Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Saturday, 02/Nov/2024
8:00am
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1:00pm
Registration
Cloakroom
Location: The Octagon

A free, staffed space to leave clothing items and luggage.

 
9:00am
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10:30am
Materialities & Infrastructures (traditional panel)
Location: INOX Suite 1
 

MATERIALS OF AI: AN ONTOLOGY OF THE MATERIALS REQUIRED TO MAKE ALGORITHMS

Maggie Mustaklem, Ana Valdivia

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



An anatomy of value orientations on social media

Limor Shifman, Tommaso Trillo, Blake Hallinan, Saki Mizoroki, Rebecca Scharlach, Avishai Green, Paul Frosh

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel



Innovating (and performing) on the shoulders of 5G

Natalia Orrego

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile



Transient-Platform Paradigms: Narratives Of Blockchain Experiments For Social Media Platforms

Ashwin Nagappa

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Platforms & Borders (traditional panel)
Location: INOX Suite 2
Chair: Sarah Florini
 

POLICY AT ODDS- DIGITAL INDIA VERSUS INTERNET SHUTDOWNS

Manisha Madapathi

University of Hyderabad, India



FABRICATING STATELESS INCOME: DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSES OF MULTINATIONAL PLATFORM CORPORATIONS’ TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA

Harry Dugmore

University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia



Big Tech Sovereignty: Platforms and Discourse of Sovereignty-as-a-service

Alexandre Costa Barbosa1, Rafael Grohmann2

1: University of Arts Berlin; 2: University of Toronto



Digital sovereignty and platformisation in China: platforms as national borders

Yuhan Wang

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

Tsvetelina Hristova1, Alexandra Anikina1, Toja Cinque2, Luke Heemsbergen2, Allan Jones2, Fan Yang4, Robbie Fordyce3

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

Tom Divon1, Tyalor Annabell2, Catalina Goanta2, Crystal Abidin3, Liselot Hudders4, Michelle Renee Nelson5, Marijke De Veirman4, Tama Leaver3, Sonia Livingstone6, Nigel Cantwell7, Didem Özkul8, Gazal Shekhawat6, Beeban Kidron6

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

André Lemos, Estima Walmir

FACOM - UFBA, Brazil



SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE: PEGA COMMITTEE AS A SITE OF DISCURSIVE STRUGGLE OVER THE GOVERNANCE OF COMMERCIAL SPYWARE

Gaia Shai Gibeon, Dmitry Epstein

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel



LICENSE TO SURVEIL? IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF VEHICLES AS COMPUTERS

Gabriel Pereira

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands



Felt Privacy: Reconciling competing regimes of camera surveillance in the United States

CJ Reynolds

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

Axel Bruns1,2, Katharina Esau1, Laura Vodden1, Michelle Riedlinger1, Samantha Vilkins1, Laura Lefevre1, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski1, Arjun Srinivas1,2, Abdul Obeid1,2, James Meese3,2, Daniel Angus1,2, Timothy Graham1,2, Jean Burgess1,2, Felix Münch4,5, Felix Gaisbauer6, Armin Pournaki7,8, Jakob Ohme6, Ned Watt1, Silvia Montaña-Niño9

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

Sofia P. Caldeira

Lusófona University, Portugal



Mediating, Mediatizing, or Datafying Iranian Women’s Struggles? Imperial Feminist Campaigns, the Economies of Visibility, and Suffering of Other Women

Bahareh Badiei

Rutgers University, United States of America



“This Barbie is Woke!”: Online Backlash in Response to Feminist Trends in Popular Culture

Hadas Gur-Ze'ev, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel



Measuring misogyny: Depp v Heard and the limits of atomistic content moderation

Lucinda Nelson, Nicolas Suzor

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

Tarleton Gillespie1, Aleena Chia2, Kate Miltner3, Caitlin Petre4, Jill Walker Rettberg5, Luke Stark6

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

Mathilda Åkerlund

Umeå University, Sweden



Understanding Online Far-Right Mobilisations: Insights from the Pro-Brexit Facebook Milieu

Natalie-Anne Hall

Cardiff University, United Kingdom



Humour, harm, and hate: The discursive construction of race, gender, and sexuality in far-right extremist memes

Maja Brandt Andreasen

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

Ana Jorge1, Ana Kubrusly2

1: Lusófona University; 2: NOVA University of Lisbon



“DIGITAL PEACEBUILDING”: EXAMINING YOUNG WOMEN LEADERS' USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUILD PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Lynrose Jane Genon

Digital Media Research Center, Queensland University of Technology, Australia



The work of digital inclusion: Exposing the digital labour of community workers fostering digital participation

Peta Mitchell1, Amber Marshall2

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



ALTERNATIVE FUTURES! FOSTERING ECO-DIGITAL AGENCY IN GENERATIVE AI WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

Minna Vigren

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

Songyin Liu1,2, Hao Wang2

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

Jan Houška

Charles University, Czech Republic



Ready to hack: How bug bounty platforms create their workforce

Luca Perrig

University of St.Gallen, Switzerland



Taming the Algo: Grab Bikers Grappling with Platform Logics from Below

Giang Nguyen-Thu, Luke Munn

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

Lucas Wright

Cornell University, United States of America



Trust in alternative governors: Exploring user confidence in companies, states and civil society in platform content moderation

Dennis Redeker

University of Bremen, Germany



Putting Normative Values to Work: The Organizational Practices of Trust and Safety Teams

Tomás Guarna

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

Violeta Camarasa San Juan, Dmitry Kuznetsov

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



LOCALIZED VOLUNTEER MODERATION AND ITS DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION

Nicholas Proferes1, Kelley Cotter2, Kjerstin Thorson3, Ava Francesca Battocchio3, Ankolika De2, Chia-Fang Chang3

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

Ailea Grace Merriam-Pigg

UW-Madison, United States of America



Adaptive Governance by Digital Platforms: How Twitch changed its platform over time

Kevin Patrick Garvey1, Daniëlle Flonk2

1: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan; 2: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am
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12:30pm
Ethnographies (traditional panel)
Location: INOX Suite 1
Chair: Annette N Markham
 

AGENCY PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRY DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Dylan MacLean Tibert

Feedback, United States of America



MOBILE VEGANISM: HOW MOBILE APPS SHAPE THE PRACTICE, CONSTRUCTION AND MOBILISATION OF VEGAN CONSUMERISM

Daniel James Patrick Kirby

Queensland University of Technology, Australia



Between the (Live) Stream: Configurations of/for Embodiment, Technicity and Vicarious Spaces

Charlotte Durham

University of Leeds, United Kingdom



Conceptualizing Precision Labor in Artificial Intelligence Training

Ben Zefeng Zhang1, Tianling Yang2, Oliver Haimson1, Michaelanne Thomas1

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

Jabari Miles Evans

University Of South Carolina, United States of America



MONETIZING FRINGE BELIEFS: ITALIAN TELEGRAM SPACES AS EARNING ENGINES.

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Elisabetta Zurovac, Valeria Donato, Stefano Brilli

Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy



REPLATFORMIZATION: RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE STACK-CONSCIOUSNESS OF KIWI FARMS

Reed Van Schenck

IE University, Spain; University of Pittsburgh, United States of America



Medical cannabis industry and the refracted public of Polish drug users forum

Michał Wanke1, Piotr Siuda2

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

Helena Atteneder1, Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat2

1: Universität Tübingen, Germany; 2: Sheffield Hallam University



TRUST ISSUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: SOCIAL IMAGINARIES, RISK, AND USER LABOUR IN DIGITAL BANKING APPS

Yuening Li, Aphra Kerr

National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland



Betting on (Un)certain Futures: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI and Varieties of Techno-developmentalism in Asia

Hiu-Fung Chung

University of Toronto, Canada



Spotlight on Deepfakes: Mapping Research and Regulatory Responses

Alena Birrer, Natascha Just

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI (panel proposal)
Location: Discovery Room 1
 

Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI

Andreas Hepp, Nick Couldry, Göran Bolin, Julia Velkova, Benedetta Brevini

University of Bremen, Germany

The Digital Childhood Industry (panel proposal)
Location: Discovery Room 2
 

The Digital Childhood Industry

Amanda Levido1, Michael Dezuanni1, Annette Woods1, Tama Leaver2, Aleesha Rodriguez1, Janelle MacKenzie1, Maryanne Theobald1, Susan Danby1, Daniel Johnson1, Katrin Langton3, Fiona Scott4

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

Lana Swartz1, Clea Bourne2, Ashley Mears3, Rachel O'Dwyer5, Yichen Rao4

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

Jennifer Pybus1, Mark Cote2

1: York University, Canada; 2: King's College London



TRACKING WOMEN’S HEALTH: A METHOD FOR AUDITING MENOPAUSE APP INFRASTRUCTURES

Jennifer Pybus, Mina Mir

York University, Canada



Mobile Data Donation: Tools for Understanding Ephemeral and Sequenced Social Media Experiences

Daniel Angus1, Abdul Obeid1, Lauren Hayden2, Nicholas Carah2, Christine Parker3, Mark Andrejevic4

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

Helle Sjøvaag1, Cornelia Brantner2, Raul Ferrer-Conill1, Michael Karlsson2, Elizabeth Van Couvering2, Rasmus Helles3

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

Tariq Choucair1, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam3, Fabienne Lind3, Jana Bernhard3, Hajo Boomgaarden3, Bruna Oliveira2, Rousiley Maia2, Laura Vodden1, Katharina Esau1, Axel Bruns1, Sebastian Svegaard1, Kate Farfan1, Hendrik Meyer4, Cornelius Puschmann5, Michael Brüggemann4, Fabio Giglietto6, Luca Rossi7, Nicola Righetti6, Giada Marino6

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

Oskar Tadeusz Milik1, Dayeoun Jang1, Maxwell Foxman2, Brian Klebig3, David Beyea4, Alex Leith5, Rabindra Ratan1

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

Maggie Rose Mustaklem

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



THE POLITICS OF MACHINE-LEARNING EVALUATION: FROM LAB TO INDUSTRY

Anna Schjøtt Hansen, Dieuwertje Maria Rebecca Luitse

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The



Jump to recipe? Context and portability in quali-quantitative approaches to online misinformation

Robert Topinka1, Scott Rodgers2

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

Naomi Jacobs, Sejal Changede, Adrian Gradinar

Lancaster University, United Kingdom



Moody Apps: Technologies of Gendered Mediation

Holly Avella

Rutgers University, United States of America



In the shadow of LLMs: Trouble in the “smart” automotive industry

Alex Gekker1, Sam Hind2

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

Jie Shen

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

Pu Yan1, Jie Zhao2, Ke Li3, Schroeder Ralph4

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

Milovan Savic, Anthony McCosker, Jane Farmer

Swinburne University of Technology



DEFINING DIGITAL RIGHTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: MAPPING REGIONAL DIVERSITY AND POWER RELATIONS ACROSS THE NGO INDUSTRY

Peter Chonka, Ashwin Mathew, Elisa Oreglia, Zala Pochat Krizaj

King's College London, United Kingdom



No Semi-Periphery or Global South: A Review of Geographical Bias in Digital Activism Research

Suay Melisa Özkula1, Paul Reilly2

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'

Taylor Annabell1, Nina Vindum Rasmussen2

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



MUSIC CREATOR PERSPECTIVES ON DATAFICATION IN THE UK AND CHINA

D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei Li

University of Leeds, United Kingdom



ENGINEERED INEQUALITY: MUSICAL TAXONOMIES AND STREAMING RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

Raquel Campos Valverde

University of Leeds, United Kingdom



WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND IT: BRAZILIAN USERS’ ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES OF SPOTIFY WRAPPED

Vanessa Amália Dalpizol Valiati1, Ludmila Lupinacci2, Felipe Bonow Soares3

1: Feevale University; 2: University of Leeds; 3: University of the Arts London

 
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
Location: The Octagon
1:30pm
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3:00pm
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Location: Firth Hall
7:00pm
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11:00pm
Conference Dinner & Funfair: MAGNA Science Adventure Centre
Location: MAGNA Science Adventure Centre

 
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