USING LEGO TO VISUALISE SOCIOTECHNICAL CHALLENGES: A CREATIVE METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP

Alexander Hardy¹, Suzanne McClure², Simeon Yates¹, Jeanette D'Arcy¹, Gianfranco Polizzi¹, Rebecca Harris¹

1: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2: University of Exeter, United Kingdom

AoIR Ethics: Ethics & Literacies for AI Usage in the Research Process

Michael Zimmer¹, Ylva Hård af Segerstad², Kelly Quinn³, Heidi A. McKee⁴

1: Marquette University, USA; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; 4: Miami University, USA

GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A METHOD FOR CRITICAL RESEARCH

Minna Vigren¹, Nabila Cruz², Elina Sutela³

1: LUT University; 2: University of Sheffield, UK; 3: University of Turku, Finland

Alternative Platform Archives: Methods, Politics, Impact

Robyn Caplan¹, João C. Magalhães²

1: Duke University, US; 2: University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Undergraduate Teaching Workshop

Holly Kruse¹, Emily van der Nagel², Kelly Boudreau³

1: Rogers State University, United States of America; 2: Monash University, Australia; 3: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, United States of America

Workshop: Hostile responses to research on online communities: how can we safeguard researchers?

Helena Webb, Liz Dowthwaite, Virginia Portillo, Peter Craigon, Ephraim Luwemba

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

AoIR Ethics: Where Do We Go From Here?

Michael Zimmer¹, Ylva Hård af Segerstad², Kelly Quinn³, Aline Shakti Franzke⁴

1: Marquette University, USA; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; 4: University Tübingen, Germany

AI, Ethics, and the University

Sarah Florini, Alexander Halavais, Jaime Kirtz, Nicholas Proferes, Michael Simeone, Shawn Walker

Arizona State University, United States of America

Algorithms, resistance, and the global information crisis: prefiguring alternative data futures in the tech industry?

Thomas Wright

The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

REPELLENT MUSK? RETHINKING SOCIAL MEDIA MIGRATION

Nathaniel Tkacz¹, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo², Fangzhou Zhang²

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

#YourSlipisShowing: Afroskepticism and Black Resistance to Digtial Disinformation

Kevin Winstead

University of Florida, United States of America

From Controversy to Codification: Post Lee-Luda AI Ethics and Sociotechnical Imaginaries of South Korea

Jiwon Jenn Oh¹, Jane Pyo²

1: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2: University of Massachusetts at Amherst

TIKTOK’S AI HYPE - CREATORS’ ROLE IN SHAPING (PUBLIC) AI IMAGINARIES

Vanessa Richter

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

AI AS “UNSTOPPABLE” AND OTHER INEVITABILITY NARRATIVES IN TECH: ON THE ENTANGLEMENT OF INDUSTRY, IDEOLOGY, AND OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURES

Zhasmina Tacheva¹, Sarah Appedu¹, Mirakle Wright²

1: Syracuse University, United States of America; 2: University of Colorado Denver, United States of America

“A.I. IS HOLDING A MIRROR TO OUR SOCIETY”: LENSA AND THE DISCOURSE OF VISUAL GENERATIVE AI

Kate Miltner

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

The Entrepreneurial Gaze: On the Subjectivity of the Tech Elite

Robert Dorschel

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Policing Immigrant Indebtedness on Social Media: Navigation of Gratitude, Political Subjectivation, and ‘Surveillance from Home’.

Limichi Okamoto

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Predictions of the Self: AI and The Political Economy of Subjectivation

Luciano Frizzera

Concordia University, Canada

The elite among users: Identity formation of vendors and customers on darknet drug trade sites

Piotr Siuda

Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Craft and the Digital Industries

Kylie Jarrett¹, Alessandro Gandini², Giulia Giorgi², Gaia Casagrande², Adam Arvidsson³, Roberto Graziano³, Vincenzo Luise³, Luca Recano³, Arianna Petrosino³, Viriya Sawangchot⁴, Siriporn Somboonboorana⁴, Camilla Volpe³, Maitrayee Deka⁵

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: University of Milan, Italy; 3: University of Naples Federico II, Italy; 4: Walailak University, Thailand; 5: University of Essex, UK

Sextech Industries and Cultures: Towards Mediated Pleasures and Data Justice

Zahra Stardust^1,6, Kath Albury^2,6, Jenny Sundén³, Jenny Kennedy^4,6, Emily van der Nagel⁵, Caitlin Learmonth^2,6

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 3: Södertörn University, Sweden; 4: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; 5: Monash University, Australia; 6: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI AS PLATFORM: INFRASTRUCTURES, POWER, AND THE AI INDUSTRY

Fernando N. van der Vlist¹, Anne Helmond², Dieuwertje M. R. Luitse¹, Bernhard Rieder¹, Sam Hind³, Max Kanderske⁴

1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 4: University of Siegen, Germany

MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY, AND POLITICIZATION IN DIGITALLY MEDIATED SCIENCE

Rod Abhari¹, Lai Ma², Jodi Schneider³, Simone Tosoni⁴, Zachary Loeb⁵

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: University College Dublin, Ireland; 3: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 4: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; 5: Purdue University, United States of America

GROOMERS, ‘TITTIES’, & STREAMERS, OH MY!: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF ANDROCENTRIC PLATFORM GOVERNANCE ON TWITCH

Brandon C. Harris¹, Jessica Maddox²

1: University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States of America; 2: University of Alabama

RECONTEXTUALIZING VIOLENCE IN REAL TIME: LIVE STREAMING & THE GOVERNANCE OF INCONSISTENCY ON TWITCH.TV

Brandon C. Harris¹, Christine H. Tran², Christopher J. Persaud³

1: University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States of America; 2: University of Toronto; 3: University of Southern California

BREAKING THROUGH THE NOISE: MONETIZED STRUCTURES OF VIEWER VISIBILITY AND INTIMACY IN LIVESTREAMING

Celeste Wyn Wyn Oon

University of Southern California, United States of America

Visibility in the Shadows: Tips in Mainstream vs. Niche Streaming on Chaturbate

Emilija Jokubauskaitė, Stijn Peeters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

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

NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL WAVE: THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF ORDINARY ELDERLY SHORT VIDEO CREATORS IN CHINA

Yingwen Wang

London College of Communication, United Kingdom

Older Adults’ Responses to Misinformation on Social Media

Annalise Baines¹, Eszter Hargittai²

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Automating Eldercare? Visions, problems, and expertise in the “Age Tech” Industry

Elizabeth Nixon Fetterolf

Stanford University, United States of America

Latet anguis in herba: unveiling ageism of generative AI

Juan Linares-Lanzman, Andrea Rosales

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

LLMs and the generation of moderate speech

Emillie de Keulenaar

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

ONLINE POSITIVE SOCIAL ACTIONS (OPSA) AS TECHNO-SOCIAL AFFORDANCES: A FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE DIGITAL SOCIALITY

Roni Danziger¹, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai²

1: Lancaster University, UK; 2: The Hebrew University, Israel

Auditing the Closed iOS Ecosystem: Is there Potential for Large Language Model App Inspections?

Jennifer Pybus¹, Signe Sophus Lai², Stine Lomborg², Kristian Sick Svendsen²

1: York University; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

DOES ALGORITHMIC CONTENT MODERATION RPOMOTE DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE? RADICAL DEMOCRATIC CRITIQUE OF TOXIC LANGUAGE AI

Dayei Oh¹, John Downey²

1: Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University

GOVERNING FROM BLACK TO WHITE: DISINFORMATION IN NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES

Seungtae Han, Brenden Kuerbis, Amulya Panakam

Georgia Institution of Technology, United States of America

Governing and defining misinformation: A longitudinal study of social media platforms policies

Christian Katzenbach¹, Daria Dergacheva¹, Vasilisa Kuznetsova¹, Adrian Kopps²

1: University of Bremen, Germany; 2: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany

The dark side of LLM-powered chatbots: misinformation, biases, content moderation challenges in political information retrieval

Joanne Kuai¹, Cornelia Brantner¹, Michael Karlsson¹, Elizabeth Van Couvering¹, Salvatore Romano²

1: Karlstad University, Sweden; 2: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

HEALTHY INFLUENCE? A CROSS-PLATFORM ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA HEALTH INFLUENCER CULTURES

Lisa Garwood-Cross

University of Salford, United Kingdom

First glass of wine in 8 months!: an examination of sober curious communities on TikTok

Kate Orton Johnson

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Content Creators vs The Healthcare Industry: A Case Study of the Techno-Cultural Authority of ADHD TikTok

Deanna Holroyd

The Ohio State University, United States of America

PERFORMING PREVIVORSHIP ONLINE: EXAMINING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ON TIKTOK

Hannah Ditchfield, Stefania Vicari

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

THE HUMMINGBIRDS: CLAIMING “DE-INFLUENCING” AS AN AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE

Mariah Wellman

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

“want boyfriend ❌❌❌”: Porn Bots, Authenticity and Social Automation on Instagram

Elena Pilipets¹, Sofia Caldeira², Ana Marta M. Flores³

1: University of Siegen; 2: Lusófona University; 3: NOVA University of Lisbon/University of Coimbra

“I’m An E-Commerce Streamer, Not Influencer” ——The Logistical Struggle For Performing Authenticity On Douyin

Shichang Duan

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Navigating The Digital Identity Industry

Emily van der Nagel

Monash University, Australia

Chat GPT’s Ingestion of News Content: Traffic, Revenue and Erasure of Journalistic Labor

Sangeet Kumar

Denison University, United States of America

A Sociology of Expectations: Understanding AI Hype in Journalism

Nadja Schaetz¹, Anna Schjøtt Hansen²

1: Hamburg University, Germany; 2: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

“ARG! THE WORLD DOESN’T FIT THE MODEL!”: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF HOW DATA SCIENCE PROJECTS DEVELOP AND NEGOTIATE WORLD MODELS IN THE NEWS INDUSTRY

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup¹, Jannie Møller Hartley²

1: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Roskilde University

Platformization Intermediaries: Optimizing News for Platforms in India

Simran Agarwal

LabEx ICCA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

HOW FACT-CHECKERS ARE BECOMING MACHINE LEARNERS: A CASE OF META’s THIRD PARTY PROGRAMME

Yarden Skop¹, Anna Schjøtt Hansen²

1: University of Siegen, Germany; 2: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Sex as/and/on Social Media

Alexander Monea¹, Shaka McGlotten², Susanna Paasonen³, Jenny Sundén⁴, Katrin Tiidenberg⁵, Robert Jacobsson⁴

1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: SUNY Purchase, United States of America; 3: University of Turku, Finland; 4: Södertörn University, Sweden; 5: Tallinn University, Estonia

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION

Thomas Poell¹, Tinca Lukan², Arturo Arriagada³, Ergin Bulut⁴, Zhen Ye⁵, David Nieborg⁶, Brooke Erin Duffy⁷, Tommy Tse¹, Jeroen de Kloet¹, Bruce Mutsvairo⁸, Sun Ping⁹, Tonny Krijnen⁵, Qian Huang¹⁰, David Craig¹¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 4: Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom; 5: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The; 6: University of Toronto, Canada; 7: Cornell University, United States; 8: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 9: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; 10: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; 11: USC Annenberg

What does a good internet look like, and how do we get there?

Helen Kennedy¹, Jean Burgess², Jack Qiu³, Rhia Jones⁴, Jonathan Corpus Ong⁵

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, UK; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 4: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Uk; 5: University of Massachusetts, USA

All politics is local: News influencers and audience engagement in local and state politics discourse dynamics on TikTok

Sebastian Svegaard, Samantha Vilkins

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

“OH, YOU MEAN… GAY?”: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS

Anthony Patrick Kelly

University College Dublin, Ireland

Influencer Creep in Parliament: Platform Pressures in the Visibility Labour of French MPs

Annina Claesson

Sciences Po/Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Boycott Wokeness, Shop like a Patriot: A Discursive Analysis of Conservative MLM Promotion on Instagram

Diana Casteel

University of Illinois at Chicago

“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

My Product, Your Green Choice: exploring the interplay between influencer’s sustainability communication and green marketing strategies on TikTok

Mael Bombaci, Francesco Nespoli

Università Lumsa, Italy

REUSE OF IT EQUIPMENT FOR SOCIAL GOOD

Jeanette D'Arcy¹, Rebecca Harris¹, Emma Stone²

1: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2: Good Things Foundation

Data Landfills: re-interpreting our understanding of data centre expansion and pollution within post-colonial Ireland

Dylan Murphy

University College Dublin, Ireland

The Digital Afterlife Industry

Paula Kiel³, Tal Morse^1,2, Edina Harbinja⁴, Katarzyna Nowaczyk- Basińska⁵

1: Hadassah Academic College, Israel; 2: Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK; 3: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK; 4: Aston Univerity, UK; 5: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), University of Cambridge, UK

ADDING TO THE PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR THE DIGITAL AFTERLIFE INDUSTRY (DAI)

Carrie O'Connell

The Univerisity of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

Educated users: Refining manners through social media corporate curriculums

Niall Docherty¹, Matías Valderrama Barragán²

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

Amateur Podcasts and Self-Narrativization: Personal Storytelling and Identity in Digital Pedagogy

Meghan Grosse, Sara Clarke-De Reza

Washington College, United States of America

ALL IVYS, NO SAFETIES: THE DRAMA OF COLLEGE DECISION REACTION VIDOES ON YOUTUBE

Bethany Monea

University of the District of Columbia, United States of America

PROTOTYPING AN EDTECH ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: TOWARDS TECHNICAL DEMOCRACY

Kevin Witzenberger¹, Teresa Swist², Kalervo Gulson²

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

Community PechaKucha and Demo Session: Gaps and Interoperability of Platform Governance Datasets

Dennis Redeker¹, Daria Dergacheva¹, Vanessa Richter², Paloma Viejo Otero¹, Fee Cohausz⁴, Ariadna Matamoros Fernández⁵, Nadia Jude⁵, Taylor Annabell⁶, Cătălina Goantă⁶, João Vieira Magalhães⁷, Adrian Kopps³, Christian Katzenbach^1,3

1: University of Bremen, Germany; 2: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 3: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany; 4: National Chengchi University, Taiwan; 5: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 6: Utrecht University, the Netherlands; 7: University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Imagining an attention economy: Advertising and content creation 2010 to 2015

Stephanie Angela Hill¹, Jeremy Shtern²

1: University of Leicester, United Kingdom; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Hairy industries: The politics of advertising hair products and services to South Africa on Facebook and Instagram

Marion Walton, Deborah Aderibigbe

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Algorithmic gossip in young people’s accounts of ‘unhealthy’ advertising on social media

Brady Robards¹, Nicholas Carah², Lauren Hayden², Amy Dobson³

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

Connecting with Sports Fans: Gambling Marketing Strategies on Instagram

Tugce Bidav¹, Erin McEvoy², Aphra Kerr¹, Paul Kitchin²

1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: Ulster University, Northern Ireland

"I HAVE STOPPED CARING IF I SHOULD THINK BEFORE POSTING ONLINE": JOURNEY OF INDIAN WOMEN TO DIGITAL ACTIVISM AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Nivedita Chatterjee

University of Surrey, United Kingdom

THE HARMS OF AIRDROP MISUSE: TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF YOUNG WOMEN

Nicolette Little¹, Tom Divon²

1: University of Alberta; 2: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

It’s A Joke, Not A Dick. So Don’t Take It Too Hard”: Online Sexual Harassment In Indian Universities

Adrija Dey

University of Westminster, United Kingdom

TOXICITY & SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE: A framework for studying violence on social media platforms

Raquel Recuero¹, Camilla Tavares²

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Maranhão - Campus Imperatriz

De-constructing ‘gender ideology’ myths on reproduction and digital storytelling through CDA: a case study of women’s NGOs social media engagement on Twitter and Facebook”

Carolina Oliveira Matos

City, University of London, United Kingdom

DOCUMENTING THE IMPACT OF ABORTION MYTHS ON HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND ADVOCATES

Rachel Elizabeth Moran, Julia Simoes, Taylor Agajanian, Izzi Grasso, Amanda Swarr, Anna Beers, Emma Spiro

University of Washington, United States of America

Cultures of Sex Advice: Examining TikTok Communities around Sexual Health in the US

Annika Pinch, Facundo Suenzo

Northwestern University, United States of America

Biometric Governmentalities: The Rise of Datafication and the Unique Health Identification Project in India

Faheem Muhammed M. P

Pondicherry University, India

VISUAL TRUST ON SOCIAL MEDIA – MEANING, MONEY AND MOTIVATION

Katrin Tiidenberg¹, Jaana Davidjants¹, Gillian Rose², Josie Hamper², Maria Schreiber³, Marius Liedtke³

1: Tallinn University, Estonia; 2: University of Oxford; 3: University of Salzburg

States, Platforms and AI

Lina Dencik¹, Stine Lomborg², Thomas Poell³, Mark Andrejevic⁴

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Copenhagen University, Denmark; 3: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 4: Monash University, Australia

VIRTUAL CELEBRITY INDUSTRIES IN EAST ASIA

Rachel Berryman¹, Crystal Abidin¹, Do Own Donna Kim², Seol Hwang³, Esperanza Miyake⁴

1: Curtin University; 2: University of Illinois at Chicago; 3: Chung-Ang University; 4: University of Strathclyde

Micro-Autoethnographies of Influencer Creep in the Academy

Christine H. Tran¹, Nelanthi Hewa¹, Brooke Erin Duffy², Jessica Maddox³, Carolina Are⁴

1: University of Toronto; 2: Cornell University; 3: University of Alabama; 4: Northumbria University

THE PHOTOJOURNALISTIC GIF: VISUAL JOURNALISM IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA

Sara Kopelman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

“Why does the air siren work?”: How Telegram Channels in Ukraine Use Open Source Data About Military Danger for Constructing Knowledge about the War

Kateryna Bystrytska

Rutgers University, United States of America

Stories from the Double Lockdown: Digital Liberty in Gaza during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yuval Katz

Loughborough University, United Kingdom

The Unfriending Performance: The Logic of Disconnective Action in Crises

Gregory Asmolov¹, Olga Logunova²

1: King's College London, United Kingdom; 2: King's College London, United Kingdom

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

Endemic identities: Social media self-representation in “the long pandemic”

Chelsea Paige Butkowski

American University, United States of America

Pandemic Pals: Online Communities of Mutual Aid in India

Dyuti Jha, Jeremy David Foote

Purdue University, United States of America

“They will destroy Telegram” – Narratives of platform censorship in the German-speaking COVID-19 conspiracy community on Telegram

Ricarda Drüeke, Corinna Peil, Charlotte Spencer-Smith

University of Salzburg, Department of Communication Studies, Austria

The offline strikes back: complicating the role of digital technologies in Covid-19 mutual aid activism

Elisabetta Ferrari

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

RESEARCHING YOUTH PERSPECTIVES – GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN NON-FORMAL DIGITISED EDUCATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

Eva M. Bosse, Amelie Wiese, Nadia Kutscher

University of Cologne, Germany

Researching the EdTech industry for children: Methodological reflections on a design-based approach

Xinyu Zhao¹, Rebecca Ng², Chris Zomer¹, Gavin Duffy¹, Julian Sefton-Green¹

1: Deakin University, Australia; 2: University of Wollongong, Australia

The Platformization of Private Tutoring and the Making of Technopreneurs in Education

Hany Zayed

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

VIRTUAL BODIES: YOUNG PEOPLE’S SELFIE-EDITING AND BODY-TECHNOLOGY RELATIONS

Julia Coffey¹, Amy Shields Dobson², Akane Kanai³, Rosalind Gill⁴, Niamh White³

1: University of Newcastle; 2: Curtin University; 3: Monash University; 4: City University London

INSTAGRAM CLOSE FRIEND STORIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AMONG LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE

Paul Byron

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Tinder for teens: An in-depth exploration of youth intimate cultures and sexual and gender-based violence on Snapchat

Betsy Milne¹, Jessica Ringrose¹, Tanya Horeck², Kaitlynn Mendes³

1: University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Anglia Ruskin University; 3: Western University

Getting Industrious With Others: Workshop(s) on Creative and Crafty Public Engagement Methods

Annette N. Markham¹, Katrina Jungnickel², Mary Elizabeth Luka³, Kishonna L. Gray⁴, Larissa Hjorth⁵

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2: Goldsmiths University, UK; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: University of Kentucky, United States; 5: RMIT University, Australia

Protocols of Whiteness: Universalism, Individualism, and Control in the AT Protocol

Sarah Florini

Arizona State University, United States of America

A People's Community Control of Technology: A Historical Analysis of Decolonial Tech Advocacy

Brooklyne Gipson

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

Stuff (is something) White People Like: On White Prototypicality of Facebook

Sean Rutherford McEwan

UNC, United States of America

PLATFORMIZATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF DARK INDUSTRY OF MOBILITY AND SMUGGLING

Kaarina Nikunen¹, Sanna Valtonen²

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Tampere University, Finland

Breadwinner or breadmaker: Contradictions in tradwives' creator labor, religious vernacular, and aesthetics

Roxana Mika Muenster, Margaret E. Foster

Cornell University

Ambivalent Affective Labour, Datafication of Qing and Danmei Writers in the Cultural Industry

Liang Ge

King's College London, United Kingdom

ERROR 404: SEX WORKER DIGITAL TACTICS RESISTING ENFORCED INVISIBILITY

Nicole Veronica Bush¹, Christianna Clark²

1: Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, United States of America; 2: Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, United States of America

The Collective Individualism of YouTube Makeup Reviews

Blake Hallinan, Tommaso Trillò, Saki Mizoroki, Rebecca Scharlach, Pyung Hwa Park, Avishai Green, Limor Shifman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TikTok ‘Dogshows’ and the Amplification of Online Incivility Among Gen Z Influencers in the Philippines

Samuel Idris Cabbuag^1,2, Crystal Abidin³

1: Hong Kong Baptist University; 2: University of the Philippines Diliman; 3: Curtin University

FAVELA AESTHETICS: DIGITAL INFLUENCERS IN BRAZIL CONTESTING INSTAGRAM VISUAL CULTURES

Issaaf Karhawi¹, Anderson Lopes da Silva²

1: Universidade Paulista (UNIP), Brazil; 2: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

The Professionalisation of Networked and Refracted Misogyny in the Case of Estonian Misogynist Influencers

Kaarel Lott, Maria Murumaa-Mengel

University of Tartu, Estonia

(Re)Attaching Life, Body and Memory Through Breonna’s Garden in Augmented Reality

Alisa Hardy

University of Maryland, United States of America

FROM #BODYPOSITIVE TO #WEIGHTLOSSJOURNEY – EXPLORING WEIGHT LOSS NARRATIVES WITHIN THE FAT COMMUNITY

Ella Maria Holi

University of Bergen, Norway

‘You cannot expect such validation in real life:’ Historical continuities and change in women’s romancing with AI chatbot Replika

Iliana Depounti, Paula Saukko

Loughborough University, United Kingdom

“YOU WILL BLOOM IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO WATER YOURSELF:” A CONTENT AND THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF #INSTAGRAMVSREALITY IMAGES AND CAPTIONS ON INSTAGRAM

Meaghan Furlano, Kaitlynn Mendes

Western University, Canada

EXPLORING APPIFICATION

Fernando N. van der Vlist¹, Anne Helmond², Esther Weltevrede¹, Michael Dieter³, Stefanie Duguay⁴, Iain Emsley³, Fangzhou Zhang³, Anthony Glyn Burton⁵, Christopher Dietzel⁴, Eric Filice⁶, Diana C. Parry⁶, Corey W. Johnson⁷

1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Warwick, United Kingdom; 4: Concordia University, Canada; 5: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 6: University of Waterloo, Canada; 7: North Carolina State University, United States

Controversies, Problematic Information, and Polarisation: Case Studies across Six Countries

Axel Bruns¹, Marco Bastos², Otávio Vinhas², Raquel Recuero³, Felipe Soares⁴, Laura Iannelli⁵, Giada Marino⁶, Danilo Serani⁷, Augusto Valeriani⁸, Tariq Choucair¹, Sebastian Svegaard¹, Laura Vodden¹, Daniel Whelan-Shamy¹, Alia Azmi¹, Jennifer Stromer-Galley⁹

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 3: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 4: University of the Arts London, London, UK; 5: University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; 6: University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy; 7: University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; 8: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 9: Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

Global South Creator Cultures

Tugce Bidav¹, Smith Mehta², Arturo Arriagada³, Wangari Njathi⁴, Wilson Karis⁶, Cecilia Ka Hei Wong⁵, Suren Nora⁷, Kaye Bondy⁸

1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: University of Groningen, the Netherlands; 3: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 4: Pepperdine University, United States; 5: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 6: New York University, USA; 7: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA; 8: University of Leeds, UK

FAIRNESS IN THE WORK BEHIND THE AI INDUSTRY: HOW ACTION-RESEARCH APPROACHES CAN BUILD BETTER LABOUR CONDITIONS

Jonas Chagas Lucio Valente, Funda Ustek Spilda, Oguz Alyanak, Lola Brittain, Mark Graham

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

THE SUPPLY CHAIN CAPITALISM OF AI: A CALL TO (RE)THINK ALGORITHMIC INFRASTRUCTURE FROM BELOW AND ON THE LEFT

Ana Valdivia

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

SIMULATING SUBJECTIVITY - BAUDRILLARD AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LLMS

Sebastião Quelhas Freire

University College Dublin, Portugal

Behind the Science at the European Spallation Source: from back stage technicians to front stage data professionals

Katherine Harrison

Linkoping University, Sweden

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

THE DIGITAL INDUSTRY OF EDUCATION: SHAPING SCHOOLING THROUGH EDTECH

Meenakshi Mani¹, Gavin Duffy², Carlos David Ortegón Banoy³, Michelle Ciccone⁴, Ted Palenski⁵

1: University of Edinburgh, UK; 2: Deakin University, Australia; 3: KU Leuven, Belgium; 4: UMass Amherst, USA; 5: University of Glasgow, UK

EXPERIENCE GAMES: YOUTH PLAY AND THE ONLINE ‘LADDERS’ OF CREATIVE PARTICIPATION

Darshana Jayemanne¹, Sara Grimes², Seth Giddings³

1: Abertay University; 2: University of Toronto; 3: University of Southampton

Getting Girls into Games: The White Spatial Imaginaries of Nancy Drew Digital Play

Reem Hilu

Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America

HOW DO THE DIVERSE DRIVERS OF CHILDREN’S (6-12) DIGITAL PLAY MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL GAMES AND CHILDREN’S SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING?

Fiona Louise Scott

The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF K-POP DANCE CHALLENGES: CHILDREN’S K-POP DREAM, INTERNET STARDOM, AND CUTE LABOR IN THE EVOLVING CULTURE INDUSTRY

Jin Lee

Curtin University, Australia

A Minimum Digital Living Standard For UK Households With Children

Simeon Yates¹, Katherine Hill², Chloe Blackwell², Emma Stone³, Abigail Davis², Matt Padley², Gianfranco Polizzi¹, Jeanette D'Arcy¹, Rebecca Harris¹, Elinor Carmi⁴, Alexander Singleton¹, Supriya Garikipati⁵, Paul Sheppard⁶, Zi Ye¹

1: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2: University of Loughborough, United Kingdom; 3: Good Things Foundation, United Kingdom; 4: City University, United Kingdom; 5: University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland; 6: Critical Research, United Kingdom

WhatsApp, diaspora youth and ‘digital brokerage’ in transnational family and community contexts

Amelia Faith Johns

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia

DECOLONISING THE INTERNET: EXPERIENCES OF (CYBER)BULLYING AND DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS FOR YOUTH OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN ATHENS

Kainaat Maqbool, Tsaliki Liza

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

GENDER, INTIMACY, AND DIGITAL PRACTICES: INSIGHTS INTO ITALIAN TEENAGERS' EXPERIENCES

Francesca Comunello¹, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli², Lorenza Parisi³, Vittoria Bernardini²

1: Sapienza University of Rome; 2: University of Padova; 3: Link Campus University

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND PROMPTS: TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES

Jing Han, Andrew Iliadis

Temple University, United States of America

Digital Dancing: The Ontology and Ownership of Dance Online

Hetty Blades, Vipavinee Artpradid

Coventry University, United Kingdom

Under the Feet of Shadows: an arts-based speculative inquiry into Ireland’s data industries

EL Putnam

Maynooth University, Ireland

Tapping the "untapped resource": How twentieth-century industrial priorities have shaped contemporary new media art practices

Roopa Vasudevan

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

SCROLL, PRINT, ALGORITHMICALLY CLUSTER: A CO-ANALYSIS APPROACH TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN USERS, PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMIC MODELS ON INSTAGRAM

Nicholas Carah, Maria-Gemma Brown, Rani Tesiram, Hine Kahukura, Lisa Enright, Kiah Hawker

The University of Queensland, Australia

Mixed Feelings: the platformisation of moods and vibes

Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Theorising toggling: being pushed and moved by UI

Simiran Lalvani

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Jewish Entrepreneurial Labor Tiktok: Navigating Visibility, Education, And Algorithmic Harm

Tom Divon¹, Jess Rauchberg², Jessica Maddox³

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2: Seton Hall University; 3: University of Alabama

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

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

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, 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, 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

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

Axel Bruns^1,2, Katharina Esau¹, Laura Vodden¹, Michelle Riedlinger¹, Samantha Vilkins¹, Laura Lefevre¹, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski¹, Arjun Srinivas^1,2, Abdul Obeid^1,2, James Meese^3,2, Daniel Angus^1,2, Timothy Graham^1,2, Jean Burgess^1,2, Felix Münch^4,5, Felix Gaisbauer⁶, Armin Pournaki^7,8, 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

(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

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 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

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

Bare lives underneath the platform: The biopolitics of Chinese platform food delivers

Songyin Liu^1,2, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

University of Bremen, Germany

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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