Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
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
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12:30pm
Online Hate Speech in Brazil: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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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

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

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

11:00am
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12:30pm
Gaming Perspectives
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Samyr Paz
 

FACEBOOK & GOOGLE’S AD GAME: SPINNING PRIVATE INTERESTS AS PUBLIC GOOD

Blue Miaoran Dong

Carleton University, Canada



Commodification of Gameplay and Platformization of Playbor: A Walk-Through Study of Chinese Game Companion Platform Bixin

Xinyu Deng

University of Calgary, Canada



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

Andreas Schellewald1, Chunmeizi Su2

1: ESL FACEIT Group; 2: University of Sydney



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

Andre Pase, Roberto Tietzmann

PUCRS, Brazil

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Knowledge, Fandoms & Pop Culture
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Clarice Greco
 

TRANSACTIONAL ORDERS: HOW PLATFORMS STRUCTURE PAYMENTS BETWEEN CREATORS AND FANS

Blake Hallinan1, Dana Theiler1, CJ Reynolds1, Isabell Knief2

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: The University of Bonn, Germany



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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Rethinking AI
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 

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

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Histories and Ruptures in Platform Governance
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 

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

11:00am
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12:30pm
Navigating Internet Research as Black Women
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 

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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Discussing Content
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Rébecca Franco
 

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

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Tech Companies & Politics
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 

TECHNO-PUBLIC RHETORIC, SPECULATIVE VALUE, AND THE GROWTH OF ALT-TECH DIGITAL MEDIA COMPANIES

Reed Van Schenck

IE University, Spain



The Art of Maximizing Attention: Digital Neoliberalism and MrBeast

Sara Katherine Rabon

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

Esther Weltevrede1, Johan Lindquist2

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Stockholm University, Sweden



META’S 3PFC SPEECH GOVERNANCE: AN INQUIRY INTO THE FACT-CHECKING CONTENT MODERATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Otávio Iost Vinhas1, Marco Toledo Bastos1,2

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

11:00am
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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

Emily Cousins

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark