spir: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called spir.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Internet; Data; Users; Platform; Twitter; People; Information; Platforms; Facebook; Use; Technology; Work; Women; Paper; Communication; Public; Press; News; Tiktok; Practices; Privacy; Community; Youtube; Culture; Health; Self; Analysis; Social; Industry; Instagram; Participants; Game; Children; Web; Videos; Design; Tweets; Network; Time; Games; Governance; Power; Mobile; Labor; Technologies; Human; Memes; Identity; Life; Gender; Influencers; Apps; Trust; Systems; Creators; Workers; Production; Discourse; Video; Surveillance; Participation; Images; Researchers; Moderation; Algorithms; Communities; Space; Studies; Queer; Comments; Rights; Google; Youth; Right; China; Feminist; Music; Journalism; Education; Browser; Groups; User; Learning; Policy; Place; Labour; Networks; Death; App; Accounts; Election; Activism; Group; Streaming; Reddit; Affective; Players; Law; Students; Development; Memory; Fans; Posts; Literacy; Knowledge; Sharing; Spaces; Body; Affordances; Stories; Climate; Aoir; Services; Companies; Machine; Men; Experience; Gaming; Language; State; Access; Care; Misinformation; Government; Intimacy; Software; Science; Advertising; York; Actors; Speech; Infrastructure; Harassment; Tools; Movement; Resistance; India; Case; Publics; Campaign; Employees; Project; Race; Action; Australia; Hashtag; Image; Visibility; Reality; Search; Theory; Parents; Amazon; Members; Narratives; Market; Computer; Adults; Event; Protest; Capitalism; Values; Religion; Photography; Blogs; Sites; Devices; Migration; Abuse; Porn; Pages; Hashtags; Change; Skills; Disability; Douyin; Bloggers; Snapchat; Rules; Disaster; Audio; Canada; Food; Inclusion; Safety; Screen; Reviews; Player; Disconnection; Movements; Talk; Abortion; Library; Uber; Products; Girls; Sociality; Post; Narrative; Netflix; Hip; Connection; Und; Refugees; Outlets; Issues; Articles; Blockchain; Projects; Review; Article; Contact; Moderators; Divide; Presence; Agenda; Irish; Incel; Jerusalem; Competitions; Bolsonaro; Comedy; Topic; Scholarship; Fiction; Badges; Guides; Construction; Eric; Dick; Century; Patent; Decolonizing; Stage; Gpt-4; Astroturfing; Bisexual; Drives; Pepper; Lot

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Towards A Theory Of Cross-Media Networked Microcelebrity: Of Bedrooms, Blogsites, Broadcasts, And Boardrooms by Abidin, Crystal (2017.0) - Methodology and typology To understand the networked flows among virality, celebrity, and commerce across the attention economy (Goldhaber, 1997) of internet personalities, digital estates of the media, and traditional old media, I draw on six brief case studies from the last six years to illustrate the key (micro)celebrity pathways that have emerged globally. By attending to how internet personalities, digital estates of the media, and traditional old media borrow from, capitalize on, and collaborate and compete for viewership and attention, we can understand the lifecycle, use value, discardability, and respectability politics involved in the field of microcelebrity studies. Keywords: case; fame; internet; media; microcelebrity
• Religious Networked Publics: Seeking Authenticity By Digital Means by Golan, Oren; Evolvi, Giulia; Martini, Michele; Scott, Sasha; Vaisman, Carmel (2017.0) - The final contributor will further the discussion of socio-technological affordances and technologies-of-the-self by offering a phenomenological analysis of religious ritual apps. Digital religion scholarship has merely begun to engage religious apps, mainly offering initial typologies (Wagner 2012, Campbell et al. 2014). Keywords: apps; authenticity; digital; internet; live; media; muslim; new; online; religion; ritual; women
• Making Sense Of Life In 2017 - Metaphors Of The Internet by Markham, Annette; Lingel, Jessa; Møller, Kristian; Driscoll, Kevin; Warfield, Katie (2017.0) - In the late 1990s, metaphors functioned as sense-making devices for internet users experimenting with new forms of computer-mediated communication. Markham (1998) has pointed out the ways in which the internet has been conceptualized as a tool, and in a political narrative, early internet discourse positioned the web as a tool of democracy. Keywords: experience; internet; life; markham; media; metaphors; online; paper; place; press; sense; space; time; users; way
• Computational Propaganda And Social Media: Global Perspectives by Hemsley, Jeff; Bolsolover, Gillian; Bradshaw, Samantha; Jones, Mark Owen; Hogan, Alex; Savage, Saiph (2017.0) - However, with the rise of social media, the control of online distribution channels has been concentrated into a small number of hands, with new and less accountable platforms replacing traditional media gatekeepers (Lovink, 2011). Social media has become an increasingly important source of news for Internet users. Keywords: action; bots; election; internet; media; news; paper; propaganda; public; the_donald; twitter
• Consequences Of Digital Divides: How Internet Use Affects Social Well-Being by Büchi, Moritz; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Micheal (2017.0) - The concept of social well-being is especially useful in research on Internet effects, since on the one hand various online services enable and facilitate social interaction, and on the other hand preference for online social interaction over face-to-face can lead to negative outcomes of Internet use (Caplan, 2003). Third, this article studies different types of Internet use and their effects on subjective well-being since previous research has shown that the amount of Internet use as a one-dimensional concept is insufficient in research into Internet effects (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007). Keywords: internet; research; use
• Performing Internet Governance: The Case Study of Youth Participation in The Internet Governance Forum by Daskal, Efrat; Orlova, Anna (2017.0) - Thus, in order to assess these youth related initiatives, and furthermore to analyze the political processes that are meant to enable young people to construct youth representation at the IGF, this study asks, what are the characteristics of youth participation at the IGF? Methodology To answer this question, we used several research methods triangulated to produce a thick description of youth activities within the IGF: content analysis of all youth-related materials from IGF meetings (n=35 documents), in-depth interviews with key activists who participated in youth activities in the IGF (n=5), and participatory observation conducted at IGF Mexico during December of 2016. Nevertheless, this kind of guidance currently hardly exists even within the framework of YCIG The future – Three trends will influence the future of youth involvement within the IGF: (1) The strengthening of traditional geo-political forces within the IGF, manifested in the rise of national IGF youth initiatives and the identity of the YCIG steering committee delegates, who for the first time will be determined by their geo-political affiliation (2) Keywords: igf; internet; youth
• Smart Government: Updating eGovernment with the IoT by Djeffal, Christian (2017.0) - Internet der Dinge. im Internet der Dinge. Keywords: act; administration; applications; baden; case; data; der; des; die; federal; government; internet; iot; law; protection; public; smart; systems; things; und; verwaltung
• To Be Or Not To Be On The Internet: A Multidimensional Tool For Studying Online Anonymities by Eklund, Lina; Von Essen, Emma; Jonsson, Fatima (2017.0) - We argue that online anonymity is a complex process that exists in various forms, regulated and defined by various actors. In this study we 1) draw on the multidisciplinary literature concerning online anonymity 2) derive at a multi-layered conceptual model for studying online anonymity that follows closely on previous research on what people actually do online, and 3) explore the complexity as different facets of anonymity interact and interlink by drawing on two empirical examples, online auction sites and massive multiplayer gaming. Keywords: anonymity; information; internet; online
• On And Off: Digital Practices Of Connecting And Disconnecting Across The Life Course by Ganito, Carla Susana; Jorge, Ana (2017.0) - Ageing and life course transitions: an interdisciplinary perspective. The first approach emphasises ages and life stages, while the second puts emphasis on the transitions into those stages (Allatt et al., 1987). Keywords: course; internet; life; media; use
• Invisibility And Hypervisibility: Imagining Publics For Urban Broadband Networks by Halegoua, Germaine; Lingel, Jessa (2017.0) - Broadband activists are enthusiastic about the potential of dark fiber for more equitable Internet provision (Crawford, 2016), although the purchase of dark fiber networks for public use is still rare. The persistent invisibility of dark fiber networks alongside highly visible initiatives that frame city streets as sites for digital access, complicate institutional investments and understandings of public connectivity. Keywords: dark; fiber; internet; networks; public
• Contemporary Creativity Online: An Examination of the Interplay between Art and Vernacular Creativity on the Internet by Literat, Ioana (2017.0) - If a work of Internet art and, respectively, of vernacular online creativity (such as a meme or a Youtube mashup) live in the same space, use the same tools and address the same networked audiences, where do the key differences between them still lie - and how is the relationship between them being complicated by sociocultural and technological factors? Two contemporary artistic practices that illustrate the complexity of this relationship between Internet art and online vernacular creativity are appropriation and, respectively, aesthetic mimicry. Keywords: art; creativity; internet; online
• Tracing Controversies in Hacker Networks: Ethical Considerations for Research on Communal Publics by Richterich, Annika (2017.0) - On the other hand, these debates arose due to grave concerns about harassment and sexism in hacker cultures (Reagle 2017, 2012; Montgomery 2013; Mills 2012). Liz Henry, one of the co-founders of the women-centred hackerspace Double Union, wrote that many female hackers “[…] focused on the e- textiles message because we could make fun of it, not because it was especially horrible. Keywords: gender; hacker; internet; research
• Emerging Media, Instability And Democracy: Examining The Granger-Causal Relationships Of 122 Countries From 1946 To 2014 by Wertz, Blake; Groshek, Jacob (2017.0) - H2: In countries with greater sociopolitical instability due to conflict and change, emerging media diffusion will Granger-cause institutionalized democratic growth. All of the 122 countries used in that study and all procedures, except collection and measurement of media diffusion information, were carried out similarly to Groshek (2011), making use of only those variables which Groshek (2011) identified as meaningful. Keywords: groshek; internet; media
• DRUG MARKETS AND ANONYMIZING TECHNOLOGIES by Tzanetakis, Meropi; Décary-Hétu, David; Bakken, Silje; Munksgaard, Rasmus; Katzenbach, Christian; Demant, Jakob; Paquet-Clouston, Masarah; Weissinger, Laurin (2018.0) - Hidden Wholesale: The drug diffusing capacity of online drug cryptomarkets. Research on online drug markets has demonstrated cryptomarkets are continually growing in terms of sales volumes generated despite law enforcement interventions. Keywords: anonymity; cryptomarkets; drug; governance; internet; interviews; paper; reputation; trust
• INTIMACIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURES by De Ridder, Sander; Dhaenens, Frederik; Duguay, Stefanie; Ferris, Lindsay; Paasonen, Susanna (2018.0) - How do people value seeking intimacy trough digital media, and why is it often problematized? Despite interchangeably referencing gay, lesbian, queer, and other sexual identities in interviews, participants’ combination of Tinder’s imagined affordances with longstanding references to lesbian culture instantiated a digital lesbian imaginary on Tinder. Keywords: aoir; cover; digital; identity; infrastructures; internet; intimacy; lesbian; media; paper; people; women
• POLITICS, ACTIVISM AND TROLLING ON THE RUSSIAN INTERNET by Miazhevich, Galina; Wijermars, Mariëlle; Gapova, Elena; Zvereva, Vera (2018.0) - To what extent can the rise of YouTube-based activism in Russia be explained by 1) developments in Russian internet governance and regulatory mechanisms, and 2) global online media trends? In addition to analyzing the (legal) strategies used to prevent the spread of the investigation materials (e.g., website blocking, in formation removal requests), it reflects on the accusations pronounced by prominent Russian political vloggers against YouTube about failing to prevent that the platform’s anti-hate speech measures are abused to isolate oppositional content. Keywords: campaign; internet; media; new; online; paper; russia; sobchak; state; wikipedia; youtube
• A DIVISION OF LABOR: THE ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYSIS IN THE REPERTOIRE OF INTERNET RESEARCH METHODS by Helles, Rasmus; Ørmen, Jacob; Jensen, Klaus Bruhn; Lai, Signe Sophus; Menchen-Trevino, Ericka; Taneja, Harsh; Wu, Angela Xiao; Bruns, Axel (2018.0) - By integrating census-level information about users with detailed traces of their behavior across websites, commercial audience data combines the strength of surveys and digital trace data respectively. The big data in PIN will be digital trace data (Freelon, 2014) of online users collected by the audience measurement company ComScore. Keywords: analysis; audience; communication; data; internet; log; media; methods; research; researchers; trace; twitter; use
• ‘DEEP-FRIED’ AND DENATURALIZED: CRITIQUING MEMETIC META- ONTOLOGIES by Kowalchuk, Saskia (2018.0) - To understand the significance of trends in memetic redundancy, popularly known as ‘anti-memes’, I first conceived of reaction memes as highly entropic. Hito Steryl’s notion of ‘poor images’ provides an ideal conceptual framework for the potentially disruptive quality of memes. Keywords: image; internet; memes; text
• THIS MEME IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS”: HISTORY-AS-MEME, MEME-AS-HISTORY ON 4CHAN by McEwan, Sean Rutherford (2018-10-31) - None Keywords: 4chan; content; history; internet; memes; new; politics; users
• EXPLORING THE RURAL DIGITAL LANDSCAPE: LIBRARIES, EQUITY, AND SCALE by Strover, Sharon; Schrubbe, Alexis (2018.0) - Rural libraries often have small staff numbers, small budgets, and are located in places that have limited cellular service on which hotspots depend. About 70% of rural libraries are the only sites with free Internet in their communities (Real, et al. 2014), and they provide a wide range of economically-oriented services (Mehra et al., 2017). Keywords: digital; hotspot; internet; libraries; library
• MASS MEDIA AND THE LEGITIMATION OF INTERNET CONTROL IN RUSSIA: THE CASE OF TELEGRAM
 by Wijermars, Mariëlle (2018.0) - In the case of Russia, ostensibly sound legitimations have been instrumentalised to bring about a dramatic decline in internet freedom, leading Human Rights Watch (2017: 1) to conclude, that “[s]tate intrusion in media affairs has reached a level not seen in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.” This paper aims to address this crucial aspect of internet censorship by studying how restrictions of internet freedom, freedom of expression and the right to information and privacy are framed in political and media discourses. Keywords: control; freedom; internet; media
• INFANCY WITHIN ADVERTISING PLATFORM: YOUNG CHILDREN EXPERIENCES ON A VIDEO-SHARING WEBSITE. by Aggio, Amanda (2019.0) - Amanda Aggio Massey University This paper investigates how young children experience digital advertising platforms. For instance, previous generations of young children grew up watching TV, an apparatus adjusted by an adult and shared with others through a single device. Keywords: children; internet; new; platform
• CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES IN INTERNET STUDIES: TEACHING FOR CHANGE by Croeser, Sky (2019.0) - Academics within Internet studies have unique possibilities for engaging in critical pedagogies, supporting students in understanding and challenging oppression. support and extend teaching methods that encourage students to understand and challenge oppression – critical pedagogies (Breuing 2011) - within Internet studies. Keywords: aoir; conference; internet; studies; teaching
• THE VISCERAL EMBODIMENT OF DIGITAL PLEASURES by Smith, Naomi ; Davis, Jenny; Maddox, Alexia; Patella-Rey, PJ (2019.0) - This panel explores digital pleasures through entanglement of bodies and digital technologies. The panel brings together four presentations, all of which speak to the central conference theme by considering how the architectures that afford digital pleasures also raise attendant questions of trust and risk in digital systems. Keywords: aoir2019; asmr; association; australia; brisbane; conference; drugs; internet; intimacy; october; papers; pleasure; researchers; taking
• DATA SELVES: TRUST, CONTROL AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN DIGITAL SOCIETY by Robards , Brady; Lyall, Benjamin; Moran, Claire; Burgess, Jean; Albury, Kath; Wilken, Rowan; McCosker, Anthony ; Senft, Terri (2019.0) - Taken together, these four papers each engage with questions about the relationship between personal data and broader structures of power and representation: from corporations like Grindr and Tinder using dating app data to profile users, to Google using uploaded selfies to train facial recognition algorithms; through to re-purposing and narrativising personal data as part of practices of self-representation; and the feelings of anxiety, unease or creepiness that accompany the increased datafication of personal identity. Self-representation is also a key recurrent thread in these papers, from confessional data selfies as acts of revelation through personal quantified data, through to the photographic selfie as a research exercise that prompts discussions of control and data privacy. Keywords: apps; communication; control; data; face; internet; literacies; media; paper; posts; self; selfies; society; university; use; users
• THE AFTERLIVES OF MEMORIAL MATERIALS: DATA, HOAX, BOT by Nansen , Bjorn; Hjorth, Larissa; Pitsillides, Stacey; Gould, Hannah (2019.0) - Commentary on fake deaths Critical responses to the more inadvertent types of fake death focused on the deterioration of journalism in digital spaces, accusing both individual journalists – as in the disapproval of Grantland for its vague headline – and news organisations or media more generally of poor quality journalism for prematurely (mis)reporting a death in the rush to publish first: • In contrast, critical responses to deliberate types of fake death (hoax, hacking), were directed at social media platforms for enabling fake deaths to be generated and circulated, or at cultures of social media use contributing to the frequency of instances and persistence of rumours surrounding fake deaths: • Keywords: care; data; dead; death; digital; funeral; gibbs; human; internet; media; memorial; new; online; trust
• LASTING IMPACTS OF 1990S ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE by Grosse, Meghan Leigh (2019.0) - Though this discourse frames the attention to commercial interests as inclusive and even democratic, including commercial perspectives undercuts the ability for other governments and any form of non-commercial public interest groups to set policy while advancing corporations’ ability to do so. The prioritization of commercial interests has continued impacts. Keywords: interests; internet; system
• PERFORMING (IN)JUSTICE: THE CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF DIGITALLY MEDIATED VISUALS by Lewis, Kelly ; Berents, Helen; Myles, David; Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles ; Matamoros Fernández, Ariadna; Estrada-Grajales, Carlos (2019.0) - This presentation explores the role digitally mediated images play in contemporary activism within popular social justice movements and examines how visual social media facilitate new ways of “resocializing the political” (Fenton, 2016). The premise of this presentation is that digitally mediated images not only perform representational or illustrative functions but are also operationalized – as instruments and agents in activist practice, as products and producers of sociopolitical work – to render acts of police brutality and racial injustice visible in new ways, through which they create social identifications, antagonisms, and political contentions as part of their operational dynamics. #JusticeForTrayvon: operationalizing (in)justice The objective of this presentation is to examine how Trayvon’s image has been 1) appropriated posthumously in visual social media, 2) discursively placed in conversation with these movements, and 3) transformed across time as a contemporary vernacular of resistance and resilience in the ongoing struggle for Black social justice in the US. Keywords: activism; aoir; association; australia; brisbane; conference; digital; images; internet; media; memes; october; politics; researchers; visual; women
• VPNs AND ENCRYPTION AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS OF THE INTERNET: (MIS)TRUST IN THE TRANSLATION(S) by Heemsbergen, Luke; Molnar, Adam (2019.0) - Our discussion on VPNs and encryption brings to light how users of internet objects come to trust them for what they are and what they do, and the extent these trusts are misplaced in relation to the connective polysemy (Gal, 2018) that boundary objects provide as larger ecosystems. The second is through an exegesis of boundary objects ‘on’ the internet to consider conceptualizing objects ‘of’ the internet, which opens a fruitful reconfiguration of Star’s work for internet research. Keywords: encryption; internet; objects; star; technical
• DESIGNING EFFECTIVE ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A PREVENTION CAMPAIGN: MISTRUST AND OTHER BARRIERS by Henry, Claire (2019.0) - DESIGNING EFFECTIVE ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A PREVENTION CAMPAIGN: MISTRUST AND OTHER BARRIERS Claire Henry Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand This paper reports on the preliminary findings of a research project that is investigating the potential for online advertisements to reduce the incidence of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) consumption on the internet. By producing test images and advertisements, and discussing these in focus groups and interviews, this research is developing an evidence-base for creating prevention advertisements that will be effective in ‘nudging’ potential offenders away from CSAM and toward seeking therapeutic intervention—shifts that require a significant fostering of trust. Keywords: advertisements; internet; prevention; research; trust
• THE RETURN OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY – CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE AND NEO-FEUDALISM IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET by Jensen, Jakob Linaa (2019.0) - It is claimed that the interplay between big tech companies, nation states’ battle for control and citizens’ participatory surveillance, for instance exercised through social media, resembles medieval principles of feudalism and tight social control. It is claimed that the interplay between big tech companies, nation states’ battle for control and citizens’ participatory surveillance, for instance exercised through social media, resembles medieval principles of feudalism and tight social control. Keywords: control; internet; medieval; surveillance
• PERSONAL INFORMATION ARCHIVING: BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES TO THE PERCEPTION OF RISK by Lin, Chang; Jacobson, Jenna; McEwen, Rhonda (2019.0) - While the three-part typology simplifies the array of online behaviours, we hope it can be used as a way to understand and analyze information behaviour online more broadly and applied to other contexts. The research offers an alternate perspective on online information behaviour that departs from traditional classifications that rely on demography. Keywords: behaviour; information; internet; risk
• “ALEXA, CAN I TRUST YOU?”: SMALL SISTERS AND FRIENDLY POWER by Munn, Luke (2019.0) - “Amazon Says It Has Over 10,000 Employees Working on Alexa, Echo.” “Alexa Gives Amazon a Powerful Data Advantage.” Keywords: alexa; conference; internet; power
• #RESISTHUDUMANAMBA: KENYAN GOVERNMENT AT A CROSSROAD by Mwaura, Job (2019.0) - In the case of Huduma Namba as a government project, it flaunted all the procurement laws since there was no adequate needs assessment, planning and budgeting did not undergo public participation. Huduma Namba required procurement of registration gadgets and personnel. Keywords: association; conference; government; internet; researchers
• ‘PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS’: COMMENTING CULTURES ACROSS PLATFORMS by Abidin, Crystal; van der Nagel, Emily; Johns, Amelia; Bailo, Francesco; Rodriguez, Aleesha; Valdovinos-Kaye, Bondy; Wikstrom, Patrik; Gerrard, Ysabel; Leaver, Tama (2020.0) - User comments across platforms and journalistic genres. Methodology To study comment cultures and attribution on TikTok, we have developed a novel scraping tool to collect video, audio, and comment data from TikTok. Keywords: 2020; 9gag; commenting; comments; content; cultures; facebook; instagram; internet; media; meme; paper; platform; posts; section; tiktok; university; users; video
• TAMING PLATFORM CAPITALISM: STRUGGLES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH MEET STRUGGLES FROM THE GLOBAL NORTH by Arriagada, Arturo; Graham, Mark; Huws, Ursula; Srinivasan, Janaki; Bonhomme, Macarena; Taduri, Pradyumna; Ustek-Spilda, Funda; Ferrari, Fabian; Bertolini, Alessio; Badger, Adam (2020.0) - Thus, platform workers can be paid below minimum wages, and have to shoulder all of the risk associated with the work that they do without regulations that resolve those tensions. This panel brings together scholars whose work seeks to tame platform capitalism understanding how the lives of platform workers are affected by digital platforms. Keywords: delivery; economy; fairwork; food; foundation; global; graham; institute; internet; labour; new; platform; resistance; workers
• THE INTERNET IS TRASH: MAKING SENSE OF TOXIC NETWORKS by Buck, Amber M.; Tekobbe, Cindy; Edwards, Dustin; Beck, Estee (2020.0) - Each presenter takes on a different topic: political internet memes, fan subcultures, and physical digital waste to consider the consequences of internet life. Internet Memes in Closed Communities Recent research on fake news and disinformation in networked publics can also help scholars understand the ways that political internet memes function and circulate on social media platforms. Keywords: communities; digital; group; internet; life; media; memes; press; researchers; stories; university
• THE DYNAMICS OF DIGITAL CAPTURE: HOW INDUSTRIES TIE AUDIENCES TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES by Einstein, Mara; Yeo, ShinJoung; Turow, Joseph; Jobin, Anna (2020.0) - Nonetheless they recommend further research with more data, and confidently conclude that [s]ocial media data are a quantifiable link into the otherwise elusive daily lives of patients, going so far as to call such data a social mediome akin to the human genome. This paper presents ongoing exploratory research into how companies push “data frontiers” (Beer 2019) by highlight problematic shifts in industry dynamics, where non- medical information is transformed into health data, and vice versa. Keywords: college; companies; data; devices; digital; google; health; industry; internet; marketing; new; people; schools; surveillance; university; voice
• THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCH ETHICS: THREE CASES by Ess, Charles; franzke, aline shakti; Kaufmann, Katja; Rauhala, Marjo; Gudowsky-Blatakes, Niklas; Rutzinger, Martin; Bork-Hüffer, Tabea; Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Vanacker, Bastiaan (2020.0) - This article will investigate whether or not this situationist criticism is problematic for virtue ethics as an ethical perspective towards digital ethics. As part of this collaboration, we collect here three papers that address these shared interests as specifically focused on research ethics. Keywords: aoir; data; ethics; internet; media; methods; paper; research; researchers; virtue
• LEGAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON (BIG) DATA, PLATFORMS, AI AND ALGORITHMS by Ess, Charles; franzke, aline shakti; Kwok, Chi; Chan, Ngai Keung; Bay, Morten; Burk, Dan (2020.0) - Keywords – Artificial Intelligence, AI ethics guidelines, Virtue Ethics Paper type – Extended Abstract __________________________________________________________________ The authors develop a normative framework outlining the potential public good functions of big data and the necessary normative requirements for the state’s rightful collection of large-scale big data, arguing for the state’s central role in harnessing large-scale big data to ameliorate digital inequalities and deepen democracy. Keywords: algorithmic; aoir; big; collection; data; ethics; good; guidelines; internet; paper; public; state; technology
• TABOO OR NOT TABOO: (IN)VISIBILITIES OF DEATH, DYING AND BEREAVEMENT by Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Bell, Jo; Giaxoglou, Korina; Pitsillides, Stacey; Yeshua-Katz, Daphna; Cumiskey, Kathleen; Hjorth, Larissa (2020.0) - Love After Death tackles death literacy by working with libraries in London, Yorkshire and Newcastle (UK) expanding their role in the community as a safe and trusted spaces. Taboo or not taboo: (in)visibilities of death, dying and bereavement. Keywords: aoir; association; death; digital; dying; event; internet; paper; researchers; taboo
• THE DATAFICATION OF CHILDHOOD: EXAMINING CHILDREN’S AND PARENTS’ DATA PRACTICES, CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND PARENTS’ DILEMMAS by Livingstone, Sonia; Stoilova, Mariya; Nandagiri, Rishita; Milosevic, Tijana; Zdrodowska, Aldona; Mascheroni, Giovanna; Zaffaroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe; Cino, Davide; Wartella, Ellen Ann (2020.0) - We further examine whether children whose parents or caregivers share significant amounts of information about them, and children who have experienced sharentingrelated breaches (such as being upset about what their parents have posted online) are more likely to be concerned about their privacy than other children. Lorenzo Zaffaroni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Davide Cino, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University Introductory statement In the age of continuous data collection and algorithmic predictions, children’s privacy seems threatened by the variety of surveillance and data practices in which parents, institutions, corporations and children themselves engage. Keywords: children; concern; data; internet; media; online; parenting; parents; practices; privacy; social; use
• OPTIMIZING OUR NETWORKED LIVES by McKelvey, Fenwick; Carmi, Elinor; ten Oever, Niels; Gürses, Seda (2020.0) - Optimization systems apply a logic of operational control that focuses on outcomes rather than the process Moreover, optimization systems hold great potential to shift power. Keywords: control; data; experience; externalities; facebook; google; internet; kubernetics; network; optimization; people; power; standards; systems; users; way
• RACING THE PLATFORM/PLATFORMING RACE by Persaud, Christopher Jahmail; Guarriello, Nick-Brie; Maris, Elena; Abidin, Crystal; Zeng, Meg Jing (2020.0) - Key to its argument is an examination of how particular social locations of race and gender and the neoliberal project of entrepreneurship affect the clout, visibility, and well-being of Pokémon GO influencers. Moreover, a plethora of community meet-ups, live streams, and let’s plays on YouTube has stemmed from Pokémon GO in a way that has resonated with most gamers and created a community of Pokémon GO influencers. Keywords: community; content; creators; influencers; internet; media; memes; platform; pokémon; porn; race; racism; tiktok; university; work
• NOVEL, EDUCATIONAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES TO TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE by Sameshima, Pauline; Katz, Rebecca; Shariff, Shaheen; Dietzel, Christopher (2020.0) - The second presentation addresses a narrower branch of law and its potential application to one sub-category of online sexual violence, ‘revenge porn.’ Researchers observe that online sexual violence often translates into physical space playing out as sexual assault and rape in extreme cases (Garcia & Vemuri, 2017; Benedict, 1993). Keywords: canada; copyright; internet; law; media; porn; project; research; revenge; university; victims; violence
• INFORMATION ACTIVISM IN THE FIRST DIGITAL COPYRIGHT DECADE: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION, 1996-2002 AND THE INTERNET THAT NEARLY WAS by Bello, Bryan; Aufderheide, Patricia (2020.0) - Our interview pool prioritized DFC members because their perceptions and understanding of events has been poorly chronicled (as discussed below) in narratives of DMCA policymaking. Jamie Love, who had focused on drug patents previously and who had also attended WIPO but was not yet part of the DFC, strongly supported the strategy of killing the treaty rather than negotiating language.68 Rather, DFC members agreed on the strategy of altering language. Keywords: act; american; association; balance; cic; coalition; consumer; copyright; database; dfc; dfca; digital; dmca; information; interests; internet; interview; issues; law; legislation; lehman; library; members; national; new; office; pijip; policy; property; protection; public; research; rights; technology; u.s; university; use; washington; wipo
• 'DON'T CREATE AN ONLINE IMAGE THAT YOU CAN'T KEEP UP OUTSIDE': MEDIATING INVISIBLE COMMUNICATIVE DISABILITIES ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES by Bitman, Nomy (2020.0) - Social media use and mediated sociality among individuals with communication disabilities in the digital age. Since the exposure of disability on media can lead to stigmatization (Bitman & John, 2019), I focus specifically on the understudied context of invisible disabilities that are clinically considered as related to communication. Keywords: disability; internet; media; users
• THE UNCERTAIN DECORUM OF ONLINE IDENTIFICATION: A STUDY IN QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS by DiBella, Samuel (2020.0) - Using ethnographic interviewing techniques and a thematic analysis inspired by grounded theory, I describe respondents ’investigations and compare them to existing theories in surveillance studies, online anonymity, and digital vigilantism. A tide of digital information has made loss of anonymity an ordinary occurrence on the Internet. Keywords: digital; internet; interviews; study
• DETECTING COORDINATED LINK SHARING BEHAVIOR ON FACEBOOK DURING THE ITALIAN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK by Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada (2020.0) - Considering the association between coordination, media manipulation, and problematic information, the entities involved in coordinated online activities represent a privileged perspective on these phenomena. Detecting Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior on Facebook During the Italian Coronavirus Outbreak. Keywords: association; conference; internet; researchers
• THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF ANALOGIES: COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AS POWER IN ONLINE GOVERNANCE by Horne, Chelsea; Sinnreich, Aram (2020.0) - The internet as unknowable except through metaphor Next, considering the breadth and variety of metaphors in use, this paper will focus on three case studies of internet governance applied to US law: section 230 of the Communication Decency Act (CDA), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Yet the episode itself can be understood as evidence of a larger truth—one that both exculpates Stevens somewhat and underlines a broader challenge for internet governance: Namely, that nearly all internet laws and regulations necessarily rely on imperfect metaphor and analogy to keep them in accordance with pre-digital law and constitutional principles, and that even lawmakers and judges with considerable expertise in the field must also rely upon these figurative language. Keywords: analogies; governance; internet; metaphors
• WHO REMAINS OFFLINE AND WHY? THE EVOLUTION OF INDIVIDUAL FACTORS INFLUENCING INTERNET NON-USE FROM 2011 TO 2019 IN A HIGHLY DIGITISED SOCIETY by Kappeler, Kiran; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael (2020.0) - Author #1 Kiran Kappeler Author #1 University of Zurich Author #2 Noemi Festic Author #2 University of Zurich Author #2 Michael Latzer Author #2 University of Zurich Introduction Obtaining real-time traffic information, applying for jobs, buying things or being an informed citizen increasingly requires internet use. Existing empirical research Previous studies indicated that differences in socioeconomic background influence patterns of internet use and non-use (Reisdorf & Groselj, 2017). Keywords: digital; internet; non; use
• BAD ATTACHMENTS: EMAIL AND QUEER ANTI-CENSORSHIP PROTESTS by McKinney, Cait (2020.0) - Here I am specifically interested in how this protest can help us to understand the material and political dimensions of email attachment as an emergent form. This early excitement about clicktivism is complicated by attachments: these messages appended with sexually explicit files are instances where email attachments served as clandestine, “dirty” communication, once removed from the message itself, and a secondary aim of this research is to expand understandings of attachments and their materiality. Keywords: attachments; email; internet; protest; queer
• CYBERLIBERTARIANISM IN THE MID-1990S by Pace, Jonathan (2020.0) - Drawing on critical discourse analysis, I examine the conceptual nature of libertarian internet discourse, the motivating characteristics of its speakers, and the material conditions of its circulation. By providing an analysis of libertarian discourse during a critical episode of internet history, this paper serves as a point of departure for future research into this evolving relationship. Keywords: cyberlibertarianism; internet; libertarian; technology
• FNCKING WITH WHITE FRAMES: TEEJAYX6 SCAM RAPS THE DIGITAL by Tynes, Robert; Pearl, Alex (2020.0) - Ever since Kolko et al. (2000) published Race in Cyberspace, internet studies has tried to tease out how race plays out on the internet. “Race and Racism in Internet Studies: A Review and a Critique.” Keywords: internet; rap; scam; teejayx6; whiteness
• THE POLITICS OF INTERNET FREEDOM RANKINGS: A CALL FOR A COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING INTERNET FREEDOM by Wijermars, Mariëlle; Lokot, Tetyana (2020.0) - The conceptualization and operationalization of the concept of internet freedom that underlies internet freedom rankings is of particular importance since the promotion of internet freedom is an integral part of foreign policy of, e.g., the US and EU (e.g. the EU Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024), and rankings serve as an important source of information and justification for prioritizing funding and efforts (Maréchal, 2015). In particular, it aims to initiate a debate ultimately leading to the development of a groundbreaking comparative framework for assessing internet policy, departing from the assumption that current frameworks for assessing and measuring internet freedom are predicated too strictly on the dichotomy of democracy/non-democracy. Keywords: freedom; governance; internet; use
• MONGOLIA’S INDEPENDENT INTERNET? by Baasanjav, Undrah (2021.0) - Prices for internet services remained high in Mongolia until mobile phone operators including MobiCom and Skytel, joint ventures with Japanese Sumitomo and South Korean Telecom, started to provide data packages. and • What are some benefits and pitfalls of the development of communication technology, the internet, and social media in Mongolia? and • What legal challenges does the Mongolian legal system face in relation to online speech and privacy-related controversies and how does it address them? Keywords: development; information; internet; media; mongolia
• EX NUGIS SERIA: THE INTERNET MEME AS CONTEMPORARY EMBLEM by Drainville, Raymond Alderic (2021.0) - THE INTERNET MEME AS CONTEMPORARY EMBLEM Author Name: Ray Drainville Author Institution: Stratford School of Interaction Design and Busines, University of Waterloo, Canada Extended studies of Internet memes situate them broadly under Dawkins’ (1976) conception of the meme as a “cultural unit” of communicative information (Shifman, 2014; Milner, 2016; Wiggins, 2019), typically reducing a meme’s visual aspect to a “visual ‘action verb’” (Milner, 2016:68). I argue that an important parallel for understanding contemporary memes has been neglected: emblematic imagery arising from the early publishing culture of the European Renaissance. Keywords: emblems; image; internet; meme
• VIRTUALLY AMISH: PRESERVING COMMUNITY AT THE INTERNET’S MARGINS by Ems, Lindsay (2021.0) - Amish people describe internet technologies as both functional tools and symbols of engagement with, and resistance to the external social world. The everyday lived experience of people working in a capitalist economy that is increasingly fueled by high technology is characterized by increased stress and anxiety (Rosen et al. 2012), increased feelings of loneliness (DiJulio et al. 2018) and an inability to fashion a long-term narrative of one’s life (Sennett 1996). Keywords: amish; internet; new; power; press
• NO CLOUD WITHOUT SKY: SPECTRUM SOVEREIGNTY AND ETHEREAL REFUSAL by Gagnon, Jeff (2021.0) - A decolonized cyberspace that promotes the independence of colonized peoples is one that is subject to Indigenous spatial practices including territorial claims and treaty rights and so is one that is recognized as existing within space in a material way. This conceptual disconnection of the internet from land and territory therefore renders it unsustainable as a site for Indigenous resistant practices and decolonial mobilizations. Keywords: internet; press; sovereignty; space; spectrum; university
• INTERDEPENDENCE AND NETWORK OVERSIGHT IN 1990S INTERNET GOVERNANCE by Grosse, Meghan (2021.0) - This archive primarily represents the work on internet governance undertaken within the Department of Commerce, the department under which Clinton moved internet governance policy – a shift away from previous oversight coming from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. In the mid-1990s, the U.S. positioned itself as a leader in global internet governance, overseeing ICANN and by extension the root server system upon which all internet users would rely. Keywords: governance; internet; u.s
• INTERNET GOVERNANCE FOR WHOM? CIVIL SOCIETY, REPRESENTATION, AND DIGITAL RIGHTS by Grover, Rohan (2021.0) - Tjahja’s et al. (2021) finding that CSOs are meant to represent the interests of under-represented communities, rather than interests of CSOs themselves, suggests that internet governance institutions likely expect CSOs to enact strategies that resemble a logic of representation in order to authentically represent community-driven interests, compared to the logic of solidarity observed in IFF’s public engagement. These findings do not undermine the advocacy of IFF, which bravely contests the Indian state’s authoritarian digital practices, but rather it offers a contribution to an emergent understanding of civil society’s role in internet governance, grounded in a critique of representation and legitimacy in the postcolonial state. Keywords: digital; iff; internet; representation
• THE IMAGINED INDEPENDENCE OF CANADA’S INTERNET by Hilstob, Kayla (2021.0) - As scholars visit questions of future conflicts around internet fragmentation (Mueller 2015), this history further clarifies that disintegration is not novel but a part of internet history and decisions about internet infrastructure can be revisited in the interest of a more equitable distribution of power. This paper examines internet infrastructure from 1965 to 1984, attentive to Canada’s rejection of both cooperation with the United States in developing its internet and Baran’s recommendation for a distributed network on the grounds of concern not of nuclear survivability, but of internal threats: “civil unrest, sabotage and subversion” (CAF 1985). Keywords: canada; canadian; history; internet
• CRITICAL CARE & THE EARLY WEB: ETHICAL DIGITAL METHODS FOR ARCHIVED YOUTH DATA by Mackinnon, Katherine (2021.0) - For researchers engaging with web materials in web archives, there are significant ethical and methodological challenges and questions to engaging with web archived collections in the Internet Archive. Informed consent is nearly never a possibility, and while deploying “contextual integrity” tactics and evaluating the scale of archived web materials are significant ethical developments (Lomborg, 2018; Nissenbaum, 2010; Tiinderberg, 2018), getting in contact with creators of digital materials is still an important ethical dimension for many internet researchers (Eichhorn, 2019; Horbinski, 2018; Leurs 2017; Lialina, 2017; Robards & Lincoln, 2020). Keywords: data; internet; materials; research; web
• ON(LINE) TRANSPARENCY AND THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE by Mahoney, Brendan Daniel (2021.0) - Integral to the emergence and success of this movement from its inception in 2013 have been members of Black publics, who have succeeded in circulating discourse that draws attention to the specific issues impacting the community (Jackson & Foucault- Welles, 2016). This proliferation of Black publics online has sparked a debate over whether the internet is ultimately a tool for liberation or racist oppression. Keywords: internet; public; researchers; transparency
• THE DIGITAL CLOSET: PLATFORM CENSORSHIP AND LGBTQIA+ INDEPENDENCE ONLINE by Monea, Alexander Paul (2021.0) - I connect these critical-analytical scholars to data from the Department of Labor produced during a protracted legal battle of sexist hiring and retention practices at Google, testimonials from former Google employees, and informal surveys and screen captured conversations in the wake of James Damore’s infamous ‘Google memo’ circa 2017. The second section of the paper draws on original investigations into the benchmark datasets that Google used to develop its image recognition algorithms (like the GoogLe Net algorithm behind Google Photos and SafeSearch). Keywords: google; internet
• SHARED NETWORKS: THE PATHS OF LATIN-CENTRIC INDIGENOUS NETWORKS TO A PLURIVERSAL INTERNET by R. Rosa, Fernanda (2021.0) - The question this research endeavors to answer is “What do Tseltal’s and Zapoteco’s local networks add to our understanding of internet interconnection infrastructure?” And while framing indigenous media as a hybrid is not new (Ginsburg, 1991), framing the moment of internet interconnection as the moment when it materializes allows to think in terms of both the “technopolitics” of interconnection, and the materialization of hybridization and ch’ixi into infrastructure in the specific context of Latin America (Canclini, 1989; Cusicanqui, 2012). Keywords: infrastructure; interconnection; internet; networks
• LEAVING HOME TO COME HOME: REBUILDING JOURNALISTIC GATE-KEEPING ONE FACT AT A TIME by Todd, Paula Joy (2021.0) - JUST THE FACTS FIT TO (DELETE:PRINT) BELIEVE: FROM GATEKEEPING TO ‘CORRALLING’ BY JOURNALISTIC FACT- CHECKERS IN THE ERA OF MISINFORMATION Paula Todd York University This paper introduces the theoretical concept of post-publication information ‘corralling’ as the next evolutionary step in traditional gatekeeping (Lewin, 1943, 1947; White, 1950) and gate-watching (Bruns, 2003) within a chaotic marketplace of misinformation[1] where alternate-reality expressants[2] battle against an evidence- based factual public record. While value judgments are required, as they are in every facet of human life, the PPFC protocol is fashioned for reproducibility, much like academic experimentation, so the public can reach its own conclusion about the veracity of corralled information and the investigative methods undertaken to collect it. Keywords: corralling; gatekeeping; information; internet; public
• THE GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS OF GOOGLE by Yeo, ShinJoung (2021.0) - In China, where Google and other US tech companies have struggled to carve out a foothold in the largest market in the world, Chinese search engine Baidu dominates; meanwhile, due to Europe’s dependence on US information systems, Google’s global dominance has again provoked Europe’s anxiety over losing control to the US as well as China over strategic emerging Internet sectors. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hinted that the US needs to separate to a certain degree but warned of the danger of a complete decoupling from China’s tech sectors and doubted whether US allies would side with the US and cut off China (Shalal, 2021). Keywords: china; google; internet
• THE PROMISES, PROBLEMS, AND POSSIBILITIES FOR ALT-NETWORKS by Boyle, Casey; Gehl, Robert; Zulli, Diana; Yang, Misti; Brown, Jim (2021.0) - This centralizing of social media networks happens for their individual users, but also at the level of how social media informs our discourses through journalistic practice, government institutions, industry sectors. This is an important development as mainstream social media networks have benefited from years of research approaches, new networked objects create new networked questions requiring new methodological considerations. Keywords: alt; digital; ecology; games; internet; mastodon; media; movement; networks; platforms; right; tech; university; users; vtaiwan
• EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: NETWORKED CONSPIRITUALITY IN NEW AGE MEDIA by Chia, Aleena; Ong, Jonathan Corpus; Davies, Hugh; Hagood, Mack (2021.0) - Challenging journalistic writings that suggest that New Age spiritual communities are “naturally connected” with right wing ideology (Evans 2020; Meltzer, 2021), this paper sketches out a diverse and stratified community still reeling from the shocking revelations and dramatic deplatforming that happened after the January 6 Capitol insurrection. This panel traces forms of conspirituality across networked alternative spirituality from MAGA mystics and New Age influencers, to hackers of consciousness and prophets of optimization. Keywords: age; consciousness; conspiracy; conspirituality; digital; ethics; internet; making; media; new; paper; press; qanon; reality; self; university
• TRANSNATIONAL FEELINGS: DIGITAL AFFECT AS A GLOBAL ANALYTIC by Jaber, Heather; Kraidy, Marwan; Al-Ghazzi, Omar; Zidani, Sulafa (2021.0) - Heather Jaber University of Pennsylvania Marwan Kraidy Northwestern University Qatar Omar Al-Ghazzi London School of Economics and Political Science Sulafa Zidani Massachusetts Institute of Technology Introductory Statement This panel examines the role of affect in transnational digital media, offering fine- grained analyses of online communities and media artifacts which contend with and carve out contested futures. With the exception of regional case studies that address cultures separately (Makhortykh and González Aguilar, 2020; Szablowicz, 2014), scholarship investigating Internet memes and affect from a transnational perspective is so far limited. Keywords: affect; andalus; digital; feeling; fire; internet; media; memes; new; online; press; social; university
• ANALYZING THE PLATFORM ECONOMY – FEUDALISM, MEDIEVALISM AND COLONIALISM AS USEFUL FRAMEWORKS by Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Brevini, Benedetta; Madianou, Mirca; Couldry, Nick; Mejias, Ulises (2021.0) - Paper 4 THE DECOLONIAL TURN IN DATA STUDIES Nick Couldry, London School of Econonics Ulises Meijes, SUNY Oswego This talk will return to the proposal, made by the authors at AOIR 2018, to interpret what is going on with data today through the lens of colonialism, specifically through the theoretical framework now known as data colonialism (Couldry and Mejias 2018, 2019). Data colonialism is just one of a number of macro-theories developed in the past 5 years to make sense of the vast expansion of processes for extracting, aggregating, evaluating and applying data. Keywords: amazon; capitalism; colonialism; data; digital; economy; internet; lord; new; platform; power; press; society; university
• THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS by Kaufmann, Katja; Palmberger, Monika; Parreiras, Carolina; Bussoletti, Arianna; Belotti, Francesca; Comunello, Francesca; Donato, Stellamarina; Wagenaar, Welmoed; Bermúdez, Juan; Schweiger, Moritz; Wimmer, Jeffrey (2021.0) - Existing research on fandom often focuses primarily on online fan practices and how these are embedded in particular online cultures and/or a broader context of social networking, transmedia and participatory culture (cf. Moreover, what ethical dilemmas and practical obstacles may arise in studying dimensions of the everyday when starting from online spaces where people carefully manage the boundaries between different identities and spheres of life? Keywords: challenges; digital; everyday; fff; internet; life; media; methods; mobile; new; online; practices; research; spaces; use; whatsapp
• WHAT DEAD-AND-DYING PLATFORMS DO FOR INTERNET STUDIES: SITUATING TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURE, DIGITAL AFTERLIFE, AND THE WEB THAT WAS by McCammon, Muira Nicollet; Ruan, Lotus; Miltner, Kate; Gerrard, Ysabel; Montalbano, Kathryn; Mikołajewska-Zając, Karolina; Márton, Attila (2021.0) - The fourth contribution focuses on YikYak in considering why some anonymous platforms that are prone to cyberbullying, copyright infringement, and hate speech survive while others die, despite the safe harbor status afforded to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and social media platforms by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The development, influences, and political impacts of social media platforms have attracted much scholarly attention (Zhuravskaya et al., 2020). Keywords: china; counter; digital; history; internet; media; myspace; narratives; new; platforms; press; state; tweets; university; web
• AOIR ETHICS PANEL 1: PRACTICES AND ROADMAPS by Vaughan, Antonia; Eneman, Marie; Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Nilsson, Stefan; Olsson, Maria; Zheng, Tian; Zaugg, Isabelle; Reeve, Jonathan; Zimmer, Michael (2021.0) - As a collaborative team that spans the humanities, social sciences, arts, and STEM, we believe that data ethics education is most meaningful when it draws upon transdisciplinary perspectives to both understand and, importantly, act on data ethics. A ROADMAP FOR EDUCATORS Tian Zheng Columbia University, USA Isabelle Zaugg Columbia University, USA Jonathan Reeve Columbia University, USA Data Ethics Education From the spread of disinformation via social media, to class-biased dynamic pricing, to racial profiling in online systems that lead to “real-world” harms, teaching data ethics has never been more urgently needed. Keywords: data; ethical; ethics; harassment; internet; interviews; material; offenders; online; research; researchers; right; university
• SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CYBERSPACE: CONTESTATION OF CONCEPTS AND POLICIES by Chin, Yik Chan; Li, Ke (2021.0) - Weber RH (2010) NEW SOVEREIGNTY CONCEPT IN THE AGE OF INTERNET? Various claims of cyberspace sovereignty, including 'data sovereignty', 'digital sovereignty' and 'technological sovereignty', have attracted widespread attention. Keywords: concepts; cyberspace; internet; sovereignty
• TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF FREE SOFTWARE AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE by Couture, Stephane; Toupin, Sophie; Alejandro, Mayoral-Baños (2021.0) - First, Indigenous scholars and advocates are calling for data sovereignty in continuity with the larger struggle of Indigenous peoples to reclaim sovereignty over their land, body, and culture. This perspective is quite distinct from the idea of digital sovereignty as promoted by nation-states, as it often emphasizes alternative and community-based technological making. Keywords: data; digital; internet; sovereignty
• PROMOTING SELF-HELP—HOW INTERNET USERS PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST ALGORITHMIC RISKS by Kappeler, Kiran Juliana; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael; Rüedy, Tanja (2021.0) - We argue that self-help strategies (see Illouz, 2008 for a critical appraisal of the psychological term) such as adjusting one’s privacy settings provide a complementary way for internet users to cope with algorithmic risks (see Boerman et al., 2018; Ireland, 2020). Research Gap Currently, research into the factors that encourage internet users to apply self-help strategies against algorithmic risks mainly focuses on privacy protection. Keywords: help; internet; risks; self; users
• TAKING THE REDPILL: TALKING ABOUT EXTREMISM by Marwick, Alice E.; Furl, Katherine (2021.0) - We used a subset of the Reddit and Gab data to generate a codebook and taxonomy of “redpilling content.” TAKING THE REDPILL: TALKING ABOUT EXTREMISM Alice E. Marwick Department of Communication; Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Katie Furl Department of Sociology; Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Introduction There is great public concern about “online radicalization,” the process by which individuals are exposed to extremist internet content, adopt extremist or hateful ideas, and commit acts of political violence. Keywords: internet; media; people; redpilling; right
• INTERNET USE AND MENTAL HEALTH IN AFRICA AND INDIA by Shrum, Wesley Monroe; Yevuyibor, Jonathan Teye; Thakkar, Shriya (2021.0) - Recent work in sub-Saharan Africa shows that the expected negative association between network size and the severity of mental health issues is positive, suggesting an alternative mechanism at work in disadvantaged areas and calling into question the generalizability of the relationship between network size and mental health. INTERNET USE, PERSONAL NETWORKS, AND MENTAL HEALTH IN LOW INCOME AREAS: AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN SLUMS IN GHANA AND KERALA Wesley Shrum Louisiana State University Jonathan Teye Yevuyibor Louisiana State University Shriya Thakkar Louisiana State University Keywords: health; internet
• CARING FOR OUR PEOPLE: INDIGENOUS RESPONSES TO COVID-19 ERA INFORMATIC COLONIALISM by Duarte, Marisa Elena; George, Alaina ; Deschine-Parkhurst, Nicholet ; Soto, Alexander (2021.0) - This Illusion of neutrality does not allow for the unique information needs of underrepresented and underserved populations, such as Indigenous communities in the United States, who could benefit from a listing of COVID-19 resources that addressed the impacts of the virus on their reservations, as well as the response of tribal communities to the pandemic. The scarcity of diverse, non-hegemonic web sources during the COVID-19 pandemic is evident in Indigenous communities. Keywords: access; communities; community; connectivity; covid-19; health; indian; information; internet; media; nation; navajo; pandemic; research; resources
• WHAT DOES THE INTERNET SOUND LIKE? by Bhandari, Aparajita; Bimo, Sara; Butkowski, Chelsea; Noone, Rebecca (2023.0) - However, the constant recycling of TikTok sounds can also obscure important details about their original contexts and creators (Kaye et al., 2021). Third, strategic and imposed silences executed through the intended absence or forced removal of TikTok sounds can disconnect or destabilize memory work completed through platform archives. Keywords: data; digital; internet; listening; media; memory; research; sonic; sound; studies; tiktok; visual; work
• RESONANCE, REVERBERATION, AND RHYTHMS: CONCEPTUALIZING VIBRATORY POWER IN DIGITAL MEDIA by Herman, Andrew; Moylan, Katie; Markham, Annette; Kruse, Holly (2023.0) - As an entrenched form of alternative media, community radio (in its myriad particularities) historically embodies radical expressive and representative capacities ‘that express an alternative vision to hegemonic policies, priorities and perspectives’ (Downing 2001, p. v). Is community radio in crisis in the global north? Keywords: community; internet; media; music; noisefilter; platforms; radio; resonance; reverberation; sound; streaming; time; walmart
• CONFRONTING AND DEMYSTIFYING HARMFUL PARTICIPATORY CULTURES by Inwood, Olivia; Ippolito, Heidi; Laminack, Michael (2023.0) - The way QAnon followers engage with memes, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial thinking reveals the unique ways internet culture has collided with religious communities and pop culture fandoms. The first presentation explores a dataset of YouTube videos about the “ID2020” conspiracy theory, which merges religious discourses about the “Mark of the Beast” with discourses about quantum dot and blockchain technologies. Keywords: amway; communities; conspiracy; internet; neoliberalism; new; online; qanon; storytelling; videos; youtube
• POLICING PLATFORMS: ADDRESSING POWER AND INEQUALITIES IN PLATFORM POLICIES by Katzenbach, Christian; Redeker, Dennis; Magalhães, João Carlos; Kopps, Adrian; Sühr, Tom; Caplan, Robyn; Viejo Otero, Paloma; Celeste, Edoardo; Palladino, Nicola; Yilma, Kinfe (2023.0) - The (4) fourth paper 2 adds a socio-legal perspective to the debate on the influences on (and principles embedded in) platform content moderation policies. Using the theoretical framework of digital constitutionalism, the paper examines to what extent either human rights standards or demands by civil society activism can represent a fitting standard for platform content moderation policies. Keywords: content; copyright; human; internet; media; moderation; paper; platforms; policies; rights; university; verification
• LOCATING AND THEORIZING PLATFORM POWER by Poell, Thomas; Nieborg, David; van Dijck, José; Caplan, Robyn; Helmond, Anne; van der Vlist, Fernando; Chen, Julie; Plantin, Jean-Christophe (2023.0) - LOCATING AND THEORIZING PLATFORM POWER Thomas Poell University of Amsterdam David Nieborg University of Toronto José van Dijck Utrecht University Robyn Caplan Data & Society Research Institute Anne Helmond Utrecht University Fernando van der Vlist Utrecht University Julie Chen University of Toronto Jean-Christophe Plantin London School of Economics Amidst popular conversations about antitrust regulation and trillion-dollar valuations, the notion of “platform power” has found firm footing in the scholarly lexicon. Media and communication scholars have tried to unpack platform power by theorizing forms of corporate control that include “algorithmic power” (Bucher, 2018), “curatorial power” (Prey, 2020), and “metric power” (Beer, 2017). Keywords: app; caplan; data; dijck; helmond; internet; media; nieborg; platform; platform power; poell; power; van
• A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF INTERNET POLICIES: TRENDS IN INTERNET-RELATED BILLS IN BRAZIL, CHILE, AND THE UNITED STATES (1997-2021) by Anastácio, Kimberly; Sanchez, Mariana; Horne, Chelsea (2023.0) - Selected Papers of #AoIR2022: The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of internet Researchers Dublin, Ireland / 2-5 Nov 2022 A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF INTERNET POLICIES: TRENDS IN INTERNET-RELATED PROPOSED LEGISLATION IN BRAZIL, CHILE, AND THE UNITED STATES (1997-2021) Kimberly Anastácio American University Chelsea Horne American University Mariana Sánchez-Santos American University This paper analyzes trends and shifts in internet policy over time through a cross-country comparative lens. Keywords: analysis; internet; policy; regulation
• INTERNET HUMOUR AND THE NORMALISATION OF RAPE CULTURE by Andreasen, Maja Brandt (2023.0) - However, the intersection between humour and sexual violence in internet memes specifically has been widely overlooked in the scholarship on social media. In addition to this, research has been conducted into the representation of gender in Internet memes (Massanari & Chess, 2018; Milner, 2016) and the role of humour in Internet memes (Milner, 2013a; Miltner, 2014; Shifman 2013b, 2014). Keywords: humour; internet; memes; rape
• THE GEOGRAPHY OF 1990S INTERNET GOVERNANCE by Grosse, Meghan (2023.0) - This archive primarily represents the work on internet governance undertaken within the Department of Commerce, the department under which Clinton moved internet governance policy – a shift away from previous oversight coming from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. This work looks at the ways in which internet governance policy was established using neoliberal, culturally imperialist logics. Keywords: governance; internet; u.s
• QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON CHILLING EFFECTS—HOW USERS’ IMAGINARIES OF DATAVEILLANCE LEAD TO INHIBITED DIGITAL BEHAVIOR by Kappeler, Kiran; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael (2023.0) - The chilling effects of digital dataveillance: A theoretical model and an empirical research agenda. QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON CHILLING EFFECTS—HOW USERS’ Keywords: behavior; dataveillance; effects; internet
• RESISTING FRANCHISE CORPORATE CONTROL: HOW THE INTERNET ENABLES LOCAL PRACTICES IN POKÉMON PLAY by Kempton, Allen (2023.0) - Methods and theory This research follows ethnographic methods in digital game studies (Boellstorff et al, 2012), creating a sort of mini ethnography for adult Pokémon players within the “District”, an anonymized region in Canada. The District historically was predominantly working class, and buying official guides was not on the table for many players. Keywords: games; internet; play; players
• RECLAIMING ‘THE EXPERIENCE’: SOCIAL MEDIA, THE ‘METAVERSE’, AND EXTRACTIVE IMAGINARIES OF EXPERIENTIAL ENHANCEMENT by Lupinacci, Ludmila (2023.0) - In short, I argue that a critical-phenomenological perspective is productive for scrutinizing social media precisely at the intersection of embodied affect and the political economy of platformization, whilst centering specifically what is so often framed as the driver of technical mediation: human experience. Reclaiming the experience: social media, the ‘metaverse’ and extractive imaginaries of experiential enhancement. Keywords: experience; internet; media; metaverse
• MATRIX OF DEPENDENCE, POSTCOLONIALISM, AND SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION IN AN AFRICAN CONTEXT by Obia, Vincent Adakole (2023.0) - Findings From the interviews, I identify four themes/alternatives to social media regulation in Nigeria: copying Western nations, platform self-regulation, governance built on trust, and digital media literacy. As noted earlier, my initial aim was to identify what stakeholders understand as credible alternatives to social media regulation in an African context. Keywords: dependence; internet; media; regulation
• EXPLORING THE MULTIPLICITY OF COLONIALITY: A FOCUS ON THE AGENCY OF INTERNET PROSUMERS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN THE COLONIALITY PROJECT. by Ooko, Gloria Anyango (2023.0) - Consequently, both the human and material components of WhatsApp technology contribute to the discourses of the WhatsApp communities, informing a multimodal data collection . To support this argument, the paper presents part of the findings of my PhD study which explored power struggles in two purposively selected political WhatsApp communities in Kenya. Keywords: coloniality; communities; internet; whatsapp
• “MELON-EATING MASSES”: CONSUMER-CITIZENS AND PUBLIC INTERNET DISCOURSE IN CHINA by Wong, Jamie; Long, Vesper; Qu, Yilia; Jones, Graham (2023.0) - By examining how Chinese internet users participate in public gossip when the state looms as the final arbiter of judgement, this study illuminates how the politics of “knowing what not to know” (Hillenbrand 2020) unfold in day-to-day (digital) lives in China. As Chinese internet users form “partial theories” about “relationships and events” (Van Vleet 2003) through public gossip, “melon-eating” can paradoxically normalize the unknowability of truth under an already-opaque governmental regime. Keywords: china; eating; internet; melon; press; public
• HACK YOUR AGE: OLDER ADULTS AS PROVOCATIVE AND SPECULATIVE IOT CO-DESIGNERS by Bourne, Joe ; Jacobs, Naomi; Coulton, Paul; Duffy, Clare; Goodwins, Rupert; Macpherson-Pope, Tom (2023.0) - The wisdom of older technology (non)users. Hack Your Age Older Adults as Provocative and Speculative IoT Co- designers. Keywords: adults; internet; iot; participants; prototypes; technology
• A RIVER OF DATA RUNS THROUGH IT: EXAMINING URBAN CIRCULATIONS IN THE DIGITAL AGE by Burns, Ryan ; Mouton, Morgan (2023.0) - Digital urban infrastructure, understood broadly, has long been conceptualized as a vessel that enables and (re)directs flows of capital, matter, energy, or living organisms like humans and vegetation (Amin & Thrift 2002; Bowker & Star 2000; Brown 2010; Hughes 1983). Overall, we argue that reframing urban circulations in the digital age can help us rethink ways to “urbanize” Internet Studies and related fields as we explore how data transform urban materialities. Keywords: cities; city; data; internet; studies; urban
• MAGIC IN THE AIR: MEMES, MAGIC, AND THE INTERNET by Chess, Shira (2023.0) - Just as spiritualist séances articulated hopes and anxieties of mass communication, meme magic speaks to contemporary concerns and desires about the spread of propaganda. As the term continued to be used, it became associated with meme magic, and many 4channers discovered that “Kek” is the name of the Egyptian god of chaos (Tuters, 2019). Keywords: internet; magic; meme; new; occult
• REVOLUTIONARY DISCOURSES IN A TIME CAPSULE: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF CANONICAL, INTELLECTUAL LITERATURE CONCERNING THE SOCIAL IMPACT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTERNET. by Fridzema, Nathalie; Aasman, Susan; Smit, Rik; Slootweg, Tom (2023.0) - By critically analyzing this canon of internet history captured at a certain point in time, this paper shows which key themes were understood as having the most impact whilst also diving deeper into how these themes developed and why. Discourses like this were frequently produced by key actors from academic communities who were both eyewitnesses as well as participants in various digital advances. Keywords: impact; internet; university
• ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS: CORE, IAHC, AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR EXPANDED GTLDS IN EARLY GOVERNANCE POLICY by Grosse, Meghan (2023.0) - Grosse-ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS-ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS Selected Papers of #AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Philadelphia, PA, USA / 18-21 Oct 2023 ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS: CORE, IAHC, AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR EXPANDED GTLDS IN EARLY GOVERNANCE POLICY Meghan Grosse Washington College Introduction In 1994, U.S. President Clinton stated that the commercialization of the internet was a “top priority” for his administration.1 The domain name system (DNS), which was developed to deal with the growing unwieldiness of the commercial internet, was an early battleground in shaping the values of early internet governance policies. This archive primarily represents the work on internet governance undertaken within the Department of Commerce, the department under which Clinton moved internet governance policy. Keywords: clinton; governance; internet; magaziner
• INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND MORAL ENTREPRENEURS by McDowell, Zachary ; Tiidenberg, Katrin (2023.0) - NCOSE (then MIM) was “deeply involved in the issue of Internet pornography” and “active supporters of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.” In this paper, we analyze NCOSE’s archive of statements to trace how NCOSE’s crusade against “obscenity” led them to intervene in internet governance: first, via the Communication Decency Act (CDA), then the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), and finally, the already mentioned SESTA and FOSTA. Keywords: cda; internet; ncose; sex; trafficking
• SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE VIA AN “ANEMIC” POLICY REGIME? HOW BOUNDARY SPANNING, COMPETING ISSUE DEFINITIONS, LACK OF COHESION, AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAGMENTATION IMPEDE REGULATORY REFORM by Rochefort, Alexander (2023.0) - Building upon these theoretical foundations, this project undertakes a comparable analysis of social media policy making in the United States, using the policy regime lens to provide a “thick” understanding of the forces that shape government action toward social media platforms. In simpler terms, policy regimes are “governing arrangements for addressing policy problems” (p. 428), and boundary-spanning regimes refer to those that span multiple policy areas. Keywords: internet; media; platforms; policy; regime
• THE CONVENIENCE STORE REVOLUTION: COMPUTER NETWORKS, LOGISTICS, AND THE REINVENTION OF RETAIL IN JAPAN by Steinberg, Marc (2023.0) - As Joseph Turow (Turow, 2017) points out in his work, networked computing and surveillance are as much a part of retail history as of Internet history. Charting some of this longer network history and Internet history leading to the present is another aim of this paper. Keywords: convenience; internet; japan; press; revolution; store
• INFRASTRUCTURAL INSECURITY: GEOPOLITICS IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS by ten Oever, Niels; Becker, Christoph (2023.0) - This is an important contribution because it asks fundamental questions about the adequacy and legitimacy of standardization processes. We bring these methods into conversation with theoretical approaches from material media studies, science and technology studies, and critical security studies. Keywords: communication; internet; networks; security; standardization; standards; surveillance; united
• TESTING THE ROLE OF CATEGORICAL AND RESOURCE INEQUALITIES IN INDIRECT INTERNET USES OF OLDER ADULTS: A PATH ANALYSIS by Trkman, Marina ; Reisdorf, Bianca C.; Bartol, Jošt; Petrovčič, Andraž (2023.0) - These findings are particularly relevant because they indicate that social inequalities affect not only disparities between internet users and non-users (Hargittai et al., 2019; Testing the role of categorical and resource inequalities in indirect internet uses of older adults: A path analysis. Keywords: internet; non; ubp; users
• TOWARDS ANTICASTE INTERNET: THE OPERATION, CHALLENGES AND ASPIRATIONS OF BAHUJAN PUBLISHERS. by Yatharth, . (2023.0) - Further, we found shadowbanning of caste issues to be a common experience for publishers. As a result, issues, perspectives and voices of marginalized castes are suppressed and often erased from mass media. Keywords: bahujan; caste; dalit; hate; india; internet; media; publishers
• DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND VISIONS by Frenzel, Janna ; Toupin, Sophie; Ruddock, Jenna; Liu, Jen; Jansen, Fieke; Finnegan, Shawna; Radloff, Jennifer (2023.0) - Specifically, I draw from ongoing fieldwork in southeast Louisiana on the impact of climate change on Internet infrastructures. For some of these frontline communities, these sensors can often be difficult to set up and maintain due to both the state of Internet infrastructures in this region (Gabrys, 2016). Keywords: center; climate; communities; computing; data; digital; environmental; feminist; infrastructures; internet; justice; new; press; repair; right; technology; university
• IF NOT, ELSE: STANDARDS, PROTOCOLS, NETWORKS AND HOW THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE by Karppi, Tero ; Paris, Britt; Gehl, Robert W.; Cath, Corinne; Myers West, Sarah (2023.0) - While many see Internet infrastructure as a foregone conclusion, Paris, Cath and Myers West (2023) write “Internet infrastructure is built slowly, over time, protocol by protocol, in response to many different technical, social, political, environmental, and economic imperatives”. http://rhizomes.net/issue34/devries.html FAKE NEW FUTURES: TIME AS A DESIGN IDEOLOGY IN INTERNET PROTOCOLS Britt S. Paris Rutgers University The neoliberal drive to privatize public infrastructure and public-serving institutions is intertwined with ongoing, overlapping social, political, and economic crises that continue to shape Internet infrastructure. Keywords: 2022; activitypub; control; data; design; encryption; future; infrastructure; internet; media; network; new; paris; press; protocol; technology; time; university
• MISOGYNY, SURVIVORSHIP, AND BELIEVABILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: EMERGING TECHNIQUES OF ABUSE, RADICALIZATION, AND RESISTANCE by Banet-Weiser, Sarah ; Higgins, Kathryn Claire; Hewa, Nelanthi; Ging, Debbie; Baker, Catherine; Andreasen, Maja Brandt; Truss, Azsaneé (2023.0) - In this paper, we test the optimism of much #MeToo scholarship and of the emerging market for anti-sexual violence by tracking what actually happens to and with these digital artifacts in struggles over the “truth” of sexual violence allegations taking place on social media platforms. It is certainly nothing new to suggest that social media imply certain vulnerabilities to harassment, abuse, and disbelief that are explicitly gendered and raced, as feminist and anti-racist scholars of digital media have long documented (see Noble, 2018; Banet- Weiser, 2018; Steele, 2021). Keywords: believability; content; digital; internet; manosphere; media; new; press; university; violence; youtube
• EXPLORING THE CONTEXTUAL COMPLEXITIES OF VIOLENCE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: INTERSECTIONS, IMPACTS, AND SOLUTIONS by Morales, Esteban ; Divon, Tom; Lundqvist, Martin; Halabi, Nour (2023.0) - Here, the author explores how social media platforms have fundamentally altered the way users perceive and interpret meaning-making processes around violence. In so doing, this project is not only interested in capturing the “ephemerality” of social media platforms in general and Twitter in particular, but it also offers insight, or the “scoop” as Rogers (2009) puts it, of the affordances of a platform may structure the horizons of public debate. Keywords: belfast; content; cultural; internet; ireland; media; memes; northern; platforms; study; tiktok; twitter; university; users; videos; violence
• WEB HISTORIES IN THE MAKING: WEB ARCHIVES & THE LOGICS OF PRACTICE by Paßmann, Johannes ; Gerzen, Lisa; Schories, Martina; Ogden, Jessica; Maemura, Emily; MacKinnon, Katherine (2023.0) - Web archives, and their underlying data, align themselves with the promise of ‘data revolutions’ (Kitchin 2014) and so-called ‘big data’ for studying social and cultural worlds, allowing researchers to develop large-scale, longitudinal and ‘multi-layered’ approaches to platform historiographies (Helmond and van der Vlist Suggested Citation (APA): Paßmann, J, Gerzen, L, Schories, M., Ogden, J., Maemura, E., Mackinnon, K. (2023, October).Web Histories in the making: Web Archives & the Logics of Practice. We contend that web archive criticism has to be taken seriously: Web archive data have never fulfilled the requirements of positivist ideals such as ‘representativeness’ (Hegarty 2022a) or objectivity, and the methodological consequences of this observation currently do not go far enough. Keywords: archive; archiving; data; digital; histories; history; ideals; internet; logics; online; platform; practices; research; researchers; tools; web; web archives
• DIGITAL MEMORY, PANDEMIC TEMPORALITIES: REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING AND STORING CRISIS MEDIA by Butkowski, Chelsea Paige ; Bhandari, Aparajita; Corry, Frances; Moses, Adetobi (2023.0) - Whether examining how groups use social media platforms to create community memory around incidents of racial injustice (Smit, Heinrich, & Broersma, 2017) or how individuals use the internet to document the aftermath and unfolding of environmental disasters (Tandoc & Takahashi, 2017), studies at this intersection probe how crisis events are processed, historicized and reinterpreted through digital media. CRISIS MEDIA Chelsea Butkowski American University Frances Corry University of Pittsburgh Adetobi Moses University of Pennsylvania Aparajita Bhandari University of Waterloo A strength of the wide-ranging field of digital memory studies is its ability to interpret how digital media use shapes the experience and interpretation of crises. Keywords: collecting; covid-19; crisis; digital; internet; media; memory; pandemic; participants; past; research; social; time; university
• DISPATCHES FROM THE EARLY INTERNET: HISTORIES, IMAGINARIES, AND ARCHAEOLOGIES by Rudenshiold, Alexander ; Dame-Griff, Avery; MacLean, Liam; MacKinnon, Katie (2023.0) - Similarly, it was a country that had already developed significant communication infrastructure, along with a population that was ranked 3rd globally in internet users by 1995. The “early web” and “modem world” (Lingel 2020; Driscoll 2022) represent periodizations of internet histories which look and feel markedly different from much of the contemporary popular internet. Keywords: community; furries; furry; german; histories; history; information; internet; left; media; new; online; people; press; search; transgender; university; web; york
• LIVELIHOOD-RELATED INTERNET USE AMONG LOW-PRIVILEGED YOUNG MEN IN KOLKATA by Basak, Subham (2025.0) - While generalisations are impossible, we see the general connections of online use with offline contexts, which determine the success of the life chances of the young men. Additionally, as they grapple with making the best of digital resources for life chances, the role and responsibility of institutions, especially the government, receding to the back seat in a market-driven economy is further normalized. Keywords: digital; domestication; internet; media; youtube
• SMALL-SCALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON THE EARLY WEB: SOCIO-ECONOMICAL PRACTICES OF LOCAL/REGIONAL BUSINESSES by Fridzema, Nathalie; Aasman, Susan; Slootweg, Tom; Smit, Rik (2025.0) - Egmond’s story was not unique; throughout the mid-1990s, numerous traditional businesses created websites to join the digital revolution, and by the early 2000s, countless startups emerged to capitalize doing internet business (Ackermans, 2003). In The SAGE Handbook of Web History (pp. Keywords: businesses; economy; internet; new; university; web
• FROM IA_ARCHIVER TO OPENAI: THE PASTS AND FUTURES OF AUTOMATED DATA SCRAPERS by Mackinnon, Katherine; Maemura, Emily (2025.0) - We argue here that web archives should never be exempt from adhering to web creators’ intentions for their data and a renewed interest in their position is warranted as web archives data is increasingly being made available to ML models and methods (Baack, 2024; van Strien, 2023). Paired with some of the work on critical archival theory, we aim to find new ways for web archives and modes of collection to become unbound from the “capitalist logics of data extraction” upon which they’re currently built (Theilen et al., 2021). Keywords: archives; crawlers; data; internet; rep; web
• POLICY AT ODDS- DIGITAL INDIA VERSUS INTERNET SHUTDOWNS by Madapathi, Manisha (2025.0) - Establishing digital networks to remote rural India serve very defined goals for the project of Digital India. The government of India, in 2014, through the Department of Electronics and Information Technology launched a flagship programme called Digital India, with a vision to transform India into a ‘digitally empowered society and knowledge economy’. Keywords: citizens; digital; india; internet
• DECOLONISING THE INTERNET: EXPERIENCES OF (CYBER)BULLYING AND DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS FOR YOUTH OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN ATHENS by Maqbool, Kainaat; Tsaliki, L. (2025.0) - This study explores the intricate convergence of the internet as an industry, the cyber(bullying) experiences of AfroGreek youth in Athens, Greece, and experiments with the idea of developing a relationship of resistance to Afrophobia. The findings stem from an ethnographic approach, drawing on field notes and follow-up interviews from participatory focus group workshops involving AfroGreek youth as knowledge-holders. Keywords: collective; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?yzpwsk https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?yzpwsk; internet; race; research; youth
• REPLATFORMIZATION: RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE STACK-CONSCIOUSNESS OF KIWI FARMS by Van Schenck, Reed (2025.0) - Racial capitalism has inspired Internet researchers to identify the whiteness, masculinity, and bourgeois character of platform capitalism as it manifests through predatory inclusion (McMillan Cottom 2020), value extraction (Franklin 2021), and the geopolitics of platform economies (Gebrial 2022). To meet this problem with the scale it requires, I address the following research question: How do reactionary digital platforms modulate the Stack to amplify their leverage within (de)platformization? Keywords: capitalism; deplatformization; internet; platform; right; stack; web
• SEXUAL CONTENT MODERATION by Monea, Alexander; Are, Carolina; Stegeman, Hanne; Franco, Rébecca; Stardust, Zahra (2025.0) - Taking sex work, and particularly erotic webcam streamers, as a case study, this paper contends that content moderation does not just manage “permissable platform content”, it also manages platform workers. Since platform content moderation disproportionately focusses on sexual content (Gillespie, 2018), some of the effects, experiences and issues with moderation efforts are most prominent in relation to the regulation of this content. Keywords: blunt; censorship; content; content moderation; instagram; internet; media; moderation; new; platform; queer; sex; society; tiktok; users; workers
• The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, and Expectations by Divon, Tom; Annabell, Taylor; Goanta, Catalina; Abidin, Crystal; Beuckels, Emma; Hudders, Liselot; Van den Abeele, Elisabeth; de Brabandere, Marloes; Vanwesenbeeck, Ini; De Jans, Steffi; Leaver, Tama; Livingstone, Sonia; Cantwell, Nigel; Özkul, Didem; Shekhawat, Gazal; Kidron, Beeban (2025.0) - Several papers use the phenomenon of kidfluencers and child influencers as a departure point, building on scholarly interest in the integration of children into parents' influencer content (Abidin, 2015) and their active role as creators within the influencer economy (Craig & Cunningham, 2017; Nicoll & Nansen, 2018). Another central thread across the panel, consistent with current debates, concerns the integration of children and child influencers on platforms within regulatory frameworks. Keywords: abidin; childhood; children; content; dashboards; data; digital; influencer; interests; internet; media; monetisation; online; paper; parents; platforms; practices; rights; sharenting; university
• 410 Gone - Infocide in Open Content Communities by Reagle, Joseph (2012.0) - Keywords infocide; online communities; open content; online ethnography. This analysis is based upon a naturalistic inquiry (Lincoln & Guba, 1985; Thomas & Jones, 2006) into exit and infocide from Web communities. Keywords: communities; community; content; contributions; exit; infocide; information; internet; online; pilgrim; suicide; ubuntu; web; wikipedia
• Living Offline - A Qualitative Study of Internet Non-Use in Great Britain and Sweden by Reisdorf, Bianca Christin; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie; Maurin, Hanna (2012.0) - With regards to digital inequalities and internet use and non-use we find a large proportion of studies on young people (e.g. Hargittai & Hinnant, 2008; Livingstone & Helsper, 2007) and the elderly (e.g. Kiel, 2005; Milligan & Passey, 2011). Reasons for Non-Use As internet use is widely spread and omnipresent in media and everyday life, not doing something that the majority of a population does, such as not driving a car (Wyatt 2003), is likely have more behind it than ‘no interest’. Keywords: computers; internet; interviewees; need; non; reasons; research; swedish; technologies; things; use; users
• ACCESS BARRIERS AND LOCAL STRATEGIES FOR INTRAFAMILIAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION IN RESOURCE CONSTRAINED CONTEXTS by Velasquez, Alcides (2015.0) - Using van Dijk's digital divide framework (Dijk, 2005), this study asks about parents’ development of local strategies to access mobile communication technologies for intrafamilial communication in a resource constrained context. Access Dimension Resources lacking Resources available Strategy Material Financial resources Social resources  Call from other person's phone (neighbor, friend) Keywords: access; communication; internet; mobile; resources
• ACCESS DENIED: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF INADEQUATE BROADBAND ACCESS IN RURAL BRITAIN by Oostveen, Anne-Marie; Reisdorf, Bianca; Eccles, Kathryn (2014.0) - Although the government has committed funding to improve broadband in rural areas, it has had to delay its initial target of universal availability of at least 2Mb/s by 2015 to the year 2017. Furthermore, Internet speeds in rural areas are not just slow but also unreliable, and there is contention at peak times. Keywords: access; areas; broadband; internet
• ADVANCING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS THROUGH DATA LOCALIZATION IN THE NAME OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY by Sargsyan, Tatevik (2015.0) - More recently, increased privacy and security concerns following revelations about NSA surveillance have generated new government initiatives for data localization, once again encapsulating governments’ desire to achieve goals relying on Internet infrastructure. Efforts to create national e-mail services, or cloud servers dedicated to support country- level networks are also drivers of data localization (Chander & Le, 2015; Hill, 2014). Keywords: data; governments; internet; privacy; security
• Aging in a Digital World by Quinn, Kelly; Massanari, Adrienne; Birkland, Johanna; Comunello, Francesca; Rosales, Andrea; Mulargia, Simone; Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia; Quan-Haase, Anabel (2016.0) - Results and Discussion Based upon the 17 cases of older adult ICT users, a user typology emerged. Older adults have been slower to use the internet, are less likely to have broadband access, and adopt technologies such as social media and smartwatches at lower rates. Keywords: adults; aging; digital; icts; internet; life; literacy; media; seniors; technology; use; users
• Algorithmic Identity: Networks, Data, and the terrible beauty of the black box by Markham, Annette N; Kruse, Holly; Hemsley, Jeff; Steenson, Molly (2013.0) - In this paper I explore this mediating effect using three different algorithms for network data visualization. The algorithmic self: Layered accounts of life and identity in the 21st century Holly Kruse: Identity and musical genre in the age of algorithms Molly Steenson: SNPs to Sheepy: Genetic genealogy and place identity Jeff Hemsley: Algorithmically supported sensemaking of network visualizations: Keywords: algorithms; data; denver; identity; internet; media; music; network; papers; place; research; social; usa; youtube
• An interrupted history of digital divides by Reisdorf, Bianca Christin; Triwibowo, Whisnu; Nelson, Michael; Dutton, William (2016.0) - Changing  definitions  of  digital  divides  and  inequalities  are  reflected  in  how  questions   about  Internet  access  and  use  have  changed  overtime,  when  asked  at  all.   Internet  (non-­)  use  types  and  motivational  access:   Implications  for  digital  inequalities  research. Keywords: divides; internet; research
• An Old Regime for Viewpoint Diversity of the New Media: protecting anonymity for a functioning marketplace of ideas in cyberspace by Lee, Ju Young (2011.0) - Through the analysis of McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, which is a landmark case of the protection of anonymous political speech, in light of three principles derived from Red Lion and Miami Herald, it will be examined how the First Amendment protection of anonymous speech can play a crucial role in creating a functioning „marketplace of ideas‟ on the internet. Despite the implication of this normative approach (i.e., the consideration of the value and impact of anonymous speech relative to the attributes of human), Constantine (1996) concluded that the McIntyre court remained legislative uncertainty, that is, failed to delineate “the requirements of a constitutionally sound statute regulating anonymous political speech” (p. 8). Keywords: amendment; anonymity; commission; court; doctrine; internet; mcintyre; ohio; protection; right; speech; v. ohio
• ARCHITECTURE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE AUTOMATED IMAGINARY: A WORKING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BOTS by Abokhodair, Norah; Woolley, Samuel; Howard, Philip; McDonald, David (2015.0) - Paper presented at Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 ! ARCHITECTURE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE AUTOMATED IMAGINARY: A WORKING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BOTS ) Norah&Abokhodair&& University&of&Washington,&Information&School&& & Samuel&Woolley& University&of&Washington,&Communication&Department& & Philip&Howard& University&of&Washington,&Communication&Department& & David&McDonald& University&of&Washington,&Human&Centered&Design&and&Engineering&Department& Introduction) Social&media&–&especially&social&networking&sites&–&have&substantially&transformed&the& ways&in&which&people&discuss¤t&affairs&and&obtain&political&news&and&information.& Because&of&increased&affordances&for&building&and&maintaining&social&connections,& young&people&are&better&able&to&cultivate&a&political&identity&and&engage&civically&in&both& authoritarian&and&democratic®imes&[1].&Activist&causes&and&democratic&movements& have&been&born,&organized&and&disseminated&on&sites&including&Facebook,&Twitter,& Weibo,&and&YouTube&[2].&Like&any&technology,&though,&the&interfaces,&applications,&and& modes&of&communication&on&social&networking&sites&are&in&constant&negotiation,& transformation,&and&repurposing&–&and&by&a&wide&variety&of&social&and&political&actors. Keywords: internet; research
• Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances by Hopkins, Julian (2013.0) - Denver, USA 1 Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances Julian Hopkins Monash University Malaysia julian.hopkins@monash.edu Abstract Drawn from a long-term ethnographic research into personal blogging, this paper proposes a theoretical approach to the issue of materiality and culture in technology that combines the concept of affordances and that of Deleuze & Guattari’s concept of assemblage. Affordances Hutchby has defined affordances as “functional and relational aspects which frame, while not determining, the possibilities for agentic action in relation to an object” (2001, p. 444). Keywords: affordances; assemblage; blog; components; deleuze; internet
• AUTOMATED AND COMMERCIALIZED REALITY CONSTRUCTIONS: GOVERNANCE BY ALGORITHMS ON THE INTERNET by Latzer, Michael; Just, Natascha (2015.0) - A wide range of our daily activities in general and our media consumption in particular are increasingly shaped by algorithmic selection – in essence, by the automated assignment of relevance to certain automatically selected pieces of information. More precisely, it explores the reality construction by algorithmic selection on the Internet that includes and at the same time goes far beyond the formation of collective imaginaries of networked technologies. Keywords: algorithms; internet; media; selection
• AVATARS AS GHOSTS IN MMORPG by Kruzan, Kaylee Payne; Appigani, Tim; Neill Hoch, Indira (2014.0) - However, avatar research typically focuses more sharply on ‘living’ avatars and their relationship to identity construction. Avatars as ghosts in MMORPG. Keywords: analysis; avatars; internet; new; research
• “I DON’T KNOW A MAN WHO ISN’T KNEE-DEEP IN IT”: INTERSECTIONS OF AGE AND GENDER IN OLDER PEOPLE’S INTERNET USE by Kadi, Selma (2014.0) - Traditional gender- technology relations exclude women from the use of particularly advanced technology, tend to neglect technology used mainly by women (in the definition of advanced technology) and describe women as less competent in technology use. Traditional gender-technology relations result in women being structurally excluded from technology use (e.g. due to a gender segregated job 1 The integration of technology and ICTs into households has also been discussed as their integration into a gendered space, e.g. due to the use of different rooms for differently gendered activities (Mallett, 2004) and due to links between domesticity and femininity (Flynn, 2003). Keywords: age; computer; gender; internet; men; people; relations; technology; use; women
• “NOT AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCATION”: CONTROL AT THE INTERSECTION OF GEOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLICY – A CASE STUDY OF NETFLIX IN AUSTRALIA by Hentrich, Nicole (2015.0) - Whether this is the segmenting of the globe into regions for DVD and Blu-ray playback, or the practice of geoblocking online content, the material boundaries of nation states are continually applied to digital content and to the internet at large. With the move to digital content and distribution, the television industry is in a state of flux both within the United States and around the world. Keywords: content; digital; internet; television
• BELIEVING THE INTERNET: USER COMMENTS ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY by Doty, Colin (2015.0) - Somewhat contradictorily, the abundance of information on the Internet might also make it easier than ever to verify information (Floridi, 1996), while at the same time leading to echo chambers where Internet users encounter only information that confirms their beliefs (Sunstein, 2007). For Internet users displeased with traditional sources of authority, the Internet’s enabling of one’s “own research” implies a truth now unobscured because of the Internet, there to be discovered as self-evident once one makes the effort to look. Keywords: beliefs; information; internet; safety; vaccine
• Beyond Internet Access: a study of social and cultural practices in LAN Houses by Nemer, David (2013.0) - Politicians, who once perceived such facilities as “bad guys” in richer neighborhoods, now are trying to revoke past bills in order to promote the spread of more LAN Houses in poor areas. Denver, USA 1 Beyond Internet Access: a study of social and cultural practices in LAN Houses David Nemer Indiana University USA dnemer@indiana.edu Keywords: government; houses; internet; lan
• BLACK WOMEN EXERCISERS, ASIAN WOMEN ARTISTS, WHITE WOMEN DATERS, AND LATINA LESBIANS: HOW RACE AND GENDER MATTER IN FACEBOOK GROUPS by Korn, Jenny Ungbha (2014.0) - In contrast, White women Facebook groups totaled 162, Latina Facebook groups equaled 75, and Asian- American women Facebook groups numbered only 32. Keywords: facebook; groups; internet; race; women
• BUCKING THE TREND? UNDERSTANDING THE “OUTLIERS” IN DIGITAL INCLUSION RESEARCH by Enyon, Rebecca (2014.0) - Indeed, qualitative research on Internet use by people from lower socio economic backgrounds (e.g. work by Bakardijeva and Smith, 2001; Clayton and McDonald, 2013; Mehrat and Merkel, 2004) highlights the significant complexity of this area, raising issues around the meaning and value of the Internet in people’s lives and what it really means to be digitally included. Understanding the “outliers” in digital inclusion research. Keywords: digital; internet; research
• But Still It Moves: Screens, Print, and Reading by Baron, Naomi S. (2013.0) - Reading on digital screens (including desktops, laptops, eReaders, tablets, and mobile phones) has become integrally tied to simultaneous internet availability.2 Given the growing shift from reading in hard copy to reading onscreen, we need to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of digital reading. The Case for Reading Onscreen General Considerations Among the advantages of digital reading are these: § eBooks are generally less expensive than print counterparts. Keywords: copy; distraction; internet; print; reading; study
• Celebrity Crises on Twitter by Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim; Vimieiro, Ana; Vimieiro, Renato; Sauter, Theresa; Puschmann, Cornelius (2013.0) - These capabilities are, of course, also available to other Twitter users; if the stream of tweets responding to breaking news acts as “a first draft of the present, to be revised and completed as further information comes to hand” (Bruns & Highfield, 2012), this is, in a sense, a contested draft. This, however, has not stopped other Twitter users from continuing to @mention the account (as an alternative to referring to Benedict XVI by name, or to the office of the Pope in general); through in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis we intend to examine the overall patterns and tenor of such @mentions. Keywords: @regsprecher; account; analysis; armstrong; breaking; bruns; internet; media; news; research; tweets; twitter; users
• CIVIC MEDIA: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELEVANCE by Gordon, Eric; Mihailidis, Paul (2015.0) - From the widespread use of social media to aid in campaigns and democratic movements throughout the world, to debates over the public’s right to data or the individual’s right to protect their data from public use, to government’s design and deployment of digital tools, the umbrella of civic media has widened. TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELEVANCE Eric Gordon Emerson College Paul Mihailidis Emerson College In 2007, Henry Jenkins wrote on the occasion of the founding of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT, that civic media refers to “any use of any medium which fosters or enhances civic engagement.” Keywords: community; internet; media; practice; public; term
• COLLABORATIVE CROWDING, A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF ADOLESCENT FAN CULTURES ON TWITTER by Arvidsson, Adam (2014.0) - Looking at fan-culture on twitter form he point of view of crowd dynamics provides new insights on the nature of value and value creation on social media platforms. Collaborative crowding, a digital ethnography of adolescent fan cultures on twitter. Keywords: internet; twitter
• CONCEPTUALIZING COPY/RIGHTS: INTERNET FANDOM, CULTURAL NORMS, AND THE LAW by Stanfill, Mel; Fiesler, Casey; Morrissey, Katherine E.; Noppe, Nele (2015.0) - “Imagined Policies” addresses the longstanding practices of fan communities and the ways their creative practices have adapted to new production technologies and digital networks. However, though these types of creativity have become widespread in an Internet- enabled world, fan communities have had appropriation at the core of their creative practices since long before the first networked computers. Keywords: communities; copyright; fan; fandom; fans; internet; law; media; norms; online; use
• Conceptualizing non users of the internet and mapping digital (dis)engagement by Park, Sora; Middleton, Catherine; Allen, Matthew; Freeman, Julie; Rickard, Scott; Nansen, Bjorn; Arnold, Michael; Wilken, Rowan; Gibbs, Martin; Williams, Jocelyn (2013.0) - As such, this panel illustrates that digital engagement is influenced by the capabilities and willingness of individuals, communities and organizations to decipher, adapt to, and identify potential benefits from digital media use. Together, these papers provide broad insight into the appropriation of digital technologies, and responses from both the public sector and communities towards fostering digital engagement. Keywords: access; adoption; broadband; communication; digital; government; information; internet; media; new; non; participation; research; social; technologies; technology; use; users
• CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGES TO FEMINISM ON THE JAPANESE INTERNET: AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS by Hamada, Tadahisa; Tamura, Takaori (2014.0) - Haneko Inoue, a founder member for an online feminist group “Woman in Kansai,” invited feminism organizations to attend lectures about to use the Internet for feminist ends. This irritated not only China and Korea governments but also the U.S. Among the supporting groups for this tendency are rightist groups and Internet users with rightist or racist ideas who are also largely anti-feminist. Keywords: feminism; groups; internet; japanese; women
• Coping with Death and Grief Through Technology by Klang, Mathias; Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Jones, Steve; Farkas, Ashley; Lange, Patricia; Micalizzi, Alessandra; Leaver, Tama; Ess, Charles (2013.0) - While issues around digital death and online services are relatively new, a survey of existing policies and practices leads to the following tentative conclusions and broad recommendations for change: • at present the official policies of social media companies and online corporations are minimal and relatively blunt; • where a single account or authentication service is a gateway to different tools, services and content, there should be some ability to separate and curate these posthumously, allowing final curatorial decisions by digital executors; • due to the lack of available options and the lack of awareness of official options, many users resort to ad hoc responses, such as transferring control of online profiles to immediate family members after a user’s death; • as digital executors and online wills increasingly address social media, policies and practices will need to emerge which provide more fine-grained control over the digital legacies; and Selected Papers of Internet Research 14.0, 2013: Keywords digital death; identity; social media; Facebook; Google. Keywords: child; communication; death; denver; facebook; google; grief; grieving; identity; internet; loss; media; new; online; papers; process; research; university; usa; users
• CYBERBULLYING POLICIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES by Milosevic, Tijana (2015.0) - Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16 th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 CYBERBULLYING POLICIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES Tijana Milosevic University of Oslo Scope, Theoretical Framework and Significance of the Research Topic “Why don’t you kill yourself?” was the question 14-year-old Hannah Smith from the United Kingdom received on social media website Ask.fm, before she hanged herself in her bedroom (Smith-Spark, 2013). This kind of systematic analysis of cyberbullying policies of social media companies has not been conducted thus far and through interviews with key companies, which are difficult to obtain, this study seeks to provide pioneering steps towards a framework for analysis of effectiveness of industry self-regulation. Keywords: companies; cyberbullying; internet; media; policies; research
• DEMIC DEAL-BREAKERS AND THE STATISTICAL IMAGINARY OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE by Rennie, Ellie (2015.0) - Our research suggests that it is not necessarily attitudes to technologies that are influencing digital choices in remote Indigenous communities, but the conditions under which technologies are made accessible. At home on the outstation: barriers to home internet in remote Indigenous communities. Keywords: australia; broadband; communities; digital; divide; exclusion; internet; people; research
• Designerly Ways of Knowing Internet Research: A Case for Critical Media Design by Brabham, Daren C. (2013.0) - Critical communication research, with its roots in the Frankfurt School, Marxism, feminism, and other schools of thought, is concerned with injustice and imbalances of power in the world—often in consideration of historical material conditions and along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identity markers—and seeks to intervene in such unjust discourses and practices (Hardt, 1992; McChesney, 1993; Rogers, 1982; Slack & Allor, 1983). Critical communication research at the crossroads. Keywords: communication; design; internet; media; research; studies; theory
• DIGITAL ALTERNATIVES: MOBILE-CENTRIC CREATIVES by Venter, Anja (2015.0) - [12] for young people who seek agency and a means of personal expression – cultivating a ‘first touch’, as Beth Kolko [13] would frame it, of instrumental visual design. Instead, I present a picture of the systemic inequalities that make it difficult for young people from low-resourced backgrounds to gain access to the skills and epistemologies that are required for access into exclusive design courses. Keywords: access; bongani; creative; design; internet; mobile; neo; people; phones; school; south; students; university
• DIGITAL GAMES AND HETERONORMATIVITY: THE CASE OF CHINA’S ‘LOSERS’ by Szablewicz, Marcella (2015.0) - With regard to digital game culture specifically, consider the following statement, offered by the director of one of China’s most famous machinimas: In tying digital game culture to economic disempowerment, the above statement shares much in common with the rhetoric of the Chinese ‘diaosi.’ Keywords: china; culture; game; gaming; gaoji; internet; men; term
• Digital inequality and intergenerational solidarity: The role of social support in proxy internet use by Dolničar, Vesna; Filipović Hrast, Maša; Vehovar, Vasja; Petrovčič, Andraž (2013.0) - The results of multivariate analysis on survey data from a nation-wide representative sample show that between emotional and socializing support only the latter is associated with proxy internet use: internet non-users with larger socializing networks and stronger intergenerational support (e.g., a higher proportion of (grand)children) are more likely to be proxy internet users. By showing that the presence of (grand)children in internet non-users’ socializing support networks increases the probability of proxy internet use, it might be concluded that a form of functional solidarity exists in socializing networks between proxy internet users and their (grand)children. Keywords: internet; networks; proxy; support; use; users
• Disability and Virtual Worlds: New Frontiers of Appropriation by Boellstorff, Tom; Davis, Donna; Krueger, Alice (2013.0) - Moving beyond the game: Social virtual worlds. Abstract People with disabilities are proportionately over-represented in virtual worlds, with probably one in five people in a virtual world having one or more disabilities—physical, mental, emotional, or sensory. Keywords: disabilities; disability; individuals; internet; life; online; people; persons; research; support; worlds
• Discourses of internet freedom by Jack, Caroline (2013.0) - This paper analyzes public instances of internet freedom discourse, using discourse as an analytical construct that characterizes language practices as expressions of systems of power. Textual analysis of press accounts, policy texts and influential digital manifestos finds that internet freedom discourses increasingly signify a system of power relations in which individual autonomy can be facilitated or limited by private enterprise organizations, but is predominantly limited by the actions of nation-states. Keywords: discourses; freedom; internet; new; power; press
• DOING INTERNET GOVERNANCE - STS-INFORMED PERSPECTIVES ON ORDERING THE NET by Katzenbach, Christian; Hofmann, Jeanette; Gollatz, Kirsten; Musiani, Francesca; Epstein, Dmitry; DeNardis, Laura; Hackl, Andrea; Blanchette, Jean-François (2015.0) - and Susan Leigh Star’s work on standards (1996), Bruno Latour’s technical mediation (1994), Michel Callon’s sociology of translation (1986), as well as Tarleton Gillespie’s more recent research on the “politics of platforms” (2010) are mobilized and updated in order to bring to the fore the “power and politics” qualities of technical architectures, the uses of Internet governance technologies as “hidden levers for content control”, and the privatization of IG (DeNardis, 2012). The paper explains the applicability of the six-layer typology for analyzing the various layers of Internet infrastructure governance, develops the six case areas in which each of these layers directly mediates LGBT rights conflicts, and presents a future agenda for research into this nascent phenomenon. Keywords: case; denardis; governance; information; infrastructure; internet; internet governance; lgbt; new; paper; power; press; rights; science; society; sts; technology; university
• ECONOMIES OF THE INTERNET I: INTERSECTIONS by Jarrett, Kylie; Velkova, Julia; Jakobsson, Peter; Graham, Roderick; Gehring, David (2015.0) - At the content level, government can subsidize the creation and sustaining of nonprofit community web pages and social media sites. Cornwall (1997) similarly argues that classical economics is drawn from general ideas about liberty with an emphasis on the sovereignty of economic actors that is not available to all actors such as homosexuals for whom self-surveillance has been an important strategy. Keywords: commons; crowdfunding; economies; economy; gift; internet; market; media; new; paper; press; production; public; spaces; work
• ECONOMIES OF THE INTERNET III: SPHERES by Kruse, Holly; O’Hallarn, Brendan; McKnight, John Carter; Tekkobe, Cindy; Shepherd, Tamara; Shtern, Jeremy (2015.0) - Study of social media’s role in creating a Habermassian informational economy through public spheres has been studied in emerging democracies (Hoskins, 2013), through analysis of White House Facebook and YouTube posts (Halpern & Gibbs, 2013), and through analysis of thousands of politically-themed tweets, which determined that “social media would have a potential as a public sphere, supporting arguments in political deliberation” (Waldhauser, 2014, p. 13). This analysis will seek to extend research of the public sphere into a new realm, specifically, the potential for issues in sport to create spheres of deliberative democracy on social media. Keywords: digital; economies; economy; horse; intermediaries; internet; media; new; online; racing; sphere; sport; study; twitter; work
• ECONOMIES OF THE INTERNET II: AFFECT by Baym, Nancy; Paasonen, Susanna; Mowlabocus, Sharif; Wittkower, D.E. (2015.0) - Social media relies on the interactions between users and the investment in those interactions to generate consumer lock-in and facilitate the on-going contribution of taste-identifying data that is appropriated and sold to internet advertisers and marketers. The first speaker begins with an exploration of personal and intimate connections in social media, offering musicians as the exemplification of the contemporary trend towards self-branding in the way they use online relationships with fans as a professional strategy. Keywords: attention; care; culture; distraction; economy; interactions; internet; labor; media; new; relationships; social; value; work
• Effects of Home Environment on Internet Use and Dependence of Children and Adolescents by Park, Sora (2011.0) - Internet use time included all activities including games, searching, chatting, etc. Depending on the type of parental mediation, the effects on internet use time varied. Keywords: children; dependence; home; internet; internet use; media; mediation; parents; time; use; young
• Enacting conflict, controversy, and aggression in online spaces by Puschmann, Cornelius; Ford, Heather; Recuero, Raquel; Phillips, Whitney; Sauter, Theresa; Bruns, Axel; Eckert, Stine (2013.0) - This is not to say that Facebook users are solipsists. Impact and diffusion of sentiment in political communication: An empirical analysis of public political Facebook pages. Keywords: analysis; auspol; communication; community; debate; drork; facebook; hashtag; internet; media; online; research; stigma; trolling; twitter; usa; users; violence; wikipedia
• ENHANCING ONLINE PRIVACY AT THE USER LEVEL: THE ROLE OF INTERNET SKILLS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS by Büchi, Moritz; Just, Natascha; Latzer, Michael (2016.0) - Digital literacy and privacy behavior online. From a public-policy perspective, this calls for adequate policies and rules for privacy protection (Bennett & Parsons, 2013). Keywords: behavior; information; internet; privacy; skills
• EXTENDING THE DEBATE ON ICTs FOR CIVIL AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: RUPTURES BETWEEN OLD AND NEW CIVIL SOCIETY IN A HIGH-TECH CITY by Rao, Anuradha (2014.0) - EXTENDING THE DEBATE ON ICTs FOR CIVIL AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: RUPTURES BETWEEN OLD AND NEW CIVIL SOCIETY IN A HIGH-TECH CITY Anuradha Rao National University of Singapore Introduction and theoretical overview This paper examines the issues confronting civil society actors as they leverage the internet to create spaces for citizen participation in public affairs. This paper examines the efforts of a new type of civil society actor in Bangalore city, India, whose extensive use of ICTs distinguishes him and his activities1 from the more conventional civil society actors in the city. Keywords: engagement; internet; new; praja; society
• FACEBOOK’S FUTURES by Karppi, Tero Jukka; Schrock, Andrew Richard; Herman, Andrew; McKelvey, Fenwick (2015.0) - They argue that these different product developments need to be understood in the context of affective capitalism: on one hand they are designed to capture Facebook users and transform them into value on the other they are designed so that the we do not use the interent to access Facebook but we use Facebook to access the internet. N.N3’s paper approaches the IPO of Facebook and the way financial markets continue to speculate on the value of the company based up its estimation of the way it will be able to monetize the activity of Facebook users on and through mobile media platforms such as smartphones, tablets, and phablets. Keywords: access; facebook; future; internet; internet.org; media; mobile; new; users; value
• FAME AND MICROCELEBRITY ON THE WEB by Abidin, Crystal; Limkangvanmongkol, Vimviriya; Lindsay, Megan; Powers, Renee; Cirucci, Angela (2015.0) - In response, this paper reports on long-term online and offline ethnographic fieldwork among cohorts of social media microcelebrities in Singapore and East Asia. In fact, recent local movie productions are exclusively casting social media microcelebrities to pander to the youth dollar. Keywords: beauty; celebrification; culture; facebook; fame; instagram; instaselfie; internet; marwick; media; microcelebrity; new; online; research; self; selfie; users; vloggers; women; youtube
• FEMINISM IS FOR ANGRY WHITE WOMEN: EXPLORING IMAGES OF FEMINISM ON REDDIT.COM by Bergstrom, Kelly (2015.0) - Image macros are a particular type of Internet meme where a short phrase is overlaid on top of a photo (Figure 2). Previous research on this type of meme has shown that the sharing of image macros has become a key part of online political dialogue and discussions (Milner, 2012), and Suggested Citation (APA): Bergstrom, K. (2015, October 21-24) Keywords: feminism; image; internet; macros
• Financial Markets and Online Advertising Demand: Reevaluating the Dotcom Investment Bubble by Crain, Matthew (2013.0) - While the period is often dismissed as a false start in the history of the web’s commercial development, it is better conceived of as highly generative of modern structures of online advertising. Keywords online advertising; dotcom bubble; financial markets; venture capital; new economy The political economic structures of the internet impact the types of communication it enables. Keywords: advertising; dotcom; internet; investment; new
• FRIENDS, TWEETS, AND YOUTUBE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ONLINE CAMPAIGNING IN JAPAN by Tkach-Kawasaki, Leslie (2014.0) - While prior to 2013 it was particularly challenging to evaluate professionalism in Japanese political campaigns under the old restrictions in the POEL, the lifting of the ban on internet-based campaigning has ushered in a new era in political campaign communication in Japan. First, from a theoretical perspective, this paper identifies online strategies that appeared in the 2013 Upper House election in Japan in order to assess professionalization in campaigning (often referred to as the “Americanization” of political campaigns). Keywords: campaigning; candidates; internet; online; parties; party
• From Addicts to Athletes: participation in the discursive construction of digital games in urban China by Szablewicz, Marcella (2011.0) - The notion that games, whether they be danji or wangluo, took a back seat to ‘real life’ was an important one for many of the students I spoke with and they used this as one of the criteria by which they separated themselves from game wangluo game ‘addicts’. In the instance to be discussed herein, I will analyze different applications of the Chinese terms wangluo youxi (literally defined as ‘internet games’) danji youxi (literally defined as ‘single computer games’) and dianzi jingji (literally defined as ‘electronic sports’) in order to unearth cultural assumptions and contradictions about different types of game play and their varied motivations and effects. Keywords: china; chinese; computer; danji; dianzi; games; internet; jingji; online; play; sports; time; wangluo; wangluo games; youxi
• From the “Five Eyes” to the “SIGINT Seniors Europe”: The intelligence community as a transnational field by Kniep, Ronja (2016.0) - Ronja Kniep WZB Berlin Social Science Center Introduction Technology and the practices of intelligence agencies have long been closely intertwined. Firstly, by describing intelligence as a socially constructed and contingent social space which is shaped by specific institutional histories, the sociological theory counters the narrative that the surveillance practices of intelligence agencies are simply a natural response to a given technological development. Keywords: agencies; field; intelligence; internet; nsa; practices; sigint
• HOW CONVENTIONS MAKE VISUALISATIONS (AND THEIR DATA) SEEM OBJECTIVE by Kennedy, Helen; Hill, Rosemary Lucy (2015.0) - Indeed, some visualisation designers argue that a core skill needed to make sense of data visualisations is the ability to understand that in a visualisation, some things have been transformed into other things (research Suggested Citation (APA): Kennedy, H and Hill, Rosemary Lucy. This focus on visualisation conventions is important in order to make sense of the apparent contradiction between critics’ assertions that visualisations serve as mechanisms of control and designers’ assertions of their desire to ‘do good with data’ (Periscopic, nd). Keywords: association; conventions; data; internet; research; visualisations
• HOW MOBILE PHONE SURVEILLANCE CONTRIBUTES TO DIGITAL INEQUALITIES FOR DISADVANTAGED URBAN RESIDENTS by Fernback, Jan; Shaffer, Gwen (2015.0) - Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 HOW  MOBILE  PHONE  SURVEILLANCE  CONTRIBUTES  TO  DIGITAL   INEQUALITIES  FOR  DISADVANTAGED  URBAN  RESIDENTS     Jan  Fernback   Temple  University       Gwen  Shaffer   California  State  University  Long  Beach     Background       Participation  in  the  social  world  demands  disclosure  of  personal  information,  and  the   increasing  reliance  on  mobile  devices  compounds  this  reality.   Additionally,  nearly  half  of  Internet  users  in  households  with  an  annual  income   below  $30,000  tend  to  use  phones  to  go  online—compared  with  27%  of  Internet  users   in  households  with  an  annual  income  exceeding  $75,000  (Pew  Research  Center,  2013).       Keywords: internet; mobile; research; surveillance
• IMAGINING AND ENABLING THE COLLABORATIVE COMMONS by McGuire, Mark (2015.0) - Groom highlights the importance of what he refers to as the “3 Faces of Open”: “open platforms, open pedagogy, and open community” (Groom 2014). Similarly, Open Design practitioners advocate the use of open networks to share work with others and to collaborate in the creation of solutions and artifacts that can then be published with an open licence. Keywords: commons; design; internet; media; new; open; work
• IMAGINING DARKNETS: PRIVACY AS COMMODITY AESTHETICS by Hunsinger, Jeremy (2015.0) - Darknets and their users are clearly participating in reconstituting field of consumption, as is the internet in which darknets exist. A more technical understanding of the type of darknet that I am investigating is that darknets are securitized internet networks operating over existing networks through encrypted traffic on those networks. Keywords: capital; darknets; internet; privacy
• Internet Activism in Asia-Pacific: A Comparative, Cultural History by Goggin, Gerard; McLelland, Mark; Lee, Kwangsuk; Frances, Shaw; Tkach-­‐Kawasaki, Leslie; Tamura, Takanori; Yu, Haiqing (2013.0) - Drawing from the wider project on Asia-Pacific internet histories, this paper presents three case studies of internet activism –– respectively in Australia, South Korea, and Japan. Importantly, it takes a comparative, cultural historical approach to tracking the roots of internet activism, documenting, and analysing Selected Papers of Internet Research 14.0, 2013: Keywords: activism; case; freedom; internet; media
• INTERNET POLITICS. MAPPING WSIS+10 CONTROVERSIES ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE by Santaniello, Mauro (2016.0) - This  controversy  too  is  operationalised  in  a  variable  with  four  modalities,  from  the  least   binding  to  the  most  one:       I)   actor  asking  for  private  self-­regulation  and  opposing  even  a  policy  debate  as  an   interference  with  technological  innovation  and  freedom  of  economic  initiative;;   II)   actor  maintaining  a  debate-­oriented  approach  promoting  policy  discussion   among  stakeholders  but  with  no  binding  statements  or  agreements  at  the  end  of   the  process;;     III)  actors  demanding  for  binding  multilateral  treaties  and  national  laws  and  policies   as  process'  outputs;;     IV)  actors  preferring  binding  principles  and  declarations  framed  into  the  international   human  rights  law  and  national  constitutions.       In  the  early  2000s  the  failure  of  the  “self-­governance  model”   legitimised  governments  and  public  authorities  in  the  IG  arena  together  with  the  global   civil  society  and  non-­state  actors  (Hofmann  2005),  allowing  the  rise  of  the  multi-­ stakeholder  governance  model. Keywords: actors; bindingness; governance; internet; policy; stakeholder
• INTERNET RESEARCH ETHICS: NEW CONTEXTS, NEW CHALLENGES – NEW (RE)SOLUTIONS? by Ess, Charles; Seko, Yukari; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Gray, Mary; Granholm, Camilla; Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Kasperowski, Dick (2015.0) - The research acknowledges both the opportunities and ethical challenges that the implementation of ICT brings for social work research and practice. Camilla Granholm (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Online counseling as a part of social work practice; ethical challenges in research and practice” During the last two decades there has been a rapid development and a public demand for online services in the social and healthcare sector. Keywords: data; ethics; internet; research; university
• Internet Use and Global Activism at the United States Social Forum by Schwarz, Elizabeth Anne Gervais (2013.0) - Testing these hypotheses using survey data from the 2010 United States Social Forum, this study extends research exploring internet use and global social movement activity by examining activists’ use of four different internet technologies as they relate to three facets of global activism. In part, the findings challenge traditional notions of the relationship between internet use and global activism. Keywords: global; internet; movement; social; use
• (Invisible) Internet infrastructure labor by Finn, Megan; Mathew, Ashwin; Yeo, ShinJoung; Irani, Lilly; Kelkar, Sheeharsh; Chia, Aleena; Ames, Morgan; Crawford, Kate (2013.0) - - How is Internet infrastructure labor bound or in opposition to traditional ideas of “class”? Denver, USA 1 Panel: (Invisible) Internet Infrastructure Labor This panel looks at information infrastructure labor in order to understand the work that is often invisible to many Internet users. Keywords: centers; data; denver; edx; engine; human; industry; information; infrastructure; internet; internet research; labor; media; network; new; papers; paraguay; platform; power; research; space; technical; usa; work; workers; world
• Just in time: a new modality for community via networks by Allen, Matthew (2013.0) - Community is intimately connected to the individuals who comprise it and the individual relations between them, unbounded by any sense of the individual collective which community implies. Place is losing its capacity, even symbolically, to contribute to community effects by giving us a sense of collective identity; shared place becomes attenuated in the face of the self- centered emplacement of the individual while using placeless networks. Keywords: community; computer; internet; networks; place
• KARMA POLICING: RE-IMAGINING WHAT WE CAN (AND CAN'T) POST ON THE INTERNET. by Burnam-Fink, Michael; Tiidenberg, Katrin; McKnight, John; Tekobbe, Cindy (2015.0) - Women  have   traditionally  been  seen  as  more  embodied  than  men,  thus  the  discourses  that  equate   slenderness  and  youth  with  beauty  and  fitness  with  moral  character,  have  particularly   strong  implications  to  whether  women  are  accorded  ‘embodied  subjecthood’  (Gill,  2008:   44)  or  not.     Together,  this  panel  presents  a  range  of  imagined  alternatives  to  polarized  and  bitter   online  discourse,  from  perspectives  of  media  and  cultural  studies,  political  philosophy,   counterinsurgency  theory,  science  and  technology  studies,  and  rhetorical  genre  theory.     Keywords: comments; community; culture; harassment; instagram; internet; media; memes; online; platforms; press; women
• LINKING ONLINE AND OFFLINE SOCIAL LIFE THROUGH DIGITAL GAMING by Eklund, Lina (2015.0) - During those years social digital gaming, both online and offline, was investigated. These relations connect different social worlds, both online and offline. Keywords: internet; life; offline; online
• MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONS: SEEING TWITTER BOTS AS (NON) ‘HUMAN SUBJECTS’ WHEN INCLUDING THEM AS RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS by Beck, Estee; Hutchinson, Leslie (2015.0) - Drawing on media and actor network theories, this proposed talk (re)defines the ethics of data(text)/persons with consideration of non-human Twitter bots by asking what are the ethics involved in researching and working with non-human language objects, i.e., computer code operating without human intervention? Later in the document, the authors describe complications of data(text)/personhood, using bots as an example of research with non-human subjects. Keywords: code; human; internet; research; twitter
• Media Lingua Franca: Fixity, Novelty, and Vernacular Creativity in Internet Memes by Milner, Ryan M. (2013.0) - Abstract This paper argues internet memes – discursive artifacts spread by mediated cultural participants who remix them along the way – weave ‘fixity’ and ‘novelty’. Once in class – with a photoshopped picture of Kanye West interrupting Martin Luther King Jr. on the screen behind me (Figure 1) – I asked my students to define ‘internet meme’. Keywords: figure; internet; memes; vernacular
• N00BS NEED NOT APPLY: WiiWARE, GENERATIVITY, AND INDIE GAME DESIGNERS by Plothe, Theo (2014.0) - Proprietary systems for distributing cultural content online, such as Nintendo WiiWare, interfere with this generative principle. Independent game developer Different Cloth produced a critically-acclaimed and award- winning game called Lilt Line for iOS and WiiWare. Keywords: game; internet; nintendo; wiiware
• NEGOTIATION OF INTERESTS IN GOVERNING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: TRACING ACTOR-NETWORK IN THE USE OF 2.4GHZ BAND FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS IN INDONESIA by Manalu, Rouli (2014.0) - Second moment, DGPT tried to lock other actors in a particular position in the network. Thus, through persuasion and authority of state regulation, the DGPT was tried to interest and locking other actor to what was deemed as proper positions. Keywords: actors; band; ghz; internet; policy
• NETWORK STANDARDS AND CULTURE by Carmi, Elinor; Gehl, Robert W.; Sullivan, John L.; Burk, Dan (2016.0) - The  HTML5  standard  was  developed  beginning  in  2003  under  the  auspices  of  the   World  Wide  Web  Consortium  (W3C),  a  non-­profit  consortium  founded  by  Tim  Berners-­ Lee  in  1994  to  guide  the  development  of  standards  for  the  web.   Standards  are  usually  meant  to  make  technical  artefacts,  protocols,  features  and   infrastructures  operate  in  an  efficient  and  uniform  way. Keywords: advertising; daa; european; html5; internet; law; media; spam; standards; web
• New Media, New Logics: power and participation among activists in southern Stockholm by Svensson, Jakob (2011.0) - (Leaning, 2009, p. 30), often referred to as social media and online social networking. Causal models of explanation are potentially misleading since it is impossible to isolate Internet and media use from other social practices and determine what 7 causes what (Anduiza, 2009). Keywords: activists; bathhouse; facebook; group; identity; information; internet; media; network; new; online; power; society
• Next Generation Users: Changing Access to the Internet by Blank, Grant; Dutton, William H. (2013.0) - Next Generation Users are defined as Internet users who access the Internet (1) on mobile devices and (2) on multiple devices. By this definition, in 2011, almost a third of Britons, and 44.4% of Internet users in Britain, were Next Generation Users (Figure 1 and Figure 2). Keywords: access; generation; internet; users
• ON THE INTERNET NOBODY CAN SEE YOUR CAPE: THE ETHICS OF ONLINE VIGILANTISM by Klang, Mathias (2015.0) - Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 ON  THE  INTERNET  NOBODY  CAN  SEE  YOUR  CAPE:  THE  ETHICS  OF   ONLINE  VIGILANTISM     Mathias  Klang     Umass  Boston     Introduction     The  discussion  of  vigilantism  has  been  most  active  in  the  legal  discourse,  in  which  the   term  has  been  classified  historically  and  divided  into  classical  vigilantism,   neovigilantism,  pseudo-­vigilantism  and  faux-­(Hine  1998).   This  paper  will  open  up  the  discussion  and  merge  the  theoretical,   social  and  technical  discussion  on  vigilantism  by  drawing  on  its  modern  forms.           Keywords: information; internet; vigilantism
• Online political memes and Youth Political engagement in Singapore by Sreekumar, T. T.; Vadrevu, Shobha (2013.0) - If indeed political memes tap on a history of satire and future of cultural convergence via artefacts of cyberspace, might they not have a powerful impact on politicising a generation that is always connected (Turkle 2008)? From this small corpus of Singaporean online political memes, 3 were selected for a detailed semiotic analysis based on their appropriateness for offering insight into the manner in which they employed intertextuality to embed political messages into common meme formats and attempted to resonate with their audiences. Keywords: engagement; internet; media; memes; press; singapore
• PAVEMENT INTERNET AND DIGITAL INVISIBILITY IN THE MARIKANA MASSACRE by Walton, Marian Nicole (2014.0) - Despite the growing importance of pavement internet in South Africa, commodified network infrastructure and local discursive organisation curtail popular appropriations of mobile internet for public discourse. These informal political conversations are extended by mobile phones. Keywords: africa; internet; marikana; media; mobile
• REALISTICALLY IMAGINING THE INTERNET: OVERCOMING (MIS)PERCEPTIONS WHEN EDUCATING POLICYMAKERS AND THE PUBLIC by Forno, Richard (2015.0) - Situations then arise that depict just how deeply such perceptions and narratives of deviance have permeated the public psyche and underlie the discourse when developing national Internet policy; one only needs to observe legislative bodies deliberating Internet policy or watch mainstream news media reporting on the heterogeneous, amorphous ‘hacker’ entity known as Anonymous for examples of this. Can we prevent another oversimplified the Internet is a series of tubes moment to ensure that knowledge about the Internet, cyberspace, and its related technologies used in crafting Internet policy remains based on fact and reality instead of stereotypes, fantasy, or wishful thinking? Keywords: internet; policy; public; technology; understanding
• RECLAIMING NETWORKED SPACE THROUGH ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF CONNECTIVITY by Bain, Philip (2015.0) - Additionally, alternative networks can be made privately and hidden, thus providing local free network initiatives the ability to add network infrastructure surreptitiously as deemed necessary. Alternative networks are mostly small-scale, and community driven. Keywords: alternative; community; infrastructure; internet; networking; networks; new; technology
• Reconfiguring Embodiment: Online Experimentation and Embodied Practices of Self by Tiidenberg, Katrin; Ungbha Korn, Jenny; Wheaton, Hilary; Moody, Kyle (2013.0) - This feedback cycle can be conceptualized as the process of a transforming embodied self: as we internalize a reconfigured embodiment, we get used to it until further transformation happens. Analysis of self shooters’ (17 people aged 20 – 51, from USA, Australia, New-Zealand, Canada and UK) individual and group interviews illuminated self-shooting as a transformative practice. Keywords: analysis; body; chatroulette; community; culture; dating; digital; internet; media; modding; new; online; practices; research; self; sites; users
• Re-examining Affordances, technical agency, and the politics of technologies of cultural production by Srauy, Sam; Neff, Gina; Coleman, Miles; Beyer, Jessica; McVeigh-Schultz, Joshua (2013.0) - Keywords affordance; reflexive use; space; place Affordance out of Place: reflexive use and the designerly capacities of “users” Psychologist James Gibson developed affordance theory as a way of reframing visual perception in terms of what he called ‘ecological physics.’ Keywords affordance; anonymity; political mobilization; online communities Online Communities and Affordances of Anonymity In many cases the affordances of an online space have a crucial role in creating the “shape” of an online community including the adoption of cultural norms based on the structural restrictions of a given space. Keywords: affordances; agency; anonymity; communities; gibson; internet; norman; place; research; social; space; technology; users; virus
• Re-examining the relationship between civil society and the internet: Pessimistic visions in India’s ‘IT City’ by Rao, Anuradha (2013.0) - Keywords: Bangalore; civil society; internet; activism; cyber/techno-pessimism Introduction The central themes in this paper relate to a re-examination of the relationship between civil society and the internet, particularly the assumption regarding civil society’s willingness and ability to embrace the internet in its democratic quest. Net-working/Networking: Citizen initiated Internet politics (pp. 1-38). Keywords: activism; group; information; internet; new; society
• (RE)MAKING DIGITAL IMAGINARIES WITH VIDEOGAME DEVELOPMENT: DO-IT-YOURSELF (DIY) DISRUPTIONS TO SOCIAL INEQUITY by Dahya, Negin; Jenson, Jennifer (2015.0) - Research related to education and videogames has examined the learning potential of playing digital games. At the end of this project, students, parents, researchers and educators came together to play student made games at multiple celebratory events. Keywords: association; internet; meeting; phoenix; research; researchers; usa
• Resisting and Appropriating Method: Part 1 - the panel by Phillips, David J; Donovan, Gregory; Humphreys, Lee (2013.0) - This paper is a methodological reflection on a broad study of social media practices and historical precedents. I end by articulating elements of what I term “hip hop methodology,” discussing its value for social media researchers. Keywords: data; design; hip; hop; internet; knowledge; media; new; papers; people; practices; research; researchers; surveillance; usa
• Resisting and Remaking the Smart City and the ‘Internet of Things’ by Forlano, Laura (2013.0) - Denver, USA 2 Over the past five years, a growing body of academic scholarship has employed new concepts that challenge the separation of physical from digital, global from local, and private from public, which are relevant to the understanding of the way in which digital technologies are enabling emergent forms of organizing (Humphreys, 2008), new modes of citizen engagement (Foth, 2008; Foth, Forlano, Gibbs, & Satchell, 2011) and novel ways of experiencing urban space (Ito, 2003). These popular framings are important sites of appropriation and resistance because they greatly shape our imaginations of the opportunities and constraints of urban technologies. Keywords: city; design; internet; technologies; things
• Re-thinking Internet’s Regulability: From Lessig to IPv6 by Koniakou, Vasiliki (2016.0) - In the meantime in response to the growing demand for IPs a number of solutions were       deployed, such as Large Internet Carriers, furtherly obscuring identification. Internet Protocol version six The current version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) was developed in the 1970s, when nothing foreshadowed the rapid spread of the Internet or the multiple applications attached to it. Keywords: internet; law; protocol; regulation
• Rethinking Resistance: Nonparticipation, Consumption, and the Recruitment of Affirmation in Internet Fandom by Stanfill, Mel; Booth, Paul; Bury, Rhiannon (2013.0) - Media fans are doing more than just “poaching” texts or even “transforming” what already exists (to use a more recent phrase from the Organization for Transformative Works). This paper examines fan consumption as a key shift in audience engagement with media texts. Keywords: audience; consumption; culture; digital; fan; fandom; fans; internet; media; new; participatory; series; transmedia; web
• SCALING THE GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA: USES AND GRATIFICATIONS FOR CIRCUMVENTING STATE-IMPOSED INTERNET BOUNDARIES by Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic (2014.0) - Abstract This paper examines the motivation of Chinese Internet users for circumventing state- imposed Internet restrictions – a practice called fanqiang (to scale the Great Firewall of China). Through a series of focus group interviews with Chinese Internet users in Guangzhou, the study in this paper found fanqiang to be driven by more deliberative motives – largely information-seeking but also, to a smaller extent, entertainment and social utility. Keywords: china; fanqiang; internet; users
• Screaming more, Listening less? An investigation of participation and deliberation dynamics in the Italian Five Stars Movement by Coppini, David (2013.0) - Indeed, a lot of new grassroots political movements are less likely to have a hierarchical structure (Bimber, 2003) and tend to be organized around online communities. Overall, the implications for political deliberation are not very positive: while the Five Stars movement, through the internet, has promoted civic engagement and participation, his members do not seem to be engaged in a civil and rational discussion, at least on the Movement’s most important communication platform. Keywords: comments; deliberation; internet; movement
• Second screen and Political Talk-Shows: Measuring and Understanding the Italian Participatory Couch Potato by Giglietto, Fabio (2013.0) - Keywords second screen, social tv, twitter, talk-show Introduction Despite the fact that the idea of ‘interactive television’ dates back a couple of decades, a commonly accepted definition of social TV is still lacking. Denver, USA 2 Measuring TV audiences is becoming increasingly difficult due to the growing use of digital-video- recorders to watch shows later or order “video-on-demand” from the set-top boxes. Keywords: audience; internet; nielsen; twitter
• SEEING DATA, FEELING NUMBERS: HOW PEOPLE INTERACT WITH DATA VISUALISATIONS by Kennedy, Helen; Hill, Rosemary Lucy (2015.0) - Abstract Whilst there has been considerable attention to the development of strategies to maximise effectiveness in data visualization research, only some of this has engaged actual users in the research process. We argue that socio-cultural factors matter when it comes to engaging with data visualizations, and the field of visualization engagement research needs to pay attention to them. Keywords: data; internet; participants; people; research; visualizations
• SICK GIRLS: GENDER, DISABILITY, AND CYBORG HOAXES by Elicessor, Elizabeth (2015.0) - Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell refer to a “lacuna” within internet studies where disability is concerned5; this paper combines a critical review of internet studies literature featuring “Joan” with theories of normalcy drawn from disability studies and with contemporary cases of gender and disability deception. Disability studies has as its mission the politicized revelation of the ways in which a normative, able body is used as a default basis for various forms of social, cultural, and material interaction. Keywords: disability; identity; internet; media; new
• SINGING DATA OVER THE PHONE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MODEM by Driscoll, Kevin (2015.0) - In response, entrepreneurial modem makers began to compete with one another with proprietary protocols and faster speeds.6 Fragmentation among modem standards reflected a fragmentation in the PC industry at large. Amid the rapid deregulation of U.S. telecommunications during the 1970s, modems enabled thousands of far-flung microcomputer enthusiasts to exchange data and ideas over standard telephone wires. Keywords: computer; data; internet; modem; new; sound
• Slicing Big Data by Woodford, Darryl; Walker, Shawn; Paul, Avijit (2013.0) - Selecting Twitter Information Whilst analysis of past events is useful, it is more relevant to consider how such tweets could be isolated for future use. To do so, it is necessary to consider how incoming tweets can be profiled to ascertain firstly whether they contain information which may impact upon a current or future prediction market, and secondly the reliability of information contained within them. Keywords: analysis; crisis; data; information; internet; keyword; movement; occupy; research; time; tweets; twitter; user
• SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF THE INTERNET IN CHINA by Yu, Haiqing (2014.0) - Broadly speaking, an underlining dichotomy between control and resistance, or between the “evil” and “control-freak” Chinese government and the “good” and rebellious netizens, has been central in many works in Chinese Internet studies. The Internet as a Battlefield The Internet as a battlefield metaphor has been used to describe the effort by entrepreneurs, private Internet companies and ICT starters to compete with one another to come up with the next new idea and capitalize on it to reap the maximum profit, and by average Chinese netizens to “scale the walls” to access censored websites. Keywords: china; chinese; internet; online
• Social Media and Elections: The Use of Twitter in the 2013 Campaigns in Italy, Australia, Germany, and Norway by Enli, Gunn; Larsson, Anders; Kalsnes, Bente; Skogerbø, Eli; Moe, Hallvard; Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim; Sauter, Theresa; Nuernbergk, Christian; Neubarth, Julia; Rossi, Luca; Giglietto, Fabio; Orefice, Mario; Boccia Artieri, Giovanni (2013.0) - By comparing previous results with those from the current election, we are in a unique position to provide longitudinal insights into political Twitter use in a country with high degrees of voter participation and Internet use. Specifically, we focus on three areas of Twitter use. Keywords: analysis; australian; bruns; campaign; communication; data; election; internet; media; online; politicians; research; tweets; twitter; use
• Social Media in Crisis Communication by Burgess, Jean; Bruns, Axel; Crawford, Kate; Finn, Megan; Monroy-Hernandez, Andres; Palen, Leysia (2013.0) - However, social media data looks at a disaster in a specific and often short time-period, typically defined by the spike or “burstiness” in Twitter messages (Burgess and Crawford 2011). Social media data is always partial and incomplete. Keywords: communication; crisis; data; disaster; emergency; events; information; internet; media; new; palen; people; public; research; twitter; usa; use
• Strategies and Tactics for Promoting Indie Game Design by Kerr, Aphra; Whitson, Jennifer R.; Harvey, Alison; Shepherd, Tamara; O'Donnell, Casey (2013.0) - Nadav Lipkin (2013), in his analysis of the history of indie games provides an explanation. However, Paolo Ruffino (2013) argues that despite the discourses of freedom and emotional investment linked to creating indie games, indies organize themselves with practices that are very similar to those of 'dependent' (i.e. AAA) companies, and that indie games often reinforce the power structures of those they oppose. Keywords: companies; culture; design; developers; development; game; homebrew; indie; industry; internet; media; new; production; research; work
• You're always online: Negotiating internet temporalities in the secondary school by Johnson, Nicola Frances (2016.0) - Schools  have  been  predicated  by  these  particular  rhythms  of  time,  i.e.  being  ‘present’.   As   internet  technologies  and  media  are  an  integral  element  of  contemporary  education,   and  increasingly  shape  the  ways  in  which  time  is  experienced  in  schools,  internet   technology  use  is  often  shaped  and  bounded  by  dominant  structures  and  ‘grammars’  of   schooling  –  not  least  formal  assessment  and  curriculum  requirements,  tacit   expectations  of  time,  space  and  place,  and  management  regimes  of  accountability  and   performativity. Keywords: internet; school; time
• Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? Mapping Complex Data Patterns from Sites of Protest by Losh, Elizabeth; Coleman, Beth; Um Amel, VJ (2013.0) - I suggest that the importance of this approach lies in how one might understand better the strategic, tactical, and personal transmissions enacted in social media by activist. Activism, Tactical communication, and the Bodily Risk of Danger Perhaps Malcolm Gladwell––in what was received by internet cognoscenti as a largely reactionary, luddite position in regard to social media (Shirky)––is right in his estimation that without “skin in the game,” without bodily presence at sites of political conflict that there can only be “small change” to be had. Keywords: activism; cambridge; data; egypt; internet; media; new; press; public; research; revolution; twitter; university; usa
• The Anti-Social Web by Greene, Daniel; Bakioglu, Burcu; Parry, David; Daniels, Jessie (2013.0) - Read in conjunction with Daniel Kreiss's Taking Our Country Back (2012) one begins to gain a picture of how startling the shift in digital data driven politics has been. There is little transparency in how this data is used, and while in the early days of hypermedia campaigns the suggestion was that the digital campaign would lower the cost of running for office, this type of data drive, social engineering campaign does precisely the opposite, creating powerful new players in the political landscape (many of them online trackers or social media services). Keywords: access; data; digital; divide; governance; information; internet; libraries; library; life; new; politics; public; site; surveillance; use
• The appropriation of privacy: Policies and practices of everyday technology use by Quinn, Kelly; Zimmer, Michael; Fernback, Jan; Baasanjav, Undrah; Marwick, Alice (2013.0) - Implications focus on the reproduction of Chinese collectivist ideology and the lack of regulation surrounding information privacy. The paper explores the culturally fluid notions of information privacy in connection with the “Human Flesh Search Engine” phenomenon. Keywords: applications; chinese; human; information; internet; law; layers; media; new; online; privacy; reality; regulation; research; speech; technologies; usa; users
• THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE BUSINESS: THE ROLE OF FINANCE IN THE DESIGN OF WEB SERVICES by Kripe, Zane (2014.0) - Abstract This article explores the production of internet services by looking at how web technology startups design their products and develop their business models. To summarize this paper calls for a more holistic investigation of internet services. Keywords: business; internet; services
• The Curious Case of Confession Bear: Analyzing anonymity and online memes by Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan; Nelson, Andrew J. (2013.0) - Denver, USA Looking at the evolution of Confession Bear memes, we pose the following research questions. Methodology & Theoretical Framework We viewed hundreds of Confession Bear memes posted to QuickMeme.3 Keywords: bear; confession; internet; memes; research
• The Dark Side of Online Participation: Exploring Non- and Negative Participation by Lutz, Christoph; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter (2016.0) - The participation divide literature tends to apply normatively affirmative frames to online participation: online participation, thereby, is held to contribute to the success and prosperity both of individuals and communities (Lutz et al., 2014; Jenkins et al., 2006). Despite some critical voices (e.g, Fuchs, 2014, chapter 2) challenging such affirmative views, the current discourse on online participation tends to neglect the negative aspects or “dark side” of online participation. Keywords: internet; online; participation
• THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO COMMUNITY: TERRITORIALITY, INTIMACY AND OWNERSHIP IN ONLINE SPACES by Rambukkana, Nathan (2015.0) - The more substantial question, from the perspective of many observing the progress of community sites on the internet becomes: As the possibility of community is a matter of design, will not the pressures of profit making, economic growth and top-down management then influence site design, limiting the ability for user initiatives to properly develop or maintain virtual communities? Though Feenberg and Bakardjieva also identify this problematic trend in the actual operations of many internet community sites, they are a little more optimistic. Keywords: apr; barney; bbc; communities; community; entries; guide; h2g2; internet; like; new; online; people; post; rheingold; site; space; time; world; zaphodista
• The place of free speech in Internet governance debate by Antonyuk, Artem (2016.0) - For example, while technological discourse claims that decentralized infrastructure supports free speech, a skeptical theoretically informed view argues that social, cultural and political contexts of implementation of free speech matter. Selected Papers of AoIR 2016:  The 17th Annual Conference of the  Association of Internet Researchers Berlin, Germany / 5­8 October 2016 THE PLACE OF FREE SPEECH IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE DEBATE Artem Antonyuk St. Petersburg State University Introduction In an outline of cultural construction of computers in terms of an opposition between sacred and profane, Alexander states that ‘[w]e must learn to see technology as a discourse, as a sign system that is subject to semiotic constraints and responsive to social and psychological demands’ (Alexander 1998, pp. 35-36). Keywords: concepts; dynamic; freedom; internet; speech
• THE PRODUCTION OF ONLINE SPACE: FACEBOOK AND ALGORITHMIC METAPOWER by Berg, Martin (2014.0) - Explicitly focusing on Facebook, this paper aims at exploring the effects of algorithms as social structures and strives at advancing the study of how algorithms contribute to a production of online space and its impact on various social processes concerning self and subjectivity.1 The opening section revolves around a literature review which establishes an understanding of how the algorithmic processing of personal and interactional data on Facebook forms the basis for the emergence of a certain kind of ”metapower”. Online and offline spaces are increasingly thought of as merged and researchers tend to assume that social network sites such as Facebook are deeply embedded in everyday life social practices. Keywords: internet; online; space
• THE TELECOM INDUSTRY EFFORT TO DEREGULATE IP-ENABLED SERVICES THROUGH CREATION OF A DIGITAL IMAGINARY by Shaffer, Gwen (2015.0) - New York lawmakers asserted that VoIP deregulation would allow rural residents to “connect to a new world of remote job opportunities.” In Rhode Island, pending legislation states that VoIP deregulation is necessary to “promote the creation of new jobs.” Keywords: deregulation; discourse; imaginary; internet; state; voip
• THE WILDERNESS ONLINE: HOW INTERACTIVITY IS CHANGING MUSIC VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET by Forelle, Michelle (2015.0) - HOW INTERACTIVITY IS CHANGING MUSIC VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET Michelle C Forelle Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism University of Southern California Video games are like video clips…the game is the youth saving himself from the threat of domination posed by the industrialized world. It provides a history of music videos leading up to the ascendance of interactive music videos, and then explores a series of projects to illustrate the range of approaches the genre covers. Keywords: dir; internet; music; music videos; new; videos; web; youtube
• Theorizing the “Weird Internet”: Case Studies in the Strange and Uncanny by Massanari, Adrienne; Chess, Shira; Newsom, Eric; Phillips, Whitney; Milner, Ryan; Leavitt, Alex (2015.0) - A faceless Slender Man gets to have whatever face the fan chooses. The short story “When Your Dad is Slender Man” explores the inner life of the Slender Man’s daughter. Keywords: asmr; behaviors; character; communities; culture; digital; fan; folklore; internet; man; media; new; press; researchers; slender; trypophobia; university
• Third Spaces, Religion and Spirituality in the Digital Age Panel 2 by Echchaibi, Nabil; Stadlbauer, Susanne; Rajabi, Samira; Evolvi, Giulia; Kim, Seung Soo (2013.0) - I analyze some Neo-Pagan and Wiccan presences (like the website www.wicca.com, The Celtic Connection) on the web to show how new spiritualties based on ancient rituals and beliefs can use Internet to enhance connections and to create new spaces of action. In this perspective, internet gives the possibility to create new meanings and new spaces where spirituality can be experienced in a way that is outside the mainstream view of religious rituals and practices of the society. Keywords: internet; islamic; media; neda; neo; new; religion; salafism; space; video; world; youtube
• VILE PORNOGRAPHY, SEXUAL MISCREANTS, AND ELECTRONIC STALKERS – POLICY DISCOURSES OF YOUTH INTERNET SAFETY by Fisk, Nathan (2015.0) - Across the generations of youth who have had access to information technologies, prevalent media and legislative discourses have taken as their object the protection of children as they go about playing, communicating and working online. As such, the various concerns over youth Internet safety can be contextualized within the broader, disjointed shift from disciplinary society (Foucault, 1977) to societies of control (Deleuze, 1992), undergirded by the adoption of information technologies. Keywords: information; internet; technology; youth
• VISION, KNOWLEDGE, POWER: EROWID.ORG AND THE “TRIP REPORT” by Witte, John James (2015.0) - From Albert Hoffman’s first account of his legendary bicycle ride, to the writings of drug luminaries like Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley, trip reports have striven to describe the indescribable. Whole sections of older communities like WELL and Usenet are dedicated to the posting of trip reports, and the tradition has continued onto newer forums like Reddit and 4chan. Keywords: internet; media; reports; trip
• Watching the Watchers: New Perspectives on Spectatorship, Gaming and Online Media by Taylor, Nicholas; Szablewicz, Marcella; Bowman, Nicholas; Harper, Todd (2013.0) - These findings resonate with existing literature on public video game play and competition, particularly in the form of analysis of e-sports competitions and competitive gaming. Boasting over 23 million subscribers a month, the platform has not only offered a means for e-sports organizations, teams and individual players to reach potentially massive audiences, but it has served to further enact and legitimate the notion of gaming as something we watch as well as something we do. Keywords: audience; china; culture; events; games; gaming; internet; media; mlg; performance; play; research; spectatorship; sports; taylor; video
• DIGITAL POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THE REWRITABLE USER by Troumbley, Rex (2015.0) - I then turn to the more difficult study of digital language control by examining technical interventions into the conditions under which expressions can be made, “pre-speech” and interventions into the “choice architecture” of digital interfaces. Instead, digital language control simply counts every expression made by every user and, as Deleuze puts it, “substitutes for the individual or numerical body the code of a ‘dividual’ material to be controlled. Keywords: app; books; clean; community; content; control; data; digital; facebook; freedom; ibid; internet; language; march; new; press; reader; speech; state; technology; u.s; users; words
• CRITICAL MAKING: AMISH INNOVATION FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT by Ems, Lindsay (2015.0) - In this way, the technologies appearing in this publication communicate standards for what technologies are acceptable among Amish business owners and what are not. In other cases Amish business owners had employees and/or relatives who were not Amish who made use of computers, software and the internet for them. Keywords: amish; business; communities; company; computers; email; figure; internet; making; noah; owner; printing; service; use; word; work

• Data-Driven Models of Governance Across Borders: Assessing Participation, Inclusion, and Convergence in the Digital Era by Stevens, Hallam; Arora, Payal; Konig, Rene; Schaefer, Mirko; Pirdmore, Jason (2017.0) - By looking at democracy’s three core dimensions - the socio-political, the economic and the legal, and how big data intersects with them, this study analyzes the following questions in the context of India and China: does digitization of citizen data reduce or entrench discrimination? In the Netherlands, many municipalities already developed smart cities initiatives and are actively seeking ways to exploit data practices for cost-efficient management, for improving quality of life for residents, and for stimulating local and national entrepreneurial activities (Kist 2015; Krianotis 2016; Vereninging van Nederlandse Gemeenten 2015). Keywords: cities; citizen; data; governance; new; paper; participation; practices; privacy; society; system; technology
• Transparency as Rupture: Open Data and the Datafied Society of Hong Kong by Hoyng, Rolien (2017.0) - And, to what extent are Open Data activists able to not just reclaim public scrutiny over statecraft and governance by the state, but in fact contest the “bordering” of data—the decision over the borders of Open Data--itself? Transparency as Rupture: Open Data and the Datafied Society of Hong Kong. Keywords: data; hong; kong; transparency
• Transparency, Research And Facebook: The Case Of Facebook.Com/Peace by John, Nicholas (2017.0) - My own survey of a representative sample of the Israel’s Jewish online population (n=1005) found that 93.3% of Jewish Israeli Facebook users made no 2 https://peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/projects/peacedot/peace-facebook-com-case-study/ https://peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/projects/peacedot/peace-facebook-com-case-study/ friendships with Facebook users in the Palestinian Territories in the last six months, and 97.6% made 5 or less. The current paper builds on these critical approaches to social media data by examining data provided directly by Facebook regarding users’ friending behaviors. Keywords: data; facebook; figure; media
• The Interplay Of Different Publics In Big Crisis Data by Kappler, Karolin Eva (2017.0) - The EU project is composed of a mixed consortium of Big Data experts (such as academic researchers, commercial Big Data analysts, but also social network providers) and security experts (such as se- curity and civil protection agencies). The interplay of different publics in Big Crisis Data. Keywords: big; data; publics; social
• Epistemic Amalgams: On Language, Theory And Expertise In Algorithmic Social Sorting by Kotliar, Dan M (2017.0) - CODING AGAINST CULTURE: ON LANGUAGE, THEORY AND EXPERTISE IN THE ALGORITHMIC CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY Dan Kotliar The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Data mining algorithms are fast replacing traditional social sorting mechanisms in creating, recreating and reifying social identities (Lyon, 2003; Willson, 2013; Zarsky, 2002), and are now used to sort people in a growing variety of fields – banking, insurance, education and more (Kennedy, 2016; Kockelman, 2013; O’Neil, 2016). What kinds of theories take part in algorithmic sorting, in the algorithmic construction of identities? Keywords: data; language; new; sorting
• Digital Traces and Bottom-up Data Practices by Milan, Stefania (2017.0) - This theoretical paper understands datafication as a productive force in order to explore how activists largely reliant on social media for their activities can leverage datafication and mobilize social media data in their tactics and narratives. It placed collective action in the material of social media platforms, foregrounding their discursiveness and materiality, and focused on bottom-up data practices in view of understanding how social media data are mobilized in tactics and narratives. Keywords: agency; data; media; traces; users
• Data Politics At The Grassroots by Milan, Stefania; van der Velden, Lonneke (2017.0) - We distinguish two forms of data activism: i) proactive data activism, which identifies affirmative uses of data for advocacy and social change, and ii) reactive data activism, which on the contrary embraces instances of resistance to massive data collection. Data activism embraces the composite series of practices that, emerging at the fringes of contemporary activism ecosystem, critically interrogate datafication and its socio-political consequences. Keywords: activism; data; datafication; engagement; new
• So Close, Yet So Far Away: The Paradox of Status and Distinction among Instagram Influencers by Newlands, Gemma; Lutz, Christopher (2017.0) - Our research questions are thus concerned with how Influencers negotiate this paradox: Do Instagram Influencers display status markers of socio-economic elevation? The paradox of status and distinction among Instagram influencers. Keywords: capital; data; influencers; instagram; status
• Grand Intentions, Small Interventions: Climate Data Rescue as Counter-Data Action by Paris, Britt S; Currie, Morgan; Donovan, Joan (2017.0) - In fact, we might find that the importance of mirroring federal climate data lies less in rescuing data sets for the scientific community – since it’s too soon to tell whether more information will vanish or be defunded – but instead in creating spaces for community dialogue and wider public awareness of the vulnerabilities of politically contentious scientific work. By treating federal scientific data as a public utility, data rescues create an occasion for community and political resistance and constitute an emergent form of counter-data action. Keywords: action; archiving; climate; data; edgi; web; work
• Selfies And Cultural Events: Mixed Methodologies For The Study Of Selfies In Context by San Cornelio, Gemma; Roig, Antoni; Ardèvo, Elisenda; Enguix, Begonya (2017.0) - Selfies and cultural events: mixed methodologies for the study of selfies in context. SELFIES AND CULTURAL EVENTS: MIXED METHODOLOGIES FOR THE STUDY OF SELFIES IN CONTEXT Author #1 Gemma San Cornelio Author #1 Open University of Catalonia Author #2 Antoni Roig Keywords: author; data; media; selfies
• Beyond the digital swarm? Byung-Chul Han's critical media pessismism. by Suetzl, Wolfgang (2017.0) - BYUNG-CHUL HAN’S CRITICAL MEDIA PESSIMISM Wolfgang Suetzl School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University Byung-Chul Han and digital media A review of Han’s work on digital communication must start with the recognition that only the smaller part of this work is explicitly on media, whereas the larger part other aspects of contemporary culture that are, however, often relevant to understanding digital media in as much as these are also a product of contemporary culture. Keywords: b.-c; berlin; communication; data; digital; form; han; media; neoliberalism; power; swarm; transparency
• REMOVING THE PHYSICAL BODY FROM INTERACTION - A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION INTO LAYPEOPLE SHARING SELF-TRACKED EXERCISE DATA ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES WHEN THEY FEEL UNEASY EXERCISING WITH PEOPLE by Grønborg, Joeb Høfdinghoff (2018.0) - Few studies, however, have shed light on how people use self-tracking in their everyday lives (Lupton, 2016) – e.g. why people share exercise data on social network sites. In this paper, I provide a thick description of people that bypass their struggle with social exercise by sharing exercise data on social network sites. Keywords: data; exercise; people
• spir-10495 by None (None) - This paper examines what data is made available for people to access on social media platforms, analyses the practicalities and potential uses of this data and compares the key differences between conceptualising data access as a consumer right versus a fundamental right of digital citizenship (McCosker et al., 2016; Daly, 2016). Citizens within the boundaries of the European Union recently secured the right to data access under this framework. Keywords: access; data; privacy; right
• PLATFORM POWER & PUBLIC VALUE by Poell, Thomas; Nieborg, David; Van Dijck, José (2018.0) - Governing the platform ecosystem The analysis of two exemplary infrastructural services is a first step towards a refined taxonomy of platform power relations, much needed to develop guidelines for the governance of the platform ecosystem. A more precise insight in the workings of platform power is an important first step to better align the governance of the online ecosystem with vital public values. Keywords: data; platform; power; services
• FEELING THE RHYTHMS OF CODE by Saariketo, Minna (2018.0) - The “absent presence” of software becomes visible when the fluency of daily life is disturbed: failures and abrupt moments of unavailability are a source of anguish, irritation, frustration, stress, and panic. Lefebvre’s methodological reflections on the rhythmics of everyday life resonate prolifically with the idea of technological unconscious. Keywords: data; everyday; people; software
• PRIVACY BOUNDARIES AND INFORMATION FLOW SOLIPSISM IN THE PERSONAL FITNESS INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM by Zimmer, Michael; Chamberlain Kritikos, Katie; Vitak, Jessica; Kumar, Priya; Liao, Yuting (2018.0) - Specifically, we argue while fitness tracker users take steps to manage privacy boundaries (Petronio, 2002), they also succumb to “information flow solipsism” (Proferes, 2017), meaning that while users might understand the primary technical functions and features of their fitness trackers, they are broadly unaware of “how the technology operates at a broader techno-cultural or socioeconomic level” (Proferes, 2017, p. 10). Our findings suggest the dangers of information flow solipsism extends to fitness tracker users, where users might feel content with their management of privacy boundaries related to their PFI, while failing to understand how personal fitness information flows beyond their device lead to unanticipated privacy risks. Keywords: data; fitness; pfi; privacy; users
• 'GLOBAL, NETWORKED AND COLLABORATIVE': HOW THE NORMALIZATION OF LEAKING SHAPED THE IDENTITY AND PRACTICE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM by Baack, Stefan (2019.0) - First, it shows that parallel to the increased diversity of media organizations and ways of ‘doing journalism’ around news startups or nonprofit newsrooms, new forms of stabilizing and, to some extent, standardizing journalism practices have emerged. The findings presented in this paper are connected to, and expand research on entrepreneurial forms of journalism and global journalism. Keywords: data; journalism; leaking
• GEOLOCATION: LOCATING TRUST IN DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND ECONOMIES by Mitchell, Peta; Leszczynski, Agnieszka; Zook, Matthew; Blankenship, Joe; McGrane, Caitlin; Hjorth, Larissa; Thomas, Julian; Wilken, Rowan (2019.0) - This paper engages the intensifying incorporation of digital location data, interfaces, and affordances as pervasive features of digital platforms by positioning geolocation as a vital assemblant of ‘platform affects’. Through engaging the intersections of geolocation and digital platforms via an analytic of affect, this paper provides specificity and explanatory power to not only the “dynamics driving the integration of geographic information into the digital economy” (Alvarez León 2016, p. 1), but also to the affective and emotional dynamics of how we, both individually and collectively, are mobilized and incentivized to continuously engage—and reengage— with digital systems as part of our everyday life practices. Keywords: data; geographies; geolocation; maps; media; paper; platforms; practices; systems; trust; uber; university
• BLIND SPOTS OF INFORMATION OPERATIONS: OF MICRO PROPAGANDA, ALGORITHM GAMING & HOW TO PROFIT FROM IT by Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Bradshaw, Samantha; Lewis, Rebecca; Yin, Leon; Woolley, Samuel; Joseff, Katie; Metaxa, Danaë; Hogan, Alexander (2019.0) - Using data from the Darknet Market Archives and purposeful keyword search the open and dark web, this paper explores the political economy of digital marketplaces for social media manipulation and examines how profit-driven actors market the tools for the malicious manipulation of social media. Extending this theory to the domain of search media, we might expect that incumbents, who are generally more centrist, should receive more mainstream media attention, relative to challengers whose campaigns and subsequent coverage by search media should exhibit higher levels of partisanship. Keywords: content; data; influence; information; manipulation; media; online; operations; oxford; paper; propaganda; research; results; search; social
• PLATFORM PEDAGOGIES: LEARNING, AUTHORISING AND VALIDATING TRUST IN EDUCATION by Sefton-Green, Julian; Zacher Pandya, Jessica; Hendry, Natalie; Pangrazio, Luci (2019.0) - The program was broken up into three main sections: the first encouraged young people to critically reflect on platform practices and identities; the second developed understandings of platform structures and mechanisms, drawing on topical issues to demonstrate concepts (i.e. fake news, data profiling); and the final section supported the student participants in making good decisions for platform participation, particularly in regard to complex issues such as online coercion and content sharing. First, platform practices and behaviours are still strongly influenced by social practices and networks. Keywords: apps; data; education; learning; lms; media; pedagogy; people; platform; teachers; teaching; trust; use
• PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DATA by Devitt, Susannah Kate; Mann, Monique; Daly, Angela (2019.0) - Politics: Good data reveals and challenges the existing political and economic order (Principle 11) so that data empowered citizens can secure a good democracy (Principles 12, 13, 14, and 15). We begin by conceptual considerations of the nature of ‘data’ and ‘goodness’ before defending fifteen principles of good data under four banners: Keywords: data; good; information
• VIDEOGAME ANALYTICS, SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND THE RETENTIONAL ECONOMY OF PLAY by Egliston, Ben (2019.0) - Videogame analytics, surveillance capitalism, and the retentional economy of play. VIDEOGAME ANALYTICS, SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, AND THE RETENTIONAL ECONOMY OF PLAY Ben Egliston, University of Sydney Abstract Data analytics tools are increasingly prevalent in videogames and are reliant on the surveillant capture and relay of user data. Keywords: data; dotaplus; surveillance
• ENTRUSTING CHILDREN'S DATA by Holloway, Donell Joy; Archer, Catherine; Willson, Michele (2019.0) - Children are increasingly being positioned as data sources, datafied and embedded in algorithmic ecosystems that employ a range of calculations to uncover patterns or anomalies, to highlight risk, and to predict future outcomes. Paper two, ‘When trust goes wrong: Children on the dark web’ investigates what happens when trust goes wrong; when children’s personal data is hacked and circulated on the dark web? Keywords: brand; children; dark; data; media; new; paper; practices; trust; use; web
• SMART TECHNOLOGIES, ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE AND DATA JUSTICE by Whelan, Andrew; James, Alexandra; Humphry, Justine; Dreher, Tanja ; Hynes, Danielle; Wilcock, Scarlet (2019.0) - Whilst these programs are exciting it is important to examine the imperative focus on innovation and new technology in the program, a key funding criterion is that projects ‘apply innovative smart technologies that generate, store and process data to target urban challenges’ (Australian Government 2018). Often presented as novel augmentations of urban space, enhancing and customising the urban experience at the same time that they increase the city’s efficiency and ‘awareness’, smart city technologies also reconfigure urban spaces and how they are understood and governed by rendering the city a site of data generation and capture. Keywords: cities; city; data; governance; initiatives; justice; linknyc; new; processes; services; social; state; technologies; welfare; wifi
• ASSESSING ETHICAL AI-BASED DECISION-MAKING: TOWARDS AN APPLIED ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK by Henman, Paul (2019.0) - Use context Considerations about the use context of AI based decision making include whether or not humans can intervene to stop an AI decision, reverse its impact (unlike Diallo (2018) who was fired by an algorithm), appeal an AI decision, and seek redress. An applied analytical framework for assessing ethical AI AI based decision making can be summarized as: AI decision making = (data * context) + code + (use * context) Keywords: context; data; decision; making
• ALGORITHMIC WOMEN’S WORK: THE LABOUR OF NEGOTIATING BLACK-BOXED REPRESENTATION by Kant, Tanya (2019.0) - I consider the ways in which the ‘algorithmic imaginary’ intersects with representations of fertility, through audience responses that suggest web users know they are being targeted, but mistrust the ways in which they are constituted in data. Though we might be data, the ways in which users are constituted as data subjects is distributed differently – and unequally – in web users’ everyday engagements. Keywords: black; data; users
• WORK IN PROGRESS: THE EUROPEAN "RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN" – LEGAL AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF SEARCH ENGINES COMPLYING THE RIGHT TO ERASURE by Rensinghoff, Jan; Farke, Florian Marius; Dürmuth, Markus; Gostomzyk, Tobias (2019.0) - Search engines are in a special position because they allow their users to quickly search a large part of the World Wide Web for a specific topic or name within a fraction of a second. Furthermore, search engines allow family members, neighbors, or employers to search the Web for personal data about almost everyone quickly. Keywords: data; engines; right; search
• A NEW STANDARD OF PROOF? DISCOURSES ON VISUAL DATA AFTER THE 2017 G20-PROTESTS by Venema, Rebecca; Lobinger, Katharina (2019.0) - So far, the role of visual data and visual analysis in these processes has seldom been discussed in detail. However, visual data, the combination of visual representations of e.g. persons, their physical and facial traits with metadata, and advancing algorithmic and facial recognition tools for their analysis are ubiquitous and can provide particularly rich insights. Keywords: data; police; tools; visual
• THE CARRIER WAVE PRINCIPLE by Sinnreich, Aram; Gilbert, Jesse (2019.0) - Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media. The challenges precipitated by the digitization of culture have been discussed extensively in terms related to crises of social institutions and power, including the need for “big data ethics” (boyd & Crawford, 2012), the disruptions to traditional media and communications industries (Craig & Cunningham, 2019), and the dangers of algorithmic governance (Gillespie, 2018). Keywords: data; media; new; principle
• THE ETHICS OF EMOTION IN AI SYSTEMS by Stark, Luke ; Hoey, Jesse (2019.0) - Many such systems seek to model emotional interactions through “digital phenotyping,” the analysis of biosignals, including optical data (such as facial movement, gait, or infrared emanation); audio data (such as the vocal tone and cadence) (Jain et al., 2015); haptic and physiological data (such as skin conductivity, blood flow, and body velocity) (Picard, 2000); others examine semantic signifiers of emotional expression, including written words, graphic means such as emoji and emoticons, and other representations of human feeling) (Alashri et al., 2016). Yet contemporary, quotidian, narrow AI/ML technologies are most frequently used by social media platforms for modeling and predicting human emotional expression as signals of interpersonal interaction and personal preference (Bucher, 2016). Keywords: data; expression; systems
• THE QUT DIGITAL OBSERVATORY PROJECT: BUILDING A TRUSTED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH by Takahashi, Marissa; Hames, Sam; Alpert, Elizabeth; Bruns, Axel (2019.0) - Social science research has traditionally relied on data collection methods such as surveys, interviews, and ethnographic observations. Alongside data collection, there are also a variety of emerging analytical methods developing in conjunction with traditional approaches. Keywords: collection; data; research; studies
• OPEN DATA MEANS BUSINESS: WHEN MONETARY POTENTIAL IN OPEN DATA USURPS ASPIRATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPERANCY IN THE SMART CITY by Tavmen, Gunes (2019.0) - In doing so, I will foreground the political nature of open data despite the open data advocates' claim that open data movement is above ideologies and politics (Bates, 2012, 2013), therefore has been an “overly polite” one that chose to collaborate closely with consecutive governments instead of contesting them (Steinberg, 2016). OPEN DATA MEANS BUSINESS: WHEN MONETARY POTENTIAL IN OPEN DATA USURPS ASPIRATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPERANCY IN THE SMART CITY Güneş Tavmen King's College London Following the common criticism that smart cities are top-to-bottom, neoliberal, and technocratic corporate-led ambitions (McNeill, 2015; Söderström et al., 2014; Hollands, 2015; Wiig, 2015), open data has become pivotal in transforming smart city discourses into 'citizen-centric ones (also see Kitchin, 2014 and Barns, 2016) despite a lack of understanding its limitations, and political and contingent nature (Worthy, 2015). Keywords: cities; city; data; government
• PRESSURE CONTROLS: DATA FORCES CREEPING THROUGH FINGERTIP COMMANDS by Taylor, Simon; Witzenberger, Kevin (2019.0) - Statistical modelling of neural networks and fuzzy logic informed a basis for quantitative analysis on conventional keyboards (Ahmad, Szymkowiak, & Campbell, 2013) but user data expands with touching, scrolling, or swiping being recorded as technical models of pressure, force, duration, and position. By combining these case-studies with how data transformations functions in practice, we demonstrate how user data and computing infrastructures combine as complex assemblages of technical sensing outside a user’s knowledge or experience. Keywords: computing; data; force; media; pressure; user
• RE-VALUING PLATFORMS, RECLAIMING THE LOCAL by Gekker, Alex; Hind, Sam (2020.0) - In order to do this, the focus is on platform business models as they dictate (private and public, for and non-for-profit) actors’ roles and all this entails as the underlying layer behind platforms’ economic, social, and environmental ‘behavior’ (Magretta, 2002). It aims: 1) to examine the citizens' participation in governance endeavours; 2) to identify the attention for the value and responsibility dimensions of platform governance; and, 3) to study novel institutional practices of governance at a time of myriad black- boxed systems, owned and operated by various companies, while little is known about what organisational and management commitments are embedded within them or how new forms of (communal) organisation emerge through their use. Keywords: business; city; data; governance; infrastructures; market; media; models; new; platform; public; services; society; university; value
• MEDIATING PRECARITY THROUGH MOBILE APPS by Glover-Rijkse, Ragan; Stone, Melissa; Fletcher, Megan Alyssa; Eapen, Gayas (2020.0) - In this panel, we take up this perspective to problematize the recent use of mobile apps for mediating experiences of precarity. In a final move, we shift from apps that help users to avoid (harmful) people in the physical world to consider mobile apps that help users to connect with a nearby network of people with a similar identity. Keywords: apps; data; precarity; presentation; safety; spaces; users; violence; women
• THE DEAD SPEAK: BIG DATA AND DIGITALLY MEDIATED DEATH by Grandinetti, Justin; DeAtley, Tyler; Bruinsma, Jeffery (2020.0) - Wright (2014) points to many ways in which dead user data is problematic, including the ownership of such data belonging either to the estate of the deceased or the hosting digital platform. Algorithms do not specifically differentiate between the living and the dead and, even if they were coded to avoid dead user data, there may come a point when dead user data is the bulk of the available data online (Öhman and Watson 2019). Keywords: data; dead; death; digital; griefbots; human; media; platforms; streaming; user
• MEDIATING MENTAL ILLNESS: DIGITAL LIFEWORLDS, PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMS by Hendry, Natalie Ann; Wan, Evelyn; Flore, Jacinthe; McCosker, Anthony; Kamstra, Peter; Farmer, Jane (2020.0) - As the global pandemic of Covid-19 brings an increased risk to mental health, the US FDA is relaxing rules for digital therapy apps, thus accelerating the development and availability of mental health digital technologies (Simonite 2020). It draws on publicly available material on Abilify MyCite, including recommendations and documentation published by the FDA, to articulate a framework for understanding subjectivity in the era of digital mental health. Keywords: data; digital; experiences; health; illness; media; online; paper; platforms; psychiatry; social; technology; university; user; woebot
• PLATFORMIZING KNOWLEDGE: MESS AND MEANING IN WEB 3.0 INFRASTRUCTURES by Iliadis, Andrew; Stevens, Wesley; Plantin, Jean-Christophe; Acker, Amelia; Davies, Huw; Eynon , Rebecca (2020.0) - Though the project has yet to fully live up to the early vision of ubiquitous adoption promoted by Berners-Lee, there is clear evidence that standards created by W3C have impacted areas where semantic web data must be exchanged by machines. Since these early beginnings, W3C’s standards have effectively bootstrapped the semantic web into what it is today, undergirding web data in several domains. Keywords: companies; data; google; graphs; information; knowledge; media; metadata; new; platforms; press; research; schema.org; society; users; web
• HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES by Jones, Steve; Guzman, Andrea; Conner, Thomas; Pashevich, Ekaterina (2020.0) - HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES Andrea Guzman Northern Illinois University Thomas Conner University of California San Diego Ekaterina Pashevich University of Oslo Steve Jones University of Illinois Chicago Panel overview Digital voice assistants, social robots, artificial intelligence and progressively refined algorithms are ushering in new modes of interaction that increasingly mediates between human and machine. Thus, the Internet of toys represents the first step towards the industry of social robots for children (Peter et al., 2019). Keywords: children; communication; data; empathy; ethics; human; journalism; machines; research; robots; technology
• IN THE SHADOWS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: THE GHOST WORK OF INFRASTRUCTURAL LABOR by Kaun, Anne; Velkova, Julia; Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Delfanti, Alessandro; Logsdon, Alexis; Stiernstedt, Fredrik; Lehtiniemi, Tuukka; Ruckenstein, Minna (2020.0) - What has been underexplored so far is a specific part of prison work that relates to media or what we call prison media work. In the current day, part of the labor conducted by incarcerated individuals is related to the production, repair and maintenance of media devices and media infrastructures constituting what we call prison media work (Kaun & Stiernstedt, 2020). Keywords: data; digital; human; labor; media; new; press; prison; prisoners; production; university; work; workers
• ALGORITHMIC PRODUCTION BEYOND SILICON VALLEY by Kotliar, Dan M; Ribak, Rivka; Ahmed, Shazeda; Roberge, Jonathan; Senneville, Marius (2020.0) - Elsewhere, Chinese legal scholars compare US anti-discrimination law to what they see as its weaker Chinese counterpart in order to make the case that the latter is ill- equipped to manage algorithmic discrimination and must therefore be reformed.3 Calls for revision of existing data protection laws to include language on algorithmic bias remain unmet (Cui 2019).4 Both types of policy revision recommendations avert the suggestion of creating entirely separate laws around the use of algorithmic systems more generally, or drafting of sector-specific regulations. The growing discourse on algorithmic discrimination in China is itself a challenge to the notion that all Chinese citizens uncritically accept the incursion of algorithmic systems into everyday life. Keywords: algorithms; china; companies; culture; data; developers; discrimination; information; new; press; privacy; society; technology; university; york
• THE BIOMETRIC LIVES OF MIGRANTS: BORDERS, DISCRIMINATION AND (IN)JUSTICE by Madianou, Mirca; Dencik, Lina; Aradau, Claudia; Taylor, Linnet; Metcalfe, Philippa; Perret, Sarah (2020.0) - How are biometric data constituted and what are their limitations and biases? Who benefits from the extraction of biometric data, including ‘digital identity’ programmes for refugees? Keywords: asylum; biometrics; border; data; digital; european; migrants; migration; paper; refugees; security; technologies; traces; university
• DIGITAL CULTURES OF CARE, SAFETY AND WELLBEING by McCosker, Anthony; Maddox, Alexia; Albury, Kath; Dietzel, Christopher; Barratt, Monica (2020.0) - Caught in the web: informed consent for online health research. A relational concept of wellbeing is vital, we argue, for understanding and facilitating cultures of care, safety and wellbeing in dating app use. Keywords: app; apps; care; community; data; dating; health; online; participants; people; research; use; users; wellbeing
• THE HIDDEN BLUEPRINT: A DISSECTION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ON LIVING SYSTEMS by O'Connell, Carrie; Van De Wiele, Chad; Sawyer, Kristina; Ferris-Dobles, Michele; Garcia, Melina (2020.0) - Traditionally, in the context of human migration, communication technologies have been broadly understood as resources (Awad & Tossell, 2019). For example, multiple papers investigate how algorithms seek to manage, mitigate, and encourage human behavior, while others look at the physical technological infrastructure which guides the flow of human migration. Keywords: amazon; chicago; communication; data; digital; human; information; media; migration; network; new; society; systems; technologies; technology; university
• DATAFICATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: EXPLORING THE BORDERS BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICES AND CITIZENS by Spilker, Hendrik Storstein; Reuter, Lisa; Broomfield, Heather; Aasback, Anne; Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cinningham (2020.0) - Focusing on the ways practitioners include and problematize citizen’s perspectives in their work, the presentation critically reflects on the question of citizen agency in public sector datafication. doi:10.1177/2053951718809145 Presentation 2: Linking digital citizens and social workers: a case study of digital activity plan in the Norwegian welfare and labor administration (Anne W. Aasback) Keywords: citizens; clients; data; datafication; design; digital; new; participation; public; sector; services
• MEASURED EDUCATION: SENSING, CONFIGURING AND INTERVENING WITH ADVANCED MEDIA by Witzenberger, Kevin; Gulson, Kalervo; Sellar, Sam; Williamson, Ben; de Freitas, Elizabeth (2020.0) - Such bioinformatics studies are paradigmatic of the emergence of data- intensive, life-sensitive science as a means of producing new policy knowledge in education. ‘Life’ and education policy: intervention, augmentation and computation. Keywords: data; education; governance; human; knowledge; learning; life; machine; new; paper; policy; technology; university
• TMI: INFORMATION RHETORIC TYPES IN DIGITAL POLITICAL INFOGRAPHICS by Amit-Danhi, Eedan (2020.0) - Recent works on contemporary visualizations suggest that while most still adhere to traditional standards (Kennedy et al, 2016; Kennedy & Hill, 2018), political visualizations allow designers to stray from them, by visualizing non-data (values and opinions) and by embedding data visualizations in non-pedagogical graphic contexts (e.g. decorations, photography, iconic imagery, art) (Amit-Danhi & Shifman, 2018; 2020). Therefore, this study seeks to define the types of political information that are visualized, in order to answer the wider question of what is the rhetorical role of 'information' in contemporary digital political visualizations? Keywords: data; information; visualizations
• LAYERS OF “NETWORKED PRIVACY”: CONTEXT COLLAPSES ACROSS RELATIONS, TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND DATA by Baik, Sophia Jeeyun (2020.0) - As we negotiate the rules to protect data privacy along various regulatory efforts, the extended concept of networked privacy could provoke conversations in privacy rulemaking to identify the multi-layered networked privacy harms emerging in different context collapses. Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media. Keywords: context; data; marwick; privacy
• THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND DATA PROTECTION: COMPLEMENTARY FOR DEVELOPING CITIZEN-CENTRIC DIGITAL CITIES? by Breuer, Jonas; Pierson, Jo (2020.0) - 1 SPECTRE (Smart city Privacy: Enhancing Collaborative Transparency in the Regulatory Ecosystem) is funded by the Flemish region and allows three research centres of different disciplines to combine their expertise and investigate the potential of data protection and in particular Data Protection Impact Assessments in strengthening the role of citizens in smart cities. We present ongoing research about the Right to the City (Lefebvre, 1968) and the right to personal data protection: complementary in fostering agency and protecting citizen interests in technologically-enhanced, citizen-centric cities. Keywords: cities; city; data; protection; right
• ALGORITHMIC LEGAL METRICS by Burk, Dan (2020.0) - When inserted into legal determinations that intrinsically require moral character judgments, we may expect the value biases embedded algorithmic legal metrics to effectively become legal judgments. Here I essentially consider the inverse proposition: I explore the effects of incorporating algorithms, which is to say algorithmic metrics, into legal standards. Keywords: algorithms; data; effects; metrics
• THE EVOLUTION OF FACEBOOK'S GRAPH API by Burkhardt, Marcus; Helmond, Anne; Seitz, Tatjana; van der Vlist, Fernando (2020.0) - This covers the initial beta Facebook API up to the current version 6.0 of the Graph API, which was scraped from the live web. The Evolution of Facebook’s Graph API. Keywords: api; apis; data; facebook; graph
• MORAL ECONOMIES OF OPEN DATA PLATFORMS by Burns, Ryan; Welker, Preston (2020.0) - In this presentation, we argue that hackathons, datathons, and open data platforms are constituted through moral economies that are entangled within technoscientific capitalist accumulation practices and logics. We show that open data platforms enroll the unremunerated labor of a range of stakeholders who comply due to the seeming altruism of such programs. Keywords: data; economies; labor; new; platforms
• TWITTERING RESEARCH, CALLING OUT AND CANCELING CULTURES: A STORY AND SOME QUESTIONS by de Castell, Suzanne; Kennedy, Helen W.; Atkinson, Sarah; Jenson, Jennifer; Thumlert, Colleen (2020.0) - What made this project distinctive, and especially promising, is that the bonds between and among partners weren’t just forged for this particular grant, but in the majority of cases had years of collaborative work and scholarly association behind them—and those that were newly forged shared explicit commitments to feminist research and praxis. We situate this case study and this process of initiation and annihilation within the broader context within which social media platforms are a critical site of intensive affective discursive practices through which individual and institutional reputations are made and unmade – frequently with far reaching professional and or personal consequences. Keywords: data; feminist; research; twitter
• RESEARCHING ONLINE LABOR STRIKE AND PROTEST PREDICTION TECHNOLOGIES by Grill, Gabriel (2020.0) - Discussion These recent trends in protest social media surveillance are not new and can be considered a continuation of long-standing risk assessment efforts to anticipate disruption and unrest. Contemporary research on online social data was focused more on platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Tumbler. Keywords: analysis; data; prediction; protests; research
• OPEN DATA PLATFORMS FOR A DATA COMMONS, HOW TO SUPPORT THE LIFE OF DATA BEYOND RELEASE by Hamilton, Hannah; De Paoli, Stefano; Wilson, Anna; Singh, Greg (2020.0) - One way to tackle some of the challenges surrounding open data use is via the creation of Internet-based platforms designed to promote and facilitate data reuse by the public (broadly defined to encompass not only individuals but also all sorts of organisations), establishing open data as a commons, aggregating the data and offering recommender systems capable of supporting the life of data beyond its initial use and production. Data Commons Scotland is a project that aims to create a prototype Internet-based platform that not only enables access, but actively encourages increasingly sophisticated and critical use of open data, thus facilitating a life for data beyond the one of the original producer. Keywords: data; life; open; platform
• THE MORALISATION OF PREDICTIVITY IN THE AGE OF DATA-DRIVEN SURVEILLANCE by Hong, Sun-ha (2020.0) - New systems for data collection and processing were thus justified through the persistent interpellation of uncertainty towards a moralised argument, in which the rapid expansion of new surveillance technologies was an ethical obligation to ‘do something’ as much as a calculated response to statistical and geopolitical realities. The Lone Wolf Such revisionist narratives about past terrors in turn feed into unprovable claims in favour of new surveillance technologies from NSA dragnets to sentencing algorithms. Keywords: data; new; predictivity; surveillance; terrorist
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AUDIT: TRACING THE ROOTS AND REPERCUSSIONS OF THE HRT-TRANSGENDER DATABASE by Keyes, Os; Austin, Jeanie; Zimmer, Michael (2020.0) - On the surface, this controversy centers on issues that are well-covered in critical data studies and internet research ethics; the problem of treating data as “already public” and the insufficiency of existing accountability mechanisms around algorithmic systems (Zimmer, 2010; Neyland, 2016). Seaver, Nick. (2017) Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Keywords: data; database; research; systems; transgender
• SMART CITIES’ ENVIRONMENTAL DREAMS AND THEIR DIRTY MATERIAL POLITICS by Kuntsman, Adi (2020.0) - The literature about smart cities, similarly, talks about “sharing cities”; “green growth”, “green infrastructure”, “progressive urbanisation”, “sustainable urbanism”, “green technology innovation”, “resilient cities”, “smart future” and more. At the heart of my paper lies a troubling, yet crucial question: how to reconcile the rapid and expansive adoption of various smart technologies into environmentally driven initiatives and sustainability projects such as smart cities, with the extensive environmental damages brought on by the digitization itself? Keywords: cities; city; data; digital
• OBJECTIFYING THE PLATFORM SOCIETY: INVESTIGATING USERS’ PERCEPTION OF SMART SPEAKERS' ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING by Locatelli, Elisabetta (2020.0) - Objectifying the platform society: investigating users’ perception of smart speakers’ algorithmic suggestions and data processing. INVESTIGATING USERS’ PERCEPTION OF SMART SPEAKERS’ ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING Elisabetta Locatelli Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Theoretical framework Smart speakers are devices that connect people with computing systems through voice to perform several activities and tasks (Bentley et al., 2018). Keywords: data; research; speakers; users
• NON-HUMAN HUMANITARIANISM: WHEN AI FOR GOOD TURNS OUT TO BE BAD by Madianou, Mirca (2020.0) - Humanitarian AI appears to solve problems, whilst in practice benefitting stakeholders, including commercial companies which are increasingly involved in public-private partnerships. The observation that some of the key developments in AI humanitarianism fail their own objectives should not mean that these innovations do not have powerful consequences. Keywords: data; good; humanitarianism; madianou
• HEALTH DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LINKING DIGITAL HEALTH TO COMMUNICATION AND AI STUDIES by Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang; Kjær, Katrine Meldgaard (2020.0) - HEALTH DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LINKING DIGITAL HEALTH TO COMMUNICATION AND AI STUDIES Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke Roskilde University, Denmark Katrine Meldgaar Kjær IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Drawing on the examples of current health debates on social media this paper explores the broader theoretical question how we may expand our understanding of ‘health data’ to include health debates and discussions on social media, and further, how these can be linked to the concepts of digital health data assemblages (Lupton, 2016) and communicative others (Gunkel, 2012). The paper thus theoretically links digital data assemblages with communication and AI theory which provides tools to think about health data as relational and communicative. Keywords: data; health; media
• EASY DATA, USUAL SUSPECTS, SAME OLD PLACES? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH BETWEEN 1995-2019 by Ozkula, Suay Melisa; Reilly, Paul; Hayes, Jennifer (2020.0) - #H2: Research methodologies using digital data predominantly draw on Twitter data, particularly hashtag and keyword searches (= “low-hanging fruit”). Future Work The findings of the review suggest that future scholarship would benefit from including other methodological approaches such as hard data studies through high-level (and therefore more extensive) access, as well as non-Twitter single- or multi-platform studies, and more contextualized approaches (e.g. multi-platform, triangulated, and holistic approaches) towards producing knowledge that is somewhat more representative of the complex and wide digital landscapes. Keywords: data; studies; twitter
• PLATFORM LOGIC AND THE INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER OF TECH GIANTS by Plantin, Jean-Christophe (2020.0) - Inserting of a platform Once network components are disaggregated, a platform is inserted to integrate them all together. Making components modular With network components now modular, they can each be changed or updated separately. Keywords: data; giants; platform; tech
• 'DATA, CAMERA, ACTION: HOW ALGORITHMS ARE SHAKING UP EUROPEAN SCREEN PRODUCTION' by Rasmussen, Nina Vindum (2020.0) - I zoom in on the experiences of screenwriters, directors, and producers based in Europe and ask: How does the use of audience data and algorithms affect their creative labour? My interviewees have encountered audience data and/or algorithmic tools in one way or another – either by using these technologies and insights themselves or by collaborating with a streaming service. Keywords: algorithms; data; production; screen
• PERCEPTIONS OF ALGORITHMIC PROFILING ON FACEBOOK AND THEIR SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS by Tamò Larrieux, Aurelia; Fosch Villaronga, Eduard; Velidi, Shruthi; Viljoen, Salome; Lutz, Christoph; Büchi, Moritz (2020.0) - Notably, this research has shown that many users are unaware of the existence of algorithms, for example those which curate news feeds (Eslami et al., 2015), and that a majority feels uncomfortable with algorithmic profiling on Facebook (Hiltin & Rainie, 2019). In our research, we investigate perceptions of algorithmic profiling on Facebook by addressing the following questions: What user narratives of profiling on Facebook exist? Keywords: data; facebook; profiling
• DISSOLVED CLOUDS: ERICSSON'S VAUDREUIL DATA CENTRE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL ABANDONMENT by Velkova, Julia; Brodie, Patrick (2020.0) - Tech giants and smaller actors alike have been fervently constructing data centres to enable these practices, animating hopes and promises for ‘a fourth industrial revolution’ and likewise new paths of value creation within digital capitalism. This paper engages with infrastructural abandonment that emerges in the process of rapid construction of data centres. Keywords: centre; data; ericsson; vaudreuil
• BURYING THE DEAD (USERS): A LIFE OF DATA WITHIN LIMITS by Welsh, Sarah (2020.0) - Because there is no end in sight for death as a force of life, and because digital media technologies proliferate among users across the globe, the goals of this paper are twofold: to review the sustainability of solutions to the afterlife of digital remains, and to outline solutions that allow digital zombies to live within LIMITS, or to exist in the same ephemeral spaces as our physical bodies. That is, this paper questions the life of digital data that can be maintained and can even grow after a user passes on. Keywords: data; digital; remains
• ETHICAL REVIEW BOARDS AND PERVASIVE DATA RESEARCH: GAPS AND OPPORTUNITIES by Zimmer, Michael; Chapman, Edward (2020.0) - Over two-thirds of the respondents indicated that no specific training was provided for IRB members to address the ethics of pervasive data research, and over 90 percent noted the absence any specific set of guidelines for reviewing protocols that rely on pervasive data. Other scenarios share this feature, suggesting confusion exists across IRB members regarding how to address pervasive data research. Keywords: data; irb; protocols; research; researchers; respondents
• SOCIAL ONTOLOGY IN BIG DATA ORGANIZING by Iliadis, Andrew; Pulsifer, Peter; Lauriault, Tracey; Couldry, Nick; Mejias, Ulises Ali (2018.0) - Data ontologies are an update to those problems, complicated by semantics (“who counts what?”). Social ontology in big data organizing. Keywords: data; homeless; information; intake; knowledge; media; new; ontologies; ontology; paper; services; systems; university
• TOWARDS CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY: CAN CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES DEMOCRATIZE ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE? by Hintz, Arne (2021.0) - The part of the project that is discussed in this paper draws on findings from 15 expert interviews conducted between June 2019 and March 2021 with members of government, civil society organizations and providers of citizen engagement fora; extensive desk research on methods and cases of participatory initiatives; and a fact-finding workshop with representatives of relevant institutions and initiatives. We have been interested in the level of participation, the decision-making power and the policy impact of public engagement initiatives, as well as prospects for institutionalizing civic participation at different levels of decision- making. Keywords: citizens; data; participation; society
• DISEMBEDDEDNESS IN MACHINE LEARNING DATA WORK by Posada, Julian (2021.0) - The data workers were reached through an online survey sent through the platforms and a series of in-depth 2 semi-structured interviews with platform workers and members of their social circles to identify their background, their experience with online work, the composition of their personal networks, and how their work interacts, intersects, and depends on their social connections. At the same time, from the perspective of embodied social reproduction, while experiencing high degrees of disembeddedness as “independent contractors,” data workers, mostly identifying as male, rely on the domestic, economic, and emotional support of their 3 families, friends, and communities to compensate for the social and economic risks of their primary source of income. Keywords: data; labor; learning; platforms; workers
• BODIES AND DATA: THE DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIAN STATE by Prasad, Revati (2021.0) - While the claims of data sovereignty gesture towards the geopolitical, the biopolitical work of Aadhaar expands dominion within national borders. The project of digital sovereignty consolidates the power of the Indian state. Keywords: data; india; sovereignty; state
• INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT, DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTION OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE: THE MAKING OF THE FIRST STATEWIDE RAPE KIT TRACKING PLATFORM by Shelby, Renee (2021.0) - INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT, DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTION OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE: THE MAKING OF THE FIRST STATEWIDE RAPE KIT TRACKING PLATFORM Renee Shelby Northwestern University Across the US, police management of sexual assault kits (SAKs) has led to systemic disorganization resulting in lost, forgotten, and abandoned forensic evidence. Rather than “victim’s rights” or “perpetrator accountability,” I find concerns about “timeliness” and the temporal life of forensic evidence structured the creation, deployment, and maintenance of IKTS. Keywords: data; evidence; ikts
• DATA INQUIRY: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON DATAFICATION IN SOCIAL RESEARCH by Zakharova, Irina (2021.0) - To contribute to explorations of that interdependence within the domains of critical data studies and media studies, I extend on the notions of methods performativity (Barad, 2007) and methods assemblages (Law, 2004) developed within science and technology studies. Methods The presented data inquiry develops three kinds of methods assemblages based on a review of empirical social research on datafication. Keywords: data; datafication; methods; research
• AOIR ETHICS PANEL 2: PLATFORM CHALLENGES by Gliniecka, Martyna; Reagle, Joseph; Proferes, Nicholas; Fiesler, Casey; Gilbert, Sarah; Jones, Naiyan; Zimmer, Michael; Xia, Huichuan; Sehat, Connie Moon; Prabhakar, Tarunima; Kaminski, Aleksei (2021.0) - These include: “Reddit Research And Reflexivity: A Situated Ethics Framework For Publicly Available User- Generated Data” by [redacted] that studies people's online conversations about health matters on Reddit in support of a proposed situated ethics framework for researchers working with publicly available data; “Ethical research and the practice and efficacy of masking Reddit sources” by [redacted] that explores the sourcing practices among Reddit researchers to determine if their sources could be unmasked and located in Reddit archives; “Addressing Ethics in Reddit Research: A Systematic Review” by [redacted] which provides a broad systematic review of over 700 research studies that used Reddit data to assess the kinds of analysis and methods researchers are engaging in as well as any ethical considerations that emerge when researching Reddit; “The “Original Sin” of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Academic Research” by [redacted] which provides a critical examination of the use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for academic research; and “Ethical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research: Considerations for Democratic Contexts” by [redacted] which investigates current practices and ethical dilemmas faced when researching closed messaging applications their users. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 66(3), 250–261 THE “ORIGINAL SIN” OF AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH Huichan Xia Peking University, China Introduction Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has been popular among academic scholars to recruit participants and collect research data. Keywords: amazon; aoir; data; ethics; human; media; mturk; reddit; requesters; research; researchers; review; sources; users; workers
• WHEN DEATH DEPENDS ON NETWORKED INFORMATION by Wernimont, Jacqueline; Kneese, Tamara; Sutherland, Tonia; Cifor4, Marika (2021.0) - “To Make Death Data Faster”: the History and Politics of the Effort to “Modernize and Automate” Mortality Statistics Jacqueline Wernimont Dartmouth Abstract It is also at the 1999 meeting that we begin to see discussion of distributed work and remote reporting appear as central themes in the effort to make death data faster. Keywords: aids; covid-19; data; dead; death; effort; information; life; management; media; mortality; pandemic; people; records; risk; technologies; university
• ALGORITHMIC IMAGINATIONS: RETHINKING “ALGORITHMIC” AS A HEURISTIC FOR UNDERSTANDING COMPUTATIONALLY-STRUCTURED CULTURE by Striphas, Ted; Hallinan, Blake; Reynolds, CJ; Brown, Mikayla; Postigo, Hector (2021.0) - Awareness of a deterministic, barely visible computational hand shaping society is evident in academic scholarship, which has experienced a proliferation of studies on the subjects of: the oppressive dimensions of algorithmic decision making, particularly with respect to race and gender (Benjamin 2019; Browne 2015; Cheney-Lippold 2018; Gandy 1993; O’Neil 2016; Nakamura, 2009; Noble 2018); the nature, definition, and historicity of algorithms (Gillespie 2017; Goffey 2008; Seaver 2017; Striphas 2021); algorithmic culture (Galloway 2006; Striphas 2015); the relationship between algorithms, media systems, democracy, and public life (Andrejevic 2019; Pasquale 2015; Vaidhyanathan 2012; Vaidhyanathan 2018); and more. Similarly, this panel contends that the ways in which algorithms have been “thought,” or imagined, have made it difficult to conceive of practicable strategies for transforming algorithmic cultures and, indeed, for delinking them from both state and corporate control. Keywords: algorithms; culture; data; digital; identity; imagination; information; new; platform; press; research; society; striphas; university; york; youtube
• DATA CITIZENSHIP: DATA LITERACIES TO CHALLENGE POWER IMBALANCE by Carmi, Elinor; Yates, Simeon (2021.0) - In this paper we present the findings from the third phase of our “Me and My Big Data: Developing Citizens Data Literacies” project on citizens data literacies. This understanding will provide a foundation to develop education programmes that will provide citizens with data literacies to make the best use for their lives and wellbeing. Keywords: citizens; data; literacies; people
• A CRITICAL FUTURE OF VIRTUAL REALITY: ALL WORK AND NO PLAY by Carter, Marcus; Egliston, Ben (2021.0) - While Walmart emphasise that VR assessment is only one of the “data points” used in hiring decisions, the VR companies we examined enthusiastically frame the potential for the complete automation of hiring decisions based on the “objective” data collected from VR use. VR data is of course not “objective”; while we found no discussion of the training datasets in our study (Carter & Egliston, 2021), commercial machine-learning products are typically trained on biased datasets of neurotypical, male, and able-bodied engineers (Mehrabi et al. 2019). Keywords: carter; data; egliston; reality
• FAKE POPULARITY FOR REAL MONEY: COMMERCIAL ASTROTURFING AND DATA BUBBLE ON CHINESE DIGITAL PLATFORM by Han, Xiaofei; Hou, Jiaxi (2021.0) - Fake popularity for real money: Enlarging data bubble on Chinese digital platforms. Similar to the bubble in a stock market where the price of assets substantially exceeds its intrinsic value, we propose “data bubble” as a neologism to describe the phenomenon and ecosystem of manipulating data to aim for an inflated popularity on Chinese digital platforms, which ultimately pitch to higher commercial and financial values. Keywords: bubble; data; platforms; users
• THE GOVERNANCE OF FACEBOOK PLATFORM by Helmond, Anne; van der Vlist, Fernando; Burkhardt, Marcus; Seitz, Tatjana (2021.0) - While the Facebook Graph API (GAPI) is the best-known, there are hundreds of distinct Facebook API entities that have (dis)appeared over the years. Specifically, we consider the relationality between the design of Facebook’s APIs, platform governance, and (data) strategy from a material-evolutionary perspective on three levels: (1) the structure of Facebook’s entire API architecture, (2) core API objects in terms of their properties, connections, and parameters, and (3) their associated permissions, as handled through Facebook applications and Login, using current and archived Facebook developer pages. Keywords: apis; data; facebook; governance; platform
• THE SEER AND THE SEEN: A SURVEY OF TOPICS FOUND IN PALANTIR PATENTS by Iliadis, Andrew James; Acker, Amelia (2021.0) - This produced a purposive sample (n=155) of Palantir patents, consisting of 5197 pages, over 2.5 million words, and over 18.5 million characters. Sample list of Palantir ontology patent titles. Keywords: data; palantir; patents; table; topics
• INDEPENDENCE THROUGH DATA JOURNALISM by Kantor, Avner; Rafaeli, Sheizaf (2021.0) - In order to reduce exposure bias, we used the replies ratio as a measure of audience engagement (Ksiazek et al., 2016). Despite this, there seems to be no difference in audience engagement between 2014 and 2016. Keywords: audience; data; journalism
• ‘IT’S MY FAULT FOR POSTING IN THE FIRST PLACE’: HOW INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SELF-BLAME ARE SUSTAINED AND INTERNALIZED by Liao, Tony; Fite, Haley (2021.0) - As this research makes apparent, there are complicated rationalizations and compromises happening when it comes to digital privacy, as individuals navigate the space and engage in a series of trade-offs, defense mechanisms, and cognitive dissonance (Draper & Turow, 2019; Fiesler & Hallinan, 2018). Founded in 2015, CrystalKnows automatically generates personality profiles for certain individuals through an algorithm that captures and processes public data online. Keywords: blame; data; people; privacy
• DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SOCIAL VISUALS: STUDYING CLIMATE COMMUNICATION ON YOUTUBE by Magnani, Matteo; Segerberg, Alexandra (2021.0) - This paper examines validity conditions for integrating deep neural network tools in the study of digitally augmented social visuals. It is challenging to robustly integrate deep learning into the study of politics, and a particularly difficult area concerns the analysis of social visuals. Keywords: analysis; communication; data; visuals
• MAPPING HEALTH: HOW DANES EXPERIENCE THEIR DIGITAL HEALTH DATA by Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang; Nielsen, Mikka (2021.0) - MAPPING HEALTH: HOW DANES EXPERIENCE THEIR DIGITAL HEALTH DATA Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke Roskilde University, Denmark Mikka Nielsen University of Copenhagen, Denmark This paper explores how Danish citizens experience digital health data and how these in turn affect their understanding of digital health data and their self-understanding as a patient. Examining the national health platform sundhed.dk (sundhed is the Danish word for health) is hence of great value with regards to shedding light on the ramifications of digital health data. Keywords: data; digital; health; patients
• STITCHING THE CURVE: PANDEMIC CRAFT AND FEMINIST DATA VISUALIZATION by Moreshead, Abigail; Rouse, Lauren; Salter, Anastasia (2021.0) - Method To understand Stitching the Curve as a feminist intervention into data visualization, we examine the media coverage around the project, which includes the online blogs of the project’s participants. Given the project’s emphasis on drawing attention to marginalized data from mainstream periodicals, we focus on news articles and blog posts, which were coded for mentions of collaboration, data visualization, affective experience, activism, and materiality. Keywords: curve; data; stitching; visualization
• SEARCHING FOR THE FORGOTTEN: EXAMINING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF VICTIMS OF POLICE KILLINGS by Pierre, Jennifer; Currie, Morgan; Paris, Britt; Pasquetto, Irene (2021.0) - Pierre YouTube Morgan Currie University of Edinburgh Britt Paris Rutgers University Irene Pasquetto University of Michigan Introduction Contrary to the idea that social media is solely or primarily used for recreation, American adults are increasingly using social media for a variety of personal informational and expressive tasks, including finding and sharing health information, advice on parenting and dating, and even information on stress levels (Perrin, 2015). Many scholars point toward a deeper and more comprehensive study of social media in general as a worthy goal of continued future research in the information fields (boyd, 2015; Brabham, 2015; Domingo, 2015). Keywords: data; information; media; police
• CONTEXTUALIZING AI ETHICS IN TIME AND SPACE by Rivnai Bahir, Shira; Kotliar, Dan M; Avnoon, Netta (2021.0) - Accordingly, algorithmic ethics is recently raising considerable public and scholarly interest (Ananny 2016; Wachter, Mittelstadt & Floridi 2017), as researchers, activists, and legislators have begun to chart ethical frameworks to direct the development and implementation of such algorithms (Jobin, Ienca & Vayena 2019). However, despite an extensive multi-disciplinary discussion, the literature on algorithmic ethics tends to examine the subject through philosophical, legal, or technocratic perspectives, largely neglecting the empirical, socio-cultural ones. Keywords: algorithms; data; ethics; scientists
• FROM MONOPOLIZING MEMORY TO CO-CREATING IT: OPENNESS AND EQUITY IN THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM by Tzouganatou, Angeliki; Krueckeberg, Jennifer (2021.0) - In addition, it discusses the role of community and human-centered practices as a basis to untap the potential of open public memory infrastructures that run independently from technology monopolies. This contribution aims to be an exploration for a theoretical prototype combining aspects of open public memory infrastructures, and digital sovereignty, with human-centered practices derived from ethnographic fieldwork with youth. Keywords: data; digital; media; memory; practices
• FROM WATCHED AT WORK TO WATCHED AT HOME: WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE DURING A PANDEMIC by Vitak, Jessica; Zimmer, Michael (2021.0) - The COVID-19 lockdowns caused significant shifts in work practices—and in workplace monitoring. This blurring of public and private boundaries now under surveillance is concerning, as is the potential for such surveillance practices to continue after the pandemic. Keywords: data; monitoring; surveillance; workplace
• WHY MAKING MATTERS ONLINE: THE PINTEREST-DIY DATA SET by Weintraub, Michelle Sylvia; Sears, David R W (2021.0) - The data for this study have been mined from DIY project Pins beginning prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. We found, for example, that DIY projects typically employed synthetic polymers as materials, followed by wood, fibers, glass, and metals. Keywords: data; diy; pinterest; project; set
• PANDEMIC POLITICS: THE 2021 AND 2022 GERMAN AND AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Schumacher, Nina Fabiola; Bruns, Axel; Mathieu, Moritz; Nuernbergk, Christian; Righetti, Nicola; Giglietto, Fabio; Kavakand, Azade; Kulichkina, Aytalina; Marino, Giada; Terenzi, Massimo; Angus, Daniel; Graham, Timothy; Dehghan, Ehsan; Jude, Nadia; Matich, Phoebe; Andrejevic, Mark; Carlson, Bronwyn; Obeid, Abdul; Mai, Philip; Gruzd, Anatoliy (2023.0) - Twitter use in election campaigns. Approach Building on the methodology established in our studies of Australian federal elections in 2013, 2016, and 2019, this work-in-progress paper presents a first analysis of social media campaigning during the 2022 Australian federal election. Keywords: advertising; analysis; campaign; candidates; centre; data; digital; election; facebook; media; parties; queensland; research; technology; twitter; university
• SEMANTIC MEDIA: POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMIZED FACT PRODUCTION by Iliadis, Andrew; Ford, Heather; Allhutter, Doris; McDowell, Zachary; Vetter, Matthew (2023.0) - Such structured information is supposed to add a layer of contextual expressivity to web data that would otherwise be more difficult to parse, though the issue of context control is not unproblematic in relation to statements of facts. The ability to algorithmically search, retrieve, and reason with web data meaningfully often requires these machine-readable, manually crafted metadata models. Keywords: data; facts; google; information; knowledge; metadata; platform; power; practices; semantic; systems; web; wikidata; wikipedia
• PLATFORM VISIONS AND INVASIONS: SPATIAL (RE)IMAGINATIONS IN BIG TECH DISCOURSE by Niessen, Niels; Atalaia, Nuno; Luchs, Inga; Riemens, Rianne (2023.0) - And the fourth paper analyzes how space companies, led by tech entrepreneurs Musk (Tesla) and Bezos (Amazon), imagine a future for humanity in extraterrestrial space. As Musk and Bezos hold prominent functions in space companies as well as tech companies (Tesla and Amazon), they are representative figures of the tech-on-climate discourse. Keywords: alexa; companies; data; google; new; paper; platform; sidewalk; space; tech; toronto; vision
• ENACTING THE POLITICS OF CARE WITH CHRONIC AND CRIP TECHNOLOGIES by Rentschler, Carrie Ann; Nothwehr, Benjamin; Morena, Nina; Mulvin, Dylan; McKinney, Cait; Horrocks, Stephen (2023.0) - Instead, as this paper analyzes, #mastectomy selfies on Instagram serve as potential sites of self and collective affirmation around another kind of articulation of breast cancer loss and grief, one that tarries more directly, but uncomfortably and unevenly, with the happiness politics of breast cancer philanthropy and the “recovery” focused aesthetics of so many self-help-oriented selfie aesthetics. What they do reveal, perhaps, is the ways women navigate the experience of loss and grief from mastectomy in the context of breast cancer through the processes of making, posting, and commenting on #mastectomy selfies on Instagram that communicate something else. Keywords: aids; breast; cancer; care; chronic; data; deaf; diabetes; diabetics; mastectomy; people; press; selfies; type; university; ways
• MOBILE MEDIA DURING THE PANDEMIC: FOUR SCENARIOS TO HELP US IMAGINE A MOBILE MEDIA FUTURE TOWARDS LIBERATION by Xiong-Gum, Mai Nou; Lee, JeongHyun; He, Guanqin; Zhang, Yijia; Wallis, Cara; de Souza e Silva, Adriana (2023.0) - In this panel, we examine how mobile media is being used in conjunction with governments, social media, privileged classes, and geographic information systems to better understand how we can imagine a future of mobile media uses in which there can be agency that is constituted in communities’ cultural and situated practices. In this study, we discuss both the consequences and affordances of digital inclusion and mobile media to build on to two key scholarly conversations that concern the affordances of digital inclusion and the privacy issues of mobile media use. Keywords: china; chinese; covid-19; data; digital; health; immobility; inclusion; information; media; pandemic; people; public; south; students
• HYBRID NETWORK METHODS TO DISENTANGLE DATAFICATION IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT by Amadori, Gaia; Mascheroni, Giovanna (2023.0) - This pervasiveness, yet ambivalence, of data in family life, then, poses an “epistemological puzzle” (Milan & Treré, 2019) that includes a methodological component. This paper has suggested how the adoption of a CGT methodology employing hybrid methods, which leverages the potential of network methods, may represent a way to materialize data relations and foster reflexivity to disentangle data colonialism in family life. Keywords: data; family; media; practices
• COST OF REMEMBERING: GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH ‘MEMORIES’ ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Annabell, Taylor (2023.0) - GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH ‘MEMORIES’ ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS Taylor Annabell King’s College London Instagram and Facebook assert through their memory products that certain previously shared digital traces are ‘memories’. A clear logic is presented by participants when they describe typical interactions with memory products. Keywords: data; memories; memory; platforms
• WALKSHOPS – TESTING A LOW THRESHOLD METHODOLOGY FOR PARTICIPATORY CITY MAKING by Breuer, Jonas; Van Zeeland, Ine; Pierson, Jo (2023.0) - In smart, datafied cities, it could contribute to empowering citizens, or the data subjects (Christofi et al., 2022), through its accountability principles, transparency obligations, and data subject rights intended to enable control and empowerment (Ausloos, 2020). Specifically, Article 35(9) GDPR stipulates involvement of data subjects in risk assessments. Keywords: city; data; walkshops
• EMERALD EXTRACTIVISM: BORDERS, ENERGY, AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURES IN IRELAND by Brodie, Patrick (2023.0) - But as Dublin maintains one of the highest concentrations of data centers in the world, primarily from US big tech “hyperscalers” (AWS, Facebook, Google, Microsoft) which have availed of the country’s low corporate tax rate, the presence and influence of these companies has been profound in shaping ROI’s current energy plans, which need to account for the expected ongoing growth of data centers (Bresnihan and Brodie, 2021). Data centers are thus clearly a crucial element in how contemporary digital systems are assembled across different environmental and territorial formations, but the extent of their influence on wider infrastructural arrangements and externalities is not yet widely understood. Keywords: centers; data; energy; ireland; university
• TOWARD INTIMATE DATA: RE-THINKING DIGITAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL RELATIONS by Burns, Ryan; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren; Welker, Preston (2023.0) - “Intimate data” is hardly a consistent or unified category, but some salient themes do emerge. Often, intimate data is used to mark a particular category of tracked behaviors or activities that are deemed—as a matter of legal or social convention—private or sensitive (Weltevrede and Jansen 2019). Keywords: data; datafication; intimacy
• DATA COLONIALISM AND DATA SOVEREIGNTY IN INDIGENOUS SPACES by Cocq, Coppélie (2023.0) - This paper suggests critical perspectives for sustainable digital research in relation to Indigenous research, more particularly regarding collection and management of data. First, I will approach and examine practices and principles of data collection, data management and data curation through the lens of Indigenous research. Keywords: colonialism; data; research; sovereignty
• LOOKING FOR MONTREAL DIGITAL CITIZENS: FOR WHO ARE OPEN DATA MADE? by Coutant, Alexandre; Millerand, Florence; Delias, Lucie; Fortier, Marie-Soleil (2023.0) - Municipalities' development of open data portals is part of this political drive to bring citizens and local governments closer together. Furthermore, citizens have a minimal understanding of the concrete implications of open data, not to mention an unfamiliarity with how to access them or interpret them (Goëta, 2016). Keywords: citizen; data; portal; public
• DO EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO DATA VISUALISATION MOBILISE PEOPLE TO ACT? A CASE STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE VISUALISATIONS IN DIFFERENT NATIONAL CONTEXTS by Frątczak, Monika (2023.0) - A CASE STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE VISUALISATIONS IN DIFFERENT NATIONAL CONTEXTS Monika Fratczak University of Sheffield Background There has been a huge rise in the visual communication of data and information in the form of data visualisation (datavis) in everyday social life and on social media. Therefore, this empirical study employs a comparative mixed qualitative methods approach, incorporating semiotic analysis of thirteen data visualisations about climate change published on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, nine semi-structured interviews with ten data visualisation professionals from six organisations who design, commission and/or disseminate data visualisations about climate change on social media, thirty-four semi-structured interviews and thirteen follow-up interviews with diverse social media users who responded to the data visualisations about climate change on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Keywords: data; datavis; kennedy
• THE DATA CENTER CANNOT HOLD: DATA COLONIALISM AND THE “NIMBUS PROJECT” by Gekker, Alex; Kotliar, Dan (2023.0) - Nothing epitomizes this turn more than the central object of our paper – data centers (Holt & Vonderau, 2015). The Data Center Cannot Hold: Data Colonialism and the “Nimbus Project”. Keywords: centers; colonialism; data; israel; paper
• LEVERAGING OR EXPLOITING? BREAKING THROUGH DATA COLONIALISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM WHEN BUILDING A DIVERSITY-AWARE SOCIAL PLATFORM. by Helm, Paula Marie; De Goetzen, Amalia; Cernuzzi, Luca; Diwakar, Shyam; Hume, Alethia; Ruiz-Correa, Salvador; Gommesen, Niels; Gatica-Perez, Daniel (2023.0) - First, we provide an overview of recent studies and conceptual works that address the challenges of transnational research efforts and innovation projects under the conditions of postcolonial technoscience. Based on this analysis, we draw some conclusions, that we hope will be instructive for future projects facing similar challenges. Keywords: data; diversity; partners; project; research
• TO GENERATE DATA AT ALL COSTS FOR TRAFFIC CELEBRITIES: THE REMAKING OF CHINESE NEW POOR THROUGH DATA-DRIVEN FAN CULTURE by Hou, Jiaxi (2023.0) - More importantly, datafication of social media platforms reinforces the power of quantification in reshaping new poor fans’ perception of autonomy and future. Concentrating on fans of traffic celebrities, this article aims at understanding how datafication affects people’s consumption and even reconfigures the intertwining socio-economic and techno-cultural inequalities in contemporary China. Keywords: data; fans; traffic
• CREATIVE DESIGN METHODS FOR IOT DATA ETHICS IN HYBRID SPACES by Jacobs, Naomi Jane; Kwon, Nuri; Mullagh, Louise (2023.0) - Conclusions Through this work, we have investigated ethical factors which must be considered in the construction of hybrid digital physical spaces where IoT deployments bring a data element to public space. In association with a local governmental authority located in the North-West of England, the project developed a prototype policy to support IoT deployments, to ensure they are conducted in a way that is ethical and secure. Keywords: data; deployments; iot; public
• WHAT IS PRIVACY LITERACY FOR? by Kumar, Priya (2023.0) - What is privacy literacy for?. In other words, what is privacy literacy for? Keywords: data; literacy; people; privacy
• EDITORIAL AUTOMATION: THE PURSUIT OF JOURNALISTIC MEANING IN AUTOMATED TOOLS AND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIAN NEWSROOMS by Montaña-Niño, Silvia (2023.0) - Covering COVID-19 with automated news. To adopt automatic writing, the fact that English is the dominant language to train automated tools gives Australian news outlets a comparative advantage. Keywords: automation; data; journalism; news; tools
• SUBORDINATED BY THE ALGORITHM: EXPLORING DATA COLONIALISM AMONG LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS by Morales, Esteban; Reilly, Katherine (2023.0) - Finally, participants show that various benefits of datafication promote their engagement with the information systems and should be considered when studying data colonialism, as shown by citizens who said that data collection and analysis allowed doctors better decision- making due to data available in medical history One of the most notorious effects of data colonialism is how its ideologies expand and reproduce power imbalances that arise from our contemporary economic and cultural ecosystems. Keywords: aoir; citizens; colonialism; data
• SHAPING APP DATA PUBLICS AS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CFIUS-GRINDR AND CFIUS-TIKTOK RULINGS by Myles, David (2023.0) - Specifically, it highlights how app data publics are increasingly at the heart of important discursive struggles that seek to determine whether or how they constitute a risk. This shift transformed CFIUS into an influential actor in matters of Internet regulation and platform data (mal)practice. Keywords: cfius; data; grindr; security
• WHERE IS THE GLOBAL SOUTH? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF GEOPOLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH by Oezkula, Suay Melisa; Reilly, Paul (2023.0) - A systematic review of geopolitical representation in digital activism research. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF GEOPOLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH Suay M. Özkula Università degli Studi di Trento Paul J. Reilly University of Glasgow Context Recent research has problematised the missing “voices” in digital activism research. Keywords: activism; data; media; research
• BEYOND PERFORMATIVE TRANSPARENCY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EU CODE OF PRACTICE ON DISINFORMATION by Park, Kirsty; Culloty, Eileen (2023.0) - As Busch (2021) writes, the pandemic has revealed the extent to which certain platforms act as systemic infrastructures in areas such as education, healthcare and communication, concluding that regulation of platforms should move towards a public infrastructure based regulation in which platforms are obligated to act in the public interest. Self- regulatory mechanisms to increase the accountability of digital platforms, such as the EU Code, have repeatedly failed to address these core issues. Keywords: code; data; disinformation; platforms
• NAVIGATING THE ECOSYSTEM OF BIG DATA AND ALGORITHMS AFTER INCARCERATION by Pinch, Annika C (2023.0) - An estimated 40-70 million Americans have criminal records (Lageson & Maruna, 2018), showing just how important it is to research people’s lives after incarceration. Future work should focus on people’s experiences with criminal records in other countries. Keywords: citizens; data; society; systems
• THE NETFLIX MACHINE: HOW EUROPEAN SCREEN WORKERS INTERPRET AND INTERACT WITH STREAMING DATA by Rasmussen, Nina Vindum (2023.0) - A next-generation production study This project takes the form of a production study that examines how screen workers negotiate the production dynamics in a streaming era. The narratives shared by screen workers and streaming executives in these public settings have departed significantly from the ones my participants have told me in confidential interviews. Keywords: data; production; screen; workers
• ALGORITHMIC RESISTANCE IN EUROPE AND THE QUESTION OF COLLECTIVE AGENCY by Scharenberg, Antje; Barassi, Veronica (2023.0) - Although over the last years much research has emerged on the civic and human rights implications of automated systems and algorithmic profiling, little attention has been paid to what was happening on the ground and how social movement actors were actively organising against algorithmic profiling. Although insightful, research in the field is still scarce and much more work is needed in the exploration of how social movement actors resist algorithmic profiling and reclaim a sense of collective agency. Keywords: data; new; profiling; resistance
• OUR DATA BODIES. RE-FRAMING OUR CONCEPTUAL AND NORMATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH PERSONAL DATA by Suárez-Gonzalo, Sara; López-Gabrielidis, Alejandra (2023.0) - Personal data are the object of the fundamental right to personal data protection, recognised in Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Reframing our conceptual and normative relationship with personal data presented at AoIR 2022: Keywords: data; person; rights
• SMART SPEAKERS AND DATA RELATIONS IN FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN by Zaffaroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe; Mascheroni, Giovanna; Amadori, Gaia (2023.0) - Research so far on the domestication of smart speakers into the domestic context, family relations, practices and imaginaries has been sparse. Other families enthusiastically accepted smart speakers as the latest technological gadget, conceiving of privacy risks as an inevitable yet trivial consequence. Keywords: children; data; families; speakers
• DATA REPRESENTATION AS EPISTEMOLOGICAL RESISTANCE by Bhargava, Rahul (2023.0) - We can derive inspirations for other possible epistemologies of data representation by drawing from approaches in other domains of study. Applied to this domain, this idea suggests that focusing on a single epistemological approach to data representation excludes potential participants in data-centered community deliberation and sense-making. Keywords: community; data; representation; visualization
• USING “SMALL DATA” TO MAP HOW MEN’S RIGHTS CAME ONLINE (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) by de Coning, Alexis (2023.0) - In my case, a “small data” approach refers to collecting a preliminary dataset by manually trawling through print and digital archive materials, using simple spreadsheets to track the data, and Google My Maps to visualize the data. While the advent of the Internet can be seen as a “revolution” in how social movements communicate and organize – for instance, through connective action (Bennet & Segerberg, 2013) – digital methods and materials do not necessarily constitute a “revolution” in how we study these movements or their histories (Nanni, 2019). Keywords: data; men; movement; rights
• THE INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER OF PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING NETWORKS: ANALYZING DISINFORMATION INDUSTRIES IN BRAZIL by Dos Santos JR, Marcelo Alves ; D'Andrea, Carlos (2023.0) - The infrastructural power of programmatic advertising networks: Analyzing disinformation industries in brazil. This paper builds on critical platform and infrastructure research literature for analyzing the multilateral infrastructural power of programmatic advertising networks. Keywords: advertising; data; disinformation; infrastructures; networks; platform; power
• EPISTEMOLOGIES OF MISSING DATA: COVID DATA BUILDERS AND THE PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MARGINALIZED COVID DATASETS by Kim, Youngrim ; Finn, Megan (2023.0) - The Landscape of Missing COVID Data One type of missing data we learned from our interviews was disappearing and ephemeral data. The second type of missing data that we identified is obscuring data. Keywords: builders; covid; data; pandemic
• CARE-LESS DATA POP CULTURES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DATA IMAGINARIES AND DATA CULTURES OF THE PANDEMIC by Lee, Jeehyun Jenny ; Lee, Jin (2023.0) - Our findings indicate that when we discuss the harms and violence of data cultures, we need to consider not only institutional bodies’ responsibilities, but also that of the wider culture and everyday participation of people. We describe this process of cultural interpretation and shaping of pandemic data through social media’s participatory culture as data pop culture. Keywords: care; data; lee; media
• CARE, INC.: HOW BIG TECH RESPONDED TO THE END OF ROE by Martin, Zelly C; Montiel Valle, Dominique A; Shorey, Samantha (2023.0) - When thinking about platform activism, then, we must engage with “matters of care” (de la Bellacasa, 2011). We analyze a collection of statements and policy changes by technology companies to understand how corporate decisions are leveraged as a branding strategy and to identify the limits of corporate care. Keywords: activism; care; data; end; platforms; society
• VERNACULAR PEDAGOGIES FOR THE SYNTHETIC MEDIA AGE by McCosker, Anthony ; Heemsbergen, Luke (2023.0) - And there are extensive community sites and spaces exploring the limits and uses of generative AI tools through ‘prompt engineering’ (Liu and Chilton, 2022). VERNACULAR PEDAGOGIES FOR THE SYNTHETIC MEDIA AGE Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Luke Heemsbergen Deakin University Introduction and background This paper draws on our research into the cultures of production surrounding the development of deepfakes and use of other forms of generative AI across public sites such as GitHub and YouTube, and subsequent reflective classroom experimentation and learning. Keywords: data; generative; learning; media
• BELIEFS, VALUES AND EMOTIONS IN PRACTITIONERS’ ENGAGEMENTS WITH LEARNING ANALYTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION by Medina Perea, Itzelle ; Bates, Jo; Fratczak, Monika; Kennedy, Helen; Ochu, Erinma (2023.0) - Through enhancing our understanding of the beliefs, values and emotional engagements of education practitioners with data and learning analytics systems, we aim to contribute to empower practitioners in higher education and relevant stakeholders to foster the development of critical and reflective data cultures that are able to exploit the possibilities of learning analytics, while being critically responsive to their societal implications and limitations. The research project as a whole examines these cultures of practice across three contrasting contexts: higher education, science, and arts practice. Keywords: analytics; beliefs; data; education; learning; values
• spir-13472 by None (None) - The paper conceptualizes the geofence apparatus of non-consensual acts of data intimacy undergirding digital infrastructures of space, and points to the material impacts of location-driven algorithmic systems and the infrastructures that enable them. The paper draws awareness to the geofence as a dangerous apparatus to initiate awareness of the non- consensual acts of platform intimacy. Keywords: civvl; data; geofences; platform; space
• spir-13473 by None (None) - Infrastructuring human rights means scaffolding the lack of data to avoid the effects of data poverty and invoke, for example migrants' rights. This paper presents findings from a study of activists and human rights defenders and how they try to manage the infrastructure of digital data (Baack 2015). Keywords: activism; data; digital; rights; vol
• spir-13475 by None (None) - Deliberating on the results, the paper advances that data quality is a ‘floating signifier’ comprising the different articulations of data scientists, municipal workers and services vendors who have different professional cultures but do the data work of assessing data quality in Stavanger smart city datafication. With the concepts of ‘floating signifiers’ (Laclau and Mouffe, 2001; Jørgensen and Phillips, 2011) and ‘frictions’ (Edwards et al., 2011; Tsing, 2011), this paper articulates its arguments showing that 1) in Stavanger as a relevant case, data quality assessment in smart cities datafication materialises through the different articulations of people who engage in ‘data work’ (e.g., data scientists, municipal workers and services vendors), 2) friction from the different articulations of data quality assessment is often inevitable, and 3) some forms of negotiations are desirable over the friction from the different articulatory assessment of data quality. Keywords: city; data; datafication; quality; services; stavanger
• spir-13479 by None (None) - As Muira McCammon and Jessa Lingel (2022) explain, studying dying platforms is a way “for designers and practitioners to think about the lifecycles of the devices and services they create, and for users seeking to understand the relationships between people, platforms and data” (2). Since 2021, community notes that are rated as “helpful” are displayed underneath Tweets that are identified by Birdwatch users as needing additional context. Keywords: data; platform; twitter; users
• DEPLATFORMING THE SMART CITY: GIVING RESIDENTS CONTROL OVER THEIR PERSONAL DATA by Shaffer, Gwen Lisa (2023.0) - This emergent digital rights platform will provide Long Beach residents with not only a clear understanding of how local government applies predictive and diagnostic analytics to personal data, but will also empower community members by granting them agency. The project will take a “human centered” and “activity” design approach to ensure resident concerns and needs are met; that racial and social inequities are addressed; and, ultimately, that Long Beach residents experience improved quality of life. Keywords: beach; city; data; long
• DATA REFUSAL FROM BELOW: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING, EVALUATING, AND ENVISIONING REFUSAL STRATEGIES by Zong, Jonathan ; Matias, J. Nathan (2023.0) - To address this question, we develop the idea of data refusal from below by presenting a design framework for illuminating the spectrum of refusal. The concept of data refusal from below draws on conversations in feminist standpoint theory, understanding acts of refusal undertaken by the marginalized differently from refusal by the institutionally privileged. Keywords: data; framework; people; refusal
• TOWARD A REVOLUTION IN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S DATA AND PRIVACY by Leaver, Tama; Mannell, Kate; Bunn, Anna; Duffy, Gavin; Ng, Rebecca; Zhao, Andy (2023.0) - Scholars have become increasingly focused on conceptualising and theorising models of data privacy that resist the usual focus on individuals, including drawing attention to the need for collective rights for Indigenous data sovereignty (Rainie et al., 2019). A focus on how children are implicated in data brokerage is also salient given the momentum around reforming data privacy regulations to protect children (Lomas, 2021) –– a momentum which extends well beyond the appetite for regulating programmatic advertising more generally. Keywords: brokers; children; data; digital; information; paper; policies; practices; privacy; research; rights; students; university; use
• INFRASTRUCTURES OF MANIPULATION by Iliadis, Andrew ; Tripodi, Francesca; Dave, Aashka; Jones, Leslie Kay; Acker, Amelia; Ford, Heather (2023.0) - According to Bowker et al. (2010, p. 98), information infrastructure refers to “digital facilities and services usually associated with the internet.” Information infrastructures are thus enabling resources, in network form, whose key role is that of a distributor, but rather than goods or services, information infrastructures distribute “knowledge, culture, and practice” (Bowker et al., 2010, p. 114). Keywords: abortion; data; facts; iliadis; information; infrastructures; media; new; palantir; paper; press; public; search; studies; surveillance; university; wikipedia
• REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS: ABOLISH PRIVACY by Lim, Elisha (2023.0) - We talked to the professor who fought Cambridge Analytica to get his data back in Netflix's 'The Great Hack' about why privacy rights in the US are lagging behind the rest of the world. ABOLISH PRIVACY This paper addresses internet scholars who promote online privacy. Keywords: data; new; online; privacy; property; rights
• ‘GUERILLA ANALYSIS’ AND THE INSTITUTIONAL VOICE: THE TELEGRAM’S PRODUCTIVE MESO-SPACE OF CORONAVIRUS VISUALIZATIONS by Amit-Danhi, Eedan (2025.0) - They correct and re- visualize institutional visualizations, often taking bolder swings in proposing actionable narratives missing or edited out of MoH visualizations. In this paper, I explore the informational ecosystem created by both institutional and ‘guerilla’ Telegram channels engaging in informing the public about the unfolding crisis through data visualizations, by comparing their visualizations of MoH data, and the discursive patterns that they provoke. Keywords: data; meso; telegram; visualizations
• FAMILY PRIVACY, FAMILY AUTONOMY AND COERCION IN DIGITAL HEALTHCARE by Bessant, Claire (2025.0) - The UNCRC itself explicitly affords children rights, including a right to privacy and a right to be heard on matters affecting them (Articles 12 and 16). Where health professionals encourage child patients’ parents to register with health technology providers but do not inform them how children’s data will be used, the parent’s role as steward of the child’s privacy is diminished. Keywords: children; data; family; health; parents; privacy
• BETTING ON (UN)CERTAIN FUTURES: SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF AI AND VARIETIES OF TECHNO-DEVELOPMENTALISM IN ASIA by Chung, Hiu-Fung (2025.0) - Studying the AI innovation discourses of these underrepresented societies can provide critical insights into the complexity and unevenness of global AI development. However, much literature on AI innovation often lean towards Euro-American-centric perspectives (Introna, 2016; Just & Latzer, 2017), regarding AI production and governance strategy – both normative and practical – as universally applicable (Adams, 2021; Fukuda-Parr & Gibbons, 2021; Mohamed et al., 2020). Keywords: data; hong; imaginaries; kong; policy; societies; technology
• WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND IT: BRAZILIAN USERS’ ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES OF SPOTIFY WRAPPED by Dalpizol Valiati, Vanessa Amália; Lupinacci, Ludmila; Bonow Soares, Felipe (2025.0) - Network of X/Twitter users around Spotify Wrapped In this paper, we propose to scrutinise how this algorithmic event is perceived and understood by Brazilian users whilst also identifying and unpacking the platform affordances and algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017) that inform those interpretations and their associated performances of taste and identity (Airoldi, 2019, Prey, 2018). Keywords: data; media; messages; spotify; users
• QUEER DIGITAL LIVES: UNDERSTANDING DATAFICATION THROUGH CREATIVE COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES by Ferrari, Elisabetta; Owens, Liv; Bichard-Collins, Lily (2025.0) - In the second session, participants read two media articles on the topic of Instagram shadowbanning and Facebook's “real name” policy and discussed the tension between safety and visibility for queer communities. Scholars have proposed to address this tension surrounding queer visibilities by proposing tactics of hypervisibility, such as dazzle camouflage (Lingel, 2021) and drag as obfuscation (Kornstein, 2019). Keywords: data; datafication; digital; participants; queer; surveillance
• UNPACKING EXPERTISE IN THE PRIVACY TECH INDUSTRY by Grover, Rohan (2025.0) - These dynamics characterize privacy expertise as something that cannot be found organically “within” individuals but instead as technical skills and knowledge only accessible to professionals with proximity to technical systems. At scale, then, privacy tech software promotes managerial processes that manifests as checkbox compliance, in which individuals such as the senior developer mentioned above simply perform isolated actions that should, theoretically, add up to upholding the spirit of the law, but, in practice, may fail to achieve accountability. Keywords: data; expertise; industry; privacy; tech
• VISUALISING 10 THOUSAND CITIES? UBER'S DATA STORIES ON KNOWING URBAN SPACE by Guerra, Abel (2025.0) - Following Dourish and Gómez Cruz (2018) propositions on narrating data and narrating with data, I use data narratives to refer to processes “by which data is found to be meaningful” (p.5), attending to metaphors, tropes and conventions at work, as well as patterns of interpretation that may be indicative of epistemic orders imposed into urban space and those inhabiting it. Data visualization plays a central role as both rhetorical and epistemic devices (Mackenzie, 2015), being central to the interpretation of large amounts of multidimensional data and in the validation of knowledge produced. Keywords: blog; data; engineering; space; uber; ueb
• RETHINKING AI FOR GOOD: CRITIQUE, REFRAMING AND ALTERNATIVES by Hardcastle, Faranak; Raman, Sujatha; de Silva, Christer; Davis, Jenny; Tavakoli-Nabavi, Ehsan (2025.0) - We argue that even when principles and definitions are offered, they tend to be abstracted from the complex social realities and contexts that shape both the design and implementation of AI technologies and their ability (or inability) to create social good, especially in the global South. Applying AI for social good. Keywords: data; good
• AUDITING THE CLOSED IOS ECOSYSTEM: IS THERE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL APP INSPECTIONS? by Lai, Signe Sophus; Pybus, Jennifer; Lomborg, Stine; Svendsen, Kristian Sick (2025.0) - As part of the project, we have collected a dataset of 1000+ apps, and inspected these for embedded permissions for accessing data via the app as well as identified the SDKs of each app. Moreover, few open access tools or databases like Exodus Privacy for Android apps, are available to make it easier for interested interlocutors or academics to inspect its applications. Keywords: app; apple; apps; data; mobile
• INDUSTRY 4.0: DIGITAL TWINS AND ACCOUNTABILITY by Lauriault, Tracey P.; Theus, Anna Lena (2025.0) - Currently there are no a-is BIMs as that was not stipulated in contracts; the ownership of sensor data is unclear as the sensor company is different from the company that does the analytics. The University archives is interested in the records related to contracts, the procurement of BIMs, and of weekly status reports from the companies that read and report sensor data and not ICDT. Keywords: data; digital; records; research
• HISTORICIZING FEMINIST DATA ACTIVISM: A MEDIA GENEALOGY OF THE WOMEN’S SAFETY AUDITS by Le, Trang (2025.0) - Trang Le Monash University Introduction This paper historicizes feminist data activism, particularly as it relates to the use of grassroots data by feminist activists to address gendered violence in public spaces. Against the presentism in common data narratives, as in the claim of scholars such as Yu Sun and Siyuan Yin (2022) that feminist data activism has emerged as a new form of feminist activism, a historical perspective, as I shall argue, allows us to unpack what seems to be a novel action repertoire within contemporary feminist activism. Keywords: activism; data; feminist; women; wsa
• AUTONOMY UNDER SURVEILLANCE: A FAILED EXPERIENCE ON PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM IN BRAZIL by Lemos, André; Walmir, Estima (2025.0) - Reframing platform power. Method: Tracing power relationships through data relations The power of global infrastructural platforms is operating in the locatable action flows of the entities involved in the experience. Keywords: autonomy; cooperativism; data; experience; platform; power
• FROM TECH-SOLUTIONISM TO COMMUNITY-CENTRED DATA CAPABILITY FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS by McCosker, Anthony; Kang, Yong-Bin; Shaw, Frances; Albury, Kath (2025.0) - A central finding for the model of community data capability developed through the project workshops and platform design is the role that data donation can play as a new form of volunteering and humanitarian action (Boeschoten et al., 2022). While disaster data and analysis has become its own industry and research field (Cuthbertson et al., 2021), new approaches are needed that are not premised on imposing ‘techno solutionism’ (Morozov, 2013) from the outside on communities vulnerable to disaster and climate change. Keywords: community; data; disaster; mapping; platform; preparedness
• LICENSE TO SURVEIL? IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF VEHICLES AS COMPUTERS by Pereira, Gabriel (2025.0) - These futures of vehicle data analysis are responses to both the belief that AI is well-suited for dealing with an ever-increasing scale of vehicle data; but also to a wider techno-solutionist framing: as stated by a police manager, “generative AI will change how we send emails and write reports, but also radically change policing.” This is just an instance of the many privacy and justice issues posed by widespread collection of vehicle data around the world, a history that traces back decades (Bridle, 2013). Keywords: data; future; policing; surveillance; vehicles
• THE ‘GOOGLISATION’ OF THE CLASSROOM: HOW DOES THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN’S PERSONAL DATA FARE? by Pothong, Kruakae; Hooper, Louise; Livingstone, Sonia; Atabey, Ayça; Day, Emma (2025.0) - Given the prevalence of Google Classroom, downloaded 1.34 million times in the UK in 2021 (Clark, 2022) and endorsed by the Department for Education (DfE, 2021b), this paper examines the use of Google’s compliance with data protection laws. Legal analysis of the privacy policies governing Google Classroom and other Google services accessible to children in the Google Classroom environment found that the privacy policies and legal terms governing these services are opaque, layered and inconsistent with data protection laws (Hooper et al., 2022). Keywords: classroom; data; education; google; services
• AN ALGORITHMIC EVENT: THE CELEBRATION AND CRITIQUE OF 'SPOTIFY WRAPPED' by Annabell, Taylor; Rasmussen, Nina Vindum (2025.0) - In collaboration with participants, we tease out how normative assumptions are baked into Wrapped data stories and mobilise particular understandings of individuals, their habits, tastes and identities. In this paper, we present emerging findings from our creative workshops in which we invite participants to analyse and discuss algorithmic events like Wrapped. Keywords: data; event; participants; people; spotify
• PROPOSING RECIPROCAL DIGITAL METHODS: A USER-CENTRIC METHOD FOR ALGORITHMIC SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN A POST-API WORLD by Robinson, Jessica Yarin; Cole, Sebastian (2025.0) - A recent line of literature has examined best practices for obtaining and analyzing donated data (Keusch et al., 2024; Gomez Ortega et al., 2023; Pfiffner & Friemel, 2023), yet we find so far little scholarly writing has addressed combining user data with interviews. In this paper we build on scholarly discourse on the epistemology and ethics of social media data (Lomborg & Bechmann, 2014; Marres & Gerlitz, 2016), and the current debates about the future of social media research (Bruns, 2019; Freelon, 2018; Ohme & Araujo, 2022; Tromble, 2021). Keywords: data; media; methods; research; trace; user
• AGENCY PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRY DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY by Tibert, Dylan MacLean (2025.0) - Industry research, like Feedback’s, has roots and sustaining connections in scholarly ethnography, and continues to carry forward that theoretical complexity as well as the centeredness on data ethics and public good. Industry research experience offers insight into how industry might be studied in kind. Keywords: data; ethnography; industry; perspectives; research
• THE TECHNOPOLITICS OF WAITING: CASE STUDIES OF AI TRAINING IN CHINA AND HOMELESS SERVICES SYSTEMS IN THE U.S. by Tracey, Pelle; Zhang,, Ben Zefeng; Garcia, Patricia; Haimson, Oliver; Thomas, Michaelanne (2025.0) - Recordkeeping, logistics, and translation: A study of homeless services systems as infrastructure. In the rapidly evolving world of AI, AI trainers—the people who meticulously perform tasks like data annotation—are vital, yet overlooked and unacknowledged (Wu, 2023; Zhang, 2023). Keywords: data; services; time; waiting; work
• CONCEPTUALIZING PRECISION LABOR IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING by Zhang, Ben Zefeng; Yang, Tianling; Haimson, Oliver; Thomas, Michaelanne (2025.0) - We propose precision labor as a lens to understand the often unnecessary and unrecognized labor, along with the various harms stemming from the relentless quest for technical accuracy. Narratives about doing AI training work correctly and accurately were often emphasized even before the employees started working as AI trainers. Keywords: accuracy; data; labor; precision; work
• REVITALISING THE CONCEPT OF THE EVERYDAY IN INTERNET RESEARCH by Lupinacci, Ludmila; Hesmondhalgh, David; Campos Valverde, Raquel; Siles, Ignacio; Valerio-Alfaro, Luciana; Arriagada, Arturo; Burgess, Jean; Albury, Kath; McCosker, Anthony; Wilken, Rowan (2025.0) - In our interviews, conducted between July and September 2023, we focused on two primary issues: everyday music consumption practices and experiences with music discovery on social media. Social media platforms have emerged as key sites for fans to listen to music. Keywords: attention; data; everyday; life; media; music; new; people; platforms; practices; press; research; scrolling; streaming; university; use
• CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATIVE AI by Hepp, Andreas; Couldry, Nick; Bolin, Göran; Velkova, Julia; Brevini, Benedetta (2025.0) - From this starting point, communicative AI draws our attention to a certain “family resemblance” (Wittgenstein 1971: 65-71) that various examples of today’s automated communication systems share: Communicative AI (1) is based on technologically advanced forms of automation for the purpose of communication, (2) is embedded within digital infrastructures, and (3) is closely entangled with human practices. Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI. Keywords: capitalism; communication; data; digital; energy; environmental; futures; human; imaginaries; intelligence; media; new; paper; production; social; university
• THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI AS PLATFORM: INFRASTRUCTURES, POWER, AND THE AI INDUSTRY by van der Vlist, Fernando N.; Helmond, Anne; Luitse, Dieuwertje M. R.; Rieder, Bernhard; Hind, Sam; Kanderske, Max (2025.0) - These resources ‘convene’ third-party businesses and developers to build an ecosystem of new products and services around cloud AI infrastructure platform providers. Their visions range from Meta’s ‘future of connection in the metaverse’ (Meta), Microsoft’s vision for AI in the enterprise (Microsoft), Amazon’s ambition of ‘AI becoming the new electricity in our homes’ (Zeghari, 2023), to Google’s portrayal of AI as ‘a foundational and transformational technology that will provide compelling and helpful benefits to people and society through its capacity to assist, complement, empower, and inspire people in almost every field of human endeavor’ (Google AI). Keywords: challenges; cloud; data; der; doi; economy; google; microsoft; models; platform; power; services; van; vlist
• SEXTECH INDUSTRIES AND CULTURES: TOWARDS MEDIATED PLEASURES AND DATA JUSTICE by Stardust, Zahra; Albury, Kath; Sundén,, Jenny; Kennedy, Jenny; van der Nagel, Emily; Learmonth, Caitlin (2025.0) - Drawing on user and founder accounts of the Australian sexual health platform STIgma Health, we recommend that future evaluations of sexual health testing platforms should extend beyond consideration of platform adherence to formal health policy and guidelines (for example, Gibbs et al., 2017) or data-sharing practices (for example, Van Dijck & Poell, 2016). It also demands an attention to local health policies and industry-specific “quality indicators”; and contextual understanding of the diverse ways that sexual sub-cultures and communities engage with and understand “digital sexual health”. Keywords: content; data; experiences; health; industry; onlyfans; participants; platform; pleasure; research; services; sextech; technologies; technology; testing; university; users
• INDUSTRY TENSIONS: LABOR SUBJECTIVITIES AND SELF-REINVENTION IN PLATFORM WORK by Arriagada, Arturo; Duffy, Brooke; Glatt, Zoe; Wissinger, Elizabeth; Wood, Rachel (2025.0) - Between commerciality and authenticity: The imaginary of social media influencers in the platform economy. Between commerciality and authenticity: The imaginary of social media influencers in the platform economy. Keywords: bishop; brands; data; industry; influencer; labor; marketing; media; models; new; platform; self; sustainability; university; work
• INDUSTRIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL FUTURES, AUTOMATED CULTURES, AND ALGORITHMIC DYNAMICS by Hristova, Tsvetelina; Cinque, Toja; Heemsbergen, Luke; Jones, Allan; Yang, Fan; Fordyce, Robbie (2025.0) - In their paper, Toija Cinque and Allan Jones illuminate the interplay between AI agency, human cognition, and digital media platforms, thereby contributing to discourse on ethical AI use, sociotechnical systems, and information integrity in the digital age. Trying to understand criticality as both an analytical approach and a characteristic of the objects we research, we interrogate the aspects of digital media infrastructures that add new layers to how datafication acquires subtle cultural and technopolical inflections. Keywords: biases; chinese; content; data; digital; generative; information; media; network; platforms; research; time; voice; wechat
• TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES by Kathirgamalingam, Ahrabhi; Choucair, Tariq dos Santos; Lind, Fabienne; Bernhard, Jana; Boomgaarden, Hajo; Oliveira, Bruna; Maia, Rousiley; Vodden, Laura; Esau, Katharina; Bruns, Axel; Svegaard, Sebastian; Farfan, Kate; Meyer, Hendrik; Puschmann, Cornelius; Brüggemann, Michael; Giglietto, Fabio; Rossi, Luca; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada (2025.0) - Panel TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES Tariq Choucair Queensland University of Technology Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam University of Vienna Fabienne Lind University of Vienna Jana Bernhard-Harrer University of Vienna Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna Bruna Silveira de Oliveira Federal University of Minas Gerais Rousiley Maia Federal University of Minas Gerais Sebastian Svegaard Queensland University of Technology Kate O'Connor Farfan Queensland University of Technology Katharina Esau Queensland University of Technology Carly Lubicz-Zaorski Queensland University of Technology Laura Vodden Queensland University of Technology Axel Bruns Queensland University of Technology Hendrik Meyer University of Hamburg Cornelius Puschmann University of Bremen Michael Brüggemann University of Hamburg Fabio Giglietto University of Urbino Luca Rossi IT University of Copenhagen Nicola Righetti University of Urbino Giada Marino University of Urbino Panel Introduction Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened significant research opportunities within the field of media and communication studies. Fabio Giglietto and colleagues (Paper 5) concludes the panel by reflecting on their investigation of the role of social media, particularly Facebook, in shaping exposure to and engagement with political news during the 2018 and 2022 Italian elections, employing large language models (LLMs) to address key methodological challenges. Keywords: analysis; challenges; climate; coders; coding; communication; content; data; human; language; large; llms; media; models; research; study; text; university
• CONSTRUCTING THE DIGITAL: WORKING FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH by Raman, Usha; Premika, Anuja; Mehta, Chinar; Madapathi, Manisha; Rangaswamy,, Nimmi (2025.0) - All gig work is not platform work: we need to go beyond the current imagination of gig work as being entirely platform mediated, with a resulting exclusion of older, more entrenched forms of “piece work” and non-contractual casual labor 2 Raman, U. (2024, October). Without diminishing the information asymmetry, algorithmic tyranny, and performance pressure challenges on digital labor, our study offers an ethnographic view of everyday opportunities, however small, to counter the 'despotism' of platform work. Keywords: beauty; content; data; digital; global; india; influencers; journalists; labor; media; platforms; south; surveillance; women; work; workers
• STUFF (IS SOMETHING) WHITE PEOPLE LIKE: ON THE WHITE PROTOTYPICALITY OF FACEBOOK by Rutherford McEwan, S. (2025.0) - Ethnic affinity was removed from Facebook after press coverage and subsequent lawsuits alleged that the category violated the Fair Housing Act by allowing advertisers to hide housing advertisements from protected classes, including (but not limited to) those defined by race. As the Department of Housing and Urban Development argued in their lawsuit against Facebook, ethnic affinity as category “inevitably recreates groupings defined by their protected class” in the course of its targeting function.4 1 Cooiman, “Imprinting the Economy”; Shestakofsky and Petre, “Sociotechnical Change.” Keywords: affinity; capitalism; data; facebook; media; platform; race; society
• Acting through technology: The proliferation of open source practices and its consequences by Baack, Stefan; Velkova, Julia; Kubitschko, Sebastian; Ferrer, Raul; Handler, Reinhard (2016.0) - The next two papers each look at the social structures through open source practices by exploring how actors ACTING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY:THE PROLIFERATION OF OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Suggested Citation (APA): Baack,S., Velkova, J., Kubitschko,S., Ferrer, R., & Handler, R.. (2016, October 5-8). Along with this development, media technologies and infrastructures are increasingly sites of an active political struggle in their own right. Keywords: crowdsourcing; data; information; media; new; online; paper; practices; public; sharing; source; technology
• App Studies: Platform Rules and Methodological Challenges by Helmond, Anne; van der Vlist, Fernando N; Gerlitz, Carolin; Weltevrede, Esther; Nieborg, David; Poell, Thomas; de Kloet, Jeroen; Zeng, Guohua; Paßmann, Johannes (2016.0) - They connect platform studies and app studies by drawing attention to their intricate relations, e.g. in the case of platforms offering apps, apps built on top of platforms, apps facilitating practices that inform platforms, and apps functioning as platforms. Apps, platforms, and their associated use practices emerge as a dynamic assemblage, a perspective that calls for extending platform studies to take into account the app ecologies around them, as well as for advancing app studies by considering apps as situated and ecological entities. Keywords: app; apps; data; facebook; media; mobile; new; paper; platform; practices; retweet; studies; twitter; wechat
• ‘THESE SNAPS ARE MADE FOR TALKING’: VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND INSTANT EXPRESSION ON SNAPCHAT by Best, Camilla Michelle (2016.0) - Although there is significant research on personal photography and photo sharing practices on social media (Livingstone, 2005; Van Dijck, 2007, 2008; Tifentale, 2014; Gye, 2007), only a relatively small body of emerging research has focused on application Snapchat as a communication platform (Bayer et al., 2015; Roesner et al., 2014; In Snapchat interactions, a photo typically begins as the impetus but as the ‘conversation’ continues, greater value is placed on the text (the caption). Keywords: communication; data; photography; sharing; snapchat
• Big Dataphenomenology: Embodied Big Data by Kappler, Karolin Eva (2016.0) - Therefore, Crawford pleads for the combination of Big Data and Small Data, in orde ) of social life and experience. Karolin Eva Kappler Soziologie II: Soziologische Gegenwartsdiagnosen, Institut für Soziologie, FernUniversität in Hagen Introduction Currently, Big Data is attributed a high potential of control and value creation. Keywords: body; crawford; data; february
• Caught in a feedback loop? Algorithmic personalization and digital traces by Loosen, Wiebke; Bastos, Marco T; Puschmann, Cornelius; Hasebrink, Uwe; Hölig, Sascha; Merten, Lisa; Schmidt, Jan­-Hinrik; Kinder­-Kurlanda, Katharina E; Weller, Katrin (2016.0) - The findings show significant differences in topical preferences between news editors and social media users, with social media users favoring opinion pieces, along with national, local, and world news. Characterizing information diets of social media users. Keywords: algorithms; author; content; data; friend; information; media; news; public; repertoires; research; researchers; systems; twitter; users
• Decoding Risk: Making Sense of Predictive Data Analytics by Maiers, Claire (2016.0) - That judgement of the Horizon risk score is based primarily on the clinician’s existing experience with a particular infant or experiential information passed on from other clinicians. Data and Methods During 2015-2016, I spent eight months regularly observing the use of Horizon at Eastern Hospital1. Keywords: analytics; clinicians; data; horizon
• Digital Data Infrastructures: interrogating the social media data pipeline by Halford, Susan; Weal, Mark; Tinati, Ramine; Carr, Les; Pope, Catherine (2016.0) - Social media data offer none of this. This paper seeks a middle path in the space between ‘giving in and getting out’ (Gehl 2015; 148): between accepting social media data at face value and abandoning the opportunities that they might offer. Keywords: data; media; research; science
• DISCOURSES, A COMMUNITY OF SCIENTISTS, AND LONG-TAIL DATA IN THE CLOUD by Brooks, Catherine; Heidorn, P. Bryan; Stahlman, Gretchen; Chong, Steven (2015.0) - This is particularly true for little data that often do not conform to established standards (Borgman et al., 2007). If dark data from smaller projects were drawn together, scientists would have a broad set of data available to them. Keywords: data; science; scientists; workshop
• Ethical Issues in Online Course Design: Negotiating Identity, Privacy, and Ownership by Dich, Linh; McKee, Heidi A.; Porter, James E. (2013.0) - This issue should concern faculty developing online courses, whether MOOCs or OOCs (i.e., not “massive”). At the same time we should be suspicious about an emerging development model for MOOCs: Many universities are outsourcing their MOOCs to third-party host/providers such as Coursera and Udacity — in much the same way that they are outsourcing quality assurance review for online courses to third parties like Quality Matters. Keywords: asian; content; course; data; moocs; online; privacy; public; sites; students
• Foursquare, the Politics of Location Platforms, and the Importance of Geocoded Data by Wilken, Rowan Cameron (2013.0) - The first of these is the “Explore” feature, aimed at Foursquare users. This applies a range of filters to search results that combine common queries (such as price, opening hours, and so on), with additional information drawn from check-ins and user data. Keywords: business; check; data; foursquare; media; platform
• From Borking to Streaming: The Normalization of Media Surveillance by Hallinan, Blake (2015.0) - As such, the two events bracket a number of changes in media consumption, technology, and society that collectively result in the normalization of media surveillance, or the collection of information about individuals related to the use of media. For any given consumer, these services may have access to the following kinds of information: the name of the content; time and location of access; behavior during access, such as pausing, rewinding, and fast-forwarding; ratings; device information; metadata from third parties; social media data; search information; and, increasingly, information about the content itself (Harris 2012; Havens 2014). Keywords: data; information; media; netflix; privacy; social; surveillance; video
• In Search of Safe Harbors - Privacy and Surveillance of Refugees in Europe by Kift, Paula (2016.0) - Two  EU  regulations  are  particularly  noteworthy  in  this  regard:  Eurosur  (mandating  drone   and  satellite  surveillance  of  the  Mediterranean  Sea)1  and  Eurodac  (biometric   information  collection  at  the  border).2  While  biometric  data  collection  under  Eurodac   clearly  raises  both  privacy  and  data  protection  concerns,  as  defined  in  European  law,   Eurosur  is  said  to  raise  neither  because  drone  and  satellite  surveillance  of  the   Mediterranean  Sea  only  involves  the  collection  of  information  about  boats,  but  not  the   collection  of  any  personally  identifiable  information  (PII)  of  the  passengers  on  those   boats.   Regulation  (EU)  No.  1052/2013  of  the  European  Parliament  and  the  Council  of  22  October  2013   establishing  the  European  Border  Surveillance  System  (Eurosur) Keywords: data; privacy; protection; regulation
• Methodological Challenges for Studying Cross-Platform Conversations by Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Weilenmann, Alexandra (2013.0) - Denver, USA 1 Methodological Challenges for Studying Cross-Platform Conversations Ylva Hård af Segerstad Dept. of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg Sweden hardy@ituniv.se Alexandra Weilenmann Dept. of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg Sweden alexandra.weilenmann@ituniv.se Abstract During the last decade, the multimedia landscape has evolved in several ways, calling for a reconsideration of methodologies for studying mobile communication. Understanding mobile communication no longer entails focusing on either voice or text in isolation; rather we need to study how all aspects of mobile communication together make up a continuous conversation of intertwined messaging. Keywords: communication; conversation; data; mobile; text
• Mining one week of Twitter. Tracing local networked publics in the Dutch Twittersphere by van Geenen, Daniela; Bakker, Piet; Schäfer, Mirko Tobias; Hekman, Erik; Moons, Jonas; Boeschoten, Thomas (2016.0) - Different dimensions of Twitter use We singled out two case studies focused on Twitter networks and conversations in two different cities in the Netherlands: 1) On a local level (cities or villages) we can observe the emergence of local Twitter elites. Keywords: accounts; data; dutch; media; publics; twitter; university
• NETWORKING AGGIE: BROADCASTING INFORMATION TO TOPICAL COMMUNITIES by Bastos, Marco; Lubell, Mark (2015.0) - In fact, Twitter users often begin interacting within a hashtagged stream only to subsequently drop the hashtag as their one-to-one interaction unfolds. Firstly, we present a census-based, viable, cost- effective, and replicable research design to track the information exchange within a community of Twitter users. Keywords: agriculture; community; core; data; information; media; messages; network; public; retweets; tweets; twitter; users
• Platform Studies: The Rules of Engagement by Burgess, Jean; Baym, Nancy; Cunningham, Stuart; Craig, David; Helmond, Anne; Bucher, Taina; John, Nicholas; Nissenbaum, Asaf (2016.0) - While  the  importance  of  and  methods  for  studying  platforms  have  long  been  debated  in   game  studies  (Bogost  &  Montfort,  2009;;  Apperley  &  Parikka,  2015),  this  panel   represents  a  more  inclusive  and  deeper  iteration  of  platform  studies,  one  that  focuses   on  thinking  critically  about  the  best  ways  to  understand  the  roles  platforms  play  in   mediating  our  media,  communication  and  cultural  environments;;  and  one  that  integrates   materialist  approaches  such  as  software  studies  with  the  core  concerns  of  the  media   and  communication  disciplines  understood  more  broadly.   We  bring  together  four  papers   that  examine,  first,  how  platforms  shape  what  can  be  known  about  them;;  and  second,  to   what  extent  we  can  understand  them  not  only  despite  but  through  those  processes  and   the  traces  they  leave  behind.       Keywords: affordances; apis; data; media; platform; studies; technology; twitter; university; users
• Playing ‘for Real’: A Lab-Based Study of MMOGs by Jenson, Jen; Bergstrom, Kelly; de Castell, Suzanne (2013.0) - Observational data indicated that not only were such players well versed in the mechanics of a fantasy- based gameworld, they were experienced enough that they could provide detailed instructions to two first time Rift players. Instead we were able to identify highly skilled players who on the face of it looked as if they were novices (they had little gold or did not pick up items), but when fuller contextualization was possible, proved to be expert players who were mobilizing their expertise to assist other players, who were expert players in a different genre of game. Keywords: data; game; lab; players; research
• Playing the algorithm: Mobile gamers’ everyday (in)visibility strategies by Willson, Michele; Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina (2016.0) - Through the use of qualitative interviews and a questionnaire, we investigate the practices of casual mobile gamers around management of visibility and invisibility, mainly focusing on the following:  deciding at which point and in which way to link games to social network platforms such as Facebook  balancing sometimes incommensurable game interests such as social interaction, building and stress relief by making use of game features for player interaction (e.g. managing membership in player groups such as ‘neighbourhoods’ or ‘clans’ to fit in with different levels of intimacy and anonymity depending on the situation)  navigating geolocation, personal and social information data choices through game practices We consider these practices as ways of managing privacy requirements within algorithmic public spheres. Such practices lead to data containing an element of recursiveness and ‘cultures of circulation’ emerge as the algorithms adapt to user behaviour and users in turn adapt to the results of algorithmic analyses (Beer and Burrows 2013). Keywords: data; everyday; mobile; practices
• Social Media, Data Analytics and Videogames Development: Halfbrick Case Study by Banks, John; Woodford, Darryl (2013.0) - Research with Australian developer, Halfbrick, provides an opportunity to consider many of these issues and challenges confronting games developers as they seek to adapt to and with Big Data analytics. Big data analytics potentially transforms studio workplaces and professional game developer identities. Keywords: analytics; data; games; halfbrick; research
• Social Media, U.S. Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects by Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; G. C. Rossini, Patricia; Hemsley, Jeff; Kenski, Kate; Zhang, Feifei; Bryant, Lauren; Semaan, Bryan (2016.0) - Because  social  media  is  now  an  important  site  of  communication  for  campaigns  and  the   electorate,  we  seek   to  understand   the   types  and  nature  of  messaging   that  campaigns   produce.   Tables   Strategic Messages Sub-category Precision Recall F1 NO. of messages Keywords: campaign; data; messages
• Social TV: Quantifying the Intersections between Television and Social Media by Woodford, Darryl; Prowd, Katie; Bruns, Axel; Burgess, Jean; Goldsmith, Ben; Harrington, Stephen; Hutchinson, Jonathan; Highfield, Tim; Chatman, Dayna; Driscoll, Kevin; Bar, François; Leavitt, Alex; Wang, Renxia (2014.0) - Here, we explore in particular the following three key areas: the location of audiences for specific social TV programming within the Australian Twittersphere; the overlap and interconnection (or lack thereof) between specific shows’ audiences; the correlation between participation in social TV audiences and existing follower/followee relationships; and the visibility across the Australian Twittersphere which audience activities afford these shows. The point of departure for this research is to understand how social network analysis can be embedded into the production process itself. Keywords: accounts; analysis; audience; data; media; network; production; research; shows; television; tweets; twitter; twittersphere; university; users
• THE AMBIGUITIES OF LOG DATA: SMART PHONES IN EVERYDAY LIFE by Thorhauge, Anne Mette; Lomborg, Stine (2014.0) - Smart phone data as an expression of everyday life or as an expression of the integration of smart phones into everyday life Smart phones are not just everyday technologies, they are social artifacts endowed with particular social and symbolic values in different social contexts. THE AMBIGUITIES OF LOG DATA: SMART PHONES IN EVERYDAY LIFE Anne Mette Thorhauge University of Copenhagen Stine Lomborg University of Copenhagen In this paper we will discuss the analysis of smart phone log data as an expression of everyday life. Keywords: data; everyday; life
• WHOSE PRIVACY? LOBBYING FOR THE FREE FLOW OF EUROPEAN PERSONAL DATA by Hildén, Jockum Philip (2016.0) - The  European  Union  aims  to  regulate  beyond  its   territorial  borders,  as  the  Regulation  will  affect  all  businesses  and  organizations  which   collect  data  on  EU  citizens,  regardless  of  country  of  origin.       This  paper  focuses  on  presenting  how  the  EU  Council’s   amendments  to  the  draft  Regulation  reflects  the  positions  of  stakeholders  from  a  wide   array  of  sectors  that  will  be  affected  by  the  new  law.       Keywords: data; regulation
• What We Talk About When We Talk Data: Metrics, Mobilization, and Materiality in Performing Health Online by Fiore-Silfvast, Brittany; Neff, Gina (2013.0) - Across the communities of technology designers, “e-health” providers and advocates, and users of health and wellness data we find that tensions emerge not around the meaning or legitimacy of particular data points, but rather around how data is expected to perform socially, organizationally and institutionally, what we term data valences. Our paper identifies data valences in health and wellness data, shows how these valences are mediated, and demonstrates that distinct data valences are more apparent in the interstitial interactions occurring in the spaces between institutions or among powerful stakeholder groups.   Keywords: communities; data; health; valences; wellness
• THE CHALLENGES OF WEIBO FOR DATA-DRIVEN DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH by Zeng, Jing; Burgess, Jean; Bruns, Axel (2015.0) - This paper builds on this model to explore the practical and political challenges and opportunities associated with the ‘regimes of access’ to Weibo data, and their consequences for digital media and communication studies. As a modest first step, it focuses on comparing the academic affordances of Twitter data and Weibo data. Keywords: api; china; chinese; data; media; research; twitter; weibo
• THE ROLE OF BREAKDOWN IN IMAGINING BIG DATA: IMPEDIMENT TO INSIGHT TO INNOVATION by Tanweer, Anissa; Fiore-Gartland, Brittany; Aragon, Cecilia (2015.0) - We argue that encounters with breakdown – conceived of as points at which progress is stopped due to a material obstacle – represent essential sites of knowledge production for data science and any other big data analysis. This program brings together data science methodology experts with domain researchers across a range of disciplines, from astronomy to oceanography to political science, to collaborate on data science projects throughout the academic term. Keywords: breakdown; data; research; science
• TRACK YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH US. DIGITAL SELF-TRACKING AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE. by Kneidinger-Müller, Bernadette (2016.0) - Self-Tracking, also referred to as life-logging, quantified self or personal informatics, describes “the practice of systematically recording information about one’s diet, health, or activities, typically by means of a smartphone, so as to discover behavioral patterns that may be adjusted to help improve one’s physical or mental well-being” (Oxford Dictionary). Long ago people like to store memories and life data in journals or diaries or record body related data (Swan 2013: 85). Keywords: data; life; self; tracking
• Using web browsing histories to facilitate multi-method research by Menchen-Trevino, Ericka (2016.0) - Furthermore,  this  user-­focused  data  crosses  between  platforms  where   data  is  often  siloed,  such  as  different  social  media  sites  and  web  services  making  it   particularly  useful  for  extending  platform-­based  studies  of  digital  traces  (Menchen-­ Trevino,  2013).   This  project  will   build  on  the  work  of  Dubious  and  Ford  by  using  a  different  and  more  individual-­focused   form  of  data.     Keywords: data; history; web

• Towards A Networked Privacy Paradigm: Assumptions And Implications by De Wolf, Ralf Patrick; Heyman, Rob (2017.0) - That said, it is unclear what makes networked privacy new, how it relates to previous established frameworks and what are its implications. In a critical literature review we therefore analyze and compare Warren and Brandeis’ right to be let alone, Westin’s privacy control, Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity, Petronio’s communication privacy management theory and recent work on networked privacy. Keywords: management; privacy; users
• Mapping Twitter’s Information Sphere In The Lead-Up To The Brexit Referendum: How Eurosceptic Views Outpaced Their Rivals by Hänska, Max; Bauchowitz, Stefan (2017.0) - The use of twitter in the Brexit campaign demonstrates how social media users helped pushed a hitherto marginal political agenda to the front and center of public discourse. Overall, twitter users who supported Leave appeared to be much more active and motivated in advancing their cause than Remainers were in advocating continued EU membership. Keywords: leave; referendum; twitter; users
• Control And Reward In Online Dating Practices – A Study Of Users’ Experiences Of Tinder by Rosén, Anton; Lundmark, Sofia; Jonsson, Fatima; Håkansson, Jesper (2017.0) - To conclude, this study suggests that online dating practices are formed by an inseparable interplay of design functionalities, users’ attitudes and the use of specific mobile applications that taken together contributes to overall online dating experiences. Control and reward in online dating practices – a study of users experiences of Tinder. Keywords: control; dating; experiences; users
• POLITICAL FANDOMS AND SUPERPARTICIPANTS IN POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS ON TWITTERTwitter, social network analysis, political polarization, fandoms by Zago, Gabriela; Recuero, Raquel; Soares, Felipe (2018.0) - Our main finding is that these superparticipants with higher outdegree helped to shape the polarized networks by retweeting like-minded accounts, and thus are important and influence the study of polarized political networks on Twitter. Results By observing the top 12 users with higher outdegree in each network, we noticed some patterns and behaviors that can characterize those users as political fans. Keywords: fandom; fans; superparticipants; users
• A BALANCING ACT: PUTTING UP BOOKSHELVES ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM by Albrechtslund, Anne-Mette Bech (2019.0) - As this paper shows, policies on bookshelves prompt users to negotiate this community/commerce hybridity (see Bruns, 2012) which requires an ongoing balancing act for users to feel comfortable entrusting the platform with their content. The study draws particularly on discourse analysis with a focus on narrative and organizational metaphors (see e.g. Morgan, 2006), and the aim is to identify central points of ambivalence in users’ attempts to balance their trust in the platform. Keywords: bookshelves; goodreads; platform; users
• BOUNDARIES OF TRUST AND TRANSGRESSION: STUDYING THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE CONTENTS WITHIN ITALIAN PRIVATE GROUP CHATS by Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Zurovac, Elisabetta; Brilli, Stefano (2019.0) - Our study provides an analysis of users’ meaning-making and boundary maintenance activities regarding violent/pornographic contents in group chats on Telegram, that combines participant observation and in-depth interviews with active participants of such groups. Socio-technological background: groups chats and the mundane circulation of the obscene The Cambridge Analytica scandal shed light on a dangerous mass surveillance context and the revelations about Facebook’s plans to use WhatsApp as a tool to track user data, lead developers to provide IM applications with greater security. Keywords: chats; contents; group; media; social; users
• REDDIT QUARANTINED: CONSEQUENCES OF DEALING WITH DISTRUST IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS THROUGH RESTRICTING ENGAGEMENT by Copland, Simon (2019.0) - Coordinated campaigns of online abuse, often blamed on the architecture and platform politics of social media sites (Massanari, 2017), have become a matter of trust for social media platforms, whose role as a facilitator of public debate has been called into question. Using affordances theory, this paper studies the revamping of the quarantining function of the social news sharing site Reddit to examine the consequences of increased regulation of content on social media sites. Keywords: media; reddit; subreddits; users
• ONLINE TRUST IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL MIGRATION: MOBILITY, SOCIALITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF CHINESE DIASPORIC SUBJECTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA by Wang, Wilfred Yang; Zhao, Xinyu; Chen, Xu; Yang, Yanan Jana (2019.0) - In the context of digital mediated communication, guanxi continues to be important (McDonald, 2018), and this can be translated into Chinese internet culture, for instance, Chinese WeChat users tend to only trust their close friends’ comments on this app (Lien & Cao, 2014), which indicates that the app rating mechanism in Apple App Store may be less likely to affect Chinese users compared with their western peers. As such, although Chinese dating apps may share similar digital architectures with their western counterparts, strategies for framing their authenticity can be significantly different. Keywords: australia; authenticity; chinese; communication; dating; media; online; social; trust; users
• WHAT WE CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT WE MUST TWEET: TRUST AMONG ISRAELI TWITTER USERS WITH DEPRESSION by Haytin, Sofia; Livio, Oren (2019.0) - In recent years, however, some studies have begun investigating the emergence of communities-of-sorts developing naturally in the more dispersed, unstructured, a-hierarchical spaces of social media platforms such as Twitter (Naslund et al., 2016). What we cannot speak about we must tweet: Trust among Israeli Twitter users with depression. Keywords: trust; twitter; users
• MAKING THE UNSEEN VISIBLE: EXPLORING CROSSCUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLICS AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL TRAITS by Kristensen, Jakob Bæk (2019.0) - This paper combines socio- demographic and political classifications of social media users based on surveys with network clustering techniques in order to preserve the full-scale complexity of digital interactions while eliciting patterns relating to concrete sociopolitical properties. MAKING THE UNSEEN VISIBLE: EXPLORING CROSSCUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLICS AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL TRAITS Jakob Bæk Kristensen University of Canterbury, New Zealand Introduction The potential of increased connectivity between people has been a main topic of discussion in media and communications research since the popularization of the internet, and especially since the web 2.0 revolution and the rise of social media. Keywords: clusters; media; users
• TRUSTED COMMONS: WHY “OLD” SOCIAL MEDIA MATTER by Maxigas, .; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume (2019.0) - We noticed that the continued use of IRC constituted a routine practice in peer production communities while other user groups slowly but surely migrated away to more popular social media platforms over the years. In line with Edgerton’s (2008) plea for decentering our historical accounts of technology from innovations to uses, we focus on the IRC case and argue that this decentralised, co-constructed (Latzko-Toth, 2014) communication infrastructure continues to serve social groups who tend to distrust proprietary platforms—groups who are key to the collaborative production of software, hardware and politics. Keywords: communication; media; technology; users
• COMMUNICATING A TRUSTWORTHY ONLINE ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY WITH CHATBOTS by Mckie, Indra Ayu Susan; Narayan, Bhuva (2019.0) - Communicating a Trustworthy Online Organisational Identity with Chatbots. COMMUNICATING A TRUSTWORTHY ONLINE ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY WITH CHATBOTS Indra Mckie University of Technology Sydney Dr Bhuva Narayan University of Technology Sydney Introduction Conversational bots, otherwise known as chatbots, operate within the fourth industrial revolution as a client-facing form of AI. Keywords: chatbots; identity; information; trust; users
• “I STILL WANT TO KNOW THEY’RE NOT TERRIBLE PEOPLE”: NEGOTIATING TRUST, PLEASURE AND QUEER ETHICS IN LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE’S DATING APP USE by Pym, Tinonee; Albury, Kath; Byron, Paul; McCosker , Anthony; Race, Kane (2019.0) - Our workshops invited app users to articulate their ‘rules’ for conduct on dating apps via creative design activities. For non-binary and trans participants, the affordances of app profiles were viewed as crucial to providing the conditions for self-presentation and strategies for being seen safely by the right kind of users. Keywords: app; people; users
• REDDIT'S COMMUNITIES & CONSEQUENCES by Halavais, Alexander; Massanari, Adrienne; Bergstrom, Kelly; Poor, Nathaniel (2020.0) - Disengaging from online communities Investigations into why users leave other online communities, such as the communities that invariably form around online multiplayer games, found that players often leave for reasons beyond a personal lack of interest and instead there are internal or external forces that push a user towards disengagement (Bergstrom, 2019; Jiang, 2018; Poor & Skoric, 2014). Tracing the use of these terms by users within the neighborhoods of the alt-right to other communities provides an indication that connection strength and shared membership tends to lead to “leakage” of some of these ideas and forms of argument. Keywords: communities; community; culture; dark; play; reddit; subreddits; users
• DISCONNECTION: DESIGNS AND DESIRES by Karppi, Tero; Chia, Aleena; Lampinen, Airi; Feldman, Zeena; Dieter, Michael; Ferreira, Pedro; Beattie, Alex (2020.0) - INTERFACE CRITICISM, DARK PATTERNS AND THE DESIRE TO DISCONNECT Michael Dieter University of Warwick This paper discusses an interdisciplinary research project that explores the use of card decks in user experience design (UX) practice, and the possibilities of repurposing them as a means to reflect on the problems of social media disconnection. ‘Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 4th quarter 2019’. Keywords: activity; connectivity; design; disconnection; experiments; facebook; light; media; new; paper; participants; phone; technology; university; users; work
• PLATFORMED SEX LIVES by Sundén, Jenny; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Paasonen, Susanna (2020.0) - But with current crackdowns on sexual content on social media platforms, online venues for sexual expression are growing increasingly limited. To turn social media platforms into decorous zones void of sexuality speaks to advertising concerns based on ideas of sexual content as inappropriate and lacking in value (Paasonen et al. 2019). Keywords: community; content; darkside; gender; images; kink; media; platform; sex; sexuality; site; users
• TIKTOK AND THE “ALGORITHMIZED SELF”: A NEW MODEL OF ONLINE INTERACTION by Bhandari, Aparajita; Bimo, Sara (2020.0) - These sites are meant to provide a stage for social interaction, and guide users through this experience via certain affordances and design features: for example, users are encouraged to connect to potential friends, like, comment on, or share posts, and view other member’s profiles (boyd, 2010). In this project, we examine the degree to which TikTok exemplifies this “common mode” of social media use. Keywords: app; self; tiktok; users
• SKIPPING DISCOVERY? MUSIC DISCOVERY AND PERSONAL MUSIC COLLECTIONS IN THE STREAMING ERA by Ellis, Jack Michael (2020.0) - From this perspective, I examine how Spotify users experience different types of music discovery through their personal music collections, including growing music discoveries which emerge over time. These perspectives draw attention to the intersection of user listening behaviours and algorithmic recommendation systems in shaping experiences of music discovery. Keywords: collections; discovery; music; users
• RENAME AND RESIST COLONIAL EXTRACTION: TWITTER’S TOPONYMIC POLITICS by Karsgaard, Carrie; Hockenhull, Michael; MacDonald, Maggie (2020.0) - Other toponymic identifiers focus on the theft and occupation of Indigenous lands with such modifiers as “stolen,” “occupied,” and “colonized.” Our project explores subversive (re)naming practices on Twitter to address: what is the nature of Indigenous and anti-colonial toponymic identification among Twitter users in Canada? Keywords: colonial; land; twitter; users
• WITNESSING LIKE A USER: MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS AND THE LAYERED CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIATIZED TERRORISM by Fitzgerald, Andrew Arthur (2021.0) - This paper provides an embedded examination of mobile media use in line with Kormelink & Meijer’s call for methods affording examination of “micro-moments” such as video ethnography, tracking, or as used here, screen capture (2018) – providing analysis of media use across time and close to the rapid level of nonconscious thought at which datafied mobile media often operate (Hayles, 2017). Push notifications are an understudied phenomena in critical audience research and serve as a valuable marker of how micro (both temporally and textually) affordances and features of datafied mobile media can function as mediatized microevents, prompting microrituals in response to these attacks, ascribing an importance that belies not only their relative distance to users or the overall casualty count, but also the users’ time spent with formal news reports of the attack. Keywords: media; news; notifications; push; users
• CHOICE AND CONTROL: AN ANALYSIS OF PRIVACY VALUES AND PRIVACY CONTROLS by Horne, Chelsea Leigh (2021.0) - This study considers how platforms’ public-facing rhetoric aligns or differs with the actual implementation of privacy policies and privacy controls. This phone setting is a prime example of how default settings are political. Keywords: default; privacy; settings; users
• PLATFORM SPECIFICITIES: THE PLATFORM BOOKS PANEL by Hendry, Natalie Ann; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Abidin, Crystal; Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos; Zeng, Jing; Wikstrom, Patrik; Bucher, Taina; Highfield, Tim; Leaver, Tama; Qiu, Jack Linchuan (2021.0) - Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. ‘The affordances of social media platforms.’ Keywords: app; content; cultures; facebook; instagram; media; new; platform; super; templatability; tiktok; tumblr; university; users; video; wechat
• SPACE, PLACE AND LOCATION IN SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA by Sundén, Jenny; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Paasonen, Susanna; Vihlman, Maria (2021.0) - Contributing to the swiftly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities (Nash and Gorman-Murray, 2019), this panel explores the geosocial and geopolitical dimensions of digital sexual cultures by zooming in on the connections between sexual practices, geographic imaginaries, and locally embedded social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Our panel opens up (at least) two important discussions, which we feel resonate with the AoIR community: (1) how geographic imaginaries shape and constrain sexual social media platforms at a political moment when sex is increasingly de-platformed from social media and pushed out of public view in ways that are particularly harmful for sexually marginalized people; and (2) how our examples, when understood as social media platforms, can challenge our understandings of what social media are, how they function, and what kind of sociability they foster. Keywords: digital; imaginaries; kink; libertine; media; place; platform; sex; site; users
• PERFORMING DEATH AND TRAUMA? PARTICIPATORY MEM(E)ORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN TIKTOK #POVCHALLENGES by Divon, Tom; Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Tobia (2023.0) - They utilize the platform’s features (like Green Screen) to convey aesthetics that relate to Holocaust memories, such as using Holocaust-related symbols (artifacts, customs, makeup, historical images, etc.), wearing ragged clothes (like concentration camp uniforms with yellow stars), and using makeup mimicking cuts, bruises, exhaustion, and malnourishment. The #POVHolocaustChallenge invites the inscription of Holocaust memory and other past atrocities into Gen-Z's (social media) lives. Keywords: holocaust; memory; platform; tiktok; tiktokers; users
• RULE BY DEFAULT: A CROSS-PLATFORM ANALYSIS OF PRIVACY SETTINGS by Horne, Chelsea Leigh (2023.0) - Privacy settings are a critical space of research; settings are uniquely positioned at the intersection between users and digital platforms and regulation, providing a visible privacy architecture—unlike backend privacy infrastructure and code—as well as an opportunity for users to interact with privacy choices—unlike terms of service and privacy policy documents which offer only all-or-nothing options (Horne, 2021). Just as scholars study privacy policies, terms of service, and the technical infrastructure and architecture of digital platforms’ privacy and security choices, privacy settings are critical in discussions of privacy and privacy rights. Keywords: default; privacy; settings; users
• DELETING VIDEOS ON TIKTOK AS ALGORITHM RELATED IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT by Klug, Daniel (2023.0) - Questions concerned participants’ motivations, strategies, and practices before, while, and after creating TikTok videos. Another main reason for deleting TikTok videos was lack of desired or intended feedback. Keywords: tiktok; users; videos
• COLONIZERS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NEXTDOOR USERS’ “POSTRACIAL” SURVEILLANCE by Lee, Jenny; Ahn, Chloe (2023.0) - Critical research on neighborhood platforms is still nascent and has mostly focused on the industry motivations behind these technologies, as well as their potential implications on race, privacy, and self-governance (e.g., Kurwa, 2019). Rather than examine the affordances and processes of smart home technologies or neighborhood platforms themselves, our study engages with the level of the user. Keywords: content; neighborhood; nextdoor; users
• PLATFORMIZATION OF CONSPIRACISM: INTRODUCING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTIGATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON "ALTERNATIVE" PLATFORMS USING A CASE STUDY OF BITCHUTE AND GAB by Mahl, Daniela; Zeng, Jing; Schäfer, Mike S. (2023.0) - Platformization of conspiracism: Introducing a theoretical framework for investigating conspiracy theories on “alternative” platforms using a case study of BitChute and Gab. PLATFORMIZATION OF CONSPIRACISM: INTRODUCING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTIGATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON “ALTERNATIVE” PLATFORMS USING A CASE STUDY OF BITCHUTE AND GAB Daniela Mahl University of Zurich Jing Zeng University of Zurich Mike S. Schäfer University of Zurich Digital platforms have impacted the communication of conspiracy theories – defined as alternative explanations of events or practices by referring to individuals or groups acting in secret (Mahl et al., 2022) – in multiple ways: They enable users to publicly share their support for conspiratorial claims, to connect with each other, and to form like-minded communities (cf., DeWitt et al., 2018). Keywords: conspiracy; platforms; theories; users
• TUMBLR META-FANDOM: REFLECTIONS AND REPAIR by Neill Hoch, Indira (2023.0) - Producing, distributing, and curating pornographic content, particularly queer pornographic content, had long been embedded in Tumblr practice (see Cho, 2015; McGlotten, 2020; Tiidenberg 2014, as examples). Participants maintained a sense of “past Tumblr” but it was hardly an uncomplicated one. Keywords: ban; repair; tumblr; users
• PROTEST MOVEMENTS ON LINKEDIN AS SPACE FOR CHALLENGING SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES by Prá, Raquel; Antonello, Claudia Simone (2023.0) - The emergence of protest movements, posts aimed at criticizing circulating content (Hine, 2015) on the platform, reveals that, although certain technological configurations impose themselves on users, digital platforms such as LinkedIn are not unique, universal, or deterministic. PROTEST MOVEMENTS ON LINKEDIN AS SPACE FOR CHALLENGING SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES Raquel Prá Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Claudia Simone Antonello Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Introduction This paper aims to reflect on how the transformation of LinkedIn into an online environment from which are carried out critiques and questionings about the labor market, management practices, and work relations in Brazil, allows to challenge of sociotechnical imaginaries (Silva, 2020) about the relationship with the platform. Keywords: content; linkedin; platform; users
• ANTICIPATING SOCIO-TECHNICAL CHANGE: USERS BELIEFS AROUND REDDIT’S IPO by Proferes, Nicholas (2023.0) - ANTICIPATING SOCIO-TECHNICAL CHANGE: USERS BELIEFS AROUND REDDIT’S IPO Nicholas Proferes Arizona State University Introduction Platform changes are a phenomenon endlessly confronting social media users, impacting how they create and consume content. While users often encounter platform change and respond to it directly through the techno-cultural side, the socio-economic conditions that undergird a platform ultimately play a formative role in user experience. Keywords: media; reddit; socio; users
• USERS’ SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT, COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ON INSTAGRAM: AN EXAMINATION OF THE #BLACKOUTTUESDAY CONVERSATIONS by Zaher, Zulfia; Dejmanee, Tisha; Weber, Kirsten (2023.0) - Black Lives Matter has been the focus of a number of studies. We argue that the study of #BlackoutTuesday Instagram posts is a significant contribution to research on Black Lives Matter as 1) they reflect the commentary of a large community of allies who do not fit the main demographic groups of participants in BLM conversation previously identified by Freelon, McIlwain and Clark (2016), and 2) this conversation was centered around Instagram, rather than Twitter which is often considered the foundational platform of the movement. Keywords: behavior; empowerment; instagram; sense; users
• PROACTIVE MEMEFICATION AND POLITICAL CATHARSIS: HOW ONLINE HUMOR PROMPTS POLITICAL EXPRESSION AMONG SUDANESE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS by Abdelbagi, Abubakr (2023.0) - Therefore, this study asks, how does online humor prompt political expression among Sudanese social media users? The second finding highlights how Sudanese social media users sought political catharsis and collective relief from the Shabab Hilween page’s humorous videos and the comment section. Keywords: media; page; shabab; sudan; users
• ALGORITHMS, AESTHETICS AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF CULTURAL CONSUMPTION ONLINE by Bimo, Sara ; Bhandari, Aparajita (2023.0) - CTDA highlights the power relations embedded in technological artifacts, allowing for the in-depth examination of the relationships between technology, culture, and user practices. We are guided by three related research questions: (1) What tactics and practices constitute user participation in microtrends? Keywords: aesthetic; analysis; microtrends; users
• GROUPS ARE EASY, FEDERATING IS HARD by Brown, James J (2023.0) - Users of Slack have the relatively easy job of establishing a group, but on Mastodon users have to manage internal group dynamics while also federating (or defederating) with other groups. Federating Practices Robert Gehl and Diana Zulli argue that Mastodon relies on a shared “political and social worldview,” and they suggest that this worldview was tested when many servers decided to defederate from Gab, a far-right social media platform, after the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Keywords: groups; mastodon; servers; users
• STABLE SCIENCE AND FICKLE BODIES: AN EXAMINATION OF TRUST AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPERTISE ON R/SKINCAREADDICTION by DeCusatis, Cara Maria Carmel (2023.0) - I argue that such delineations both uphold formalized systems of expertise and make space for alternative, community-specific forms of skincare expertise. The theory of lay expertise (Epstein, 1995; Bryan Wynne, 1996) is essential to unpacking r/SkincareAddiction because it helps illuminate the central tension present in this research– how do people determine expertise in a lay community, when the topic of that expertise (skincare) is ill-defined and distributed across both scientific and non-scientific domains? Keywords: expertise; science; skincare; users
• DEAR BABY GAYS: INVESTIGATING THE SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICES OF OLDER LGBTQ+ TIKTOK USERS by Duguay, Stefanie; Acar, Özgem Elif; Jamet-Lange, Hannah (2023.0) - Investigating the sociotechnical practices of older LGBTQ+ TikTok users. While Zeng & Abidin’s (2021) study is one of the few to include older users’ content, further investigation is necessary regarding older LGBTQ+ users, whose content may be less antagonistic given offline instances of queer intergenerational sociality and support (Emmer, 2012). Keywords: content; lgbtq+; media; queer; tiktok; users
• #STOPMENSTRUALSHAMING: XIAOHONGSHU USERS’ ONLINE ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN’S ISSUES IN CHINA by Gu, Yuejie; Yang, Ying; Saiyinjiya; Wu, Wanyu; Chen, Qingyun; Chen, Siqi; Literat, Ioana (2023.0) - #StopMenstrualShaming: Xiaohongshu users’ online advocacy for women’s issues in China. Findings The study revealed how Xiaohongshu provided a space for Chinese female users to express solidarity and engage in activism against menstrual shame. Keywords: platform; users; women; xiaohongshu
• LIFESTYLE GOVERNMENTALITY IN CHINA: GOVERNING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CITIZEN SUBJECTS THROUGH LIFESTYLE PRACTICES ON XIAOHONGSHU (RED) by Ju, Ran (2023.0) - The third section highlights when lifestyle governmentality works through the formation of users as entrepreneurial subjects, this form of governmentality also bears the enduring possibility of resistance (Ettlinger, 2018). But this body of literature tends to overlook the interplay between the top-down and the bottom-up networks in which management and guidance over individuals and populations could occur with the active engagement of political authorities, lifestyle platforms, professional associations, and citizen subjects themselves. Keywords: china; governmentality; lifestyle; red; subjects; users
• DIGITAL LABOR AND RENTIER PLATFORM CAPITALISM: REFORM OR REVOLUTION? by Kamish, D W ; Hilstob, Kayla (2023.0) - The horizon of our platform politics must not stop short at remuneration for the daily activities of platform users but extend to the creation of genuinely democratic infrastructures. From this foundation, we engage with ongoing debates on the audience commodity (Kaplan 2019) and digital rent (Frayssé 2015) to begin articulating a more precise account of social media platforms’ valorization process and the user/platform relation therein. Keywords: capitalism; labor; media; new; platforms; users
• COMMEMORATING AS CRITICIZING: HOW LI WENLIANG’S WEIBO HOMEPAGE BECOMES A PLACE FOR QUESTIONING CHINA’S COVID-19 POLICIES AND A “WAILING WALL” by Lin, Bibo (2023.0) - Preliminary Findings and Conclusion The preliminary findings suggest that Weibo offers a space for users to (1) see the mundane life of Li Wenliang, (2) shortly express their grief and frustration, and (3) interact with other users to remember Li. First, the rich life details of Li Wenliang on his Weibo homepage, including 2014 posts from December 31, 2010, to January 31, 2020, allow the public to revisit many junctures of the developments and changes of Li’s life in his twenties to his thirties. Keywords: users; weibo; wenliang
• spir-13482 by None (None) - For rural queer people, visibility in relation to sexuality is carefully negotiated and cannot be taken for granted (Gray, 2009). In M. L. Gray, C. R. Johnson, & B. J. Gilley (Eds.), Queering the countryside: New frontiers in rural queer studies (223-243). Keywords: participants; people; pna; queer; rural; users
• MAPPING TUMBLR THROUGH FANNISH HOMOPHILIES by Rouse, Lauren; Stanfill, Mel (2023.0) - Attu and Terras note (2017) that “the majority of papers published have a conceptual focus: explaining how Tumblr works when positioned within a specific field of interest, closely followed by message-based works which study Tumblr content” (3). The experience of Tumblr is organized around the “dashboard,” which—rare among contemporary social media platforms—is a reverse chronological feed of the blogs a user follows. Keywords: content; media; platform; site; tumblr; users
• STITCHING POLITICS AND IDENTITY ON TIKTOK by Bach, Parker ; Gitomer, Adina; Devries, Melody; Walker, Christina; Freelon, Deen; Atienza-Barthelemy, Julia; Welles, Brooke Foucault; Deyoe, Diana; Zulli, Diana (2023.0) - While some studies have navigated limited data access and the platform’s relative infancy to offer an examination of political TikTok (see Literat & Kligler-Vilenchik, 2019; Medina Serrano et al., 2020; Vijay & Gekker, 2021; Guinaudeau et al., 2022), there remains a significant need for more analysis and theorization of how TikTok can become both a site for political discourse and a feature caught up within political mobilization. Likewise, average individuals will continue to post, duet, or stitch political TikTok's. Keywords: action; content; gender; identity; media; new; politicians; politics; research; right; tiktok; university; users; videos; women; youth
• ‘YOU CANNOT EXPECT SUCH VALIDATION IN REAL LIFE:’ HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE IN WOMEN’S ROMANCING WITH AI CHATBOT REPLIKA by Depounti, Iliana; Saukko, Paula (2025.0) - While the idea is not new, since Radway suggested that the Smithton women in the 1980s found romance reading ‘therapeutic, a tranquilizer and tension reliever’ (Radway, 1984), there is a change from ‘the therapeutic’ as an abstract concept to a more organized experience of self-help in female users of contemporary media and in this case, AI companion chatbots. However, it has also been pointed out that many women do not seek to change the world but simply aim to survive in or bear with it (Berlant, 2008). Keywords: change; media; replika; self; users; women
• ARTIFACTS, PRACTICES AND SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CONTENT CURATION ON TIKTOK: A STUDY ON POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES CONTENT by Entrena Serrano, Carlos; Trisha, Meyer (2025.0) - First, because it uses donated data to contrast and complement how users perceive their experiences with algorithmic content curation in social media, fostering further reflections. Furthermore, we consider how users’ perception and skills, as well as their institutional and cultural arrangements (Davis, 2020), shape their practices and experiences with algorithmic personalization, and how they experience algorithmic curation in two different but interrelated ways, as instrumental and/or intimate (Savolainen & Ruckenstein, 2022). Keywords: content; curation; tiktok; users
• THEORISING TOGGLING: BEING PUSHED AND MOVED BY UI by Lalvani, Simiran (2025.0) - Prior to digital information push, push buttons in electric circuits on doorbells and typewriters, created similar concerns about users becoming lazy and disconnected. Then I will illustrate how toggling as a concept, enables reframing two dominant views on (1) how information is imagined to push users to do things and (2) how being a user, especially a consumer, is imagined to move us “out of touch.” Keywords: information; push; toggling; users
• TRUST ISSUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: SOCIAL IMAGINARIES, RISK, AND USER LABOUR IN DIGITAL BANKING APPS by Li, Yuening; Kerr, Aphra; Ryan, Linzi (2025.0) - These groups shape the broader understanding and design of money and digital banking services, influenced by cultural norms, historical contexts, technological advancements, and economic practices. It views digital banking apps as platforms that enable personalised interactions (Poell, Nieborg, and van Dijck, 2019), and aim to investigate the datafication (van Dijck, 2014; Sadowski, 2019) and platformisation of banking. Keywords: apps; banking; money; university; users; van
• TINDER FOR TEENS: AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF YOUTH INTIMATE CULTURES AND SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ON SNAPCHAT by Milne, Betsy; Ringrose, Jessica; Horeck, Tanya; Mendes, Kaitlynn (2025.0) - Young people often reported receiving unsolicited sexual images from Snapchat users they believed were peers but were actually adult men, also known as catfishing. Approach While it is important to protect young people from emerging digital risks, scholars are increasingly emphasising youth digital sexual rights, and the positive potential that digital technologies can play in young people’s sexual and bodily self-expression online (Albury, 2017; Albury et al., 2017; Livingstone & Third, 2017; Setty, 2019). Keywords: experiences; media; people; snapchat; users; youth
• SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN TWITTER ISSUE PUBLICS: BIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF HYPERACTIVE UNCIVIL AND INTOLERANT USERS IN AMERICAN ABORTION DISCOURSE by Oh, Dayei; Sykora, Martin; Elayan, Suzanne (2025.0) - In December 2022, we rehydrated the biographical data of the top 1% of most hyperactive uncivil and intolerant users and a random sample of non-hyperactive users in a similar size for comparison. Non-hyperactive users, however, focus more on apolitical and personal identity markers including one’s gender, sexual orientations, and hobbies. Keywords: abortion; identities; identity; twitter; users
• UNFAIR PLAY: DIGITAL PLATFORM'S ABUSE OF POWER TO INFLUENCE BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDA by Salles, Débora; Mattos, Bruno; Santini, Rose Marie; Canavarro, Marcela (2025.0) - Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK / 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 UNFAIR PLAY: DIGITAL PLATFORMS’ ABUSE OF POWER TO INFLUENCE BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDA Rose Marie Santini Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Bruno Mattos Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Débora Salles Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Marcela Canavarro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Introduction Over the last decades, the tech exceptionalism myth has tried to convince public opinion that governmental regulation could limit tech companies’ ability to promote efficiency and innovation, uniting consumers and companies in favor of deregulatory politics (Culpepper & Thelen, 2020; Eisenstat & Gilman, 2022). Data and Results We collected primary evidence from April 20 to May 10, 2023, simultaneously to the tech companies’ lobbying campaign and performed multiplatform observations as a means to identify messages and ads produced and distributed by tech companies. Keywords: ads; bill; companies; platforms; tech; users
• THE ELITE AMONG USERS: IDENTITY FORMATION OF VENDORS AND CUSTOMERS ON DARKNET DRUG TRADE SITES by Siuda, Piotr (2025.0) - Additionally, the connection between these online identities and the broader identities prevalent within the so-called drug subculture or the social worlds of drug users (Sandberg, 2013; Wanke et al., 2022) still needs to be better understood. Furthermore, perceived differences between drug users involved in darknet and traditional trading were investigated. Keywords: darknet; drug; identities; users
• MEDICAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY AND THE REFRACTED PUBLIC OF POLISH DRUG USERS FORUM by Siuda, Piotr; Wanke, Michał (2025.0) - The medicalisation of revolt: A sociological analysis of medical cannabis users. Drug forum users discuss highly personal issues that require trust and sensitivity and urge them to remain hidden in plain sight to avoid context collapse, yet maintaining visibility (Marwick & boyd, 2014). Keywords: cannabis; drug; forum; industry; public; users
• SEX AS/AND/ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Monea, Alexander; McGlotten, Shaka; Paasonen, Susanna; Sundén, Jenny; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Jacobsson, Robert (2025.0) - Drawing on analyses of platform governance policies, ethnographic observation, and over 60 interviews with users, developers, and moderators, these authors examine the ways in which platforms built to facilitate the dissemination of sexual content themselves produce new boundaries and norms around sexuality online. First, the notion of safety is uncoupled from sexual content and the imperatives of moderating it, becoming reframed through the notions of consent, authenticity, harassment, shaming, and violence instead (cf. Keywords: community; content; gooners; grindr; media; men; new; online; people; platforms; pornography; press; queer; sex; university; users; vanilla; york
• VISUAL TRUST ON SOCIAL MEDIA – MEANING, MONEY AND MOTIVATION by Tiidenberg, Katrin; Davidjants, Jaana; Rose, Gillian; Hamper, Josie; Schreiber, Maria; Liedtke, Marius (2025.0) - Interviews with social media content creators explored the planning, making and posting of health-related content, again attending to the role of visuals in creating “good” content. As demonstrated both by our findings and other scholarship (e.g. Enli and Rosenberg 2018; Hund 2023; Reade 2021), the 'authenticity' of social media content is critical to gaining the trust of users. Keywords: authenticity; bodies; body; content; creators; digital; fitness; gym; health; images; media; participants; trust; users; visual; youtube
• ANALYSING NEWS POLARISATION: FROM PRODUCTION TO ENGAGEMENT AND BEYOND by Esau, Katharina; Bruns, Axel; Vodden, Laura; Riedlinger, Michelle; Vilkins, Samantha; Lefevre, Laura; Lubicz-Zaorski, Carly; Srinivas, Arjun; Obeid, Abdul; Meese, James; Angus, Daniel; Graham,, Timothy; Burgess, Jean; Münch, Felix; Gaisbauer, Felix; Pournaki, Armin; Ohme, Jakob; Watt, Ned; Montaña-Niño, Silvia (2025.0) - Building on theoretical approaches from political science and media and communication studies, we examine four types of polarisation that we suggest are critical to determining news media polarisation: source polarisation (which actors get to speak?), positional polarisation (what positions are represented?), value polarisation (what societal and/or individual values are explicitly or implicitly privileged?), and affective polarisation (what emotions are attached to different actors and perspectives?). ANALYSING NEWS POLARISATION: FROM PRODUCTION TO ENGAGEMENT AND BEYOND Axel Bruns Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Katharina Esau Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Laura Vodden Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Michelle Riedlinger Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Samantha Vilkins Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Laura Lefevre Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Carly Lubicz-Zaorski Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Arjun Srinivas Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Abdul Obeid Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology James Meese RMIT University Daniel Angus Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Timothy Graham Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Jean Burgess Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Felix Münch Leibniz-Institut Keywords: australian; centre; checkers; climate; content; digital; fact; media; media research; news; polarisation; queensland; research; sources; study; technology; university; users
• SOCIAL MEDIA AS A KEY ACTOR IN REDEFINING HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY DYNAMICS by Westwood, Hannah Louisa; Tylstedt, Beatrice; Stein, Krysten; Holroyd, Deanna (2025.0) - The results of this digital ethnographic study show that social media ADHD content tends to follow one of two formats – 1) educational, myth-busting content, or 2) trending content. This paper therefore argues that contrary to previous research on online health discourse, ADHD social media content is not simply a source of advocacy, awareness, and activism. Keywords: adhd; analysis; content; cycles; femtech; health; healthcare; industry; influencers; instagram; media; medical; research; users
• Fixity: Identity, Time and Dur on Facebook by Harper, Richard; Whitworth, Eryn; Page, Ruth (2012.0) - As should be clear, Facebook postings don’t even manage this, in all instances. We might have networked identities, but these are bound to the culture of the real. Keywords: content; facebook; identity; people; press; research; self; sns; time; users; ways
• Creating Networks Through Search - PageRank, Algorithmic Truth, and Tracing the Web by Jones, John (2012.0) - Impact of search networks on information-seeking We know that PageRank continues to play an important role in Google searches, despite the fact that it is not the only factor used to calculate search results. In the case of monitoring the rise of hate groups, even when access to that material is inaccessible via search networks, users could connect with groups that monitor such activity—as the Southern Poverty Law Center does with hate groups in the United States. Keywords: google; information; links; network; pagerank; pages; results; search; users; web
• #rescatemineros: global media events in the microblogging age by Rossi, Luca; Magnani, Matteo; Iadarola, Barbara (2011.0) - This suggests that not only their messages are judged as worthy to be spread (and trustable) by several Twitter users but that, at the same time, Twitter users use the microblogging site as a platform that gives them the opportunity to address messages directly to VIPs. Users communication seems to stay within sub-networks geographically defined. Keywords: communication; information; media; messages; network; news; propagation; twitter; users
• 'More Awesome than Electronic Arts': resistance and appropriation in The Sims gaming communities by Deller, Ruth (2013.0) - Sims communities and players can be find on almost all blogging, forum and social media platforms – and appropriation and resistance form a key part of many gamers’ experiences, from their use of game mods and custom content, to the way they discuss the EA/Maxis created characters, worlds and scenarios and appropriate (or resist) these in their own gameplay, world building and story creation. The act of paid creation is controversial and some sites recirculate this content for free, arguing that charging for custom content contravenes the EA terms of service forbidding users to profit from EA content, as the items are based on EA meshes. Keywords: content; resistance; sims; users
• Book Pirates: Tethered Technologies and their Domestication by Klang, Mathias; Nolin, Jan (2013.0) - Bloody battles for the right to copy are exceptions to the norm, the goal of this paper is to understand the performances of resistance towards the experience of copy limitations in ebook technologies. Keywords piracy; ebooks; ebook readers; domestication; tethered technology Introduction Keywords: drm; ebook; technology; users
• Collapse of an Online Social Network: Who Started the Avalanche? by Lorincz, Laszlo; Gyor, Anna Fruzsina; Koltai, Julia; Karoly, Takacs (2016.0) - Considering  the  collapse  of  the   network,  the  presence  of  network  externalities  has  straightforward  predictions:  users,   who  have  fewer  connections  enjoy  lower  utility  from  this  specific  network,  therefore  they   are  more  willing  to  change  for  an  alternative  one.       After   significant  cascading  mechanism  were  found  in  the  abandoning  of  the  site  (Török,   Janos,  Ruan,  Zhongyuan,  and  Kertész,  Janos  2016),  we  concentrate  on  the   specification  of  users,  who  leave  the  OSN  first,  and  start  these  avalanches.       Keywords: collapse; network; users
• ECOLOGIES OF SUBVERSION AND INSPIRATION ON TWITTER: THE HIJACKING OF #MYNYPD by Breideband, Thomas (2015.0) - The analysis of the second dataset in this category revealed how various top hashtags influenced not only the direction of the conversation on #myNYPD but also the emergence of other new hashtags (see Fig. 6). On the other hand, this particular campaign provided an added rhetorical dimension pertaining to the photographic material that Twitter users were asked to post to the hashtag. Keywords: communication; ecologies; hashtag; media; new; print; twitter; users
• Foursquare and the Parochialization of Public Space by Humphreys, Lee; Liao, Tony (2013.0) - Keywords mobile social networks; public space; parochial realm; Foursquare; social interaction Background There is a growing body of literature around mobile social networks and locative media. Parochialization is the process by which people share socio-locational information with one another through communication technologies such as check-ins on mobile social networks, such that the public realm, where people had previously encountered strangers, starts to feel more familiar due to the social exchanges through the network. Keywords: foursquare; mobile; person; urban; users
• Hybrid-Identities: Degrees of Digital Selves by Boudreau, Kelly (2013.0) - This paper will look at the ways in which Facebook and Pinterest offer two different platforms for identity play with both actual and idealized forms of selves through the posting and framing of personal information and the (re)appropriation of pre-existing content on the internet. Pixels, Parts & Pieces: Constructing digital identity. Keywords: content; facebook; identity; play; users
• IMAGINING ACCESS FOR ALL: THE FAILED INTRODUCTION OF A NEW EDITING INTERFACE FOR WIKIPEDIA by Osman, Kim (2015.0) - This research follows the events that lead to a sanctioned community hack disabling the default editor for English Wikipedia users three months after its introduction to examine how editors in Wikipedia enact shared values and ideals around knowledge and knowledge creation. This discussion is contextualised by situating VisualEditor’s introduction in a history of reactions to new user interfaces from Engelbart’s “mother of all demos” in 1968, to Blogger’s “push- button publishing for the people” (Streeter, 2011; Walker Rettberg, 2014). Keywords: new; users; wikipedia
• LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION AND GENRE ADHERENCE IN REDDIT.COM by Titak, Ashley (2015.0) - Through these analyses, differences in language use on Reddit can be examined according to the user’s year of use, comment score, and the overarching sub-community in which the comment was made, and reveal a picture of larger language patterns. However, there is a paucity research considering language use in digital genres from a language socialization perspective. Keywords: community; corpus; language; users; year
• METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TRACING USER KNOWLEDGE OF INFORMATION FLOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES by Proferes, Nicholas (2015.0) - METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TRACING USER KNOWLEDGE OF INFORMATION FLOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES Nicholas Proferes University of Maryland Introduction Following a number of recent examples of where social media users have been confronted by information flows that did not match their understandings and expectations—such as in the wake of the “Facebook contagion” study (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014) Although it may seem administrative to close on such a note, one of the potential challenges of studying social media systems is that design elements, protocols, algorithms, data structures, ownership, etc. can change quickly. Keywords: flows; information; knowledge; media; users
• My Algorithm: User Perceptions of Algorithmic Recommendations in Cultural Contexts by Colbjørnsen, Terje (2016.0) - As  users  feed  the  services  with  more  information  on  their  likes  and  dislikes,   algorithms  can  suggest  more  of  the  same  kind  that  we  seem  to  like,  creating  a  cultural   “filter  bubble”  (Pariser,  2011).   That  is  not   to  forget  that  a  presumptively  large  group  will  be  unconcerned  or  ignorant  of  how   algorithms  provide  recommendations.       Keywords: algorithms; recommendations; users
• Navigating Media Ambivalence: Strategies of Resistance, Avoidance, and Engagement with Media Technology in Everyday Life by Rosenthal, Michele; Ribak, Rivka; Liberman, Rachael; Echchaibi, Nabil; Portwood-Stacer, Laura (2013.0) - Keywords social media; resistance; labor; lifestyle; activism A small but vocal contingent of social media users are fed up. In particular, the author argues that given their media deficit in American society, Muslims often feel they cannot afford to resist media technologies, particularly smart phones and social media because of their connective qualities and their interventionist affordances. Keywords: gender; home; labor; media; muslims; new; paper; practices; refusal; resistance; technologies; use; users
• News Media Appropriation: strategical possibilities of pro-am on Twitter by Zago, Gabriela; Belochio, Vivian (2011.0) - But news media Twitter presence doesn’t need to be limited to that. This is the case of Twitter, whose appropriation for news circulation made news media outlets to also seek to use the space for the extension of its contents (Jenkins, 2006), as well of its contexts of actions. Keywords: figure; guardian; journalism; media; news; place; public; tool; twitter; use; users
• Popularity indicators in online media. A review of research on the effects of metric user information by Kümpel, Anna Sophie; Haim, Mario (2016.0) - These  popularity  indicators  (PIs),  which  we  define  as  metric   information  about  users’  behavior  or  their  evaluations  of  entities,  serve  as  social  signals   for  users  who  are  confronted  with  them.   As  prior  research  shows,  PIs  are  thereby  able   to  influence  users’  perceptions  of  the  evaluated  object  and  might  thus  affect  their   subsequent  decisions.     Keywords: pis; research; users
• PRESENCE, PRIVACY, AND PSEUDONYMITY by Vivienne, Sonja; Leaver, Tama; Robards, Brady; van der Nagel, Emily (2014.0) - Through the unmasking of Violentacrez this paper maps a disruption to the idea of the anonymous troll, an event that presents social media users with a challenge to their sense of privacy, but also an opportunity to be reminded that the boundaries of public and private on social media are never stable. The third paper considers new conventions governing physical and online spaces as they emerge among a small population of young Facebook users in Tasmania. Keywords: facebook; identity; network; new; online; people; presence; privacy; self; social; surveillance; users; violentacrez
• RACE AND RELIGION IN EVERYDAY INFORMAITON SEEKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN MALAYSIA by Hanchard, Sandra (2014.0) - Abstract This paper investigates the range of social networks that Malaysian users value on social media for information seeking in everyday contexts. Results from an online questionnaire of 400 Malaysian users, including Bahasa Malay, Chinese, Indian and English speakers demonstrates that social media in general helps users increase their connectedness, both online and offline, with different types of social networks. Keywords: information; media; networks; users
• RESEARCHING MISLEADING INFORMATION WITHIN HYBRID MEDIA ECOLOGIES. WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING by Giglietto, Fabio; Valeriani, Augusto; Iannelli, Laura; Rossi, Luca; Dvir Gvirsman, Shira; Zeng, Jing; Chan, Chung-hong; Fu, King-wa; Farkas, Johan; Schou, Jannick (2016.0) - This body of literature can be traced back to the stream of post-II-world-war studies on the effects of media on public opinion. This  is  yet  another  example  for/of  media  convergence[1]:   an  on-­going  long  term  process  that  created  a  world  in  which  it  is  no  longer  feasible  to   differentiate  between  mass  communication  and  inter-­personal  communication  (Castells,   2013;;  Walther  et  al.,  2010). Keywords: communication; facebook; information; media; news; pages; public; rumour; time; university; users
• SOCIALLY DIVIDED: AFFORDANCES, GENDER, AND RACE IN FACEBOOK by Cirucci, Angela (2015.0) - None of the Above Identifications like gender are required for Facebook users. Therefore, Facebook’s active decision to leave out race/ethnicity affordances, while constantly updating and posting messages about gender affordances, has led users to view gender as a more important, but less messy, identification aspect. Keywords: affordances; facebook; gender; new; race; users
• STRATEGIES OF INFORMATION DISCLOSURE by Steinfeld, Nili (2016.0) - Papacharissi,  Z.  and  Gibson,  P.L.  (2011),  Fifteen  minutes  of  privacy:  privacy,  sociality,   and  publicity  on  social  network  sites,  in  Trepte,  S.  and  Reinecke,  L.  (Eds),  Privacy   Online:  Perspectives  on  Privacy  and  Self-­Disclosure  in  the  Social  Web,  Springer-­Verlag,   Berlin,  pp.  75-­89.       References Acquisti,  A.  and  Grossklags,  J.  (2005),  Privacy  and  rationality  in  individual  decision   making,  IEEE  Security  and  Privacy,  Vol.  3  No.  1,  pp.  26-­33.     Keywords: information; privacy; users
• What’s Behind the Mask?: Understanding Stealth Practices of Grindr Users by Wesley-Smith, Ian N.; Chapin, W. E. (2016.0) - We  explore  this  concept  of  stealth  in  relationship  to  users  of  Grindr  and  their  choices  of   profile  pictures.   If  users  of  Grindr  are  in  some  sense  self-­identifying  as  gay  by  using  the  app,  we   wondered  why  users  would  choose  to  hide  their  identity  in  their  profile  pictures. Keywords: grindr; profile; users
• The Genesis of Crisis Communication in Twitter: from Witnesses to Gatewatchers by Rossi, Luca; Zurovac, Elisabetta (2013.0) - We then adopted a SNA approaches to study the network produced by the retweet activity and focused our attention on the presence of a giant component made of users connected to one another through the Figure 1: Tweet, retweets and single users per hour. Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors. Keywords: information; messages; research; twitter; users
• Third Spaces, Religion and Spirituality in the Digital Age by Echchaibi, Nabil; Liberman, Rachael; Whitehead, Deborah (2013.0) - Far from being mere technological events, religious third spaces in the digital realm are different not because they are radically new, but because they build from the ambivalent encounter of old and new forms of sociality and negotiate differing poles of cultural identity. I also look at how the site produces new religious practices and generates new templates and narratives of social action for its users while policing at the same time the terms and boundaries of what it calls modern Islam. Keywords: communities; digital; islam; media; new; online; postsecret; religion; space; users
• User resistance and repurposing: a look at the iOS jailbreaking scene in Brazil by Amaral, Adriana da Rosa; Souza, Rosana Vieira (2013.0) - The study is based on a qualitative approach that examined both motivations to engage in jailbreaking and critical incidents and included interviews with Cydia Store users from Brazil, the primary jailbreak apps store available to users of iOS devices. Some scholars (Benkler, 2006; Galloway, 2006 and Zittrain, 2008) point out that users of mobile devices are being locked down in a new wave of closed environments. Keywords: apps; devices; ios; jailbreaking; users
• SUBVERTING SOCIAL MEDIA by singh, sava saheli (2015.0) - In what seems to be an attempt to emulate Facebook, Twitter introduced this feature to show users tweets they might have missed from people they follow, based on engagement and other metrics (Rosania, 2015). In the context of researching behavior in and culture of these spaces, these kinds of uses of Twitter features can add messiness – desired and undesired (Tufekci, 2014) – to the data collected. Keywords: features; media; new; people; tweets; twitter; users; way

• Musical.Ly’s Sleight of Hand: Circumventing Family Social Media Governance by Savic, Milovan; McCosker, Anthony (2017.0) - CIRCUMVENTING FAMILY SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE Milovan Savic Swinburne University of Technology Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Introduction Young people’s engagement with networked publics, understood in boyd’s (2011) terms as an imagined community restructured by social media, often raises public anxieties about possible risky encounters online. Private spaces for young people are intrinsically mediated (Lincoln 2014) and social media is deeply entrenched in youth cultural practices such as identity construction, social interaction, experimentation and autonomy seeking practices (Livingstone 2014, 2008; Robards 2012; Campos-Holland et.al. 2015). Keywords: media; musical.ly; platform; use
• THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF LIVE STREAMING ON TWITCH.TV by Johnson, Mark Richard; Woodcock, Jamie (2018.0) - Findings In seeking to understand the labour and work of Twitch streamers, audience interest and engagement with in the platform, and Twitch’s broader position in contemporary media production, we offer three findings in this paper. In both 2016 and 2017 over two million people regularly broadcast on the platform, resulting in over a million years of video content in total viewed by over one hundred million people (Twitch, 2017). Keywords: media; platform; streaming; twitch
• ANALYZING PLATFORM POWER: APP STORES AS INFRASTRUCTURAL PLATFORM SERVICES by Nieborg, David; Poell, Thomas; van Dijck, José (2019.0) - App stores as infrastructural platform services The typical unit of analysis in scholarship discussing platform power is either the level of individual actors, company ecosystems, or geopolitical ecosystems. Five levels of platform power To better differentiate among the different actors in platform ecosystems, the paper proposes to study platform power at five expanding levels, similar to those of ecological ecosystems. Keywords: app; platform; power; services
• SUNSET AND MEMORIES: HOW WE BURY AND MOURN DEAD PLATFORMS by van der Nagel, Emily (2019.0) - As social media platforms are a relatively new form of media, this research project aims to gain an understanding of how people shift from platform to platform, and how media traces and platforms are remembered and forgotten. This paper investigates how social media platforms end, and how people remember them after they are gone. Keywords: media; people; platform
• DIGITAL LABOR SOLIDARITIES, COLLECTIVE FORMATIONS, AND RELATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES by Soriano, Cheryll Ruth; Grohmann, Rafael; Chen, Yujie; Karatzogianni, Athina; Qiu, Jack; Cabanes, Jason Vincent; Alves, Paula; Dey, Andrija (2020.0) - The second paper by Cheryll Ruth Soriano and Jason Vincent Cabañes examines emerging forms of solidarity among digital platform workers in the Philippines, one of the largest platform labor supplying countries globally. Entrepreneurial solidarities: Social media collectives and Filipino digital platform workers. Keywords: aoir; collective; drivers; formations; karatzogianni; labor; new; platform; solidarities; soriano; workers
• SOCIALITY AND MONETIZATION ON LIVE STREAMING PLATFORMS by Bowman, Nick; Johnson, Mark Richard; Woodcock, Jamie; Partin, Will; Jackson, Nathan (2020.0) - In spite of the size and impact of live streaming platforms, the phenomenon remains relatively alien to many scholars when compared to more traditional and studied forms of social media. From the perspective of interactivity-as-demand (Bowman, 2018), we can unpack how game streamers—those performing for others—are influenced by the experience of using streaming platforms and navigating their infrastructures. Keywords: game; gaming; live; media; monetization; new; platform; play; streamers; streaming; time; twitch; viewers
• FOLLOW THE MONEY: A LARGE-SCALE INVESTIGATION OF MONETIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION ON YOUTUBE by Coromina, Oscar; Matamoros-Fernández, Ariadna; Rieder, Bernhard (2020.0) - Our method sheds light on YouTube’s economic ecology and opens the door to the possibility to classify YouTube channels according to their model of monetization and to analyze relationships between monetization, optimization, and topicality. YouTube’s business model - which generated $15B of revenues in 2019 (Statt, 2020) - relies on millions of channels uploading videos, pursuing views and subscribers, and increasingly professionalizing their production methods to become viable businesses themselves. Keywords: channels; content; monetization; platform; youtube
• THE MANY SIDES OF A COIN: EXPLORING THE COST AND VALUE OF TOKENS IN CHATURBATE by Hernandez, Antonia (2020.0) - As this paper shows, Chaturbate tokens have different uses and meanings for the audience and performers. Despite their apparent simplicity and fictional nature, Chaturbate tokens are coins of many sides. Keywords: chaturbate; performers; platform; tokens
• ONE APP, TWO VERSIONS: TIKTOK AND THE PLATFORMIZATION FROM CHINA by Lin, Jian (2020.0) - The study adds a new lens to the existing scholarship on platform governance (Van Dijck et al. 2018; 2019; Gorwa 2019), platform imperialism (Jin 2015; Winseck 2017; Mann & Daly 2019) and participatory digital culture (Jenkins et al. 2015; Burgess & Green 2018; Cunningham & Craig 2019) through engaging with the globalization of Chinese digital platforms. Through a digital walk-through of the interfaces of its Chinese and international version, as well as based on the archival research of industrial and media reports, this study sheds light upon the specificities of Chinese social media platforms going global – the contradictions behind their business discourses and platform governance and the challenges brought by them to the global platform society. Keywords: chinese; platform; tiktok
• TEMPORAL FRAMES FOR PLATFORM PUBLICS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF BREADTUBE by Mniestri, Aikaterini; Gekker, Alex (2020.0) - It has been over a decade of YouTube studies and yet, a consensus on what precisely YouTube is seems unlikely. In this paper we suggest the notion of platform publics to account for the intermingling of socio-technical processes that make online platforms (in this case: YouTube) resistant to stable definitions. Keywords: breadtube; october; platform; youtube
• “TUMBLR TOLD ME…”: THE POLITICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS LIVING ACTORS by Morgenstern, Michelle (2020.0) - Scholars of the internet have done careful and essential work in questioning undifferentiated imaginaries of social media platforms in our analyses, arguing instead for analytic approaches that move away from exactly the sorts of understandings of platform my research participants are articulating (Akkaya 2014; Miller 2016). “Tumblr told me…”: The political and methodological significance of conceptualizing social media platforms as living actors. Keywords: media; platform; tumblr
• COMMUNICATING MARKETS: COMPETITION POLICY DISCOURSE AND DIGITAL PLATFORM POWER by Popiel, Pawel (2020.0) - Policy scholarship has documented the shifting dynamics of competition within digital platform markets and explored potential reforms (Moore & Tambini, 2018). However, the benefits accrued to them by platforms’ size and reach, their dependence on platform markets, and their reticence about regulation constrained their policy proposals. Keywords: competition; digital; platform; policy; power
• IT'S REWIND TIME, EVERYBODY: THE CONTESTATION OF PLATFORM CULTURE IN YOUTUBE'S YEARLY REVIEW by Reynolds, CJ (2020.0) - In 2018, YouTube’s blog excitedly announced the release of annual year-in-review video, YouTube Rewind. IT’S REWIND TIME, EVERYBODY: THE CONTESTATION OF PLATFORM CULTURE IN YOUTUBE’S YEARLY REVIEW CJ Reynolds The Hebrew University of Jerusalem YouTube Rewind, especially its controversial 2018 and 2019 offerings, surfaces contested and contradictory understandings of what YouTube culture is and who gets to speak for the platform. Keywords: culture; platform; rewind; youtube
• AUTOMOBILE PLATFORM CAPITALISM: A VEHICULAR HISTORY OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY by Steinberg, Marc (2020.0) - This paper will furthermore argue that the missing link between automobile platform theory and the theory of the platform as mediation device is to be found in a series of articles that come out of managerial theory in the 1990s Japan. Offering a genealogy of platform thinking around the automobile and then the internet, this paper traces an unlikely link between managerial theory around automobile manufacture from the 1980s, to the development of platform theory in the 1990s in Japan, to internet-based contemporary platforms. Keywords: automobile; capitalism; economy; paper; platform
• THE STEAM PLATFORM ECONOMY: CAPITALISING FROM PLAYER-DRIVEN ECONOMIES ON THE INTERNET. by Thorhauge, Anne Mette (2020.0) - Indeed, the platform interface covers a number of diverse markets or sites of economic transaction including the Game store, where game developers sell their games to players, the Steam workshop where modders may or may not engage in economic transactions with developers and the Steam community market where players can trade game items between them. The introduction of direct economic transactions between game developers and modders in the context of the Steam workshop has given rise to some controversy between modders and game developers on the ideal ‘non-capitalist’ nature of modding (Joseph, 2018). Keywords: game; platform; steam
• PLATFORM COUNTERPUBLICS: GOSSIP & CONTESTED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ONLINE LABOR PLATFORMS by Ticona, Julia; Tsapatsaris, Ryan (2020.0) - Second, we point to the implications of platform counterpublics for the investigation of platform labor and algorithms. Extending counterpublics theories (Warner 2002; Fraser 1990), we examine over 3,000 online reviews of a labor platform, Care.com, finding that both workers and clients use gossip to create a platform counterpublic that constructs a counternarrative about platform business practices.1 While previous studies suggest that different platform stakeholders have conflicting interests, we find that platform counterpublics draw both workers and clients together to draw boundaries demarcating acceptable platform business practices. Keywords: labor; platform; reviews; workers
• YOU MADE THIS? I MADE THIS: CULTURES OF AUTOMATIC (MIS)ATTRIBUTION ON TIKTOK by Valdovinos Kaye, David Bondy; Rodriguez, Aleesha; Wikstrom, Patrik (2020.0) - Using a combination of an app walkthrough, a bespoke data scraping tool, content analysis, and a series of qualitative case studies, this study explores the contradictory logic of authorship and how (mis)attribution is shaping cultural production and platform practices on TikTok. A key affordance for user-generated content creators on TikTok is how easy the platform makes reproducing popular videos. Keywords: attribution; audio; content; platform; tiktok
• BRINGING YOUR VISION TO LIFE: PRODUCTION PLATFORMS AND INDUSTRY UNITY by Young, Chris J.; Nieborg, David B.; Joseph, Daniel J. (2020.0) - “Bringing your vision to life”: Production platforms and industry Unity. Thus far, research on apps has predominantly focused on app distribution platforms, platform governance, app usage, and ‘culture in the age of apps’ (Morris & Murray, 2018). Keywords: industry; platform; production; technologies; unity
• AS IN LIFE, SO IN DEATH: EMPLOYEE VALUES AND CONTENT PRESERVATION DURING PLATFORM CLOSURE by Corry, Frances (2021.0) - Conclusion This paper examines the ethical approaches that platform employees bring to the process of platform shutdown and user content deletion. Drawing on literature on values in technology (e.g. Friedman, Kahn, & Borning, 2006), technological breakdown and decline (e.g. Jackson, 2014), as well as from critical approaches to platforms (e.g. Van Dijck, Poell & De Waal, 2018), this research articulates the ways that platform employees understand the ethics of social media data deletion, and how these ethics come to shape what remains of these platforms after they close. Keywords: content; employees; platform; user
• CLOUD CULTURE: FLUID MEMORIES ON PLATFORM ENCLOSURES by Gekker, Alex (2021.0) - What does it tell us about the stability of cultural products on digital platforms? An analytical framework for fluid cultural objects First, cloud culture highlights modification rather than deletion. Keywords: cloud; culture; media; platform; web
• PLATFORM AS NEW “DADDY”: CHINA’S GENDERED WANGHONG ECONOMY AND PATRIARCHAL PLATFORMS BEHIND by Han, Xiaofei (2021.0) - In contrast to the projection of wanghong economy as a new, progressive kind of platform economy that is by the women and for the women, there is a severe, structural gender hierarchy at the senior management level as revealed in Table 1. Ultimately, this paper seeks to combine the industrial analysis of wanghong economy as a prominent “platform economy” in contemporary China with its cultural dimensions and highlight the critical roles of major Chinese platform companies as not only new critical intermediaries in perpetuating the ongoing patriarchal system between the state and users but also active participants that aggressively profit from their construction of gendered wanghong economy value chains. Keywords: daddy; economy; platform; wanghong
• EMERGENT GOVERNANCE: COMPETITION POLICY AS PLATFORM REGULATION by Popiel, Pawel (2021.0) - Platform policies in the European Union: Competition and public interest in media markets. Indeed, despite multiple dimensions of the policy debate, most interventions in places ranging from the US to the EU to India to Australia have taken the form largely of competition policy (e.g., Evens et al., 2020; Puppis & Winseck, 2020). Keywords: antitrust; competition; platform; policy; regulation
• INTERDEPENDENT PLATFORMS: ONLYFANS AS NSFW SOCIAL MEDIA LAYER by van der Nagel, Emily (2021.0) - ONLYFANS AS NSFW SOCIAL MEDIA LAYER Emily van der Nagel Monash University On content subscription platform OnlyFans, the search function is limited. Since 2013, more research on accounts and platforms (including Davis 2014; van der Nagel 2018; Vickery 2015) has demonstrated that compartmentalising identities by using a variety of social media platforms – sometimes even multiple accounts on the same platform – is a powerful strategy to combat what danah boyd (2014) calls “context collapse”. Keywords: media; onlyfans; platform; van
• DYNAMICS OF DIGITAL MARKETS by Thorhauge, Anne Mette; Yuan, Jingyan Elaine; Ørmen, Jacob; Gregersen, Andreas; Vonderau, Patrick (2021.0) - By bringing these perspectives together, the panel presentations address different dynamics of digital markets. Altogether, the presentations demonstrate that digital markets come in different forms and shapes, but also that they are guided, shaped, and constrained by similar mechanisms and practices. Keywords: alibaba; digital; economy; market; media; money; platform; press; skins; state; steam; theory; university; way
• SORRY, BUT...: PLATFORM APOLOGIES, ABUSE, AND CONSTRUCTING THE CULPABLE SUBJECT by Cross, Katherine Alejandra Angel; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren (2021.0) - More than hollow rhetoric, however, platform apologies are central to the construction of platforms’ social and political legitimacy. As with official and corporate apologies broadly, platform apologies set normative expectations; they “tell us what to avoid and what to strive for (Villadsen, 2008, p. Keywords: abuse; apologies; apology; platform
• DESIGN CHOICES: MECHANISM DESIGN AND PLATFORM CAPITALISM by Goldenfein, Jake; Viljoen, Salomé; McGuigan, Lee (2021.0) - In this paper, we pull back the curtain of platform capitalism to glimpse the world of mechanism design. Mechanism design brings a formidable but conflicted lineage into the heart of platform governance. Keywords: choices; design; economic; mechanism; platform
• ANALYZING PLATFORM POWER IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES by Nieborg, David B.; Poell, Thomas; Duffy, Brooke Erin (2021.0) - To help systematize analysis of the relations and flows of power between platforms and cultural producers, this paper introduces a framework that is carefully attuned to the historical and industrial specificities of cultural production. The framework makes clear that, while the relationship between platforms and cultural producers is staggeringly uneven and, at times, highly volatile, it should be understood as one of mutual dependence. Keywords: industries; platform; power; producers
• EXPLORING VIDEO-GAME PRODUCTION’S CONTINGENCY ON LIVE-STREAMING PLATFORMS: THE CASE OF TWITCH by Papaevangelou, Charilaos; Roinioti, Elina (2021.0) - Specifically: Identity essentially enables the communication between Twitch and video games under development; the Bounty Board incentivises streamers to promote partnered video games; Drops and Interactive Extensions seek to acquire more viewers, as well as make streamers stream certain video games and, thus, convert some viewers into players or as Twitch mentions, into payers; Drops, particularly, also drive more Amazon Prime subscriptions. Game developers can then have access to game data, like viewership metrics, to gauge how streamer-friendly their game is and optimise it, as well as utilise said metrics to target specific streamers to advertise their game. Keywords: game; live; media; platform; production; twitch
• THE SHAPE OF PLATFORM STUDIES: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL METHODOLOGICAL MODEL FOR A VICISSITUDINOUS CONCEPT by Rambukkana, Nathan; de Verteuil, Gemma (2021.0) - For example, platform studies work might be sociotechnical | critical | structural (for example van Dijck, Poell, and de Waal’s work in The Platform Society (2018), or Srnicek’s theorizing in Platform Capitalism (2017)). Microsoft Word - Rambukkana-THE SHAPE OF PLATFORM STUDIES-THE SHAPE OF PLATFORM STUDIES.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2020: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Rambukkana, N., de Verteuil, G. (2021, October). Keywords: platform; shape; studies; work
• SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE AUDIENCE ECONOMY: BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS AND CO-DEPENDENCE by van der Vlist, Fernando; Helmond, Anne (2021.0) - Social media platforms form strategic business partnerships through partner programmes, which attract advertisers, business partners, media publishers, and content creators. Social media platforms are uniquely positioned within this complex ecosystem because they play a significant role on both the demand and supply sides of the advertising market. Keywords: business; media; partnerships; platform
• COVID-19 ACROSS PLATFORM SOCIETIES: EXPLORING THE PANDEMIC THROUGH WEIBO AND TWITTER by Yang, Zheng; Vicari, Stefania (2021.0) - EXPLORING THE PANDEMIC THROUGH WEIBO AND TWITTER Zheng Yang Department of Sociological Studies; The University of Sheffield Stefania Vicari Department of Sociological Studies; The University of Sheffield Information, and COVID-19 Platform studies often offer a Western-centric theorization of the roles and values of contemporary social media platforms. The contemporary call for relational and contextual approaches to digital platforms is also extremely central to our understanding of participatory dynamics across contemporary ‘platform societies’. Keywords: digital; media; platform; weibo
• THE ENGINE IS THE MESSAGE: VIDEOGAME INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS by Chia, Aleena; Malazita, James W.; Young, Chris J.; Nieborg, David B.; Joseph, Daniel J.; Gantt, Matthew D. (2023.0) - By juxtaposing the brash futurism of platform companies with a survey of creative pioneers working with networked digital platforms, this paper suggests alternative pathways towards immersive media futures. Rather than directly competing with platform companies such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft, which aim to host and monetize the metaverse, Unity’s ambition is to supply the very tools necessary to build immersive virtual spaces. Keywords: companies; digital; engine; epic; fortnite; game; infrastructure; metaverse; new; platform; press; production; space; tools; unity; university; worlds
• DADBOT AND WHAT ‘HE’ REVEALS ABOUT REDDIT’S EVERYDAY PLATFORM CULTURE by Carlon, Dominique Maree (2023.0) - Bots on Reddit frequently operate in clusters, and often have complex histories and relationships with other bots. Our cultural imaginary of bots, or software applications that run automated tasks or activities (Holmes & Lusso, 2018) tends to focus on the potential ‘intelligence’ of bots (Johnson, 2022), their usefulness to humans (Seering et al, 2018) and their capacity to cause harm by becoming indistinguishable from humans (Sheehan et al., 2020; Gehl & Bakardjieva, 2016). Keywords: bots; dadbots; platform; reddit
• IMMIGRANT TIKTOKERS DECOLONIZING ALGORITHMIC VISIBILITY by Jaramillo-Dent, Daniela (2023.0) - For this, a critical multimodal content analysis of videos and posts by immigrant content creators, identified through a 16-month long digital ethnography was carried out. Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media. Keywords: content; immigrant; platform; tiktok
• ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE FROM BELOW by Mniestri, Aikaterini; Randerath, Sebastian (2023.0) - With our research, we draw on Sophie Bishop's concept of algorithmic gossip:Algorithmic gossip refers to the communally informed strategising with regards to recommender algorithms, which is then communicated among creators and put to the task of engendering stable income and a spot under the algorithmic limelight within the precarious space of social media platforms. Given that the political economy of social media and advertising platforms is largely driven by participatory culture (Burgess & Green, 2018), platform companies are incentivised to open up the data vault to users, just a smidge, allowing them to access a series of metrics, neatly organized in analytics interfaces referred to as ‘creator studios.’ Keywords: bipoc; creators; platform; tiktok
• ASSESSING POLICY TRADEOFFS AND SILOS IN REGULATING PLATFORM POWER, PLATFORMIZATION, AND DATAFICATION by Popiel, Pawel (2023.0) - Using these codes and guided by platform policy literature, I constructed a typology of policy silos and tradeoffs presented below. First, policy area and market silos focus policy attention more on platform power—as market power (competition policy) and as social infrastructure (content standards and algorithmic regulation)—than on datafication and platformization. Keywords: datafication; inquiries; platform; policy; silos
• SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS MULTI-SIDED STAKEHOLDERS: YOUTUBE’S ROLE IN SHAPING IMAGINARIES OF AI by Richter, Vanessa (2023.0) - While this preliminary study focuses on AI imaginaries in general, the framework allows both a deeper dive into specific aspects and industries of AI as well as a transition to other multisided stakeholders and other technological developments in future research to analyze the complex power dynamics in global digital networks. Simultaneously, AI technology has been at the center of public debate considering its societal impact. Keywords: imaginaries; platform; youtube
• GLOBAL PLATFORMS, LOCAL MARKETS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF MEDIA AND PUBLISHING IN THE PHILIPPINES by Parnell, Claire (2023.0) - Literature and media featuring LGBTQIA+ themes and characters have historically been excluded in Filipino media. Wattpad, a global creative writing and reading social media platform, has altered the way intellectual property and creative content is sourced and produced in the Philippines. Keywords: filipino; media; philippines; platform; wattpad
• PLATFORM POWER, XR, AND THE METAVERSE: NEW CHALLENGES OR OLD STRUCTURES? by Gray, Joanne Elizabeth ; Bay, Morten (2023.0) - For instance, Meta is aiming to convert billions of social media platform users to its XR offerings and recently proposed a policy for lowering the age limit of its Horizon Worlds social VR platform to correspond with the age limits on Facebook and Instagram, i.e. from 18 to 13 (Rodriguez, 2023). Through XR technologies, new digital spaces are being developed that combine features of existing digital platforms with elements of the immersiveness of gaming, sometimes referred to informally as ‘the metaverse’. Keywords: economy; media; metaverse; platform
• THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TIKTOK: AN OBSERVATORY ON CROSS-NATIONAL CONTENT PRIORITIZATION AND PLATFORM-MEDIATED PROXIMITIES by Kerby, Natalie ; Romano, Salvatore; Schueler, Miazia; Beraldo, Davide (2023.0) - Cross-national analysis of TikTok content prioritization TikTok’s main access point to content is its For You Page (FYP), a continuous feed of content that is algorithmically curated by the platform’s recommendation system (TikTok 2019). Overall, it allows users to view, filter, sort, and extrapolate FYP data as prioritized in different countries and territories, making it a unique access point for researchers, journalists, and content creators who aim to investigate trends, content moderation, and content promotion from a cross-national perspective. Keywords: content; countries; platform; tiktok
• MANUFACTURING INFLUENCERS: THE REVOLUTIONARY ROLES OF MCNS (MULTI-CHANNEL NETWORKS) IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY by Liang, Fan ; Ji, Li (2023.0) - Influencers were recruited through a snowballing sampling approach: we first contacted two influencers who ended their MCN contracts and then built connections with other influencers. Previous studies have explored the emergence of influencers and creators from various perspectives, including platformization (Lin & de Kloet, 2019), creative labor (Duffy, 2017), and algorithmic power (Bishop, 2020). Keywords: economy; influencers; mcns; media; platform
• THE ALGORITHMIC MODERATION OF SEXUAL EXPRESSION: PORNHUB, PAYMENT PROCESSORS AND CSAM by MacDonald, Maggie (2023.0) - “Internet.gov: Tech Companies as Government Agents and the Future of the Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse.” “Detecting Child Sexual Abuse Material: A Comprehensive Survey.” Keywords: abuse; child; content; csam; media; moderation; platform; porn; pornhub; risk
• THE POLITICS AND EVOLUTION OF TIKTOK AS PLATFORM TOOL by Mahetaji, Kaushar; Nieborg, David (2023.0) - The politics and evolution of TikTok as platform tool. We argue that critical to the platform’s success is its emphasis on platform tools: Keywords: content; media; platform; software; tiktok; tools
• spir-13470 by None (None) - While anonymized, this persistent identifier allowed advertising platforms to match in-app actions with device-specific profiles and ‘sell’ those to advertisers. ANALYSING RELATIONS OF DEPENDENCY IN THE MOBILE DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM David B. Nieborg University of Toronto Thomas Poell University of Amsterdam Introduction One of the main drivers of the global platform economy, if not the digital economy at large, is digital advertising. Keywords: advertising; ecosystem; mobile; platform; power
• spir-13481 by None (None) - The #ActuallyAutistic hashtag and movement were created on Tumblr in response to the saturation of non-autistic users perpetuating anti-autistic ableism under the #Autism hashtag to reclaim narratives about autism and validate autistic experiences and knowledges (Osorio, 2020). Notably, the bios of white autistic users in the corpus did not discuss racial identity. Keywords: autism; bios; media; platform; tiktok; user
• spir-13484 by None (None) - “YouTube” was cited the most often in videos that invoked at least one target of accountability, appearing in 141 videos (70.85%) from this subset. We coded for 16 non-exclusive content elements within videos that identified specific complaints or problems with YouTube. Keywords: accountability; creators; platform; videos; youtube
• THE POLITICS OF PLATFORM IMAGINARIES by Richter, Vanessa; Poell, Thomas (2023.0) - This episode highlights how digital health tracking platforms have become centrally imbricated in crucial societal issues, such as female bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. To examine how these platforms are involved in current debates on female health tracking, we use a combination of critical discourse analysis (Wodak, 2015) of user and platform content and walkthroughs (Light et al., 2016) of the two platforms. Keywords: apple; fitbit; health; imaginaries; platform; tracking
• PLATFORM PR – THE PUBLIC MODERATION OF PLATFORM VALUES THROUGH TIKTOK FOR GOOD by Scharlach, Rebecca (2023.0) - Other campaigns from social media platforms have similar histories: Douyin’s #positiveenergy campaign to promote more “appropriate, patriotic content” was a response to the Chinese government’s criticism of pornographic content on the platform (Chen et al., 2021) and Facebook’s “Data for Good” data sharing campaign was a response to data leaks. This strain of research adds to our understanding of the importance of social media for corporate social responsibility, yet research has evaded looking at CSR initiatives taken by social media platforms. Keywords: content; good; media; platform; tiktok; values
• STRATEGIC (IN)VISIBILITY: HOW MARGINALISED CREATORS NAVIGATE THE RISKS AND CONSTRAINTS OF ONLINE VISIBILITY by Stegeman, Hanne Marleen ; Are, Carolina; Poell, Thomas (2023.0) - Faced with dangers of overexposure, surveillance, and deplatforming while simultaneously trying to build an audience, creators may find themselves having to constantly balance the potential risks and benefits of platform visibility. Hence, platform visibility needs to be understood as ambiguous. Keywords: creators; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?iey3hk https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?iey3hk; media; platform; sex; visibility
• BLEEDING PURPLE, SEEING PINK: DOMESTIC VISIBILITY, GENDER & SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE HOME STUDIOS OF TWITCH.TV by Tran, Christine H (2023.0) - Visualizing the career and domestic biographies of Twitch streamers are intertwined, I argue that the collaborative and homemaking affordance of self-broadcasting activities associated with Twitch are best understood as belonging to the same genus of domestic labour and its slippages towards privatized caretaking within the familial home. Confronting the affinities between the processes of domesticity and platformization in Twitch streamer visibility, this paper reframes Twitch slogan of “Bleed Purple” as more than a playful work ethos, branded by emojis and emotes. Keywords: home; labour; media; platform; twitch; visibility; work
• SUPER-APPIFICATION: CONGLOMERATION IN THE MOBILE ECOSYSTEM by van der Vlist, Fernando ; Helmond, Anne; Dieter, Michael; Weltevrede, Esther (2023.0) - While the term super app can be ambiguous, reflecting industry hype and speculative investment (Pitre, 2022), it nevertheless speaks to the complexity of conglomeration processes occurring in the mobile ecosystem. With their capacity to merge and expand services and users within a single unified experience, emerging studies of super apps have focussed on themes of enclosure and media concentration as they intensify the “appification” of everyday life (Morris & Elkins, 2015; Morris & Murray, 2018) and take on the role of a seemingly indispensable critical infrastructure (Athique, 2019, Dieter et al., 2021). Keywords: apps; doi; platform; super; van
• WARTOK: NETWORKED SOUNDSCAPES OF MEMETIC WARFARE by Pilipets, Elena ; Geboers, Marloes; Divon, Tom; Bösch, Marcus; Delavar-Kasmai, Dariia; Tuters, Marc; Noordenbos, Boris; Rogers, Richard; Zhang, Xiaoke (2023.0) - One of such pushbacks is the use of the same template in pro-Ukrainian videos, featuring Jesus and Zelensky. Recent studies highlight the templatability of TikTok sounds, offering insights into content creators' attention- grabbing techniques (Abidin & Kaye 2021), logics of trend dilution (Bainotti et al., 2022), issue-specific remix cultures (Primig et al. 2023), and infrastructural meme collection (Rogers & Giorgi 2023). Keywords: 2020; 2022; analysis; audio; communication; content; digital; disinformation; information; media; memes; platform; propaganda; sound; tiktok; ukraine; ukrainian; videos; war
• AFTER DEPLATFORMING: RETRACING CONTENT MODERATION EFFECTS ACROSS PLATFORMS AND A POST-AMERICAN WEB by de Keulenaar, Emillie ; Magalhães, João; dos Santos Junior, Marcelo Alves; Rogers, Richard (2023.0) - This panel examines a three-fold revolution, namely: populist revolutions (on the right) facilitated by agnostic content moderation philosophies; the internal revolutions that platform content moderation underwent to address the political violence of the former; and the adjustments that digital methods research needs to adopt to facilitate content moderation research in a “post-API” environment. This panel examines a three-fold revolution, namely: popular revolutions (on the right) facilitated by agnostic content moderation philosophies; the internal revolutions that platform content moderation underwent to address the political violence of the former; and the adjustments that digital methods research needs to adopt to facilitate content moderation research in a “post-API” environment (Perriam, Birkbak and Freeman, 2020). Keywords: content; content moderation; january; media; moderation; paper; platform; research; speech; twitter; youtube
• INDUSTRY INFLUENCE ON CONTENT MODERATION REGULATION: TENSIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS by Farries, Elizabeth Erin; Siapera, Eugenia (2025.0) - The DSA and CSOs While for the most part the role of civil society in platform governance is to develop normative approaches (as in digital constitutionalism) or to advocate for rights and fundamental freedoms, for the first time the DSA provides a path for direct participation in governance rather than looking to exert influence and shape policy. Platform governance and Civil Society Organisations: tensions and insider perspectives. Keywords: csos; governance; platform; society
• FROM PLATFORMS TO PROTOCOLS, FORGES, STACKS AND DAOS: ON THE PLATFORMISATION AND DEPLATFORMISATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT by Bounegru, Liliana; Gray, Jonathan (2025.0) - These features, just as in the case of other social media platforms, are organised around nurturing a platform ecosystem that multiplies valorisation of connectivity around several registers (Gerlitz, 2016; Marres, 2017). ON THE PLATFORMISATION AND DEPLATFORMISATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Liliana Bounegru King’s College London Jonathan W. Y. Gray King’s College London This paper contributes to the critical study of platformisation and deplatformisation of software development and how networked infrastructures commodify, configure and challenge relations between code, coders, communities, technologies, investors and industries. Keywords: development; github; media; platform; platformisation; software
• GROOMERS, ‘TITTIES’, & STREAMERS, OH MY!: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF ANDROCENTRIC PLATFORM GOVERNANCE ON TWITCH by Harris, Brandon C.; Maddox, Jessica (2025.0) - This means many of Twitch’s policies and attempts at platform governance are often implemented inconsistently or in an ad-hoc manner, leading to greater confusion about what is and isn’t permissible on the platform (Winslow, 2024). Platform governance, also known as content moderation, harkens to how “platforms don’t make content, but they will make important choices about that content; what they will distribute and to whom, how they will connect users and broker their reactions, and what they will refuse” (Gillespie, 2018, pp. Keywords: governance; media; platform; social; twitch
• RECONTEXTUALIZING VIOLENCE IN REAL TIME: LIVE STREAMING & THE GOVERNANCE OF INCONSISTENCY ON TWITCH.TV by Harris, Brandon C.; Tran, Christine H.; Persaud, Christopher J. (2025.0) - Twitch streamer appalled after ‘fake’ mod shuts down her stream. We must consider how Twitch users weaponize ephemeral affordances to enact both lulz-based trolling for mischievous humor (Phillips, 2016) as well as hate raids on and off the platform (Grayson, 2021). Keywords: content; media; moderation; platform; society; streamers; twitch
• BORDERLINE CONTENT AND PLATFORMISED SPEECH GOVERNANCE: MAPPING TIKTOK’S MODERATION CONTROVERSIES IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA by Liu, Diyi (2025.0) - As part of their increasing role in the public sphere (Fischer & Jarren, 2023), content moderation of UGC platforms involves an ongoing process of legitimation through interactions among platforms and other social actors, who continually rearticulate moderation norms sensitive to each national context. While extensive research has explored content moderation of digital platforms in democratic contexts, there remains a gap in understanding whether the Western communication order’s legitimation tools adequately address the complexities of less- than-democratic developing nations (Ramesh et al., 2022). Keywords: content; governance; moderation; platform; speech; tiktok
• FREELANCING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: UNDERSTANDING FIVERR WITHIN THE GIG ECONOMY by Lutz, Christoph; Whalley, Jason; Stocker, Volker (2025.0) - Finally, there is a rich body of research on capital platform work (Duggan et al., 2020), especially Airbnb (e.g., Dann et al., 2019). FREELANCING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: UNDERSTANDING FIVERR WITHIN THE GIG ECONOMY Jason Whalley Northumbria University, Volker Stocker Weizenbaum Institute, Christoph Lutz BI Norwegian Business School, Introduction and Methods In recent times, a series of platforms have emerged as key actors within the economy. Keywords: economy; fiverr; gig; platform; work
• FOCUSING ON VIRTUAL GROUPS: A METHOD FOR FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS IN XR/VR GROUP SETTINGS by Milik, Oskar Tadeusz; Jang, Dayeoun; Foxman, Maxwell; Klebig, Brian; Beyea, David; Leith, Alex; Ratan, Rabindra (2025.0) - Considering social group interactions are affected by technology (Milik, 2015), we need a new methodological approach to understand group dynamics in virtual meeting spaces. Focusing On Virtual Groups: A Method for Focus Group Interviews in XR/VR Group Settings. Keywords: digital; focus; group; meeting; platform
• TRANSIENT-PLATFORM PARADIGMS: NARRATIVES OF BLOCKCHAIN EXPERIMENTS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Nagappa, Ashwin (2025.0) - For example, social media platforms have prominently shaped everyday communication practices and several industries, including media, telecommunication, information technology and advertising. It emerged amid a rapidly changing landscape of digital technologies such as social media platforms, financial technology systems, GenAI, and cloud computing. Keywords: media; new; paradigm; platform
• CLOUD AS INFRASTRUCTURE: THEORISING THE LINKS BETWEEN ‘BIG’ TECH AND ‘SMALL’ TECH by Narayan, Devika (2025.0) - Thus, I contribute to literature on platform ecosystems by examining changing organizational and market dynamics introduced by cloud computing within the corporate computing sector. Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK / 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 CLOUD AS INFRASTRUCTURE: THEORISING LINKS BETWEEN ‘BIG TECH’ AND ‘SMALL TECH’ Devika Narayan University of Bristol Introduction This paper focuses on the political economy of cloud computing and the new industry dynamics it activates. Keywords: cloud; computing; industry; new; platform
• TAMING THE ALGO: GRAB BIKERS GRAPPLING WITH PLATFORM LOGICS FROM BELOW by Nguyen-Thu, Giang; Munn, Luke (2025.0) - Tropes of freedom, autonomy, and flexibility recur whenever platform workers explain what drew them to the platform and why they stay on it. Illusory freedom of physical platform workers: Insights from Uber Eats in Japan. Keywords: logics; platform; taming; workers
• WHERE MY AI APPS AT? A HISTORIOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO ANALYZING PLATFORM TOOLS by Nieborg, David; Mahetaji, Kaushar (2025.0) - Moreover, platform tools diverge and converge to produce new platform tools—e.g., Live. A historiographic approach to analyzing platform tools. Keywords: apps; bytedance; media; platform; tools
• RECIPROCAL PLATFORM LABOUR IN THE NIGERIAN SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO INDUSTRY by Nieborg, David; Simon,, Godwin Iretomiwa (2025.0) - In sum, reciprocal platform labour provides a more granular case for how platform-dependent workers leverage relational practices to navigate the unstable economic and contingent infrastructural logics of platforms. Theorizing platform labour The rise of the platform economy has engendered diverse forms of labour for “platform- dependent” workers (Poell et al., 2022). Keywords: content; creators; industry; labour; media; platform
• VISIBILITY IN THE SHADOWS: TIPS IN MAINSTREAM VS. NICHE STREAMING ON CHATURBATE by Peeters, Stijn; Jokubauskaitė, Emilija (2025.0) - How rankings constitute competition on webcam sex platforms, and what performers can do about it. Streaming to a niche, therefore, is a recognized approach among webcam performers, often advised to beginners as a way to “stand out and build a dedicated fan base” (Sah, 2024). Keywords: performers; platform; tips; visibility; webcam
• “WANT BOYFRIEND ❌❌❌”: PORN BOTS, AUTHENTICITY AND SOCIAL AUTOMATION ON INSTAGRAM by Pilipets, Elena; Caldeira, Sofia; Flores, Ana Marta M. (2025.0) - The evolution of Instagram porn bots. In academic discussions, scholars usually define porn bots as automated or semi-automated software agents that operate via sexual solicitation to capture attention (Narrang 2019). Keywords: bot; bots; instagram; media; platform; porn
• CREATOR CARTELS AS EMERGENT PLATFORM GOVERNANCE by Reynolds, CJ; Hallinan, Blake (2025.0) - Adin Ross losing millions after Twitch gambling ban. To make sense of this emergent practice of platform governance, we propose the concept of creator cartels, understood as contingent alliances between creators leveraged to produce beneficial policy and economic conditions. Keywords: cartels; creators; gambling; governance; media; platform; streamers; twitch
• WHEN INDUSTRY LORE DOESN'T WORK: EXPLORING MCNS' LIMITED INTERMEDIARY ROLES IN PROMOTIONAL CULTURE by Ye, Zhen (2025.0) - Evolving with what Craig and Cunningham (2019) called “the new screen ecology”, MCNs gradually extended their business models to adapt to the proliferated monetization schemes of social media platforms used for marketing and advertising (Edwards, 2022; M. Liang, 2022). Responding to this phenomenon, guilds became mediators of livestreaming platforms, fulfilling the role to train and manage individual streamers, and institutionally monetized of female streamers’ gendered performativity via platforms’ virtual gifting (Liu et al. 2021). Keywords: china; liang; livestreaming; mcns; media; platform
• STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IN FLUX: EXAMINING POWER DYNAMICS IN TIKTOK SHOP'S MANAGED MODELS by Zhu, Silei; Liu, Xuanbo; Peng, Xinyi; Luo, Yaqin (2025.0) - Employing online ethnography since November 2022, we have been actively tracking updates of TikTok Shop policies and services, documenting live streams, and engaging in forums to discuss with sellers on TikTok Shop to gather materials for analysis. Following Douyin's success, TikTok embarked on a similar path by launching its TikTok Shop marketplace and services in the UK and Asia in 2021. Keywords: douyin; model; platform; power; shop; tiktok
• AMBIENT AMPLIFICATION: ATTENTION HIJACKING AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA by Geboers, Marloes Annette; Pilipets, Elena; Bösch, Marcus; Divon, Tom; Rogers, Richard; Righetti, Nicola; Tuters, Marc; Bos, Linda; Noordenbos, Boris; Dabanıyastı, Furkan (2025.0) - The affordances of social media platforms. As established in the growing body of literature on digital diplomacy, embassies no longer merely project their presence via social media platforms, but are increasingly involved processes of observation, listening, and digital data gathering, or what Marcus Holmes refers to as retrieval (Holmes in Bjola & Manor 2024, epub). Keywords: 2020; 2022; amplification; amsterdam; analysis; attention; content; digital; media; military; platform; press; propaganda; russian; society; tiktok; university; videos; war
• EXPLORING APPIFICATION by van der Vlist, Fernando N.; Helmond, Anne; Weltevrede, Esther; Dieter, Michael; Duguay, Stefanie; Emsley, Iain; Zhang, Fangzhou; Burton, Anthony Glyn; Dietzel, Christopher; Filice, Eric; Parry, Diana C.; Johnson, Corey W. (2025.0) - Lastly, the fifth paper examines the emerging ecosystems of AI apps, exploring their infrastructural features and relationships. AI apps, created by diverse developers, showcase AI's potential and diverse applications, driving expectations and exploration across domains. Keywords: appification; apps; der; helmond; media; platform; research; society; studies; super; university; user; van; vlist
• Privacy challenges in Enterprise 2.0 by Pettersen, Lene; Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2012.0) - What functionalities in E2.0 govern employee privacy and reduces the monitoring and surveillance risk? In contrast to knowledge-management tools, E2.0 platforms intertwine knowledge and 19 people. Keywords: company; content; e2.0; employees; knowledge; participants; people; platform; privacy; sharing; study; trust; use; work
• REPAIRING AT THE APP CLINIC: A CASE STUDY OF AN ONLINE WELLNESS APPLICATION by Slaker, Janine Sakiko (2015.0) - Work at the app clinic Shilling (1993) postulates that people go about creating and taking part in body projects to aid in defining their identities. In J. Edwards, P. Harvey & P. Wade (Eds), Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies: Anthropological Approaches to a New Politics of Vision (pp. Keywords: body; care; platform; self

• “Meanwhile I’m over here butt naked on CNN”: A multiplatform discourse analysis of the Leslie Jones hack by Lawson, Caitlin (2017.0) - While other instances of online harassment have garnered significant media attention (namely #GamerGate), the hatred toward Jones surfaced at a cultural and political tipping point, speaking to larger political divides within the United States. “Meanwhile I’m over here butt naked on CNN”: A multiplatform discourse analysis of the Leslie Jones hack. Keywords: discourse; hack; jones; right; twitter
• LOOK WHO’S TALKING: USING HUMAN CODING TO ESTABLISH A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO TWITTER EDUCATION CHATS by Staudt Willet, K. Bret; Willet, Brooks D. (2018.0) - Participants are already selecting Twitter educational hashtags based on affinities such as subject area and geography; our work will allow them to also factor in the observed purposes of these conversations. Exploring the relationship between online discourse and commitment in Twitter professional learning communities. Keywords: education; purposes; tweets; twitter
• A DECADE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ELECTIONS – A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE by Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Bruns, Axel; Graham, Tim; Angus, Daniel ; Larsson, Anders Olof; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Zhang, Feifei; Rossini, Patricia; Hemsley, Jeffrey (2019.0) - Social media will play a critical role in their campaigning: overall, Australians are comparatively early and enthusiastic adopters of social media (Sensis 2017), and more than half use social media as a key source of news (Newman et al. 2018: 127); more specifically, social media have played an important role already during previous federal election campaigns in 2013 and 2016 (Bruns 2016; Bruns & Moon 2017), and politics is a persistently prominent topic on platforms such as Twitter in Australia (Sauter & Bruns 2015). In sum, the paper provides a longitudinal study of social media use, agenda-setting effects and experienced efficacy across four elections, contributing to the literature and to the debate on the role of social media in the future of democracy. Keywords: bruns; campaigning; campaigns; candidates; election; facebook; media; new; studies; time; twitter; use
• THE ECOLOGY OF LATINX TWITTER by Oquendo, Jacqueline; Porter, Lance (2019.0) - Upon conducting a content analysis, and one-on-one interviews with six women (18-24 years old) of Latinx heritage, inclusive of Afro-Latinx identity, we identify three major ecological themes: (1) Seeking Latinx Twitter; (2) Mega Network versus Sub-Networks; and (3) Implications for Monolithic Narratives. The Ecology of Latinx Twitter. Keywords: afro; heritage; latinx; networks; twitter
• TRUSTING TWITTERSPHERE AS A GENUINE POLITICAL DEBATE? THE CASE OF INDONESIAN ELECTION HASTAGS by Setianto, Yearry Panji (2019.0) - Political networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland state election. Twitter use in political campaigns: A systematic literature review. Keywords: election; hashtags; media; network; twitter
• ‘COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOUR’ AND OTHER ONLINE INFLUENCE OPERATIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA SPACES by Keller, Tobias; Graham, Tim; Angus, Dan; Bruns, Axel; Nijmeijer, Rolf; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard; Bechmann, Anja; Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Marchal, Nahema; Bradshaw, Samantha; Rossini, Patrícia; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Baptista, Erica Anita; Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa (2020.0) - Here, format describes the type of media shared by users, based on their constitutive elements (e.g. photographs, screen-captures, posters, infographics, composites, and quotations), while the concept of mode captures the ways in which political information is being transmitted (e.g. official campaign communication, campaign event, political humor, satellite campaign material, news media reporting etc.), based on an image’s content and its apparent provenance. Despite the ubiquity and potency of manipulative visuals as vehicles of both political and emotional information, their use during political campaigns and information operations remains critically understudied (Weller et al., 2014). Keywords: accounts; arsonemergency; digital; facebook; information; media; misinformation; news; platforms; research; sharing; twitter; university; whatsapp
• INVESTIGATING BOTS AND COORDINATED INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS IN TWITTER DISCUSSIONS OF THE 2019-20 IRAN PROTESTS by Dehghan, Ehsan; Moon, Brenda; Keller, Tobias; Graham, Timothy; Bruns, Axel; Angus, Daniel (2020.0) - Interestingly, these clusters reflect antagonistic political affiliations—one consists mainly of pro-regime Iranian accounts (23,755 accounts), the other of anti-regime accounts tweeting in Arabic (14,052 accounts). This study enhances our knowledge of the Persian, Arabic, and English-speaking actors and communities taking part in the public debate on Iran protests. Keywords: accounts; bots; iran; protests; twitter
• “TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME”: COMMUNICATING DISSENT AS A MICRO-CELEBRITY IN A RESTRICTED NATIONAL TWITTERSPHERE by Demirkol Tonnesen, Naciye Ozlem (2020.0) - Methods As these accounts engage in anti-government political talk on an as and when basis, I wanted to capture a time period when political events and news are frequent. Abidin and Brown, 2018), Twitter micro-celebrity remains an under-researched phenomenon. Keywords: celebrity; government; micro; twitter
• COUNTERING THE COUNTERPUBLIC? THE GERMAN #METOO NETWORK ON TWITTER by Martini, Franziska (2020.0) - Also, this study shows how the concept of social networks and networked publics cannot only serve as a theoretical background but also as a fruitful methodological approach within the field of feminist media studies. It will be shown that on the one hand, the hashtag enabled, also in the German-language Twittersphere, a network of individuals protesting against sexism and sexualized violence; on the other hand, Twitter accounts of traditional news media play a central role in the #MeToo network from the very beginning, indicating that protest networks are less “equal” and horizontal than often assumed. Keywords: metoo; network; twitter
• I AM THE VIRUS: DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND FICTIONAL TWITTER ACCOUNTS IN THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS IN SPAIN by Roig, Antoni; Martorell, Sandra (2020.0) - Different research actions have been undertaken so far, and we summarize some of our key findings as follows: (1) Fictional characters like @Coronavid19 succeed in counterbalancing collective fear by mocking irrational reactions, or defusing fear making the threat tangible, humanizing it and showing it as vulnerable; (2) The author was forced to make an ethical stand once the account proved to be successful and the crisis more serious and unpredictable than expected, softening the character’s edges towards a more everyday humour with a political and social edge and stressing safety measures; (3) This process means side-lining some of the bleakest implications of the pandemic (death rates, psychological effects and economic crisis); (4) @Coronavid19 works as a character-driven narrative, with a transformation arc in an otherwise unpredictable plot; (5) followers, even those who have suffered from Covid-19, react playfully and fondly to the character-, except when political polarization takes over. Beyond other minds: fictional characters, mental simulation, and unnatural experiences. Keywords: accounts; crisis; storytelling; twitter
• DOES ANYONE TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES ANYMORE? THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' MESSAGING ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER by Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Hemsley, Jeff; Rossini, Patricia; Smith, Alexander; Bolden, Sarah (2020.0) - Given the large number of candidates in the race, and the prior scholarship that suggests that the political parties own certain topics (Petrocik, 1996) and that political candidates will work to differentiate themselves from their opponents by owning certain policies (Arbour, 2013), we ask: (RQ2) Political communication scholars have long observed the shifting relationship between political candidates, their party, and the centrality of each to the voting public in the United States (Hacker, 2004; Jamieson, 1996). Keywords: candidates; facebook; policy; twitter
• GO BACK IN YOUR FETUS CAVE: HOW PREDATORY INFLUENCERS MANIPULATE AUDIENCES THROUGH PLATFORM RETREATS by Berge, PS (2021.0) - This was exacerbated by several factors: the censorship on Thompson’s channel, where criticizing Thompson directly was difficult; the ignorance of his own fans, unlikely to be on Twitter and hence shielded from the scandal; and the toxic praxis of YouTube drama videos as a genre. Because Thompson’s primary fanbase was teenagers who were already subscribed to him, there was a direct correlation between time of upload and negative criticism on YouTube comments, as it took critics (including from Twitter) longer to reach Thompson’s videos. Keywords: thompson; twitter; videos; youtube
• PERCEIVED INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND THE DEPENDENCE ON AMBIENT CONTEXT ON TWITTER DURING ELECTIONS by Demirkol Tonnesen, Naciye Ozlem (2021.0) - In this paper, I explore the role of ambient context in the encoding and decoding of tweets and the ways such tweets signal perceived affective interconnectedness between users. Such tweets that are often emotionally charged and conversational allude to shared sorrows, experiences and feelings which are essential in the affective bonding of users however ephemeral it may be (Papacharissi, 2015). Keywords: context; tweets; twitter
• TWEETING BACK: EXPLORING BLACK FEMINIST HASHTAG COMMUNITIES ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM by Peterson-Salahuddin, Chelsea (2021.0) - How do individuals who participate in black feminist hashtag conversations on Twitter and Instagram understand their networked interactions on these platforms? What is at stake in how black feminist hashtag conversations circulate on Twitter and Instagram? Keywords: conversations; feminist; hashtag; twitter
• “MISS RONA IS REALLY CLAPPING THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS”: BLACK TWITTER'S POLITICAL HUMOR IN COVID-19 TIMES by Antoine, Anshare Annie; Stanfill, Mel (2021.0) - Feminist Media Histories ���������–���� KWWSV���GRL�RUJ���������IPK������������� KWWSV���GRL�RUJ����������������;�������������� Monk-Payton, Brandy. 2017. Keywords: rona; tweets; twitter; � �
• THE TOXIC TURN? CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES ON PROBLEMATIC CONTENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Siapera, Eugenia; Bastos, Marco; Curley, Cliona; Khan, Mansura; Cunnigham, Padraig; Scally, Brendan; Tuters, Marc; Walker, Shawn; Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo; Bispham, Mary; Such, Jose (2023.0) - The removal of social media content results from the enforcement of the community standards and guidelines put together by social media platforms in the past years. Shawn Walker Arizona State University Sanaz Rasti University College Dublin Padraig Cunningham University College Dublin Cliona Curley University College Dublin Brendan Scally University College Dublin Mansura Khan University College Dublin The ‘toxic turn’ in social media platforms continues unabated. Keywords: college; content; covid-19; dublin; media; narratives; platforms; right; twitter; university
• UNCIVIL FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: A MACHINE LEARNING AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF INCIVILITY IN THE TWITTER-BASED CONVERSATION ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER by Eschmann, Rob; Guo, Lei; Copeland, Phillipe; Groshek, Jacob (2023.0) - The #SayHerName campaign Table 2: “Topics” in Twitter Coverage of GMO Mobile tweets: “Topic” and associated words Label 1 antibiot, carb, enjoi, fat, final, free, gluten, low, meal, non, nongmo, organ, raw, settl, soi, vegan Viral tweet: “Enjoying my vegan, gluten free, non GMO, soy free, antibiotics free, raw, organic, fat free, low carb meal.” 2 act, bill block, boycott, bui, call, consum, countr, fight, food, help, know, label, law, live, mandator, product, right, righttoknow, state, stop, support, vote, want, will House passes bill to prevent mandatory GMO food labeling 3 anti, beer, berni, big, don, even, farm, isi, kill, let, make, monsanto, need, peopl, poison, pro, protect, scienc, take, tell, world Sanders on GMO, farming and Monsanto 4 can, cancer, caus, dai, eat, fact, feed, food, gaga, genet, get, ladi, like, love, modify, money, natur, oscar, safe, think, time, year GMO’s linkage to cancer 5 farmer, glyphos, health, just, million, monsanto, new, now, pesticide, plant, roundup, sai, seed, show, studi, talk Health problems linked to Monsanto's roundup Non-mobile tweets: “Topic” and associated words Label 1 america, big, bring, clean, cleanfood, food, gmofre, gpdb, healthi, isbad, know, let, look, non, now, offer, organ, partner, right, secret, sell, tpp, trade The TPP and global trade of GMOs 2 act, bill , block, boycott, call, company, congress, dark, darkact, hous, know, label, labelgmo, law, mandator, new , pass, petit, product, protect, requir, righttoknow, sai, senat, sign, state, stop, support, tell, vote, will House passes bill to prevent mandatory GMO food labeling 3 antibiot, can, carb, dai, don, eat, farm, fat, free, get, gluten, help, just, like, low, make, meal, non, nongmo, organ, pleas, raw, safe, salmon, soi, vegan, win Viral tweet: “Enjoying my vegan, gluten free, non GMO, soy free, antibiotics free, raw, organic, fat free, low carb meal.” 4 ban, cancer, caus, contamin, corn, crop, end, environ, farmer, genet, glyphos, health, modifi, new, pesticid0, plant, roundup, seed, studi, usda GMO’s linkage to cancer and other health and environmental problems 5 anti, berni, countri, hillari, kill, monsanto, need, peopl, poison, pro, scienc, take,.vaccin, world, year Sanders and Clinton on GMO Table 3 Themes in uncivil BLM conversation Codes Nonmobile Mobile # of tweets % of tweets # of tweets % of tweets Supporting BLM 236 22% 156 34% Challenging BLM 140 13% 67 15% Overtly racist / Anti-BLM 275 26% 61 13% Popular Culture and Media / Fake Activism 28 3% 22 5% Learning/Education about BLM 89 8% 50 11% Solutions, Raising Awareness to BLM 52 5% 22 5% Activism/BLM in Media 215 20% 78 17% Clickbait / other unrelated 38 3% 0 0% Out of all the mobile-generated tweets, 80,577 contained uncivil expression, with the percentage (6.49%) about twice as much as in non-mobile tweets (3.76%). Keywords: blm; disinhibition; gmo; lives; matter; mobile; tweets; twitter
• IN ON THE GRIFT: HOW PLATFORMS GOVERN AUTHENTICITY FOR NEO-COLONIAL ENDS by Graham, Timothy; Whelan-Shamy, Daniel (2023.0) - It is evident that Twitter is ignoring CIB surrounding cryptocurrency on its platform. Twitter accounts that are connected by an edge if they retweeted the same tweet within 60 seconds of each other, at least twice. Keywords: cryptocurrency; network; platforms; twitter
• CONTESTING THE COVID-19 CONSENSUS: CONNECTIVE ACTION OF PSEUDOANONYMOUS ACCOUNTS ON FINNISH TWITTER by Heikkilä, Tuomas; Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Väliverronen, Esa (2023.0) - Contesting the Covid-19 consensus: connective action of pseudoanonymous accounts on Finnish Twitter. Twitter Full-Archive API for academics was used to obtain all tweets sent by pseudoanonymous accounts during the study period. Keywords: accounts; action; covid-19; media; twitter
• “THIS TWEET IS UNAVAILABLE”: #BLACKLIVESMATTER TWEETS DECAY by Duan, Yiran; Hemsley, Jeff; Smith, Alexander O. (2023.0) - Previous studies show that random tweet collections that include more than one hashtag had relatively low rate of unavailable tweets while political related datasets have a higher rate of tweet decay (Almuhimedi et al., 2013; Bastos, 2021; Bhattacharya & Ganguly, 2016; McCammon, 2022; Zubiaga, 2018). Given above, we propose the following two research questions: RQ1: how does the percentage of unavailable BLM tweets compare to the numbers published by previous research? Keywords: blm; decay; rate; tweets; twitter
• spir-13480 by None (None) - paper explores this ‘paradox of media solidarity’ (Nikunen, 2019) with reference to a big data study examining the potential for media solidarities with Muslims on Twitter. A key scholar of media solidarities Kaarina Nikunen (2019:3) defines them as ‘the ways in which media shapes, circulates and takes part in expressions and representations of solidarity’ which may take the form of ‘media engagements, representations and productions that express or enhance solidarity’. Keywords: media; solidarities; twitter
• DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: COMPLEXITIES, AMBIVALENCES, AND CONTEXTUAL REALITIES by Mwaura, Job ; Dambo, Tamar; Ataguba, Ochega; Mare, Admire; Mukhongo, Lusike; Chuma, Wallace; Mano, Winston (2023.0) - Despite growing interest in digital media for political participation in the region, there is a lack of empirical studies on how social media is used in political and grassroots protests. Social media has become essential for political participation in Kenya, particularly among marginalised communities such as the youth and women. Keywords: africa; digital; global; information; kenya; media; movements; nigeria; protests; research; socio; study; technologies; twitter; use; youth
• BROKERS OF THE METAVERSE: HOW A WEB3 PLAY-TO-EARN GAMING GUILD ACTS AS CULTURAL MEDIATOR ON TWITTER by Camarasa San Juan, Violeta; Kuznetsov, Dmitry (2025.0) - Blockchain Gaming, Play-to-ear Gaming Splinterlands Giveaway NFT Gaming, NFT Marketplace Splinterlands, Axie 1 Axis staking, Axis Player NFTs, NFT Community Blockchain Gaming, Web Gaming Blockchain Gaming, Web Gaming 2 NFT Drop, NFT Community Bitcoin, Crypto Bear Markets, Crypto World Good, Hope, GM (General Communication) 3 Crypto Market, Crypto World Axie Infinity, Scholarships Axie Infinity Origin, Axie NFTs Token Incentives, Token 4 Crypto Twitter, YGG Discord Land Sales, Auction YGG Managers Cup Staking, Airdrop 5 Gamehunters, NFT Gaming Metaverse, WeAreStartAtlas AMA Session, Discord Community Metaverse, Storyverse 6 Axie Scholars, Axie Scholarship Pyr Vulcan, ForgeYourWorld YGG Twitter Spaces, YGG Discord Beta, app, android 7 Mental Health Day Awork, Collection NFT Giveaway, INDIGG Vulcan, Pyr 11 8 YGG Managers Cup, Charity Tournament Mint, Presale, Space Misfits Builders, Knowledge, Community Voxedit, Live Contest 9 YGG Token Sale, YGG Founders Coin Space Misfits Community YGG Guild Advancement Program Cathletes, Breeding 1 0 Highest Sale, NFT Auctions Discord, Telegram Philippine Web Festival, Guild Meetup Builders Program, Community 1 1 Product Building, Marketing Hex, Pulsechain Mint Details, Upcoming Mint 1 2 Year End Festivities, Happiness Reflection OS, Windows, Steam MonkeyFans, MonkeyLeauge 1 3 Creation Moment, Sculpture Atari, First Edition Stepn, Walkn 1 4 NFT Giveaway, NFT Mystery Boxes Start Atlas Metaverse Music Video Contest, Trailer 1 5 Odette Donations, Crypto Donations Bored Apes PA Community, Journey 1 6 Dao governance, dao community NFT Gaming Sipher Bear Market, Bull Market 1 7 Freya Mask, Mask Piece Floor Price, Sales Solana, NFTs 1 8 Brooklyn, New York Amouranth, Misogyny Awesome Mech Photo 1 9 Metaverse Economy, Metaverse Work Community Discord, Stream 2 0 Coffee, Food We used network analysis to examine the structure of YGG communication on Twitter (Rathnayake, 2023), we analysed tweets using BERTopic topic modeling (Grootendorst, 2022), and extracted links to determine what information is shared within the network (Hoyng, 2023). Keywords: accounts; axie; blockchain; community; games; gaming; guild; topic; twitter; ygg
• “THE ALGORITHM IS YOUR MOM”: PLAYFUL ALGORITHMIC AGENCY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC FELLA ORGANISATION by Kasianenko, Kateryna; Boichak, Olga (2025.0) - A collage showcasing avatars of some of the NAFO members We combine insights from qualitative textual analyses of a sample from over 4 million tweets with 25 semi-structured interviews with NAFO members. The algorithm is your mom: Playful algorithmic agency in the North Atlantic Fella Organization. Keywords: algorithm; fellas; media; nafo; twitter
• Fandoms, Trending Topics and Social Capital in Twitter by Recuero, Raquel; Amaral, Adriana; Monteiro, Camila (2012.0) - Our results show that through practices that increase the clusterization in the group, Restart fans are able to cooperate in order to reach and maintain their hashtags in Twitter's TTs, to quickly win fights against anti-fans and other fans for TTs, and learn how to lure Twitter's spam detection. Cooperating with other fan groups - For fans, often maintaining a top ten hashtag is difficult. Keywords: band; capital; fans; groups; hashtags; new; restart; ties; topics; trending; tts; twitter
• Exercising Control: A Comparative Study of Government Agencies and their Relationships with the Public Using Social Media by Unsworth, Kristene; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie; Goggins, Sean; Mascaro, Christopher (2012.0) - One caution we offer for analysis of government social media use as a technology of control is that the form of social media analysis that takes place in the larger literature on social media must adapt to and recognize the structuration and control oriented nature of government information dissemination. This paper introduces a framework for analyzing social media use and interaction between government agencies and the public, focusing on a comparative analysis of two consumer protections agencies; one, the Konsumentverket in Sweden, the second, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the US. Keywords: agencies; agency; analysis; consumer; control; discourse; giddens; government; information; media; public; swedish; twitter; use
• #MissingData: A methodological inquiry of the hashtag to collect data from Twitter by D'heer, Evelien; Verdergem, Pieter; De Grove, Frederik (2016.0) - The data allows us (1) to compare the characteristics of hashtagged and non-hashtagged responses, (2) to assess the changes in the network structure and (3) to assess the relative positions of the users in the network. Following, the combination of the hashtag and user streams allows us to reconstruct full conversations containing both hashtagged tweets and non-hashtagged responses. Keywords: network; non; twitter
• ADOPTION AND ADAPTATION: DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE GROWING SOPHISTICATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA USES IN ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS by Larsson, Anders Olof; Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Kenski, Kate; Hemsley, Jeff; Bryant, Lauren; Xiu, Huichuan; Semaan, Bryan; Rossi, Luca; Giglietto, Fabio (2015.0) - Such tendencies are perhaps most evident in relation to the study of political elections: here, the effective use of social media by the successful Obama campaign in the 2008 US presidential election is often positioned as an obvious starting point for mainstream political uses of contemporary social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, creating the impression that its strategies emerged fully formed rather than themselves building on the lessons learnt from previous campaigns, and that subsequent campaigns merely needed to copy Obama’s successful formula in their own electioneering efforts (e.g Miller, 2013). However, the bulk of research into these issues has continued to be designed as single-country or single-election case studies, providing useful findings but lacking a longitudinal, 2 diachronic, or comparative perspective that would be able to trace any developmental trends in political social media use between or during elections. Keywords: campaign; campaigning; communication; election; facebook; media; new; parties; party; twitter; university; use
• ANALYZING MAIN CHANNEL AND BACK-CHANNEL TWEETS DURING THE OCTOBER CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS GENERAL CONFERENCE by Johns, Mark D; Nelson, Shelby (2015.0) - In addition, religious groups have used the internet for internal communication among adherents, and some may find that the internet provides more direct connection between members and central authorities, helping members to bond more closely to the organization and allowing increased direct control by hierarchies. Literature Review Lundby has recently (2011) adapted to religious groups the concept of “cultural belonging” from the work of sociologist Göran Therborn (1991). Keywords: backchannel; belonging; channel; church; conference; group; lds; media; members; tweets; twitter
• Audiences as Publics. Tweeting with the Television on. by D'heer, Evelien; Verdegem, Pieter; Courtois, Cédric (2013.0) - Method The research presented combines a content analysis of Twitter conversation (September 2012) and twelve Computer-Assisted Online Interviews (CAOI’s) with Twitter users (October 2012). This paper presents a study on Twitter conversation whilst watching television and discusses the findings in the ongoing debates on Twitter research. Keywords: audiences; public; research; television; twitter
• “Watch out, organize, inform yourself!”: Tracing the Dynamics of Twitter Discourse on Anti-Nazi Street Protests by Dang-Anh, Mark; Eble, Michael (2013.0) - As the unequaled proportioned power law distribution reveals, “@dd_nazifrei” seems to be the key agent in protest discourse. Speech act analysis reveals that “Informing” is by far the most uttered speech act whereas “insulting”, “judging” or “warning” were uttered less frequently in protest discourse (Figure 2). Keywords: analysis; discourse; media; protest; twitter
• ‘There’s a Starman waiting in the Sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter by Van den Bulck, Hilde; Larsson, Anders Olof (2016.0) - ‘THERE’S  A  STARMAN  WAITING  IN  THE  SKY’:  MOURNING  DAVID   #BOWIE  ON  TWITTER Hilde  Van  den  Bulck University  of  Antwerp Anders  Olof  Larsson Westerdals  Oslo  School  of  Arts,  Communication  and  Technology   Extended  Abstract   This  contribution  analyses  the  Twitter  response  to  the  death  of  musician  and  popular   culture  icon  David  Bowie  as  an  inroad  to  discuss  key  characteristics  and  functions  of   Twitter  in  the  mediated  relationships  between  celebrities,  fans  and  the  popular  culture   industry.       Twitter  allows  celebrities  to   communicate  (seemingly)  directly,  intimately  and  authentically  with  audiences  and  fans   (Marwick  &  boyd,  2011),  and  provides  the  latter  with  tools  to  discuss  celebrity  news  and   to  engage  in  fan  behaviour  (Van  den  Bulck  et  al.  2014). Keywords: celebrity; media; tweets; twitter
• Beyond Hashtags: Collecting And Analysing Conversations On Twitter by Moon, Brenda; Suzor, Nicolas; Matamoros Fernández, Ariadna (2016.0) - Many existing methods of exploring Twitter data do not present conversation chains in a linked format (Bruns, 2012, Grant, Moon, & Busby Grant, 2010); we investigate how using network visualization might help researchers better understand the qualitative content and context of conversations. Many existing methods of exploring Twitter data do not present conversation chains in a linked format (Bruns, 2012, Grant, Moon, & Busby Grant, 2010); we investigate how using network visualization might help researchers better understand the qualitative content and context of conversations. Keywords: conversations; media; tweets; twitter
• Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and live-tweeting during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates by Driscoll, Kevin; Ananny, Mike; Bar, François; Guth, Kristen; Kazemzadeh, Abe; Leavitt, Alex; Thorson, Kjerstin (2013.0) - Keywords humor; politics; sentiment analysis; social media; content analysis Introduction Researchers in both industry and the academy are attempting to analyze sentiment on Twitter, assigning numerical scores to tweets through algorithmic analysis. Sentiment analysis became an integral component of the campaign coverage. Keywords: accounts; analysis; humor; sentiment; tweets; twitter
• Bill Cosby on Twitter and Beyond by Assmann, Karin (2016.0) - Although images can help an issue gain traction and generate traffic, the mobilization of opinion requires trusted influencers within a social media network, in short, a new kind of news media that is more personalized and self-selected. Yet in the Cosby case, “produsers” of social media content led the way and initiated, perhaps even sanctioned mainstream news media coverage. Keywords: bill; cosby; media; news; twitter
• BOT-BASED COLLECTIVE BLOCKLISTS IN TWITTER: THE COUNTERPUBLIC MODERATION OF A PRIVATELY-OWNED NETWORKED PUBLIC SPACE by Geiger, R. Stuart (2015.0) - Communities have formed around many blockbots, whose developers, moderators, and subscribers give each other a wide variety of logistical, emotional, and institutional support – in addition to the average, everyday work involving in collectively curating a blocklist. Bot-based collective blocklists in Twitter: The counterpublic moderation of a privately-owned networked public space. Keywords: blockbots; harassment; public; twitter
• EXPLORING THE GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF TWITTER by Bruns, Axel; Woodford, Daryl; Sadkowsky, Troy (2014.0) - Geographic and Language Distribution In the conference paper, we also intend to pursue the question of the geographic distribution of Twitter users. An additional metric of interest, for example, is also the use of the more recently introduced favouriting functionality by Twitter users; our working hypothesis is that more recent users, for whom Twitter favouriting may appear as analogous to Facebook liking, use this functionality more readily than older users who came to know Twitter before favouriting was introduced. Keywords: accounts; information; twitter; user; userbase
• Friends or Followers? The Relations between German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter by Weller, Katrin; Bruns, Axel (2013.0) - Figure 3: Two cases of fan accounts that were closed down in favour of an official club account. Abstract This paper shows how soccer clubs from Germany’s first division have started to use Twitter. Keywords: account; clubs; fans; soccer; twitter
• FROM #XF6 TO #SERVIZIOPUBBLICO: CROSS-GENRE ANALYSIS OF TV AUDIENCE PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES IN ITALY by Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Gemini, Laura; Giglietto, Fabio; Orefice, Mario (2014.0) - From #x6 to #ServizioPubblico: cross-genre analysis of tv audience participatory practices in Italy. To answer the above research questions we collected, during TV season 2012/2103, two complete datasets of Tweets. Keywords: italy; tweets; twitter
• FROM MOON TO COMET LANDING: RE-IMAGINING (SCIENTIFIC) MEDIA EVENTS IN THE AGE OF TWITTER by Giglietto, Fabio; Rossi, Luca; Kim, Jiyoung (2015.0) - Concerning  RQ1,  following  the  approach  used  by  Bruns  and  Stieglitz  (2013)  to  classify   media  and  emergency/crisis  Twitter  events,  we  compared  #CometLanding  with  other   events  ranging  from  #londoriots  to  #royalwedding  and  #eurovision.       While  even  traditional  well  established  events  such  as  the  broadcast  of  the  Olympic   Games  are  increasingly  facing  challenges  in  fitting  the  original  definition  of  the  concept   (Rivenburgh  2002),  it  is  clear  that  a  media  event  must,  by  definition,  interrupt  daily  lives.   Keywords: event; media; twitter
• FROM MOON TO COMET LANDING: RE-IMAGINING (SCIENTIFIC) MEDIA EVENTS IN THE AGE OF TWITTER by Rossi, Luca (2015.0) - We focused on the following questions: RQ1) How #CometLanding compares to previously studied Twitter media events? RQ2) Can we still talk about media events when the audience feeling viewing as mandatory is a globally scattered elite, instead of the masses? Keywords: comet; event; media; twitter
• Hearing "Lady Game Creators" Tweet: #1ReasonWhy, Women and Online Discourse in the Game Development Community by Blodgett, Bridget Marie; Salter, Anastasia (2013.0) - ; gender; game development; social movements; twitter Introduction The demographics of the game industry skew towards men: in an industry survey in 2012, women were a minority in most industry disciplines, making up only 3% of programmers, 13% of artists and animators, 11% of designers, 6% of audio developers, and 5% of QA testers (GameCareerGuide.com, 2012). The women and allies detailed their own experiences with sexism in the field of game development along with other obstacles that prevent women from joining game development as a career. Keywords: development; game; hashtag; industry; twitter; women
• Joint Digital Storytelling on Twitter: Creative Appropriation in Political Deliberation by Thimm, Caja J.; Einspänner, Jessica; Dang-Anh, Mark (2013.0) - This paper explores on the basis of empirical research, how patterns of interaction and argumentation in political discourse on Twitter evolve as online discursive practices. 3 Data and methods To underpin the role, function, and creativity of storytelling on Twitter in a political context, we differentiate three media-based levels of political storytelling: (1) the textual level of storytelling, (2) the operative level of storytelling (hashtags, @- and RT-Symbol, hyperlinks etc.) and (3) the visual level of storytelling (embedded fotos, videos). Keywords: deliberation; level; storytelling; twitter
• NEWS DIFFUSION ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Karnowski, Veronika; Keyling, Till; Leiner, Dominik (2014.0) - To answer these questions, we developed a large-scale driven methodical framework which matches standardized information on news articles with the available indicators of interest on Facebook and Twitter. Real-time data provided by the API1 of Facebook and Twitter further provide us with insight into different communicative behavior with respect to news articles: in 10- minute intervals, the cumulative total number of Facebook shares and Twitter tweets for each article are measured and stored. Keywords: diffusion; facebook; news; twitter
• News Sharing on Twitter: A Nationally Comparative Study by Bruns, Axel; Moon, Brenda; Münch, Felix; Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik; Merten, Lisa; Moe, Hallvard; Schwartz, Sander (2016.0) - In total, this approach has resulted in datasets comprising some 45 million tweets linking to Australian news sites; some 50 million linking to German news sites; and some 10 million linking to Nordic news sites. Gathering Twitter data since mid-2012, we have managed – within the limitations set by the public Twitter API – to capture all tweets linking to a large selection of news sites in Australia, Germany, and the Nordic countries; our analysis of these data shows the distribution of attention to these sites, the dynamics of such marketshare over time, and the structure of each nation’s news-sharing user populations on Twitter, as well as comparing these patterns across the countries against the backdrop of their respective media ecologies. Keywords: bruns; news; sharing; sites; twitter
• News via Voldemort: The role of parody and satire in topical discussions on Twitter by Highfield, Tim (2013.0) - However, these aspects of Twitter parody accounts have their roots in earlier online humor, including the merging of fiction and reality, and the comic commodification of celebrities (Shifman, 2007, p. 205). This paper then analyses the contributions of parody accounts - alongside other satirical tweets - across multiple contexts, drawing on various political and cultural Twitter datasets collected between 2011 and 2013, to examine the extent to which such accounts are central, or disconnected, to the wider discussions at hand. Keywords: accounts; discussions; media; parody; twitter
• ONLINE FOOTBALL FANDOM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMMUNITIES FORMED AROUND 12 BRAZILIAN TOP PROFESSIONAL CLUBS ON TWITTER by Vimieiro, Anna Carolina; Vimieiro, Renato (2014.0) - We apply a series of digital methods to investigate what football fans are doing on Twitter, what they are sharing, how they are talking to each other, and which devices they are using to post their messages. In Brazil, football fans have gathered online at least since early in the 2000’s to chat about their clubs, players’ performance and so on. Keywords: clubs; fandom; fans; football; twitter
• PARTICIPANTS ON THE MARGINS: EXAMINING THE USE OF SNAPCHAT, FACEBOOK, AND TWITTER AMONG POLITICAL NEWCOMERS DURING THE STUDENT FERGUSON PROTESTS by Schofield Clark, Lynn (2015.0) - High school students around the country are walking out of class for Ferguson. Whereas some young people received encouragement to participate in the protests via social media, a number of participants later received criticism in a variety of online venues for acting rudely or violently toward law enforcement, for participating in protests merely as an excuse to skip class, for not understanding the issues, and for merely “following the crowd.” Keywords: action; artifacts; communication; counterpublics; facebook; ferguson; media; networks; online; participation; people; protests; public; school; spaces; students; twitter
• POLITICAL RUMORING ON TWITTER DURING THE 2012 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY by Shin, Jieun; Jian, Lian; Driscoll, Kevin; Bar, François (2015.0) - We compared rumor tweets that endorsed 57 rumors with randomly chosen political tweets from our larger dataset in order to explore systematic differences between two datasets. The result showed that rumor tweets had a much higher proportion of retweets (65.48%) than non-rumor tweets (44.43%). Keywords: research; rumors; tweets; twitter
• Retweeting the News: Towards a formalized approach to the study of Twitter networks by De Grove, Frederik; D'heer, Evelien; Verdegem, Pieter (2016.0) - Retweeting the News: Towards a formalized approach to the study of Twitter networks. These measures could serve as a baseline to compare our results, as well as other work on retweet networks. Keywords: network; news; twitter
• TECHNIQUES OF INTERSECTION – METRICS AS CONNECTORS AND SEPARATORS IN TWITTER RESEARCH by Gerlitz, Carolin; Rieder, Bernhard (2014.0) - By starting from a random sample, we can inquire how metrics are both related and separate from each other, and to what extent different metrics can qualify or characterise each other (Do Twitter users writing from different devices use hashtags differently? When studying Facebook or Twitter, questions and techniques of delimitation, i.e. the selection of subsets and the use of specific metrics, are particularly relevant. Keywords: metrics; practices; research; twitter
• Who’s Running the Show? Negotiating Control for Community Participation by Blasiola, Stacy; Carivou, James; Feng, Miao; Liu, Jun; Magee, Rachel; Sebastian, Melinda (2013.0) - This explicit countdown language stimulates audience anticipation, and often, the show accounts go further and retweet or share fan tweets that discuss looking forward to the next episode or season. Digital fandom: New media studies. Keywords: analysis; culture; fans; media; new; participation; practices; recap; research; tweets; twitter; use
• Wave-Riding and Hashtag-Jumping: Twitter, Minority ‘Third Parties’ and the 2012 US Elections by Christensen, Christian (2013.0) - The ultimate goal of the paper is to generate a broader picture of how Twitter was utilized by minority party candidates, as well as identifying the issues which led followers (and their respective followers) to engage in the “conversational’ act of re-tweeting.   Discussion/Conclusions     As smaller political parties in the US struggle to garner even minimal mainstream media coverage, the well-documented flood of tweets surrounding the third presidential election debate (the first two were not covered in the scope of this study) provided an excellent opportunity for minority party candidates to jump on top of that tweet wave, and to weave their respective political messages into the broader political discourse. Keywords: candidates; party; tweets; twitter
• The Case of the Missing Fair Use: A Multilingual History & Analysis of Twitter’s Policy Documentation by Johnson, Amy (2016.0) - But the plight of fair use documentation contrasts sharply with that of the parody policy. Here are links to everything from the Twitter Rules to the username squatting policy to the child sexual exploitation policy to fair use. Keywords: documentation; parody; policy; twitter; use
• The (net)work of mourning: emotional contagion, viral performativity, and the death of David Bowie by Mitchell, Peta; Bruns, Axel; Münch, Felix Victor (2016.0) - Spiked  editor  Brendan  O’Neill  (2016),  for   instance,  contrasted  the  “shallow”  sadness  expressed  by  “hacks”  and  “fans”  on  social   media  with  the  “deep  and  raw  and  real”  grief  of  Bowie’s  family,  which  in  his  view  was   signalled  by  their  relative  distance  from  social  media,  their  need  to  grieve  in  private:   “Bowie’s  son,  Duncan  Jones,  left  Twitter  immediately  after  announcing  his  father’s   death.   This  focus  on  the  macro-­level   of  Twitter’s  communicative  layers  (Bruns  &  Moe,  2014)  misses  a  potentially  much   broader  and  more  diverse,  as  well  as  less  public,  range  of  responses  to  Bowie’s  death,   by  users  who  did  not  include  the  hashtag.     Keywords: bowie; death; twitter
• TWEETING @THEWRITERSROOM: MAPPING THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY'S IDEAL FAN THROUGH WRITERS' ROOM TWITTER ACCOUNTS by Navar-Gill, Annemarie (2015.0) - Twitter accounts are geared toward promoting fan identities that are productive for the industry, the specifics of the fan identities hailed vary based on the particular branding that the show and its network (or online distribution platform) are looking to support. Research Questions RQ1: What are the various social media strategies that writers’ room Twitter accounts use to engage with fan audiences? Keywords: fan; room; twitter; writers
• Tweeting the elections in Belgium. An analysis of social and traditional cross-media patterns by Verdegem, Pieter; D'heer, Evelien; Mechant, Peter (2013.0) - The top ten receivers are all established or elite actors (i.e. politicians and media actors), whereas the top senders are primarily citizen-users. Denver, USA 3 In addition to hashtags referring to politicians or political parties (N= 2763) and municipalities (N= 2513), we found a moderate amount of hashtags related to traditional media outlets (N= 902). Keywords: actors; belgium; election; media; twitter
• Tweeting to the Choir: Online Performance and Academic Identity by singh, sava saheli (2013.0) - They assert that the movement of scholarly practice into a more techno-cultural space is influenced by the change from a passive culture to a more participatory one as noted by Jenkins et al (2009), leading to more collaboration and crowd-sourcing. Propagating publications – both traditional and non- traditional – via Twitter and creating platform-specific artifacts like “storified” conversations are things scholars seeking to legitimize alternative forms of scholarship do to give voice to their dissatisfactions. Keywords: academic; practices; scholars; scholarship; twitter
• Twitter in the Context of the Arab Spring by Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad; Brown, Christopher; Abu-Elhij'a, Dua'a (2013.0) - The fact that cultural and political tweets are the most frequent in TAC indicates that Arabic Twitter users are less interested in personal issues than they are in community-based issues. Except for some initial analyses (Abdul-Mageed & Albogmi, 2011; Abdul-Mageed, Albogmi, Gerrio, Hamed & Aldibasi, 2011; Abdul-Mageed & Abu Mostafa, 2012; Abdul-Mageed, 2013), Arabic Twitter has not been the target of much research. Keywords: arabic; spring; tweets; twitter
• Twitter Storytelling as a New Literacy Practice by Holmes, Jeff (2013.0) - Keywords Literacy; transmedia; social media; performance; discourse Introduction This paper argues that the growing number of fictional stories told through social media site Twitter represents a new form of literacy practice. But it is also about how we share and access stories in multiple contexts and through multiple lenses; it is about how we tell fictional stories in truthful ways, and ways in which the truths of the stories are bound to the fictions of the everyday world. Keywords: feed; stories; story; twitter
• VOICING TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS ON TWITTER: FROM @big_ben_clock to @SelfAwareROOMBA by Johnson, Amy (2014.0) - This corpus of Twitter accounts offers a unique opportunity to explore how we understand this phenomenon—when we look at how we voice technological objects on Twitter, we see not necessarily how posthuman society is, but how we currently imagine it and ourselves as members of it. VOICING TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS ON TWITTER: FROM @big_ben_clock to @SelfAwareROOMBA Amy Johnson Massachusetts Institute of Technology On Twitter, existence is envoiced rather than embodied. Keywords: anthropology; objects; twitter; voice; voicing

• Posthuman Publics: Emerging Research in Human-Machine Communication by Banks, Jaime; Edwards, Autumn; Joblin, Anna; Lewis, Seth; Edwards, Chad; Westerman, David; Spence, Patric; Guzman, Andrea (2017.0) - Instances of human-machine communication (HMC) often involve interaction between people and social robots or automated software bots. In these situations, social robots are “not a medium through which humans interact, but rather a medium with which humans interact” (Zhao, 2006, p. 402, emphasis added). Keywords: advertisers; algorithms; communication; edwards; human; interaction; journalism; machine; paper; people; publics; robot
• The Temporality Of Mobile Media by Frith, Jordan; Farman, Jason; Wilken, Rowan; Oppegaard, Brett; Meyer, Joseph (2017.0) - PANEL TITLE: THE TEMPORALITY OF MOBILE MEDIA Jordan Frith Jason Farman Brett Oppegaard Joseph Meyer Rowan Wilken Description Scholarship on mobile media has often focused on the relationship between mobile media and space/place, including studies on locative technologies (Frith, 2014), social- spatial coordination (Ling, 2004), proximity (Oppegaard & Rabby, 2015; Wilken and Goggin, 2013), absent presence and telecocooning (Gergen, 2002; Habuchi, 2005) and place-making (Farman, 2010). This panel seeks to flip that relationship by devoting four talks to the oft-neglected interrelations between mobile media and temporality. Keywords: location; media; messages; new; people; place; research; rhythms; space; text; time; yak; yik
• Formative Events, Networked Spaces, And The Political Socialization Of Youth by Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Literat, Ioana (2017.0) - A fear of speaking out has significant implications for youth political socialization. FORMATIVE EVENTS, NETWORKED SPACES, AND THE POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION OF YOUTH Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Ioana Liteart Introduction and theoretical framework The 2016 US elections brought into sharp relief the question of citizens’ relationship towards politics, with a particular concern for young people. Keywords: election; people; spaces; youth
• What’s On My Mind: Using Social Media To Discuss Stressful Situations by Knight, Jennifer; Bowman, Nicholas; Banks, Jaime; Primack, Brian; Colditz, Jason; Shensa, Ariel (2017.0) - We sought to understand (RQ1) what types of stressful and emotional situations do people discuss on SM? Method Participants were N = 1,593 college students who responded to a larger online survey about mental health and SM use, and answered an open-ended question: “Can you describe for us the type(s) of stressful or emotional situations that you typically discuss on social media?” School/Work, Daily Personal Struggles, and Relational Conflict all contained venting—a common motivation for SM use, particularly for people without offline support networks (Baker & Moore, 2008). Keywords: people; support
• “LIKE, COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE”. EXPLORING THE ROLE PROFESSIONAL YOUTUBERS PLAY IN YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH BEHAVIOURS AND IDENTITES IN THE UK by Harris, Jane (2018.0) - The first stage, a school based questionnaire with 931 13-18 year olds quantified young people’s engagement with YouTuber produced health content and provided a sampling frame for the later qualitative stages. An online analysis of 7 UK YouTubers examined the type of health content they produced. Keywords: content; health; information; people; youtubers
• DOUBT AND DISENGAGEMENT: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES OF DIGITAL DISCONNECTION by Plaut, Ethan; Mannell, Kate ; Kania-Lundholm, Magdalena; Beattie, Alex (2019.0) - If media literacy initiatives teach people to trust their own ad hoc investigations (often simply Google searches) more than they trust journalists and other professionals, we risk exacerbating the collapse of trust brought about by disinformation (boyd, 2017, 2018). The ‘attention economy’ is a dominant socio-economic system underpinning digital technology that degrades user trust by driving undesirable hyper-connectivity. Keywords: disconnection; literacy; media; new; paper; people; practices; self; strategies; technologies; technology; use
• HOW DOES CRYSTAL KNOW? FOLK THEORIES AND TRUST IN PREDICTIVE ALGORITHMS THAT ASSESS INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY AND COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES by Liao, Tony (2019.0) - Second, while initial studies have found that people tend to trust algorithmic personality recommendations, they have also found that most perceive them as creepy, and worry about who has access to them (Warshaw et al., 2015). Given their increasing use, there needs to be more work examining these algorithmic personality profiles and how people respond to algorithmic predictions about themselves without their consent (Warshaw et al., 2015). Keywords: algorithms; people; personality
• GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL MEDIA USE, GENDER IDENTITY, AND SEXUALITY AMONG YOUNG LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA by Robards, Brady; Churchill, Brendan; Vivienne, Son; Hanckel, Benjamin; Byron, Paul (2019.0) - Generational differences in social media use, gender identity, and sexuality among young LGBTIQ+ people in Australia Brady Robards Monash University Brendan Churchill University of Melbourne Son Vivienne RMIT University Benjamin Hanckel Kings College London Paul Byron Swinburne University Over the past twenty to thirty years, the Internet has come to serve as a key channel for communicating, connecting, and engaging in civic participation. There was an age gradient in the use of apps like Snapchat and Tumblr, where usage was highest among younger cohorts. Keywords: gender; people; use
• OLDER PEOPLE'S DIGITAL LIVES by Bossio, Diana; Grønning, Anette; Cabalquinto, Earvin; Milne, Esther; Schleser, Max; McCosker, Anthony; Albury, Kath (2020.0) - A REFLECTION ON THE OPERA PROJECT AND DIGITAL INTERVENTIONS INTO EXPERIENCES OF AGEISM Diana Bossio Swinburne University of Technology Max Schleser Swinburne University of Technology This paper presents the results of the OPERA (Older people, equity, respect and ageing) Project, which used extensive community consultation to perform a ‘digital intervention’ into ageism as a primary driver of abuse against older people in Victoria, Australia. OLDER PEOPLE’S DIGITAL LIVES Esther Milne, Anthony McCosker and Kath Albury Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Anette Grønning University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Earvin Cabalquinto Deakin University Australia Diana Bossio and Max Schleser Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Older people have rich and varied digital lives. Keywords: abuse; ageing; care; communication; consultations; digital; media; online; people; research; social; tools; use
• STUDYING YOUTH ONLINE POLITICAL EXPRESSION: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS by Clark, Lynn Schofield; Literat, Ioana; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Lee, Ashley; Middaugh, Ellen; Russell, Adrienne (2020.0) - Our joint video aims to generate discussion for future research into the study of youth political expression online. Here, we investigate this potential by examining the role of popular culture in stimulating youth political expression and discussion in the social media spaces most popular with youth. Keywords: analysis; dialogue; discourse; expression; findings; media; new; online; people; platforms; political; research; study; youth
• AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES ‘FROM BELOW’: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND by de Vries Kedem, Maya; Haapio-Kirk, Laura; Hawkins, Charlotte; Miller, Daniel (2020.0) - AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES ‘FROM BELOW’: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND Laura Happio-Kirk University College London Charlotte Hawkins University College London Maya de Vries-Kedem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Daniel Miller University College London This session examines new ways to theorize the smartphone, based on a comparative study of smartphone use amongst older people in four different fieldsites for a period of 16 months ethnographic fieldwork. we investigated fundamental changes in the relationship between people’s perception of age, health, digital skills and quality of life as associated with smartphone use. Keywords: care; digital; home; japan; life; money; paper; people; smartphone; theory; university; use
• SOCIALIZING THE NETWORKED INDIVIDUAL by Hartmann, Maren; Jimenez, Carlos; Coates, Jamie; Norum, Roger (2020.0) - The concept of mobile socialities works here as a frame for considering the new temporalities of reproduction, distribution and dissemination of text and the real-time, discursive engagement around such texts that connect disparate individuals separated by distance but brought together by the time/space-bending connectivities of digital technologies. “Mobile socialities” demarcates a new constellation of media scholarship that seeks to encapsulate human subjectivities of media as they are embedded in human processes, structures and experiences of mobility and sociality. Keywords: day; digital; experience; laborers; media; mobile; mobility; new; people; socialities; sociality; time; work
• DIGITAL PLACEMAKING by Wilken, Rowan; Humphreys, Lee; Polson, Erika; Norum, Roger; Witteborn, Saskia; Halegoua, Germaine; Frith, Jordan; Richter, Jacob (2020.0) - The authors locate the embodied role of the local ‘host’ as key to connecting people to digital place. Communicating place through mobile social media In this paper, we extend the above lines of argument by examining the particular ways that place is configured in and through mobile device use, and the precise modes of engagement associated with three specific mobile social media applications: Instagram, Snapchat, and Waze. Keywords: communication; digital; experiences; media; migration; new; online; people; place; placemaking; practices; selfies; space; university
• LIVING WITH ROBOTS: AN ONTOLOGICAL LEAP? by Mays, Kate K.; Lei, Yiming; Katz, James E. (2020.0) - While “social robots” (Breazeal, 2004) are not yet diffused in the mainstream, we can see an inkling of how they may be accepted in AI-enabled digital voice assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, which is treated as a friend/companion as much as a functional utility (Calvin, 2017).Thus, there may be both a greater demand for and acceptance of social robots. Social robots for long-term interaction: a survey. Keywords: comments; human; people; robots; technology
• INVASIVE YET INEVITABLE? PRIVACY NORMALIZATION TRENDS IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY by Paik, Sejin; Mays, Kate K.; Giovannetti, Rebecca F.; Katz, James E. (2020.0) - When keeping the actor constant across privacy technologies, there was an overwhelming preference for less invasive means of privacy data sharing. Given previous literature and theories on privacy, we move beyond simply looking at people’s general intentions and inclinations for technology use tied to privacy concerns. Keywords: dna; people; privacy; technologies; technology
• MAY THE SHAME BE WITH YOU. ALWAYS. MITIGATING YOUNG PEOPLE'S INTIMATE EXCHANGES ONLINE by Spišák, Sanna (2020.0) - Results and conclusion By asking from a focus-group of young Finns aged 15–19-years-old how they and their peers experience digital intimacy and their perceptions of the benefits, possible outcomes, mitigations and solutions, I can draw a more ethical yet a complex picture of young people's engagement with digital intimacies. I am interested in developing a more rights-based approach to digital intimacies, respectful of the lived experience of young people. Keywords: finns; intimacies; people; rights
• TACTICS OF ALGORITHMIC LITERACY: HOW YOUNG PEOPLE UNDERSTAND AND NEGOTIATE ALGORITHMIC NEWS SELECTION by Swart, Joelle (2020.0) - Therefore, this paper adopts a wider focus to understand how young smartphone users in general perceive, negotiate and resist algorithmic news selection, focusing on social media in particular. Yet, little is known about how news users actually understand the workings of algorithmic news curation and how and under what circumstances they engage with these selections. Keywords: algorithms; media; news; people
• WHAT'S AT STAKE WHEN SEX IS DEPLATFORMED? by Tiidenberg, Katrin; van der Nagel, Emily (2020.0) - If we accept the significance of sexual social media experiences, their deplatforming becomes matter of much broader societal relevance than a private corporation’s whim regarding an irrelevant group of “perverts”. Our second group of arguments pertain to sexual social media practices as identity work and in particular to the everyday tactics (de Certeau (1988 [1984]) of pushing back against spaces organized by the powerful. Keywords: media; people; platforms; sex
• PATCHWORKED MEDIA: MOBILE DEVICES AND CREATIVE PRACTICE IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA by Venter, Marija Anja (2020.0) - I argue that mobile devices here indeed did offer a kind of “participatory turn” (Perkel, 2011) in providing affordances that were previously not available to young people from such contexts: the ability to take, edit and share photographs, and chat to people who are located elsewhere. Owing to high data costs, young people only used services and platforms that were cheap and free. Keywords: design; mobile; people; south
• METHODS THAT MOVE US: CREATIVITY AND ETHICS IN RESEARCHING DIGITAL YOUTH CULTURES by Uldbjerg, Signe; Hendry, Natalie; Gerrard, Ysabel (2020.0) - ROUNDTABLE: METHODS THAT MOVE US: CREATIVITY AND ETHICS IN RESEARCHING DIGITAL YOUTH CULTURES Signe Uldbjerg Aarhus University Natalie Hendry RMIT University Ysabel Gerrard University of Sheffield For scholars exploring digital youth cultures, creative research methods offer the potential to disrupt existing power imbalances, form empowering creative practices or closely engage with knowledge production that is dynamic, embodied and socially contextual. Yet the experience of doing creative research methods poses challenges that are often under- or unacknowledged in our work. Keywords: hendry; methods; people; research
• THE LEGITIMATIZATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE’S DIGITAL MEDIA PRACTICES WITHIN NEOLIBERAL CONTEXTS AND ECOLOGIES by Coulter, Natalie; DiGiacomo, Daniela; Ellerbe, Briana; Willett, Rebekah Jane (2021.0) - This discourse is evident in the oft-cited ‘2 by 2 rule’ created by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1999 (no screentime for children under age two, limit to two hours per day for older children), and many parents express anxiety when reconciling this discourse with the realities of their family practices. Using the theoretical lens of child studies, I suggest that we that we need to rethink how both the labour and play of young people is “entangled in the ecologies of commerce” of the children’s media industry. Keywords: children; digital; dreams; media; parents; people; practices; screen; ways
• MANAGING BOUNDARIES WHILE WORKING FROM HOME, 1960-PRESENT by Zeavin, Hannah; Baym, Nancy Baym; Bergmann, Rachel; Sarkar, Advait; Rintel, Sean; Sellen, Abigail; Powers, Devon; Bray, Sierra Bray; Barboza-Wilkes, Cynthia ; Alarcon, Andrea (2021.0) - MANAGING BOUNDARIES WHILE WORKING FROM HOME, 1960- PRESENT Hannah Zeavin UC Berkeley Nancy Baym Microsoft Rachel Bergmann Microsoft Advait Sarkar Microsoft Sean Rintel Microsoft Abigail Sellen Microsoft Devon Powers Temple University Sierra Bray University of Southern California Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes University of Southern California Andrea Alarcon University of Southern California The COVID-19 pandemic has been heralded as a watershed moment for remote work, an exodus of the American workforce that will never fully reverse. As major corporations debate returning to the office full-time, and other workers press or are pressed into returning to the office, this panel situates the present realities of remote work within telework’s long history. Keywords: children; communication; domestic; employees; home; labor; meetings; microsoft; new; office; participants; people; space; telework; university; video; work; workers
• HOW MOBILE MEDIA ENABLED AND LIMITED ONLINE CIVIC PARTICIPATION AMONG LOW-INCOME U.S. YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE PANDEMIC by Ramirez, Johnny; Jimenez, Carlos; Clark, Lynn Schofield (2021.0) - Existing research often overlooks how young people, particularly those from Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Asian American, and White young people living in low-income neighborhoods, find their way into these civic and political online spaces, particularly if they are newcomers to political and civic action (but see Tufekci & Wilson 2012; Lee 2020). This paper, which had its origins in two interdisciplinary youth participatory action research (YPAR) projects seeking to support young people in leadership and online civic development, offered an opportunity to better understand how these inequities played out in the lives of 35 young people who were experiencing marginalization and who were newcomers to politics. Keywords: media; pandemic; participation; people
• IMAGINING ALTERNATIVE MEDIATED FUTURES? REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE by Vigren, Minna; Ridell, Seija (2021.0) - In our research project, we tackled the latter problem by developing an ‘Imagining Workshop’ method and applying it in an experimental study with young people. In the workshops we wanted to enable young people to distance themselves from the self- evident aspects of their mediated everyday life and encourage them to imagine jointly alternative mediated futures. Keywords: alternatives; imagining; media; people
• PLATFORM POWER AND EXPERIENCES FROM THE MARGIN: ADOLESCENTS’ ONLINE VULNERABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH by Graham, Richard; Stänicke, Line Indrevoll; Jensen, Tine; Livingstone, Sonia; Jessen, Reidar Schei; Staksrud, Elisabeth; Stoilova, Mariya (2023.0) - We discuss firstly the role of digital engagement for young people’s mental health and secondly whether digital skills can improve young people’s outcomes. Is this because they lack digital skills that could have helped them avoid risks in the first place? Keywords: adolescents; health; people; skills
• NOTHING WITHOUT US: AGENTIC POWER IN #MYDISABLEDLIFEISWORTHY by Merriam-Pigg, Ailea Grace (2023.0) - To receive disability benefits in the United States, disabled people cannot work, have more than $2,000 in their bank account, and typically only receive $800-$1800 on average. This is the environment in which we find ourselves when Dr. Walensky makes her ill-considered comment that allows disabled people to be seen as acceptable losses. Keywords: disability; hashtag; people
• CONNECTING IN CAPE YORK: EXPLORING DIGITAL INCLUSION AND ACCESS FOR LOW INCOME INDIGENOUS FAMILIES by Rogers, Jessa; Marshall, Amber; Osman, Kim (2023.0) - Inclusive decision- making, respect, the participation of Indigenous people, equal sharing of input and control, acknowledging and respecting Indigenous knowledge systems, and benefit for all who participate are fundamental aspects of Indigenous research (Smith 1999; Weber- Pillwax 1999; Cajete 2000), as well as participants agreeing upon the appropriateness of the objectives, procedures and ways in which data is interpreted and used (Eldridge 2008). Our methodology and results are situated within the growing body of decolonising methodologies and Indigenous research, methods and methodologies. Keywords: people; research; ways
• DISCUSSING HEALTH WITHOUT ADULTS – YOUTH VOICES IN PEER-LED DISCUSSIONS ON TEENAGERS’ SUBREDDITS by Gliniecka, Martyna (2023.0) - The second part of the paper focuses on Redditors’ voices about human and non-human actors engaged in youth digital health. Therefore, sites such as Reddit are important sites for the study of youth health. Keywords: digital; health; people; reddit; voices; youth
• EXPLORING THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF TRANS TECHNOLOGY DESIGN by Haimson, Oliver L (2023.0) - I conducted an in-depth interview study with 115 creators of existing trans technologies to understand the world of trans technology design, both its exciting aspects and its limitations. What “trans technology” is, and what it means for technology design, is an important conversation that impacts how technological innovation may improve trans lives and wellbeing. Keywords: design; people; technologies; technology; trans
• ARTIFICIAL LOVE: REVOLUTIONS IN HOW AI AND AR EMBODIED ROMANTIC CHATBOTS CAN MOVE THROUGH RELATIONSHIP STAGES by Liao, Tony; Porter, Debriunna; Rodwell, Elizabeth (2023.0) - EMBODIED ROMANTIC CHATBOTS CAN MOVE THROUGH RELATIONSHIP STAGES Tony Liao University of Houston Debriunna Porter University of Houston Liz Rodwell University of Houston Introduction Depictions of romantic relationships between humans and computers/machines/robots have been a common theme in science fiction. Romantic relationships are theorized as a separate category, due to the different levels of physical/emotional intimacy, trust/vulnerability, and a wider range of interactions/negotiations over independence and about:blank interdependence they introduce (Knapp, 1978, Knapp & Vangelisti, 2009). Keywords: human; people; relationships; replika
• I WORKED SO HARD, AND I STILL DIDN'T SUCCEED”: CODING BOOTCAMP EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES by Miltner, Kate ; Kadar-Satat, Gitit; Ashton, Emily (2023-12-31) - None Keywords: bootcamps; coding; disabilities; people
• spir-13474 by None (None) - Approaches to understanding AI perceptions There are disciplinary differences in researchers’ approaches to explaining how and why people perceive AI in various roles. It is not yet clear the extent to which these differing approaches prevail in understanding AI perceptions. Keywords: automation; human; people; roles; status
• EPISTEMIC-DEMOCRATIC TENSION IN THE BOTTOM-UP GOVERNANCE OF ALGORITHMS by Cotter, Kelley (2025.0) - The theoretical vocabulary explaining how everyday people understand algorithms has grown increasingly complex over the last several years, with frameworks including the algorithmic imaginary (Bucher, 2017), algorithmic folk theories (e.g., DeVito, 2021; DeVito et al., 2018; Eslami et al., 2016; Siles et al., 2020), algorithmic knowledge (Cotter, 2022; Cotter & Reisdorf, 2020); algorithmic literacy (Cotter, 2020; DeVito, 2021; Dogruel et al., 2021; Oeldorf-Hirsch & Neubaum, 2023), algorithm skills (Gruber & Hargittai, 2023; Klawitter & Hargittai, 2018), algorithmic competencies (Jarrahi & Sutherland, 2019), algorithmic gossip (Bishop, 2019), hermeneutics of algorithm (Andersen, 2020), everyday auditing (Shen et al., 2021), among others. Discussions on algorithmic governance often center on top-down approaches developed primarily by policymakers and private companies (Bloch-Wehba, 2022; Saurwein et al., 2015). Keywords: algorithms; everyday; governance; knowledge; people; society
• SURREPTITIOUS EXPERIMENTATION: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN THE HUMANITARIAN INDUSTRY. by Madianou, Mirca (2025.0) - Humanitarian systems are built on privatised or government networks and systems; in turn humanitarian systems become the infrastructure for the provision of basic services. Humanitarian infrastructures encompass humanitarian workers, host governments, donors (which largely includes western governments), private companies, volunteers, digital developers and crisis- affected communities and the relations between them. Keywords: experimentation; infrastructures; people; systems
• LATET ANGUIS IN HERBA: UNVEILING AGEISM OF GENERATIVE AI by Rosales, Andrea; Linares-Lanzman, Juan (2025.0) - Stereotypical depictions of old age reinforce not only the imaginaries society has about this life stage but also the images older people have of themselves, negatively affecting self-perception and everyday attitudes. This research demonstrates the emergence of what we propose to call “Generative Ageism”: the reproduction and reinforcement of age stereotypes through generative AI tools, taking the form of text, images or videos (our focus here is on AI image generation). Keywords: generative; images; people; person
• ALTERNATIVE FUTURES! FOSTERING ECO-DIGITAL AGENCY IN GENERATIVE AI WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE by Vigren, Minna (2025.0) - It gave a spark to the ongoing research project in which methods to imagine alternative digital futures are experimented with to foster eco-digital agency. The paper presents methodological reflections, observations, and critical considerations from workshops in which sustainable digital futures were imagined with young people using an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator as a tool. Keywords: agency; digital; futures; people; research
• CIVIL KEYSTROKES: EXAMINING ANONYMITY, POLITENESS, AND CIVILITY IN ONLINE NEWSPAPER FORUMS by Dillon, Kelly P; Neo, Rachel L.; Seely, Natalee (2015.0) - Furthermore, online political news stories generally tend to receive more comments than non-political online news stories (Tsagkias, Weerkamp, & de Rijke, 2009). Methods Sample Four Midwest newspapers that allow online comments to Associated Press articles were chosen for the current study. Keywords: anonymity; anonymous; civility; comments; communication; condition; discourse; doi; facebook; news; newspapers; online; people; politeness; research
• DIGITAL HUMANITARIANISM: MYTHS AND REALITIES by Madianou, Mirca (2016.0) - Despite good intentions, ‘humanitarian technologies’ become instruments of management and audit, rather than tools for participation and empowerment. Digital communication technologies are welcomed for their potential to catalyze a ‘power-shift’ in humanitarianism by building feedback structures that empower local communities to hold humanitarian and government agencies into account. Keywords: disaster; media; people; technologies
• Engaging the Disengaged via Performance in Online Virtual Worlds by Davis, Donna Z. (2011.0) - Online virtual worlds that allow users to generate content provide opportunities for artistic, altruistic, and intellectual collaboration as well as development of community, enhanced by the power of telepresence. The unbearable likeness of being digital: The persistence of nonverbal social norms in online virtual environments. Keywords: environment; individuals; interviewee; life; media; new; online; participants; people; percent; relationships; research; study; world
• IMAGINARY INACTIVITY AND THE SHARE BUTTON by Allaste, Airi-Alina; Tiidenberg, Katrin (2015.0) - Instead of questioning how social media enables activism (Papacharissi & Oliveira, 2012, Coleman, 2013) or contrasting political commitment in internet based and physical-space activism (Morozov, 2011), our interest lies with understanding young people’s social media practices that could be considered a form (political) participation (liking and sharing political critique and parody, signing petitions), but which young people themselves do not recognize as such. Based on van Dicjk (2013) we argue, that the coded structure of social media draws young Estonians into subactivism that they don’t experience as activism because of their social imaginary of political participation. Keywords: imaginary; media; participation; people
• IMAGINING HOME AWAY FROM HOME: WI-FI USE IN SUBURBAN COFFEHOUSES by Elledge, Tracy; Kwon, Hazel (2015.0) - Thus, consumers had to stay “physically rooted to fixed personal computers and Internet connections at home, work, school, or public places” (Wellman, et al., 2003, Netville section, para. 6). “The third place is a generic designation for a great variety of public places that host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals…” (Oldenburg, 1989, p. 16). Keywords: coffee; community; home; people; place; public; suburban; use; work
• Information and consent by Hasinoff, Amy Adele (2013.0) - Given the quantity of personal information created and stored in digital formats, scholars, policymakers, technology developers, and users alike need to develop social norms and technological mechanisms for obtaining meaningful and informed consent before circulating private information. The common idea that personal information is impossible to control is particularly problematic when it allows legal and educational authorities to punish teens who create sexual images of themselves while completely ignoring malicious forwarders (Hasinoff, forthcoming). Keywords: consent; information; media; people; privacy
• ISIS vs. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: A WAR OF ONLINE VIDEO PROPAGANDA by Allendorfer, William; Herring, Susan (2015.0) - In order to appeal to the values of this audience, the counter-narrative could co-opt authentic Islamic materials (e.g., the Quran and Hadith,8 both of which are present in ISIS videos and absent from USDS videos) to enhance the legitimacy of these claims for viewers who are versed in this Islamic discourse. Checklist of Enemy Characteristics: ISIS videos ISIS video/scene 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1-1 1-2 1-3 2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 3-1 3-2 4-1 4-2 4-3 5-1 5-2 6-1 6-2 6-3 6-4 Totals 1 2 1 4 0 0 1 5 3 0 8 Keywords: arabic; english; isis; islamic; lit; media; muslims; people; propaganda; table; u.s; usds; videos; war
• LIFE NARRATIVE IN THE #RACEWARS: TERMINISTIC SCREENS AND TWITTER FIGHTS by Humphrey, Michael (2015.0) - I  will  then  discuss  how  challenging  one’s  own  life  story,   especially  by  placing  a  filter  of  privilege  on  that  life,  could  lead  to  an  identity  that  is   woven  more  broadly  with  realities  beyond  one’s  own  experience  and  enculturation.     The  interaction  of  these  two  themes,  an  agentic  self   in  communion  with  her/his  surroundings,  can  produce  structural  filters  for  a  person  in  a   state  of  privilege. Keywords: color; help; kids; life; like; people; privilege; race; screen; stories; story; white; women
• Mediating Identity Narratives: a case study in queer digital storytelling as everyday activism by Vivienne, Sonja (2011.0) - Unlike story production, story distribution tends not to be so orchestrated or outcome oriented and often occurs in fits and bursts over extended time frames. In doing so, they may confront some of the difficulties they encountered in story production – fear of intimate exposure to both familiar and unknown audiences; technical problems (both user and hardware oriented); time; motivation; money etc. Keywords: digital; distribution; face; family; identity; online; people; production; self; spaces; stories; story; storytellers; storytelling
• Patrolling Sexuality and Gender in Digital Social Spaces by Vivienne, Sonja; Robards, Brady; Abidin, Crystal; Byron, Paul (2016.0) - This panel presents four examples in which sexuality and gender are ‘patrolled’ in digital social spaces, through both explicit rules and implicit ideals: hook­up/dating app codes of conduct, informal digitally mediated sex education in Singapore, the circulation of pornography and ‘sexual storytelling’ on subreddit r/TotallyStraight, and boundary patrolling of memory and materiality in a trans and gender diverse (TGD) community in Adelaide. It is argued that this phenomenon could be representative of broader cultural shifts towards less rigidly defined sexual identities, and that this case study points to the potentials for digital social spaces to act as sites for organising and affirming non­dominant identity­projects. Keywords: education; gender; influencers; media; people; rules; sexuality; singapore; spaces; stories; subreddit; tgd; totallystraight
• Performing Presence in the Pop Art Lab by Strand, Dixi Louise (2011.0) - Presence as sociality Another strand of literature based in anthropology and sociology moves away from evaluating different technological design's immersion capabilities and towards the notion of presence as sociality, sociability or social engagement. Interview appearances of presence in the Pop Art Lab Presence as a technical imaginaire Assembling presence - keeping it together, making it happen Presence as fluctuating assemblage Sensitizing research to emergence, process and flux Keywords: case; experience; life; music; new; object; pal; paper; people; presence; research; study; work; worlds
• RETHINKING SELFIES: EMPOWERING THE MARGINALIZED THROUGH SELF-PORTRAITS by Nemer, David; Freeman, Guo Zhang (2015.0) - selfies are considered nonverbal, visual communication that implies one’s thoughts, intentions, emotions, desires, and aesthetics captured by facial expressions, body language, and visual art elements. Previous studies have investigated selfies in light of adolescent development (e.g., how teenagers use selfies to seek attention; see McLean, 2014) and prestigious user groups (e.g., celebrities’ self-promotion; see Wallop, 2013). Keywords: drug; facebook; friends; lords; marginalized; people; selfies
• SEXTUALLY ACTIVE: TEENAGE VIEWS ON SEXTING AND ITS INTERVENTIONS by Wade, Alex Christopher; Turner, Jerome; Weckesser, Annalise; Jørgensen, Clara Rübner (2015.0) - Conflicting viewpoints are commonplace, for example The Guardian ran three contradictory pieces concerning sexting in editorial (see Barbieri, 2009; Coslett, 2013; Wiseman, 2012), and while assumptions are made that apps such as ‘Snapchat’ are used inappropriately, research shows that young people use it for harmless fun (Boyd, 2014). Young people were identified as imagining a greater concern over the approaches of unknown others (traditional notions of ‘stranger danger’), while the actual threat appeared from ‘peers . . . Keywords: media; people; research; sexting
• SOCIAL MEDIA’S CHALLENGE TO THE PROMOTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE’S SEXUAL HEALTH by Byron, Paul (2014.0) - Using focus group data in which young people (16-22 years) discuss their social media practices and the possibility of incorporating sexual health promotion into these, I propose an interdisciplinary approach to sexual health in which media studies inform public health agendas. Sexual health promotion strategies seeking to engage with young people via social media must acknowledge young people’s expertise as media users and producers, and the cultural importance of friendship in these practices. Keywords: health; media; people; promotion
• Sociolinguistic perspectives on everyday digital practices by Barton, David; Lee, Carmen; Jones, Rodney; Vasquez, Camilla (2016.0) - Online  reviews  can  certainly  be  considered  a  form  of  consumer   empowerment  from  the  point  of  view  of  individuals  writing  reviews.   More  recently,  reports  in  the  media  have  also  begun  to  show  what  happens   when  business  owners  respond  publicly  to  reviews,  as  they  engage  in  processes  of   “service  recovery”  and  “online  reputation  management.”   Keywords: digital; discourse; hashtags; online; paper; people; practices; reviews; work
• Youth Participation, Media Literacy and Social Justice by Hauge, Chelsey; Shepherd, Tamara; Garcia, Antero; Cucinelli, Giuliana; Bryson, Mary (2013.0) - The first paper, “Hope, youth media, and democratic practice,” addresses the ways in which youth enact democratic practice as they participate in media production programming, conceptualizing of democratic engagement through Rancière’s work on radical democracy to theorize how youth make their stories visible from within the colonial context of community development practice. In this paper, I attempt to move beyond the assumption of autonomy in youth media production about social justice issues in order to conceptualize of youth political engagement through new media in ways that do not require a causal relationship between action and resolution of social inequalities, in order to understand how it is young people come to wonder about and provoke change and questions of citizenship in today’s world while they produce media. Keywords: canada; community; engagement; literacy; media; new; paper; participation; people; production; research; york; youth; youth media
• The Positioning of Pooky: a semi-professional's utilization of a virtual world for experimenting with television by Reinhard, CarrieLynn D.; Amsterdam, Pooky (2011.0) - 3 First, I discuss the issue of content interactivity, interactive television, and Internet- based interactive television in which I argue that for a particular type of content interactivity, virtual worlds television production may be better suited as a production technology. Second, as the topic is virtual world television, issues of Web 2.0, and the discourses surrounding Web 2.0 are considered. Keywords: audience; content; interview; media; new; people; pooky; positioning; production; technology; television; web; worlds
• THE SPECTACLE OF SPECTACLES by Appignani, Timothy; Jones, Steve; Guzman, Andrea; Archer, Jason; Neill Hoch, Indira (2015.0) - Google Glass packaging looks a lot like Apple iPhone packaging. According to Glass-The World According to Glass.docx Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 THE SPECTACLE OF SPECTACLES Tim Appignani University of Illinois at Chicago Though Google Glass has not yet been released in the consumer market, the release of its beta version, and the prospect of its future debut, have evoked immediate scholarly and popular response. Keywords: communication; construction; glass; google; media; new; packaging; people; press; research; technologies; technology

• It's not how I use it, but what I believe about it: The role of experience in the online information seeking behavior by Stolero, Nathan; Segev, Elad (2017.0) - “IT’S NOT HOW I USE IT, BUT WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT IT”: THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE IN THE ONLINE INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR Nathan Stolero Tel Aviv University Elad Segev Tel Aviv University Introduction The way people use information technologies to fulfil their needs and promote their interests has been a central subject of study in the social sciences (Case & Given, 2016). The theoretical contribution of this study is in re- conceptualizing the role of experience with information technologies as part of the existing models of information seeking behavior. Keywords: adults; information; seeking
• THE EFFECTS OF INFORMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS ON EXPERIENCE AND EVALUATION by Rusho, Yonit; Raban, Daphne R. (2018.0) - 1: The process of information good production In order to research the effect of information production on value perception, following are the research hypotheses: H1: Production experience of information is associated with higher perceived value post experience than consumption experience H2: Value perception post production is higher than before the production H3: High intensity level of experience causes a negative relationship between value perception and level of experience Method Subjective information value before experience (measured by WTP for consumers and WTA for producers) and perceived information value post experience were measured. Keywords: experience; information; production; value
• “WHY WOULD SOMEONE INTENTIONALLY LIE?”: ASSESSING THE CREDIBILITY OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ON FACEBOOK by Rivera, Yonaira M; Smith, Katherine C; Moran, Meghan B (2019.0) - Is cancer information exchanged on social media scientifically accurate?. These findings provide insight to important features health organizations should consider when designing social media campaigns to counteract misinformation with reputable cancer information. Keywords: cancer; credibility; facebook; information; media
• FROM KNOWLEDGE CATHEDRALS TO NETWORKED CO-CREATION: PUBLIC LIBRARIES, TRUST AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY by Wyatt, Danielle Ray; Leorke, Dale (2019.0) - The experiences of library managers, IT professionals, architects and policymakers reveal that libraries continue to see themselves in the frame of their enlightenment inheritance as mediators of truth, knowledge and rational discourse. Since their emergence in the mid-nineteenth century, public libraries have been trusted sites of information. Keywords: information; knowledge; libraries; public
• FACELESS YOUTUBERS: HOW CONTENT CREATORS SHAPE AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS by Dunham, Ian (2020.0) - She is not alone in being cautious about disclosing her face, and belongs to a surprisingly large group of channels this paper is calling Faceless YouTubers. While anonymity deals with being completely unidentifiable, invisibility—which includes preventing access to “gender, weight, age, occupation, ethnic origin and residential location” (Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2015)— proves a key concept since Faceless YouTubers generate a bond with their audience through this selective disclosure. Keywords: content; faceless; information; youtubers
• VACCINE INFORMATION SEEKING AND SHARING: HOW PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUPS CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANTI-VACCINE MOVEMENT ONLINE by Koltai, Kolina (2020.0) - Common information behaviors in AVFBGs are users requesting vaccine information (e.g., asking for sources about the ingredients in vaccines) and sharing vaccine related information (e.g., news article about vaccines). Vaccine information seeking and sharing: How private Facebook groups contributed to the Anti-vaccine movement online. Keywords: facebook; information; members; vaccine
• THE DEEP TIME OF BITCOIN: EXCAVATING THE "WORK" IN PROOF-OF-WORK CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEMS by Cooper, Zane Griffin Talley (2021.0) - THE DEEP TIME OF BITCOIN: EXCAVATING THE “WORK” IN PROOF- OF-WORK CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEMS Zane Griffin Talley Cooper University of Pennsylvania The generation1 of Bitcoins requires a radically, intimately material relationship between information and energy–a relationship that is often dirty, messy, heavy, and above all things, extremely hot. While all data infrastructures depend on vast amounts of thermal maintenance (Moro, 2021), as a single-purpose data practice, proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain systems, and Bitcoin specifically, bring these thermocultural relationships (Starosielski, 2016) into sharp relief, and at a profoundly large scale. Keywords: bitcoin; energy; information; systems; work
• PRODUCING THE “PROBLEM” OF PARENTAL OVERSHARE by Kumar, Priya C. (2021.0) - Findings: How STFU, Parents Produces the Problem of Overshare A Brooklyn woman named Blair Koenig created STFU, Parents in 2009 because “some friends in my Facebook feed were driving me crazy by documenting the minutiae of their lives as new parents” (Koenig, n.d.). This includes literal leaks, like the material that bodies expel, and conceptual leaks, like the blurring of parent and child identities, especially when children are very young. STFU, Parents materializes overshare through the technologies of screenshots and editing software. Keywords: information; overshare; parents; stfu
• PRIVACY, FACE, AND SOCIAL RESPECTABILITY IN A DIGITAL CHINA by Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane (2021.0) - Lien has been translated as moral face, and mien-tzi as social face. These findings on privacy may help to shed slight on how Chinese citizens view the digitalization of surveillance through facial recognition monitoring and the building of the social credit system (Liang, Das, Kostyuk, & Hussain, 2018), and on what legal basis they may assert their rights (e.g., reputation vs. privacy rights; Cao, 2005). Keywords: china; face; information; privacy
• THE QUALITY OF SURVEY SCALES FOR MEASURING INFORMATION PRIVACY CONCERNS ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Bartol, Jošt; Petrovčič, Andraž; Vehovar, Vasja (2021.0) - Accordingly, the aims of this research were to systematically examine the quality of survey scales used for measuring IPCs among SNS users and to provide suggestions for improving IPC measurement in the future. However, our results suggest that many IPC survey scales are of questionable quality. Keywords: information; ipcs; privacy; scales; survey
• STRATEGIC VISIBILITIES: DIGITIZING THE LATINA INFORMATION WORKER by Sweeney, Miriam E.; Villa-Nicholas, Melissa (2021.0) - We argue that Latina AVAs can be placed at the center of these tensions where they provide a useful lens through which to explore connections between Latina information labor, past and present, via the design of a digitized workforce. Latina information workers are portrayed as the ultimate in cost- effectiveness and “value” for the employer, and the digital Latin information worker maintains these affordances while side-stepping important questions about immigration status and labor rights. Keywords: information; labor; latina; workers
• PLATFORMS AND THE PRECARITY OF CREATOR (IN)VISIBILITY by Stegeman, Hanne Marleen; Poell, Thomas; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Jokubauskaitė, Emilija; Cotter, Kelley; Velthuis, Olav; Meisner, Colten (2023.0) - This precarity is further enhanced as webcam platforms, just as social media platforms, tend to obfuscate their curation mechanisms and business models. Whether vlogging on YouTube, camming on Chaturbate, or hyping products as an influencer on Instagram, creators require platform visibility to monetize their labor (Cotter, 2019). Keywords: body; creators; in)visibility; information; labor; media; performers; platforms; sex; society; visibility; webcam
• CURATING VIRALITY: EXPLORING CURATED LOGICS WITHIN #BLACKLIVESMATTER ON TWITTER by Duan, Yiran; Hemsley, Jeff; Smith, Alexander; Gandhi, Dhwani; Gray, LaVerne (2023.0) - With respect to RQ2, we do see differences in message types and influencer curations. In general, except for Mega-level influencers, reframing messages were curated more frequently than informative. Keywords: curation; hemsley; influencers; information
• ALT-PLATFORMIZATION: RADICALIZATION OF DISCOURSES AND INFORMATION FLOWS IN THE ALTERNATIVE ECOSYSTEM. by Nagappa, Ashwin; Dehghan, Ehsan (2023.0) - Ashwin Nagappa Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Ehsan Dehghan Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Background and Objectives This work in progress paper examines the process of radicalization on the alternative social media platform Gab, and the flow of information between Gab and other similar platforms. Among such platforms, a few have succeeded in surviving the external pressures put on them through what van Dijck calls “deplatformisation” (Van Dijck et al., 2021). Keywords: discourse; gab; information; platforms
• THE HASHTAG SYLLABUS AS CLASS ASSIGNMENT: FROM CRITICAL INFORMATION LITERACY TO CULTURAL CRITIQUE by Grosse, Meghan; Clarke-De Reza, Sara (2023.0) - As instructors and scholars working in distinct, but highly interdisciplinary fields, we have used hashtag syllabus assignments across our curriculum to support unique learning objectives in both introductory and upper-level courses. Critical information literacy, a growing area of scholarship most frequently addressed by librarians and literacy scholars, “involves developing a Suggested Citation (APA): Grosse, M., Clark-De Reza, S. (2023, October). Keywords: hashtag; information; literacy; students; syllabus
• TECHNO-POLITICAL PROMISES OF PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT: A SITUATION OF APPS AND EXCEL IN PUBLIC HEALTH by Mann, Monique ; Heemsbergen, Luke; Bennett, Catherine; McCosker, Anthony (2023.0) - Likewise, a healthy and critical literature on digital app interventions into COVID-19 has developed due to the seemingly shared policy position across the global north (Taylor 2021; Mann et al., 2022) to implement CTA. Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina & Genia Kostka (2022): Sharing is caring: willingness to share personal data through contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the US, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2113421 Jörling, M., Eitze, S., Schmid, P., Betsch, C., Allen, J. and Böhm, R., 2022. Keywords: app; apps; contact; covid-19; digital; health; information; public
• “WHY DOES THE AIR SIREN WORK?”: HOW TELEGRAM CHANNELS IN UKRAINE USE OPEN SOURCE DATA ABOUT MILITARY DANGER FOR CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WAR by Bystrytska, Kateryna (2025.0) - However, this information is limited; all the details about missile types and drone movements are provided by Telegram channels. This paper examines the transformative role of Telegram channels in shaping public understanding and responses to drone attacks in Ukraine, emphasizing their contribution to digital warfare and participatory knowledge creation. Keywords: channels; information; media; war
• THE DARK SIDE OF LLM-POWERED CHATBOTS: MISINFORMATION, BIASES, CONTENT MODERATION CHALLENGES IN POLITICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL by Kuai, Joanne; Brantner, Cornelia; Karlsson, Michael; Van Couvering, Elizabeth; Romano, Salvatore (2025.0) - Thirdly, recognizing the importance of information quality and transparency in the sources used by AI chatbots, we investigate the factuality of the synopses and the sources provided by the chatbot (all prompts). Finally, considering the language limitations of AI chatbots and the geopolitical context in which they operate, we explore the universality of AI chatbot gatekeeping and sourcing. Keywords: chatbots; information; language; study
• READY TO HACK: HOW BUG BOUNTY PLATFORMS CREATE THEIR WORKFORCE by Perrig, Luca (2025.0) - In contrast to usual platforms of the gig economy however, bug bounty platforms cannot tap on an already existing workforce (Goerzen & Coleman, 2022). The building of a workforce The paper will discuss four ways in which bug bounty platforms seek to build a competent and sufficient workforce. Keywords: bounty; bug; information; platforms; security
• HACKERS’ PRIVACY APPROACHES: HOW PRIVACY VIOLATION AND PRIVACY PROTECTION GO HAND IN HAND by Ribak, Rivka; Levy-Eshkol, Keren (2025.0) - Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 HACKERS’ PRIVACY APPROCHES: HOW PRIVACY VIOLATION AND PRIVACY PROTECTION GO HAND IN HAND Keren Levi-Eshkol Rivka Ribak Our study focuses on the enigmatic world of hackers and the seeming paradox of their engagement in both invading and safeguarding privacy. Hackers are involved in cyber incidents that result in substantial technological and financial repercussions for companies, organizations, governments, and individuals. Keywords: code; hackers; information; privacy
• Amazon is my hangout! Self-disclosure and community building in Amazon’s reviews by Fornaciari, Federica (2013.0) - Keywords Amazon reviews; online community; self-disclosure; sensitive information; textual analysis. For many, disclosing online has become key to enjoying the therapeutic benefits of social connection by fostering socialization, online community, and access to social capital (Andrejevic, 2011; boyd, 2011; Jarvis, 2011). Keywords: amazon; community; disclosure; information; online; self
• Augmented Criminality – How Mobile Augmented Reality Crime Overlays Affect People’s Sense of Place by Liao, Tony Chung-Li; Yang, Hocheol; Lee, Songyi; Xu, Kun; Feng, Ping; Bennett, Spencer (2016.0) - Drawing on this real-world application, this study aims to understand 1) how seeing AR crime information might onse to that place. These findings are a first step toward understanding the possible effects of AR crime information, as well as to understand more broadly how mobile AR can mediate perceptions of place/space. Keywords: crime; information; place
• Citizen Journalism and its Democratic Potencial -Brazilian case studies: Viva Favela and dios Online by Oliveira, Raquel Gomes de (2011.0) - Much of the literature about citizen journalism from authors such as Lacy, Duffy, Riffe, Thorson, and Fleming (2010) relates three aspects: the exploration of the internet’s potential for citizen journalism, the description of the nature of citizen journalism, and the characteristics of websites used by citizen journalists. 4.3 Acting as citizen journalists The portals we studied, with interesting news for these communities posted mostly by their own members, reflect the idea of citizen journalism. Keywords: citizen; citizen journalism; communities; content; democracy; favela; information; journalism; media; native; online; public; social; viva; índios
• DIGITAL CONTACT TOOLS IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE: WHAT GOVERNS THE CHOICE? by Selg, Håkan (2015.0) - Given the importance of role expectations in professional life, the questions arose as to how the new tools should be implemented and, considering the wide range of contact tools available, which particular tool should be used in which situation(s)? The survey questions related to the use of contact tools such as voice calls (fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony and VoIP2), and text (e-mail, SMS 1 Sw. Keywords: choice; communication; contact; contact tools; contexts; information; mail; mean; media; new; professional; research; respondents; situations; sms; tools; use; voice
• DOES PERSONALITY AND SECURITY EXPERTISE PREDICT PASSWORD STRENGTH? by Dodson, James; Hodges, Duncan; Witte, Monica; Creese, Sadie (2014.0) - Improving password security and memorability to protect personal and organizational information. We hypothesised the following: H1: Security experts will be more likely to create secure passwords compared to non- experts. Keywords: individuals; information; password; security
• High-profile criminal trials, social media conversations and juror prejudice: understanding media regulation in the digital age by Hews, Rachel Jane (2016.0) - Information  that  might  prejudice  an  ongoing  trial  may  be  spread  through  social  media  in   a  way  that  is  not  as  easily  controlled  as  information  disseminated  through  mainstream   media.   [1998]  NSWSC  28);;  statements  as  to   innocence  (Director  of  Public  Prosecutions  v  Wran  (1987)  86  FLR  92);;  content  that   criticized  or  disparaged  the  accused  (Director  of  Public  Prosecutions  v  Francis  (2006)   95  SASR  302);;  information  about  confessions  (Attorney-­General  (NSW)  v  TCN  Channel   Nine  Pty  Ltd  (1990)  20  NSWLR  368)  or  information  about  prior  convictions  (Maxwell  v   Director  of  Public  Prosecutions Keywords: information; media
• INFORMATION WORLDS: BOUNDARIES AND INTERSECTIONS IN THREE ONLINE SETTINGS by Burnett, Gary; Lee, Jisue; Hollister, Jonathan M.; Skinner, Julia (2014.0) - Information worlds: boundaries and intersections in three online settings. Although information worlds can be conceptualized and analyzed as recognizable and discrete entities, they are never isolated from the larger worlds in which they are situated, and multiple worlds interact with and influence each other in a variety of ways. Keywords: boundaries; information; worlds
• Property or Privacy? Reconfiguring Ethical Concerns Around Web Archival Research Methods by Dougherty, Meghan (2013.0) - These digital traces can be captured and archived using web archival research methods to study the evolution of web culture, and changing structure of web objects. Field observations, interviews, best practice guides, and published scholarly work describing archival web research methods—show change over time as well as how these different levels of discourse influence each other. Keywords: ethics; information; research; web
• Redefining Citizenship and Civic Engagement: political values embodied in FixMyStreet.com by Baykurt, Burcu (2011.0) - However, bearing in mind that community values constitute a separate category from individuals’, designers are challenged to incorporate such community-centered design perspective in their projects, if communities are one of the stakeholders. To illustrate how civic values can be incorporated into design, the related literature and methodology on value sensitive design guides the analysis while relying on the measures of deliberative participation for betterment of design features as well as the designing process. Keywords: citizens; community; deliberation; design; engagement; fms; information; problems; process; public; systems; values
• SOCIAL MEDIA, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND THE CONTROL OF INFORMATION by Humphreys, Lee; Wilken, Rowan (2014.0) - The paper suggests that as we expand our definition of social media user, we again find dialectical values and motivations regarding privacy. Social media, commercialization, and the control of information. Keywords: business; information; media; privacy
• SURVEILLANCE, PRIVACY, AND SOCIAL MEDIA by Kibby, Marjorie; Fulton, Janet (2015.0) - Keywords mutual surveillance; Facebook; social media; Millennials; privacy Introduction The Millenial generation (Howe and Strauss, 2009) seems to use Facebook for four primary reasons: socializing, entertainment, information, and status seeking (Park, Kee and Valenzuela, 2009), functions that are dependent on users’ self-disclosure of personal information. Facebook suggests the sharing of “status updates”, “life events” and “photos/videos” encouraging a flow of personal information. Keywords: facebook; information; media; surveillance
• TL;;DR: TEMPORALITY SHIFTS IN DIGITAL CULTURE by Koosel, Stacey May (2015.0) - Why  have  our  new  forms  of  entertainment  and  communication  lost  the  ability  to   withstand  the  tests  of  time  and  stay  in  collective  memory?   Often  online  writing  is  more  ephemeral  with  more  similarities  in  time  and  space  to   spoken  conversation  rather  than  written  communication,  traditional  story  telling  and   literature  genres. Keywords: culture; information; online; time
• Towards a Genre Analysis of Online Book Discussion: socializing, participation and publication in the Dutch booksphere by Boot, Peter (2011.0) - Summary site Sites collecting book summaries especially targeting high school students. Parts of the booksphere can be characterized along the lines of the produsage process described by Bruns (2008).5 But book sites can’t be adequately described just in terms of the book reviews they produce. Keywords: affordances; book; book discussion; community; discussion; dutch; genre; information; number; reviews; sites; theme; web

• Racisms In Digital Media Space by Titley, Gavan; Nikunen, Kaarina; Pantti, Mervi; Sharma, Sanjay; Siapera, Eugenia; Viejo Otero, Paloma; Morero, Elena; Matamoros Fernandez, Ariadna; Highfield, Tim; Muench, Felix (2017.0) - Online racism is propagated by individuals, networked crowds, bots and algorithms. This paper, organised as three parts, innovates an approach for studying the manifestation of online racism by advancing a ‘materialist’ account. Keywords: affect; analysis; events; hate; images; media; new; online; platforms; racism; speech; university; web
• MORE THAN MEETS THE EYES: THE LENS OF VISIBILITY IN INTERNET RESEARCH by Myles, David; Trottier, Daniel; Millette, Mélanie; Bonneau, Claudine; Sergi, Viviane; Casemajor, Nathalie; Toupin, Sophie (2018.0) - At the intersection of social media studies (Millerand et al., 2010; Papacharissi, 2010; Proulx et al. 2012), of reflections on mediated visibility (Thompson, 2005; Voirol, 2005) and of critical analyses regarding the notion of “public sphere” (Fraser, 1990), we will address the power dynamics that are inherently linked to digital visibility among identity minorities and focus on how such visibility can potentially sustain agency. Sharing and Accessing the Mundane Dimensions of Work on Social Media: The Role of Mediated Visibility for Workers and Researchers Claudine Bonneau Université du Québec à Montréal Viviane Sergi Université du Québec à Montréal Within the field of Internet studies, work, workers, and their mediated visibility have been examined either from the perspective of online surveillance, where workers’ activities and communication practices are scrutinized by their employers (Fuchs et al., 2013), or from the perspective of self-branding, where visibility is the result of an explicit strategy among individuals that involves the “calculated use of social media” to gain “status and attention online” (Duffy, 2017: 11) in order to showcase their potential and employability (Hogan, 2010; Pagis & Ailon, 2017). Keywords: capital; media; new; online; platforms; public; society; studies; use; visibility; work
• TOWARDS FAIRNESS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY IN PLATFORM GOVERNANCE by Gorwa, Robert (2018.0) - The paper explores Facebook’s recent (and ongoing) efforts to become more transparent, while also showing how Facebook policy is a kind of “black-box,” with the effect that process of policy decision-making, and the motives and goals behind these policies are not transparent or clear to the users who are directly affected by them. Investigating accountability suggests that Facebook policy processes are responsive to the public in certain ways (especially public backlash and “PR fires,” which could be said to constitute a narrow form of “public accountability”), but ultimately are limited in their accountability to the public due to their corporate structure and incentives. Keywords: accountability; facebook; fairness; platforms
• CRITICAL SIMULATION: INVESTIGATING THE WORK OF MACHINE VISION IN VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA CULTURE by Carah, Nicholas; Angus, Daniel; Smith, Adam (2019.0) - Despite widespread use by social media platforms, machine vision is poorly understood and accounted for in the study of everyday cultures; and machine vision techniques are yet to be embraced as part of the methodological repertoires of digital humanities. Platforms’ use of machine vision is a key frontier in the algorithmic classification of culture. Keywords: culture; instagram; machine; platforms; vision
• BANKING ON CULTURAL INTERMEDIARIES ACROSS WEBTOON, WEBNOVEL AND VIDEO-SHARING PLATFORMS IN ASIA’S DIGITAL CREATIVE ECONOMY by Yecies, Brian; Ren, Xiang (Tony); Shim, Aegyung; Wang, Dingkun (2019.0) - Dr. Xiang (Tony) Ren: Transmedia Online Literature in China and Global Platform Ecosystems The second paper, “Transmedia Online Literature in China and Global Platform Ecosystems”, explores the defining features of digital Chinese online literature in the age of cross-platform distribution and fan-led transmedia adaptations. In turn, as this paper argues, such transcreators and transnational cultural practices are transforming new genres and aspects of digital media cultural practices in the Global South, symbiotically advancing the expansion of the Korean digital wave and its revitalised links with Southeast Asia. Keywords: paper; platforms; webtoon
• TRANSCODING BETWEEN HYPER-ANTAGONISTIC MILIEUS: STUDIES ON THE CROSS-PLATFORM RELATIONS BETWEEN RADICAL POLITICAL WEB SUBCULTURES by Hagen, Sal; Tuters, Marc; Peeters, Stijn; De Keulenaar, Emillie; Wilson, Jack; Willaert, Tom (2020.0) - In response to academic and journalistic reports about the effectiveness of deplatforming, it takes a temporal view before and after such measures in order to trace the migration of content to alternative platforms such as Bitchute, Gab, and Voat, as well their possible re- appearance or “replatforming” on mainstream platforms. However, studies on the effectiveness (and ethics) of deplatforming have yet to engage with deplatforming’s effects beyond this initial migration to alternative platforms. Keywords: /pol/; 4chan; alt; media; milieus; new; paper; platforms; right; university; vernacular; web; youtube
• DETECTION ALGORITHMS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION: THE CASE OF MASHUPS by Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Jones, Ellis (2020.0) - This empirical data shows that engagements with platforms’ detection procedures are an ‘everyday’ reality for mashup producers. Drawing on interviews and an online survey with mashup producers, we show that detection procedures have a strong negative impact on mashup producers, including on their overall motivation to create mashups. Keywords: detection; mashup; platforms
• LIFE, CULTURE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY: THE DISCOURSE OF “FULL SELFHOOD” AMONG TECH PROFESSIONALS by Ciccone, Vanessa (2020.0) - Methods Using an intersectional framework, the present study draws from data from recent ethnographic fieldwork at professional software settings in Canada including at a workplace, large-scale conferences and multiple industry events, analyzing the discourse of “full selfhood” within the sector. Norms around subjectivity in professional software settings can influence the judgements that become coded within platforms themselves. Keywords: industry; platforms; software; work
• LIVENESS AND DEADNESS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: ON THE PERCEIVED LACK OF LIFE OF THE INFINITE STREAM by Lupinacci, Ludmila (2020.0) - The claims made by social media platforms reflect, to a large extent, the ideological prerogative that disconnection and isolation are undesired, and that communication “brings humanity, enlightenment, progress” (Carey 1989:309). While the results discussed here are not meant to be exhaustive – and, in fact, this paper represents a small fragment of a broader project –, they offer a good hint of how it feels to use a range of social media platforms in the context of everyday life. Keywords: life; media; platforms; use
• ONE OF THESE THINGS_IS_LIKE THE OTHERS: WHAT BIG TECH PLATFORMS CAN LEARN FROM LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES, AND SUPERMARKETS by Petre, Caitlin; Weber, Nicole (2020.0) - Each of these three cases has contended with variations of the questions that technology platforms are now struggling to address; exploring how they have imagined and performed their role as information intermediaries promises to spur new thinking on key issues of platform governance. By examining a variety of oft- overlooked approaches to information curation and outlining their respective benefits and drawbacks, we hope to contribute a historical and conceptual perspective to scholarly and industry conversations about platform governance. Keywords: facebook; governance; platforms; public
• PLATFORMIZING DELIVERY WORKERS' EXPERIENCES: BUILDING WORKER-OWNED PLATFORMS IN BRAZIL, SPAIN AND FRANCE by Grohmann, Rafael (2021.0) - Entrepreneurial solidarities: Social media collectives and Filipino digital platform workers. Several social media platforms are still being used experimentally. Keywords: experiences; initiatives; platforms; workers
• IN(TER)DEPENDENCE IN PLATFORMED CREATION by Christin, Angele L; Persaud, Christopher; Hesmondhalgh, David; Siciliano, Michael; Baym, Nancy; Gillespie, Tarleton; Bergmann, Rachel; Bhargava, Raj; Diaz, Fernando; Maris, Elena (2021.0) - Though initially seen as “democratizing” cultural production, corporate platforms exert power over cultural production at the level of infrastructure, determining the visibility and availability of cultural content by way of algorithms and by encouraging particular formal regularities – a process that scholars drawing upon Michel Callon (1998) identify as “formatting.” Ultimately this research takes up Ysabel Gerrard’s (2020) provocation to explore “processes of social media content moderation that are perhaps most vulnerable to human intervention” (pg. 749). Keywords: content; creators; fields; independence; media; metrics; music; new; platforms; power; press; production; research; university
• PLAYING AT THE POLLS: VIDEO GAMES IN/AS PLATFORMS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION by Tran, Christine H.; Ruberg, Bonnie "Bo"; Guarriello, Nicholas-Brie; Lark, Daniel (2021.0) - Our first paper examines how Twitch streamers redefine “virtual picket lines” in alternative labour movements against one of the world’s largest platform technology employers, Amazon. I review emerging cultural narratives on streamer boycotts, and Amazon labour stoppages during Prime Days, and how Twitch streamers use information technologies, like hashtags, to demarcate acceptable strike behaviors and broadcast their social alignment with Amazon workers. Keywords: amazon; content; emotes; game; horizons; islands; life; livestreaming; media; new; platforms; politics; streamers; twitch; university; video
• CROWDFUNDING IN REMOTE CONFLICTS: BOUNDING THE HYPERCONNECTED BATTLEFIELDS by Boichak, Olga; Asmolov, Gregory (2021.0) - Echoing the conference theme, we investigate the role crowdfunding platforms play in fostering novel forms of interdependence among users as geopolitical actors in remote conflicts. Background Remote humanitarian participation in response to disasters and conflicts has a rich history that dates back at least a hundred years. Keywords: conflict; crowdfunding; media; platforms; suffering
• SAFE FROM “HARM”: THE GOVERNANCE OF VIOLENCE BY PLATFORMS by DeCook, Julia Rose; Cotter, Kelley; Kanthawala, Shaheen (2021.0) - Although in recent years platforms have developed more explicit policies in regard to what constitutes “hate speech” and “harmful content,” the unintended consequences and side effects about how platforms define harm and how those definitions, in turn, affect users’ normative understandings of harm are understudied. Namely, it appears that platforms often use subjective judgments of harm that specifically pertains to spectacular, physical violence - but harm takes on many shapes and complex forms. Keywords: governance; harm; platforms; violence
• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ORGANIZED BUILT ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN BRAZIL: A STUDY OF HOW TRADITIONAL MEDIA EMBRACED THESE NOVEL FORMS OF CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY by de-Lima-Santos, Mathias Felipe; Ceron, Wilson (2021.0) - Social movements organized built on social media platforms in Brazil: In this almost decade of crises (political, economic, and social), social movements have taken to social media to organize protests (Caren et al., 2020). Keywords: brazil; media; movements; news; platforms
• END-USER FLEXIBILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LAW – AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENTS by Mezei, Peter; Harkai, Istvan (2021.0) - Furthermore, a “coincidence factor” was also taken into account: we were focusing on platforms that we are generally familiar with; have broad relevance (i.e., serve great number of users); and many of which fit into the recently introduced concept of “online content-sharing service providers” (OCSSPs) under Article 17 of the CDSM Directive. Pascale Chapdelaine has dealt with user rights and the contractual basis of different online uses (Chapdelaine, 2017). Keywords: end; flexibilities; platforms; research; user
• MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Ní Threasaigh, Míchílín; Boler, Megan (2021.0) - Conclusion: Social media platforms are shaping political discourse in ways that are counterproductive to democratic debate. THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA Míchílín Ní Threasaigh Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto Megan Boler Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto Contrary to claims that social media platforms are not contributing to political polarization, our study of affect and narratives of race and national belonging in social media discourses of the 2019 Canadian and 2020 U.S. federal elections reveals clearly polarized, collective political storytelling marked by a highly affective moralizing tone and clear binaries of us versus them and good versus evil. Keywords: affective; media; platforms; storytelling
• DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND THE DIGITISATION OF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE by Ó Fathaigh, Ronan; Möller, Judith; Bellanova, Rocco (2021.0) - DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND THE DIGITISATION OF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE Ronan Ó Fathaigh University of Amsterdam Rocco Bellanova University of Amsterdam Bengi Zeybek University of Amsterdam Judith Moeller University of Amsterdam In Europe today, digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, provide an essential means for millions of people to express themselves, engage in public debate, and organise politically (Poell & van Dijck, 2018). Indeed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression has highlighted the government ‘pressure’ on digital platforms to implement ‘proactive measures’, including automated tools, that may ‘serve as a form of pre- publication censorship’ (Kaye, 2018, p. 12). Keywords: digital; government; platforms; van
• PLATFORMING VIBES: TECHNICAL, INTIMATE AND POLITICAL PRACTICES OF THE EVERYDAY by Ogden, Malcolm Keith; Eapen, Gayas; Dial, Aaron; Baker, Margaret; Glover-Rijkse, Ragan (2023.0) - They articulate their corporeal force conjunctively with circulation of songs, playlists, tunes, discourses, and affect through content circulated via Youtube and Facebook among other platforms. This paper, then, poses a question: can anti-caste embodied technological practices be studied under the purview of decolonial media? Keywords: affective; caste; culture; digital; intimacy; making; media; platforms; practices; toys; trucks; university; videos; work
• THE ALGORITHMIC FLOW OF HARMFUL INDUSTRIES ADVERTISING ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Carah, Nicholas; Brown, Maria-Gemma; Dobson, Amy; Robards, Brady (2023.0) - While researchers have examined both the targeted advertising and promotional brand cultures of social media platforms (Banet-Weiser 2012, Bishop 2018, McGuigan 2019), in this paper we argue for the need to investigate the customised flow of advertising itself. The vast majority of advertising on social media platforms is ‘dark’ -- that is, only visible to the users being targeted. Keywords: ads; advertising; media; platforms
• LOST IN THE ETHER: THE IMPACT OF PLATFORM HEGEMONY ON SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING by Cooper, Tony (2023.0) - However, organic content strategies that use social media platforms to freely conduct consumer-brand dialogue are under threat (Fulgoni 2015; Loten et al. 2014). In the context of this emergent neo-colonialist struggle, we examine the power dynamic in commercial relationships between brands and social media platforms. Keywords: marketing; media; platforms; social; vol
• COLONIZING THE NARRATIVE SPACE: UNLIVABLE LIVES, UNSEEABLE STRUGGLES AND THE NECROPOLITICAL GOVERNANCE OF DIGITAL POPULATIONS by Lewis, Kelly (2023.0) - I collected the ongoing digital traces of censorship and contestation articulated by people who called out and documented unjust forms of content moderation. Platform Necropolitics: content moderation and censoring of pro-Palestinian voices on social media. Keywords: content; moderation; necropolitics; platforms
• LIQUID CONSUMPTION IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THREE PLATFORMS AND SIX USER GROUPS by Lutz, Christoph; Stocker, Volker (2023.0) - Where do different platforms fall on the dimensions of the liquid-solid consumption spectrum? We use graphical maps – spider web diagrams – as analytical support tool to (i) visualize the results of the three individual case studies based on a structured scoring approach along key dimensions, and (ii) conduct multi-dimensional comparisons between different platforms to identify differences and trade-offs (Ahmed & Rafiq, 1998). Keywords: consumption; liquid; platforms; study
• ‘WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?’: SEXUAL IMAGINARIES AND AFFORDANCES ON GRINDR AND SCRUFF by Persaud, Christopher Jahmail; Liang, Calvin Alan (2023.0) - The construction and circulation of sexual imaginaries on social media platforms (ie: Twitter and Reddit) and intimate platforms (ie: Grindr and Scruff) among queer men Designing for Multivalent Intimate Interests We follow up on Birnholtz et al. (2014), who found that Grindr users use specific language in their profiles to manage reactions and stigma from others, to investigate users’ reasonings and strategies. In the context of Author 1’s research on sexual content moderation and queer digital sexual cultures, interviews and fieldwork highlighted an enduring ambivalence towards the behavioral routes available to queer users on intimate platforms like Grindr and Scruff. Keywords: grindr; men; platforms; queer
• EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED CYBERBULLYING MODERATION ON ONLINE PLATFORMS: TRANSPARENCY IMPLICATIONS by Verma, Kanishk; Davis, Brian; Milosevic, Tijana (2023.0) - Our search yielded 150 relevant web-resources, indicating that AI solutions encompass various techniques to recognise and extract user features from multimodal human interaction data. How does the information available about these processes shed light on the transparency of online platforms? Keywords: cyberbullying; feb; online; platforms; solutions
• YOU CAN'T SEE IT BUT IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. OF PLATFORMS, POWER, AND THE INVISIBLE by Vicari, Stefania (2023.0) - Not only has the very structure of contemporary social media platforms been shown to open new routes for minority voices to make a point, be heard and be seen, for example through “networked counterpublics” (Jackson et al., 2020). On the one hand, research investigates the consequences of the infrastructural turn of contemporary digital structures: social media are increasingly becoming ubiquitous and in so doing, they are turning into essential and mundane infrastructures of our everyday life (Plantin et al., 2018). Keywords: cancer; health; media; platforms
• RESEARCHING UNDER PLATFORMS’ GAZE: RETHINKING THE CHALLENGES OF PLATFORM GOVERNANCE RESEARCH by Are, Carolina (2023.0) - The Daily Dot. https://www.dailydot.com/pleaser/sex- work-academia/. Hammond, N., Kingston, S. (2014) ‘Experiencing stigma as sex work researchers in professional and personal lives.’ Armstrong, L. (2022) ‘The courage to “get naked”: Stigma, disclosure and lived experience in sex work research.’ Keywords: governance; media; platforms; research; researchers; sex; work
• spir-13476 by None (None) - Our interviews speak of the felt value of sexual social media platforms as sites of seeing and being seen, and learning about sexual selves and the sexual tastes of others. This yields particular types of sexual sociality experienced as more social than those of sex-only platforms but also as more sexual and intensely social than those of generic social media platforms. Keywords: media; platforms; sexual; sociality
• THEORIZING AND ANALYZING THE CONTINGENT CASINO by Ross, Alexander M (2023.0) - DoubleDown Interactive succeeds by not sucking at social casino games (interview). Social casino apps, a niche, but still significant digital game commodity, embody how risk and contingency manifests in the app economy (Nieborg & Poell, 2018; Zittrain, 2008). Keywords: casino; doubledown; gambling; games; platforms; playtika
• THE GREAT RESET: “COUNTERPOWER” IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDIA CONCENTRATION AND PLATFORM DEPENDENCE by Seipp, Theresa Josephine (2023.0) - While some legal initiatives aim to address the imbalanced power dynamics between platforms and news media, such as the efforts at the EU level through the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) to establish a fair playing field in digital markets, it is crucial to empower countervailing forces. To foster direct and engaged journalism, power dynamics between news media and the audience must be dispersed. Keywords: concentration; counterpower; digital; journalism; media; news; platforms; power; press
• GET WITH THE PROGRAM: PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND THE DATAFICATION OF PODCAST AUDIENCES by Sullivan, John L (2023.0) - The key innovation in podcast advertising has been the Suggested Citation (APA): Sullivan, J. L. (2023, October). DAI enables a whole new range of capabilities for podcast advertising, such as the ability to place advertisements instantly across hundreds or thousands of podcast episodes, to place limits or caps on either the time range for a particular campaign (30 days long, for example) or the number of times the ad is played (to reduce advertising load on listeners), or even to offer slightly different versions of the same campaign to the same listener across multiple podcasts (Barletta, 2022). Keywords: advertising; content; platforms; podcast; podcasting
• THE WEIRD GOVERNANCE OF FACT-CHECKING: FROM WATCHDOGS TO CONTENT MODERATORS by Vinhas, Otavio ; Bastos, Marco (2023.0) - With social media hosting the ecosystem where much political deliberation occurs, unpacking the governance of fact-checking by social platforms is thus crucial to understanding the sociotechnical entanglements determining the digital infrastructure of knowledge and facts (Ford, 2022). THE WEIRD GOVERNANCE OF FACT-CHECKING: FROM WATCHDOGS TO CONTENT MODERATORS Otávio Vinhas University College Dublin Marco Bastos University College Dublin; City, University of London Introduction Fact-checking has undergone steady transformations of recent. Keywords: checkers; checking; content; disinformation; fact; media; platforms
• PLATFORMIZATION INTERMEDIARIES: OPTIMIZING NEWS FOR PLATFORMS IN INDIA by Agarwal, Simran (2025.0) - Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms. PLATFORMIZATION INTERMEDIARIES: OPTIMIZING NEWS FOR PLATFORMS IN INDIA Simran Agarwal LabEx ICCA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Introduction : Platformization Intermediaries Previous research studying the platformization of news has focused on the dominance of search and social media platforms in news distribution. Keywords: distribution; intermediaries; news; platformization; platforms; publishers
• ENGINEERED INEQUALITY: MUSICAL TAXONOMIES AND STREAMING RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS by Campos Valverde, Raquel (2025.0) - It aims to illuminate how might musical taxonomies in streaming services may influence music cultures and understand whether music streaming taxonomies contain Western biases or forms of cultural imperialism. The emphasis of music industry and streaming PR is placed on visible diversity, such as international curation and discovery. Keywords: industry; music; platforms; recommendation; streaming; taxonomies
• EDUCATED USERS: REFINING MANNERS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA CORPORATE CURRICULUMS by Docherty, Niall; Valderrama Barragán, Matías (2025.0) - Yet while these highly publicised interventions have been rightly critiqued as attempts to restrict the terms available to hold social media to account (Gillespie, 2023), these are not the only means through which social media companies are currently seeking to shape both the narrative surrounding and actual use of their services. Whereas Elias identified Western European etiquette guides as key instructional devices to this civilising process, of the thirteenth century onwards, our paper presents social media corporate curriculums of healthy, safe, and educated use as one aspect of its present-day digital incarnation. Keywords: curriculums; digital; manners; media; paper; platforms
• “THEY WILL DESTROY TELEGRAM” – NARRATIVES OF PLATFORM CENSORSHIP IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING COVID-19 CONSPIRACY COMMUNITY ON TELEGRAM by Drüeke, Ricarda; Peil, Corinna; Spencer-Smith, Charlotte (2025.0) - The infrastructure for content moderation is crucial for content production and communication possibilities. While previous studies explore how non-conspiracy users perceive content moderation (e.g., Myers West 2018), there is a lack of research on how conspiracy theorists interpret content moderation and how it fits into broader censorship narratives. Keywords: conspiracy; content; media; moderation; platforms; telegram
• ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE BY DIGITAL PLATFORMS: HOW TWITCH CHANGED ITS PLATFORM OVER TIME by Garvey, Kevin Patrick; Flonk, Daniëlle (2025.0) - The literature on Twitch platform policy focuses mainly on how the platform mimics features that were first introduced by users, a process Partin (2020) called “envelopment”. An empirical study on the motivations of Twitch users. Keywords: changes; features; governance; platforms; twitch
• SCREENSHOT METHODOLOGIES TO COLLECT AND ANALYSE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ADVERTISING by Hayden, Lauren; Carah, Nicholas; Robards, Brady; Dobson, Amy (2025.0) - By facilitating observability of digital advertising, these methods generate a novel research object: collections of digital ads illustrating the output of social media platforms content curation models. In this paper, we present three projects that combine participatory and digital methods to study dark and ephemeral forms of digital advertising. Keywords: ads; advertising; media; platforms; screenshot
• WHO HAS THE POWER?: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS TO PARENTAL CONTROLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Horne, Chelsea Leigh (2025.0) - While concerns over children’s safety online and complaints about problematic settings are not necessarily new (Horne, 2021; Horne, 2023b), there may be an emerging trend in some countries to try to address growing concerns about the impact of social media platforms by setting regulation on parental controls. The apparent appeal of parental controls is the ability of social media platforms to offer a visible space to exert “choice and control” to users’ parents (Freishtat & Sandlin, 2010; Keywords: controls; media; platforms; privacy
• FROM FLORIDA AND TEXAS TO KARLSRUHE: ONLINE PLATFORMS AS PUBLISHERS OF YORE OR AS (UN)COMMON CARRIERS? by Katsirea, Irini (2025.0) - https://perma.cc/9KF3-LEQX http://laws.flrules.org/2021/32#page=9 doctrine to online platforms has been viewed as problematic as it would likely undermine their power to exercise editorial control over speech.6 In Germany, the question of platform regulation by human rights has been fought in manifold court cases, and has divided courts and commentators alike. Newspapers mostly run their own content and exhibit their own editorial voice, while online platforms merely provide links to foreign content, thus resembling broadcasters or cable operators who choose what to include in their schedules. Keywords: content; law; online; platforms; rights; speech
• EMPOWERING VOTERS AND FOSTERING HEALTHY POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DISCURSIVE LEGITIMATION BY DIGITAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN THE CONTEXT OF ELECTIONS by Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Pantti, Mervi; Hatakka, Niko (2025.0) - Platform companies eagerly communicate that they generate social good, yet they are commercial companies motivated by private, economic interests (van Dijck et al., 2018; Van Dijck & Nieborg, 2009). We ask, how do platform companies articulate elections as a context through which they discursively construct their role and legitimacy as actors in society? Keywords: communication; discourse; legitimation; media; platforms; society; van
• MIXED FEELINGS: THE PLATFORMISATION OF MOODS AND VIBES by Lupinacci, Ludmila (2025.0) - Over the past few years, digital platforms from different sectors have started tailoring their content, affordances, rhetoric, and interfaces to both respond to and create certain moods and vibes. I start from the premise that, in our contemporary mediascape, part of the lure seems to be to delegate this labour to digital platforms themselves. Keywords: feelings; moods; platforms; press; university; vibes
• RESEARCH GENAI: SITUATING GENERATIVE AI IN THE SCHOLARLY ECONOMY by Mitchell, Peta; Riedlinger, Michelle; Goldenfein, Jake; Snoswell, Aaron; Burgess, Jean; Witzenberger, Kevin (2025.0) - Through their freemium pricing models, their endorsement and promotion by academic AI “thought leaders,” and their growing inclusion on lists of recommended research tools developed by university libraries, RGAI platforms are becoming embedded within the scholarly economy and, we argue, contributing to the growth and complexity of automation and platformisation of scholarly research and publishing. ChatGPT’s release in late 2022 initiated significant and ongoing debate over GenAI’s implications for academic research and publishing. Keywords: economy; genai; platforms; research; rgai
• PLATFORMIZATION OF THE INDUSTRY OF HUMAN SMUGGLING by Nikunen, Kaarina; Valtonen, Sanna (2025.0) - However, at the same time the transition of smuggling markets to social media platforms can also be considered at some level, to increase the safety of migrants and refugees due to information, evaluations, reviews and recommendations shared among peers. Our paper explores the emergence of the industry of human smuggling that operates on social media platforms. Keywords: media; platforms; research; smuggling
• LOCALIZED VOLUNTEER MODERATION AND ITS DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION by Proferes, Nicholas; Cotter, Kelley; Thorson, Kjerstin; Battocchio, Ava Francesca; De, Ankolika; Chang, Chia-Fang (2025.0) - We extend Gillespie’s logic to trace how the social media industry’s discourse contributes to public beliefs about what local community groups are, how they should be used and maintained, their place in civic life, and the role of local volunteer moderators within them. Volunteer moderators with localized knowledge are important agents in the creation, maintenance, and upkeep of these digital spaces. Keywords: community; moderators; platforms; volunteer
• TOXICITY & SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE: A FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING VIOLENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Recuero, Raquel; Tavares, Camilla (2025.0) - We argued that toxicity is an effect of the spread of online violence and symbolic violence. We posit that these concepts are pivotal in comprehending two crucial dimensions of online violence: its propagation and legitimation. Keywords: discourse; media; platforms; toxicity; violence
• PLATFORMS ON TRIAL: MAPPING THE FACEBOOK FILES/PAPERS CONTROVERSY by Valderrama Barragán, Matías (2025.0) - Altogether, this is a fruitfully case to study platform controversies and exploring how various actors establish, demonstrate, and challenge the connection between platforms and societal harms across multiple settings. Situated at the intersection of Digital Sociology, Media Studies, and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this research inquiry into how actors make and unmake connections between social media platforms and societal harms across different settings, in order to contribute a better understanding of how platforms are put on trial. Keywords: controversy; facebook; harms; media; platforms; research
• GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION by Poell, Thomas; Lukan, Tinca; Arriagada,, Arturo; Bulut, Ergin; Ye, Zhen; Nieborg, David; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Tse, Tommy; de Kloet, Jeroen; Mutsvairo, Bruce; Ping, Sun; Krijnen, Tonny; Huang, Qian; Craig, David (2025.0) - Regardless of their success on social media platforms, influencers have diversified income streams through standard employment, working on other platforms, welfare state, running a business, consulting and dropshipping goods. Finally, it offers insight into how the business model of social media platforms on the periphery is piggybacked on exploiting the local conditions of social reproduction, with platforms having plugged into pre-existing regimes of accumulation (Piletić, 2023). Keywords: american; chinese; content; creators; culture; governance; influencers; latin; media; platforms; practices; precarity; press; production; research; social; society; state; studies; university; work
• THE PRECARITY, PERILS, AND PROMISES OF EMERGING CREATOR ECONOMIES by Ogden, Malcolm Keith; Eapen, Gayas; Singha, Sagorika; Howard, Matthew; Nizaruddin, Fathima (2025.0) - CrystalTok content creators will also often engage in a kind of ekphrastic narration, describing the physical appearance of specific minerals (or in some cases, specific pieces) using highly subjective and poetic language. I ask: How do content creators understand and leverage platforms, and their technical operations, as tools? Keywords: boss; content; creators; crystaltok; digital; healing; hindutva; india; industry; influencers; media; paper; platforms; social; state; university; world; youtube
• #FUNERAL by Carter, Marcus; Gibbs, Martin; Nansen, Bjorn; Arnold, Michael (2014.0) - This suggests the need to consider the shifting boundaries, ecologies and contexts of media platforms in shaping emergent cultural practices around death, grieving and commemoration. This study analyses photographs tagged with “#funeral” and contributes to research into death and digital media by extending the focus from social networking sites such as Facebook to consider the photo- sharing application Instagram, and how different media platforms are connected with the physical event of funerals. Keywords: death; funeral; media; platforms; practices
• ‘No more birthday greetings on my Facebook wall, please.’ Social media platform usage patterns, user perceptions, and idioms of practice among young Italian users by Comunello, Francesca; Mulargia, Simone (2016.0) - Media  ideologies  are  often   shared  among  smaller  or  larger  groups  of  users  and  are  related  to  idioms  of  practice,  as   “people  figure  out  together  how  to  use  different  media  and  often  agree  on  the   appropriate  social  uses  of  technology  by  asking  advice  and  sharing  stories  with  each   other”  (Gershon,  2010,  p.  6).   Media  ideologies  are   “people’s  beliefs  about  how  a  medium  communicates  and  structures  communication”   (Gershon,  2010,  p.  21). Keywords: media; platforms; usage
• The responsibilities of platforms: a new constitutionalism to promote the legitimacy of decentralized governance by Suzor, Nicolas (2016.0) - In  this  paper,  I  propose  that  the  legitimacy  of  the  ways  in  which  the  users  of  platforms   are  governed  should  be  evaluated  against  the  principles  of  the  rule  of  law.   The  Responsibilities  of  Platforms:  A  New   Constitutionalism  to  Promote  the  Legitimacy  of  Decentralized  Governance. Keywords: governance; law; platforms; rights
• TRUVADA: PROMOTING GAY PROMISCUITY OR ENDING THE HIV STIGMA? THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ADVOCATE AS FACILITATORS OF ONLINE DEBATES AROUND THE HIV PREVENTION PILL by Hackl, Andrea; Newman, Todd (2015.0) - News Media Frames Helping us Understand Public Health Debates This study seeks to advance the current literature by focusing not only on the frames of reference journalists adopt in their coverage on public health issues, but by further examining how reader perceptions align or differ with the news platforms’ framing. Their findings suggest that early on in the coverage of the issue, commenter frames dictate media frames, but as coverage continues, news media frames become less influential on the frames used for online discourse. Keywords: advocate; articles; comments; health; hiv; media; new york; news; pill; platforms; prevention; public; study; times; truvada; york

• Accidental Online Political Engagement: The Role of Social Media Escapism in Online Political Participation by Hoffmann, Christian Pieter; Lutz, Christoph; Müller, Severina; Meckle, Miriam (2017.0) - Consumptive Facebook use has a small negative effect while productive Facebook use shows the strongest influence of all variables considered. Based on a quantitative survey of 762 German Facebook users, we examine how escapist Facebook use moderates the effect of various forms of Facebook use on OPP. Keywords: escapism; facebook; opp; use
• Imagining Transnational Virus In The Digital Sphere – A Case Study Of Zika Virus During 2016 Rio Olympic Games by Kim, Young Rim (2017.0) - In this sense, disease outbreaks are global events that are deeply intertwined with the issues of globalization, cultural identity, and national security, by heavily influencing on how these concepts are socially constructed. Conducting ‘critical techno-cultural discourse analysis’ (Brock, 2016) to this object of study, the paper explores what kinds of narratives and metaphors of disease outbreaks are constructed over the Facebook- sphere and analyze how does this meaning-making process is structured in the online space. Keywords: comments; disease; facebook; study
• #IAmNotAfraidToSayIt: Stories of Sexual Violence as Everyday Political Speech on Facebook by Lokot, Tetyana (2017.0) - This paper argues that networked conversations about everyday rights and affective stories about shared experiences of injustice, underpinned by the affordances of social media platforms for sharing and discussing information and participating in everyday politics, can emerge as viable forms of networked activism and can have real impact on the status quo of an issue, both in the digital sphere and beyond it. These networked stories and experiences shared on Facebook became an expression of the political “within the personal”, which Highfield (2016) notes is a key characteristic of mundane political exchanges on social media as they are not always explicitly political. Keywords: facebook; media; stories
• Mapping Mental Health Intermediaries: Vulnerable Publics and Platformed Support by McCosker, Anthony; Wilken, Really owan (2017.0) - Aims, Approach, Findings The primary question guiding the comparative analysis is: What are the characteristics and effects of human and platform intermediaries and mediators in building, sustaining and driving supportive mental health publics? This paper examines online mental health support programs through a case study of the support forums and Facebook Page of Australian non-profit mental health organisation beyondblue. Keywords: facebook; forums; health; page; publics
• Teachers ‘Liking’ Their Work? Exploring The Digital Labor Of Networked Professional Publics by Rensfeldt, Annika; Hillman, Thomas; Selwyn, Neil (2017.0) - To date, academic research has tended to frame teacher social media groups as relatively straightforward and unproblematic. While these social media communities are usually celebrated as a means of professional learning and support, in what ways (and with what implications) should teacher Facebook groups be understood as ‘work’? Keywords: facebook; group; teachers; work
• Left Behind, Left Unsaid: Absences On Young People's Facebook Timelines by Robards, Brady; Lincoln, Sian (2017.0) - In this paper we draw on data from the Facebook Timelines project to explore the multi- dimensional notion of ‘absence’ as it plays out on Facebook: obvious gaps, disclosures that were erased, and significant events (deaths, break-ups, failures) deemed inappropriate for Facebook. There is a considerable and growing literature on Facebook use, including disclosure practices (boyd & Ellison 2008; Sauter 2013; Marwick & boyd 2014; Duguay 2014), privacy strategies (Raynes-Goldie 2010; Vitak 2012), and the role of the site in mediating identity-work (Robards 2014; Lincoln & Robards 2014). Keywords: absence; facebook; media; robards
• Do Algorithms Have Cosmopolitics? A Discussion Based On Facebook's Nudity Policy by Jurno, Amanda; d'Andréa, Carlos (2017.0) - One of the most evident examples of regimes of power and normatization delegated to algorithms are the restrictions of the circulation of images that contain some trace of nudity (feminine in particular) on Facebook. The significant difference in the public repercussion and the response given by Facebook to the two cases described here allows us to point out that different regimes of knowledge and power are at stake in the censorship of images with traces of nudity in this platform. Keywords: algorithms; cosmopolitics; facebook; image
• LEGITIMATING INTERNET.ORG THROUGH DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE by Alarcon, Andrea (2018.0) - “The rural development discourse repeats the same relations that has defined development discourse since its emergence: the fact that development is about growth, about capital, about technology, about becoming modern. It intersects with development discourse by positioning itself as the one-way line to progress that has been associated with modernity and economic development. Keywords: development; discourse; facebook; internet.org; technology
• HOW IS SOCIAL MEDIA GATEKEEPING DIFFERENT? A MULTI- PLATFORM COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES by Andringa, Peter; Duquette, David; Dwyer, Deborah; Napoli, Philip; Ronald, Petra (2018.0) - For this case study, two month’s worth of Times front page, home page, and Facebook page story output was comparatively analyzed across dimensions such as story quantity, story duplication, hard versus soft news, and content diversity, in Suggested Citation (APA): Andringa,P., Duquette,D., Dwyer,D, Napoli,P., Ronald,P. (2018, October 10-13 Hatred Of/And Democracy: How Is Social Media Gatekeeping Different? For its decision-making regarding which of the over 300 stories produced each day to post to Facebook, the Times utilizes a self-developed bot called Blossom, which “predicts how articles or blogposts will do on social and also suggests which stories editors should promote by drawing from enormous stores of data, including information on story content and performance metrics such as Facebook post engagement” (Wang, 2015; Ellett, 2017). Keywords: facebook; home; news; page
• spir-10496 by None (None) - As in other recent instances of protest events in the country (Mercea, 2017), protestors set up public Facebook event pages used for topical communication at various stages such as in advance, during or in the wake of a demonstration. Attendant to this latest wave was a modest rise in levels of protest participation (Mercea, 2014). Keywords: event; facebook; participation; protest; social
• API AND BEYOND: DETECTING COORDINATED BEHAVIOURS IN FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS AROUND POLITICAL NEWS STORIES by Fabio, Giglietto; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada (2019.0) - Selective exposure in the age of social media: Endorsements trump partisan source affiliation when selecting news online. Media manipulation and disinformation online. Keywords: election; facebook; media; news; online
• TROLLING FOR ENGAGEMENT: AUSTRALIAN LEGACY NEWS OUTLETS SEEKING AUDIENCE INTERACTION METRICS ON FACEBOOK THROUGH DELIBERATELY DIVISIVE CONTENT by Hurcombe, Edward (2019.0) - It is beneficial, thus, to investigate how the need for engagement effects the practices of news outlets which are increasingly dependent on Facebook for monetizable audiences. Thus, it is beneficial to think about a potentially emerging practice of news “trolling”, as it appears that news outlets are adopting faux-naïve, as well as deliberately incendiary, practices in order to satisfy Facebook’s logic of engagement. Keywords: engagement; facebook; news; outlets
• PUNCHING UP OR TURNING AWAY? WHEN PALESTINIANS UNFRIEND JEWS IN ISRAEL by John, Nicholas; Agbarya, Aysha (2019.0) - Indeed, noting that unfriending was largely a response to an action by Jewish Israeli Facebook users; that the interviewees did not talk to the people they unfriended about their hate speech; and that in many instances they unfriended people with whom they were no longer in face- to-face contact, all points to a feeling of a lack of power relative to Jewish Israeli users. However, some interviewees were deeply and personally offended, not only because Jewish Facebook friends had posted racist content, but because they had done so in their (Facebook-mediated) presence. Keywords: facebook; interviewees; israel; unfriending
• MAPPING THE MIGRANT DIGITAL SPACE, METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS by Kamal, Ahmad; Rossi, Luca (2019.0) - Moreover, the research team has used API based methods to collect all the available data produced from each resource (e.g. all the tweets written by Twitter accounts, all the posts and comments written on Facebook pages, the comments on YouTube videos etc.). The analyses (further developed in the full paper) investigate how Facebook pages reacted to the Long Summer. Keywords: facebook; mds; migrant; pages
• CURATING MEMORIES: THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN THE DIGITAL MEMORY WORK OF YOUNG WOMEN ON INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK by Annabell, Taylor (2020.0) - The purpose of this paper is to specifically explore the role that emotion plays in shaping the performance of digital memory work of young women on Instagram and Facebook. I echo the perspective of Smit et al. (2018) that digital memory work can be performed by human and nonhuman actors. Keywords: facebook; instagram; memory; women
• FACEBOOK: FROM PERSONAL MEDIUM TO MASS MEDIUM – AND BACK AGAIN? - THE USE OF FACEBOOK ACROSS AGE GROUPS 2015-19 by Jensen, Jakob Linaa (2020.0) - The vast majority of Facebook users are only “lurkers” (Preece. In 2015 there were not significant differences in Facebook use across age groups. Keywords: facebook; media; medium
• ONE DONOR EGG AND “A DOLLOP OF LOVE”: THE BANAL AMBIGUITIES OF EGG DONATION ADVERTISING ON FACEBOOK by Kant, Tanya; Reed, Elizabeth (2020.0) - Our research demonstrates that when ART services are delivered to social media users through targeted adverts, the supposed limitless possibilities of interactions, kinship, and relationality promised by egg donation are heavily curtailed. Through the banality and bluntness of its delivery, targeted egg donation ads contribute to the rationalisation and policing of subjects into coherent and inherently normative categories. Keywords: adverts; donation; egg; facebook
• TASTE THIS VIDEO!: FACEBOOK VIDEOS AS EMBODIED EXPERIENCES. by Schlussel, Hadas; Frosh, Paul (2020.0) - We conclude that Facebook recipe videos are exemplary of a broader category of social media videos Virtual Event / 27-31 October 2020 which we call hyper-sensory videos: these rise to the challenge of an interruptive context of viewing by presenting heightened multisensory experiences that take precedent over informational use or narrative involvement. Theoretical background Despite their surprising popularity, there is no research literature on Facebook recipe videos and almost no literature on Facebook videos in general. Keywords: facebook; media; recipe; videos
• ‘LURKER’ LITERACIES: LIVING IN/THROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD FACEBOOK GROUPS by Sipley, Gina Marie (2020.0) - In Facebook groups, an optional feature for people to virtually gather around a common interest, where membership can be measured in the thousands, it is far more common to ‘lurk’, then it is to respond in words, shares, likes, memes, or emoji to content we have read. Rosenblatt’s work pre-dates the rise of social networking technologies and the study of digital literacies; however, this does not mean that her work is not relevant to the study of Facebook groups. Keywords: facebook; groups; literacy; practices
• DIGITAL SITES OF PROTEST: FARMERS’ PROTEST IN INDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COLLECTIVE IDENTITY ON FACEBOOK by Badola, Anand (2021.0) - While the debate around social media and their effectiveness in offline protests revolves around their use as an innovative means of communication, and mobilisation, leading to collective action (Howard & Hussain, 2013) some claim that digital activism has really no hard influence on offline activism (Morozov, 2011). Digital Sites of Protest: Farmers’ Protest in India and the Construction of a Collective Identity on Facebook. Keywords: facebook; media; page; protest
• THE MERGING OF MUSIC CRITICISM AND MUSIC PROMOTION: CONVERGED MUSIC INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS ON FACEBOOK by Järvekülg, Madis (2021.0) - This has consequences for the identities, roles, functions of music critics who were once understood as ‘autonomous gatekeepers’ and ‘opinion leaders’ (Hirsch, 1972). Therefore, the present study asks: How do music critics and music entrepreneurs in Estonia make use of Facebook? Keywords: criticism; facebook; media; music
• WHY FACEBOOK IS NOT A GATEWAY TO NEWS CONTENT by Palmer, Marie (2021.0) - News posts as a genre The use of primary paratexts directly extracted from original news articles leads users to quickly label the content of the post as news and to react accordingly. NEWS CONTENT & THE “PRODUCERLY POTENTIAL” OF FACEBOOK Marie Palmer Centre for Media Pluralism and Freedom, European University Institute Introduction Over the past fifteen years, the emergence of intermediaries has transformed the circulation of news content. Keywords: facebook; genre; news; texts
• THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION AFFORDANCES IN POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SUPPORT GROUPS ON FACEBOOK AND WHATSAPP by Yeshua-Katz, Daphna (2021.0) - In their search for support, group admins and group members found WhatsApp to be a useful tool because of its surveillance affordance, defined as the ability to monitor group members' behavior. Lots of group members are awake, and they’ll respond immediately. Keywords: affordances; communication; facebook; group
• WHAT PERSONALISATION CAN DO FOR YOU! OR, HOW TO DO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION WITHOUT RACE by Wark, Scott; Phan, Thao (2021.0) - Facebook posited ethnic affinities as a socially-useful technique of categorisation that could be used to reach otherwise “underserved minority markets” (García Martínez, 2019). Simplifying Targeting Categories, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-to-facebook-ads-targeting- categories García Martínez, A. (2019) Are Facebook Ads Discriminatory? Keywords: categories; facebook; race
• POPULISM IN CONTEXT. A CROSS-COUNTRY INVESTIGATION OF THE FACEBOOK USAGE OF POPULIST APPEALS DURING THE 2019 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS by Bene, Márton; Magin, Empowerment; Haßler, Jörg; Russmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Jackson, Dan; Fenoll, Vicente; Farkas, Xénia; Baranowski, Paweł; Balaban, Delia (2023.0) - Also, populist appeals prove to be highly popular on SNPs as they provoke more reactions, comments, and shares from users than non-populist appeals, which increases the reach of populist communication (Jost et al., 2020). By identifying the specific context of populist appeals, we can better understand communication- and actor-related factors that facilitate the heightened presence of populist communication on social media. Keywords: appeals; communication; facebook; parties; populism
• AUDITING FACEBOOK ALGORITHMS: THE ELAPSED EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK NEWS FEED TO ENGAGEMENT WITH GUARDIAN ARTICLES by McNally, Naoise; Bastos, Marco (2023.0) - This study addresses this gap by exploring the elapsed effects of changes in the Facebook News Feed on engagement with Guardian news articles. Figure 2: Time series of Facebook engagement with Guardian content 2010-2020 Figure 3: 3: Cross correlation between changes made to Facebook News Feed algorithms and Facebook engagement with Guardian content. Keywords: articles; facebook; guardian; news
• THE EMERGENCE OF NETWORKS ON FACEBOOK MEMORIAL PAGES by Navon, Sarit (2023.0) - Social network site affordances and their relationship to the social capital processes. Logging on and letting out: Using online social networks to grieve and to mourn. Keywords: admins; facebook; media; pages
• EXPLORING FACEBOOK’S “WHY AM I SEEING THIS AD” FEATURE: MEANINGFUL TRANSPARENCY OR FURTHER OBFUSCATION? by Angus, Daniel ; Burgess, Jean; Carah, Nicholas; Hayden, Lauren; Obeid, Abdul (2023.0) - Our contribution to this global effort is the Australian Ad Observatory project, which extends similar ad donation approaches (ProPublica, 2020) to investigate whether, how and when Facebook ads are targeted to Australian users (Burgess et al., 2022). Investigating ad transparency mechanisms in social media: A case study of Facebook's explanations. Keywords: advertising; facebook; feature; waist
• EVERYDAY HATE ON FACEBOOK: VISUAL MISOGYNY AND THE ANTI-FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN INDIA by Badola, Anand (2023.0) - In the Indian context, the broader #metoo movement is perceived by many as one of the catalysts to the crisis among Indian men (Dey & Mendes, 2022). They claim feminism has disrupted the Indian family and the #metoo movement is a pernicious attempt to ruin Indian men. Keywords: everyday; facebook; india; misogyny; movement; mra
• BEHOLD THE METAVERSE: FACEBOOK’S META REVOLUTION AND THE CIRCULATION OF ELITE DISCOURSE by Lucia, Brent ; Vetter, Matthew; Adubofour, Isaac (2023.0) - Frances Haugen, in her role in the Facebook Papers case, revealed the harmful algorithms Facebook used and its handling of hate speech. Facebook especially has deployed these sociotechnical imaginaries to either flatten or amplify values surrounding its company, creating impressions of the future for its own political or cultural power. Keywords: discourse; facebook; media; meta; metaverse
• EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES ON FACEBOOK AND TELEGRAM: UNCOVERING MEDIA MANIPULATION AND “GET-RICH-QUICK” DECEPTIVE SCHEMES by Terenzi, Massimo (2023.0) - Particularly, in the era of social media, the so-called information-based manipulation, perpetuated through spreading false rumors or information, can be conducted through numerous sources of information. This incident highlights the power of coordination on social media in shaping financial markets and its potential to disrupt traditional investment strategies. Keywords: cryptocurrencies; facebook; media
• THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA by Marino, Giada; Almeida Paroni, Bruna; Giglietto, Fabio (2025.0) - a b Figure 4 – Mocking posts by pro-Lula users in pro-Bolsonaro groups. In 2023, we observed mocking content targeting Bolsonaro, his family, and allies, shared by presumed Lula supporters within pro-Bolsonaro groups. Keywords: bolsonaro; facebook; giglietto; posts; reactions
• HAIRY INDUSTRIES: THE POLITICS OF ADVERTISING HAIR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO SOUTH AFRICA ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM by Walton, Marion; Aderibigbe, Deborah (2025.0) - Commercial ads for hair products are not considered a “political issue” and thus they are not archived or accessible via the Meta API, but they are briefly available in the Library while active on University of Cape Town University of Cape Town Meta platforms. Hairy industries The politics of advertising hair products and services to South Africans on Facebook and Instagram. Keywords: ads; facebook; hair; sample; women
• “HEARTWARMING MOMENT OF THE DAY”: GLOBAL SHARING OF VIRAL CONTENT ON FACEBOOK by Klastrup, Lisbeth (2014.0) - This research project, the framework of which this paper seeks to describe, aims at understanding more closely Facebook user engagement with this form of shared content. “Heartwarming moment of the day”: global sharing of viral content on Facebook. Keywords: content; facebook; memes; photo
• ‘I can’t see you any more’: A phenomenology of political Facebook unfriending by John, Nicholas; Gal, Noam (2016.0) - Through unfriending, Facebook users shape both the content and the style of expression to which they are exposed on their feed. Israeli Facebook users’ News Feeds were dominated by content pertaining to the conflict to the extent that it was even considered inappropriate to post content about anything else. Keywords: communication; facebook; media; unfriending
• Can social network sites bridge the politician-citizen divide: Interaction on SNS during the Danish parliamentary election 2011 by Schwartz, Sander Andreas (2013.0) - The case of Denmark, a Facebook Nation Denmark has a very high percentage of Facebook users per capita1, but much fewer are active on Twitter and so most Danish political candidates also chose Facebook over Twitter as their preferred social medium (Hoff, Jensen, Klastrup, Schwartz, & Brügger, 2013; Skovsgaard & Van Dalen, 2013). Variations in communication and style might make sense when considering politicians’ various audiences, different political candidates and their respective political parties. Keywords: citizen; election; facebook; media; politicians
