriagada¹, Brooke Duffy², Zoe Glatt³, Elizabeth Wissinger⁴, Rachel Wood⁵, Matías Valderrama⁶

1: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 2: Cornell University; 3: Microsoft Research; 4: City University of New York (CUNY); 5: Keele University; 6: Warwick University

Music Consumption through Platforms: moving towards a global perspective

Vanessa Amália Dalpizol Valiati¹, David Hesmondhalgh², Ignacio Siles³, Zhongwei {Mabu} Li⁴, Maria Perevedentseva⁵

1: Feevale University; 2: University of Leeds; 3: Universidad de Costa Rica; 4: University of Leeds; 5: University of Salford

AMBIENT AMPLIFICATION: ATTENTION HIJACKING AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA

Marloes Annette Geboers¹, Elena Pilipets², Marcus Bösch⁴, Tom Divon³, Richard Rogers¹, Nicola Righetti⁵, Marc Tuters¹, Linda Bos¹, Boris Noordenbos¹, Furkan Dabanıyastı¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Siegen, Germany; 3: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israël; 4: University of Münster, Germany; 5: University of Urbino, Italy

Borderline Content and Platformised Speech Governance: Mapping TikTok’s Moderation Controversies in South and Southeast Asia

Diyi Liu

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

POLITICAL AMBIGUITY IN PLATFORM GOVERNANCE: THE SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF PLATFORMS IN CHINA

Fangyu Qing, Ngai Keung Chan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

GPT4 v The Oversight Board: Using large language models for content moderation

Nicolas Suzor, Lucinda Nelson

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

Beyond Pink: Vernacular Manifestations of Gendered Platform Capitalism in the Color Features of YouTube Thumbnails

Tommaso Trillò¹, Eedan Amit-Danhi²

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: University of Groningen, Netherlands

Beauty brands online: Visuality, labour, and representation

Anuja Premika

University of Hyderabad, India

MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING ON TIKTOK: COMMODIFIED FEMINISM AND CROSS-PLATFORM AWARENESS CONTEXTS

Andreas Gregersen, Jacob Ørmen, Nane Leonie Niemann, Anne Mette Thorhauge

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

THE ROLE OF THE DRAMA INTERPRETATION INDUSTRY IN THE TRANSNATIONAL RECEPTION OF KOREAN TV SERIES IN CHINA

Hui Lin

King's College London, United Kingdom

Can I be queer in Wikidata? Practices of queer representation in a collaborative knowledge base

Daniele Metilli¹, Beatrice Melis^2,3, Chiara Paolini⁴, Marta Fioravanti⁵

1: Department of Information Studies, University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy; 3: Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy; 4: Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics, KU Leuven, Belgium; 5: oio.studio

Digitization and Polarization in Local Context: Contemporary Rural Talk Radio Stations in the US

Rebekah Larsen

Harvard University, United States of America

GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION? INTRODUCING GUIDED LABEL PROPAGATION FOR IDENTIFYING AFFINITIES IN LARGE INFORMATION SHARING NETWORKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Jakob Bæk Kristensen

Roskilde University, Denmark

Following Lenin and Stalin Through Instagram: Varieties of dissimulative play in left-revolutionary memes

Aleksi Knuutila¹, Jonne Arjoranta²

1: University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Unveiling Tiktok's Shadow: A Typology of White Nationalist Narratives as Eudaimonic Entertainment

Julia Niemann-Lenz, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Leia Kantenwein, Leonie Oelschlägel, Hannah Scherf

University of Hamburg, Germany

"I Made Myself a New Safety Bubble": Building Trans Virtual Homeplace

Vilja Aura Minerva Jaaksi

University of Turku, Finland

HISTORICIZING FEMINIST DATA ACTIVISM: A MEDIA GENEALOGY OF THE WOMEN’S SAFETY AUDITS

Trang Le

Monash University, Australia

Queer digital lives: Understanding datafication through creative collaborative approaches

Liv Owens, Lily Bichard-Collins, Elisabetta Ferrari

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Beyond the Swipe: Unpacking Indian Women’s Safety Strategies on Bumble

Benson Rajan

QUT, Australia

Researching Toxic Online Communities in the Academic-Industrial Complex

Alexis de Coning¹, Zelly Martin², Adrienne Massanari³, Rachel E. Moran⁴, Jane Pyo⁵

1: West Virginia Wesleyan College; 2: The University of Texas at Austin; 3: American University; 4: University of Washington; 5: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Beyond the State-Centred Lens: Exploring the Infrastructualization of Platforms in China: The Case Of WeChat

Jiaxun Li

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

From Platforms to Protocols, Forges, Stacks and DAOs: On the Platformisation and Deplatformisation of Software Development

Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray

King's College London, United Kingdom

DIGITAL DISCONNECTION, THE BROKEN PROMISE OF ATTENTION, AND POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE FOREST

Meilun Chen

Rutgers University, United States of America

Where my AI apps at? A historiographic approach to analyzing platform tools

Kaushar Mahetaji, David Nieborg

University of Toronto, Canada