HUMANS AND MACHINES IN THE LOOP: RETHINKING LLMS FOR CONFLICT AND DISAGREEMENT IN CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL COMPLEX PHENOMENA

Tariq Choucair¹, Laura Vodden¹, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam⁴, Paul Pressmann², Fabio Giglietto³, Katharina Esau¹, Cornelius Puschmann², Axel Bruns¹, Giada Marino³, Bruna Paroni³

1: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia; 2: University of Bremen, Germany; 3: University of Urbino, Italy; 4: Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany

The sky is bluer on the other side: fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus

Felipe Bonow Soares¹, Ludmila Lupinacci², Vanessa Valiati³

1: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom; 2: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 3: Feevale University, Brazil

“BREAST IS BAD”: COUNTER-NARRATIVES TO BREASTFEEDING NORMS ON ITALIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Elena Ceccarelli, Farci Manolo

Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Red Pills and Red Light Therapy: Biology, Optimization, and the “science of beauty” in Online Women’s Spaces

Elizabeth Fetterolf, Rachel Bergmann

Stanford University, United States of America

“Screw you, this is a cheerful place”: Platformized violence among positive-vibe Reddit communities

Esteban Morales

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

MEMEFICATION OF MOTHERHOOD ON TIKTOK: #TYPESOFMOMS DECONSTRUCTION OF PARENTING IDEALISATION

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú¹, Crystal Abidin²

1: Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain; 2: Curtin University, Australia

DISCONNECTION AMID INEQUALITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO ETHNO-RACIAL MINORITIZED YOUNG WOMEN’S DIGITAL MEDIA (NON)USE

Tom De Leyn¹, Mariek Vanden Abeele², Ralf De Wolf²

1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: imec-mict-ugent, department of communication sciences, Ghent University

FROM RUPTURED RELATIONSHIPS TO SWIPING RIGHT – SINGLE PARENTS ON DATING APPS

Plata Sofie Diesen

Kristiania University College, Norway

REALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS: HOW USERS, SPONSORS AND GOVERNMENTS BRING ABOUT FEATURE CHANGE

Kevin Patrick Garvey², Danielle Flonk¹

1: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan; 2: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Rethinking search intent: From traditional search engines to LLM-powered information retrieval

Elsa Maria Lichtenegger, Aleksandra Urman, Aniko Hannak

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Eco-anxiety in climate activists: The role of information exposure on social media

Marc Esteve Del Valle, Klara Katarzyna Matusewicz

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

How beliefs, knowledge and intuition affect the way we search? Examining how users formulate search queries about climate change

Victoria Vziatysheva, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova, Vihang Jumle

University of Bern, Switzerland

Data Donation in Action: Reimagining Digital Identity Through Creative Engagement

Daniel Angus

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Six Years of European Visual Climate Activism: A Longitudinal Analysis of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion’s Online Visual Communication

Costanza Azzuppardi², Nicole Doerr³, Maria Langa⁴, Matteo Magnani⁵, Dániel Oross⁶, Luca Rossi¹, Alexandr Segerberg⁵, Katrin Uba⁵, Luigi Arminio¹

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy; 3: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 4: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 5: Uppsala University, Sweden; 6: Center for Social Sciences, Hungary

Neither Fragmentation Nor Transnationalization: Longitudinal Attention to Climate Change by Legacy and Social Media in Brazil and Germany (2014-2022)

Diógenes Lycarião¹, Daniela Stoltenberg², Marcelo Alves Dos Santos³, Annie Waldherr⁴, Zozan Baran²

1: UFC (Federal University of Ceará), Brazil; 2: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 3: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 4: Universität Wien, Austria

Visual framing of climate denialism: a cross-platform analysis of Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan

Kilian Bühling¹, Jing Zeng², Annett Heft³

1: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), Germany

Public Attention Towards Sustainability in the EU: An Exploration of Google Trends Data

Davide Beraldo, Nora Svensson Hahr, Martin Trans

University of Amsterdam

CULTURAL BAIT: KWAI’S COLD START ALGORITHM AND THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF BRAZILIAN CULTURE

Elias Cunha Bitencourt^1,2, Guilherme Bispo C. Santos^1,2, Nusta Oviedo^1,2, Rayssa Keuri Pereira Batista^1,2, Cecilio Ricardo de Carvalho Bastos^1,2

1: State University of Bahia, Brazil; 2: Datalab Design

ADORKABLE AI: HOW ALGORITHMS SHAPE LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPES IN BRAZIL AND THE US

Viviane Ito^1,2, Lyric Grimes¹

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

#Baby Supplementary Food as Cyber Shield: Grounded Perspectives on Chinese Digital Feminism on RedNote

Meng Liang¹, Xiaoyue Zhang², Linqi Ye³

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Carleton University, Canada; 3: University of Warwick, The UK

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT AN ALGORITHM: HOW JOURNALISM FRAMES THE DISRUPTIVE POTENTIAL OF GENERATIVE AI

Fritz Kessler, Gabriel Ponniah, Chelsea Butkowski, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide

American University, United States of America

"Elderqueer is more than just an age thing": Experiences of LGBTQ+ intergenerational co-presence on TikTok

Hannah Jamet-Lange, Dunja Nešovic, Stefanie Duguay

Concordia University, Canada

QUEER MEDIA PRODUCTIONS IN SOCIAL VR: SELF- EXPRESSION, DOCUMENTATION AND RESISTANCE THROUGH VRCHAT

Sérgio Arriaga Cunha Galvão Roxo^1,2

1: University of Bergen, Norway; 2: Center for Digital Narrative

“A Slippery Slope of Nakedness:” An Exploration of Online Nude Content Exchange by Gay and Bisexual Men

Andrew Lawrence Restieri

Cornell University, United States of America

Indigenous Representation in Commercial Search

Tegan Louise Cohen

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Global Projects, Local Histories: Tradition, Digital Activism, and Resistance in the Indigenous Esports Movement in Brazil

Tarcízio Macedo

Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND DIGITAL GOOD LIVING

Alexsandro Cosmo de Mesquita¹, Helen Kennedy²

1: Thydêwá NGO, Ilheus, Brazil; 2: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INDIGENOUS (SELF-)REPRESENTATION: A MODEL FOR AGENCY AND AUTONOMY

Andreas Rauh¹, Thea Pitman², aruma (Sandra De Berduccy)³

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: University of Leeds; 3: Universidad Finis Terrae

EMERGING TECHNO-POLITICAL AFFORDANCES: TRANSFORMATION OF TECHNICAL AFFORDANCES ON TIKTOK DURING PROTESTS IN PERU

Melanie Jessica Lopez del Pozo

Chakakuna LAB, Peru

FROM POPULAR MUSIC TO POPULARITY THROUGH MUSIC: SERBIAN PROTESTS ON TIKTOK.

Elisabetta Zurovac

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

“A DAY IN MY LIFE”: EVERYDAY “DIGITAL PEACEBUILDING” BY MUSLIM YOUNG WOMEN ON TIKTOK

Lynrose Jane Genon

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

From Right to Left: How Bardella and french political actors Navigate TikTok Politics

Mael Bombaci, Francesco Nespoli, Simone Mulargia

Università Lumsa, Italy

MAINSTREAMING DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

Thomas Poell¹, Jonathan Ong², Laura Guimarães Corrêa³, Usha Raman⁴, Bruce Mutsvairo⁵, Burcu Baykurt², Smith Mehta⁶, Zhen Ye⁷, David Nieborg⁸, Godwin Simon⁸, Lorena Caminhas⁹, Arturo Arriagada¹⁰

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Massachusetts - Amherst, United States; 3: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; 4: University of Hyderabad, India; 5: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 6: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 7: Erasmus University, Netherlands, The; 8: University of Toronto, Canada; 9: Maynooth University, Ireland; 10: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

Data Labelling and the Promise of Development in Northeast India

Zothan Mawii

University of Maryland, United States of America

Names that matter: the self-interpellation and re-socialisation of Chinese trans people's online naming

Songyin Liu

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of

Antisocial Media: AI Adoption And Changing Collaboration Trends Between Multilingual Computer Scientists

Haley Lepp

Stanford University, United States of America

ON JOKES AND BOUNDARIES: HOW MACHINE LEARNING PRACTITIONERS NAVIGATE HYPED EXPECTATIONS THROUGH MEMES

Dominic Lammar¹, Oksana Dorofeeva²

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany. School of Social Sciences and Technology. Department of Science, Technology and Society.; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark. Department of Political Science. Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy.

AI ABOLITION AS DECOLONIAL RUPTURE IN AI EMPIRE: RADICAL CYBERPRACTICES FROM BELOW

Zhasmina Tacheva¹, Sarah Appedu¹, Jeongbae Choi¹, Mirakle Wright², Yigang Qin¹

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

Re-defining inclusive AI: A critical capabilities framework for bridging theory and practice

Dominique Carlon, Anthony McCosker

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Wikidata’s Worldview: Inspecting an AI Knowledge Pipeline with Semantic Network Analysis

Andrew Iliadis, Mikayla Brown

Temple University, United States of America

EXPLORING SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHILDREN’S DIGITAL CULTURE THROUGH CREATIVE METHODS

Henry Mainsah

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Slop for Kids: an exploratory study of AI-generated videos for children on YouTube

André Mintz, Juno Bozzi

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

WEB DETECTION METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL INTERPRETATION OF IMAGE COLLECTIONS

Janna Joceli Omena¹, Briones Ángeles², Scott Rodgers³, Eduardo Leite⁴, Simon Ceh⁵

1: King's College London, United Kingdom; 2: Politecnico di Milano; 3: Birkbeck, University of London; 4: Universidade Federal da Bahia; 5: University of Graz

RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Shawna Finnegan¹, Gyssele Mendes², Hazel Acero⁴, Anabela Carlon³, Silvia Kaarie⁵

1: Association for Progressive Communications, Global; 2: Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social, Brazil; 3: Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), Mexico; 4: Manila Observatory KLIMA Centre, Philippines; 5: Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), Kenya

‘FAILURE’ AS A SPACE OF CRITIQUE AND IMAGINATION: THE CASE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES

Luisa Cruz Lobato¹, Thallita Gabriele Lopes Lima²

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania (CeSec)

Platform Glitching: How Chinese Young Females Negotiate Digital Visibility on Xiaohongshu

Jialing Song

University of Amsterdam, China, People's Republic of

RUPTURE AND GLITCH IN PLEASURE: EXPLORING EROTIC ROLE PLAY IN VIRTUAL REALITY

Ilker Bahar

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mind the gap: Fakes detection between traditional and computational logics

Svetlana S. Bodrunova¹, Anna Gladkova²

1: St.Petersburg State University, Russian Federation; 2: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation

Against the Tide: Startup Cultures in Mexico City and Buenos Aires

Tomás Guarna

Stanford University, United States of America

MAPPING CANADIAN SOCIAL MEDIA: NEWS SHARING ON CANADIAN MASTODON INSTANCES

Alex Martin, Robert William Gehl

York University, Canada

MAPPING AFFECTIVE URBAN ATMOSPHERES IN SHANGHAI’S PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO URBAN MOBILITIES

Helena Atteneder¹, Mon Rodriguez Amat²

1: Universität Tübingen, Germany; 2: University of Sheffield

Safe Search On: Mapping Queer Safe Spaces in the Philippines through Digital Placemaking

Randy Jay Solis, Ma. Jeriesa Osorio, Macon Reman, Jon Benedik Bunquin

University of the Philippines

Eldritch Agency: Truth Termina's Alien AI Ontology

Teodor Mitew

The University of Sydney, Australia

Imaginaries of error: Exploring the sensemaking of generative AI failures among German lay users

Eva Luise Knor

University of Hamburg, Germany

ALGORITHMIC RUPTURES: TIKTOK’S ROLE IN SHAPING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES OF DIGITAL NOMADS

Karine Ehn, Ana Jorge

CICANT, Lusofona Univesity, Portugal

ARTIFICIAL INTIMACIES: EXPLORING HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE AGE OF AI

Rodrigo Perez-Vega¹, Ezgi Merdin-Uygur², Cristina Miguel¹

1: University of Reading; 2: Brunel University of London

“Ambient Misogyny”: pockets of gendered hate across contexts and platforms

Suay Melisa Özkula¹, Patricia Prieto-Blanco², Sofia Caldeira³, Ana Kubrusly⁵, Hannah Ditchfield⁴, Stefania Vicari⁴, Yumeng Guo⁴

1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: Lancaster University, UK; 3: Lusófona University, Portugal; 4: University of Sheffield; 5: CICS.NOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal

“I Get by With a Little Help from my Friends”: Friendship as Digital Method Zine Making Workshop

Aparajita Bhandari¹, Sara Bimo², Rebecca Noone³, Chelsea Butkowski⁴

1: University of Waterloo, Canada; 2: York University, Canada; 3: University of Glasgow, Scotland; 4: American University, USA

THE HEXAGON OF DISINFORMATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR EMPIRICAL RESEARCHES

Maurílio Luiz Hoffmann da Silva

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The War of Ideas Meets the New Digital Network: An Alternative History of Online Disinformation

Rebecca Lewis

MIT, United States of America

Missing the Big Picture: Platform Opacity Weaponized for Disinformation in the Twitter Files Brazil Case

Carlos Edurado Barros, Rose Marie Santini, Thiago Ciodaro Xavier, Felipe Grael, Fernando Ferreira

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UFRJ)

OUTLINES OF THE GAMER DATA SUBJECT POSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TRUST

Andreas Schellewald¹, Chunmeizi Su²

1: Goldsmiths, University of London; 2: University of Sydney

PIRACY AS A MARKET STRATEGY TO RESIST THE ONLINE PLATFORMIZATION OF VIDEO GAMES

Andre Pase, Roberto Tietzmann

PUCRS, Brazil

Yellow Coolant and Kellogg’s Diarrhea: Slop, Shanzhai and Cursed AI as Memetic Aesthetic Detournement

Dylan Alexander Schenker, Rowena Chodkowski

Concordia University

Brat Aesthetics and Algorithmic Choreography: Navigating Platform Governance at the Intersection of Sex Work and Art Work

Marissa Grace Willcox¹, Rebecca Franco²

1: Goldsmiths University of London / The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CRINGE AESTHETICS AND DIGITAL CASTEISM: PLATFORM ECONOMIES, AND THE PRECARIOUS LABOR OF RURAL CONTENT CREATORS IN INDIA

Poulami Seal

Georgia State University, United States of America

Digital subordination or sovereignty: a comparative analysis of the digital policies of the European Union, Brazil and China in the face of the hegemony of the United States in the digital economy

César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño¹, Ezequiel Alexander Rivero², Helena Martins do Rêgo Barreto³, José Medeiros⁴, Renata Mielli⁵

1: Universidade Federal de Sergipe; 2: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; 3: Universidade Federal do Ceará; 4: Zhejiang International Studies University; 5: Cooordenadora do Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil e doutoranda USP

A NEW ERA OF ONLINE DATING? AN ANALYSIS OF THE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DATING APPS

Luciana Ribeiro Rodrigues

UFABC, Brazil

“The facts are wrong, but the framing is right”: How young adults judge the trustworthiness of Instagram news account ‘cestmocro’

Tim Groot Kormelink, Helen Arts, Youri Coudron, Nadine Hoen, Tessa van Groeningen

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

THROWING SPAGHETTI, SEEING WHAT STICKS: ITERATIVE DECEPTION IN DIGITAL STRATEGIC INFORMATION OPERATIONS

Giada Marino¹, Fabio Giglietto¹, Anwesha Chakraborty¹, Massimo Terenzi¹, Samuel Olaniran²

1: University of Urbino, Italy; 2: University of the Witwatersrand

INFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS IN RESISTANCE AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF SOCIOBIODIVERSITY IN THE AMAZON: THE ROLE OF ONLINE MEDIA AND CYBERACTIVISM

Lis-Rejane Issberner¹, Julia Dias²

1: Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“Am I at Risk?” - Conducting Risky Research and Collective Risk Mitigation Strategies

Alice E. Marwick¹, Beatrys Rodrigues², Alex Ketchum³, Adrienne Massanari⁴, Rebekah Tromble⁵

1: Data & Society Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Cornell University; 3: McGill University; 4: American University; 5: George Washington University

THE LIFE, DEATH, AND AFTERLIFE OF GAMESPY: AN AUTOPSY OF A DEAD PLATFORM

Nelanthi Hewa¹, Alexander Ross²

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia, Canada

Don’t Let Good Data Go to Waste: On Grief Tech, Deadness, Data Restlessness

Sarah Murray

University of Michigan, United States of America

ALGORITHMIC AFTERLIVES: THE ETHICS OF REVIVING THE DEAD

Bethan Jones¹, Jenny Kidd¹, Eva Nieto McAvoy²

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

The Unsharable: Non-Sharing as Grief Work and Ruptures of Digital Mourning

Larissa Hjorth, Tamara Borovica, Katrin Gerber

RMIT, Australia

TRAFFIC AS VISIBILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: SEO'S TRANSFORMATION OF THE INDIAN NEWSROOM

Sangeet Kumar

Denison University, United States of America

PRESS FREEDOM IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI: CHALLENGES TO AUTHENTICITY AND DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE

Juan Ortiz Freuler, Bumju Jung

University of Southern California, United States of America

Data, Sense, and Sensibility: How Data Journalism Style Shapes Interactivity

Avner Kantor¹, Sheizaf Rafaeli²

1: University of Haifa, Israel; 2: Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel

Cloud Journalism: Examining News Media’s Adoption of Cloud Infrastructures

Agustin Ferrari Braun

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

ASPIRATIONAL SELF-LABOUR AND LISTENING PRACTICES IN BRAZIL

Vanessa Amália Dalpizol Valiati¹, Robert Prey²

1: Feevale University, Brazil; 2: University of Oxford, UK

They Don't Build Statues of Critics: The Fate of Music Evaluation in the Era of Streaming and Social Media

Walker West Brewer

Northwestern University, United States of America

Streaming Platforms and Everyday Lives: Musical Community and Individualisation

David Hesmondhalgh¹, Shuwen Qu²

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: Jinan University, China

Chill vibes: Wellness creep into music streaming platforms

Raquel Campos Valverde, Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

NEW NARRATIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING PLATFORM LABOUR IN SOUTH AMERICA

Arturo Arriagada¹, Jonas Valente², Alejandra Dinegro³, Matías Dodel⁴, Pía Garavaglia⁵, Julice Salvagni⁶

1: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez/Fairwork Chile; 2: Fairwork; 3: Observatorio de Plataformas/Fairwork Perú; 4: Universidad Católica de Uruguay/Fairwork Uruguay; 5: Fairwork Argentina; 6: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/Fairwork Brasil

Social Media Bans for Australians Under16: Rupturing the Teenage Years?

Tama Leaver¹, Amanda Third², Daniel Angus³, Axel Bruns³

1: Curtin University, Australia; 2: Western Sydney University, Australia; 3: Queensland University of Technology, Australia

SLIPPERY, SLOPPY, SPECTACULAR, AND VERY UNRULY: FEMINIST CREATIVE LABOUR IN A RUPTUROUS AGE

MaryElizabeth Luka¹, Mélanie Millette², Jessica Rauchberg³, Zoë Glatt⁴, Christine Tran¹, Cate Alexander¹, Kenzie Gordon⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; 3: Seton Hall University, USA; 4: Microsoft Research, USA; 5: University of Alberta, Canada

Beyond creativity: Decoding changes mediated by Generative AI models in visual generative media and creative production

Pranjali J Mann, Alberto Lusoli

Digital Democracies Institute/ Simon Fraser University, Canada

Poisoning the Well: The Battle for Creative Control in the Era of Generative AI

Sarah Elizabeth Edwards¹, Zoë Glatt²

1: University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2: Microsoft Research

“What’s our escape plan, and where are we going to meet up?”: Theorising platform evacuation in platform society

Taylor Annabell¹, Crystal Abidin²

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Curtin University, Australia

The platform politics of hateful play on Twitch

E. Brooke Phipps¹, David Murphy², Josh Jarrett²

1: Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America; 2: University of Staffordshire, United Kingdom

REGULATING AI IN INDONESIA: BETWEEN DIGITAL DREAMS AND POWER PLAYS

D A D Angendari^1,2

1: Leiden University, The Netherlands; 2: Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

DIGITAL DREAMS: EXPLORING IMAGINARIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Coppélie Cocq, Stefan Gelfgren

Umeå University, Sweden

RUPTURING LABOUR IMAGINARIES: WORK NARRATIVES ON INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK

Laura Bruschi, Camilla Volpe, Alessandro Gandini

University of Milan, Italy

Refusal to Display: CripFat Technoscience for Data Solidarity

Amy Gaeta, Aisha Sobey

Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

FANDOMS AND LEARNING: THE ROLE OF ACA-FANS IN FORMAL EDUCATION

Fernanda Castilho¹, Enoe Lopes Pontes de Marques Tavares²

1: Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil; Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza, CEETEPS, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Anitta's Political Activism and Controversies on Digital Platforms: The Case of Her Support for Lula During the 2022 Elections

Simone Pereira de Sá

Federal Fluminense University, Brazil

Fan studies in Brazil: the internet-centric bias and its impact on understanding local fandoms.

Aianne Amado¹, Eloy Vieira²

1: University of São Paulo, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil

IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: RUPTURES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Zachary McDowell¹, Steve Jones¹, Zizi Papacharissi¹, Lee Humphreys², Adriana de Souza e Silva³, David Gunkel⁴, Jeffrey Boase⁵, Scott Campbell⁶, Nicole Ellison⁷

1: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2: Cornell University; 3: Northeastern University; 4: Northern Illinois University; 5: University of Toronto; 6: Ohio State University; 7: University of Michigan

LATIN AMERICAN CREATOR (SUB)CULTURES ON TIKTOK: VISIBILITY, RESISTANCE, AND CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent¹, Tom Divon², Adriana Da Rosa Amaral³, David Craig⁴, Arturo Arriagada⁵, Matías Cifuentes⁶, Melanie López del Pozo⁷, Rafaela Tabasnik⁸, Vanessa Valiati⁹, Maria Perendentseva¹⁰, Camila Ferrareli⁹, Sandra Portela Montardo⁹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 4: University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, USA; 5: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 6: Cultura Social Media Lab, Chile; 7: Chakakuna Lab, Peru; 8: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil; 9: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 10: University of Salford, UK

Wikipedia Edits Before Elections: Analyzing Strategic Changes in Political Representation

Felicia Loecherbach

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

BEYOND DISINFORMATION: ANALYZING “CHEAPFAKES” DURING LULA’S HOSPITALIZATION ON X

Mariana Carvalho¹, Letícia Sabbatini²

1: FGV Comunicação Rio, Brazil; 2: UFF, Brazil

Political misinformation across 260 countries and 5 social media platforms

Petter Törnberg¹, Juliana Chueri²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND FACT-CHECKING CONTENT: THE PERCEPTION OF LUPA’S COMMENTERS ABOUT POLITICAL DEBATES DURING 2022 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN BRAZIL

Thiago Fedacz Anastacio, Camilla Quesada Tavares

Unversidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil

WOMEN IN CONTROL: A STUDY ON BODY AND GENDER FROM A BRAZILIAN GAMER COMMUNITY

Catherine Moura¹, José Messias²

1: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

LABOUR AND MASCULINITY: EXAMINING THE PERFORMANCES OF VIETNAMESE GAME LIVESTREAMERS IN PLATFORMISED CULTURAL WORK (WIP PAPER)

Hanh Do Doan Nguyen

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

MODDING SKYRIM WITH GENERATIVE AI: EXPLORING IMAGINARIES AND PLAYER-NPC INTERACTIONS

Samyr Paz¹, Camila Freitas², Gabriela Rolim³

1: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; 3: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The play-along method: An ethnographic approach to analyze video game culture

Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, Henry Mainsah, Clara Julia Reich

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

AOIR ETHICS IN ACTION: GUIDELINES, REGULATIONS, AND PRACTICES ACROSS DIVERSE GLOBAL COMMUNITIES

Michael Zimmer¹, Jessica Vitak², Anna Lenhart³, Ylva Hård af Segerstad⁴, Thomas Hartvigsson⁴, Annika Bergviken-Rensfeldt⁴, Thomas Hillman⁴, Megan Brown⁵, Andrew Gruen⁶, Gabe Maldoff⁷, Solomon Messing⁸, Zeve Sanderson⁸, Eli Asikin-Garmager⁹, Cameran Ashraf⁹, Leila Zia⁹

1: Marquette University; 2: University of Maryland; 3: George Washington University; 4: University of Gothenburg; 5: University of Michigan; 6: Mozilla Foundation; 7: Goodwin Procter; 8: New York University; 9: Wikimedia Foundation

Gujarati Aunties on the Integrated Circuit: Internet Infrastructures as an Immigrant Circuit

Kinjal Dave

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

FROM DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES TO DIGITAL BORDERLANDS: GENERATIVE AI, BOUNDARY OBJECTS, AND THE EXPANSION OF THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

Paulo F. C. Fonseca¹, Elias Bitencourt²

1: Federal Univeristy of Bahia, Brazil; 2: State University of Bahia, Brazil

SCALING AI IN THE CLOUD: THE DISRUPTION OF “CLOUDIFICATION” IN CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Alex Gekker¹, Sam Hind², Gabriel Pereira¹, Fernando van der Vlist¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: University of Manchester, UK

RUSSIAN INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY AND INFRASTRUCTURAL COERCION: THE CASE OF TSPU

Dmitry Kuznetsov

Critical Infrastructure Lab, University of Amsterdam

On the Unintended Consequences of Content Takedowns: Countering Extremism and the Case of Chef Pete Evans

James Fitzgerald¹, Vivian Sophie Gerrand²

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: Deakin University, Australia

#FREE LUIGI BETWEEN PLAYFUL RESISTANCE AND RUPTURE

Michelle Robin Stewart, Samuel Laperle

UQAM, Canada

“Internet Toilets” and the Girls in Emotional Refuge: The Cultural Politics of Online Invective Subcultural Communities in China

Songyin Liu, Zhijun Ye

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of

DIGITAL IDENTITY, DATAFICATION AND EPIDERMALISATION IN MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP

Mirca Madianou¹, Charlotte Hill²

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Why Reddit? Histories, ethics, politics & practices as Reddit turns 20

Samantha Vilkins¹, Dominique Carlon², Ashwin Nagappa¹, Ari Stillman³, Ehsan Dehghan¹, Kateryna Kasianenko¹, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh¹, Axel Bruns¹, Sebastian S.K. Svegaard¹, Katherine M. FitzGerald¹

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

“MEET THE PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE”: AN EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL BLACK PRESS OUTLETS’ AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

Miya Williams Fayne

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

The paradox of the European Media Freedom Act: regulating for platform dependence

Charilaos Papaevangelou, Max van Drunen

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE MEDIA: THE ROLE OF EVERYDAY AUDIENCE DIGITAL ACTIVISM IN CHALLENGING THE NEWS MEDIA FOR ITS REPORTING ON MINORITIES.

Nadia Haq

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

THE GREAT JOURNALISTIC WALL IN CHINA: PREEMPTIVE BOUNDARY WORK IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI

Joanne Kuai

RMIT Australia

How Creative is AI writing? Generative and Collaborative AI in Japanese Fiction

Yuki Asano², Marco Bastos^1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London

IN THE STYLE OF: EXPLORING INDUSTRY, CREATOR AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF COPYING STYLE THROUGH GENERATIVE AI

D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye¹, Joanne Gray², Kylie Pappalardo³

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sydney; 3: Queensland University of Technology

The Power of Inevitability: How OpenAI Configures the Future

David Nieborg¹, Tero Karppi¹, danah boyd²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Cornell University

THE CENTER’S “INVISIBLE BACK SUPPORT”: INFRASTRUCTURING VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Andrea Alarcon¹, Cheryll Soriano²

1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: De La Salle University, Philippines

Visual media in motion: Conceptualizing the short video format within visual platforms

Giulia Isabella Guerra

Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

LOWER THAN LIFE: THE NEO-FOLK ART IN CHINA'S ERA OF SHORT VIDEOS

YE FUNA

University College London, United Kingdom

From the Internet to the Everyday: An Exploration of Visual Representations of Peace

Isabel Prinzing¹, Cornelia Brantner², Katharina Lobinger¹

1: Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; 2: Karlstad University

Semantic Clustering for Visual Data

Luigi Arminio¹, Matteo Magnani², Matias Piqueras², Luca Rossi¹, Alexandra Segerberg²

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Uppsala University, Sweden

It’s still about the internet: How the digitalization of exchange disrupted the culture industries

Anders Fagerjord¹, Marius Øfsti²

1: University of Bergen, Norway; 2: University of Aarhus, Denmark

(Re)presenting the “H” in Human-Centered Computing

Haley Lepp, Vyoma Raman

Stanford University, United States of America

God(bots) and Authority: Trust and Faith in the Age of AI

Benjamin Clay Davis¹, Kelley Cotter¹, Shaheen Kanthawala², Yupo Liu¹, Ankolika De¹, Amy Ritchart², Haley McAtee²

1: The Pennsylvania State University; 2: The University of Alabama

The “Space of Reasons” and Digital Public Sphere: Developing Connections in Empirical Research

Rousiley Maia, Bruna Silveira de Oliveira, Maiara Orlandini

The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

SONIC SPACES OF RUPTURE: CAPACITIES FOR DIGITAL CONNECTION, INTIMACY, AND LIBERATION IN TIMES OF UNREST

Andrew Herman¹, Adrienne Massanari², Katie Moylan³, Aram Sinnreich², Jenny Sunden⁴, Sara Tanderup Linkis⁵, Anne MacLennan⁶

1: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 2: American University, USA; 3: University of Leicester, UK; 4: Uppsala University, Sweden; 5: Lund University, Sweden; 6: York University, Canada

WORLDMAKING BEYOND AI: SPECULATIVE FAILURE AS HOPEFUL ANALYTIC

Stephen Yang

University of Southern California, United States of America

AI-GENERATED MUSIC AND THE LISTENING SUBJECT: RUPTURES IN CREATIVITY, DIGITAL LABOR, AND ALGORITHMIC LISTENING

Ian Dunham

Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Rupturing "AI for Good": A Feminist Decolonial Theoretical Framework for Analyzing AI Interventions in Gender-Based Violence

Lucia Fernanda Mesa Velez

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

DeepSeek AI Meets Divination: Algorithmic Syncretism, Data Consecration, and Accuracy Politics

Silei Zhu

Rutgers University, China, People's Republic of

MEDITATION, MEDIATED: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGICAL AFFORDANCES AND THE UTAUT MODEL IN STUDYING DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS

Rachana Lalit Talekar, Dr. Yiping Xia

Texas A&M University, United States of America

Parallel Platformization of Health: Health Communication on Douyin and TikTok

Xinna Li

University College Dublin, Ireland

The Continuous Glucose Monitor as Boundary Object: How a Diabetic Device Reveals The Generalized Becoming-Diabetic of Quantified Selfhood

Carrie Ann Rentschler

McGill University, Canada

EXPLORING POSTDIGITAL BECOMING THROUGH PERIOD- AND CYCLE TRACKING APPS – AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

Beatrice Tylstedt

Uppsala University, Sweden

TikTok-ing queer migrant joy

Paul Mart Jeyand Matangcas

Northwestern University, United States of America

Framing a Brazilian singer and activist: asymmetries between Portuguese cultural coverage and TikTok

Mariana Scalabrin Müller¹, Davide Gravato²

1: Independent Research; 2: University of Minho/CECS

"It's Not About Laziness, It's About Efficiency": Youth Perspectives on Generative AI in Higher Education Through the Lens of TikTok

Ioana Literat¹, Constance de Saint Laurent², Vlad Glaveanu³, Rhea Jaffer¹, Sonia Kim¹, Sophia diPlacido⁴

1: Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America; 2: Maynooth University; 3: Dublin City College; 4: Penn State Erie

CRISIS AS COMMODITY: THE GAMIFICATION OF ADVERSITY ON TIKTOK LIVE MATCHES AND ITS LEGAL CHALLENGES

Laura Aade¹, Tom Divon²

1: University of Luxembourg; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

PLATFORMED HOPE: NAVIGATING PLATFORM MONETIZATION IN THE NIGERIAN SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO INDUSTRY

Godwin Iretomiwa Simon¹, David B. Nieborg²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: University of Toronto, Canada

NETWORKING AND MONETIZATION STRATEGIES OF SPANISH-SPEAKING FINFLUENCERS: A CO-LINK ANALYSIS OF YOUTUBE DESCRIPTIONS

José M. Tomasena¹, Hibai López-González¹, Diego Arredondo²

1: University of Barcelona, Spain; 2: Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain

Self-monetization as a double bind: the governance of affective labor of brazilian streamers

Amanda Thuns Biazzi, Matheus Viana Braz

Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil

Intermediation of Lending: Platforms, Mobile Money, and Data Transactions in India

Rahul Mukherjee

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

DATAFICATION OF MEDIA WORKERS

Roseli Figaro, Luis Gonçalves

Communication and Work Research Center (CPCT) - USP, Brazil

ANALYZING LABOR MOBILITY AND MIGRATION IN THE DIGITAL GAMES INDUSTRY: A STUDY WITH BRAZILIAN WORKERS

André Campos Rocha

DigiLabour research lab, Brazil

The Logistics of Hope Labour: Digital War Investigations in Ukraine

Lonneke van der Velden¹, Johana Kotišová¹, Burlyuk Olga¹, Guillén Torres²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Berkeley Human Rights Center, United States

PRESCRIPTIONS OF DOMESTIC WORK PLATFORMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES

Claudia Rebechi

Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil

Digital Labor desde Latin America: A Pluriversal Lens

Rafael Grohmann¹, Julian Posada², Kruskaya Hidalgo-Cordero³, Helena Martins⁴, Camilla Salim Wagner⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Yale University, United States; 3: Observatorio de Plataformas ODP; 4: Federal University of Ceara, Brazil; 5: Weizenbaum Institute, Germany

Generative AI In Marketing: Productivity Gains and Work Automation

Joel Gastmann², Marco Bastos^1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London

COLONIAL MAPPING OF ADVANCE AUTOMATION: EAST INDIA COMPANY AS AI

Elisha Lim¹, Beth Coleman²

1: York University, Canada; 2: University of Toronto, Canada

THE PLATFORMIZATION OF INFORMAL SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CASE OF DROPSHIPPING

Andrea Alarcon¹, Nicholas Carah², Sokummono Khan³

1: University of Queensland; 2: University of Queensland; 3: University of Queensland

MANOSPHERE, DIS/AFFECTED: EXPLORING THE AFFECTIVE POLITICISATION IN THE SPANISH ANTI-FEMINIST SUBCULTURES

Silvia Díaz Fernández

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Between Global Waves and Local Currents: K-pop, YouTube, and Fan Cultures in Quebec

Nina Duque

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

FANSUBBING AS FEMINIST DISRUPTION IN CHINA

Cara Wallis

University of Michigan, United States of America

ESOLS, SOFT POWER, AND NOMADISM: THAI CREATOR CULTURE IN THE SHADOW OF PLATFORM NATIONALISM

David Craig¹, Saittawut Yutthaworakool², Jessada Salathong³

1: University of Southern California/ Annenberg, U.S.A.; 2: Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; 3: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms: Internet(s) Research Otherwise

Beatrys Rodrigues¹, Aspen K.B. Omapang¹, Nikko Stevens², Thiane Neves Barros³, Polinho Mota⁴

1: Cornell University; 2: Smith College; 3: Mozilla and Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais; 4: data_labe and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Coloniality of Power in Global Development Teams: Perspective from Indian and Brazilian Tech Workers

Sébastien Antoine

Maynooth University, Ireland

Technical vs. Self-perceived: Examining Crowdsourcing Workers' Algorithm Knowledge on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Leon Zhenglang Wang, Ruiwen Zhou

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Imagining AI in Organized Media Work: Labor Narratives of the 'Hollywood Strikes'

Caitlin Petre¹, Julia Ticona²

1: Rutgers University; 2: University of Pennsylvania

No Escape: Exploring Work-Life Blending and Precarity Among Chinese Female Journalists

Lingyu Li

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

THE GREAT SYSOP: ELON MUSK, X, AND THE EMERGENCE OF ILLIBERAL CONTENT MODERATION

João Magalhães¹, Clara Iglesias Keller², Robert Gorwa³

1: University of Groningen; 2: Weizenbaum Institute | Berlin Social Science Center; 3: Berlin Social Science Center

Off worlding autonomy: Provincial infrastructure and orbital sovereignty in the Ford-Starlink partnership

Rory Zane Rafferty Sharp, Aviva Weizman

York University/Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

STARLINK IN THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS: INFRASTRUCTURAL IMAGINARIES AGAINST DIGITAL COLONIALISM

Luciana Musello

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

STARLINK, PLANETARY CAPITALISM AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF THE AMAZON

Luisa Cruz Lobato¹, Brenda Thainá Cardoso de Castro²

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: State University of Pará (UEPA)

RUPTURES, DISSENT AND CANCELLATION: STUDIES ON DIGITAL FANDOMS IN CRISIS

Sebastian F. K. Svegaard¹, Samantha Vilkins¹, Katherine M. FitzGerald¹, Adriana Amaral², Stella Mendonça Caetano³, Eloy Santos Vieira⁴, Aianne Amado Nunes Costa⁵, Caroline Govari Nunes³, Simone Driessen⁶, Bethan Jones⁷

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 3: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS); 4: Universidade Federal de Sergipe; 5: Universidade de São Paulo; 6: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 7: Cardiff University