Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 15/Oct/2025
8:00am
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4:30pm		 Registration
Location: NOVO IACS Main Entrance
9:00am
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12:30pm		 Online Hate Speech in Brazil: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 

Preconference Workshop

"Online Hate Speech in Brazil: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges".

Gabriella Costa1, Karina Santos1, João Guilherme Santos2, Leticia Sabbatini3, Tatiana Dourado4

1: ITS Rio, Brazil; 2: Instituto Democracia em Xeque; 3: Universidade Federal Fluminense; 4: Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Democracia Digital

 Early Career Scholars Workshop
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
 Creative Labour In Rupture? Gen-AI And Future Research Directions
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
 

Preconference Workshop

CREATIVE LABOUR IN RUPTURE? GEN-AI AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

Tom Divon1, Zoë Glatt2, Rafael Grohmann3, M.E. Luka3

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Microsoft’s Social Media Collective; 3: University of Toronto
9:00am
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4:30pm		 Doctoral Colloquium
Location: Hotel H

There will be refreshments and lunch for the Doctoral Colloquium

 Registration Doctoral Colloquium
Location: Hotel H Main Entrance
  
9:00am
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5:00pm		 The Model and the Reactor: Artificial Intelligences Infrastructure from Public, Private and Beyond
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
 

Preconference Workshop

The Model and the Reactor: Artificial Intelligences Infrastructure from Public, Private and Beyond

Fenwick McKelvey1, Jonathan Roberge2, Mónica Humeres3, Claudia López4, Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro5, Luciano Frizzera6

1: Concordia University, Canada; 2: Institut national de la recherche scientifique; 3: Universidad de Chile; 4: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María; 5: University of São Paulo; 6: University of Waterloo
10:30am
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11:00am		 Coffee Break
Location: Galeria Gala
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Lunch
Location: Galeria Gala
2:00pm
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5:30pm		 Chronic Problems. Getting to Terms with the Temporality of Algorithmic Media
Location: Room 7a - Groundfloor
 

Preconference Workshop

Chronic Problems. Getting to Terms with the Temporality of Algorithmic Media

Ludmila Lupinacci1, Ignacio Siles2, Christian Pentzold3

1: University of Leeds, UK; 2: Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica; 3: Leipzig University, Germany

 Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
 

Preconference Workshop

Undergraduate Teaching Workshop

Holly Kruse1, Kelly Bourdreau2

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

 Rethinking AI from the Ground Up: Building sustainable AI ecosystems for local communities
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
 

Preconference Workshop

Rethinking AI from the Ground Up: Building sustainable AI ecosystems for local communities

Anjali Mazumder1,3, Nyalleng Moorosi2, Jatinder Singh3,8, Luciana Benotti4,7, Nina Da Hora5, Caleb Moses6, Shaimaa Lazem9, Marcos Javier Gomez4

1: The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom; 2: DAIR (South Africa, Global); 3: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 4: University of Cordoba, Argentina; 5: Instituta da Hora, Brazil; 6: Mila, Quebec, Canada; 7: Fundacion De Libre, Argentina; 8: RC-Trust, UA Ruhr, Germany; 9: City for Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Egypt
3:30pm
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4:00pm		 Coffee Break
Location: Galeria Gala
6:00pm
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8:00pm		 "The Digital Break: When Big Tech (re)Fused the Global North and South"
Location: Teatro Popular Oscar Niemayer

Keynote Speaker: R. Marie Santini - School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Dr. Santini is the founder and director of NetLab – Laboratory for Internet and Social Network Studies, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. NetLab researches the phenomenon of digital disinformation and its social consequences to inform public policies that promote ethics in governance, transparency, and integrity of digital media in Brazil. Marie is a CNPq Research Fellow, an Associate Researcher at the European Centre of Excellence VOX-Pol; a member of the expert committee of the International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID); and a researcher on the Scientific Committee of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

 Registration Teatro Popular
Location: Teatro Popular Main Entrance
  
8:00pm
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9:00pm		 Opening Reception
Location: Teatro Popular Oscar Niemayer