Social Media Bans for Australians Under16: Rupturing the Teenage Years?

Tama Leaver¹, Amanda Third², Daniel Angus³, Axel Bruns³

1: Curtin University, Australia; 2: Western Sydney University, Australia; 3: Queensland University of Technology, Australia

“MEET THE PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE”: AN EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL BLACK PRESS OUTLETS’ AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

Miya Williams Fayne

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

The paradox of the European Media Freedom Act: regulating for platform dependence

Charilaos Papaevangelou, Max van Drunen

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE MEDIA: THE ROLE OF EVERYDAY AUDIENCE DIGITAL ACTIVISM IN CHALLENGING THE NEWS MEDIA FOR ITS REPORTING ON MINORITIES.

Nadia Haq

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

THE GREAT JOURNALISTIC WALL IN CHINA: PREEMPTIVE BOUNDARY WORK IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI

Joanne Kuai

RMIT Australia

THE GREAT SYSOP: ELON MUSK, X, AND THE EMERGENCE OF ILLIBERAL CONTENT MODERATION

João Magalhães¹, Clara Iglesias Keller², Robert Gorwa³

1: University of Groningen; 2: Weizenbaum Institute | Berlin Social Science Center; 3: Berlin Social Science Center

Off worlding autonomy: Provincial infrastructure and orbital sovereignty in the Ford-Starlink partnership

Rory Zane Rafferty Sharp, Aviva Weizman

York University/Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

STARLINK IN THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS: INFRASTRUCTURAL IMAGINARIES AGAINST DIGITAL COLONIALISM

Luciana Musello

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

STARLINK, PLANETARY CAPITALISM AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF THE AMAZON

Luisa Cruz Lobato¹, Brenda Thainá Cardoso de Castro²

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: State University of Pará (UEPA)

BEYOND HATEWARE: AFFECT, NETWORKS, AND ECOSYSTEMS OF COLLABORATION IN A FANDOM DISCORD SERVER

Nicole Anne Margheim

Independent Scholar, United States of America

Shame and the Figure of the Fangirl: The Social Dynamic of Shame

Sascha Tanuja Samlal

The University of Melbourne, Australia

The Many-faced Fandom: Cesuo's Collective Persona on Weibo

Yifei Yang

University College Dublin, Ireland

Everything Everywhere All Xuanni: Chinese Fanvids, Music, Emotions and Self-Orientalism

Yifei Yang

University College Dublin, Ireland

Ruptures in Data Access: The State of Social Media Research APIs & Tools in the DSA Era

Fabio Giglietto¹, Axel Bruns², Josephine Lukito³, Jessica Robinson⁴, Richard Rogers⁵

1: University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; 2: Queensland University of Technology; 3: University of Texas at Austin; 4: University of Oslo; 5: University of Amsterdam

CAN GENZ ‘SAVE’ ROCK’N ROLL? AN ANALYSIS OF THE WARNING’S ONLINE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES

Leandro Augusto Borges Lima

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Protecting user data. A comparative study of government agencies and their strategies to protect citizens’ data rights

Raul Ferrer-Conill¹, Joanne Kuai², David Cheruiyot³, Helle Sjøvaag¹

1: University of Stavanger, Norway; 2: RMIT Australia; 3: University of Groningen - The Netherlands

“POV: You’re a scientist on TikTok”: Engagement strategies of science communicators on TikTok

Jon Benedik Bunquin^1,2, Annie Li Zhang³

1: University of Oregon; 2: University of the Philippines; 3: University of Michigan

Digital dissidence: platform ruptures, alternative economies, and tactical technological repurposing

Jaime Lee Kirtz

Arizona State University, United States of America

Violence Against Women: representation in streaming fictional content in the Global South

Clarice Greco¹, Gauri D Chakraborty², Giuliana Cassano³, Lorena Antezana⁴, Tomaz Penner⁵

1: Paulista University, Brazil; 2: Bennet University, India; 3: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; 4: University of Chile; 5: Mackenzie University, Brazil

WHEN INFLUENCERS ACT POLITICALLY: A CROSS-COUNTRY EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS’ EFFECTS ON THEIR FOLLOWERS’ POLICY ATTITUDES, VALUES, AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION

Miriam Brems, Jessica G. Walter, Anja Bechmann

Aarhus University, Denmark

A BEAUTIFUL BUBBLE: CHINESE WOMEN INFLUENCERS’ GENDERED SELF-BRANDING ON XIAOHONGSHU

Rendan Liu

King's College London, United Kingdom

UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL HEALTH KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM: ANALYZING THE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION PRACTICES OF PATIENT INFLUENCERS, PHARMACEUTICAL AND TELEHEALTH COMPANIES

Milana Leskovac

Queen's University, Canada

The Role of Regional Language Content in Fostering Cultural Pride and Identity: A Study of Maithili Influencers in India

Sonali Jha

Ohio University, United States of America