Conference Agenda
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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 - 10:30am |
Platforms & Governments - Hybrid + Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Dmitry Kuznetsov Paper Proposal MEMEFICATION OF MOTHERHOOD ON TIKTOK: #TYPESOFMOMS DECONSTRUCTION OF PARENTING IDEALISATION 1: Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain; 2: Curtin University, Australia Paper Proposal DISCONNECTION AMID INEQUALITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO ETHNO-RACIAL MINORITIZED YOUNG WOMEN’S DIGITAL MEDIA (NON)USE 1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: imec-mict-ugent, department of communication sciences, Ghent University Paper Proposal FROM RUPTURED RELATIONSHIPS TO SWIPING RIGHT – SINGLE PARENTS ON DATING APPS Kristiania University College, Norway Paper Proposal REALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS: HOW USERS, SPONSORS AND GOVERNMENTS BRING ABOUT FEATURE CHANGE 1: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan; 2: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
AI Boundaries - Hybrid + Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Godwin Iretomiwa Simon Paper Proposal Eldritch Agency: Truth Terminal's Alien AI Ontology The University of Sydney, Australia Paper Proposal Error Imaginations: How German Lay Users Negotiate Risks of Generative AI Errors in Political Information Searches University of Hamburg, Germany Paper Proposal ALGORITHMIC RUPTURES: TIKTOK’S ROLE IN SHAPING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES OF DIGITAL NOMADS CICANT, Lusofona Univesity, Portugal Paper Proposal ARTIFICIAL INTIMACIES: EXPLORING HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE AGE OF AI 1: University of Reading; 2: Brunel University of London |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Platform & Controversies - Hybrid + Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Diyi Liu Paper Proposal Beyond creativity: Decoding changes mediated by Generative AI models in visual generative media and creative production Digital Democracies Institute/ Simon Fraser University, Canada Paper Proposal Poisoning the Well: The Battle for Creative Control in the Era of Generative AI 1: University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2: Microsoft Research Paper Proposal “What’s our escape plan, and where are we going to meet up?”: Theorising platform evacuation in platform society 1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Curtin University, Australia Paper Proposal The platform politics of hateful play on Twitch 1: Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America; 2: University of Staffordshire, United Kingdom |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Visual Experiences - Hybrid + Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Katrin Tiidenberg Paper Proposal Visual media in motion: Conceptualizing the short video format within visual platforms Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Paper Proposal DEEP TIME, FAST THREADS: NEO-FOLK ART AND PLATFORM TEMPORALITY IN GUIZHOU University College London, United Kingdom Paper Proposal From the Internet to the everyday: An exploration of visual representations of peace 1: Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; 2: Karlstad University Paper Proposal Semantic Clustering for Visual Data 1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Memes and Culture Viralization - Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: José M. Tomasena Paper Proposal Tracing a Memetic Journey: From South American Death Flights to Free Helicopter Ride Memes University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Paper Proposal MEMES OF RESENTMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW THE FAR RIGHT MOBILIZES HUMOR AND SENTIMENT STRUCTURES IN PRIVATE MESSAGING NETWORKS 1: Fluminense Federal University, Brazil; 2: Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Paper Proposal Meme Work in Anti-Veg*nism Humor on Instagram: Reflections on Hate Speech and Social Media Regulation Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil Paper Proposal PLATFORMED NOSTALGIA: AUTOMATTIC-ERA TUMBLR AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF HISTORICAL SOCIAL MEDIA NOSTALGIA University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Creators & Identities - Hybrid + Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Issaaf Karhawi Paper Proposal INTRODUCING INFORMATION INFLUENCERS: DIGITAL CAPITAL AS RESISTANCE DURING SRI LANKA’S ARAGALAYA Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, United Kingdom Paper Proposal "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 1: Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: Department of Communication, Gordon Academic College of Education Paper Proposal Beyond love is love: investigating LGBTQIA+ parent-influencers' advocacy work on Instagram Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Communities & Innequalities - Hybrid + Streaming Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Gabriel Pereira Paper Proposal X to Bluesky platform migration: Governance and community University of Connecticut, United States of America Paper Proposal Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms 1: Tulane University, United States of America; 2: Curtin University, Australia Paper Proposal Fragmented Flows: Algorithmic Curation, Organic Sharing, and the Structuring of Telegram’s Fringe Communities University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Paper Proposal Think better, you dumbass: Online hateful speech as epistemic violence 1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 2: Royal Roads University, Canada; 3: University of Leicester, United Kingdom |