Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 11d - 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
2:00pm
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5:30pm
Rethinking AI from the Ground Up: Building sustainable AI ecosystems for local communities
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
TikTok, Politics & Activism - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
 

EMERGING TECHNO-POLITICAL AFFORDANCES: TRANSFORMATION OF TECHNICAL AFFORDANCES ON TIKTOK DURING PROTESTS IN PERU

Melanie Jessica Lopez del Pozo

Chakakuna LAB, Peru



FROM POPULAR MUSIC TO POPULARITY THROUGH MUSIC: SERBIAN PROTESTS ON TIKTOK.

Elisabetta Zurovac

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy



“A DAY IN MY LIFE”: EVERYDAY “DIGITAL PEACEBUILDING” BY MUSLIM YOUNG WOMEN ON TIKTOK

Lynrose Jane Genon

Queensland University of Technology, Australia



From Right to Left: How Bardella and french political actors Navigate TikTok Politics

Mael Bombaci, Francesco Nespoli, Simone Mulargia

Università Lumsa, Italy

11:00am
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12:30pm
Media Discourses on Digital Phenoma - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
 

A NEW ERA OF ONLINE DATING? AN ANALYSIS OF THE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DATING APPS

Luciana Ribeiro Rodrigues

UFABC, Brazil



“The facts are wrong, but the framing is right”: How young adults judge the trustworthiness of Instagram news account ‘cestmocro’

Tim Groot Kormelink, Helen Arts, Youri Coudron, Nadine Hoen, Tessa van Groeningen

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The



THROWING SPAGHETTI, SEEING WHAT STICKS: ITERATIVE DECEPTION IN DIGITAL STRATEGIC INFORMATION OPERATIONS

Giada Marino1, Fabio Giglietto1, Anwesha Chakraborty1, Massimo Terenzi1, Samuel Olaniran2

1: University of Urbino, Italy; 2: University of the Witwatersrand



INFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS IN RESISTANCE AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF SOCIOBIODIVERSITY IN THE AMAZON: THE ROLE OF ONLINE MEDIA AND CYBERACTIVISM

Lis-Rejane Issberner1, Julia Dias2

1: Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Gaming Intersectionalities - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Sam Srauy
 

WOMEN IN CONTROL: A STUDY ON BODY AND GENDER FROM A BRAZILIAN GAMER COMMUNITY

Catherine Moura1, José Messias2

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



LABOUR AND MASCULINITY: EXAMINING THE PERFORMANCES OF VIETNAMESE GAME LIVESTREAMERS IN PLATFORMISED CULTURAL WORK (WIP PAPER)

Hanh Do Doan Nguyen

Queensland University of Technology, Australia



MODDING SKYRIM WITH GENERATIVE AI: EXPLORING IMAGINARIES AND PLAYER-NPC INTERACTIONS

Samyr Paz1, Camila Freitas2, Gabriela Rolim3

1: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; 3: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil



The play-along method: An ethnographic approach to analyze video game culture

Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, Henry Mainsah, Clara Julia Reich

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Labour & Data - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: MaryElizabeth Luka
 

DATAFICATION OF MEDIA WORKERS

Roseli Figaro, Luis Gonçalves

Communication and Work Research Center (CPCT) - USP, Brazil



ANALYZING LABOR MOBILITY AND MIGRATION IN THE DIGITAL GAMES INDUSTRY: A STUDY WITH BRAZILIAN WORKERS

André Campos Rocha

DigiLabour research lab, Brazil



The Logistics of Hope Labour: Digital War Investigations in Ukraine

Lonneke van der Velden1, Johana Kotišová1, Burlyuk Olga1, Guillén Torres2

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Berkeley Human Rights Center, United States



PRESCRIPTIONS OF DOMESTIC WORK PLATFORMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES

Claudia Rebechi

Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Brazilian Ruptures - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Mariana Scalabrin Müller
 

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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Where Do We Go From Here? Part II – Lessons from the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on AI & Platform Governance
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
 

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

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Surveillance & Risks
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Jennifer Pybus
 

“A network of collaborative intelligence”: The platformization of community algorithmic surveillance

Meg Kitamura, Gabriel Pereira

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands



RACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: DEFENSIVE VERSUS SYMBIOTIC EXPERIENCES WITH THE DOORBELL CAMERA

Jenny Lee

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America



RISK COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE: DIGITAL RUPTURES, TOURISM, AND PUBLIC SAFETY RISKS

Samuel Cornell

UNSW Sydney, Australia



How need- and norm-based motives for digital communication mitigate the chilling effects of dataveillance

Sarah Daoust-Braun, Noemi Festic, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

11:00am
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12:30pm
Polarization & Mis/Disinformation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
 

Dynamics of Polarization: Unpacking Echo Chambers with Agent-Based Modeling

Frederik Møller Henriksen, Jens Ulrik Hansen, Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Eva Mayerhöffer

Roskilde University, Denmark



Political podcasts in Brazil: left-leaning shows in a polarized market

Daniel Gambaro

Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences - Unicamp, Brazil



Networked Misogynoir, Mythology and Disinformation

Brooklyne Gipson

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States of America



Cynicism and internalized responsibility for digital well-being among young people in Slovenia

Katja Koren Ošljak, Anamarija Šiša, Tanja Oblak Črnič

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia