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 - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor MEMEFICATION OF MOTHERHOOD ON TIKTOK: #TYPESOFMOMS DECONSTRUCTION OF PARENTING IDEALISATION 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 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 Kristiania University College, Norway 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 - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Eldritch Agency: Truth Termina's Alien AI Ontology The University of Sydney, Australia Imaginaries of error: Exploring the sensemaking of generative AI failures among German lay users University of Hamburg, Germany ALGORITHMIC RUPTURES: TIKTOK’S ROLE IN SHAPING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES OF DIGITAL NOMADS CICANT, Lusofona Univesity, Portugal 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 - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Beyond creativity: Decoding changes mediated by Generative AI models in visual generative media and creative production Digital Democracies Institute/ Simon Fraser University, Canada Poisoning the Well: The Battle for Creative Control in the Era of Generative AI 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 1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Curtin University, Australia 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 - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor VISUAL MEDIA IN MOTION: CONCEPTUALIZING THE SHORT VIDEO FORMAT WITHIN VISUAL PLATFORMS Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland LOWER THAN LIFE: THE NEO-FOLK ART IN CHINA'S ERA OF SHORT VIDEOS University College London, United Kingdom From the Internet to the Everyday: An Exploration of Visual Representations of Peace 1: Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; 2: Karlstad University 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 - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Tracing a Memetic Journey: From South American Death Flights to Free Helicopter Ride Memes University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The ONLINE FAR-RIGHT AND RESENTMENT: AN INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MEMES ON PRIVATE MESSAGING NETWORKS 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 Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil PLATFORMED NOSTALGIA: AUTOMATTIC-ERA TUMBLR AND THE COMMERCIALISATION OF HISTORICAL SOCIAL MEDIA NOSTALGIA University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Creators & Identities - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Issaaf Karhawi INTRODUCING INFORMATION INFLUENCERS: DIGITAL CAPITAL AS RESISTANCE DURING SRI LANKA’S ARAGALAYA 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 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 Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy FROM COMMUNITY GUIDELINES TO INDUSTRY STANDARDS: MAPPING THE POLICY PRIORITIES OF MAINSTREAM, ALTERNATIVE, AND ADULT LIVE CONTENT PLATFORMS 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 - 3:30pm |
Platform Governance - Translation Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor PLATFORM GOVERNANCE AT THE MARGINS: RULES, RELATIONS AND RESISTANCE 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 - 5:30pm |
Communities & Innequalities - Remote Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor Chair: Gabriel Pereira X to Bluesky platform migration: Governance and community University of Connecticut, United States of America Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms 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 University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy 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 |