"Online Hate Speech in Brazil: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges".

Gabriella Costa¹, Karina Santos¹, João Guilherme Santos², Leticia Sabbatini³, Tatiana Dourado⁴

1: ITS Rio, Brazil; 2: Instituto Democracia em Xeque; 3: Universidade Federal Fluminense; 4: Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Democracia Digital

CREATIVE LABOUR IN RUPTURE? GEN-AI AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

Tom Divon¹, Zoë Glatt², Rafael Grohmann³, M.E. Luka³

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Microsoft’s Social Media Collective; 3: University of Toronto

The Model and the Reactor: Artificial Intelligences Infrastructure from Public, Private and Beyond

Fenwick McKelvey¹, Jonathan Roberge², Mónica Humeres³, Claudia López⁴, Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro⁵, Luciano Frizzera⁶

1: Concordia University, Canada; 2: Institut national de la recherche scientifique; 3: Universidad de Chile; 4: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María; 5: University of São Paulo; 6: University of Waterloo

Chronic Problems. Getting to Terms with the Temporality of Algorithmic Media

Ludmila Lupinacci¹, Ignacio Siles², Christian Pentzold³

1: University of Leeds, UK; 2: Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica; 3: Leipzig University, Germany

Undergraduate Teaching Workshop

Holly Kruse¹, Kelly Bourdreau²

1: Rogers State University, United States of America; 2: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Rethinking AI from the Ground Up: Building sustainable AI ecosystems for local communities

Anjali Mazumder^1,3, Nyalleng Moorosi², Jatinder Singh^3,8, Luciana Benotti^4,7, Nina Da Hora⁵, Caleb Moses⁶, Shaimaa Lazem⁹, Marcos Javier Gomez⁴

1: The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom; 2: DAIR (South Africa, Global); 3: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 4: University of Cordoba, Argentina; 5: Instituta da Hora, Brazil; 6: Mila, Quebec, Canada; 7: Fundacion De Libre, Argentina; 8: RC-Trust, UA Ruhr, Germany; 9: City for Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Egypt

HUMANS AND MACHINES IN THE LOOP: RETHINKING LLMS FOR CONFLICT AND DISAGREEMENT IN CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL COMPLEX PHENOMENA

Tariq Choucair¹, Laura Vodden¹, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam⁴, Paul Pressmann², Fabio Giglietto³, Katharina Esau¹, Cornelius Puschmann², Axel Bruns¹, Giada Marino³, Bruna Paroni³

1: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia; 2: University of Bremen, Germany; 3: University of Urbino, Italy; 4: Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany

The sky is bluer on the other side: fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus

Felipe Bonow Soares¹, Ludmila Lupinacci², Vanessa Valiati³

1: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom; 2: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 3: Feevale University, Brazil

“BREAST IS BAD”: COUNTER-NARRATIVES TO BREASTFEEDING NORMS ON ITALIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Elena Ceccarelli, Farci Manolo

Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Red Pills and Red Light Therapy: Biology, Optimization, and the “science of beauty” in Online Women’s Spaces

Elizabeth Fetterolf, Rachel Bergmann

Stanford University, United States of America

“Screw you, this is a cheerful place”: Platformized violence among positive-vibe Reddit communities

Esteban Morales

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

MEMEFICATION OF MOTHERHOOD ON TIKTOK: #TYPESOFMOMS DECONSTRUCTION OF PARENTING IDEALISATION

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú¹, Crystal Abidin²

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

Tom De Leyn¹, Mariek Vanden Abeele², Ralf De Wolf²

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

Plata Sofie Diesen

Kristiania University College, Norway

REALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS: HOW USERS, SPONSORS AND GOVERNMENTS BRING ABOUT FEATURE CHANGE

Kevin Patrick Garvey², Danielle Flonk¹

1: Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan; 2: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Rethinking search intent: From traditional search engines to LLM-powered information retrieval

Elsa Maria Lichtenegger, Aleksandra Urman, Aniko Hannak

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Eco-anxiety in climate activists: The role of information exposure on social media

Marc Esteve Del Valle, Klara Katarzyna Matusewicz

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

How beliefs, knowledge and intuition affect the way we search? Examining how users formulate search queries about climate change

Victoria Vziatysheva, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova, Vihang Jumle

University of Bern, Switzerland

Data Donation in Action: Reimagining Digital Identity Through Creative Engagement

Daniel Angus

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Six Years of European Visual Climate Activism: A Longitudinal Analysis of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion’s Online Visual Communication

Costanza Azzuppardi², Nicole Doerr³, Maria Langa⁴, Matteo Magnani⁵, Dániel Oross⁶, Luca Rossi¹, Alexandr Segerberg⁵, Katrin Uba⁵, Luigi Arminio¹

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy; 3: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 4: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 5: Uppsala University, Sweden; 6: Center for Social Sciences, Hungary

Neither Fragmentation Nor Transnationalization: Longitudinal Attention to Climate Change by Legacy and Social Media in Brazil and Germany (2014-2022)

Diógenes Lycarião¹, Daniela Stoltenberg², Marcelo Alves Dos Santos³, Annie Waldherr⁴, Zozan Baran²

1: UFC (Federal University of Ceará), Brazil; 2: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 3: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 4: Universität Wien, Austria

Visual framing of climate denialism: a cross-platform analysis of Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan

Kilian Bühling¹, Jing Zeng², Annett Heft³

1: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), Germany

Public Attention Towards Sustainability in the EU: An Exploration of Google Trends Data

Davide Beraldo, Nora Svensson Hahr, Martin Trans

University of Amsterdam

CULTURAL BAIT: KWAI’S COLD START ALGORITHM AND THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF BRAZILIAN CULTURE

Elias Cunha Bitencourt^1,2, Guilherme Bispo C. Santos^1,2, Nusta Oviedo^1,2, Rayssa Keuri Pereira Batista^1,2, Cecilio Ricardo de Carvalho Bastos^1,2

1: State University of Bahia, Brazil; 2: Datalab Design

ADORKABLE AI: HOW ALGORITHMS SHAPE LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPES IN BRAZIL AND THE US

Viviane Ito^1,2, Lyric Grimes¹

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America; 2: Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

#Baby Supplementary Food as Cyber Shield: Grounded Perspectives on Chinese Digital Feminism on RedNote

Meng Liang¹, Xiaoyue Zhang², Linqi Ye³

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Carleton University, Canada; 3: University of Warwick, The UK

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT AN ALGORITHM: HOW JOURNALISM FRAMES THE DISRUPTIVE POTENTIAL OF GENERATIVE AI

Fritz Kessler, Gabriel Ponniah, Chelsea Butkowski, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide

American University, United States of America

"Elderqueer is more than just an age thing": Experiences of LGBTQ+ intergenerational co-presence on TikTok

Hannah Jamet-Lange, Dunja Nešovic, Stefanie Duguay

Concordia University, Canada

QUEER MEDIA PRODUCTIONS IN SOCIAL VR: SELF- EXPRESSION, DOCUMENTATION AND RESISTANCE THROUGH VRCHAT

Sérgio Arriaga Cunha Galvão Roxo^1,2

1: University of Bergen, Norway; 2: Center for Digital Narrative

“A Slippery Slope of Nakedness:” An Exploration of Online Nude Content Exchange by Gay and Bisexual Men

Andrew Lawrence Restieri

Cornell University, United States of America

Indigenous Representation in Commercial Search

Tegan Louise Cohen

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Global Projects, Local Histories: Tradition, Digital Activism, and Resistance in the Indigenous Esports Movement in Brazil

Tarcízio Macedo

Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND DIGITAL GOOD LIVING

Alexsandro Cosmo de Mesquita¹, Helen Kennedy²

1: Thydêwá NGO, Ilheus, Brazil; 2: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INDIGENOUS (SELF-)REPRESENTATION: A MODEL FOR AGENCY AND AUTONOMY

Andreas Rauh¹, Thea Pitman², aruma (Sandra De Berduccy)³

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: University of Leeds; 3: Universidad Finis Terrae

EMERGING TECHNO-POLITICAL AFFORDANCES: TRANSFORMATION OF TECHNICAL AFFORDANCES ON TIKTOK DURING PROTESTS IN PERU

Melanie Jessica Lopez del Pozo

Chakakuna LAB, Peru

FROM POPULAR MUSIC TO POPULARITY THROUGH MUSIC: SERBIAN PROTESTS ON TIKTOK.

Elisabetta Zurovac

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

“A DAY IN MY LIFE”: EVERYDAY “DIGITAL PEACEBUILDING” BY MUSLIM YOUNG WOMEN ON TIKTOK

Lynrose Jane Genon

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

From Right to Left: How Bardella and french political actors Navigate TikTok Politics

Mael Bombaci, Francesco Nespoli, Simone Mulargia

Università Lumsa, Italy

MAINSTREAMING DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

Thomas Poell¹, Jonathan Ong², Laura Guimarães Corrêa³, Usha Raman⁴, Bruce Mutsvairo⁵, Burcu Baykurt², Smith Mehta⁶, Zhen Ye⁷, David Nieborg⁸, Godwin Simon⁸, Lorena Caminhas⁹, Arturo Arriagada¹⁰

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Massachusetts - Amherst, United States; 3: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; 4: University of Hyderabad, India; 5: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 6: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 7: Erasmus University, Netherlands, The; 8: University of Toronto, Canada; 9: Maynooth University, Ireland; 10: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

Data Labelling and the Promise of Development in Northeast India

Zothan Mawii

University of Maryland, United States of America

Names that matter: the self-interpellation and re-socialisation of Chinese trans people's online naming

Songyin Liu

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of

Antisocial Media: AI Adoption And Changing Collaboration Trends Between Multilingual Computer Scientists

Haley Lepp

Stanford University, United States of America

ON JOKES AND BOUNDARIES: HOW MACHINE LEARNING PRACTITIONERS NAVIGATE HYPED EXPECTATIONS THROUGH MEMES

Dominic Lammar¹, Oksana Dorofeeva²

1: Technical University of Munich, Germany. School of Social Sciences and Technology. Department of Science, Technology and Society.; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark. Department of Political Science. Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy.

AI ABOLITION AS DECOLONIAL RUPTURE IN AI EMPIRE: RADICAL CYBERPRACTICES FROM BELOW

Zhasmina Tacheva¹, Sarah Appedu¹, Jeongbae Choi¹, Mirakle Wright², Yigang Qin¹

1: Syracuse University, United States of America; 2: University of Colorado Denver, United States of America

Re-defining inclusive AI: A critical capabilities framework for bridging theory and practice

Dominique Carlon, Anthony McCosker

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Wikidata’s Worldview: Inspecting an AI Knowledge Pipeline with Semantic Network Analysis

Andrew Iliadis, Mikayla Brown

Temple University, United States of America

EXPLORING SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHILDREN’S DIGITAL CULTURE THROUGH CREATIVE METHODS

Henry Mainsah

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Slop for Kids: a digital methods exploratory study of AI-generated videos for children on YouTube

André Mintz, Juno Bozzi

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

WEB DETECTION METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL INTERPRETATION OF IMAGE COLLECTIONS

Janna Joceli Omena¹, Briones Ángeles², Scott Rodgers³, Eduardo Leite⁴, Simon Ceh⁵

1: King's College London, United Kingdom; 2: Politecnico di Milano; 3: Birkbeck, University of London; 4: Universidade Federal da Bahia; 5: University of Graz

RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES FOR LAND RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Shawna Finnegan¹, Gyssele Mendes², Hazel Acero⁴, Anabela Carlon³, Silvia Kaarie⁵

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

‘FAILURE’ AS A SPACE OF CRITIQUE AND IMAGINATION: THE CASE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES

Luisa Cruz Lobato¹, Thallita Gabriele Lopes Lima²

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania (CeSec)

Platform Glitching: How Chinese Young Females Negotiate Digital Visibility on Xiaohongshu

Jialing Song

University of Amsterdam, China, People's Republic of

RUPTURE AND GLITCH IN PLEASURE: EXPLORING EROTIC ROLE PLAY IN VIRTUAL REALITY

Ilker Bahar

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mind the gap: Fakes detection between traditional and computational logics

Svetlana S. Bodrunova¹, Anna Gladkova²

1: St.Petersburg State University, Russian Federation; 2: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation

Eldritch Agency: Truth Termina's Alien AI Ontology

Teodor Mitew

The University of Sydney, Australia

Imaginaries of error: Exploring the sensemaking of generative AI failures among German lay users

Eva Luise Knor

University of Hamburg, Germany

ALGORITHMIC RUPTURES: TIKTOK’S ROLE IN SHAPING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES OF DIGITAL NOMADS

Karine Ehn, Ana Jorge

CICANT, Lusofona Univesity, Portugal

ARTIFICIAL INTIMACIES: EXPLORING HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE AGE OF AI

Rodrigo Perez-Vega¹, Ezgi Merdin-Uygur², Cristina Miguel¹

1: University of Reading; 2: Brunel University of London

“Ambient Misogyny”: pockets of gendered hate across contexts and platforms

Suay Melisa Özkula¹, Patricia Prieto-Blanco², Sofia Caldeira³, Ana Kubrusly⁵, Hannah Ditchfield⁴, Stefania Vicari⁴, Yumeng Guo⁴

1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: Lancaster University, UK; 3: Lusófona University, Portugal; 4: University of Sheffield; 5: CICS.NOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal

“I Get by With a Little Help from my Friends”: Friendship as Digital Method Zine Making Workshop

Aparajita Bhandari¹, Sara Bimo², Rebecca Noone³, Chelsea Butkowski⁴

1: University of Waterloo, Canada; 2: York University, Canada; 3: University of Glasgow, Scotland; 4: American University, USA

THE HEXAGON OF DISINFORMATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR EMPIRICAL RESEARCHES

Maurílio Luiz Hoffmann da Silva

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The War of Ideas Meets the New Digital Network: An Alternative History of Online Disinformation

Rebecca Lewis

MIT, United States of America

Missing the Big Picture: Platform Opacity Weaponized for Disinformation in the Twitter Files Brazil Case

Carlos Edurado Barros, Rose Marie Santini, Thiago Ciodaro Xavier, Felipe Grael, Fernando Ferreira

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UFRJ)

FACEBOOK & GOOGLE’S AD GAME: SPINNING PRIVATE INTERESTS AS PUBLIC GOOD

Blue Miaoran Dong

Carleton University, Canada

Commodification of Gameplay and Platformization of Playbor: A Walk-Through Study of Chinese Game Companion Platform Bixin

Xinyu Deng

University of Calgary, Canada

OUTLINES OF THE GAMER DATA SUBJECT POSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TRUST

Andreas Schellewald¹, Chunmeizi Su²

1: Goldsmiths, University of London; 2: University of Sydney

PIRACY AS A MARKET STRATEGY TO RESIST THE ONLINE PLATFORMIZATION OF VIDEO GAMES

Andre Pase, Roberto Tietzmann

PUCRS, Brazil

Yellow Coolant and Kellogg’s Diarrhea: Slop, Shanzhai and Cursed AI as Memetic Aesthetic Detournement

Dylan Alexander Schenker, Rowena Chodkowski

Concordia University

Brat Aesthetics and Algorithmic Choreography: Navigating Platform Governance at the Intersection of Sex Work and Art Work

Marissa Grace Willcox¹, Rebecca Franco²

1: Goldsmiths University of London / The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CRINGE AESTHETICS AND DIGITAL CASTEISM: PLATFORM ECONOMIES, AND THE PRECARIOUS LABOR OF RURAL CONTENT CREATORS IN INDIA

Poulami Seal

Georgia State University, United States of America

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

César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño¹, Ezequiel Alexander Rivero², Helena Martins do Rêgo Barreto³, José Medeiros⁴, Renata Mielli⁵

1: Universidade Federal de Sergipe; 2: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; 3: Universidade Federal do Ceará; 4: Zhejiang International Studies University; 5: Cooordenadora do Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil e doutoranda USP

A NEW ERA OF ONLINE DATING? AN ANALYSIS OF THE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DATING APPS

Luciana Ribeiro Rodrigues

UFABC, Brazil

“The facts are wrong, but the framing is right”: How young adults judge the trustworthiness of Instagram news account ‘cestmocro’

Tim Groot Kormelink, Helen Arts, Youri Coudron, Nadine Hoen, Tessa van Groeningen

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

THROWING SPAGHETTI, SEEING WHAT STICKS: ITERATIVE DECEPTION IN DIGITAL STRATEGIC INFORMATION OPERATIONS

Giada Marino¹, Fabio Giglietto¹, Anwesha Chakraborty¹, Massimo Terenzi¹, Samuel Olaniran²

1: University of Urbino, Italy; 2: University of the Witwatersrand

INFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS IN RESISTANCE AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF SOCIOBIODIVERSITY IN THE AMAZON: THE ROLE OF ONLINE MEDIA AND CYBERACTIVISM

Lis-Rejane Issberner¹, Julia Dias²

1: Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Against the Tide: Startup Cultures in Mexico City and Buenos Aires

Tomás Guarna

Stanford University, United States of America

MAPPING CANADIAN SOCIAL MEDIA: NEWS SHARING ON CANADIAN MASTODON INSTANCES

Alex Martin, Robert William Gehl

York University, Canada

MAPPING AFFECTIVE URBAN ATMOSPHERES IN SHANGHAI’S PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO URBAN MOBILITIES

Helena Atteneder¹, Mon Rodriguez Amat²

1: Universität Tübingen, Germany; 2: University of Sheffield

Safe Search On: Mapping Queer Safe Spaces in the Philippines through Digital Placemaking

Randy Jay Solis, Ma. Jeriesa Osorio, Macon Reman, Jon Benedik Bunquin

University of the Philippines

“Am I at Risk?” - Conducting Risky Research and Collective Risk Mitigation Strategies

Alice E. Marwick¹, Beatrys Rodrigues², Alex Ketchum³, Adrienne Massanari⁴, Rebekah Tromble⁵

1: Data & Society Research Institute, United States of America; 2: Cornell University; 3: McGill University; 4: American University; 5: George Washington University

THE LIFE, DEATH, AND AFTERLIFE OF GAMESPY: AN AUTOPSY OF A DEAD PLATFORM

Nelanthi Hewa¹, Alexander Ross²

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia, Canada

Don’t Let Good Data Go to Waste: On Grief Tech, Deadness, Data Restlessness

Sarah Murray

University of Michigan, United States of America

ALGORITHMIC AFTERLIVES: THE ETHICS OF REVIVING THE DEAD

Bethan Jones¹, Jenny Kidd¹, Eva Nieto McAvoy²

1: Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2: King's College London

The Unsharable: Non-Sharing as Grief Work and Ruptures of Digital Mourning

Larissa Hjorth, Tamara Borovica, Katrin Gerber

RMIT, Australia

TRAFFIC AS VISIBILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: SEO'S TRANSFORMATION OF THE INDIAN NEWSROOM

Sangeet Kumar

Denison University, United States of America

PRESS FREEDOM IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI: CHALLENGES TO AUTHENTICITY AND DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE

Juan Ortiz Freuler, Bumju Jung

University of Southern California, United States of America

Data, Sense, and Sensibility: How Data Journalism Style Shapes Interactivity

Avner Kantor¹, Sheizaf Rafaeli²

1: University of Haifa, Israel; 2: Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel

Cloud Journalism: Examining News Media’s Adoption of Cloud Infrastructures

Agustin Ferrari Braun

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

ASPIRATIONAL SELF-LABOUR AND LISTENING PRACTICES IN BRAZIL

Vanessa Amália Dalpizol Valiati¹, Robert Prey²

1: Feevale University, Brazil; 2: University of Oxford, UK

They Don't Build Statues of Critics: The Fate of Music Evaluation in the Era of Streaming and Social Media

Walker West Brewer

Northwestern University, United States of America

Streaming Platforms and Everyday Lives: Musical Community and Individualisation

David Hesmondhalgh¹, Shuwen Qu²

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: Jinan University, China

Chill vibes: Wellness creep into music streaming platforms

Raquel Campos Valverde, Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

NEW NARRATIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING PLATFORM LABOUR IN SOUTH AMERICA

Arturo Arriagada¹, Jonas Valente², Alejandra Dinegro³, Matías Dodel⁴, Pía Garavaglia⁵, Julice Salvagni⁶

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

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

SLIPPERY, SLOPPY, SPECTACULAR, AND VERY UNRULY: FEMINIST CREATIVE LABOUR IN A RUPTUROUS AGE

MaryElizabeth Luka¹, Mélanie Millette², Jessica Rauchberg³, Zoë Glatt⁴, Christine Tran¹, Cate Alexander¹, Kenzie Gordon⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; 3: Seton Hall University, USA; 4: Microsoft Research, USA; 5: University of Alberta, Canada

Beyond creativity: Decoding changes mediated by Generative AI models in visual generative media and creative production

Pranjali J Mann, Alberto Lusoli

Digital Democracies Institute/ Simon Fraser University, Canada

Poisoning the Well: The Battle for Creative Control in the Era of Generative AI

Sarah Elizabeth Edwards¹, Zoë Glatt²

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

Taylor Annabell¹, Crystal Abidin²

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Curtin University, Australia

The platform politics of hateful play on Twitch

E. Brooke Phipps¹, David Murphy², Josh Jarrett²

1: Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America; 2: University of Staffordshire, United Kingdom

REGULATING AI IN INDONESIA: BETWEEN DIGITAL DREAMS AND POWER PLAYS

D A D Angendari^1,2

1: Leiden University, The Netherlands; 2: Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

DIGITAL DREAMS: EXPLORING IMAGINARIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Coppélie Cocq, Stefan Gelfgren

Umeå University, Sweden

RUPTURING LABOUR IMAGINARIES: WORK NARRATIVES ON INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK

Laura Bruschi, Camilla Volpe, Alessandro Gandini

University of Milan, Italy

Refusal to Display: CripFat Technoscience for Data Solidarity

Amy Gaeta, Aisha Sobey

Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

TRANSACTIONAL ORDERS: HOW PLATFORMS STRUCTURE PAYMENTS BETWEEN CREATORS AND FANS

Blake Hallinan¹, Dana Theiler¹, CJ Reynolds¹, Isabell Knief²

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: The University of Bonn, Germany

FANDOMS AND LEARNING: THE ROLE OF ACA-FANS IN FORMAL EDUCATION

Fernanda Castilho¹, Enoe Lopes Pontes de Marques Tavares²

1: Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil; Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza, CEETEPS, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Anitta's Political Activism and Controversies on Digital Platforms: The Case of Her Support for Lula During the 2022 Elections

Simone Pereira de Sá

Federal Fluminense University, Brazil

Fan studies in Brazil: the internet-centric bias and its impact on understanding local fandoms.

Aianne Amado¹, Eloy Vieira²

1: University of São Paulo, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil

IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: RUPTURES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Zachary McDowell¹, Steve Jones¹, Zizi Papacharissi¹, Lee Humphreys², Adriana de Souza e Silva³, David Gunkel⁴, Jeffrey Boase⁵, Scott Campbell⁶, Nicole Ellison⁷

1: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2: Cornell University; 3: Northeastern University; 4: Northern Illinois University; 5: University of Toronto; 6: Ohio State University; 7: University of Michigan

LATIN AMERICAN CREATOR (SUB)CULTURES ON TIKTOK: VISIBILITY, RESISTANCE, AND CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent¹, Tom Divon², Adriana Da Rosa Amaral³, David Craig⁴, Arturo Arriagada⁵, Matías Cifuentes⁶, Melanie López del Pozo⁷, Rafaela Tabasnik⁸, Vanessa Valiati⁹, Maria Perendentseva¹⁰, Camila Ferrareli⁹, Sandra Portela Montardo⁹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 4: University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, USA; 5: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 6: Cultura Social Media Lab, Chile; 7: Chakakuna Lab, Peru; 8: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil; 9: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 10: University of Salford, UK

Wikipedia Edits Before Elections: Analyzing Strategic Changes in Political Representation

Felicia Loecherbach

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

BEYOND DISINFORMATION: ANALYZING “CHEAPFAKES” DURING LULA’S HOSPITALIZATION ON X

Mariana Carvalho¹, Letícia Sabbatini²

1: FGV Comunicação Rio, Brazil; 2: UFF, Brazil

Political misinformation across 260 countries and 5 social media platforms

Petter Törnberg¹, Juliana Chueri²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND FACT-CHECKING CONTENT: THE PERCEPTION OF LUPA’S COMMENTERS ABOUT POLITICAL DEBATES DURING 2022 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN BRAZIL

Thiago Fedacz Anastacio, Camilla Quesada Tavares

Unversidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil

WOMEN IN CONTROL: A STUDY ON BODY AND GENDER FROM A BRAZILIAN GAMER COMMUNITY

Catherine Moura¹, José Messias²

1: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

LABOUR AND MASCULINITY: EXAMINING THE PERFORMANCES OF VIETNAMESE GAME LIVESTREAMERS IN PLATFORMISED CULTURAL WORK (WIP PAPER)

Hanh Do Doan Nguyen

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

MODDING SKYRIM WITH GENERATIVE AI: EXPLORING IMAGINARIES AND PLAYER-NPC INTERACTIONS

Samyr Paz¹, Camila Freitas², Gabriela Rolim³

1: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; 3: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The play-along method: An ethnographic approach to analyze video game culture

Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, Henry Mainsah, Clara Julia Reich

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

AOIR ETHICS IN ACTION: GUIDELINES, REGULATIONS, AND PRACTICES ACROSS DIVERSE GLOBAL COMMUNITIES

Michael Zimmer¹, Jessica Vitak², Anna Lenhart³, Ylva Hård af Segerstad⁴, Thomas Hartvigsson⁴, Annika Bergviken-Rensfeldt⁴, Thomas Hillman⁴, Megan Brown⁵, Andrew Gruen⁶, Gabe Maldoff⁷, Solomon Messing⁸, Zeve Sanderson⁸, Eli Asikin-Garmager⁹, Cameran Ashraf⁹, Leila Zia⁹

1: Marquette University; 2: University of Maryland; 3: George Washington University; 4: University of Gothenburg; 5: University of Michigan; 6: Mozilla Foundation; 7: Goodwin Procter; 8: New York University; 9: Wikimedia Foundation

Gujarati Aunties on the Integrated Circuit: Internet Infrastructures as an Immigrant Circuit

Kinjal Dave

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

FROM DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES TO DIGITAL BORDERLANDS: GENERATIVE AI, BOUNDARY OBJECTS, AND THE EXPANSION OF THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

Paulo F. C. Fonseca¹, Elias Bitencourt²

1: Federal Univeristy of Bahia, Brazil; 2: State University of Bahia, Brazil

SCALING AI IN THE CLOUD: THE DISRUPTION OF “CLOUDIFICATION” IN CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Alex Gekker¹, Sam Hind², Gabriel Pereira¹, Fernando van der Vlist¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: University of Manchester, UK

RUSSIAN INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY AND INFRASTRUCTURAL COERCION: THE CASE OF TSPU

Dmitry Kuznetsov

Critical Infrastructure Lab, University of Amsterdam

DIGITAL IDENTITY, DATAFICATION AND EPIDERMALISATION IN MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP

Mirca Madianou¹, Charlotte Hill²

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Chiang Mai University, Thailand

On the Unintended Consequences of Content Takedowns: Countering Extremism and the Case of Chef Pete Evans

James Fitzgerald¹, Vivian Sophie Gerrand²

1: Dublin City University, Ireland; 2: Deakin University, Australia

#FREE LUIGI BETWEEN PLAYFUL RESISTANCE AND RUPTURE

Michelle Robin Stewart, Samuel Laperle

UQAM, Canada

“Internet Toilets” and the Girls in Emotional Refuge: The Cultural Politics of Online Invective Subcultural Communities in China

Songyin Liu, Zhijun Ye

Shenzhen University, China, People's Republic of

Why Reddit? Histories, ethics, politics & practices as Reddit turns 20

Samantha Vilkins¹, Dominique Carlon², Ashwin Nagappa¹, Ari Stillman³, Ehsan Dehghan¹, Kateryna Kasianenko¹, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh¹, Axel Bruns¹, Sebastian S.K. Svegaard¹, Katherine M. FitzGerald¹

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 3: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

“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

How Creative is AI writing? Generative and Collaborative AI in Japanese Fiction

Yuki Asano², Marco Bastos^1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London

IN THE STYLE OF: EXPLORING INDUSTRY, CREATOR AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF COPYING STYLE THROUGH GENERATIVE AI

D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye¹, Joanne Gray², Kylie Pappalardo³

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sydney; 3: Queensland University of Technology

The Power of Inevitability: How OpenAI Configures the Future

David Nieborg¹, Tero Karppi¹, danah boyd²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Cornell University

THE CENTER’S “INVISIBLE BACK SUPPORT”: INFRASTRUCTURING VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Andrea Alarcon¹, Cheryll Soriano²

1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: De La Salle University, Philippines

Visual media in motion: Conceptualizing the short video format within visual platforms

Giulia Isabella Guerra

Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

LOWER THAN LIFE: THE NEO-FOLK ART IN CHINA'S ERA OF SHORT VIDEOS

YE FUNA

University College London, United Kingdom

From the Internet to the Everyday: An Exploration of Visual Representations of Peace

Isabel Prinzing¹, Cornelia Brantner², Katharina Lobinger¹

1: Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland; 2: Karlstad University

Semantic Clustering for Visual Data

Luigi Arminio¹, Matteo Magnani², Matias Piqueras², Luca Rossi¹, Alexandra Segerberg²

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Uppsala University, Sweden

It’s still about the internet: How the digitalization of exchange disrupted the culture industries

Anders Fagerjord¹, Marius Øfsti²

1: University of Bergen, Norway; 2: University of Aarhus, Denmark

(Re)presenting the “H” in Human-Centered Computing

Haley Lepp, Vyoma Raman

Stanford University, United States of America

God(bots) and Authority: Trust and Faith in the Age of AI

Benjamin Clay Davis¹, Kelley Cotter¹, Shaheen Kanthawala², Yupo Liu¹, Ankolika De¹, Amy Ritchart², Haley McAtee²

1: The Pennsylvania State University; 2: The University of Alabama

The “Space of Reasons” and Digital Public Sphere: Developing Connections in Empirical Research

Rousiley Maia, Bruna Silveira de Oliveira, Maiara Orlandini

The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

SONIC SPACES OF RUPTURE: CAPACITIES FOR DIGITAL CONNECTION, INTIMACY, AND LIBERATION IN TIMES OF UNREST

Andrew Herman¹, Adrienne Massanari², Katie Moylan³, Aram Sinnreich², Jenny Sunden⁴, Sara Tanderup Linkis⁵, Anne MacLennan⁶

1: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 2: American University, USA; 3: University of Leicester, UK; 4: Uppsala University, Sweden; 5: Lund University, Sweden; 6: York University, Canada

WORLDMAKING BEYOND AI: SPECULATIVE FAILURE AS HOPEFUL ANALYTIC

Stephen Yang

University of Southern California, United States of America

AI-GENERATED MUSIC AND THE LISTENING SUBJECT: RUPTURES IN CREATIVITY, DIGITAL LABOR, AND ALGORITHMIC LISTENING

Ian Dunham

Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Rupturing "AI for Good": A Feminist Decolonial Theoretical Framework for Analyzing AI Interventions in Gender-Based Violence

Lucia Fernanda Mesa Velez

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

DeepSeek AI Meets Divination: Algorithmic Syncretism, Data Consecration, and Accuracy Politics

Silei Zhu

Rutgers University, China, People's Republic of

MEDITATION, MEDIATED: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGICAL AFFORDANCES AND THE UTAUT MODEL IN STUDYING DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS

Rachana Lalit Talekar, Dr. Yiping Xia

Texas A&M University, United States of America

Parallel Platformization of Health: Health Communication on Douyin and TikTok

Xinna Li

University College Dublin, Ireland

The Continuous Glucose Monitor as Boundary Object: How a Diabetic Device Reveals The Generalized Becoming-Diabetic of Quantified Selfhood

Carrie Ann Rentschler

McGill University, Canada

EXPLORING POSTDIGITAL BECOMING THROUGH PERIOD- AND CYCLE TRACKING APPS – AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

Beatrice Tylstedt

Uppsala University, Sweden

TikTok-ing queer migrant joy

Paul Mart Jeyand Matangcas

Northwestern University, United States of America

Framing a Brazilian singer and activist: asymmetries between Portuguese cultural coverage and TikTok

Mariana Scalabrin Müller¹, Davide Gravato²

1: Independent Research; 2: University of Minho/CECS

"It's Not About Laziness, It's About Efficiency": Youth Perspectives on Generative AI in Higher Education Through the Lens of TikTok

Ioana Literat¹, Constance de Saint Laurent², Vlad Glaveanu³, Rhea Jaffer¹, Sonia Kim¹, Sophia diPlacido⁴

1: Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America; 2: Maynooth University; 3: Dublin City College; 4: Penn State Erie

CRISIS AS COMMODITY: THE GAMIFICATION OF ADVERSITY ON TIKTOK LIVE MATCHES AND ITS LEGAL CHALLENGES

Laura Aade¹, Tom Divon²

1: University of Luxembourg; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

PLATFORMED HOPE: NAVIGATING PLATFORM MONETIZATION IN THE NIGERIAN SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO INDUSTRY

Godwin Iretomiwa Simon¹, David B. Nieborg²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: University of Toronto, Canada

NETWORKING AND MONETIZATION STRATEGIES OF SPANISH-SPEAKING FINFLUENCERS: A CO-LINK ANALYSIS OF YOUTUBE DESCRIPTIONS

José M. Tomasena¹, Hibai López-González¹, Diego Arredondo²

1: University of Barcelona, Spain; 2: Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain

Self-monetization as a double bind: the governance of affective labor of brazilian streamers

Amanda Thuns Biazzi, Matheus Viana Braz

Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil

Intermediation of Lending: Platforms, Mobile Money, and Data Transactions in India

Rahul Mukherjee

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

DATAFICATION OF MEDIA WORKERS

Roseli Figaro, Luis Gonçalves

Communication and Work Research Center (CPCT) - USP, Brazil

ANALYZING LABOR MOBILITY AND MIGRATION IN THE DIGITAL GAMES INDUSTRY: A STUDY WITH BRAZILIAN WORKERS

André Campos Rocha

DigiLabour research lab, Brazil

The Logistics of Hope Labour: Digital War Investigations in Ukraine

Lonneke van der Velden¹, Johana Kotišová¹, Burlyuk Olga¹, Guillén Torres²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Berkeley Human Rights Center, United States

PRESCRIPTIONS OF DOMESTIC WORK PLATFORMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES

Claudia Rebechi

Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil

Digital Labor desde Latin America: A Pluriversal Lens

Rafael Grohmann¹, Julian Posada², Kruskaya Hidalgo-Cordero³, Helena Martins⁴, Camilla Salim Wagner⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Yale University, United States; 3: Observatorio de Plataformas ODP; 4: Federal University of Ceara, Brazil; 5: Weizenbaum Institute, Germany

Generative AI In Marketing: Productivity Gains and Work Automation

Joel Gastmann², Marco Bastos^1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London

COLONIAL MAPPING OF ADVANCE AUTOMATION: EAST INDIA COMPANY AS AI

Elisha Lim¹, Beth Coleman²

1: York University, Canada; 2: University of Toronto, Canada

THE PLATFORMIZATION OF INFORMAL SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CASE OF DROPSHIPPING

Andrea Alarcon¹, Nicholas Carah², Sokummono Khan³

1: University of Queensland; 2: University of Queensland; 3: University of Queensland

MANOSPHERE, DIS/AFFECTED: EXPLORING THE AFFECTIVE POLITICISATION IN THE SPANISH ANTI-FEMINIST SUBCULTURES

Silvia Díaz Fernández

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Between Global Waves and Local Currents: K-pop, YouTube, and Fan Cultures in Quebec

Nina Duque

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

FANSUBBING AS FEMINIST DISRUPTION IN CHINA

Cara Wallis

University of Michigan, United States of America

ESOLS, SOFT POWER, AND NOMADISM: THAI CREATOR CULTURE IN THE SHADOW OF PLATFORM NATIONALISM

David Craig¹, Saittawut Yutthaworakool², Jessada Salathong³

1: University of Southern California/ Annenberg, U.S.A.; 2: Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; 3: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms: Internet(s) Research Otherwise

Beatrys Rodrigues¹, Aspen K.B. Omapang¹, Nikko Stevens², Thiane Neves Barros³, Polinho Mota⁴

1: Cornell University; 2: Smith College; 3: Mozilla and Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais; 4: data_labe and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Coloniality of Power in Global Development Teams: Perspective from Indian and Brazilian Tech Workers

Sébastien Antoine

Maynooth University, Ireland

Technical vs. Self-perceived: Examining Crowdsourcing Workers' Algorithm Knowledge on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Leon Zhenglang Wang, Ruiwen Zhou

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Imagining AI in Organized Media Work: Labor Narratives of the 'Hollywood Strikes'

Caitlin Petre¹, Julia Ticona²

1: Rutgers University; 2: University of Pennsylvania

No Escape: Exploring Work-Life Blending and Precarity Among Chinese Female Journalists

Lingyu Li

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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)

RUPTURES, DISSENT AND CANCELLATION: STUDIES ON DIGITAL FANDOMS IN CRISIS

Sebastian F. K. Svegaard¹, Samantha Vilkins¹, Katherine M. FitzGerald¹, Adriana Amaral², Stella Mendonça Caetano³, Eloy Santos Vieira⁴, Aianne Amado Nunes Costa⁵, Caroline Govari Nunes³, Simone Driessen⁶, Bethan Jones⁷

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; 3: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS); 4: Universidade Federal de Sergipe; 5: Universidade de São Paulo; 6: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 7: Cardiff University

Is AI hype overstated? A global perspective on AI, disinformation and extreme speech

Sahana Udupa¹, Marcelo Alves Dos Santos Junior², Herman Wasserman³, Tatiana Dourado⁴, Michael Best⁵

1: University of Munich (LMU), Germany; 2: Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3: Stellenbosch University, South Africa; 4: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil; 5: Georgia Tech University, USA

Tracing a Memetic Journey: From South American Death Flights to Free Helicopter Ride Memes

Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

ONLINE FAR-RIGHT AND RESENTMENT: AN INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MEMES ON PRIVATE MESSAGING NETWORKS

Viktor Chagas¹, Vinicius Miguel²

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

Thiago Costa

Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

PLATFORMED NOSTALGIA: AUTOMATTIC-ERA TUMBLR AND THE COMMERCIALISATION OF HISTORICAL SOCIAL MEDIA NOSTALGIA

Briony Hannell

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Histories and Ruptures in Platform Governance

Tomás Guarna¹, Emillie de Keulenaar², Anna Gibson³, Diyi Liu⁴

1: Stanford University, United States of America; 2: University of Groningen, Netherlands; 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America; 4: University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Digital Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomy, Resisting Epistemic Violence

Eirliani Abdul Rahman¹, Melissa Villa Nicholas², Salwa Hoque³, Alpha Obike⁴

1: Georgetown University; 2: University of California Los Angeles; 3: Emory University; 4: UWI Mona and Western Jamaica Campus

Epistemic Ruptures and Shadow Libraries: Meta, Anna's Archive, and the Politics of AI Datafication

Ian Dunham

Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Between Friction and Play: How Participants Experience and Understand Data Donation

Tim Groot Kormelink¹, Fiore Houwing¹, Bella Struminskaya², Laura Boeschoten², Niek de Schipper³, Kasper Welbers¹

1: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

THE INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE OF THE USAID DATA CAPTURE

Mirca Madianou

Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

Making personalization ✨delightful✨: staging power for data indulgence on Spotify

Ludmila Lupinacci

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

THE FAX AS SHADOW DIGITAL SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Satenik Sargsyan

Linköping University, Sweden

Hollow Datasets: Algorithmic Calculability in Data Curation

Alejandro Alvarado Rojas

University of Southern California, United States of America

In the midst… Temporality, affect and infrastructures of feeling

Rebecca Coleman

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

CO-PARENTING WITH AI: AUDITING THE INFRASTRUCTURES OF DATAFICATION IN BABY TRACKING APPS

Jennifer Pybus, Katrina Matheson

York University, Canada

Between Flesh and Algorithm: Resistance Strategies in Brazilian Camming

Maria Júlia Alencastro Veiga

ESPM, Brazil

“In data they trust”: the poetics of citizen-generated data in Brazilian cannabis activism

Guilherme Queiroz Alves

University of Antwerp, Belgium

TECHNIQUE, IMAGINARY AND SAMBA – THE INFLUENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL, 2025

Andriolli de Brites da Costa¹, Thales Soares Martins²

1: Uerj, Brazil; 2: UFJF, Brazil

Engagement Exchanges and the Collective Pursuit of Visibility on TikTok in the Brazilian Context

Issaaf Karhawi¹, Willian Araujo²

1: University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil; 2: University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), Brazil

Repairing Ruptures: Recentering Play and Games in Internet Research

Adrienne Massanari¹, Alison Harvey², Ailea Merriam-Pigg³, E. Brooke Phipps⁴, Andrew Lowe⁵

1: American University, United States of America; 2: York University-Glendon, Canada; 3: University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States of America; 4: Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America; 5: University of Maryland, United States of America

Blockchain: The New Internet of Trust

Larriza Thurler, Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, Luiz Eduardo Folly

RNP, Brazil

War, Weapons, and the Web: Tracing Cyberwar Leaks and 3D-Printed Firearms as Distributed Network Swarms

Benjamin De Kosnik¹, Abigail De Kosnik², Aaron Zolla³

1: Independent Researcher; 2: University of California Berkeley; 3: University of California Berkeley

Decentralized Re-Platforming: a case study of three fediverse instances

Leonardo Foletto¹, Guilherme Flynn²

1: Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brazil; 2: Independent Reseacher

Investigating Information Integrity: Digital platforms, algorithms, and information flows

Bernardo Martinho Ballardin, Fabio Jose Novaes de Senne

Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br | Nic.br)

DETECTING OPINION LEADERS IN A TELEGRAM NETWORK OF FORWARDED MESSAGES

Giulia Tucci^1,2, Fabio Castro Gouveia¹

1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, Brazil; 2: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia

THE ATTRIBUTED HUMAN: HOW TOKENIZATION LEDGERIZES EXPERIENCE

Violeta Camarasa San Juan, Saskia Witteborn

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

FRINGE PLATFORMS AND THE PREVALENCE OF DIGITAL BANTER DURING THE UK RIOTS

Craig Ryder

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, United Kingdom

CHALLENGING THE RULES OF INFLUENCER MARKETING: EMERGING SENSITIVITIES AROUND CHILDREN'S PRESENCE IN FAMILY INFLUENCERS PROFILES

Elisabetta Locatelli, Alessandra Coman

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Not Content with Content: Ruptures in Media Discourse and Production?

Sarah Jean Salman

Cornell University, United States of America

FN BOOK CLUB: DISPUTES OVER CAPITAL AND PERFORMATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE LITERARY SPHERE

Byanca Caroline da Silva Ribeiro

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Co-Consuming Dystopia: Analyzing an Alternative Genre of Technology Criticism through Amazon’s Book Recommendation Networks

Marc Tuters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Negotiated resistance as platform cynicism: an empirical investigation of Internet consumption practices of Temu

Shuxian Liu, Edgar Gómez-Cruz

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Consuming the selling experience in-the-moment: The use of TikTok Live during Black Friday in the Netherlands

Taylor Annabell¹, Laura Aade², Catalina Goanta¹

1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Cyborg Imaginaries: A Computational Grounded Theory of Online Pioneer Community Discussions on Human Augmentation

Giulia Frascaria, Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

A Not So Stella(r) Encounter: Discursive Closure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

Muira McCammon, Lauren Schenack

Tulane University, United States of America

Algorithmic Fairness in Crisis Communication: How AI Chatbots Shape Public Trust and Engagement

Shupei Yuan¹, Anqi Xiao², Luye Bao³

1: Northern Illinois University, United States of America; 2: University of Wisconsin Madison, USA; 3: Peking University, China

"Just Asking Questions": Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots

Daniel Angus, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Michelle Riedlinger, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Timothy Graham

Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology

Health creator: Anatomy of a fuzzy concept

Stefania Vicari¹, Hannah Ditchfield¹, Yumeng Guo¹, Nina Morena², Elly Htite², Yitzchok Ahisar³, Victoria Hayman², Carrie Rentschler², Ari Meguerditchian², Deanna Holroyd⁴, Stephanie Alice Baker⁵, Katrin Tiidenberg⁶, Marius Liedtke⁷, Maria Schreiber⁷, Josie Hamper⁸

1: The University of Sheffield; 2: McGill University; 3: University of British Columbia; 4: The Ohio State University; 5: City St George’s, University of London; 6: Tallinn University; 7: University of Salzburg; 8: University of Oxford

Synthetic data and global finance. Narratives, (dis)continuites and ruptures.

Carolina Aguerre¹, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn², Marc Lenglet³, Edemilson Parana⁴

1: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay; 2: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 3: NEOMA Business School, France; 4: LUT University, Finland

Lucrative Ex/tensions: ‘Digital Twin’ Labour as Passive Income in the Virtual Human Economy

Jul Jeonghyun Parke

University of Toronto, Canada

PLAYING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: #GRWM AND THE LUDIC POSSIBILITIES OF COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCES

Natalie Coulter

York University, Canada

THE CELEBRATION OF EXPLOITATION: PLATFORM PROMOTION AND LEGITIMISATION STRATEGIES EXPRESSED THROUGH USER DATAFICATION

Graham Meikle¹, Isabelle Higgins²

1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

INTRODUCING INFORMATION INFLUENCERS: DIGITAL CAPITAL AS RESISTANCE DURING SRI LANKA’S ARAGALAYA

Craig Ryder

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

Nathan Stolero^1,2

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

Arianna Bussoletti

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

FROM COMMUNITY GUIDELINES TO INDUSTRY STANDARDS: MAPPING THE POLICY PRIORITIES OF MAINSTREAM, ALTERNATIVE, AND ADULT LIVE CONTENT PLATFORMS

Blake Hallinan¹, CJ Reynolds¹, Rebecca Scharlach², Dana Theiler¹, Isabell Knief³, Omer Rothenstein¹, Yehonatan Kuperberg¹, Noa Niv¹

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: University of Bremen, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI); 3: University of Bonn

(POST-)DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF RUPTURES: THE CZECH MEDIA LANDSCAPE AND ITS STRUGGLES AND THREADS

Karolina Sitnikova¹, Jeffrey Wimmer²

1: Charles University, Czech Republic; 2: University of Augsburg, Germany

A sociodigital approach to investigating youth, teachers' and parents' experiences of smartphone banning in England

Rebecca Coleman¹, Jessica Ringrose²

1: University of Bristol, United Kingdom; 2: University College London, United Kingdom

A Taxonomy for Rapidly Changing Social Media Platforms

Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter

The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

PLANNED ECONOMIES OF DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTALISM: THE 1980S ATTEMPT TO BUILD A UNIFIED NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN BULGARIA

Tsvetelina Hristova

Southampton University, United Kingdom

Navigating Internet Research as Black Women

Ashleigh Greene Wade¹, Briana Barner², Brooklyne Gipson³, Katrina Overby⁴, Rianna Walcott²

1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: University of Maryland, United States of America; 3: Rutgers University, United States of America; 4: Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America

Platformed Prejudice: Right-Wing Alternative Social Media Use and Anti-Trans Policy Opinions in the US

Thomas J Billard, Walker West Brewer, Nash Jenkins, Yena Lee, Ifra Javed, Taylor Agajanian

Northwestern University, United States of America

White nationalist digital rhetoric on 4chan’s /pol/ as a technics of raciality

E. Chebrolu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America

THE ALT-PLATFORM PULL: ATTRACTING MAINSTREAM PLATFORM USERS TO ALTERNATIVE SPACES

Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Eva Mayerhöffer

Roskilde University, Denmark

HOW TO DISRUPT AI TRAINED MODELS? CARTOGRAPHY OF COUNTER AI-TOOLS FOR RESISTANCE

Venetia Papa¹, Zenonas Theodosiou², Lia Spyridou³

1: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; 2: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; 3: Cyprus University of Tehnology, Cyprus

From Rupture to Submerged Displacement: The Affordances of Narrative Genres and Social Media for Expressing Critical Sentiments

Guobin Yang

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

COMMUNITY-LED MODERATION IN ‘THE RUINS’ OF TWITTER/X: A CASE STUDY OF NAFO

Kateryna Kasianenko¹, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández², Olga Boichak³

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University College Dublin; 3: The University of Sydney

CULTURE-CENTRED DIGITAL DESIGN: FOREGROUNDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVES

Amanda Third¹, Louisa Welland¹, Manisha Pathak Shelat², Vama Shah², Girish Lala¹, Lilly Moody¹, Diena Haryana³

1: Western Sydney University, Australia; 2: MICA, India; 3: SEJIWA Foundation, Indonesia

DISRUPTING PUBLIC AND POLITICAL DISCOURSES ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHILDREN AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN LATIN AMERICA: LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL KIDS ONLINE STUDIES

Patricio Cabello¹, Matías Dodel², Magdalena Claro³, Amalia Palma⁴, Isabel Walker⁴, Jazmín Mazó⁵, Andrés Villalobos⁵, Narayani Rivera⁵, Luisa Adib⁶, Fabio Senne⁶, Rolando Pérez⁷, David Torres⁸, Nicolás Delgado⁹, Piero Véliz¹⁰, Marcela Losantos¹¹

1: Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; 2: Universidad Católica del Uruguay; 3: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 4: ECLAC/CEPAL; 5: Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”; 6: Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br| Nic.br); 7: Universidad de Costa Rica; 8: Universidad de Iberoamérica; 9: Universidad Central de Chile; 10: Universidad de Chile; 11: Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo"

TRANSCULTURAL FAN STUDIES IN A TIME OF POLITICAL EXTREMES

Aianne Amado Nunes Costa¹, Simone Driessen², Sebastian F. K. Svegaard³, Thiago Soares⁴, Bethan Jones⁵, Eloy Vieira⁶

1: Universidade de São Paulo; 2: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 3: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 4: Federal University of Pernambuco; 5: Cardiff University; 6: Federal University of Sergipe

Critical Perspectives from the South: Digital Sovereignty and Social Media Platforms

Raquel Recuero¹, Afonso Albuquerque², Marcelo Santos³, Martin Becerra⁴, Paola Ricaurte⁵, Sahana Udupa⁶, Otávio Vinhas⁷, Marco Bastos⁸, Thales Lelo⁹

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas; 2: Universidade Federal Fluminense; 3: Universidad Diego Portales; 4: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; 5: Tecnológico de Monterrey; 6: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 7: University College Dublin; 8: University College Dublin/City St George’s, University of London; 9: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

RESEARCH BRAVE SPACES AND ZINE-MAKING: DISRUPTIVE TOOLS FOR EXPLORING DIGITAL SEXUAL INTIMACIES

Rachele Reschiglian, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

University of Padova, Italy

NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEM IN DIGITAL SEX WORK IN BRAZIL

Lorena Caminhas

Maynooth University, Ireland

ELUSIVE PORN: LEARNING FROM ALASTONSUOMI

Susanna Paasonen

University of Turku, Finland

MODELHUB AS A PLATFORM TOOL: THE MORAL ORDER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS ON PORNHUB

Maggie MacDonald

University of Toronto, Canada

BEYOND HATEWARE: AFFECT, NETWORKS, AND COLLABORATIVE ECOSYSTEMS 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

DON’T WORRY ABOUT FORMALITIES: PROMPTING AS ALGORITHMIC FOLKLORE

Marianne Gunderson

University of Bergen, Norway

DIGITAL INFLUENCE AS AN ALGORITHMIC CONDITION: COMPUTATIONAL AUTHENTICITY, ALGORITHMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND DIGITAL VISIBILITY

Grégori da Costa Castelhano¹, Elias Cunha Bitencourt^1,2

1: Datalab Design; 2: State University of Bahia, Brazil

Algorithmic Neutrality as Gendered Exclusion: Female Riders in China’s Food Delivery Platforms

Hanyang Zhou, Mingjiang Gao, Yixin Gu, Vicky Wu, Fan Liang

Duke Kunshan University, China, People's Republic of

Becoming Intimate with Algorithms: Users’ Encounters, Imaginaries, and Affective Bonds with TikTok

Helena Strecker

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

RUPTURES IN THE LIBRARY: THE NEOLIBERAL HIJACKING OF OPEN ACCESS

Reece Steinberg¹, Natalie Pang², Arun Jacob³, Elisha Lim⁴

1: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 2: National University of Singapore; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: York University, Canada

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

Roundtable Proposal: Data Donation in Communication Research: Ethical, Practical, and Methodological Frontiers

Anja Bechmann¹, Daniel Angus², Tim Groot Kormelink³, Jakob Ohme⁴, Jiaru Tang²

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; 4: Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany

THE WORLD WE SEE THROUGH AI’S EYES: U.S. CULTURAL DOMINANCE IN TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATION

Aleksandra Urman¹, Joachim Baumann^1,4, Elsa Lichtenegger¹, Azza Bouleimen¹, Robin Forsberg^1,2, Corinna Hertweck^1,4, Desheng Hu¹, Stefania Ionescu³, Kshitijaa Jaglan¹, Salima Jaoua¹, Nicolo Pagan¹, Aniko Hannak¹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 4: ZHAW, Switzerland

What is Labor in an Age of Generative AI: Reading Privacy and Copyright Lawsuits Against the Grain

Bianca Zamora Perez

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

TRUSTING CHATGPT: HOW MINOR TWEAKS IN THE PROMPTS LEAD TO MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION

Jaime Cuellar, Oscar Moreno-Martínez

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Authenticating the everyday: The dual dynamics of user and machinic appification

Esther Weltevrede¹, Anthony Burton²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada

Diabetes and Food Tracking Apps: Questioning Embedded Values

Aisha Sobey¹, Gemma Gibson²

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

A not so happy ending: A meta-analysis exploring the associations of dating app use on mental health and risk-taking behaviors

Facundo Nazareno Suenzo, Nathan Walter, Valerie Gruest

Northwestern University, United States of America

Emergency Notification Apps as Embodied Responsibilization

Rivka Ribak

University of Haifa, Israel

THE ROLE OF ONLINE DATING IN THE LIKELIHOOD OF MIGRANT-NATIVE COUPLES IN TWO SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES

Matias Dodel¹, Gustavo Mesch²

1: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay; 2: University of Haifa, Israel

Comparative Analysis of the Emerging Super App Model in East Africa: Consolidated Data Extraction and Fragmented Digital Governance

Du Shen¹, Grace Itumbiri²

1: Independent Researcher; 2: University of Cape Town

INTERACT AND REACT: GENDER, OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE, AND THE GOVERNANCE OF USER INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES

Siân Brooke

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

The Politics of Trust and Compliance: A Relational Theory Approach to Platform Governance

Linda Weigl, Balázs Bodó

Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam

VARIETIES OF TRUST AND SAFETY: AN INSTITUTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ON PLATFORM GOVERNANCE REGIMES

Robert Gorwa¹, Clara Iglesias Keller², João Magalhães³

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

JAGGED LITTLE PILL: HOW NATIVE ADS PROMOTE HEALTH DISINFORMATION

Nicole Sanchotene, Marie Santini, Débora Salles, Bruno Mattos, Marina Loureiro

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Advertising in the Age of Disinformation: Influencers and Natural Contraception

Hannah L. Westwood

Coventry University, United Kingdom

“The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival”: Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat, a Nigerian Pentecostal Social Networking Platform

Peter Whiting¹, Virginia Partridge², Emily Boardman Ndulue³, Samuel Olaniran⁴, Fernando Bermejo³

1: University of Waterloo; 2: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 3: Media Ecosystems Analysis Group; 4: University of the Witwatersrand

FIGURATIONS OF CELEBRITY EVERYDAY LIFE: REPRESENTATION, AUTHENTICITY, AND PROXIMITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Denise Prado

Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

The co-creation of trans microcelebrity: a case study of Nikkie de Jager

Ellie Homant

Cornell University, United States of America

RECLAIMING AUTHENTICITY WITHIN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

Katrin Tiidenberg¹, David Kneas²

1: BFM, Tallinn University, Estonia; 2: University of South Carolina, USA

MASKED RACISM IN THE REALITY SHOW BIG BROTHER BRASIL: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Thayane Henriques

Northwestern University, United States of America

DESPICABLE THEREFORE DEMONETIZED: HOW ANTI-MAINSTREAM ICONS SOLICIT SUPPORT

Elisabetta Zurovac, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Stefano Brilli

Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy

(Good) governance of platform monetisation

Taylor Annabell¹, Daniel Angus², Marcelo Alves³, Brooke Erin Duffy⁴, Blake Hallinan⁵, Thomas Poell⁶

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 2: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3: Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 4: Cornell University, United States; 5: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 6: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

THE DIVERSITY OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF FAMILIES AND CHILDREN WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

INES VITORINO SAMPAIO¹, DINUSHA BANDARA², LUCI PANGRAZIO³, LIDIA MARÔPO⁴, ANA JORGE⁵, ANDRA SIIBAK⁶, TAMA LEAVER⁷

1: Federal University of Ceará, Deakin University; 2: Deakin University; 3: Deakin University; 4: Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal and CICS.NOVA; 5: Lusófona University and CICANT; 6: University of Tartu; 7: Curtin University

Platforms, Musicians and Listeners Around the World

Robert Prey¹, Vanessa Valiati², David Hesmondhalgh³, Arturo Arriagada⁴, Shuwen Qu⁵

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Universidade Feevale, Brazil; 3: University of Leeds, UK; 4: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; 5: Jinan University, China

THE DIGITAL BODY: FITNESS, WELLNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN COLOMBIAN SOCIAL MEDIA

Oscar Javier Maldonado, Derly Sánchez-Vargas, Laura Clemencia Mantilla, Alicia Duque, Isabella Jaimes-Rodríguez

Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

BODY TALK IN MEDIA TALK: MOTHER-DAUGHTER DYADS IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE BODY IN MEDIATED TEXT AS EMBODIED RE-IMAGINATION OF FEMINISM

Julienne Thesa Yebron Baldo-Cubelo

University of the Philippines, Philippines

GEEK GRRRLS NEED MODEMS: DISEMBODIEMENT, CYBERLIBERATION AND POSTFEMINISM IN THE 1990S

Rebecca Houlihan

Monash University, Australia

Conventional representations online: "repeating femininity" on bigger and smaller platforms

Ira Solomatina

LMU, Germany

Ambiguitance: How Douyin's Inconsistent Affordances Shape Streamer-Audience Relationships in Chinese Showroom Live Streaming

Lin Zhang¹, Yingwen Wang²

1: University of Turku, Finland; 2: London College of Communication, United Kingdom

FROM SHARING TO STREAMING: TECHNOLOGY, LEGISLATION AND AGENCY IN THE DIGITAL PHONOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY FROM 1996 TO THIS DAY

Guido Agustin Saa

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic

The materiality of trust: Beauty consumption of young Chinese women through e-commerce live-streaming

Fan Xiao

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

GLOBAL DISRUPTION, LOCAL ADAPTATION: REALITY TELEVISION AND GLOBO IN THE STREAMING ERA.

Fernanda Rocha Vilela

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PLATFORM GOVERNANCE AT THE MARGINS: RULES, RELATIONS AND RESISTANCE

Carolina Are¹, Samuel Cabbuag², Crystal Abidin², Ruepert Cao³, Zari Taylor⁴, Kiara Child⁴, Christopher Persaud⁵

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

Fan Labor As A Shield Against Platforms’ Unsafety: The Pipoca & Nanquim Case

Thiago Costa¹, Beatriz Blanco²

1: FAAP University Center, Brazil; 2: Centro Universitário Senac São Paulo, Brazil

THE WITCHER’S INTERNET MAPS: FAN CARTOGRAPHY, ONLINE COMMUNITIES, AND SPATIAL STORYTELLING

Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat¹, Helena Atteneder², Yulia Belinskaya³

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: University of Tuebingen, Germany; 3: St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

TIKTOK ONE AS A SUPER TOOL SUITE: PLATFORM POWER AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLATFORM TOOLS

Kaushar Mahetaji, David Nieborg

University of Toronto, Canada

#KARLASOFIAGASCONISOVERPARTY: WHEN TWEETS RUIN AN OSCAR CAMPAIGN

Taiane De Volcan¹, Calvin Cousin², Fernanda Mendonça¹

1: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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

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

Jaime Lee Kirtz

Arizona State University, United States of America

WHAT IS "ALTERNATIVE" ABOUT "ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA"?

Roel Roscam Abbing², Robert William Gehl¹

1: York University, Canada; 2: Malmö University, Sweden

Rethinking the Citizen in Digital Citizenship

Jamie Ranger, Estariol de la Paz

Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany

The Rise and Fall of Third-party Cookies: The Evolving Technological, Regulatory and Economic Landscape of the Adtech Ecosystem

Jiahong Chen

University of Sheffield

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLATFORM WORK: THE CASE OF DRIVERS AND COURIERS

Laura Valle Gontijo

UnB, Brazil

X to Bluesky platform migration: Governance and community

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch

University of Connecticut, United States of America

Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms

Alex Turvy¹, Crystal Abidin²

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

Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Nicola Righetti, Valeria Donato

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Think better, you dumbass: Online hateful speech as epistemic violence

Esteban Morales¹, Jaigris Hodson², Victoria O'Meara³

1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 2: Royal Roads University, Canada; 3: University of Leicester, United Kingdom

“A SAFE, RESPONSIBLE, AND PROFITABLE ECOSYSTEM OF MUSIC”: ANALYZING ETHICAL CULTURES OF GENERATIVE AI IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Raquel Campos Valverde¹, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye²

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Uncertainty as Spectacle: Real-Time Algorithmic Techniques on the Live Music Stage

Stephen Yang

University of Southern California, United States of America

ENTERING THE METAL(TOK) SCENE: COMMUNITY, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND LATIN AMERICAN CREATORS

Beatriz Medeiros

Núcleo Milenio en Culturas Musicales y Sonoras, Universidad Mayor, Chile

PLATFORMS AS EPISTEMIC INFRASTRUCTURES: MEASUREMENTS, DATA FANDOMS PRACTICES AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF MUSIC CHARTS

Carlos d'Andréa, Natália Santos Dias

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Investigating Rupture and Absence: A Conversation between Critical Archival Studies and Critical Data Studies

James L. Epps, Ngozi Harrison

University of California, Los Angeles

EXCAVATING TELEVISION MEMORY IMAGES THROUGH GENERATIVE AI

Gustavo Fischer

UNISINOS, Brazil

“I WANTED TO BE PART OF NOT FORGETTING”: DIGITAL MEDIATION AND MEMORY IN POST-PANDEMIC TIMES

Adetobi Moses

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Big Data Time Machines: Decolonizing the Futures of Post-Digital Histories

Megan Sapnar Ankerson

University of Michigan, United States of America

CRAFT WORK: A RUPTURE OF DIGITAL LABOR AND CAPITALISM?

Kylie Jarrett¹, Alessandro Gandini², Marta Tonetta², Gianmarco Peterlongo², Fernando Vianna³, Rene Seifert Jr.³, Susan Luckman⁴, Michelle Phillipov⁵

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: University of Milan, Italy; 3: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil; 4: University of South Australia, Australia; 5: University of Adelaide, Australia

Editing and juxtaposition in Kim Kardashian’s Instagram stories

Adil Giovanni Lepri

Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

NO DISRUPTION – ONLY EXPOSURE! A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CROSS-MEDIA DYNAMICS IN DUTCH MEDIATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Sarah Burkhardt

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

RURAL WOMEN’S CYCLE OF BITTERNESS ON SHORT-VIDEO PLATFORMS IN CHINA

Bingxi Huang

The University of Queensland, Australia

Digital Attention Economy: Concept, Phenomenon, and History in Platform Studies

Anna Bentes

School of Communication, Media, and Information at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

ALGORITHMIC ANXIETY, BURNOUT, AND “STRESS DREAMS”: CREATORS’ (UN)SPEAKABLE ACCOUNTS OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS

Rosie Nguyen, Brooke Erin Duffy, Lee Humphreys

Cornell University, United States of America

Competency Prescriptions by Social Media Platforms and the Rise of Organizational Professionalism Among Content Creators

Liana Haygert Pithan, Willian Fernandes Araujo, Mateus Dalmoro

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

CONTENT CREATORS’ BELIEF SYSTEMS AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEMS

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Happy Life”: Digital Ageism and Beauty Filter Use Among Older Content Creators on Douyin

Yingwen Wang¹, Zoetanya Sujon²

1: London College of Communication, United Kingdom; 2: London College of Communication, United Kingdom

RUPTURING DIGITAL CHILDHOODS AND PARENTING IN AUSTRALIA? SOCIAL MEDIA BANS, PRIVACY, SCREEN TIME, AND GENERATIVE AI

Tama Leaver¹, Suzanne Srdarov¹, Amanda Third², Kate Mannell³, Katrin Langton³

1: Curtin University, Australia; 2: Western Sydney University, Australia; 3: Deakin University, Australia

Where Do We Go From Here? Part II – Lessons from the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on AI & Platform Governance

Rebecca Scharlach⁵, Taylor Annabell², Blake Hallinan¹, Emillie de Keulenaar³, Thales Lelo⁴

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 4: Federal University of Minas Gerais; 5: University of Bremen, Germany

AMAZON’S DIGITAL LOCAL MEDIA COVERAGE ON INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WITH SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Débora Gomes Salles¹, Marina Loureiro Santos¹, Thamyres Monteiro Albuquerque de Magalhães¹, Bianca Maria da Silva Melo², Julia Santos Rodrigues Dias¹, Nicole Sanchotene¹, Rose Marie Santini¹

1: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); 2: Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL)

The Infrastructure of Transphobic Feminism: A Digital Ethnography of an Anti-Trans Forum

Benjamin Clay Davis, Kelley Cotter

Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

Revisiting Airport Security Logics: Looking into the Limits and Lapses of Public Sector Data Infrastructure in a Post-9/11 Era

Muira McCammon¹, Matthew Conaty²

1: Tulane University, United States of America; 2: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

BENEATH THE WAVES - OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN THE SUBMARINE CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

Kristian Sick

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Latina Makeup Filters on TikTok: From Platform-Enabled Racialization to Resignification Practices

Catalina Alejandra Farías

Northwestern University, United States of America

Reflections on the Afrogoth Hashtag on Tiktok: strategies for hacking the dispositive of raciality in digital media technologies

Amanda Maria de Sobral Gomes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)

The [self] representation of Muslims on TikTok: The interpretation of Islamic Faith

Yara Daas

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

In Search of a TikTok Baseline - An empirical study of shared cultural experiences on a highly personalised digital platform

Patrik Wikstrom¹, Jiaru Tang¹, Jean Burgess¹, Tian Wen², Jonathon Hutchinson², Joanne Gray², Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández³

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Sydney, Australia; 3: University College Dublin, Ireland

Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences from Latin America

Bruna Paroni¹, Giada Marino¹, Fabio Giglietto¹, Tariq Choucair², Kate O’Connor Farfan², Sebastian Svegaard², Axel Bruns², Felipe Bonow Soares³, Cassian Osborne-Carey³, Camilla Quesada Tavares⁴

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

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

“We don’t want to commit as micro-drama creators”: how do these professionals navigate opportunities and internalised prejudices in the evolving micro drama industry

Zhang Jinwei, Lin Hui

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom

Cultural Narratives and Economic Independence: The Rise of Rural Women Vloggers in India

Nikhil Reddy², Poulami Seal¹, Saumya Pant²

1: Georgia State University, United States of America; 2: Ohio University, United States of America

"It feels incongruent to talk about reducing shame when I have to spell 's-e-g-g-s' on TikTok": Navigating Platform Moderation as Sex Education Creators on Social Media

Annika Pinch¹, Facundo Suenzo¹, Ignacio Cruz¹, Calvin Liang¹, Amy Ross Arguedas²

1: School of Communication, Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, England

DIGITAL RUPTURES: AI-GENERATED ACTIVISM, STATE REPRESSION, AND THE POLITICS OF DISSENT IN KENYA

Job Mwaura

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Bridging the Gap: Older Adults and the Digital Media Landscape

Soo Young Bae

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America

The portable document format as a site of data colonialism and digital rupture

Jaime Lee Kirtz

Arizona State University, United States of America

USING SPECULATIVE DESIGN TO REIMAGINE DIGITAL PERIOD TRACKING FOR THE GLOBAL MAJORITY

Arathy S B

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

WHY THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM IS NOT A TECHNOLOGICAL RUPTURE: ON THE IMAGINATION OF THE SOCIETAL NEEDS OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION IN PIONEER JOURNALISM

Andreas Hepp¹, Wiebke Loosen²

1: Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Germany; 2: ZeMKI, University of Bremen

A RUPTURE IN PHOTOJOURNALISM PRACTICES? A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF AI-GENERATED IMAGERY WITHIN NEWS MEDIA PROFESSIONALS

Chiara Spaggiari, Laura Gemini

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Algorithmic mediation in open access journals: platforms, visibility and epistemic challenges

Verônica Soares da Costa¹, Luana Teixeira de Souza Cruz²

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Brazil; 2: INCT Public Communication of Science and Technology (INCT-CPC), Brazil

Visualizing the Amazon: Data-Driven Storytelling, Mapping and Audience for Environmental Journalism

Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos¹, Isabella Gonçalves²

1: Macquarie University (Australia) and Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil); 2: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)

TECHNO-PUBLIC RHETORIC, SPECULATIVE VALUE, AND THE GROWTH OF ALT-TECH DIGITAL MEDIA COMPANIES

Reed Van Schenck

IE University, Spain

The Art of Maximizing Attention: Digital Neoliberalism and MrBeast

Sara Katherine Rabon

University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America

THE PLATFORMIZATION OF THE FOLLOWER FACTORY: PARA-PLATFORMS, AUTOMATION, AND LABOR IN THE MARKET FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENTS

Esther Weltevrede¹, Johan Lindquist²

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Stockholm University, Sweden

META’S 3PFC SPEECH GOVERNANCE: AN INQUIRY INTO THE FACT-CHECKING CONTENT MODERATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Otávio Iost Vinhas¹, Marco Toledo Bastos^1,2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: City St George’s, University of London

Platform Mechanics of Hate and Marginality: Perspectives from the Global South

Gayas Eapen¹, Sarah Khan², Abhishek Sekharan², Wangari Njathi³, Teresia {Terry} Nzau⁴, Rebeccah Wambui⁵

1: Coastal Carolina University, United States of America; 2: University of Michigan, University States of America; 3: Pepperdine University; 4: Missouri School of Journalism; 5: Independent Researcher

Territorializing Internet: WhatsApp use in Andean Argentina

Martina Di Tullio¹, Edgar Gómez-Cruz²

1: CONICET - University of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic; 2: School of Information, University of Texas at Austin

THE USE OF WHATSAPP IN BRAZILIAN FAVELAS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF A MUNDANE TECHNOLOGY

Carolina Parreiras

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Diasporic Chats: Investigating Viral Content in Whatsapp Groups of Brazilian Immigrants in the United States

Ben Pereira, María Celeste Wagner, Kiran Garimella

Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information

TELEGRAM AS A MULTIFACETED PLATFORM FOR ANTI-MAINSTREAM POLITICAL PASSION: THE FINNISH FRINGE GROUPS UNDER THE SCOPE

Salla Tuomola, Jakob Bæk Kristensen

Roskilde University, Denmark

“A network of collaborative intelligence”: The platformization of community algorithmic surveillance

Meg Kitamura, Gabriel Pereira

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

RACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: DEFENSIVE VERSUS SYMBIOTIC EXPERIENCES WITH THE DOORBELL CAMERA

Jenny Lee

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

RISK COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE: DIGITAL RUPTURES, TOURISM, AND PUBLIC SAFETY RISKS

Samuel Cornell

UNSW Sydney, Australia

How need- and norm-based motives for digital communication mitigate the chilling effects of dataveillance

Sarah Daoust-Braun, Noemi Festic, Michael Latzer

University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Dissociative Gooner: Porn Addiction, Pornosociality, and the "Male Loneliness Epidemic"

Alexander Monea

George Mason University, United States of America

BECOMING PLATFORM: DISRUPTION, MASCULINITY, AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Nicola Bozzi

University of Greenwich, United Kingdom

Confronting Men's Discomfort: The Affective Dimensions Of Masculinity In The Italian Men's Rights Communities

Manolo Farci, Elena Ceccarelli

Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

PLATFORM GOVERNANCE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: ANALYSIS OF INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, TIKTOK AND TWITCH COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Luiza Carolina dos Santos^1,2, Raquel Pereira Rodrigues Leite^2,3

1: Federal University of Technology of Paraná, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Paraná, Brazil; 3: Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil

NAVIGATING INTIMACY IN A MOBILE WORLD: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE DIGITAL NOMAD LIFESTYLE

Cristina Miguel¹, Christoph Lutz², Yunhao Xiao², Filip Majetić³, Rodrigo Perez-Vega¹

1: University of Reading; 2: BI Norwegian Business School; 3: Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar

MICROMOBILITIES SERVICES IN URBAN BRAZIL: A CASE OF MOBILITIES (IN)JUSTICE

Adriana de Souza e Silva¹, Ragan Glover²

1: Northeastern University, USA; 2: University of Michigan, USA

MIGRATING THROUGH HYBRID SPACE: NEW EVIDENCE OF CONCEPTUAL UPDATES

Adriana de Souza e Silva¹, Ana Avila², Scott W. Cambell³

1: Northeastern University, United States of America; 2: University of Michigan, United States of America; 3: The Ohio State University, United States of America

Discussing Digital Methods in Brazil: Towards an emerging school of thought?

Janna Joceli Omena¹, Richard Rogers², Giulia Tucci^3,4, Elias Bitencourt⁵, Alan Angeluci⁶

1: King's College London; 2: University of Amsterdam; 3: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT); 4: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); 5: State University of Bahia (UNEB); 6: University of São Paulo (ECA/USP)

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

RUPTURES IN CLIMATE DISCOURSE: DIGITAL PUBLICS, POLARISATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT IN AUSTRALIA AND BRAZIL

Tariq Choucair¹, Raquel Recuero^4,5,6, Axel Bruns¹, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski¹, Laura Vodden¹, Ehsan Dehghan¹, R. Marie Santini², Debora Gomes Salles², Marina Loureiro Santos², Luciane Leopoldo Belin², Thiago Ciodaro², Katharina Esau¹, Laura Vodden¹, Michelle Riedlinger¹, Samantha Vilkins¹, Thales Antonelli³, Rousiley Maia³

1: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia; 2: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil; 3: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil; 4: Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Brazil; 5: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil; 6: MIDIARS (Laboratório de Pesquisa em Mídia, Discurso e Análise de Redes), Brazil

Understanding ‘safety’ on dating apps: control features, user perceptions, and app imaginaries

Brady Robards, Lisa Wheildon, Asher Flynn, Zarina Vakhitova, Bridget Harris

Monash, Australia

DIGITAL PARENTING IN THE AGE OF DATAFICATION: A CARE PERSPECTIVE

Victoria Andelsman

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

From Scrubs to Scrolling: Healthcare Professionals on Douyin

Xinna Li

University College Dublin, Ireland

RHYTHMS OF RUPTURE AND REPAIR: AN EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP EXPLORING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES, PLATFORMS AND USER WELLBEING

Emily Cousins

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

EXPLORING PERIPHERAL DIGITAL LABOR: CREATOR EXPERIENCES IN LATIN AMERICA

Ana María Castillo¹, Lionel Brossi², Núria Roca³, Pedro Sigaud³, Karina Santos⁴

1: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; 2: University of Chile; 3: International University of Catalonia; 4: Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro

Social Media in Elections: Evidence from the United States, Germany, and Australia

Axel Bruns¹, Jennifer Stromer-Galley², Jill Karia², Felix Victor Münch^3,4, Philipp Kessling^3,5,4, Jakob Ohme⁶, Lion Wedel⁶, Nico Pfiffner⁷, Thomas N. Friemel⁷, Samantha Vilkins¹, Katherine M. FitzGerald¹, Tariq Choucair¹, Daniel Angus¹, Caroline Gardam¹, Kunal Chand¹, Laura Vodden¹, Klaus Gröbner¹, Katharina Esau¹, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski¹, Ehsan Dehghan¹, Kate Susan O'Connor-Farfan¹

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane; 2: Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA; 3: Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | HBI, Hamburg; 4: Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC); 5: Centrum for Communication and Information (ZeMKI), University of Bremen; 6: Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin; 7: University of Zürich, Zürich

Dynamics of Polarization: Unpacking Echo Chambers with Agent-Based Modeling

Frederik Møller Henriksen, Jens Ulrik Hansen, Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Eva Mayerhöffer

Roskilde University, Denmark

Political podcasts in Brazil: left-leaning shows in a polarized market

Daniel Gambaro

Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences - Unicamp, Brazil

Networked Misogynoir, Mythology and Disinformation

Brooklyne Gipson

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States of America

Cynicism and internalized responsibility for digital well-being among young people in Slovenia

Katja Koren Ošljak, Anamarija Šiša, Tanja Oblak Črnič

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia

Reaching a Deadlock: Areas of Contention in Platform Regulation in Brazil

Andressa Michelotti, Leticia Birchal Domingues

UFMG - Minas Gerais Federal Uninversity, Brazil

Access is not enough! Reconceptualizing Data Quality as a Public Value in Times of Platformization and European Regulation

Yannik Peters, Katrin Weller

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Marco Civil da Internet and the Future of Social Media Regulation in Brazil: the Impact of Courts on Platform Policy

Beatriz Kira¹, Ivar Alberto Hartmann²

1: University of Sussex; 2: Insper

Infrastructural Ruptures: anxieties, borders, and clouds

Fieke Jansen¹, Andreas Baur², Corinne Cath³, Niels ten Oever¹, Nai Lee Kalema⁴

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Tübingen, Germany; 3: Article 19 / Cambridge University; 4: University College London, United Kingdom

Online Media Archeology as AI Critique: Wikipedia’s Links and Edits as Spatial and Temporal Fields

Natalia Stanusch, Richard Rogers, Natalia Sánchez-Querubín

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

(A)I CAN’T SEE HER

Lina Ruth Harder

Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Norway

“ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” IS/AS NEITHER: RETHINKING AI AGAINST “RUPTURE”

Zachary McDowell

University of Illinois at Chicago

What is left of BreadTube? Researching YouTube-based political cultures with Situational Analysis

Marius Liedtke

University of Salzburg, Austria

THE 'TRUMP EFFECT' ON THE USE OF POLITICAL CONTENT AND NEWS BY FAR-RIGHT AUDIENCES ON PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE YOUTUBE CHANNELS

João Guilherme dos Santos², Tatiana Dourado¹, Inês Amaral³, Pedro Jerónimo⁴, Dalby Dienstbach⁵, Alexsander Dugno Chiodi⁶, Luísa Torre⁴

1: PUC-Rio, Brazil; 2: National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy, Brazil; 3: University of Coimbra, Portugal; 4: University of Beira Interior, Portugal; 5: Democracia em Xeque Institute, Brazil; 6: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Disrupting or Conforming: A Computational Analysis of International News Coverage of Africa on YouTube

Dani Madrid-Morales

University Of Sheffield, United Kingdom

THE CONVERGENCE OF RIGHT-WING YOUTUBE AUDIENCES BETWEEN CANADA AND THE U.S. DURING FREEDOM CONVOY

Jihye Kim

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

STUDYING DIGITAL SEXUAL CULTURES BEYOND ANGLOCENTRISM

Susanna Paasonen¹, Eduardo Espindola Braud Martins², Carolina Parreiras³, Jenny Sundén⁴, Katrin Tiidenberg⁵

1: University of Turku, Finland; 2: Federal University of Uberlândia; 3: University of São Paulo; 4: Uppsala University; 5: Tallinn University

Feminist Labor Histories of Neighborhood Surveillance

Jenny Lee

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

BLACK (BRITISH) IDENTITY AND ARCHIVAL RITUALS

Rianna Walcott

University of Maryland, United States of America

Antifascists, Hackers, & Pedophile Hunters: the origin stories of doxing

Jamie Theophilos

Indiana University, Bloomington, United States of America

“We created this account to be free”: Technobiographies of Engaging with X among Filipino Men Living with HIV

Aldo Gavril Tobias Lim

University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

Disrupting Mediated Publics: Comment Sections as Sites of Epistemic and Political Rupture

Nina Duque, Alexandre Coutant, Louvinia Sainte-Rose-Fanchine, Michelle Stewart, Florence Millerand

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Constructing reality: Paratexts, power dynamics, and meaning-making in "Love is Blind"

Yaara Cohen, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

“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

Briana Marie Trifiro

Northeastern University, United States of America

NEGOTIATING GENDERED RISKS ONLINE: ESTABLISHING SINGLE FEMALE SOLIDARITIES AND AFFECTIVE COMMONALITIES VIA DATING WHISPER NETWORKS

Kate Rosalind Gilchrist

UCL, United Kingdom

Cross-platform gendertrolling: a case study on a prominent harassment case in Brazil

R. Marie Santini, Débora Salles, Adriano Belisario, Luciane L. Belin

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Unravelling the Nation: Digital Contestations of Gendered Narratives in the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom Movement

Mitra Shamsi

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

BEING SEEN AND LOOKING BACK: MANDATORY ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SURVEILLANCE FOR LGBTQ+ USERS

Alex Chartrand

Concordia University, Canada