Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Categorization & Labels
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Chair: Andressa Michelotti
 

Data Labelling and the Promise of Development in Northeast India

Zothan Mawii

University of Maryland, United States of America



Names that matter: the self-interpellation and re-socialisation of Chinese trans people's online naming

Songyin Liu

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of



Antisocial Media: AI Adoption And Changing Collaboration Trends Between Multilingual Computer Scientists

Haley Lepp

Stanford University, United States of America

11:00am
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12:30pm
Data from the Dead and Digital afterlife
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Chair: Georgios Terzis
 

THE LIFE, DEATH, AND AFTERLIFE OF GAMESPY: AN AUTOPSY OF A DEAD PLATFORM

Nelanthi Hewa1, Alexander Ross2

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia, Canada



Don’t Let Good Data Go to Waste: On Grief Tech, Deadness, Data Restlessness

Sarah Murray

University of Michigan, United States of America



ALGORITHMIC AFTERLIVES: THE ETHICS OF REVIVING THE DEAD

Bethan Jones1, Jenny Kidd1, Eva Nieto McAvoy2

1: Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2: King's College London



The Unsharable: Non-Sharing as Grief Work and Ruptures of Digital Mourning

Larissa Hjorth, Tamara Borovica, Katrin Gerber

RMIT, Australia

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Infrastructures
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Chair: Fieke Jansen
 

Gujarati Aunties on the Integrated Circuit: Internet Infrastructures as an Immigrant Circuit

Kinjal Dave

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America



FROM DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES TO DIGITAL BORDERLANDS: GENERATIVE AI, BOUNDARY OBJECTS, AND THE EXPANSION OF THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

Paulo F. C. Fonseca1, Elias Bitencourt2

1: Federal Univeristy of Bahia, Brazil; 2: State University of Bahia, Brazil



SCALING AI IN THE CLOUD: THE DISRUPTION OF “CLOUDIFICATION” IN CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Alex Gekker1, Sam Hind2, Gabriel Pereira1, Fernando van der Vlist1

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: University of Manchester, UK



RUSSIAN INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY AND INFRASTRUCTURAL COERCION: THE CASE OF TSPU

Dmitry Kuznetsov

Critical Infrastructure Lab, University of Amsterdam

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Blockchain: The New Internet of Trust
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 

Blockchain: The New Internet of Trust

Larriza Thurler, Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, Luiz Eduardo Folly

RNP, Brazil

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
Critical Perspectives from the South: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media Platforms
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 

Critical Perspectives from the South: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media Platforms

Raquel Recuero1, Afonso Albuquerque2, Marcelo Santos3, Martin Becerra4, Paola Ricaurte5, Sahana Udupa6, Otávio Vinhas7, Marco Bastos8, Thales Lelo9

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense; 3: Universidad Diego Portales; 4: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; 5: Tecnológico de Monterrey; 6: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 7: University College Dublin; 8: University College Dublin/City St George’s, University of London; 9: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Platforms, Musicians and Listeners Around the World
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 

Platforms, Musicians and Listeners Around the World

Robert Prey1, Vanessa Valiati2, David Hesmondhalgh3, Arturo Arriagada4, Shuwen Qu5

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 3: University of Leeds, UK; 4: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 5: Jinan University, China

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Data Donation in Communication Research: Ethical, Practical, and Methodological Frontiers
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 

Roundtable Proposal: Data Donation in Communication Research: Ethical, Practical, and Methodological Frontiers

Anja Bechmann1, Daniel Angus2, Tim Groot Kormelink3, Jakob Ohme4, Jiaru Tang2

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
Infrastructural Ruptures: anxieties, borders, and clouds
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 

Infrastructural Ruptures: anxieties, borders, and clouds

Fieke Jansen1, Andreas Baur2, Corinne Cath3, Niels ten Oever1, Nai Lee Kalema4

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Tübingen, Germany; 3: Article 19 / Cambridge University; 4: University College London, United Kingdom