Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Saturday, 02/Nov/2024 | |||||||||||||
8:00am - 1:00pm |
Registration |
Cloakroom Location: The Octagon A free, staffed space to leave clothing items and luggage. |
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9:00am - 10:30am |
Materialities & Infrastructures (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 MATERIALS OF AI: AN ONTOLOGY OF THE MATERIALS REQUIRED TO MAKE ALGORITHMS University of Oxford, United Kingdom An anatomy of value orientations on social media Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Innovating (and performing) on the shoulders of 5G Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Transient-Platform Paradigms: Narratives Of Blockchain Experiments For Social Media Platforms Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Platforms & Borders (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Chair: Sarah Florini POLICY AT ODDS- DIGITAL INDIA VERSUS INTERNET SHUTDOWNS University of Hyderabad, India FABRICATING STATELESS INCOME: DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSES OF MULTINATIONAL PLATFORM CORPORATIONS’ TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Big Tech Sovereignty: Platforms and Discourse of Sovereignty-as-a-service 1: University of Arts Berlin; 2: University of Toronto Digital sovereignty and platformisation in China: platforms as national borders University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
Industries of Infrastructural Futures, Automated Cultures, & Algorithmic Dynamics (panel proposal) Location: INOX Suite 3 Industries of Infrastructural Futures, Automated Cultures, and Algorithmic Dynamics 1: Southampton University, United Kingdom; 2: Deakin University, Australia; 3: Monash University, Australia; 4: University of Melbourne, Australia |
The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, & Expectations (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1 The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, and Expectations 1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2: The University of Utrecht; 3: Curtin University; 4: Ghent University; 5: University of illinois; 6: London School of Economics; 7: University of Geneva; 8: Bilkent University, Ankara |
Surveillance (traditional panel) Location: Discovery Room 2 Chair: Yuval Katz AUTONOMY UNDER SURVEILLANCE: A FAILED EXPERIENCE ON PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM IN BRAZIL FACOM - UFBA, Brazil SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE: PEGA COMMITTEE AS A SITE OF DISCURSIVE STRUGGLE OVER THE GOVERNANCE OF COMMERCIAL SPYWARE Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel LICENSE TO SURVEIL? IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF VEHICLES AS COMPUTERS University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Felt Privacy: Reconciling competing regimes of camera surveillance in the United States The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Analysing News Polarisation: From Production to Engagement and Beyond (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 3 Analysing News Polarisation: From Production to Engagement and Beyond 1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Australia; 3: RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; 4: Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg, Germany; 5: Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Hamburg, Germany; 6: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, Germany; 7: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany; 8: Sciences Po, medialab, France; 9: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
Feminisms (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Chair: Cecilia Ka Hei Wong (Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices Lusófona University, Portugal Mediating, Mediatizing, or Datafying Iranian Women’s Struggles? Imperial Feminist Campaigns, the Economies of Visibility, and Suffering of Other Women Rutgers University, United States of America “This Barbie is Woke!”: Online Backlash in Response to Feminist Trends in Popular Culture The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Measuring misogyny: Depp v Heard and the limits of atomistic content moderation School of Law, Queensland University of Technology; QUT Digital Media Research Centre; ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society |
Generative AI as a Media Technology (roundtable) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Roundtable: generative AI as a media technology 1: Microsoft Research, USA; 2: Goldsmiths University of London, UK; 3: University of Sheffield, UK; 4: Rutgers University, USA; 5: University of Bergen, Norway; 6: Western University, Canada |
The Far Right (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Chair: Ozge Ozduzen THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF INCEL AND FAR-RIGHT DISCOURSE IN SWEDEN Umeå University, Sweden Understanding Online Far-Right Mobilisations: Insights from the Pro-Brexit Facebook Milieu Cardiff University, United Kingdom Humour, harm, and hate: The discursive construction of race, gender, and sexuality in far-right extremist memes University of Stavanger, Norway |
Digital Youth & Families (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Chair: Kath Albury AFFECTIVE TEMPORALITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: WORLD YOUTH DAY 2023 1: Lusófona University; 2: NOVA University of Lisbon “DIGITAL PEACEBUILDING”: EXAMINING YOUNG WOMEN LEADERS' USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUILD PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES Digital Media Research Center, Queensland University of Technology, Australia The work of digital inclusion: Exposing the digital labour of community workers fostering digital participation 1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Griffith University, Australia ALTERNATIVE FUTURES! FOSTERING ECO-DIGITAL AGENCY IN GENERATIVE AI WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE LUT University |
Tech Workers (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Chair: Kylie Jarrett Bare lives underneath the platform: The biopolitics of Chinese platform food delivers 1: Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of; 2: London School of Economics, UK BOUNDARYLESS CAREERS IN-BETWEEN VIDEO GAME FIELDS AND INDUSTRIES: THE JOB EXPERIENCES OF EXPATRIATE AND REMOTE WORKERS IN CZECH VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY Charles University, Czech Republic Ready to hack: How bug bounty platforms create their workforce University of St.Gallen, Switzerland Taming the Algo: Grab Bikers Grappling with Platform Logics from Below University of Queensland, Australia |
Trust & Safety (traditional panel) Location: Uni Central Chair: Nabila Cruz De Carvalho The Political Economy of Trust and Safety Vendors: How Regulation, Venture Capital, and AI are Altering the Governance of Platforms Cornell University, United States of America Trust in alternative governors: Exploring user confidence in companies, states and civil society in platform content moderation University of Bremen, Germany Putting Normative Values to Work: The Organizational Practices of Trust and Safety Teams Stanford University, United States of America |
Moderation: User Responses (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Chair: Daniel Joseph BROKERS OF THE METAVERSE: HOW A WEB3 PLAY-TO-EARN GAMING GUILD ACTS AS CULTURAL MEDIATOR ON TWITTER Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) LOCALIZED VOLUNTEER MODERATION AND ITS DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION 1: Arizona State University, United States of America; 2: Pennsylvania State University; 3: Michigan State University "Enforce Your Own Rules:" Hashtag Activism as Play in the Case of #TwitchDoBetter UW-Madison, United States of America Adaptive Governance by Digital Platforms: How Twitch changed its platform over time 1: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan; 2: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan |
10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break |
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11:00am - 12:30pm |
Ethnographies (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Chair: Annette N Markham AGENCY PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRY DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY Feedback, United States of America MOBILE VEGANISM: HOW MOBILE APPS SHAPE THE PRACTICE, CONSTRUCTION AND MOBILISATION OF VEGAN CONSUMERISM Queensland University of Technology, Australia Between the (Live) Stream: Configurations of/for Embodiment, Technicity and Vicarious Spaces University of Leeds, United Kingdom Conceptualizing Precision Labor in Artificial Intelligence Training 1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: Technische Universität Berlin & Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, Germany |
Fringe Communities (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Chair: Jess Rauchberg Word on the (Digital) Street: Exploring YouTube Vlogs as Reputation Management for Artists in Chicago’s Drill Rap Scene University Of South Carolina, United States of America MONETIZING FRINGE BELIEFS: ITALIAN TELEGRAM SPACES AS EARNING ENGINES. Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy REPLATFORMIZATION: RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE STACK-CONSCIOUSNESS OF KIWI FARMS IE University, Spain; University of Pittsburgh, United States of America Medical cannabis industry and the refracted public of Polish drug users forum 1: Opole University, Poland; 2: Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland |
Futures (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 3 Chair: Alessandro Gandini Unveiling the ideological Understandings of Future in the Geospatial Industry 1: Universität Tübingen, Germany; 2: Sheffield Hallam University TRUST ISSUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: SOCIAL IMAGINARIES, RISK, AND USER LABOUR IN DIGITAL BANKING APPS National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Betting on (Un)certain Futures: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI and Varieties of Techno-developmentalism in Asia University of Toronto, Canada Spotlight on Deepfakes: Mapping Research and Regulatory Responses University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1 Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI University of Bremen, Germany |
The Digital Childhood Industry (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2 The Digital Childhood Industry 1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Curtin University, Australia; 3: Deakin University, Australia; 4: University of Sheffield, UK |
Money and other Technologies of Value in Internet Industries (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3 Money and other Technologies of Value in Internet Industries 1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; 3: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 5: National College of Art and Design, Ireland |
Data & Tracking (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Chair: Tanya Kant Super SDKs: Tracking personal data and platform monopolies in the mobile 1: York University, Canada; 2: King's College London TRACKING WOMEN’S HEALTH: A METHOD FOR AUDITING MENOPAUSE APP INFRASTRUCTURES York University, Canada Mobile Data Donation: Tools for Understanding Ephemeral and Sequenced Social Media Experiences 1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: The University of Queensland, Australia; 3: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 4: Monash University, Australia DATAFYING CITIZENS: THE USE OF THIRD-PARTY TRACKERS ON SCANDINAVIAN MUNICIPAL SITES 1: University of Stavanger, Norway; 2: Karlstad University, Sweden; 3: Copenhagen University, Denmark |
Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical & Practical Experiences with LLMs for Text Classification and Annotation (panel proposal) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical and Practical Experiences with Large Language Models for Text Classification and Annotation in Communication Studies 1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; 3: University of Vienna, Austria; 4: University of Hamburg, Germany; 5: University of Bremen, Germany; 6: University of Urbino, Italy; 7: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Rethinking Methods (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Chair: Sal Hagen FOCUSING ON VIRTUAL GROUPS: A METHOD FOR FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS IN XR/VR GROUP SETTINGS 1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: University of Oregon; 3: Bethany Lutheran College; 4: University of Wisconsin - Whitewater; 5: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Framing Mechanism as Method: A Critical Evaluation of Design Thinking’s Purported Universality University of Oxford, United Kingdom THE POLITICS OF MACHINE-LEARNING EVALUATION: FROM LAB TO INDUSTRY University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Jump to recipe? Context and portability in quali-quantitative approaches to online misinformation 1: Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom |
"Smart" Technologies (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Chair: Aleena Chia MINDFUL AUTOMATION: TECHNOLOGY AND MEANING IN SMART HOMES Lancaster University, United Kingdom Moody Apps: Technologies of Gendered Mediation Rutgers University, United States of America In the shadow of LLMs: Trouble in the “smart” automotive industry 1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: University of Manchester, United Kingdom Chinese Smart City, an organic entity in the age of AI: A genealogy of Chinese smart city metaphors University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The |
Inequalities & Inclusivity (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Chair: Giselle Newton Digital inequality in mobile news consumption and diversity in the US: Combining large-scale user log and survey data 1: Peking University; 2: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 3: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne; 4: University of Oxford Digital Social Connection at the Lonely Urban Fringe Swinburne University of Technology DEFINING DIGITAL RIGHTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: MAPPING REGIONAL DIVERSITY AND POWER RELATIONS ACROSS THE NGO INDUSTRY King's College London, United Kingdom No Semi-Periphery or Global South: A Review of Geographical Bias in Digital Activism Research 1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: University of Glasgow, UK |
Music Streaming (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Chair: Holly Kruse An algorithmic event: The celebration and critique of 'Spotify Wrapped' 1: Utrecht University; 2: London School of Economics and Political Science MUSIC CREATOR PERSPECTIVES ON DATAFICATION IN THE UK AND CHINA University of Leeds, United Kingdom ENGINEERED INEQUALITY: MUSICAL TAXONOMIES AND STREAMING RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS University of Leeds, United Kingdom WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND IT: BRAZILIAN USERS’ ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES OF SPOTIFY WRAPPED 1: Feevale University; 2: University of Leeds; 3: University of the Arts London |
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12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: The Octagon |
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1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Annual General Meeting (AGM) Location: Firth Hall |
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7:00pm - 11:00pm |
Conference Dinner & Funfair: MAGNA Science Adventure Centre Location: MAGNA Science Adventure Centre |
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