Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Room 4 A |
| Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Location: Room 4 A 1019 Panel Proposal RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 1: Association for Progressive Communications, Global; 2: Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social, Brazil; 3: Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), Mexico; 4: Manila Observatory KLIMA Centre, Philippines; 5: Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), Kenya |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Labour in South America Location: Room 4 A Roundtable Session NEW NARRATIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING PLATFORM LABOUR IN SOUTH AMERICA 1: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez/Fairwork Chile; 2: Fairwork; 3: Observatorio de Plataformas/Fairwork Perú; 4: Universidad Católica de Uruguay/Fairwork Uruguay; 5: Fairwork Argentina; 6: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/Fairwork Brasil |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Workers & Power Disputes Location: Room 4 A Chair: Sarah T. Roberts Paper Proposal Coloniality of Power in Global Development Teams: Perspective from Indian and Brazilian Tech Workers Maynooth University, Ireland Paper Proposal Technical vs. Self-perceived: Examining Crowdsourcing Workers' Algorithmic Knowledge on Amazon Mechanical Turk The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Paper Proposal Imagining AI in Organized Media Work: Labor Narratives of the 'Hollywood Strikes' 1: Rutgers University; 2: University of Pennsylvania Paper Proposal No Escape: Exploring Work-Life Blending and Precarity Among Chinese Female Journalists University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Cyborgs & Bots Location: Room 4 A Chair: Chris Chesher Paper Proposal Cyborg Imaginaries: A Computational Grounded Theory of Online Pioneer Community Discussions on Human Augmentation University of Zurich, Switzerland Paper Proposal A Not So Stella(r) Encounter: Discursive Closure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Tulane University, United States of America Paper Proposal Algorithmic Fairness in Crisis Communication: How AI Chatbots Shape Public Trust and Engagement 1: Northern Illinois University, United States of America; 2: University of Wisconsin Madison, USA; 3: Peking University, China Paper Proposal "Just Asking Questions": Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS Location: Room 4 A Panel Proposal RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS 1: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 2: National University of Singapore; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: York University, Canada |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Fans & Platforms: Tensions Location: Room 4 A Chair: Sebastian F. K. Svegaard Paper Proposal Fan Labor As A Shield Against Platforms’ Unsafety: The Pipoca & Nanquim Case 1: FAAP University Center, Brazil; 2: Centro Universitário Senac São Paulo, Brazil Paper Proposal THE WITCHER’S INTERNET MAPS: FAN CARTOGRAPHY, ONLINE COMMUNITIES, AND SPATIAL STORYTELLING 1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: University of Tuebingen, Germany; 3: St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Paper Proposal TIKTOK ONE AS A SUPER TOOL SUITE: PLATFORM POWER AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLATFORM TOOLS University of Toronto, Canada Paper Proposal #KARLASOFIAGASCONISOVERPARTY: WHEN TWEETS RUIN AN OSCAR CAMPAIGN 1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America Location: Room 4 A Panel Proposal Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America 1: University of Urbino, Italy; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of the Arts London, UK; 4: Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), Brazil |
| Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025 | |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Comment Box & Discussions Location: Room 4 A Chair: Samuel Idris Cabbuag Paper Proposal Disrupting Mediated Publics: Comment Sections as Sites of Epistemic and Political Rupture Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Paper Proposal Constructing reality: Paratexts, power dynamics, and meaning-making in "Love is Blind" Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Paper Proposal “Sometimes Banning Abortion Doesn't Mean Fewer Abortions or Fewer Babies Die - It Just Means More Women Die”: A Thematic Analysis of Roe v. Wade Partisan Cable News Coverage Northeastern University, United States of America |