Is AI hype overstated? A global perspective on AI, disinformation and extreme speech

Sahana Udupa¹, Marcelo Alves Dos Santos Junior², Herman Wasserman³, Tatiana Dourado⁴, Michael Best⁵

1: University of Munich (LMU), Germany; 2: Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3: Stellenbosch University, South Africa; 4: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil; 5: Georgia Tech University, USA

Tracing a Memetic Journey: From South American Death Flights to Free Helicopter Ride Memes

Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

MEMES OF RESENTMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW THE FAR RIGHT MOBILIZES HUMOR AND SENTIMENT STRUCTURES IN PRIVATE MESSAGING NETWORKS

Viktor Chagas¹, Vinicius Miguel²

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

Meme Work in Anti-Veg*nism Humor on Instagram: Reflections on Hate Speech and Social Media Regulation

Thiago Costa

Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

PLATFORMED NOSTALGIA: AUTOMATTIC-ERA TUMBLR AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF HISTORICAL SOCIAL MEDIA NOSTALGIA

Briony Hannell

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Histories and Ruptures in Platform Governance

Tomás Guarna¹, Emillie de Keulenaar², Anna Gibson³, Diyi Liu⁴

1: Stanford University, United States of America; 2: University of Groningen, Netherlands; 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America; 4: University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Digital Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomy, Resisting Epistemic Violence

Eirliani Abdul Rahman¹, Melissa Villa Nicholas², Salwa Hoque³, Alpha Obike⁴

1: Georgetown University; 2: University of California Los Angeles; 3: Emory University; 4: UWI Mona and Western Jamaica Campus

Epistemic Ruptures and Shadow Libraries: Meta, Anna's Archive, and the Politics of AI Datafication

Ian Dunham

Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Between Friction and Play: How Participants Experience and Understand Data Donation

Tim Groot Kormelink¹, Fiore Houwing¹, Bella Struminskaya², Laura Boeschoten², Niek de Schipper³, Kasper Welbers¹

1: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

THE INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF THE USAID DATA CAPTURE

Mirca Madianou

Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

Making personalization ✨delightful✨: staging power for data indulgence on Spotify

Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

THE FAX AS SHADOW DIGITAL SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Satenik Sargsyan

Linköping University, Sweden

Hollow Datasets: Algorithmic Calculability in Data Curation

Alejandro Alvarado Rojas

University of Southern California, United States of America

In the midst… Temporality, affect and infrastructures of feeling

Rebecca Coleman

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

CO-PARENTING WITH AI: AUDITING THE INFRASTRUCTURES OF DATAFICATION IN BABY TRACKING APPS

Jennifer Pybus, Katrina Matheson

York University, Canada

Between Flesh and Algorithm: Resistance Strategies in Brazilian Camming

Maria Júlia Alencastro Veiga

ESPM, Brazil

“In data they trust”: the poetics of citizen-generated data in Brazilian cannabis activism

Guilherme Queiroz Alves

University of Antwerp, Belgium

TECHNIQUE, IMAGINARY AND SAMBA – THE INFLUENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL, 2025

Andriolli de Brites da Costa¹, Thales Soares Martins²

1: Uerj, Brazil; 2: UFJF, Brazil

Engagement Exchanges and the Collective Pursuit of Visibility on TikTok in the Brazilian Context

Issaaf Karhawi¹, Willian Araujo²

1: University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil; 2: University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), Brazil

Repairing Ruptures: Recentering Play and Games in Internet Research

Adrienne Massanari¹, Alison Harvey², Ailea Merriam-Pigg³, E. Brooke Phipps⁴, Andrew Lowe⁵

1: American University, United States of America; 2: York University-Glendon, Canada; 3: University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States of America; 4: Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America; 5: University of Maryland, United States of America

Blockchain: The New Internet of Trust

Larriza Thurler, Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, Luiz Eduardo Folly

RNP, Brazil

War, Weapons, and the Web: Tracing Cyberwar Leaks and 3D-Printed Firearms as Distributed Network Swarms

Benjamin De Kosnik¹, Abigail De Kosnik², Aaron Zolla³

1: Independent Researcher; 2: University of California Berkeley; 3: University of California Berkeley

Decentralized Re-Platforming: a case study of three fediverse instances

Leonardo Foletto¹, Guilherme Flynn²

1: Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil; 2: Independent Reseacher

Investigating Information Integrity: Pathways for researching informational practices on digital platforms

Bernardo Martinho Ballardin, Fabio Jose Novaes de Senne

Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br | Nic.br)

DETECTING OPINION LEADERS IN A TELEGRAM NETWORK OF FORWARDED MESSAGES

Giulia Tucci^1,2, Fabio Castro Gouveia¹

1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, Brazil; 2: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia

THE ATTRIBUTED HUMAN: HOW IDENTITY TOKENIZATION ENABLES AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION IN WEB3

Violeta Camarasa San Juan, Saskia Witteborn

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

FRINGE PLATFORMS AND THE PREVALENCE OF DIGITAL BANTER DURING THE UK RIOTS

Craig Ryder

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, United Kingdom

CHALLENGING THE RULES OF INFLUENCER MARKETING: EMERGING SENSITIVITIES AROUND CHILDREN'S PRESENCE IN FAMILY INFLUENCERS PROFILES

Elisabetta Locatelli, Alessandra Coman

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Not Content with Content: Ruptures in Media Discourse and Production?

Sarah Jean Salman

Cornell University, United States of America

FN BOOK CLUB: DISPUTES OVER CAPITAL AND PERFORMATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE LITERARY SPHERE

Byanca Caroline da Silva Ribeiro

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Co-Consuming Dystopia: Analyzing an Alternative Genre of Technology Criticism through Amazon’s Book Recommendation Networks

Marc Tuters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Negotiated resistance as platform cynicism: an empirical investigation of Internet consumption practices of Temu

Shuxian Liu, Edgar Gómez-Cruz

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Consuming the selling experience in-the-moment: The use of TikTok Live during Black Friday in the Netherlands

Taylor Annabell¹, Laura Aade², Catalina Goanta¹

1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Cyborg Imaginaries: A Computational Grounded Theory of Online Pioneer Community Discussions on Human Augmentation

Giulia Frascaria, Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

A Not So Stella(r) Encounter: Discursive Closure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

Muira McCammon, Lauren Schenack

Tulane University, United States of America

Algorithmic Fairness in Crisis Communication: How AI Chatbots Shape Public Trust and Engagement

Shupei Yuan¹, Anqi Xiao², Luye Bao³

1: Northern Illinois University, United States of America; 2: University of Wisconsin Madison, USA; 3: Peking University, China

"Just Asking Questions": Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots

Daniel Angus, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Michelle Riedlinger, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Timothy Graham

Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology

Health creator: Anatomy of a fuzzy concept

Stefania Vicari¹, Hannah Ditchfield¹, Yumeng Guo¹, Nina Morena², Elly Htite², Yitzchok Ahisar³, Victoria Hayman², Carrie Rentschler², Ari Meguerditchian², Deanna Holroyd⁴, Stephanie Alice Baker⁵, Katrin Tiidenberg⁶, Marius Liedtke⁷, Maria Schreiber⁷, Josie Hamper⁸

1: The University of Sheffield; 2: McGill University; 3: University of British Columbia; 4: The Ohio State University; 5: City St George’s, University of London; 6: Tallinn University; 7: University of Salzburg; 8: University of Oxford

Synthetic data and global finance. Narratives, (dis)continuites and ruptures.

Carolina Aguerre¹, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn², Marc Lenglet³, Edemilson Parana⁴

1: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay; 2: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 3: NEOMA Business School, France; 4: LUT University, Finland

Lucrative Ex/tensions: ‘Digital Twin’ Labour as Passive Income in the Virtual Human Economy

Jul Jeonghyun Parke

University of Toronto, Canada

PLAYING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: #GRWM AND THE LUDIC POSSIBILITIES OF COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCES

Natalie Coulter

York University, Canada

THE CELEBRATION OF EXPLOITATION: PLATFORM PROMOTION AND LEGITIMISATION STRATEGIES EXPRESSED THROUGH USER DATAFICATION

Graham Meikle¹, Isabelle Higgins²

1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

INTRODUCING INFORMATION INFLUENCERS: DIGITAL CAPITAL AS RESISTANCE DURING SRI LANKA’S ARAGALAYA

Craig Ryder

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, United Kingdom

"ROSES ARE RED, I KNOW THIS TREND IS IN THE PAST, BUT I WAS HELD CAPTIVE BY HAMAS, SO I GET A PASS": FORMER TEENAGE HOSTAGES OF THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR NARRATE TRAUMA AND IDENTITY ON TIKTOK

Nathan Stolero^1,2

1: Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: Department of Communication, Gordon Academic College of Education

Beyond love is love: investigating LGBTQIA+ parent-influencers' advocacy work on Instagram

Arianna Bussoletti

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

(POST-)DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF RUPTURE: THE CZECH MEDIA LANDSCAPE AND ITS THREATS

Karolina Sitnikova¹, Jeffrey Wimmer²

1: Charles University, Czech Republic; 2: University of Augsburg, Germany

A sociodigital approach to investigating youth, teachers' and parents' experiences of smartphone banning in England

Rebecca Coleman¹, Jessica Ringrose²

1: University of Bristol, United Kingdom; 2: University College London, United Kingdom

A Taxonomy for Rapidly Changing Social Media Platforms

Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter

The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Navigating Internet Research as Black Women

Ashleigh Greene Wade¹, Briana Barner², Brooklyne Gipson³, Katrina Overby⁴, Rianna Walcott²

1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: University of Maryland, United States of America; 3: Rutgers University, United States of America; 4: Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America

Platformed Prejudice: Right-Wing Alternative Social Media Use and Anti-Trans Policy Opinions in the US

Thomas J Billard, Walker West Brewer, Nash Jenkins, Yena Lee, Ifra Javed, Taylor Agajanian

Northwestern University, United States of America

White nationalist digital rhetoric on 4chan’s /pol/ as a technics of raciality

E. Chebrolu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America

THE ALT-PLATFORM PULL: ATTRACTING MAINSTREAM PLATFORM USERS TO ALTERNATIVE SPACES

Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Eva Mayerhöffer

Roskilde University, Denmark

HOW TO DISRUPT AI TRAINED MODELS? CARTOGRAPHY OF COUNTER AI-TOOLS FOR RESISTANCE

Venetia Papa¹, Zenonas Theodosiou², Lia Spyridou³

1: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; 2: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; 3: Cyprus University of Tehnology, Cyprus

From Rupture to Submerged Displacement: The Affordances of Narrative Genres and Social Media for Expressing Critical Sentiments

Guobin Yang

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

COMMUNITY-LED MODERATION IN ‘THE RUINS’ OF TWITTER/X: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC FELLA ORGANIZATION (NAFO)

Kateryna Kasianenko¹, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández², Olga Boichak³

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University College Dublin; 3: The University of Sydney

CULTURE-CENTRED DIGITAL DESIGN: FOREGROUNDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVES

Amanda Third¹, Louisa Welland¹, Manisha Pathak Shelat², Vama Shah², Girish Lala¹, Lilly Moody¹, Diena Haryana³

1: Western Sydney University, Australia; 2: MICA, India; 3: SEJIWA Foundation, Indonesia

DISRUPTING PUBLIC AND POLITICAL DISCOURSES ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHILDREN AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN LATIN AMERICA: LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL KIDS ONLINE STUDIES

Patricio Cabello¹, Matías Dodel², Magdalena Claro³, Amalia Palma⁴, Isabel Walker⁴, Jazmín Mazó⁵, Andrés Villalobos⁵, Narayani Rivera⁵, Luisa Adib⁶, Fabio Senne⁶, Rolando Pérez⁷, David Torres⁸, Nicolás Delgado⁹, Piero Véliz¹⁰, Marcela Losantos¹¹

1: Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; 2: Universidad Católica del Uruguay; 3: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 4: ECLAC/CEPAL; 5: Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”; 6: Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br| Nic.br); 7: Universidad de Costa Rica; 8: Universidad de Iberoamérica; 9: Universidad Central de Chile; 10: Universidad de Chile; 11: Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo"

TRANSCULTURAL FAN STUDIES IN A TIME OF POLITICAL EXTREMES

Aianne Amado Nunes Costa¹, Simone Driessen², Sebastian F. K. Svegaard³, Thiago Soares⁴, Bethan Jones⁵, Eloy Vieira⁶

1: Universidade de São Paulo; 2: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 3: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 4: Federal University of Pernambuco; 5: Cardiff University; 6: Federal University of Sergipe

Critical Perspectives from the South: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media Platforms

Raquel Recuero¹, Afonso Albuquerque², Marcelo Santos³, Martin Becerra⁴, Paola Ricaurte⁵, Sahana Udupa⁶, Otávio Vinhas⁷, Marco Bastos⁸, Thales Lelo⁹

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense; 3: Universidad Diego Portales; 4: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; 5: Tecnológico de Monterrey; 6: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 7: University College Dublin; 8: University College Dublin/City St George’s, University of London; 9: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

RESEARCH BRAVE SPACES AND ZINE-MAKING: DISRUPTIVE TOOLS FOR EXPLORING DIGITAL SEXUAL INTIMACIES

Rachele Reschiglian, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

University of Padova, Italy

NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEM IN DIGITAL SEX WORK IN BRAZIL

Lorena Caminhas

Maynooth University, Ireland

ELUSIVE PORN: LEARNING FROM ALASTONSUOMI

Susanna Paasonen

University of Turku, Finland

MODELHUB AS A PLATFORM TOOL: THE MORAL ORDER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS ON PORNHUB

Maggie MacDonald

University of Toronto, Canada

BEYOND HATEWARE: AFFECT, NETWORKS, AND COLLABORATIVE ECOSYSTEMS IN A FANDOM DISCORD SERVER

Nicole Anne Margheim

Independent Scholar, United States of America

SHAME AND THE FIGURE OF THE FANGIRL: THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC OF SHAME IN POP MUSIC FANDOMS ONLINE

Sascha Tanuja Samlal

The University of Melbourne, Australia

The Many-faced Fandom: _Cesuo_'s Collective Persona on Weibo

Yifei Yang

University College Dublin, Ireland

Everything Everywhere All Xuanni: Chinese Fanvids, Music, Emotions and Self-Orientalism

Yifei Yang

University College Dublin, Ireland

DON’T WORRY ABOUT FORMALITIES: PROMPTING AS ALGORITHMIC FOLKLORE

Marianne Gunderson

University of Bergen, Norway

DIGITAL INFLUENCE AS AN ALGORITHMIC CONDITION: COMPUTATIONAL AUTHENTICITY, ALGORITHMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND DIGITAL VISIBILITY

Grégori da Costa Castelhano¹, Elias Cunha Bitencourt^1,2

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

Becoming Intimate with Algorithms: Users’ Encounters, Imaginaries, and Affective Bonds with TikTok

Helena Strecker

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS

Reece Steinberg¹, Natalie Pang², Arun Jacob³, Elisha Lim⁴

1: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 2: National University of Singapore; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: York University, Canada

Ruptures in Data Access: The State of Social Media Research APIs & Tools in the DSA Era

Fabio Giglietto¹, Axel Bruns², Josephine Lukito³, Jessica Robinson⁴, Richard Rogers⁵

1: University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; 2: Queensland University of Technology; 3: University of Texas at Austin; 4: University of Oslo; 5: University of Amsterdam

Roundtable Proposal: Data Donation in Communication Research: Ethical, Practical, and Methodological Frontiers

Anja Bechmann¹, Daniel Angus², Tim Groot Kormelink³, Jakob Ohme⁴, Jiaru Tang²

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany

THE WORLD WE SEE THROUGH AI’S EYES: U.S. CULTURAL DOMINANCE IN TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATION

Aleksandra Urman¹, Joachim Baumann^1,4, Elsa Lichtenegger¹, Azza Bouleimen¹, Robin Forsberg^1,2, Corinna Hertweck^1,4, Desheng Hu¹, Stefania Ionescu³, Kshitijaa Jaglan¹, Salima Jaoua¹, Nicolo Pagan¹, Aniko Hannak¹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 4: ZHAW, Switzerland

