Conference Agenda
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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 - 10:30am |
Toxic Vibes Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor The sky is bluer on the other side: fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus 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 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 Stanford University, United States of America “Screw you, this is a cheerful place”: Platformized violence among positive-vibe Reddit communities University of Groningen, Netherlands, The |
Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025 | |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Finances & Profits: Critiques Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor Chair: Andrew Herman Synthetic data and global finance. Narratives, (dis)continuites and ruptures. 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 University of Toronto, Canada PLAYING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: #GRWM AND THE LUDIC POSSIBILITIES OF COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCES York University, Canada THE CELEBRATION OF EXPLOITATION: PLATFORM PROMOTION AND LEGITIMISATION STRATEGIES EXPRESSED THROUGH USER DATAFICATION 1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Everyday Appfication Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor Authenticating the everyday: The dual dynamics of user and machinic appification 1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada Diabetes and Food Tracking Apps: Questioning Embedded Values 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 Northwestern University, United States of America Emergency Notification Apps as Embodied Responsibilization University of Haifa, Israel |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Political Economy of Internet Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor WHAT IS "ALTERNATIVE" ABOUT "ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA"? 1: York University, Canada; 2: Malmö University, Sweden Rethinking the Citizen in Digital Citizenship Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany The Rise and Fall of Third-party Cookies: The Evolving Technological, Regulatory and Economic Landscape of the Adtech Ecosystem University of Sheffield THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLATFORM WORK: THE CASE OF DRIVERS AND COURIERS UnB, Brazil |
Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Political Challenges Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor DIGITAL RUPTURES: AI-GENERATED ACTIVISM, STATE REPRESSION, AND THE POLITICS OF DISSENT IN KENYA Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Bridging the Gap: Older Adults and the Digital Media Landscape University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America The portable document format as a site of data colonialism and digital rupture Arizona State University, United States of America USING SPECULATIVE DESIGN TO REIMAGINE DIGITAL PERIOD TRACKING FOR THE GLOBAL MAJORITY University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |