Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Wednesday, 30/Oct/2024
8:00am - 4:00pm	Registration - University of Sheffield Location: INOX Lounge Area
8:30am - 12:00pm	Early Career Researcher Workshop Location: INOX Suite 1
8:30am - 12:00pm	Using Lego Location: INOX Suite 2
8:30am - 12:00pm	AoIR Ethics 1: Ethics & Literacies for AI Usage in the Research Process Location: INOX Suite 3
9:00am - 4:30pm	Doctoral Colloquium (inc. registration) Location: Sheffield City Hall Session Chair: Thomas Poell
9:00am - 4:30pm	Generative Artificial Intelligence as a Method for Critical Research Location: Discovery Room 2
9:00am - 4:30pm	Alternative Platform Archives: Methods, Politics, Impact Location: Discovery Room 3
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee Break Location: INOX Lounge Area
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch Location: On your own
1:00pm - 4:30pm	Undergraduate Teaching workshop Location: INOX Suite 1
1:00pm - 4:30pm	Hostile Responses to Research on Online Communities: How Can We Safeguard Researchers? Location: INOX Suite 2
1:00pm - 4:30pm	AoIR Ethics 2: Where Do We Go From Here? Location: INOX Suite 3
1:00pm - 4:30pm	AI, Ethics, and the University Location: Discovery Room 1
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Coffee Break Location: INOX Lounge Area
4:30pm - 5:30pm	Registration Location: Sheffield City Hall
5:30pm - 7:00pm	2024 KEYNOTE Location: Sheffield City Hall
7:00pm - 8:30pm	Opening Reception Location: Sheffield City Hall

Date: Thursday, 31/Oct/2024
8:00am - 4:45pm	Registration Location: The Octagon
8:00am - 5:30pm	Cloakroom Location: The Octagon A free, staffed space to leave clothing items and luggage.
9:00am - 10:30am	Resistance (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Sarah T. Roberts
9:00am - 10:30am	AI & Hype (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Jean Burgess
9:00am - 10:30am	Subjectivity & Subjectification (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 3 Session Chair: Liang Ge
9:00am - 10:30am	Craft & the Digital Industries (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
9:00am - 10:30am	Sextech Industries and Cultures: Towards Mediated Pleasures and Data Justice (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
9:00am - 10:30am	The Political Economy of AI as Platform (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 3
9:00am - 10:30am	Misinformation, Conspiracy, & Politicisation in Digitally Mediated Science (panel proposal) Location: SU Gallery Room 2
9:00am - 10:30am	Livestreaming (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 3 Session Chair: Charlotte Durham
9:00am - 10:30am	Climate (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Ozge Ozduzen
9:00am - 10:30am	Ageing & Technology (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Aleesha Joy Rodriguez
9:00am - 10:30am	Language & Sentiment (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Nicolette Little
9:00am - 10:30am	Governing Mis/Disinformation (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Monika Fratczak
9:00am - 10:30am	Health Creators (traditional panel) Location: Uni Central Session Chair: Sara Reinis
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee Break Location: The Octagon
11:00am - 12:30pm	Authenticity (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Ludmila Lupinacci
11:00am - 12:30pm	AI & Journalism (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Axel Bruns
11:00am - 12:30pm	Sex as/and/on Social Media (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
11:00am - 12:30pm	Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
11:00am - 12:30pm	What Does a Good Internet Look Like, and How do we Get There? (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
11:00am - 12:30pm	Politics & Influencers (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Session Chair: Jennifer Stromer-Galley
11:00am - 12:30pm	Queer Visibilities (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Łukasz Szulc
11:00am - 12:30pm	Sustainability (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Rachel Wood
11:00am - 12:30pm	The Digital Afterlife Industry (panel proposal) Location: SU View Room 5
11:00am - 12:30pm	Platforms & Education (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Fiona Louise Scott
11:00am - 12:30pm	Community PechaKucha and Demo Session: Gaps and Interoperability of Platform Datasets (experimental session) Location: Uni Central
11:00am - 12:30pm	Marketing & Advertising (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 1 Session Chair: Tama Leaver
11:00am - 12:30pm	Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Ruth Deller
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: The Octagon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Health & Platforms (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Hannah Ditchfield
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Visual Trust on Social Media: Meaning, Money, and Motivation (panel proposal) Location: INOX Suite 2
1:30pm - 3:00pm	States, Platforms, and AI (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Virtual Celebrity Industries in East Asia (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Micro-Autoethnographies of Influencer Creep in the Academy (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Crises & the Digital (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Session Chair: Stefania Vicari
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Gig Economies (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Raquel Campos Valverde
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Pandemic Communities (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Jonathan Corpus Ong
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Young People & Education (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Lynn Schofield Clark
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Youth Intimacies (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Amy Shields Dobson
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Getting Industrious with Others - PART 1 (experimental session) Location: Uni Central
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Discriminatory Tech (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 1 Session Chair: Amelia Faith Johns
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Gendered Labour (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Sofia P. Caldeira
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Coffee Break Location: The Octagon
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Global Influencer Cultures (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Taylor Annabell
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Bodies & Emotions (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Katrin Tiidenberg
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Exploring Appification (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Controversies, Problematic Information, & Polarisation: Case Studies Across Six Countries (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Global South Creator Cultures (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
3:30pm - 5:00pm	AI, Data, & Labour (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Session Chair: Lianrui Jia
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Industry Meets Academia (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Dani Madrid-Morales
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Digital Industry of Education (panel proposal) Location: SU View Room 4
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Play & Youth Cultures (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Devina Sarwatay
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Youth Around the Globe (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Jessica Ringrose
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Getting Industrious with Others - PART 2 (experimental session) Location: Uni Central
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Arts-Based Approaches (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 1 Session Chair: Yumeng Guo
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Platform Logics & Vernaculars (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Alex Gekker
5:30pm - 7:00pm	2024 PLENARY PANEL | AoIR: The Eras Tour Location: The Wave, Lecture Theatre 1 Session Chair: Helen Kennedy Featuring Nancy Baym, Steve Jones, Susanna Paasonen, Limor Shifman, Raquel Recuero, Crystal Abidin, and Catherine Knight Steele
7:00pm - 8:30pm	Reception Location: The Wave Atrium

Date: Friday, 01/Nov/2024
8:00am - 4:30pm	Registration Location: The Octagon
8:00am - 5:30pm	Cloakroom Location: The Octagon A free, staffed space to leave clothing items and luggage.
9:00am - 10:30am	Sexual Content Moderation (panel proposal) Location: INOX Suite 1
9:00am - 10:30am	The Creator Industry (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
9:00am - 10:30am	Digital Methods & Ethics (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 3 Session Chair: Daniel Angus
9:00am - 10:30am	Why Does Authenticity (Still) Matter on Social Media? (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 1
9:00am - 10:30am	Creator Economies (traditional panel) Location: Discovery Room 2 Session Chair: Jessica Maddox
9:00am - 10:30am	AI & Disinformation (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
9:00am - 10:30am	Democracy & Civil Society (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Session Chair: Catherine Knight Steele
9:00am - 10:30am	Conspiracy Theories (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Adrienne Massanari
9:00am - 10:30am	Curating Concealment: Frameworks for Emerging AI in Research & Teaching (panel proposal) Location: SU View Room 4
9:00am - 10:30am	Risks to Trans & Queer Lives (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Zoetanya Sujon
9:00am - 10:30am	Social Media as a Key Actor in Redefining Healthcare Industry Dynamics (panel proposal) Location: SU View Room 6
9:00am - 10:30am	Platforms & Governments (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Suay Melisa Özkula
9:00am - 10:30am	Revitalising the Concept of the Everyday in Internet Research (panel proposal) Location: Uni Central
9:00am - 10:30am	Men & Masculinities (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Briony Hannell
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee Break Location: The Octagon
11:00am - 12:30pm	Creator Labour (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Christian Katzenbach
11:00am - 12:30pm	Privacy (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Emily van der Nagel
11:00am - 12:30pm	AI & Governance (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 3 Session Chair: Helen Kennedy
11:00am - 12:30pm	Algorithmic Imaginaries (traditional panel) Location: Discovery Room 1 Session Chair: Nina Vindum Rasmussen
11:00am - 12:30pm	Platforms, Valuation, & Inequalities (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
11:00am - 12:30pm	Technoskepticism (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
11:00am - 12:30pm	The Precarity, Perils, & Promises of Emerging Creator Economies (panel proposal) Location: SU Gallery Room 2
11:00am - 12:30pm	Datafied Youth (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Ruth Deller
11:00am - 12:30pm	Infrastructures (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Blake Hallinan
11:00am - 12:30pm	Frictions & The Data Industry (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Gavin Duffy
11:00am - 12:30pm	Organisations & Leadership (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 6 Session Chair: Lana Swartz
11:00am - 12:30pm	Elections (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Steve Jones
11:00am - 12:30pm	Low Visibility Practices: Reconsidering Visibility and Value on Social Media (fishbowl) Location: Uni Central
11:00am - 12:30pm	Tech & Public Sectors (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Elinor Carmi
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: The Octagon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Archives & Memory (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Jill Walker Rettberg
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Global Labour Practices (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Ozge Ozduzen
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Constructing the Digital: Working from the Global South (panel proposal) Location: INOX Suite 3 Session Chair: Nicholas John
1:30pm - 3:00pm	AI Industry Expectations & Underperforming Imaginaries (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Play, Polarization, & Participation: Exploring Ambiguous Fannish Practices in Online Networks (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
1:30pm - 3:00pm	The Politics of Worrying about Young Lives on Social Media (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Historicizing the Far Right (panel proposal) Location: SU Gallery Room 2
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Dating <3 (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Stefanie Duguay
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Speech & Perception (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Making Place & Space (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Limor Shifman
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Internet (Political) Economies (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 6 Session Chair: Thomas Poell
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Reinterpreting Platform Governance (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Zoetanya Sujon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Spotify Unwrapped (experimental session) Location: Uni Central
1:30pm - 3:00pm	TikTok Cultures (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Tom Divon
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Coffee Break Location: The Octagon
3:30pm - 5:00pm	GPT & LLMs (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Bernhard Rieder
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Podcasting (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Gabriel Pereira
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Times & Transformations (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 3 Session Chair: Tim Highfield
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Child Safety (traditional panel) Location: Discovery Room 1 Session Chair: Ysabel Gerrard
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Industry Tensions: Labor Subjectivities & Self-Reinvention in Platform Work (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Music Consumption through Platforms: Moving Towards a Global Perspective (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Ambient Amplification: Attention Hijacking & Social Media Propaganda (panel proposal) Location: SU Gallery Room 2
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Moderation: Platform Approaches (traditional panel) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room Session Chair: Christian Katzenbach
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Gender & Marketing (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Tanya Horeck
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Fans & Anti-Fans (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Ben Litherland
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Politics & Dissemination (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 6 Session Chair: Monika Fratczak
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Safety & Safe Spaces (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Researching Toxic Online Communities in the Academic-Industrial Complex (fishbowl) Location: Uni Central
3:30pm - 5:00pm	(After) Platformisation (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Robert Gorwa

Date: Saturday, 02/Nov/2024
8:00am - 1:00pm	Registration
8:00am - 1:00pm	Cloakroom Location: The Octagon A free, staffed space to leave clothing items and luggage.
9:00am - 10:30am	Materialities & Infrastructures (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1
9:00am - 10:30am	Platforms & Borders (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Sarah Florini
9:00am - 10:30am	Industries of Infrastructural Futures, Automated Cultures, & Algorithmic Dynamics (panel proposal) Location: INOX Suite 3
9:00am - 10:30am	The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, & Expectations (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
9:00am - 10:30am	Surveillance (traditional panel) Location: Discovery Room 2 Session Chair: Yuval Katz
9:00am - 10:30am	Analysing News Polarisation: From Production to Engagement and Beyond (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 3
9:00am - 10:30am	Feminisms (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Session Chair: Cecilia Ka Hei Wong
9:00am - 10:30am	Generative AI as a Media Technology (roundtable) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
9:00am - 10:30am	The Far Right (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Ozge Ozduzen
9:00am - 10:30am	Digital Youth & Families (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Kath Albury
9:00am - 10:30am	Tech Workers (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Kylie Jarrett
9:00am - 10:30am	Trust & Safety (traditional panel) Location: Uni Central Session Chair: Nabila Cruz De Carvalho
9:00am - 10:30am	Moderation: User Responses (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Daniel Joseph
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Ethnographies (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 1 Session Chair: Annette N Markham
11:00am - 12:30pm	Fringe Communities (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 2 Session Chair: Jess Rauchberg
11:00am - 12:30pm	Futures (traditional panel) Location: INOX Suite 3 Session Chair: Alessandro Gandini
11:00am - 12:30pm	Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 1
11:00am - 12:30pm	The Digital Childhood Industry (panel proposal) Location: Discovery Room 2
11:00am - 12:30pm	Money and other Technologies of Value in Internet Industries (roundtable) Location: Discovery Room 3
11:00am - 12:30pm	Data & Tracking (traditional panel) Location: SU Gallery Room 2 Session Chair: Tanya Kant
11:00am - 12:30pm	Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical & Practical Experiences with LLMs for Text Classification and Annotation (panel proposal) Location: Alfred Denny Conf Room
11:00am - 12:30pm	Rethinking Methods (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 4 Session Chair: Sal Hagen
11:00am - 12:30pm	"Smart" Technologies (traditional panel) Location: SU View Room 5 Session Chair: Aleena Chia
11:00am - 12:30pm	Inequalities & Inclusivity (traditional panel) Location: Octagon Council Chamber Session Chair: Giselle Newton
11:00am - 12:30pm	Music Streaming (traditional panel) Location: The Octagon: Meeting Room 4 Session Chair: Holly Kruse
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: The Octagon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Annual General Meeting (AGM) Location: Firth Hall
7:00pm - 11:00pm	Conference Dinner & Funfair: MAGNA Science Adventure Centre Location: MAGNA Science Adventure Centre