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

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

Sweet Nothings: ASMR and Its Discursive Tensions

Emma Leigh Waldron

University of California, Irvine, United States of America

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

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

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

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

‘STREAM OF PARANOID CONSCIOUSNESS’ HOW ALT-TECH PLATFORMS RECONFIGURE CONSPIRACY CULTURE

Kamile Grusauskaite¹, Stef Aupers²

1: KU Leuven and Yale University; 2: KU Leuven

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

Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Eva Mayerhöffer

Roskilde University, Denmark

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

Platform Mechanics of Hate and Marginality: Perspectives from the Global South

Gayas Eapen¹, Sarah Khan², Abhishek Sekharan², Wangari Njathi³, Teresia {Terry} Nzau⁴, Rebeccah Wambui⁵

1: Coastal Carolina University, United States of America; 2: University of Michigan, University States of America; 3: Pepperdine University; 4: Missouri School of Journalism; 5: Independent Researcher

EXPLORING PERIPHERAL DIGITAL LABOR: CREATOR EXPERIENCES IN LATIN AMERICA

Ana María Castillo¹, Lionel Brossi², Núria Roca³, Pedro Sigaud³, Karina Santos⁴

1: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; 2: University of Chile; 3: International University of Catalonia; 4: Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro