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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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