Conference Agenda

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

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

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

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

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

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