Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 10E
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
AI & Beyond - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Elisha Lim
 

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ON JOKES AND BOUNDARIES: HOW MACHINE LEARNING PRACTITIONERS NAVIGATE HYPED EXPECTATIONS THROUGH MEMES

Dominic Lammar1, Oksana Dorofeeva2

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany. School of Social Sciences and Technology. Department of Science, Technology and Society.; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark. Department of Political Science. Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy.




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AI ABOLITION AS DECOLONIAL RUPTURE IN AI EMPIRE: RADICAL CYBERPRACTICES FROM BELOW

Zhasmina Tacheva1, Sarah Appedu1, Jeongbae Choi1, Mirakle Wright2, Yigang Qin1

1: Syracuse University, United States of America; 2: University of Colorado Denver, United States of America




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Re-defining inclusive AI: A critical capabilities framework for bridging theory and practice

Dominique Carlon, Anthony McCosker

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia




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Wikidata’s Worldview: Inspecting an AI Knowledge Pipeline with Semantic Network Analysis

Andrew Iliadis, Mikayla Brown

Temple University, United States of America

11:00am
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12:30pm
Platformization & Journalism - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
 

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TRAFFIC AS VISIBILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: SEO'S TRANSFORMATION OF THE INDIAN NEWSROOM

Sangeet Kumar

Denison University, United States of America




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PRESS FREEDOM IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI: CHALLENGES TO AUTHENTICITY AND DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE

Juan Ortiz Freuler, Bumju Jung

University of Southern California, United States of America




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Data, Sense, and Sensibility: How Data Journalism Style Shapes Interactivity

Avner Kantor1, Sheizaf Rafaeli2

1: University of Haifa, Israel; 2: Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel




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Cloud Journalism: Examining News Media’s Adoption of Cloud Infrastructures

Agustin Ferrari Braun

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Global Resistances - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Tariq dos Santos Choucair
 

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On the Unintended Consequences of Content Takedowns: Countering Extremism and the Case of Chef Pete Evans

James Fitzgerald1, Vivian Sophie Gerrand2

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: Deakin University, Australia




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#FREE LUIGI BETWEEN PLAYFUL RESISTANCE AND RUPTURE

Michelle Robin Stewart, Samuel Laperle

UQAM, Canada




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“Internet Toilets” and the Girls in Emotional Refuge: The Cultural Politics of Online Invective Subcultural Communities in China

Songyin Liu, Zhijun Ye

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of




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DIGITAL IDENTITY, DATAFICATION AND EPIDERMALISATION IN MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP

Mirca Madianou1, Charlotte Hill2

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Chiang Mai University, Thailand

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Redefining Subcultures - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Kateryna Kasianenko
 

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MANOSPHERE, DIS/AFFECTED: EXPLORING THE AFFECTIVE POLITICISATION IN THE SPANISH ANTI-FEMINIST SUBCULTURES

Silvia Díaz Fernández

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain




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Between Global Waves and Local Currents: K-pop, YouTube, and Fan Cultures in Quebec

Nina Duque

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada




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FANSUBBING AS FEMINIST DISRUPTION IN CHINA

Cara Wallis

University of Michigan, United States of America




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ESOLS, SOFT POWER, AND NOMADISM: THAI CREATOR CULTURE IN THE SHADOW OF PLATFORM NATIONALISM

David Craig1, Saittawut Yutthaworakool2, Jessada Salathong3

1: University of Southern California/ Annenberg, U.S.A.; 2: Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; 3: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Discourses & Platforms - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Rahul Mukherjee
 

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THE ATTRIBUTED HUMAN: HOW TOKENIZATION LEDGERIZES EXPERIENCE

Violeta Camarasa San Juan, Saskia Witteborn

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




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FRINGE PLATFORMS AND THE PREVALENCE OF DIGITAL BANTER DURING THE UK RIOTS

Craig Ryder

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, United Kingdom




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CHALLENGING THE RULES OF INFLUENCER MARKETING: EMERGING SENSITIVITIES AROUND CHILDREN'S PRESENCE IN FAMILY INFLUENCERS PROFILES

Elisabetta Locatelli, Alessandra Coman

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy




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Not Content with Content: Ruptures in Media Discourse and Production?

Sarah Jean Salman

Cornell University, United States of America

11:00am
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12:30pm
Fans, fandoms & affections - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Beatriz Blanco
 

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BEYOND HATEWARE: AFFECT, NETWORKS, AND COLLABORATIVE ECOSYSTEMS IN A FANDOM DISCORD SERVER

Nicole Anne Margheim

Independent Scholar, United States of America




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Shame and the Figure of the Fangirl: The Social Dynamic of Shame

Sascha Tanuja Samlal

The University of Melbourne, Australia




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The Many-faced Fandom: Cesuo's Collective Persona on Weibo

Yifei Yang

University College Dublin, Ireland




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Everything Everywhere All Xuanni: Chinese Fanvids, Music, Emotions and Self-Orientalism

Yifei Yang

University College Dublin, Ireland

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
STUDYING DIGITAL SEXUAL CULTURES BEYOND ANGLOCENTRISM
Location: Room 10E
 

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STUDYING DIGITAL SEXUAL CULTURES BEYOND ANGLOCENTRISM

Susanna Paasonen1, Eduardo Espindola Braud Martins2, Carolina Parreiras3, Jenny Sundén4, Katrin Tiidenberg5

1: University of Turku, Finland; 2: Federal University of Uberlândia; 3: University of São Paulo; 4: Uppsala University; 5: Tallinn University