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Session Overview
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
Novo IACS (Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Social) São Domingos, Niterói - State of Rio de Janeiro, 24210-200, Brazil
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor

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RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Shawna Finnegan1, Gyssele Mendes2, Hazel Acero4, Anabela Carlon3, Silvia Kaarie5

1: Association for Progressive Communications, Global; 2: Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social, Brazil; 3: Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), Mexico; 4: Manila Observatory KLIMA Centre, Philippines; 5: Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), Kenya

11:00am
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12:30pm
Labour in South America
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
 

NEW NARRATIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING PLATFORM LABOUR IN SOUTH AMERICA

Arturo Arriagada1, Mark Graham2, Alejandra Dinegro3, Matías Dodel4, Pía Garavaglia5, Julice Salvagni6

1: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez/Fairwork Chile; 2: Oxford Internet Institute/Fairwork; 3: Observatorio de Plataformas/Fairwork Perú; 4: Universidad Católica de Uruguay/Fairwork Uruguay; 5: Fairwork Argentina; 6: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/Fairwork Brasil

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Cyborgs & Bots
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Chris Chesher
 

Cyborg Imaginaries: A Computational Grounded Theory of Online Pioneer Community Discussions on Human Augmentation

Giulia Frascaria, Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland



A Not So Stella(r) Encounter: Discursive Closure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

Muira McCammon, Lauren Schenack

Tulane University, United States of America



Algorithmic Fairness in Crisis Communication: How AI Chatbots Shape Public Trust and Engagement

Shupei Yuan1, Anqi Xiao2, Luye Bao3

1: Northern Illinois University, United States of America; 2: University of Wisconsin Madison, USA; 3: Peking University, China



"Just Asking Questions": Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots

Daniel Angus, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Michelle Riedlinger, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Timothy Graham

Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology

11:00am
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12:30pm
RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
 

RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS

Reece Steinberg1, Natalie Pang2, Arun Jacob3, Elisha Lim4

1: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 2: National University of Singapore; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: York University, Canada

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Fans & Platforms: Tensions
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Sebastian F. K. Svegaard
 

Fan Labor As A Shield Against Platforms’ Unsafety: The Pipoca & Nanquim Case

Thiago Costa1, Beatriz Blanco2

1: FAAP University Center, Brazil; 2: Centro Universitário Senac São Paulo, Brazil



THE WITCHER’S INTERNET MAPS: FAN CARTOGRAPHY, ONLINE COMMUNITIES, AND SPATIAL STORYTELLING

Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat1, Helena Atteneder2, Yulia Belinskaya3

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: University of Tuebingen, Germany; 3: St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria



TIKTOK ONE AS A SUPER TOOL SUITE: PLATFORM POWER AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLATFORM TOOLS

Kaushar Mahetaji, David Nieborg

University of Toronto, Canada



#KARLASOFIAGASCONISOVERPARTY: WHEN TWEETS RUIN AN OSCAR CAMPAIGN

Taiane De Volcan1, Calvin Cousin2, Fernanda Mendonça1

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

TikTok Intersectionalities
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
 

Latina Makeup Filters on TikTok: From Platform-Enabled Racialization to Resignification Practices

Catalina Alejandra Farías

Northwestern University, United States of America



Reflections on the Afrogoth Hashtag on Tiktok: strategies for hacking the dispositive of raciality in digital media technologies

Amanda Maria de Sobral Gomes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)



The [self] representation of Muslims on TikTok: The interpretation of Islamic Faith

Yara Daas

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
 

Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America

Bruna Paroni1, Giada Marino1, Fabio Giglietto1, Tariq Choucair2, Kate O’Connor Farfan2, Sebastian Svegaard2, Axel Bruns2, Felipe Bonow Soares3, Cassian Osborne-Carey3, Camilla Quesada Tavares4

1: University of Urbino, Italy; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of the Arts London, UK; 4: Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), Brazil

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
Comment Box & Discussions
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Samuel Idris Cabbuag
 

Disrupting Mediated Publics: Comment Sections as Sites of Epistemic and Political Rupture

Nina Duque, Alexandre Coutant, Louvinia Sainte-Rose-Fanchine, Michelle Stewart, Florence Millerand

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada



Constructing reality: Paratexts, power dynamics, and meaning-making in "Love is Blind"

Yaara Cohen, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel



NETWORKS OF INFLUENCE: EXPLORING ONLINE HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV) VACCINE DISCUSSIONS THROUGH NETWORK ANALYSIS AND TOPIC MODELING

Maria Jeriesa Perez Osorio, Macon Reman

University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines



“Sometimes Banning Abortion Doesn't Mean Fewer Abortions or Fewer Babies Die - It Just Means More Women Die”: A Thematic Analysis of Roe v. Wade Partisan Cable News Coverage

Briana Marie Trifiro

Northeastern University, United States of America