Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Automation
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Stephen Yang
 

Generative AI In Marketing: Productivity Gains and Work Automation

Joel Gastmann2, Marco Bastos1,2

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



HOW ARE CULTURES OF ARTS PRACTICE NAVIGATING THE AUTOMATION OF THE ARTS?

Monika Fratczak1, Erinma Ochu2, Itzelle Medina Perea1, Jo Bates1

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: University of the West of England, United Kingdom



COLONIAL MAPPING OF ADVANCE AUTOMATION: EAST INDIA COMPANY AS AI

Elisha Lim1, Beth Coleman2

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



THE PLATFORMIZATION OF INFORMAL SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CASE OF DROPSHIPPING

Andrea Alarcon1, Nicholas Carah2, Sokummono Khan3

1: University of Queensland; 2: University of Queensland; 3: University of Queensland

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Data Flows
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Jakob Bæk Kristensen
 

War, Weapons, and the Web: Tracing Cyberwar Leaks and 3D-Printed Firearms as Distributed Network Swarms

Benjamin De Kosnik1, Abigail De Kosnik2, Aaron Zolla3

1: Mozilla, United States of America; 2: University of California Berkeley; 3: University of California Berkeley



Decentralized Re-Platforming: a case study of three fediverse instances

Leonardo Foletto1, Guilherme Flynn2

1: Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil; 2: Independent Reseacher



Investigating Information Integrity: Digital platforms, algorithms, and information flows

Bernardo Martinho Ballardin, Fabio Jose Novaes de Senne

Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br | Nic.br)



DETECTING OPINION LEADERS IN A TELEGRAM NETWORK OF FORWARDED MESSAGES

Giulia Tucci1,2, Fabio Castro Gouveia1

1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, Brazil; 2: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia

11:00am
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12:30pm
Sexual Content
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
 

RESEARCH BRAVE SPACES AND ZINE-MAKING: DISRUPTIVE TOOLS FOR EXPLORING DIGITAL SEXUAL INTIMACIES

Rachele Reschiglian, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

University of Padova, Italy



NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEM IN DIGITAL SEX WORK IN BRAZIL

Lorena Caminhas

Maynooth University, Ireland



ELUSIVE PORN: LEARNING FROM ALASTONSUOMI

Susanna Paasonen

University of Turku, Finland



MODELHUB AS A PLATFORM TOOL: THE MORAL ORDER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS ON PORNHUB

Maggie MacDonald

University of Toronto, Canada

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Bodies & (In)Visibilities
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Kate Rosalind Gilchrist
 

THE DIGITAL BODY: FITNESS, WELLNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN COLOMBIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Oscar Javier Maldonado, Derly Sánchez-Vargas, Laura Clemencia Mantilla, Alicia Duque, Isabella Jaimes-Rodríguez

Universidad del Rosario, Colombia



BODY TALK IN MEDIA TALK: MOTHER-DAUGHTER DYADS IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE BODY IN MEDIATED TEXT AS EMBODIED RE-IMAGINATION OF FEMINISM

Julienne Thesa Yebron Baldo-Cubelo

University of the Philippines, Philippines



GEEK GRRRLS NEED MODEMS: DISEMBODIEMENT, CYBERLIBERATION AND POSTFEMINISM IN THE 1990S

Rebecca Houlihan

Monash University, Australia



Conventional representations online: "repeating femininity" on bigger and smaller platforms

Ira Solomatina

LMU, Germany

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Infrastructures & geopolitics
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Charilaos Papaevangelou
 

AMAZON’S DIGITAL LOCAL MEDIA COVERAGE ON INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WITH SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Débora Gomes Salles1, Marina Loureiro Santos1, Thamyres Monteiro Albuquerque de Magalhães1, Bianca Maria da Silva Melo2, Julia Santos Rodrigues Dias1, Nicole Sanchotene1, Rose Marie Santini1

1: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); 2: Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL)



The Infrastructure of Transphobic Feminism: A Digital Ethnography of an Anti-Trans Forum

Benjamin Clay Davis, Kelley Cotter

Pennsylvania State University, United States of America



Revisiting Airport Security Logics: Looking into the Limits and Lapses of Public Sector Data Infrastructure in a Post-9/11 Era

Muira McCammon1, Matthew Conaty2

1: Tulane University, United States of America; 2: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania



BENEATH THE WAVES - OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN THE SUBMARINE CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

Kristian Sick

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Urban Mobilities
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
 

NAVIGATING INTIMACY IN A MOBILE WORLD: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE DIGITAL NOMAD LIFESTYLE

Cristina Miguel1, Christoph Lutz2, Yunhao Xiao2, Filip Majetić3, Rodrigo Perez-Vega1

1: University of Reading; 2: BI Norwegian Business School; 3: Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar



MICROMOBILITIES SERVICES IN URBAN BRAZIL: A CASE OF MOBILITIES (IN)JUSTICE

Adriana de Souza e Silva1, Ragan Glover2

1: Northeastern University, USA; 2: University of Michigan, USA



MIGRATING THROUGH HYBRID SPACE: NEW EVIDENCE OF CONCEPTUAL UPDATES

Adriana de Souza e Silva1, Ana Avila2, Scott W. Cambell3

1: Northeastern University, United States of America; 2: University of Michigan, United States of America; 3: The Ohio State University, United States of America



The Risk of Risk: Ethical Frameworks and Empirical Implications for Cities

Sharon Strover, Brad Limov, Azza El Masri

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Workers & Power Disputes
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
 

Coloniality of Power in Global Development Teams: Perspective from Indian and Brazilian Tech Workers

Sébastien Antoine

Maynooth University, Ireland



Technical vs. Self-perceived: Examining Crowdsourcing Workers' Algorithm Knowledge on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Leon Zhenglang Wang, Ruiwen Zhou

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)



Imagining AI in Organized Media Work: Labor Narratives of the 'Hollywood Strikes'

Caitlin Petre1, Julia Ticona2

1: Rutgers University; 2: University of Pennsylvania



No Escape: Exploring Work-Life Blending and Precarity Among Chinese Female Journalists

Lingyu Li

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

11:00am
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12:30pm
Archeologies & Histories of Digital Artifacts
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Megan Sapnar Ankerson
 

Online Media Archeology as AI Critique: Wikipedia’s Links and Edits as Spatial and Temporal Fields

Natalia Stanusch, Richard Rogers, Natalia Sánchez-Querubín

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands



Digital Attention Economy: Concept, Phenomenon, and History in Platform Studies

Anna Bentes

School of Communication, Media, and Information at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil



(A)I CAN’T SEE HER

Lina Ruth Harder

Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Norway



“ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” IS/AS NEITHER: RETHINKING AI AGAINST “RUPTURE”

Zachary McDowell

University of Illinois at Chicago