Conference Agenda
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Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Novo IACS (Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Social) São Domingos, Niterói - State of Rio de Janeiro, 24210-200, Brazil |
Date: Wednesday, 15/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 12:30pm |
Online Hate Speech in Brazil: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor |
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Climate Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Chair: Suay Melisa Özkula Six Years of European Visual Climate Activism: A Longitudinal Analysis of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion’s Online Visual Communication 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) 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 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 University of Amsterdam |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Gaming Perspectives Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Chair: Samyr Paz FACEBOOK & GOOGLE’S AD GAME: SPINNING PRIVATE INTERESTS AS PUBLIC GOOD Carleton University, Canada Commodification of Gameplay and Platformization of Playbor: A Walk-Through Study of Chinese Game Companion Platform Bixin University of Calgary, Canada OUTLINES OF THE GAMER DATA SUBJECT POSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TRUST 1: ESL FACEIT Group; 2: University of Sydney PIRACY AS A MARKET STRATEGY TO RESIST THE ONLINE PLATFORMIZATION OF VIDEO GAMES PUCRS, Brazil |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Knowledge, Fandoms & Pop Culture Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Chair: Clarice Greco TRANSACTIONAL ORDERS: HOW PLATFORMS STRUCTURE PAYMENTS BETWEEN CREATORS AND FANS 1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: The University of Bonn, Germany FANDOMS AND LEARNING: THE ROLE OF ACA-FANS IN FORMAL EDUCATION 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 Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Fan studies in Brazil: the internet-centric bias and its impact on understanding local fandoms. 1: University of São Paulo, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Rethinking AI Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor WORLDMAKING BEYOND AI: SPECULATIVE FAILURE AS HOPEFUL ANALYTIC University of Southern California, United States of America AI-GENERATED MUSIC AND THE LISTENING SUBJECT: RUPTURES IN CREATIVITY, DIGITAL LABOR, AND ALGORITHMIC LISTENING Kennesaw State University, United States of America Rupturing "AI for Good": A Feminist Decolonial Theoretical Framework for Analyzing AI Interventions in Gender-Based Violence Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany DeepSeek AI Meets Divination: Algorithmic Syncretism, Data Consecration, and Accuracy Politics Rutgers University, China, People's Republic of |
Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Histories and Ruptures in Platform Governance Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Histories and Ruptures in Platform Governance 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 |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Navigating Internet Research as Black Women Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Navigating Internet Research as Black Women 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 |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Discussing Content Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor Chair: Rébecca Franco Editing and juxtaposition in Kim Kardashian’s Instagram stories Federal University of Bahia, Brazil NO DISRUPTION – ONLY EXPOSURE! A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CROSS-MEDIA DYNAMICS IN DUTCH MEDIATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The RURAL WOMEN’S CYCLE OF BITTERNESS ON SHORT-VIDEO PLATFORMS IN CHINA The University of Queensland, Australia |
Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Tech Companies & Politics Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor TECHNO-PUBLIC RHETORIC, SPECULATIVE VALUE, AND THE GROWTH OF ALT-TECH DIGITAL MEDIA COMPANIES IE University, Spain The Art of Maximizing Attention: Digital Neoliberalism and MrBeast University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America THE PLATFORMIZATION OF THE FOLLOWER FACTORY: PARA-PLATFORMS, AUTOMATION, AND LABOR IN THE MARKET FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENTS 1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Stockholm University, Sweden META’S 3PFC SPEECH GOVERNANCE: AN INQUIRY INTO THE FACT-CHECKING CONTENT MODERATION INFRASTRUCTURE 1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
RHYTHMS OF RUPTURE AND REPAIR: AN EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP EXPLORING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES, PLATFORMS AND USER WELLBEING Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor RHYTHMS OF RUPTURE AND REPAIR: AN EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP EXPLORING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES, PLATFORMS AND USER WELLBEING University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |