Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor |
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 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 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 University of Amsterdam, China, People's Republic of RUPTURE AND GLITCH IN PLEASURE: EXPLORING EROTIC ROLE PLAY IN VIRTUAL REALITY University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Mind the gap: Fakes detection between traditional and computational logics 1: St.Petersburg State University, Russian Federation; 2: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation |
11:00am - 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 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 - 3:30pm |
AI & Creative Industries Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor How Creative is AI writing? Generative and Collaborative AI in Japanese Fiction 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 1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sydney; 3: Queensland University of Technology The Power of Inevitability: How OpenAI Configures the Future 1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Cornell University THE CENTER’S “INVISIBLE BACK SUPPORT”: INFRASTRUCTURING VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS IN THE PHILIPPINES 1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: De La Salle University, Philippines |
4:00pm - 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 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 - 10:30am |
Materialities & Infrastructures Location: Room 11 E - 2nd Floor THE FAX AS SHADOW DIGITAL SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Linköping University, Sweden Hollow Datasets: Algorithmic Calculability in Data Curation University of Southern California, United States of America In the midst… Temporality, affect and infrastructures of feeling University of Bristol, United Kingdom CO-PARENTING WITH AI: AUDITING THE INFRASTRUCTURES OF DATAFICATION IN BABY TRACKING APPS York University, Canada |
4:00pm - 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 KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom Cultural Narratives and Economic Independence: The Rise of Rural Women Vloggers in India 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 1: School of Communication, Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, England |
Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025 | |
9:00am - 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 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 - 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 UCL, United Kingdom Cross-platform gendertrolling: a case study on a prominent harassment case in Brazil Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Unravelling the Nation: Digital Contestations of Gendered Narratives in the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom Movement Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany BEING SEEN AND LOOKING BACK: MANDATORY ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SURVEILLANCE FOR LGBTQ+ USERS Concordia University, Canada |