Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 15/Oct/2025
8:00am
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4:30pm		 Registration
Location: NOVO IACS Main Entrance
9:00am
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12:30pm		 Online Hate Speech in Brazil: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 Early Career Scholars Workshop
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
 Creative Labour In Rupture? Gen-AI And Future Research Directions
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
9:00am
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4:30pm		 Doctoral Colloquium
Location: Hotel H

There will be refreshments and lunch for the Doctoral Colloquium

 Registration Doctoral Colloquium
Location: Hotel H Main Entrance
  
9:00am
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5:00pm		 The Model and the Reactor: Artificial Intelligences Infrastructure from Public, Private and Beyond
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
10:30am
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11:00am		 Coffee Break
Location: Galeria Gala
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Lunch
Location: Galeria Gala
2:00pm
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5:30pm		 Chronic Problems. Getting to Terms with the Temporality of Algorithmic Media
Location: Room 7a - Groundfloor
 Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
 Rethinking AI from the Ground Up: Building sustainable AI ecosystems for local communities
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
3:30pm
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4:00pm		 Coffee Break
Location: Galeria Gala
6:00pm
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8:00pm		 "The Digital Break: When Big Tech (re)Fused the Global North and South"
Location: Teatro Popular Oscar Niemayer

Keynote Speaker: R. Marie Santini - School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Dr. Santini is the founder and director of NetLab – Laboratory for Internet and Social Network Studies, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. NetLab researches the phenomenon of digital disinformation and its social consequences to inform public policies that promote ethics in governance, transparency, and integrity of digital media in Brazil. Marie is a CNPq Research Fellow, an Associate Researcher at the European Centre of Excellence VOX-Pol; a member of the expert committee of the International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID); and a researcher on the Scientific Committee of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

 Registration Teatro Popular
Location: Teatro Popular Main Entrance
  
8:00pm
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9:00pm		 Opening Reception
Location: Teatro Popular Oscar Niemayer

Date: Thursday, 16/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 HUMANS AND MACHINES IN THE LOOP: RETHINKING LLMS FOR CONFLICT AND DISAGREEMENT IN CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL COMPLEX PHENOMENA
Location: Room 7a - Groundfloor
 Toxic Vibes
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
Chair: Alice E. Marwick
 Platforms & Governments - Hybrid + Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Dmitry Kuznetsov
 Rediscussing Information Search: engines and AI
Location: Room 10a - Groundfloor
Chair: Sahana Udupa
 Data Donation
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
 Climate
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Suay Melisa Özkula
 Algorithms and cultural identities
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Hannah Ditchfield

Works: 236, 930, 199, 974

 Queer Visibilities
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Alex Ketchum
 Indigenous communities & digital ruptures - Translation
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
Chair: Beatrys Rodrigues
 TikTok, Politics & Activism - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Tom Divon
 MAINSTREAMING DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Categorization & Labels
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Chair: Andressa Michelotti
 AI & Beyond - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Elisha Lim
 Rethinking Methods
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Raquel Recuero
 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

 Failures & Glitches
Location: Room 5A
Chair: Brady Jay Robards
10:30am
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11:00am		 Coffee Break
Location: Galeria Gala
11:00am
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12:30pm		 AI Boundaries - Hybrid + Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Godwin Iretomiwa Simon
 Ambient Misogyny
Location: Room 10a - Groundfloor
 “I Get by With a Little Help from my Friends”: Friendship as Digital Method Zine Making Workshop
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
 Global Disinformation Perspectives
Location: Room 10c - Groundfloor
Chair: Calvin da Silva Cousin
 Gaming Perspectives
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Samyr Paz
 Aesthetic & Trends
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Gustavo Fischer
 Digital subordination or sovereignty: a comparative analysis of the digital policies of the European Union, Brazil and China in the face of the hegemony of the United States in the digital economy
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
 Media Discourses on Digital Phenoma - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Mitra Shamsi
 Mapping and Cartographing Cities and Cultures
Location: Room 10g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Nicholas John
 “Am I at Risk?” - Conducting Risky Research and Collective Risk Mitigation Strategies - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Data from the Dead and Digital afterlife
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Chair: Georgios Terzis
 Platformization & Journalism - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
 Digital Listening
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Caroline Govari
 Labour in South America
Location: Room 4 A
 Social Media Bans for Australians Under16: Rupturing the Teenage Years?
Location: Room 8B
 SLIPPERY, SLOPPY, SPECTACULAR, AND VERY UNRULY: FEMINIST CREATIVE LABOUR IN A RUPTUROUS AGE
Location: Room 5A
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Aoir first timers picnic
 Lunch
Location: Galeria Gala
  
2:00pm
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3:30pm		 Platform & Controversies - Hybrid + Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Emillie de Keulenaar
 TechnoImaginaries & Dreams
Location: Room 10c - Groundfloor
Chair: Agustin Ferrari Braun
 Knowledge, Fandoms & Pop Culture
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Clarice Greco
 IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: RUPTURES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
 LATIN AMERICAN CREATOR (SUB)CULTURES ON TIKTOK: VISIBILITY, RESISTANCE, AND CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
 Disinformation, Elections and Politics - Translation
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
Chair: Nicholas John
 Gaming Intersectionalities - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Sam Srauy
 AOIR ETHICS IN ACTION: GUIDELINES, REGULATIONS, AND PRACTICES ACROSS DIVERSE GLOBAL COMMUNITIES - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Infrastructures
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
Chair: Fieke Jansen
 Global Resistances - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Tariq dos Santos Choucair
 Why Reddit? Histories, ethics, politics & practices as Reddit turns 20
Location: Room 3C
 Press & Platforms
Location: Room 8B
Chair: Lingyu Li
 AI & Creative Industries
Location: Room 5A
Chair: Tama Leaver
      
3:30pm
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4:00pm		 Coffee Break
Location: Galeria Gala
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 Visual Experiences - Hybrid + Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Katrin Tiidenberg
 Concepts & Metaphors
Location: Room 10a - Groundfloor
Chair: Andre Pase
 SONIC SPACES OF RUPTURE: CAPACITIES FOR DIGITAL CONNECTION, INTIMACY, AND LIBERATION IN TIMES OF UNREST
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
 Rethinking AI
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Zachary McDowell
 Platformized Health
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Stefania Vicari
 TikTok Cultures
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Annika Caroline Pinch
 Monetization & Legitimisation Strategies - Translation
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
Chair: Natalie Pang
 Labour & Data - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: MaryElizabeth Luka
 Labour desde Latin America - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Automation
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Alan Angeluci
 Redefining Subcultures - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Kateryna Kasianenko
 Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms: Internet(s) Research Otherwise
Location: Room 3C
 Workers & Power Disputes
Location: Room 4 A
Chair: Sarah T. Roberts
 Starlink & bigtech imaginaries
Location: Room 8B
Chair: Dani Madrid-Morales
 RUPTURES, DISSENT AND CANCELLATION: STUDIES ON DIGITAL FANDOMS IN CRISIS
Location: Room 5A
  
6:00pm
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8:00pm		 Ruptures from the South: Internet Research Histories
Location: Teatro Popular Oscar Niemayer

Ruptures from the South: Internet Research Histories

André Lemos (UFBA)

Suely Fragoso (UFRGS)

Paola Ricaurte Quijano (Tecnológico Monterrey & Harvard University)

Fernanda Carrera (UFRJ)
8:00pm
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9:00pm		 Reception
Location: Teatro Popular Oscar Niemayer

Date: Friday, 17/Oct/2025
8:00am
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4:30pm		 Registration
9:00am
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10:30am		 Is AI hype overstated? A global perspective on AI, disinformation and extreme speech
Location: Room 7a - Groundfloor
 Memes and Culture Viralization - Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: José M. Tomasena
 Histories and Ruptures in Platform Governance
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 Digital Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomy, Resisting Epistemic Violence
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
 Datafication Cultures
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Luci Pangrazio
 Materialities & Infrastructures
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
Chair: Gustavo Fischer
 Brazilian Ruptures - Translation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Mariana Scalabrin Müller
 Repairing Ruptures: Recentering Play and Games in Internet Research - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Blockchain: The New Internet of Trust
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 Data Flows
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Jakob Bæk Kristensen
 Discourses & Platforms - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Rahul Mukherjee
 Consumption Cultures
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Nina Duque
 Cyborgs & Bots
Location: Room 4 A
Chair: Chris Chesher
      
10:30am
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11:00am		 Coffee Break
11:00am
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12:30pm		 Health creator: Anatomy of a fuzzy concept
Location: Room 7a - Groundfloor
 Finances & Profits: Critiques
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
Chair: Andrew Herman
 Creators & Identities - Hybrid + Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Issaaf Karhawi
 Digital Transformation
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
Chair: Facundo Nazareno Suenzo
 Navigating Internet Research as Black Women
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 Far Right & Online Hate
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Reed Van Schenck
 Affordances
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Ailea Grace Merriam-Pigg
 DISRUPTING PUBLIC AND POLITICAL DISCOURSES ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHILDREN AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN LATIN AMERICA: LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL KIDS ONLINE STUDIES
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
 TRANSCULTURAL FAN STUDIES IN A TIME OF POLITICAL EXTREMES - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Critical Perspectives from the South: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media Platforms
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 Sexual Content
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Lorena Caminhas
 Fans, fandoms & affections - Hybrid
Location: Room 10E
Chair: Beatriz Blanco
 Algorithmic Imaginaries
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Andrew James Iliadis
 RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS
Location: Room 4 A
 Ruptures in Data Access: The State of Social Media Research APIs & Tools in the DSA Era
Location: Room 8B
 Data Donation in Communication Research: Ethical, Practical, and Methodological Frontiers
Location: Room 5A
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Lunch
Location: Galeria Gala
2:00pm
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3:30pm		 AI Challenges
Location: Room 7a - Groundfloor
Chair: Jullena Santos de Alencar Normando
 Everyday Appfication
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
Chair: Rafael Grohmann
 Global Governances
Location: Room 10a - Groundfloor
Chair: Rebecca Scharlach
 Disinformation & Health
Location: Room 10c - Groundfloor
Chair: Xinna Li
 Celebrities & Platforms
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Rendan Liu
 Governance & Monetisation
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
 THE DIVERSITY OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF FAMILIES AND CHILDREN WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
 Platforms, Musicians and Listeners Around the World
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 Bodies & (In)Visibilities
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Kate Rosalind Gilchrist
 Streaming Cultures & Audiences
Location: Room 10 D
Chair: Daniela Jaramillo-Dent
 Platform Governance
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Yannik Peters
 Fans & Platforms: Tensions
Location: Room 4 A
Chair: Sebastian F. K. Svegaard
 Strategies & Tatics
Location: Room 8B
Chair: Sarah Daoust-Braun
      
3:30pm
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4:00pm		 Coffee Break
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 Political Economy of Internet
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
Chair: Burcu Baykurt
 Communities & Innequalities - Hybrid + Streaming
Location: Room 11a - Groundfloor
Chair: Gabriel Pereira
 Music Industries
Location: Room 10a - Groundfloor
Chair: Vanessa Amália Dalpizol Valiati
 Digital memories and archives
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
Chair: Leonardo Foletto
 CRAFT WORK: A RUPTURE OF DIGITAL LABOR AND CAPITALISM?
Location: Room 10c - Groundfloor
 Discussing Content
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Rébecca Franco
 Creators Cultures and Visibilities
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Camilla Volpe
 RUPTURING DIGITAL CHILDHOODS AND PARENTING IN AUSTRALIA? SOCIAL MEDIA BANS, PRIVACY, SCREEN TIME, AND GENERATIVE AI
Location: Room 10f - 2nd Floor
 Where Do We Go From Here? Part II – Lessons from the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on AI & Platform Governance
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
 Infrastructures & geopolitics
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Charilaos Papaevangelou
 TikTok Intersectionalities
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Issaaf Karhawi
 Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America
Location: Room 4 A
 Violence Against Women: representation in streaming fictional content in the Global South
Location: Room 8B
 Creators Narratives
Location: Room 5A
Chair: Nelanthi Hewa
    

Date: Saturday, 18/Oct/2025
8:00am
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1:00pm		 Registration
9:00am
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10:30am		 Political Challenges
Location: Room 8a - Groundfloor
Chair: Josephine Lukito
 Journalism and Data
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
Chair: Felicia Loecherbach
 Tech Companies & Politics
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
Chair: Linda Weigl
 Platform Mechanics of Hate and Marginality: Perspectives from the Global South
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
 Whatsapp & Telegram: Users & Communities
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
Chair: Felipe Bonow Soares
 Surveillance & Risks
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Jennifer Pybus
 (Toxic Masculinities) & Misogyny - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
Chair: Jialing Song
 Urban Mobilities
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Jul Jeonghyun Parke
 Discussing Digital Methods in Brazil: Towards an emerging school of thought?
Location: Room 3C
 Influence, Information & Power
Location: Room 8B
Chair: Marcelo Alves Dos Santos JR
 RUPTURES IN CLIMATE DISCOURSE: DIGITAL PUBLICS, POLARISATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT IN AUSTRALIA AND BRAZIL
Location: Room 5A
      
10:30am
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11:00am		 Coffee break
11:00am
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12:30pm		 Appfied Cultures
Location: Room 10a - Groundfloor
Chair: Eloy Santos Vieira
 RUPTURE / REPAIR: HEALING BROKEN SYSTEMS THROUGH CONSCIENTIZATION
Location: Room 10b - Groundfloor
 RHYTHMS OF RUPTURE AND REPAIR: AN EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP EXPLORING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES, PLATFORMS AND USER WELLBEING
Location: Room 1a - 2nd Floor
 EXPLORING PERIPHERAL DIGITAL LABOR: CREATOR EXPERIENCES IN LATIN AMERICA
Location: Room 3a - 2nd Floor
 Social Media in Elections: Evidence from the United States, Germany, and Australia
Location: Room 8g - 2nd Floor
 Polarization & Mis/Disinformation
Location: Room 11d - 2nd Floor
Chair: Fabio Giglietto
 Platform Regulations & Policies - Streaming
Location: Auditorium Ground Floor
Chair: Joanne Xiaoqiong Kuai
 Infrastructural Ruptures: anxieties, borders, and clouds
Location: Room 11B - PPGCULT - GroundFloor
 Archeologies & Histories of Digital Artifacts
Location: Room 11 F - 2nd Floor
Chair: Megan Sapnar Ankerson
 Researching YouTube and audiovisual platforms
Location: Room 10 D
Chair: Taylor Annabell
 STUDYING DIGITAL SEXUAL CULTURES BEYOND ANGLOCENTRISM
Location: Room 10E
 Internet Communities Alternative Histories
Location: Room 3C
Chair: Willian Araujo
 Comment Box & Discussions
Location: Room 4 A
Chair: Samuel Idris Cabbuag
 Gender Risks & Resistances
Location: Room 5A
Chair: Marissa Grace Willcox
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Lunch
2:00pm
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3:30pm		 AGM - Streaming
Location: Bloco P - Auditorium
8:00pm
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11:59pm		 Digital Tropical Party
Location: Cidaddess - Rio de Janeiro - Downtown

Brazilian Party until 4 am. Foods, drinks, karaoke, DJs playing contemporary peripheral music such as Funk Carioca, Reggaeton, and a special Carnival set and makeup.