Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Failures & Glitches
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
Chair: Brady Jay Robards
 

‘FAILURE’ AS A SPACE OF CRITIQUE AND IMAGINATION: THE CASE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES

Luisa Cruz Lobato1, Thallita Gabriele Lopes Lima2

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania (CeSec)



Platform Glitching: How Chinese Young Females Negotiate Digital Visibility on Xiaohongshu

Jialing Song

University of Amsterdam, China, People's Republic of



RUPTURE AND GLITCH IN PLEASURE: EXPLORING EROTIC ROLE PLAY IN VIRTUAL REALITY

Ilker Bahar

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands



Mind the gap: Fakes detection between traditional and computational logics

Svetlana S. Bodrunova1, Anna Gladkova2

1: St.Petersburg State University, Russian Federation; 2: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation

11:00am
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12:30pm
SLIPPERY, SLOPPY, SPECTACULAR, AND VERY UNRULY: FEMINIST CREATIVE LABOUR IN A RUPTUROUS AGE
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
 

SLIPPERY, SLOPPY, SPECTACULAR, AND VERY UNRULY: FEMINIST CREATIVE LABOUR IN A RUPTUROUS AGE

MaryElizabeth Luka1, Mélanie Millette2, Jessica Rauchberg3, Zoë Glatt4, Christine Tran1, Cate Alexander1, Kenzie Gordon5

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; 3: Seton Hall University, USA; 4: Microsoft Research, USA; 5: University of Alberta, Canada

2:00pm
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3:30pm
AI & Creative Industries
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
 

How Creative is AI writing? Generative and Collaborative AI in Japanese Fiction

Yuki Asano2, Marco Bastos1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London



IN THE STYLE OF: EXPLORING INDUSTRY, CREATOR AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF COPYING STYLE THROUGH GENERATIVE AI

D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye1, Joanne Gray2, Kylie Pappalardo3

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sydney; 3: Queensland University of Technology



The Power of Inevitability: How OpenAI Configures the Future

David Nieborg1, Tero Karppi1, danah boyd2

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Cornell University



THE CENTER’S “INVISIBLE BACK SUPPORT”: INFRASTRUCTURING VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Andrea Alarcon1, Cheryll Soriano2

1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: De La Salle University, Philippines

4:00pm
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5:30pm
RUPTURES, DISSENT AND CANCELLATION: STUDIES ON DIGITAL FANDOMS IN CRISIS
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
 

RUPTURES, DISSENT AND CANCELLATION: STUDIES ON DIGITAL FANDOMS IN CRISIS

Sebastian F. K. Svegaard1, Samantha Vilkins1, Katherine M. FitzGerald1, Adriana Amaral2, Stella Mendonça Caetano3, Eloy Santos Vieira4, Aianne Amado Nunes Costa5, Caroline Govari Nunes3, Simone Driessen6, Bethan Jones7

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 3: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS); 4: Universidade Federal de Sergipe; 5: Universidade de São Paulo; 6: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 7: Cardiff University

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Materialities & Infrastructures
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
 

THE FAX AS SHADOW DIGITAL SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Satenik Sargsyan

Linköping University, Sweden



Hollow Datasets: Algorithmic Calculability in Data Curation

Alejandro Alvarado Rojas

University of Southern California, United States of America



In the midst… Temporality, affect and infrastructures of feeling

Rebecca Coleman

University of Bristol, United Kingdom



CO-PARENTING WITH AI: AUDITING THE INFRASTRUCTURES OF DATAFICATION IN BABY TRACKING APPS

Jennifer Pybus, Katrina Matheson

York University, Canada

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Creators Narratives
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
Chair: Nelanthi Hewa
 

“We don’t want to commit as micro-drama creators”: how do these professionals navigate opportunities and internalised prejudices in the evolving micro drama industry

Zhang Jinwei, Lin Hui

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom



Cultural Narratives and Economic Independence: The Rise of Rural Women Vloggers in India

Nikhil Reddy2, Poulami Seal1, Saumya Pant2

1: Georgia State University, United States of America; 2: Ohio University, United States of America



"It feels incongruent to talk about reducing shame when I have to spell 's-e-g-g-s' on TikTok": Navigating Platform Moderation as Sex Education Creators on Social Media

Annika Pinch1, Facundo Suenzo1, Ignacio Cruz1, Calvin Liang1, Amy Ross Arguedas2

1: School of Communication, Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, England

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
RUPTURES IN CLIMATE DISCOURSE: DIGITAL PUBLICS, POLARISATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT IN AUSTRALIA AND BRAZIL
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
 

RUPTURES IN CLIMATE DISCOURSE: DIGITAL PUBLICS, POLARISATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT IN AUSTRALIA AND BRAZIL

Tariq Choucair1, Raquel Recuero4,5,6, Axel Bruns1, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski1, Laura Vodden1, Ehsan Dehghan1, R. Marie Santini2, Debora Gomes Salles2, Marina Loureiro Santos2, Luciane Leopoldo Belin2, Thiago Ciodaro2, Katharina Esau1, Laura Vodden1, Michelle Riedlinger1, Samantha Vilkins1, Thales Antonelli3, Rousiley Maia3

1: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia; 2: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil; 3: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil; 4: Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Brazil; 5: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil; 6: MIDIARS (Laboratório de Pesquisa em Mídia, Discurso e Análise de Redes), Brazil

11:00am
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12:30pm
Gender Risks & Resistances
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor
Chair: Marissa Grace Willcox
 

NEGOTIATING GENDERED RISKS ONLINE: ESTABLISHING SINGLE FEMALE SOLIDARITIES AND AFFECTIVE COMMONALITIES VIA DATING WHISPER NETWORKS

Kate Rosalind Gilchrist

UCL, United Kingdom



Cross-platform gendertrolling: a case study on a prominent harassment case in Brazil

R. Marie Santini, Débora Salles, Adriano Belisario, Luciane L. Belin

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



Unravelling the Nation: Digital Contestations of Gendered Narratives in the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom Movement

Mitra Shamsi

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany



BEING SEEN AND LOOKING BACK: MANDATORY ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SURVEILLANCE FOR LGBTQ+ USERS

Alex Chartrand

Concordia University, Canada