Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
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
Toxic Vibes
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
 

The sky is bluer on the other side: fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus

Felipe Bonow Soares1, Ludmila Lupinacci2, Vanessa Valiati3

1: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom; 2: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 3: Feevale University, Brazil



“BREAST IS BAD”: COUNTER-NARRATIVES TO BREASTFEEDING NORMS ON ITALIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Elena Ceccarelli, Farci Manolo

Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy



Red Pills and Red Light Therapy: Biology, Optimization, and the “science of beauty” in Online Women’s Spaces

Elizabeth Fetterolf, Rachel Bergmann

Stanford University, United States of America



“Screw you, this is a cheerful place”: Platformized violence among positive-vibe Reddit communities

Esteban Morales

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
Finances & Profits: Critiques
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
Chair: Andrew Herman
 

Synthetic data and global finance. Narratives, (dis)continuites and ruptures.

Carolina Aguerre1, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn2, Marc Lenglet3, Edemilson Parana4

1: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay; 2: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 3: NEOMA Business School, France; 4: LUT University, Finland



Lucrative Ex/tensions: ‘Digital Twin’ Labour as Passive Income in the Virtual Human Economy

Jul Jeonghyun Parke

University of Toronto, Canada



PLAYING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: #GRWM AND THE LUDIC POSSIBILITIES OF COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCES

Natalie Coulter

York University, Canada



THE CELEBRATION OF EXPLOITATION: PLATFORM PROMOTION AND LEGITIMISATION STRATEGIES EXPRESSED THROUGH USER DATAFICATION

Graham Meikle1, Isabelle Higgins2

1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Everyday Appfication
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
 

Authenticating the everyday: The dual dynamics of user and machinic appification

Esther Weltevrede1, Anthony Burton2

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada



Diabetes and Food Tracking Apps: Questioning Embedded Values

Aisha Sobey1, Gemma Gibson2

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom



A not so happy ending: A meta-analysis exploring the associations of dating app use on mental health and risk-taking behaviors

Facundo Nazareno Suenzo, Nathan Walter, Valerie Gruest

Northwestern University, United States of America



Emergency Notification Apps as Embodied Responsibilization

Rivka Ribak

University of Haifa, Israel

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Political Economy of Internet
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
 

WHAT IS "ALTERNATIVE" ABOUT "ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA"?

Roel Roscam Abbing2, Robert William Gehl1

1: York University, Canada; 2: Malmö University, Sweden



Rethinking the Citizen in Digital Citizenship

Jamie Ranger, Estariol de la Paz

Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany



The Rise and Fall of Third-party Cookies: The Evolving Technological, Regulatory and Economic Landscape of the Adtech Ecosystem

Jiahong Chen

University of Sheffield



THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLATFORM WORK: THE CASE OF DRIVERS AND COURIERS

Laura Valle Gontijo

UnB, Brazil

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Political Challenges
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
 

DIGITAL RUPTURES: AI-GENERATED ACTIVISM, STATE REPRESSION, AND THE POLITICS OF DISSENT IN KENYA

Job Mwaura

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich



Bridging the Gap: Older Adults and the Digital Media Landscape

Soo Young Bae

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America



The portable document format as a site of data colonialism and digital rupture

Jaime Lee Kirtz

Arizona State University, United States of America



USING SPECULATIVE DESIGN TO REIMAGINE DIGITAL PERIOD TRACKING FOR THE GLOBAL MAJORITY

Arathy S B

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom