Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Novo IACS (Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Social) São Domingos, Niterói - State of Rio de Janeiro, 24210-200, Brazil
Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Platforms & Governments - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
 

MEMEFICATION OF MOTHERHOOD ON TIKTOK: #TYPESOFMOMS DECONSTRUCTION OF PARENTING IDEALISATION

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú1, Crystal Abidin2

1: Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain; 2: Curtin University, Australia



DISCONNECTION AMID INEQUALITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO ETHNO-RACIAL MINORITIZED YOUNG WOMEN’S DIGITAL MEDIA (NON)USE

Tom De Leyn1, Mariek Vanden Abeele2, Ralf De Wolf2

1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: imec-mict-ugent, department of communication sciences, Ghent University



FROM RUPTURED RELATIONSHIPS TO SWIPING RIGHT – SINGLE PARENTS ON DATING APPS

Plata Sofie Diesen

Kristiania University College, Norway



REALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS: HOW USERS, SPONSORS AND GOVERNMENTS BRING ABOUT FEATURE CHANGE

Kevin Patrick Garvey2, Danielle Flonk1

1: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan; 2: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

11:00am
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12:30pm
AI Boundaries - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
 

Eldritch Agency: Truth Termina's Alien AI Ontology

Teodor Mitew

The University of Sydney, Australia



Imaginaries of error: Exploring the sensemaking of generative AI failures among German lay users

Eva Luise Knor

University of Hamburg, Germany



ALGORITHMIC RUPTURES: TIKTOK’S ROLE IN SHAPING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES OF DIGITAL NOMADS

Karine Ehn, Ana Jorge

CICANT, Lusofona Univesity, Portugal



ARTIFICIAL INTIMACIES: EXPLORING HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE AGE OF AI

Rodrigo Perez-Vega1, Ezgi Merdin-Uygur2, Cristina Miguel1

1: University of Reading; 2: Brunel University of London

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Platform & Controversies - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
 

Beyond creativity: Decoding changes mediated by Generative AI models in visual generative media and creative production

Pranjali J Mann, Alberto Lusoli

Digital Democracies Institute/ Simon Fraser University, Canada



Poisoning the Well: The Battle for Creative Control in the Era of Generative AI

Sarah Elizabeth Edwards1, Zoë Glatt2

1: University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2: Microsoft Research



“What’s our escape plan, and where are we going to meet up?”: Theorising platform evacuation in platform society

Taylor Annabell1, Crystal Abidin2

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Curtin University, Australia



The platform politics of hateful play on Twitch

E. Brooke Phipps1, David Murphy2, Josh Jarrett2

1: Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America; 2: University of Staffordshire, United Kingdom

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Visual Experiences - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
 

VISUAL MEDIA IN MOTION: CONCEPTUALIZING THE SHORT VIDEO FORMAT WITHIN VISUAL PLATFORMS

Giulia Isabella Guerra

Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland



LOWER THAN LIFE: THE NEO-FOLK ART IN CHINA'S ERA OF SHORT VIDEOS

YE FUNA

University College London, United Kingdom



From the Internet to the Everyday: An Exploration of Visual Representations of Peace

Isabel Prinzing1, Cornelia Brantner2, Katharina Lobinger1

1: Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; 2: Karlstad University



Semantic Clustering for Visual Data

Luigi Arminio1, Matteo Magnani2, Matias Piqueras2, Luca Rossi1, Alexandra Segerberg2

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Uppsala University, Sweden

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Memes and Culture Viralization - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
 

Tracing a Memetic Journey: From South American Death Flights to Free Helicopter Ride Memes

Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The



ONLINE FAR-RIGHT AND RESENTMENT: AN INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MEMES ON PRIVATE MESSAGING NETWORKS

Viktor Chagas1, Vinicius Miguel2

1: Fluminense Federal University, Brazil; 2: Fluminense Federal University, Brazil



Meme Work in Anti-Veg*nism Humor on Instagram: Reflections on Hate Speech and Social Media Regulation

Thiago Costa

Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil



PLATFORMED NOSTALGIA: AUTOMATTIC-ERA TUMBLR AND THE COMMERCIALISATION OF HISTORICAL SOCIAL MEDIA NOSTALGIA

Briony Hannell

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

11:00am
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12:30pm
Creators & Identities - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Issaaf Karhawi
 

INTRODUCING INFORMATION INFLUENCERS: DIGITAL CAPITAL AS RESISTANCE DURING SRI LANKA’S ARAGALAYA

Craig Ryder

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, United Kingdom



"ROSES ARE RED, I KNOW THIS TREND IS IN THE PAST, BUT I WAS HELD CAPTIVE BY HAMAS, SO I GET A PASS": FORMER TEENAGE HOSTAGES OF THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR NARRATE TRAUMA AND IDENTITY ON TIKTOK

Nathan Stolero1,2

1: Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: Department of Communication, Gordon Academic College of Education



Beyond love is love: investigating LGBTQIA+ parent-influencers' advocacy work on Instagram

Arianna Bussoletti

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy



FROM COMMUNITY GUIDELINES TO INDUSTRY STANDARDS: MAPPING THE POLICY PRIORITIES OF MAINSTREAM, ALTERNATIVE, AND ADULT LIVE CONTENT PLATFORMS

Blake Hallinan1, CJ Reynolds1, Rebecca Scharlach2, Dana Theiler1, Isabell Knief3, Omer Rothenstein1, Yehonatan Kuperberg1, Noa Niv1

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: University of Bremen, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI); 3: University of Bonn

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Platform Governance - Translation
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
 

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
Communities & Innequalities - Remote
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Gabriel Pereira
 

X to Bluesky platform migration: Governance and community

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch

University of Connecticut, United States of America



Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms

Alex Turvy1, Crystal Abidin2

1: Tulane University, United States of America; 2: Curtin University, Australia



Fragmented Flows: Algorithmic Curation, Organic Sharing, and the Structuring of Telegram’s Fringe Communities

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Nicola Righetti, Valeria Donato

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy



Think better, you dumbass: Online hateful speech as epistemic violence

Esteban Morales1, Jaigris Hodson2, Victoria O'Meara3

1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 2: Royal Roads University, Canada; 3: University of Leicester, United Kingdom