Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 3C
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Rethinking Methods
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Raquel Recuero
 

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EXPLORING SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHILDREN’S DIGITAL CULTURE THROUGH CREATIVE METHODS

Henry Mainsah

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway




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Slop for Kids: an exploratory study of AI-generated videos for children on YouTube

André Mintz, Juno Bozzi

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil




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WEB DETECTION METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL INTERPRETATION OF IMAGE COLLECTIONS

Janna Joceli Omena1, Briones Ángeles2, Scott Rodgers3, Eduardo Leite4, Simon Ceh5

1: King's College London, United Kingdom; 2: Politecnico di Milano; 3: Birkbeck, University of London; 4: Universidade Federal da Bahia; 5: University of Graz

11:00am
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12:30pm
Digital Listening
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Caroline Govari
 

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ASPIRATIONAL SELF-LABOUR AND LISTENING PRACTICES IN BRAZIL

Vanessa Amália Dalpizol Valiati1, Robert Prey2

1: Feevale University, Brazil; 2: University of Oxford, UK




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They Don't Build Statues of Critics: The Fate of Music Evaluation in the Era of Streaming and Social Media

Walker West Brewer

Northwestern University, United States of America




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Streaming Platforms and Everyday Lives: Musical Community and Individualisation

David Hesmondhalgh1, Shuwen Qu2

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: Jinan University, China




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Chill vibes: Wellness creep into music streaming platforms

Raquel Campos Valverde, Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Why Reddit? Histories, ethics, politics & practices as Reddit turns 20
Location: Room 3C
 

Panel Proposal

Why Reddit? Histories, ethics, politics & practices as Reddit turns 20

Samantha Vilkins1, Dominique Carlon2, Ashwin Nagappa1, Ari Stillman3, Ehsan Dehghan1, Kateryna Kasianenko1, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh1, Axel Bruns1, Sebastian S.K. Svegaard1, Katherine M. FitzGerald1

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms: Internet(s) Research Otherwise
Location: Room 3C
 

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Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms: Internet(s) Research Otherwise

Beatrys Rodrigues1, Aspen K.B. Omapang1, Nikko Stevens2, Thiane Neves Barros3, Polinho Mota4

1: Cornell University; 2: Smith College; 3: Mozilla and Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais; 4: data_labe and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Consumption Cultures
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Nina Duque
 

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FN BOOK CLUB: DISPUTES OVER CAPITAL AND PERFORMATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE LITERARY SPHERE

Byanca Caroline da Silva Ribeiro

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil




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Co-Consuming Dystopia: Analyzing an Alternative Genre of Technology Criticism through Amazon’s Book Recommendation Networks

Marc Tuters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The




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Negotiated resistance as platform cynicism: an empirical investigation of Internet consumption practices of Temu

Shuxian Liu, Edgar Gómez-Cruz

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America




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Consuming the selling experience in-the-moment: The use of TikTok Live during Black Friday in the Netherlands

Taylor Annabell1, Laura Aade2, Catalina Goanta1

1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

11:00am
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12:30pm
Algorithmic Imaginaries
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Andrew James Iliadis
 

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DON’T WORRY ABOUT FORMALITIES: PROMPTING AS ALGORITHMIC FOLKLORE

Marianne Gunderson

University of Bergen, Norway




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DIGITAL INFLUENCE AS AN ALGORITHMIC CONDITION: COMPUTATIONAL AUTHENTICITY, ALGORITHMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND DIGITAL VISIBILITY

Grégori da Costa Castelhano1, Elias Cunha Bitencourt1,2

1: Datalab Design; 2: State University of Bahia, Brazil




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Becoming Intimate with Algorithms: Users’ Encounters, Imaginaries, and Affective Bonds with TikTok

Helena Strecker

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Platform Governance
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Yannik Peters
 

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PLATFORM GOVERNANCE AT THE MARGINS: RULES, RELATIONS AND RESISTANCE

Carolina Are1, Samuel Cabbuag2, Crystal Abidin2, Ruepert Cao3, Zari Taylor4, Kiara Child4, Christopher Persaud5

1: Centre for Digital Citizens, Northumbria University, United Kingdom; 2: University of the Philippines Dillman;; 3: De La Salle University; 4: New York University; Data & Society Research Institute; 5: Intel Labs

4:00pm
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5:30pm
TikTok Intersectionalities
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Issaaf Karhawi
 

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Latina Makeup Filters on TikTok: From Platform-Enabled Racialization to Resignification Practices

Catalina Alejandra Farías

Northwestern University, United States of America




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Reflections on the Afrogoth Hashtag on Tiktok: strategies for hacking the dispositive of raciality in digital media technologies

Amanda Maria de Sobral Gomes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)




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The [self] representation of Muslims on TikTok: The interpretation of Islamic Faith

Yara Daas

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel




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In Search of a TikTok Baseline - An empirical study of shared cultural experiences on a highly personalised digital platform

Patrik Wikstrom1, Jiaru Tang1, Jean Burgess1, Tian Wen2, Jonathon Hutchinson2, Joanne Gray2, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández3

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Sydney, Australia; 3: University College Dublin, Ireland

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Discussing Digital Methods in Brazil: Towards an emerging school of thought?
Location: Room 3C
 

Roundtable Session

Discussing Digital Methods in Brazil: Towards an emerging school of thought?

Janna Joceli Omena1, Richard Rogers2, Giulia Tucci3,4, Elias Bitencourt5, Alan Angeluci6

1: King's College London; 2: University of Amsterdam; 3: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT); 4: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); 5: State University of Bahia (UNEB); 6: University of São Paulo (ECA/USP)

11:00am
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12:30pm
Internet Communities Alternative Histories
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Willian Araujo
 

Paper Proposal

Feminist Labor Histories of Neighborhood Surveillance

Jenny Lee

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America




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BLACK (BRITISH) IDENTITY AND ARCHIVAL RITUALS

Rianna Walcott

University of Maryland, United States of America




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Hackers and Hatewatchers: Tracing the origin stories of doxing

Jamie Theophilos

Indiana University, Bloomington, United States of America




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“We created this account to be free”: Technobiographies of Engaging with X among Filipino Men Living with HIV

Aldo Gavril Tobias Lim

University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines