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Session Overview
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
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Date: Thursday, 31/Oct/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Climate (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Ozge Ozduzen
 

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

11:00am
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12:30pm
Queer Visibilities (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Łukasz Szulc
 

“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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
Gig Economies (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Raquel Campos Valverde
 

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

3:30pm
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5:00pm
Industry Meets Academia (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Dani Madrid-Morales
 

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

Date: Friday, 01/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Conspiracy Theories (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Adrienne Massanari
 

‘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

11:00am
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12:30pm
Datafied Youth (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Ruth Deller
 

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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
Dating <3 (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Stefanie Duguay
 

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

3:30pm
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5:00pm
Moderation: Platform Approaches (traditional panel)
Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
Chair: Christian Katzenbach
 

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

Date: Saturday, 02/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

11:00am
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12:30pm
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


 
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