"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

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

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

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

Chill vibes: Wellness creep into music streaming platforms

Raquel Campos Valverde, Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

THE INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF THE USAID DATA CAPTURE

Mirca Madianou

Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

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 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

(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

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

Territorializing Internet: WhatsApp use in Andean Argentina

Martina Di Tullio¹, Edgar Gómez-Cruz²

1: CONICET - University of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic; 2: School of Information, University of Texas at Austin

THE USE OF WHATSAPP IN BRAZILIAN FAVELAS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF A MUNDANE TECHNOLOGY

Carolina Parreiras

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Diasporic Chats: Investigating Viral Content in Whatsapp Groups of Brazilian Immigrants in the United States

Ben Pereira, María Celeste Wagner, Kiran Garimella

Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information

TELEGRAM AS A MULTIFACETED PLATFORM FOR ANTI-MAINSTREAM POLITICAL PASSION: THE FINNISH FRINGE GROUPS UNDER THE SCOPE

Salla Tuomola, Jakob Bæk Kristensen

Roskilde University, Denmark

Social Media in Elections: Evidence from the United States, Germany, and Australia

Axel Bruns¹, Jennifer Stromer-Galley², Jill Karia², Felix Victor Münch^3,4, Philipp Kessling^3,5,4, Jakob Ohme⁶, Lion Wedel⁶, Nico Pfiffner⁷, Thomas N. Friemel⁷, Samantha Vilkins¹, Katherine M. FitzGerald¹, Tariq Choucair¹, Daniel Angus¹, Caroline Gardam¹, Kunal Chand¹, Laura Vodden¹, Klaus Gröbner¹, Katharina Esau¹, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski¹, Ehsan Dehghan¹, Kate Susan O'Connor-Farfan¹

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane; 2: Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA; 3: Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | HBI, Hamburg; 4: Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC); 5: Centrum for Communication and Information (ZeMKI), University of Bremen; 6: Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin; 7: University of Zürich, Zürich