What is Labor in an Age of Generative AI: Reading Privacy and Copyright Lawsuits Against the Grain

Bianca Zamora Perez

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

TRUSTING CHATGPT: HOW MINOR TWEAKS IN THE PROMPTS LEAD TO MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION

Jaime Cuellar, Oscar Moreno-Martínez

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Authenticating the everyday: The dual dynamics of user and machinic appification

Esther Weltevrede¹, Anthony Burton²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada

Diabetes and Food Tracking Apps: Questioning Embedded Values

Aisha Sobey¹, Gemma Gibson²

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

A not so happy ending: A meta-analysis exploring the associations of dating app use on mental health and risk-taking behaviors

Facundo Nazareno Suenzo, Nathan Walter, Valerie Gruest

Northwestern University, United States of America

Emergency Notification Apps as Embodied Responsibilization

Rivka Ribak

University of Haifa, Israel

THE ROLE OF ONLINE DATING IN THE LIKELIHOOD OF MIGRANT-NATIVE COUPLES IN TWO SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES

Matias Dodel¹, Gustavo Mesch²

1: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay; 2: University of Haifa, Israel

Comparative Analysis of the Emerging Super App Model in East Africa: Consolidated Data Extraction and Fragmented Digital Governance

Du Shen¹, Grace Itumbiri²

1: Independent Researcher; 2: University of Cape Town

INTERACT AND REACT: GENDER, OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE, AND THE GOVERNANCE OF USER INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES

Siân Brooke

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

The Politics of Trust and Compliance: A Relational Theory Approach to Platform Governance

Linda Weigl, Balázs Bodó

Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam

VARIETIES OF TRUST AND SAFETY: AN INSTITUTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ON PLATFORM GOVERNANCE REGIMES

Robert Gorwa¹, Clara Iglesias Keller², João Magalhães³

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

JAGGED LITTLE PILL: HOW NATIVE ADS PROMOTE HEALTH DISINFORMATION

Nicole Sanchotene, Marie Santini, Débora Salles, Bruno Mattos, Marina Loureiro

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Advertising in the Age of Disinformation: Influencers and Natural Contraception

Hannah L. Westwood

Coventry University, United Kingdom

“The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival”: Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat, a Nigerian Pentecostal Social Networking Platform

Peter Whiting¹, Virginia Partridge², Emily Boardman Ndulue³, Samuel Olaniran⁴, Fernando Bermejo³

1: University of Waterloo; 2: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 3: Media Ecosystems Analysis Group; 4: University of the Witwatersrand

FIGURATIONS OF CELEBRITY EVERYDAY LIFE: REPRESENTATION, AUTHENTICITY, AND PROXIMITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Denise Prado

Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

The co-creation of trans microcelebrity: a case study of Nikkie de Jager

Ellie Homant

Cornell University, United States of America

RECLAIMING AUTHENTICITY WITHIN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

Katrin Tiidenberg¹, David Kneas²

1: BFM, Tallinn University, Estonia; 2: University of South Carolina, USA

MASKED RACISM IN THE REALITY SHOW BIG BROTHER BRASIL: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Thayane Henriques

Northwestern University, United States of America

DESPICABLE THEREFORE DEMONETIZED: HOW ANTI-MAINSTREAM ICONS SOLICIT SUPPORT

Elisabetta Zurovac, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Stefano Brilli

Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy

(Good) governance of platform monetisation

Taylor Annabell¹, Daniel Angus², Marcelo Alves³, Brooke Erin Duffy⁴, Blake Hallinan⁵, Thomas Poell⁶

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 4: Cornell University, United States; 5: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 6: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

THE DIVERSITY OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF FAMILIES AND CHILDREN WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

INES VITORINO SAMPAIO¹, DINUSHA BANDARA², LUCI PANGRAZIO³, LIDIA MARÔPO⁴, ANA JORGE⁵, ANDRA SIIBAK⁶, TAMA LEAVER⁷

1: Federal University of Ceará, Deakin University; 2: Deakin University; 3: Deakin University; 4: Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal and CICS.NOVA; 5: Lusófona University and CICANT; 6: University of Tartu; 7: Curtin University

Platforms, Musicians and Listeners Around the World

Robert Prey¹, Vanessa Valiati², David Hesmondhalgh³, Arturo Arriagada⁴, Shuwen Qu⁵

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 3: University of Leeds, UK; 4: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 5: Jinan University, China

THE DIGITAL BODY: FITNESS, WELLNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN COLOMBIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Oscar Javier Maldonado, Derly Sánchez-Vargas, Laura Clemencia Mantilla, Alicia Duque, Isabella Jaimes-Rodríguez

Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

BODY TALK IN MEDIA TALK: MOTHER-DAUGHTER DYADS IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE BODY IN MEDIATED TEXT AS EMBODIED RE-IMAGINATION OF FEMINISM

Julienne Thesa Yebron Baldo-Cubelo

University of the Philippines, Philippines

GEEK GRRRLS NEED MODEMS: DISEMBODIEMENT, CYBERLIBERATION AND POSTFEMINISM IN THE 1990S

Rebecca Houlihan

Monash University, Australia

Conventional representations online: "repeating femininity" on bigger and smaller platforms

Ira Solomatina

LMU, Germany

Ambiguitance: How Douyin's Inconsistent Affordances Shape Streamer-Audience Relationships in Chinese Showroom Live Streaming

Lin Zhang¹, Yingwen Wang²

1: University of Turku, Finland; 2: London College of Communication, United Kingdom

FROM SHARING TO STREAMING: TECHNOLOGY, LEGISLATION AND AGENCY IN THE DIGITAL PHONOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY FROM 1996 TO THIS DAY

Guido Agustin Saa

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic

The materiality of trust: Beauty consumption of young Chinese women through e-commerce live-streaming

Fan Xiao

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

GLOBAL DISRUPTION, LOCAL ADAPTATION: REALITY TELEVISION AND GLOBO IN THE STREAMING ERA.

Fernanda Rocha Vilela

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PLATFORM GOVERNANCE AT THE MARGINS: RULES, RELATIONS AND RESISTANCE

Carolina Are¹, Samuel Cabbuag², Crystal Abidin², Ruepert Cao³, Zari Taylor⁴, Kiara Child⁴, Christopher Persaud⁵

1: Centre for Digital Citizens, Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: University of the Philippines Dillman;; 3: De La Salle University; 4: New York University; Data & Society Research Institute; 5: Intel Labs

Fan Labor As A Shield Against Platforms’ Unsafety: The Pipoca & Nanquim Case

Thiago Costa¹, Beatriz Blanco²

1: FAAP University Center, Brazil; 2: Centro Universitário Senac São Paulo, Brazil

THE WITCHER’S INTERNET MAPS: FAN CARTOGRAPHY, ONLINE COMMUNITIES, AND SPATIAL STORYTELLING

Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat¹, Helena Atteneder², Yulia Belinskaya³

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: University of Tuebingen, Germany; 3: St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

TIKTOK ONE AS A SUPER TOOL SUITE: PLATFORM POWER AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLATFORM TOOLS

Kaushar Mahetaji, David Nieborg

University of Toronto, Canada

#KARLASOFIAGASCONISOVERPARTY: WHEN TWEETS RUIN AN OSCAR CAMPAIGN

Taiane De Volcan¹, Calvin Cousin², Fernanda Mendonça¹

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

CAN GENZ ‘SAVE’ ROCK’N ROLL? AN ANALYSIS OF THE WARNING’S ONLINE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES

Leandro Augusto Borges Lima

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Protecting user data. A comparative study of government agencies and their strategies to protect citizens’ data rights

Raul Ferrer-Conill¹, Joanne Kuai², David Cheruiyot³, Helle Sjøvaag¹

1: University of Stavanger, Norway; 2: RMIT Australia; 3: University of Groningen - The Netherlands

Digital dissidence: platform ruptures, alternative economies, and tactical technological repurposing

Jaime Lee Kirtz

Arizona State University, United States of America

WHAT IS "ALTERNATIVE" ABOUT "ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA"?

Roel Roscam Abbing², Robert William Gehl¹

1: York University, Canada; 2: Malmö University, Sweden

Rethinking the Citizen in Digital Citizenship

Jamie Ranger, Estariol de la Paz

Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany

The Rise and Fall of Third-party Cookies: The Evolving Technological, Regulatory and Economic Landscape of the Adtech Ecosystem

Jiahong Chen

University of Sheffield

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLATFORM WORK: THE CASE OF DRIVERS AND COURIERS

Laura Valle Gontijo

UnB, Brazil

X to Bluesky platform migration: Governance and community

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch

University of Connecticut, United States of America

Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms

Alex Turvy¹, Crystal Abidin²

1: Tulane University, United States of America; 2: Curtin University, Australia

Fragmented Flows: Algorithmic Curation, Organic Sharing, and the Structuring of Telegram’s Fringe Communities

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Nicola Righetti, Valeria Donato

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Think better, you dumbass: Online hateful speech as epistemic violence

Esteban Morales¹, Jaigris Hodson², Victoria O'Meara³

1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 2: Royal Roads University, Canada; 3: University of Leicester, United Kingdom

“A SAFE, RESPONSIBLE, AND PROFITABLE ECOSYSTEM OF MUSIC”: ANALYZING ETHICAL CULTURES OF GENERATIVE AI IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Raquel Campos Valverde¹, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye²

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

Uncertainty as Spectacle: Real-Time Algorithmic Techniques on the Live Music Stage

Stephen Yang

University of Southern California, United States of America

ENTERING THE METAL(TOK) SCENE: COMMUNITY, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND LATIN AMERICAN CREATORS

Beatriz Medeiros

Núcleo Milenio en Culturas Musicales y Sonoras, Universidad Mayor, Chile

PLATFORMS AS EPISTEMIC INFRASTRUCTURES: MEASUREMENTS, DATA FANDOMS PRACTICES AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF MUSIC CHARTS

Carlos d'Andréa, Natália Santos Dias

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Investigating Rupture and Absence: A Conversation between Critical Archival Studies and Critical Data Studies

James L. Epps, Ngozi Harrison

University of California, Los Angeles

EXCAVATING TELEVISION MEMORY IMAGES THROUGH GENERATIVE AI

Gustavo Fischer

UNISINOS, Brazil

“I WANTED TO BE PART OF NOT FORGETTING”: DIGITAL MEDIATION AND MEMORY IN POST-PANDEMIC TIMES

Adetobi Moses

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Big Data Time Machines: Decolonizing the Futures of Post-Digital Histories

Megan Sapnar Ankerson

University of Michigan, United States of America

CRAFT WORK: A RUPTURE OF DIGITAL LABOR AND CAPITALISM?

Kylie Jarrett¹, Alessandro Gandini², Marta Tonetta², Gianmarco Peterlongo², Fernando Vianna³, Rene Seifert Jr.³, Susan Luckman⁴, Michelle Phillipov⁵

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: University of Milan, Italy; 3: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil; 4: University of South Australia, Australia; 5: University of Adelaide, Australia

Editing and juxtaposition in Kim Kardashian’s Instagram stories

Adil Giovanni Lepri

Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

NO DISRUPTION – ONLY EXPOSURE! A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CROSS-MEDIA DYNAMICS IN DUTCH MEDIATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Sarah Burkhardt

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

RURAL WOMEN’S CYCLE OF BITTERNESS ON SHORT-VIDEO PLATFORMS IN CHINA

Bingxi Huang

The University of Queensland, Australia

Digital Attention Economy: Concept, Phenomenon, and History in Platform Studies

Anna Bentes

School of Communication, Media, and Information at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

ALGORITHMIC ANXIETY, BURNOUT, AND “STRESS DREAMS”: CREATORS’ (UN)SPEAKABLE ACCOUNTS OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS

Rosie Nguyen, Brooke Erin Duffy, Lee Humphreys

Cornell University, United States of America

Competency Prescriptions by Social Media Platforms and the Rise of Organizational Professionalism Among Content Creators

Liana Haygert Pithan, Willian Fernandes Araujo, Mateus Dalmoro

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

CONTENT CREATORS’ BELIEF SYSTEMS AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEMS

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Happy Life”: Digital Ageism and Beauty Filter Use Among Older Content Creators on Douyin

Yingwen Wang¹, Zoetanya Sujon²

1: London College of Communication, United Kingdom; 2: London College of Communication, United Kingdom

RUPTURING DIGITAL CHILDHOODS AND PARENTING IN AUSTRALIA? SOCIAL MEDIA BANS, PRIVACY, SCREEN TIME, AND GENERATIVE AI

Tama Leaver¹, Suzanne Srdarov¹, Amanda Third², Kate Mannell³, Katrin Langton³

1: Curtin University, Australia; 2: Western Sydney University, Australia; 3: Deakin University, Australia

Where Do We Go From Here? Part II – Lessons from the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on AI & Platform Governance

Rebecca Scharlach⁵, Taylor Annabell², Blake Hallinan¹, Emillie de Keulenaar³, Thales Lelo⁴

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 4: Federal University of Minas Gerais; 5: University of Bremen, Germany

AMAZON’S DIGITAL LOCAL MEDIA COVERAGE ON LARGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITH SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Débora Gomes Salles¹, Marina Loureiro Santos¹, Thamyres Monteiro Albuquerque de Magalhães¹, Bianca Maria da Silva Melo², Julia Santos Rodrigues Dias¹, Nicole Sanchotene¹, Rose Marie Santini¹

1: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); 2: Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL)

The Infrastructure of Transphobic Feminism: A Digital Ethnography of an Anti-Trans Forum

Benjamin Clay Davis, Kelley Cotter

Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Revisiting Airport Security Logics: Looking into the Limits and Lapses of Public Sector Data Infrastructure in a Post-9/11 Era

Muira McCammon¹, Matthew Conaty²

1: Tulane University, United States of America; 2: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

BENEATH THE WAVES: OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN THE SUBMARINE CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

Kristian Sick

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Latina Makeup Filters on TikTok: From Platform-Enabled Racialization to Resignification Practices

Catalina Alejandra Farías

Northwestern University, United States of America

Reflections on the Afrogoth Hashtag on Tiktok: strategies for hacking the dispositive of raciality in digital media technologies

Amanda Maria de Sobral Gomes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)

The [self] representation of Muslims on TikTok: The interpretation of Islamic Faith

Yara Daas

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

In Search of a TikTok Baseline - An empirical study of shared cultural experiences on a highly personalised digital platform

Patrik Wikstrom¹, Jiaru Tang¹, Jean Burgess¹, Tian Wen², Jonathon Hutchinson², Joanne Gray², Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández³

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Sydney, Australia; 3: University College Dublin, Ireland

Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America

Bruna Paroni¹, Giada Marino¹, Fabio Giglietto¹, Tariq Choucair², Kate O’Connor Farfan², Sebastian Svegaard², Axel Bruns², Felipe Bonow Soares³, Cassian Osborne-Carey³, Camilla Quesada Tavares⁴

1: University of Urbino, Italy; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of the Arts London, UK; 4: Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), Brazil

Violence Against Women: representation in streaming fictional content in the Global South

Clarice Greco¹, Gauri D Chakraborty², Giuliana Cassano³, Lorena Antezana⁴, Tomaz Penner⁵

1: Paulista University, Brazil; 2: Bennet University, India; 3: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; 4: University of Chile; 5: Mackenzie University, Brazil

“We don’t want to commit as micro-drama creators”: how do these professionals navigate opportunities and internalised prejudices in the evolving micro drama industry

Zhang Jinwei, Lin Hui

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom

Cultural Narratives and Economic Independence: The Rise of Rural Women Vloggers in India

Nikhil Reddy², Poulami Seal¹, Saumya Pant²

1: Georgia State University, United States of America; 2: Ohio University, United States of America

"It feels incongruent to talk about reducing shame when I have to spell 's-e-g-g-s' on TikTok": Navigating Platform Moderation as Sex Education Creators on Social Media

Annika Pinch¹, Facundo Suenzo¹, Ignacio Cruz¹, Calvin Liang¹, Amy Ross Arguedas²

1: School of Communication, Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, England