• ENGAGING JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AND YOUTHS-AT-RISK: YOUTH WORKERS’ USE OF FACEBOOK FOR MEDIATED PASTORALISM by Lim, Sun Sun (2014.0) - ENGAGING JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AND YOUTHS-AT-RISK: YOUTH WORKERS’ USE OF FACEBOOK FOR MEDIATED PASTORALISM Sun Sun Lim National University of Singapore Abstract Youth work seeks to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents for re-entry into mainstream society and to prevent youths-at-risk from falling into delinquency, thus necessitating that youth workers assiduously monitor their clients. With the avid use of social media by youths, youth workers must also adopt these communication platforms to reach out to their young clients. Keywords: clients; facebook; workers; youth
• FACEBOOK, “FRIENDS,” AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM: STUDENT PREFERENCES AND ATTITUDES by Dennen, Vanessa P.; Burner, Kerry J. (2014.0) - Similarly, students were split on the issue of being Facebook friends with instructors, with only 54% comfortable with that idea. Facebook, “friends,” and the higher education classroom: student preferences and attitudes. Keywords: facebook; friends; students; use
• Global Face with a National Body? Facebook Appropriation and Use in a National Context by Klastrup, Lisbeth (2013.0) - Thus, this study aims to contribute with new knowledge about national use and appropriation of Facebook, in a culturally and racially homogeneous Scandinavian country, which is often referred to as a “Facebook nation” (in Denmark, Facebook penetration is at least 52%, much more for younger ages). A majority of all respondents communicated with other Facebook users only in Danish (24% ) or mostly in Danish (52,5%). Keywords: christensen; danes; danish; facebook; use
• Guattaris on Facebook?! affects, refrains and the digital cloud by Monea, Alex (2011.0) - I will make the case that Facebook functions according to cloud logic, working to organize people into social rhizomes with a closeness that constitutes a reworking of tribalism (a neo-tribalism), and further that Facebook makes possible a becoming-cloud in which identity is spread out into a cloud in the manner of a subjective pluralism. Keywords Facebook; affect; digital cloud; becoming-cloud; neo-tribalism 2 In the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1987) argue that, as an assemblage, a text has only itself, and its connections to and relations with other assemblages and bodies without organs. Keywords: affect; affective; cloud; deleuze; facebook; guattari; new; refrains
• MODERN DIGITAL IMAGINARIES: FACEBOOK AS A SOURCE OF INDEPENDENT NARRATIVES IN COLOMBIA by Velez, Natalia (2015.0) - Conclusions While this case study answers a few questions about the newly established relationship between radical media and social networks in Latin America, which is still very immature in comparison to more developed countries, it leads to bigger questions about the use of social media by social movements in the region. This article expands the existing theories about the power of social media in countries with corrupted political sceneries and provides insights that could be used for comparative analysis between Latin American countries in hopes of characterizing the networked environment in the region. Keywords: alzate; facebook; farc; general; mainstream; media; voces
• Navigating between privacy settings and visibility rules: online self-disclosure in the social web by Farinosi, Manuela; Taipale, Sakari (2016.0) - As highlighted by Stutzman et al., ‘Because social network sites thrive on peer- produced content, disclosure is often concomitant with site use’ (2012:10). Sociality through social network sites. Keywords: disclosure; facebook; privacy
• Political expression on Facebook in a context of conflict: Dilemmas and coping strategies of Jewish-Israeli youth by Mor, Yifat; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Maoz, Ifat (2016.0) - POLITICAL  EXPRESSION  ON  FACEBOOK   IN  A  CONTEXT  OF   CONFLICT:   DILEMMAS   AND   COPING   STRATEGIES   OF   JEWISH-­ISRAELI  YOUTH     Yifat  Mor,  The  Department  of  Communication  and  Journalism,  the  Hebrew   University  of    Jerusalem     Dr.  Neta  Kligler-­Vilnechik,  The  Department  of  Communication  and  Journalism,   the  Hebrew  University  of  Jerusalem     Prof.  Ifat  Maoz,  The  Department  of  Communication  and  Journalism,  the   Hebrew  University  of  Jerusalem     Introduction   Social  media  and  Facebook  in  particular  embody  a  complex  and  challenging   context  for  impression  management,  particularly  when  it  comes  to  political   expression.   Coping  strategies  and  practices   According  to  our  findings  our  interviewees  are  considerably  motivated  to   express  political  content  on  Facebook,  while  being  well  aware  of  the  risks  and   challenges  involved  in  such  acts  in  the  context  of  their  divisive  socio-­political   reality. Keywords: context; expression; facebook; strategies
• PRIVACY AND CONTROL IN MARK ZUCKERBERG’S DISCOURSE ON FACBEOOK by Zimmer, Michael; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren (2014.0) - Instead, his use of language is purposeful – “performative and functional” (Rapley, 2008, p. 2) – and helps shape available conceptions of online social life in ways that serve Facebook’s interests. In the end, this discourse analysis represents an important contribution to understanding the ways in which the founder and CEO of the world’s largest social network conceptualizes the role of information privacy and control— concepts indispensible to navigating online social life today. Keywords: discourse; facebook; privacy
• Sharing Death by Christensen, Dorthe Refslund; Sandvik, Kjetil; Klastrup, Lisbeth; Gotved, Stine; Pennington, Natalie (2013.0) - Earlier findings Previous research shows that on social network sites people use “R.I.P” or memorial pages dedicated to people they know for sensemaking and relational continuity purposes (Degroot 2012) and “post- mortem social networking” (Brubaker and Hayes 2011). The R.I.P and memorial pages are places to commune with, and about the dead in public (Kern 2012), and places to both publicly and visibly express symbolic loss and solidarity, creating a biography of the person lost through personal narratives (Caroll and Landry 2010). Keywords: child; death; deceased; facebook; grief; memorial; mourning; online; page; research; time
• SOCIAL MEDIA KALEIDOSCOPE by Hajibayova, Lala; Buente, Wayne (2015.0) - This study attempts to shed light on how the LGBT community of Azerbaijan perceived Isa Shahmarli death through an analysis of comments responding to related posts on the website of the Azerbaijan Free LGBT Organization. A screenshot of the first Facebook posting related to Isa Shahmarli ‘s suicide. Keywords: comments; facebook; isa; lgbt; shahmarli; suicide
• Standards rule? Regulations, literacies and algorithms in times of transition by Ribak, Rivka; Bohbot, Hagar; Davidson, Roei; Marciano, Avi; Ringel, Sharon; Ziskind, Neta; Turow, Joseph (2016.0) - In  this  panel  we  seek  to  reflect  upon  the  theme  internet  rules  by  drawing  on  the  notion   of  standards,  developed  in  Science  and  Technology  Studies.   In  the  panel,  we  explore  the  production  of   standards  as  they  become  transparent  infrastructures,  heeding  Star  and  Lampland's  call   to  restore  these  standards'  historical  development,  their  political  consequences,  and   the  smoke-­filled  rooms  always  attached  to  decisions  made  about  them  (2009:13).   Keywords: algorithms; facebook; lampland; literacy; media; memory; press; standards; star; university
• THE CONVERGENCE OF NICHE AND MAINSTREAM SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES IN GAY MEN’S DIGITAL CULTURE: HOW GENERATION Y USES FACEBOOK TO EXTEND AND ENHANCE THE GAYDAR EXPERIENCE by Cassidy, Elija Marc (2014.0) - For owners and designers of niche social networking sites aimed specifically at gay men, for example, it raises the issue of how to best provide the kind of services their target demographic is now looking for from niche social networking sites. Being amongst the earliest adopters of Friendster, during its initial growth period, gay identified users in New York perceived gay dating to be the site’s purpose and invited other gay men (boyd, 2007). Keywords: facebook; gay; men
• The Rules of Engagement: Managing Boundaries, Managing Identities by Blasiola, Stacy; Lampinen, Airi; Lehmuskallio, Asko; Schwartz, Sander; Uski, Suvi (2016.0) - In  order   to  understand   the  link  between  privacy  and  identity  this  paper  exploits  the  concept  of  profile  work  (e.g.,   Uski  and  Lampinen,  2014)  and  explains  the  changed  dynamics  of  self-­presentation  that   create  a  threat  towards  one’s  networked  privacy  (Marwick  and  boyd,  2014)  in  terms  of   authenticity.     Privacy  theorists  recognize  that  privacy  is  a  social  norm  that  is  culturally  situated   (Altman,  1975;;  Nissenbaum,  2010;;  Petronio,  2002). Keywords: communication; facebook; privacy; profile; public; teachers; wilma; work

• WHEN THE TEACHER BECOMES THE STUDENT: YOUTH IMPACT ON PARENT TECHNOLOGY USE by Dworkin, Jodi; Brar, Pooja; Hessel, Heather (2018.0) - Child use accounted for 8.4% of the variance in parent use. When the teacher becomes the student: Youth impact on parent technology use. Keywords: child; family; parent; use
• HOUSEHOLD DIGITAL MEDIA ECOLOGIES - METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR FOSTERING RESEARCHER-PARTICIPANT TRUST by Kennedy, Jenny; Wilken, Rowan; Nansen, Bjorn; Arnold, Michael; Gibbs, Martin (2019.0) - Trust and household technology research As we will argue in this paper, these approaches carry three specific trust-related methodological benefits (and challenges). Tasks were designed to capture the household’s technology use using familiar televisual genres of a “nature documentary” (to capture household technology use in its “natural habitat”), “news report”, “paparazzi shot”, “diary room entry”, and “chat show interview”. Keywords: participants; research; researchers; use
• TOWARDS THEORIES OF DIGITAL WELL-BEING by Büchi, Moritz (2020.0) - Different research traditions have dealt with the relationship between digital media use and well-being with different assumptions and definitions. Many studies assume, although rarely empirically demonstrate, beneficial effects of digital media use (e.g., digital inequality research: Keywords: media; practices; use
• REQUIREMENTS AND DESIDERATA FOR THE SCHOLARY USE OF WEB ARCHIVES by Vlassenroot, Eveline Maria Florentina; Chambers, Sally; Geeraert, Friedel; Mechant, Peter (2020.0) - Thus, gaining insight into the needs and requirements of users of web archives is essential especially for web archives that are currently taking shape (as is the case in Belgium). The perceived challenges of using web archives for research are well-documented in recent publications and research initiatives such as the BUDDAH project and RESAW. Keywords: archival; archives; research; use; web
• VIGILANT JOURNALISM: ETHICAL AND DEONTOLOGICAL DILEMMAS by Bettoni, Dimitri (2021.0) - Journalists rightly fear surveillance technology when it is used to threaten their professional independency. Do journalists need to review their deontological guidelines for the use of surveillance technology in journalism? Keywords: journalism; surveillance; technology; use
• “THIS ISN'T A PICASSO, IT'S A FERRARI”: PRESENTISM, PRECARITY AND DEPENDENCE IN NEW MEDIA ART PRACTICES by Vasudevan, Roopa (2021.0) - More and more, new media artists find themselves re-evaluating the necessity of using proprietary tools, owned by big tech companies with whose policies they do not necessarily agree. This study represents the beginnings of an investigation into the relationships between new media artists, the tools they use for their work (including data sources and APIs, hardware and software, operating systems, and project storage), and those who control these technologies. Keywords: artists; media; use; work
• EXAMINING OLDER ADULTS DIGITAL INCLUSION THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERSECTIONALITY AND CONTINUITY THEORY by van Leeuwen, Cora; Jacobs, An; Mariën, Ilse; Consortium, Digital Ageing (2023.0) - The digital inclusion of older adults stumbles partly because digital technology is perceived as unneeded or useless by them, as has been observed while assessing the applicability of digital assistive technology. EXAMINING OLDER ADULTS’ DIGITAL INCLUSION THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERSECTIONALITY AND CONTINUITY THEORY Cora van Leeuwen imec-SMIT, VUB and University of the Western Cape An Jacobs imec-SMIT, VUB Ilse Mariën imec-SMIT, VUB Introduction The possible ubiquitous presence of technology connected to the internet and a growing ageing population has necessitated a renewed interest in the digital inclusion of older adults. Keywords: adults; continuity; theory; use
• DIGITAL MEDIA USE IN PUBLIC SPACE – AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF SELF-SERVICE TECHNOLOGY DURING COVID19-PANDEMIC. by Waldenburger, Lisa; Wimmer, Jeffrey (2023.0) - In regard to the increase of digital stress in everyday life and its long- term health consequences, the use of digital devices in public spaces should be analysed. Especially people who did not grow up with digital devices as ubiquitous experience the demands on their own media literacy and understanding of technology as stressful. Keywords: devices; media; stress; technology; use
• OLDER ADULTS’ RESPONSES TO MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Baines, Annalise; Hargittai, Eszter (2025.0) - To address the third research question, we look at how use of misinformation strategies relates to sociodemographic factors using both logit (any such use) and OLS (number of response strategies used) regressions. We developed a list of misinformation response strategies based on existing literature (Munyaka et al., 2022; Wasike, 2023; Zhou et al., 2023). Keywords: media; misinformation; response; strategies; use
• DIGITAL DISCONNECTION, THE BROKEN PROMISE OF ATTENTION, AND POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE FOREST by Chen, Meilun (2025.0) - Together with the background of an attention economy that underpinned the mobile technology and Internet industry (Eyal, 2014; Williams, 2018), the public become more concerned with the mobile industry’s design of luring attention and the potential digital attention crisis brought by the smartphone use and digital overconnection (Baym, Wagman, & Persaud, 2020). Technology addiction is portrayed as the natural inclination toward distraction, with attention—aroused through effective app design—offered as an antidote to technology addiction when the design is properly implemented (Jablonsky, 2022). Keywords: app; attention; digital; forest; study; use
• “DIGITAL PEACEBUILDING”: EXAMINING YOUNG WOMEN LEADERS' USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUILD PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES by Genon, Lynrose Jane (2025.0) - Lumad young women focus on mobilising solidarity around land rights and addressing their marginalisation within BARMM, Muslim young women work towards combating anti-Islamic rhetoric, emphasising the peaceful aspects of Islam, and Christian young women prioritise peace education and interfaith dialogue as pathways to peace across sectors. This paper presents preliminary findings from Phase 1, focusing on social media analysis, while Phase 2, involving kwentuhan (talkstory) and co- participatory design workshops with young women, is not included in these initial results. Keywords: digital; media; peacebuilding; use; women; youth
• FIRST GLASS OF WINE IN 8 MONTHS!: AN EXAMINATION OF SOBER CURIOUS COMMUNITIES ON TIKTOK by Orton Johnson, Kate (2025.0) - In this paper I argue that sober curious communities on TikTok represent a significant cultural phenomenon offering a haven for individuals navigating the complexities of sobriety. In this intoxigenic culture the emergence of sober curious communities raises some interesting questions about evolving identities, processes of cultural normalisation and tensions between the “sober curious” and the “sober serious” (Matei, 2019). Keywords: alcohol; health; journal; tiktok; use
• THE DIGITAL CHILDHOOD INDUSTRY by Levido, Amanda; Dezuanni, Michael; Woods, Annette; Leaver, Tama; Rodriguez, Aleesha; MacKenzie, Janelle; Theobald, Maryanne; Danby, Susan; Johnson, Daniel; Langton, Katrin; Scott, Fiona (2025.0) - The trouble with Roblox, the video game em- pire built on child labour. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions (Livingstone & Blum-Ross, 2017), including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life (Gee et al., 2018). Keywords: children; digital; industry; instagram; labour; media; metaverse; paper; parenting; parents; play; practices; research; roblox; technology; university; use
• A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF EMOTICON USAGE IN JAPANESE BLOGS: VARIATION BY AGE, GENDER, AND TOPIC by Nishimura, Yukiko (2015.0) - Though there is no statistically significant general effect of age, two non-significant trends with respect to age and gender are noteworthy, namely a tendency for Senior Males to use more emoticons than Junior Males and a tendency for Senior Females to use more emoticons than Junior Males. Since Junior Females also use more emoticons than Junior Males, this tendency provides tentative support for a general effect of gender on the frequency of emoticon usage. Keywords: age; bloggers; blogs; communication; emoticons; gender; graphics; harassment; inline; japanese; study; usage; use; women
• ‘iTIME’ AS A BLESSING OR A CURSE: IMAGINARIES OF SMARTPHONE USE AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TIME AMONG GENERATION GROUPS IN ESTONIA by Kalmus, Veronika (2015.0) - ‘iTIME’ AS A BLESSING OR A CURSE: IMAGINARIES OF SMARTPHONE USE AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TIME AMONG GENERATION GROUPS IN ESTONIA Veronika Kalmus University of Tartu, Estonia The ontological problems of social time and space and their interconnectedness with social imaginaries and the related concepts have become an important stream in social sciences since the classic works of social constructivism in the 1970s. Recent theoretical elaborations have focused on problems related to acceleration of social time, time-space compression and (de)synchronization, offering models and critical insights concerning social, psychological and political implications of the speeding up of these processes, reaching beyond the capacity of human control and self-regulation (Adam 2003; Rosa 2005; Scheuerman 2009; Mückenberger 2011). Keywords: imaginaries; smartphone; time; use
• Blogging While Black: a critical analysis of resistance discourse by black female bloggers by Steele, Catherine Knight (2011.0) - Using a typology crafted from Patricia Hill Collins’ work on the levels of oppression faced by African American women, this study will examine Black celebrity gossip blogs and the ways in which they resist or tolerate oppression at three levels: the personal, the communal and the institutional, uncovering the ways in which Black women ‘talk back’ (Hooks, 1988) to systems and structure from which they are excluded or exploited. While this work causes us to consider blogging as an avenue of incorporation into mainstream political participation, it does not chart the ways in which blogging may be used as subversive act to resist oppression by Black women in particular. Keywords: blogging; blogs; discourse; dominant; gossip; media; new; oppression; resistance; use; ways; women
• Boundaries, Privacy, and Social Media Use in Higher Education: What do Students Think, Want, and Do? by Dennen, Vanessa P.; Burner, Kerry J. (2013.0) - Students and professors alike are using social media in their everyday lives as well as to support learning and instruction, and consequently it is no surprise that the two worlds – school and personal – might overlap or collide at points. Students were not enthusiastic about using social media to support coursework; few felt it should be required (16; 10%) or that instructors should be encouraged to integrate social media (42; 29%). Keywords: media; personal; students; use
• COPYRIGHT AND REMIX ATTITUDES IN DIGITAL SPACES: HOW DO THEY DIFFER WITH AGE, EXPERIENCE AND KIND OF USE? by Aufderheide, Patricia Ann; Sinnreich, Aram; Milosevic, Tijana; Burroughs, Benjamin (2015.0) - This clearly reflects the fact that savvier scholars have taken advantages of recent policy wins in favor of digital fair use. Another compares two surveys, from 2009 and 2014, of communication scholars on scholarly research decision-making before and after creating a best practices code to clarify fair use for the field. Keywords: communication; copyright; digital; filmmakers; law; material; media; research; scholars; streaming; use
• GOING ONLINE AT THE MARGINS: HOW TO BECOME (AND REMAIN) AN INTERNET USER by Oreglia, Elisa (2014.0) - This paper draws from a year-long ethnography of ICT use in rural China to argue that people at the margins of Chinese modernization and of ICT use—farmers and older rural residents, in particular women—need the time and opportunities to build an image of themselves as ICT users. AN INTERNET USER Elisa Oreglia Nanyang Technological University The debate over the digital divide has moved on from the binary distinction between the haves and the have-nots of its early days to a more nuanced discourse on issues of unequal access (Gunkel, 2003), digital divides and social capital (Chen, 2013), skills and usage (Dijk & Hacker, 2003; van Deursen & van Dijk, 2010), and on gradations of digital inclusion (Dimaggio, Hargittai, Celeste, & Shafer, 2004; Livingstone & Helsper, 2007). Keywords: digital; ict; use
• INTERSECTIONS OF TECHNOLOGY & PLACE by Polson, Erika; Wilken, Rowan; Halegoua, Germaine; Renninger, Bryce; Russell, Adrienne (2016.0) - To  conceive  of  LBS  in  this  way—which  draws  from  recent  scholarship  within   anthropology  and  geography—requires  a  reorientation  in  how  we  approach  and  think  of   place,  such  that  places  are  understood  less  as  stable  (if  not  fixed)  sites  and  more  as   deriving  much  of  their  meaning  from  the  possibilities  of  mobility  and  movement   (Cresswell,  2011:  576;;  Agnew,  2011:  325),  and  as  acquiring  ‘dynamic  meaning  as  a   consequence  of  the  location-­based  information  that  is  attached  to  them’  (de  Souza  e   Silva  &  Frith,  2012:  9).       Media  now  readily  flow  back  and   forth  across  geographic  borders,  media  genres  and  platforms,  and  on  and  offline  space   and  place.       Keywords: cities; city; communication; media; mobile; paper; place; space; technologies; use; york
• MEDIATED-COMMUNICATION IN LONG-DISTANCE AND GEOGRAPHICALLY-CLOSE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND ITS EFFECTS ON IDEALIZATION, IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION by Kimbrough, Amanda; Guadagno, Rosann (2015.0) - Garcia, E. (2011, September 26) Space between us: Long distance relationships. Controversy exists in the field over how to measure and define distance relationships. Keywords: communication; couples; distance; face; idealization; impression; journal; ldr; ldrs; management; relationships; satisfaction; self; use
• NEGOTIATING THE DIGITIZATION OF WORK: NEW CHALLENGES FOR EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS’ COUNCILS FROM THE USE OF SOCIAL COLLABORATION PLATFORMS by Carstensen, Tanja (2016.0) - Negotiating  the  Digitization  of  work:  New   Challenges  for  employees  and  workers’  councils  from  the  use  of  social  collaboration  platforms.   This  paper  therefore  investigates  the  negotiations  on  use  and  design   between  employers,  employees,  and  workers’  councils  –  or  in  other  words,  rule-­making   and  rule-­breaking—and  follows  the  questions:     •   which  issues  are  contested  by  implementing  and  using  a  social  media  platform,     2 •   which  (new)  demands  are  employees  confronted  with  by  the  use  of  social  media,   •   how  do  employers,  employees  and  workers’  councils  deal  with  these  challenges,  plus   what  kind  of  usage  and  working  conditions  do  they  negotiate  and  develop,  and   •   how  far  do  employees  adopt,  modify  or  resist  the  company’s  social  media  rules?     Keywords: employees; media; use; work
• (SOCIAL) MEDIA USE AND NEWS: NEWS USAGE PATTERNS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATORY BEHAVIOR by Kümpel, Anna Sophie; Karnowski, Veronika (2015.0) - In the context of online media and the simultaneous utopian and dystopian imaginaries of the internet for civic engagement, the debate about the impact of news media use on political participation and efficacy continues. Connecting news media use with gaps in knowledge and participation. Keywords: media; news; participation; sns; use
• WHY AND HOW POLITICIANS USE SOCIAL MEDIA? UNDERSTANDING SENSEMAKING AND REPRESENTATIONS OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS. THE CASE OF “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT by Roginsky, Sandrine (2015.0) - THE CASE OF “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Sandrine Roginsky Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium Introduction The mainstream perspective on politicians who use social media has been based on the premise that social media technology is, by nature, an innovative tool and that politicians are not using it to its full potential (Roginsky, 2014). I will challenge the mainstream normative approach and will rely on a socio-technical approach to demonstrate that social media technology is not innovative by nature and innovation is not necessarily where it is expected, nor it is necessarily easily visible: it is however part of a “technical imaginaire” (Flichy, 2004:10). Keywords: media; practices; social; technology; use
• Virtually managing (in)visibility: Girls, social media, and rural U.S. family relationships by Rickman, Aimee (2013.0) - Keywords: social media; youth; gender; family The past decade has seen in a steady growth in social media use throughout the United States. While 55% of teen internet users took part in social media in 2006, in 2011, 80% reported being social media users. Keywords: family; media; research; use
• Visual Arts in Digital and Online Environments: Changing Copyright and Fair Use Practice among Institutions and Individuals Abstract by Aufderheide, Patricia; Sinnreich, Aram (2016.0) - Permissions,  a  survival  guide  :  blunt  talk  about  art  as   intellectual  property.   Selected Papers of AoIR 2016: The 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Berlin, Germany / 5-8 October 2016   VISUAL  ARTS  IN  DIGITAL  AND  ONLINE  ENVIRONMENTS:  CHANGING   COPYRIGHT  AND  FAIR  USE  PRACTICE  AMONG  INSTITUTIONS  AND   INDIVIDUALS     Patricia  Aufderheide,  American  University   Aram  Sinnreich,  American  University   Louisa  Imperiale,  American  University     Abstract     This  study  measures  changes  in  behavior  and  attitudes  about  fair  use  among   visual  arts  professionals,  the  future  of  whose  field  depends  on  advancing  into   online,  digital  environments  that  depend  upon  it. Keywords: arts; code; use
• Voice in a virtual world: From resistance to appropriation by Leonard, Lynnette G.; Sherblom, John C.; Withers, Lesley A. (2013.0) - Communication research: Asking questions, finding answers. Introduction to communication research. Keywords: communication; group; time; use; voice
• SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE by Appignani, Timothy; Jones, Steve; Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth; Welch, Eric (2015.0) - By examining the impact of social media use at the level of individual users engaged in a variety of job types across a university campus our research will help to expand the current research landscape on social media, which is dominated by literature focused on either organizational social media or enterprise social media. The primary objectives were to understand: 1) the extent of social media use in the organization and the purpose of this use, 2) how employees use the tools to manage and integrate or separate work and non-work activities, 3) how social media networks coincide (or not) with an individual’s work network 4) what implications there are for collaboration and other work-related outcomes. Keywords: media; research; use; work; workplace

• I DID NOT HAVE TEXT WITH THAT SERVER: Attitudes about Gender, Technology, and Digital Literacy in the 2016 U.S. Election by Losh, Elizabeth (2017.0) - This paper asserts that a conflation of gender and technology may have contributed to Clinton’s defeat, because her digital literacy practices were judged as non-normative, based on evidence in materials in the @realDonaldTrump Twitter archive, the Fox News website (http://www.foxnews.com), the WikiLeaks database of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, and FBI documents. The meme suggested that Mrs. Clinton was denying her own digital promiscuity and lack of self-control. Keywords: clinton; gender; privacy; technology; trump
• Do Ciphers Have Politics?: Discourses Of The Digital Rights Movement In The Crypto Wars 2.0 by West, Sarah Myers (2017.0) - Encryption technologies are behind every credit card transaction, Bluetooth connection, and mobile phone call made by billions of users worldwide. Despite this, encryption technologies have attracted a tremendous amount of attention in recent years due to debates over whether and under what conditions digital information should be allowed to be encrypted. Keywords: encryption; new; power; rights; technology
• WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW IS DIGITAL SOUND? by Stanfill, Mel; Morris, Jeremy Wade; Sterne, Jonathan; Razlogova, Elena; Murray, Sarah (2018.0) - This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing work to bring Sound Studies and Internet Studies into better conversation with each other, taking digital sound as a common object and examining it in different cases and through different methods to provide a richer understanding of the role sound plays in shaping our online experiences. The papers coalesce around their common object of inquiry, digital sound, providing depth of understanding about the subject matter by approaching from different directions. Keywords: audio; culture; law; media; music; new; podcast; podcasting; press; production; sound; technology; university; work
• CULTURAL COSMOLOGIES OF THE INTERNET: SITUATING DIGITAL NETWORKED TECHNOLOGIES IN DIVERSE MORAL UNIVERSES by Maddox, Alexia; Sinanan, Jolynna; Carter , Marcus; Horst, Heather; Spencer, Michaela; Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard (2019.0) - Writing about these efforts, Verran and Christie (2007) described the work of Yolngu elders struggling against the grain of digital technologies designed to represent, to use them in ways that were actively performative in expressing the remaking of an ancestral reality. Horst argues that there are several meanings of free culture associated with digital media and technology which departs from the democratic, liberatory potentials of digital culture. Keywords: culture; digital; economy; free; game; horst; online; paper; play; practices; press; research; technologies; technology; university
• WOMEN IN BLOCKCHAIN: DISCOURSE & PRACTICE IN THE CO-CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES by Frizzo-Barker, Julie A. (2020.0) - In contrast, events and networks designed ‘by women, for women’ serve as important spaces of resistance and support, for many women curious about entering the field as well as experienced practitioners. The goal of my study is not to answer questions such as, “why aren’t there more women in blockchain?” or “how can we attract more women into blockchain?” Keywords: bitcoin; blockchain; gender; technology; women
• SUBVERSIVE IMAGINATION AND POSSIBILITIES OF CRITICAL AGENCY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF CODE? by Saariketo, Minna (2020.0) - Subversive imagination and possibilities of critical agency in the landscapes of code. Critical agency and the future of critique. Keywords: agency; imaginaries; media; technology
• THE FABRIC OF DIGITAL LIFE: BUILDING AN INTERNET ARCHIVE FOR EMBODIED TECHNOLOGY by Iliadis, Andrew; Pedersen, Isabel (2017.0) - The fabric of digital life: Building an internet archive for embodied technology. While wearables have quickly become a highly visible form of embodied technology, wearables often act as misnomers that incorrectly identify alternative embeddable technologies (items like prosthetics) and their myriad processes or exclude non- traditional forms of wearables such as ingestibles and implantables (Iliadis and Pedersen, 2016). Keywords: archive; embodied; fabric; technologies; technology; wearables
• TOWARDS OPERATIONALIZING WHITE MALE ACCOUNTABILITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT INTERROGATING IMPACTS OF AND SOLUTIONS TO OVERREPRESENTATION UTILIZING RELATIONAL ETHICS FRAMEWORKS by Doyle, Dylan Thomas (2021.0) - The Problem The benefits of AI technology spaces disproportionately advantage white educated men at the expense of disadvantaging gender minorities, people of color, and other under- represented groups.1 This is true at every level of AI technology spaces from the design stage to who these technologies predominantly help when they are applied on the consumer end to whose voices get featured most prominently in media representation about AI technology news.2 in AI technology spaces based in relational morality and identity dialogue the hope is that those embedded ethical values will trickle down into the downstream outputs of those spaces such as AI technology. Keywords: spaces; technology; white
• STRIVERS, MAINTAINERS, ACHIEVERS: NETWORKED TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEARNING TO USE TECHNOLOGY DURING A PANDEMIC by Marler, Will (2021.0) - Research on older adults and digital technology can benefit from examining not only the possession of digital skills and technology support, but also the meanings that older adults bring to their experiences of inclusion and exclusion as they adapt to digital technologies while aging – and sheltering – in place. Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org. STRIVERS, MAINTAINERS, ACHIEVERS: NETWORKED TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEARNING TO USE TECHNOLOGY DURING A PANDEMIC Will Marler University of Zurich Introduction “Aging in place” in one’s home is valued for enabling older adults to maintain “independence, autonomy, and connection to social support, including friends and family” (Wiles et al., 2012). Keywords: adults; program; strivers; technology
• TECHNOLOGICAL AGNOSTICISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: PLATFORM CULTURE ON TECHNOLOGY FORUM WHIRLPOOL by Rodriguez, Aleesha Joy (2021.0) - Platform culture on technology forum Whirlpool, presented at AoIR 2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. TECHNOLOGICAL AGNOSTICISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: PLATFORM CULTURE ON TECHNOLOGY FORUM WHIRLPOOL Aleesha Rodriguez Queensland University of Technology Introduction This paper explores the (limited) discussion of climate change within energy debates on Australian technology forum Whirlpool. Keywords: change; climate; energy; technology; whirlpool
• CONSTRUCTING THE DIGITAL SKILLS CRISIS: A CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF “SKILL” by Cooper, Zane; Bridges, Lauren E.; Ticona, Julia (2021.0) - Literature Review Taking up Sara Ahmed’s (2019) method of following words around, this paper follows skill––as a word, concept, and action––through its deep, yet critically sparse, intellectual history, to better understand how the idea of digital skills has been politically operationalized. Our findings show, although variations exist between democratic and republican framing––where one treats digital skills as democratizing and the other as a way to ensure national strength––there is a consistent deficit framework that individualizes a lack of appropriate skills which can only be addressed through training in new technologies. Keywords: concept; crisis; skills; technology
• LEARNING IN/DEPENDENTLY IN REFUGEE CAMPS: COMMUNITY-BASED PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING, LEARNING, AND TECHNOLOGY by Dahya, Negin; Ekmekcioglu, Cansu; Arvisais, Olivier; Decarpentrie, Laurie (2021.0) - Social support networks, instant messaging, and gender equity in refugee education. There is an evident gap in relation to what we know about teaching, learning, and technology for refugee people in camps. Keywords: education; learning; refugee; technology
• SOCIAL MEDIA USE, TRUST AND TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A CO-CREATED BROWSER PLUGIN IN MITIGATING THE SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Kyza, Eleni; Varda, Christiana; Konstantinou, Loukas; Karapanos, Evangelos; Perfumi, Serena Coppolino; Svahn, Mattias; Georgiou, Yiannis (2021.0) - Social media use, trust, and technology acceptance: Investigating the effectiveness of a co- created browser plugin in mitigating the spread of misinformation on social media. Participants first completed questionnaires on individual characteristics (digital literacy, media literacy, epistemic beliefs, social media use, trust in science, and digital citizenship) and were then presented with the Twitter feed, which featured credible and non-credible posts. Keywords: media; misinformation; technology; trust
• ACCOMMODATING COMMUNICATION WITH CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS: EXAMINING THE PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORS OF OLDER ADULTS WHEN USING VOICE ASSISTANT TECHNOLOGY by O'Connell, Carrie; Quinn, Kelly; Marquez, David; Chin, Jessie; Muramatsu, Naoko; Leiser, Sarah; Gradishar, Jamie; Desai, Smit (2021.0) - Accommodating Communication with Conversational Agents: Examining the Perceptions and Behaviors of Older Adults When Using Voice Assistant Technology. ACCOMMODATING COMMUNICATION WITH CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS: EXAMINING THE PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORS OF OLDER ADULTS WHEN USING VOICE ASSISTANT TECHNOLOGY Carrie O’Connell The University of Illinois at Chicago Kelly Quinn The University of Illinois at Chicago Naoko Muramatsu The University of Illinois at Chicago David Marquez The University of Illinois at Chicago Jessie Chin The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sarah Leiser The University of Illinois at Chicago Jamie Gradishar The University of Illinois at Chicago Keywords: communication; human; technology; user; voice
• THE UNDERSIDE OF TECHNOLOGY: LIFECYCLES OF LIBERACIÓN IN THE DIGITAL AGE by O'Connell, Carrie; Van De Wiele, Chad; Garcia, Melina; Ferris Dobles, Michele; Macon, June (2023.0) - Advancements in digital technology, particularly in the realm of simulated communication and avatars, have made the extension of life (at least through digital simulation) evermore possible, inching us past the precipice of another massive technological and ontological shift. Centering the lens of the individual, we investigate the necessary utility of global technologies (the ‘realities within which we live’) while articulating how actual experience with, and consumption of, these technologies by those on the periphery (those who ‘stand outside’ that reality) can inform a critical understanding of their socio-technical impact. Keywords: american; connections; dussel; experience; global; infrastructure; latinx; migration; new; press; reddit; resistance; systems; technology; university
• SUPREMACY OF SYMBIOSIS? THE GENDERED AFFORDANCES OF EMBODIED TECHNOLOGY DESIGN by Wissinger, Elizabeth (2023.0) - Technology design is supposedly as neutral as technology itself. 2 When gendered power structures affect design practice, critiquing its outcomes is crucial. Keywords: body; design; gendered; practices; technology
• PUSHING BACK: DIGITAL RESISTANCE AS A SENSITIZING CONCEPT by Couture, Stéphane ; Toupin, Sophie; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume (2023.0) - In the discourse analysis, the concept of sociotechnical imaginary will be used to understand digital resistance as such and to analyze how these discourses are reflected in the design of digital technologies. How can we define digital resistance? Keywords: digital; press; resistance; studies; technology
• CONSTRUCTING AND MARKETING SEXUAL FANTASY: ANALYZING THE SOCIAL MEDIA OF SEX ROBOTS by Masterson, Annette Marie (2023.0) - Constructing and marketing sexual fantasy: Analyzing the social media of sex robots. ANALYZING THE SOCIAL MEDIA OF SEX ROBOTS Annette Masterson Temple University Abstract Since the release of sex robots in 2017 by RealDoll, they have been marketed as companions and sexual fantasies. Keywords: media; realbotix; realdoll; robots; sex; technology
• THE ZEALOUS PRACTICES OF TECH INDUSTRY LEADERS by Reinis, Sara (2025.0) - Fears about the end of the world as we know it seem to haunt, or perhaps excite, many tech leaders. Whether climate collapse, an AI takeover, or societal unrest, many tech leaders have their eyes on potential doomsdays. Keywords: death; leaders; practices; tech; technology
• AI AS “UNSTOPPABLE” AND OTHER INEVITABILITY NARRATIVES IN TECH: ON THE ENTANGLEMENT OF INDUSTRY, IDEOLOGY, AND OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURES by Tacheva, Zhasmina; Appedu, Sarah; Wright, Mirakle (2025.0) - To map out the scope of AI industry entanglements, however, we must also examine its discursive framework, which is as potent as its material infrastructure. In this conference paper, we apply a combination of critical discourse analysis, literary criticism, and critical quantitative methods to conduct a critical examination of a wide array of AI discourses, including company statements, scholarly literature, policy briefs, media narratives, research institute webpages, and online platform content, developing a discursive snapshot of the AI industry. Keywords: benjamin; fridman; industry; technology
• TAPPING THE "UNTAPPED RESOURCE": HOW TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL PRIORITIES HAVE SHAPED CONTEMPORARY NEW MEDIA ART PRACTICES by Vasudevan, Roopa (2025.0) - This contribution outlines the findings from the second chapter of my doctoral dissertation, High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry, which argues that, rather than operating wholly autonomously or externally to the tech industry, new media artists instead rely on an infrastructural foundation that greatly depends on its standard practices and routine protocols. However, viewing new media artists as fully independent actors, devoid of any connection to industrial and corporate aims, serves to eclipse the long-standing and substantial ties that the field has to the protocols and priorities of the mainstream technology industry. Keywords: art; artists; media; new; press; technology; university; work
• AI INDUSTRY EXPECTATIONS AND UNDERPERFORMING IMAGINARIES by Stanusch, Natalia Barbara; Rogers, Richard; Baym, Nancy; Liu, Chuncheng; Shaw, Ryland; Katzenbach, Christian; Richter, Vanessa; Kannengießer, Sigrid; Mollen, Anne; Brause, Saba Rebecca; Yang, Heng; Schäfer, Mike; Zeng, Jing (2025.0) - The present analysis on AI healthcare imaginaries is part of a larger comparison of AI imaginaries in U.S., German and Chinese newspapers. Taking up this invitation, in the panel, we bring together studies of AI imaginaries performed within but also beyond the AI industry. Keywords: analysis; communication; future; healthcare; imaginaries; imaginary; industry; jasanoff; media; research; science; society; study; technologies; technology; university
• New Global Learning Cultures: Interdisciplinarity through networked technologies by Cochrane, Thomas; Keegan, Helen (2012.0) - Collaboration in curriculum design or in student teamwork projects was a new experience for the project participants, and did not necessarily come naturally – it needed careful nurturing and support via sustained interaction and experimentation over the projects’ life-span. This illustrates the increased student engagement and the pedagogical impact and transformation that can be achieved by collaborative mobile social media projects. Keywords: collaboration; community; design; google; international; learning; lecturers; media; mobile; new; practice; project; student; technology; tools
• 'Do not hack'. Rules, values, and communal practices in hacker- and makerspaces by Richterich, Annika (2016.0) - Hacker practice: Moral genres and the cultural articulation of liberalism. Based on interviews with community members in England, observations of physical spaces and online message boards, it shows how rules, social values, and communal practices are interrelated. Keywords: hacker; hacking; makerspaces; rules; technology
• AUGMENTED OR ADMENTED REALITY? THE BOUNDARY CONTEST OVER MARKETING APPLICATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY by Liao, Tony Chung Li (2014.0) - From this perspective, the visions that actors hold for AR technology and the promises they choose to advance are an important unit of analysis, because they are “‘constitutive’ or ‘performative’ in attracting the interest of necessary allies (various actors in innovation networks, investors, regulatory actors, users, etc.) and in defining roles and in building mutually binding obligations and agendas.” While nominally all of the members support AR technology, they have markedly different visions for what the technology should be used for and what the technology will look like. Keywords: industry; marketing; technology
• BUT IS IT ‘AUGMENTED REALITY’? BOUNDARY WORK OVER THE NAMING, DEFINITION, AND CATEGORIZATION OF AN EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by Liao, Tony (2015.0) - ‘Hard AR’ supporters dismissed mobile AR as frivolous, preferring to focus on head worn displays for hands free applications (medical, maintenance, etc.). These criteria were debated and contested around emerging developments like the 1st and 10 line, and further challenged by mobile AR browsers (Layar, Wikitude, etc.), and finally Google Glass. Keywords: reality; technology; work
• Critical Design Sensibility in Postcolonial Conditions by Sun, Huatong (2013.0) - The critical design sensibility aims to negotiate the design opportunities and constraints social media technology brings as it integrates a) agency and structure, b) identity and culture with a focus on power for cross-cultural social media technology design. This type of naïve responses often contests and exemplifies the common problem in cross-cultural technology design, the disconnect of action and meaning (Sun, 2012). Keywords: acm; design; new; postcolonial; technology; york
• From Laptops to Toasters: Designing and Repairing Modern Childhood Imaginaries by Ames, Morgan G.; Rosner, Daniela K. (2013.0) - Imagining Childhood, Technology, and Design Our research explores the contested role of technology in childhood and the role of childhood, in turn, in technology development. Where these narratives diverge is on whether the use of screen technologies such as computers help or hinder this conception of childhood. Keywords: childhood; children; clinic; olpc; technology
• Grassroots Organizing in the Digital Age: Considering Values and Technology Decision-making in Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street by Agarwal, Sheetal D; Johnson, Courtney N; Bennett, W. Lance; Borning, Alan (2013.0) - Though Occupy’s Global Square never took off, Teapartycommunity.com has gained traction; the site, which is remarkably similar to Facebook but touted as a “safe haven” for Tea Party members and other conservatives, boasts more than 100,000 members. To examine stakeholder values and potential sites of value tensions we use semi-structured interviews conducted with three distinct groups of stakeholders in Tea Party and Occupy: members with some type of leadership or facilitator position, members tasked with organizing and facilitating technology use in their community, and lay members. Keywords: occupy; party; tea; technology
• THE SPIRIT OF TECHNOLOGY IN E-GOVERNMENT: DESIGNING DEMOCRACY CAPABILITIES FOR ONLINE CITIZEN-GOVERNMENT INTERACTION by Guth, Kristen; Brabham, Daren (2015.0) - Technology designers can strategically market these platforms to serve multiple constituencies and their desired values through particular vocabulary, while duly neglecting to acknowledge tensions in fulfilling these conflicting needs (Gillespie, 2010). Building on those investigations, this study seeks to explore questions about intentions built into crowdsourcing technologies, designers’ thoughts about user groups, and intended outcomes of the technologies. Keywords: government; science; study; technology; values
• USER TÉCINO: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, EMERGING TECHNICAL ACTORS, AND BRAZILIAN OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE by Choi, Beatrice (2015.0) - The rhetoric concerning the local production of computer technology, its transfer between international markets, and the State’s protectionist role in the market during the dictatorship diverges greatly from the tone that the prior president takes in the present. foster protectionist measures for local computer production to provide an incubating space for Brazilian innovators (Tigre 1983, Evans 1986, Schwartzman 1988). Keywords: brazil; computer; policy; software; state; technology
• Understanding Digital Network Engagement: Aiding Resistance and Appropriation of Technology by Spencer-Scarr, Diane (2013.0) - Abstract Some individuals actively resist the impact of digital network technology or appropriate it for their own ends while others passively accept it. Keywords engagement; personality; decision-making; individual Commercial interests use digital network technology to extract benefits from audience engagement aiming for exclusive locked in relationships not necessarily to the individuals’ advantage. Keywords: engagement; individual; personality; research; technology

• Digital Networks, Digital Pub(L)Ics (2): Gender, Sex, Embodiment by Lehto, Mari; Hynnä, Kaisu; Light, Ben; Tudor, Matilda; Cassidy, Elija (2017.0) - Through technological networks Niitti’s post moved from an unmediated public of a plane, where the audience is structurally defined, to networked publics of social media where the audiences are unknown and unpredictable. By using hashtags like #publicbreastfeeding Niitti probably caught the attention of audiences that would normally not follow him on social media. Keywords: body; digital; gay; media; men; new; online; paper; public; queer; selfies; sexuality; work
• Digital Networks, Digital Pub(L)Ics (1): Labour, Pleasure, Porn. by Paasonen, Susanna; Albury, Kath; Stardust, Zahra; Mercer, John; Mowlabocus, Sharif; Robards, Brady; Smith, Clarissa (2017.0) - The shifting forms of digital porn production, involving new pornographic styles and new methods of framing pornographic texts, require us to (re)consider the political-economy of pornography and the ways in which publics produce, access and consume pornography. While many participants embraced porn production and distribution as a practice of self-representation and local/global community-formation, others struggled with the personal costs of developing and distributing commercially viable pornography in a digital environment where consumers are often unwilling to pay for content (Stardust 2016, Taormino et al 2013, Young 2016). Keywords: amateur; consumption; content; fantasies; labour; media; new; paper; porn; pornography; production; queer; rape; sex; studies; work
• Observing Archives: Web Archiving as Socio-Technical Practice by Ogden, Jessica; Halford, Susan; Carr, Leslie (2017.0) - Here web archives are positioned as contingent constructions that inherently rely on the work of web archivists (as both networked human and non-human agents) to transform and preserve the Web(s) into archived snapshots. Beyond the increased promotion of web archives as a source for scholarly research, a growing number of examples point towards the use of web archives as tools for political accountability (e.g. Politwoops1); to provide temporary access points during times of restricted web access (e.g. during the 2013 US government shutdown2); and to reconstruct deleted domains (e.g. Ben-David’s (2016) work on the former Yugoslav top-level domain3) – to name a few. Keywords: archives; labour; web; work
• GAMES OF EMPIRE TEN YEARS ON by Pelletier, Caroline; Ruffino, Paolo; Woodcock, Jamie; Bulut, Ergin; Nieborg, David; Fordyce, Robbie (2020.0) - Second, it demonstrated methodologically the importance and value of treating digital culture, and game culture in particular, as a practice extending from sites of text production to sites of text consumption / textual play, by contrast to focusing on one or the other end of that spectrum. Second, the panel will also identify the book’s limitations in relation to empirical developments within the games sector and games culture. Keywords: culture; digital; dyer; empire; games; industry; new; peuter; production; video; witheford; work
• BETWEEN LIVE AND LIFE: EXPLORING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF PERFORMANCE ARTISTS by Gemini, Laura; Brilli, Stefano (2020.0) - This paper explores the use of social media by Italian contemporary theatre artists and companies. The shift from contents permanence as a default condition, to the multiple temporalities of stories and video streams, opens a new strand of possibility for relations between social media and performativity that are to be explored. Keywords: artists; media; performance; theatre; work
• NEUROTIC INFLUENCER – FEELING RULES AND THE AFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF ANXIETY IN SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER WORK by Lehto, Mari Tellervo (2020.0) - Applying social psychologist Margaret Wetherell’s (2012, 2014) concept of “affective practice” and Akane Kanai’s (2019, 2019b) implementation of Arlie Hochschild’s work in the context of digital media, I ask how feeling rules shape the ways in which Finnish influencers work to produce selves that are agreeable to their followers and cope with the emotional weight of precarious social media work. The paper suggests that although anxiety can be considered a negative side effect of stressful social media work, sharing it on social media can also be understood as a tactic that plays a central role in the lifestyle influencer industry. Keywords: anxiety; influencers; media; work
• IN THE RING AND ONLINE: RELATIONAL LABOR AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN THE WWE by Lingel, Jessa (2020.0) - In both cases, my objective is to use the context of professional wrestling to inform broader investigations of fan studies, self-promotion and authenticity in digital culture. Long before reality TV, the performativity and scripted drama of professional wrestling allowed theorists to unpack questions of fictionality and narrative authenticity. Keywords: kayfabe; work; wrestling; wwe
• GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OF WORK-RELATED IMPACTS TO DIGITAL WELL-BEING BY SOCIAL MEDIA PROFESSIONALS - A PILOT STUDY by Sutherland, Karen Elizabeth (2020.0) - Social media work: Reshaping organisational communications, extracting digital value. Research exploring social media professionals has focused on specific countries and geographical regions (e.g. Australia and Europe). Keywords: media; professionals; study; work
• 'IF YOU CAN WORK FROM ANYWHERE, WHY WORK ANYWHERE ELSE?': FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, REGIMES OF MOBILITY, AND THE DISCOURSE OF DIGITAL NOMADISM by Edwards, Sarah Elizabeth (2021.0) - While a number of studies have examined how digital nomads understand their own communities and lifestyles, less research has critically examined how various governments have leveraged the category of digital nomadism to encourage independent workers to participate in their economies via remote work. The discourse of digital nomadism thus emerges as a key site at which to examine the cultural logics of globalization, forms of flexible citizenship and capital accumulation, and regimes of (im)mobility that structure the political economy of movement (Ong, 1999; Salazar and Smith, 2011; Glick Schiller and Salazar, 2013). Keywords: mobility; nomadism; regimes; work
• #YELLOWPERILSUPPORTSBLACKPOWER: MEMORY WORK FOR INTERRACIAL SOLIDARITY by Kang, Yena (2021.0) - In particular, I focus on how memory work plays a key role in a process by which Asian Americans produce affective ties with the Black community to build a multiracial identity extending beyond color lines. Expanding the concept of memory work into the contemporary context of social media, Humphreys (2020) considers memory work to be one of the media accounting practices that involve the creation, circulation, and consumption of media traces (e.g., writing a text, taking a photo). Keywords: activism; community; memory; work
• INSTAGRAM AND THE MEMED SELF by Keye, Wade (2021.0) - The irreverent, bizarre, and deeply political work of Instagram meme artists serves as a potent rejoinder to the claim that “the left can’t meme.” Meme artists do create content to be shared in hopes it will go viral, but each meme represents its author’s oeuvre instead of a distributed cultural text. Keywords: borneman; instagram; meme; work
• AN ONLINE WORK IS STILL WORK: VIRTUAL LABORS OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLERS by Reinhard, CarrieLynn; Fontaine, Jessica; King, DeWitt (2021.0) - Moreover, because professional wrestling matches are predetermined in advance, the aim of matches is not to win competitively. The COVID pandemic’s impact on professional wrestling has come in many forms. Keywords: aew; baker; bte; fans; labor; press; university; work; wrestlers; wrestling; wwe
• REJECTING SCIENCE WITH SCIENCE: BOUNDARY-WORK IN ANTI-MASK TWITTER REPLY THREADS DURING COVID-19 by Beers, Andrew; Nguyễn, Sarah; S. Spiro, Emma; Starbird, Kate (2021.0) - Faced with the reality of an extensive pro-mask scientific literature, anti-mask users undermined these studies by claiming the experiments were not RCT, but rather only observational studies or literature reviews. Anti-mask users decried scientists and politicians alike for citing science compromised by political bias or ulterior motives, and used these claims to discredit many pro-mask claims. Keywords: https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?4lwt0a; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?4lwt0a https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?4lwt0a; mask; science; work
• “YES, I WILL WORK ON MY FREE TIME” – DIGITAL WORK ON AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK AS THE HISTORICAL CONTINUATION OF THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN'S LABOR by Moreschi, Bruno; Jurno, Amanda; Lemos, Monique (2021.0) - Besides general AMT difficulties (e.g. low wages and high competition), women turkers stressed about having to balance housekeeping, childcare and AMT work; and about partners' lack of appreciation of AMT work and domestic labor. In this paper we discuss how AI automation is, in fact, an opaque architecture (Pasquinelli and Joler 2020) that perpetuates gender issues in digital work. Keywords: amt; women; work
• REMOTE WORK BETWEEN NARRATIVES OF INDIPENDENCE AND FRACTURED EXPERIENCES. A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DURING THE PANDEMIC CRISIS. by Risi, Elisabetta; Pronzato, Riccardo (2021.0) - Main results Results highlight that during the lockdown, some participants attempted to cope with the unprecedented triumph of technologically mediated work, others described remote work as liberating and attractive, as it avoids commuting and allow people to organize their activities autonomously, without constraints of space and time. Specifically, this contribution focuses on the interdependence of work and everyday life, and the role of digital devices and online platforms during the home-confinement period, and it explores the consequences of social distancing measures on remote workers and on their working and personal conditions. Keywords: life; work; workers; working
• NEGOTIATING PROFESSIONAL BELONGINGS: FINNISH ACTORS’ AFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Soronen, Anne; Koivunen, Anu (2021.0) - Our study focuses on actors and their perceptions of social media as an area of professional agency. Our analysis was based on a close reading of the interview material and 2 diary entries in which participants described their experiences and feelings concerning their presence, professional agency, and promotion on social media. Keywords: actors; media; participants; work
• MAKING A MEDIA CAREER ON AND BEYOND YOUTUBE: DIVERSITY IN PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES OF YOUTUBE CREATORS by Bidav, Tugce (2023.0) - Making a media career on and beyond YouTube: diversity in professional identities of YouTube creators. The industrialisation and professionalisation of SME have created the assumption of a formalisation of professional identity as an influencer (van Driel and Dumitrica, 2021), a social media creator (Cunningham and Craig, 2019), a blogger (Hopkins, 2019), a vlogger (Burgess and Green, 2009), or more specifically a YouTuber (Lange, 2019). Keywords: creators; identities; media; work; youtube
• “GETTING PAID TO TAKE CARE FOR THE ONES YOU LOVE”: SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCING AS A MEANS FOR PAID SOCIAL REPRODUCTION LABOR by Lukan, Tinca; Čehovih Zajc, Jožica (2023.0) - Our study aims to examine the expansion of platform capitalism into the domestic sphere of social media influencers, taking into account the specific semi-peripheral socioeconomic context of Slovenia. We posit the following research question: RQ: How do social media influencers in Slovenia manage work and household responsibilities? Keywords: activities; influencers; media; time; work
• THE WORK OF DIGITAL INCLUSION: EXPOSING THE DIGITAL LABOUR OF COMMUNITY WORKERS FOSTERING DIGITAL PARTICIPATION by Mitchell, Peta; Marshall, Amber (2025.0) - In light of our results, our study extends the concept of digital labour to include work undertaken in the service and advocacy of digital inclusion in community contexts. We argue that these activities are forms of ‘digital labour’ and that the digital labour involved in supporting individuals towards achieving digital inclusion is under-recognised both in digital inclusion theory and practice. Keywords: community; digital; inclusion; support; work
• ‘IT’S A CANDY STORE. YOU CAN SEE THE CANDIES, BUT THE DOOR IS CLOSED.’ (NEURO)QUEERING THE HOOK-UP APP INDUSTRY IN NON-METROPOLITAN FINLAND. by Rawlings, Richard Eric; Brown, Genavee; Sorainen, Antu; Thomas, Lisa; Coventry, Lynne (2025.0) - Global design undermines local contexts (Hardy & Lindtner, 2017), while app time is too fast or slow, dependent on user motives of immediacy or futurity (Bonner-Thompson, 2023). Industrial time and space produce marginalities and resistance: Colonial imposition of arbitrary borders and linear time undermined geosocial order in parts of the Global South (Arfaoui, 2021), and queer lives were historically excluded from normative trajectories of marriage and child-rearing. Keywords: app; hook; participants; queer; time; university; work
• AFFECTIVE LABOUR AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR IN THE COMMODIFICATION OF ‘SELF’ IN INDIAN WOMEN’S FAMILY VLOGGING (WORKING TITLE) by Roy, Debopriya; Chakraborty, Joya (2025.0) - This paper goes beyond that to observe the negotiations of affective labour and emotional labour in the lives and content of Indian women family vloggers as they engage in microcelebrity practices on YouTube. We specifically looked for family vloggers without a professional team to handle content creation, as it would allow us to observe the different arrays of labour involved. Keywords: family; labour; vloggers; work
• FAIRNESS IN THE WORK BEHIND THE AI INDUSTRY: HOW ACTION-RESEARCH APPROACHES CAN BUILD BETTER LABOUR CONDITIONS by Valente, Jonas Chagas Lucio; Ustek Spilda, Funda; Alyanak, Oguz; Brittain, Lola; Graham, Mark (2025.0) - Instead, the ongoing development of AI systems presents us with opportunities and threats that will emerge in different ways in different contexts. Comprehending the labour relations in the AI industry is an increasingly important task since many critical aspects of AI systems rely on global production networks characterised by atypical and, many times, precarious arrangements (Howson et al., 2022). Keywords: companies; labour; work
• Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease by Pedersen, Sarah; Burnett, Simon; Smith, Robert; Neill, Anne (2012.0) - The police bloggers quite often mentioned other police bloggers as having inspired their own blogging and several stated that they started blogging after being readers of other police blogs and 10 finding that they had more to say than could be put into a comment on someone else’s blog. Given such risks, this project set out to investigate what attracts police bloggers to blogging and whether the fear of being ‘outed’ as a blogger eventually overcomes the satisfactions of blogging and causes a police blogger to cease blogging. Keywords: 2004; bloggers; blogging; blogs; motivations; police; public; research; storytelling; time; work
• BELOW BOILING POINT: NEGOTIATING CONFLICT THRESHOLDS IN DISTRIBUTED WORK by Filipova, Anna; Cho, Hichang (2014.0) - Recent analysis suggests conflict types may co-exist or evolve over time, yet little empirical work has been done to examine this (de Wit, Greer, & Jehn, 2012). Interviews were carried out with 18 representatives of various FOSS teams to examine conflict episodes in the projects, their antecedents and consequences. Keywords: conflict; software; teams; work
• Copyright and the New Materiality by Burk, Dan (2013.0) - Consequently, it has been unclear and controversial how the first sale doctrine might apply to digital works – first sale applies to distributions, not to reproductions (Reese, 2003; Liu, 2001). To have done otherwise held the potential to eviscerate the statute as the most valuable instantiations of creative works are increasingly digital forms. Keywords: copyright; digital; material; media; work
• EVERYDAY EXCLUSION FROM THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: DIGITAL INEQUALITIES, IDENTITY WORK, AND EMOTION MANAGEMENT by Robinson, Laura (2015.0) - When studies of digital identity work target their attention on digitally advantaged segments of the population, it obscures the pernicious effects of digital inequality. Based on in-depth interviews, the research sheds light on digital inequality as a daily phenomenon necessitating emotion management and identity work. Keywords: emotion; identity; work
• HARNESSING SERENDIPITY: A STUDY OF ACCIDENTAL CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS IN TWO ONLINE REMIXING COMMUNITIES by Yew, Jude; Monroy-Hernández, Andrés (2014.0) - We make the argument that designing for reuse and remixing requires supporting serendipitous discovery of new content and new collaborators, as well as providing ways to signal intention, authorship, credit and thanks. Prominent academics like Henry Jenkins (2006) have also argued that remixing offers a hands-on approach towards cultivating media/cultural literacy and encouraging creativity amongst young people. Keywords: content; remixing; work
• Investigating Teacher Voice Through Blogs: Policy, Practice, and Local Knowledge by Greene, Kiersten (2013.0) - Keywords teachers; education; policy; blogs; practice Lost in the Shuffle: Locating Teacher Voice in the Blogosphere K-12 public school teachers are provided little if any voice in the construction of education policy. Methodology 2.0: A Thematic Analysis of Public, Anonymous New York City Teacher Blogs As is often the case, web searches can “produce pages of results that need a final human filtering stage to remove spurious matches” (Wilkinson & Thelwall, 2011, p. 390), and indeed the initial stage of research required filtering through hundreds of blogs in order to identify ones appropriate by this study—authored by New York City teachers. Keywords: blogs; new; policy; teachers; work
• Navigating Boundaries and Taboos in the Digital Frontier by McKnight, John Carter; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Burnam-Fink, Michael; Tekkobe, Cindy (2013.0) - This paper will examine the realities of moderator-user activity in two internet forums, SomethingAwful.com and RPG.net, which value high-quality conservations on many subjects, and how their divergent approaches to moderation and community norms sheds light on internet governance. Yet, in practice, admins do not use these powers arbitrarily, instead acting to maintain community norms. Keywords: body; boundary; communities; community; female; forums; geek; gender; girl; identity; online; press; self; social; university; work
• PARKS AND RECOMMENDATION: SPATIAL IMAGINARIES IN ALGORITHMIC SYSTEMS by Seaver, Nick (2015.0) - Although pastoral metaphors may appear to work in the service of naturalizing music spaces that are in fact constructions, my informants wielded these metaphors ambivalently, using them instead to locate their work at the interface of the natural, cultural, and technical. The technologies that mathematically generate musical spaces descend from spatializing techniques that originated in the social sciences (Shepard et al. 1972; Stefflre 1971; Keywords: music; space; systems; work
• THE NAVIGATION OF BOUNDARIES IN ONLINE SOCIAL SPACES by Quinn, Kelly (2015.0) - The proliferation of social media, and their widespread adoption, elevates the significance that boundary work and boundary transitions have to everyday living. Researchers have attended to the ways in which individuals navigate this new environment, for example by examining how individuals negotiate privacy in these spaces, however much less consideration has been given to the other ways in which social boundaries are established. Keywords: boundaries; boundary; media; work
• The Sharing Economy and its discontents by Suzor, Nicolas; Burgess, Jean; Light, Ben; Matamoros-Fernandez, Ariadna; Buchbach, Jacinta; Duguay, Stefanie; Goldsmith, Ben; Gray, Mary; Wikstrom, Patrik; Chen, Yujie; Qiu, Jack; Kulkarni, Deepti; Suri, Siddharth (2016.0) - THE  SHARING  ECONOMY  AND  ITS  DISCONTENTS:  LABOUR,   FAIRNESS,  AND  LEGITIMACY     Nicolas  Suzor   Queensland  University  of  Technology  (QUT)     Jean  Burgess   Queensland  University  of  Technology  (QUT)     Mary  L.  Gray   Microsoft  Research     Yujie  “Julie”  Chen   School  of  Journalism  and  Communication,  Chinese  University  of  Hong  Kong       This  panel  brings  together  a  series  of  related  critiques  over  labor  and  fairness  in  the   sharing  economy.   This  panel  begins  with  a  mapping  of  the  Chinese  sharing  economy. Keywords: crowdwork; economy; labor; legitimacy; media; self; sharing; uber; women; work; workers
• USER’S DIGITAL IMAGINARIES OF SELF USURPED THROUGH WORK: WHY USERS AUTONOMY IS AT RISK by Buchbach, Jacinta (2015.0) - By conducting a legal analysis of social media policies through the theoretical lens of boundary theory, I argue that restrictive policies impede an employee’s ability to manage their identities by collapsing boundaries which facilitate further blurring of domains. Employees are legally bound to follow social media policies which exist as either contractual terms within the employment contract or as directive guidelines in policies.1 Organisations typically implement social media policies that constrain employee behaviour in an effort to minimise the firm’s legal and reputational risk. Keywords: employees; media; policies; work

• Networked Niceness: Gendered Affective Publics and Potentialities of Political Resistance by Harvey, Alison; Bain, Jessica; Whiteman, Natasha; Rambukkana, Nathan (2017.0) - As this would indicate, online games culture is one where affective and gendered boundaries play a central role in defining the gamer identity. It also presents a challenge to the growing emphasis on the “human” in online research. Keywords: affective; culture; digital; ethics; feminist; games; media; new; online; paper; publics; research; studies; support; university; women
• hirst Traps And #Relatable Vines: Investigating A Networked Counterpublic Of Queer Women by Duguay, Stefanie (2017.0) - Thirst traps and #relatable Vines: Investigating a networked counterpublic of queer women. This is just one of many 6.5-second, looping videos created by queer women on Vine, Twitter’s now defunct video social network. Keywords: queer; videos; vine; women
• Towards A Theory Of Cross-Media Networked Microcelebrity: Of Bedrooms, Blogsites, Broadcasts, And Boardrooms by Lundmark, Evelina (2017.0) - The project consists of two steps, the first being an instrumental sample of videos from YouTube, and the second being a complementary analysis of the comment fields of said videos. I will use ANT to tease apart the cohesion I as a researcher would like to impose on this group of videos with similar titles and similar themes (Latour 2005). Keywords: videos; women; youtube
• Black "Rantings": Indigenous feminist writers' online narratives in a postfeminist age. by Trott, Verity Anne (2017.0) - To further an understanding of how Indigenous Australian feminist writers are challenging key aspects of postfeminism, this paper examines the ways in which they use the microblogging site Twitter to develop a first-hand and direct engagement with the writers’ personal views and to shed insight into how they are challenging postfeminist narratives on an everyday level. This paper asks, how are Indigenous Australian feminist writers challenging aspects of postfeminism online and what are the prevailing counter narratives about women, indigeneity, and feminism? Keywords: postfeminist; women; writers
• PUBLIC SPEECH: LISTENING TO WOMEN IN THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY by de Castell, Suzanne; Skardzius, Karen (2018.0) - Since the 1990s, conversations about the dearth of women working in the video game industry have centered on three topics: 1) ways to draw more women into the field, 2) the experiences of women working in the industry, and 3) the experiences of those who once worked in the industry but left (Cassell & Jenkins, 1998; Hepler, 2017; Kafai, Heeter, Denner & Sun, 2008). Looking at how women talked about their work in games, we found positive accounts far more frequently voiced, and voiced by more women, than critical ones. Keywords: games; industry; public; women
• VOICES EMPOWERED: IRANIAN WOMEN AND WEBLOGS by Zargarian, Tannaz (2018.0) - Derayeh’s theory argues that Iranian women “challenged gender-based discrimination and focused on women’s procedures for developing an independent identity,” which then “created opportunities for women to raise their voices and take action as a means to self-liberation” (Derayeh, 2010, p. 151). While institutionalized gender roles and customary law (urf) are the most important elements in restricting women’s emancipation in the public and private realms, the digital space altered the meaning of constraint and shifted the boundaries of the public and private realms by allowing Iranian women to seek an independent identity and self-determination (Graham, et al., 2010). Keywords: education; gender; realm; weblogs; women
• FROM CHASTITY BELTS TO SMART FROCKS: THE PROMISE OF RAPE DETERRENT TECHNOLOGY by Bevan, Alex Louise; Wilson Barnao, Caroline; Lincoln, Robyn (2019.0) - The dress exemplifies an array of intimate digital devices that mobilize smart technology aimed at preventing sexual assault in public space. We study a range of smart devices and their promises in order to set up an analytical comparison. Keywords: devices; digital; rape; women
• “I NEVER USE HEADSETS”: WOMEN, WARINESS, AND HYPERVIGILANCE FOR THE INEVITABILITY OF ONLINE HARASSMENT IN GAMING CULTURE by Butt, Mahli-Ann (2019.0) - In it, this research analyses the affective labour (Hardt 1999) of how people navigate and ‘cope’ with discrimination in gaming cultures. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8. Kirkpatrick, G. (2012) “Constitutive Tensions of Gaming’s Field: UK gaming magazines and the formation of gaming culture 1981-1995.” Keywords: culture; gaming; harassment; press; women
• “HEY, I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS. RELATE MUCH!”LOCATING SISTERHOOD IN A POSTCOLONIAL PUBLIC ON YOUTUBE by Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles Borja; Soriano, Cheryll (2019.0) - Significantly, online sisterhood becomes a collective strategy in dismissing belittling comments. Such modality, we argue, surfaces in online spaces wherein women gravitate to each other based on trust and mutual understanding of lived conditions. Keywords: comments; media; sisterhood; women
• GENDERED LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DIGITAL INCLUSION IN RURAL AUSTRALIA by Marshall, Amber Hope (2019.0) - Gendered lived experience of digital inclusion in rural Australia. The Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) measures digital inclusion along three indices: access, affordability, and digital ability. Keywords: digital; inclusion; research; women
• #METOO AND INTERSECTIONALISM: "RADICAL COMMUNITY HEALING" OR "VOYEURISTIC TRAUMA PORN?" by Trott, Verity (2019.0) - # MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism. Speaking up in the age of# MeToo and persistent patriarchy or what can we learn from an elevator incident about anti-feminist backlash. Keywords: feminist; metoo; movement; women
• SOCIAL MEDIA AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CHANGE AMONG MUSLIM ARAB WOMEN IN ISRAEL by Agbarya, Aysha; John, Nicholas (2020.0) - Social media and religious identity change among Muslim Arab women in Israel. Moreover, religious identity change involves a change in logics of social media use, tie management, content creation and deletion. Keywords: change; identity; media; women
• CHUDI (BANGLES), BINDI, AUR HIJAB WILL BRING ALONG INQUILAB (REVOLUTION): ANTI-PATRIARCHY WITHIN ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENTS AND THE DESIRE FOR A NEW POLITICAL IN INDIA by Basu, Maitrayee (2020.0) - Finally, with empirical focus on publics from the global south in building a framework to understand transnational social movements, this paper contributes to a growing body of literature (e.g., Bagchi, 2014) that dislodge some of the Euro-American assumptions about the nature of public spheres and its relationship to activist networks, civic society, media industries, etc. that are not homogenous across the globe. For example, in the lines by Zanana Ensemble quoted above, the assumption that Indian women are leaving their traditional unpaid domestic roles to start protests strategically forward the view that these women are first-time protestors with very little experience as political (as well as economic) actors. Keywords: movements; paper; political; women
• WHOSE SHAREDPLANS? SCRIPTS, COLLABORATION, AND FEMINIST AI RESEARCH by Bergmann, Rachel (2020.0) - I analyze these women in the history of AI research as complex, politically imperfect characters. Approaching AI historically offers a way to consider algorithms and AI technologies beyond their technical specifications, instead analyzing them as complex sociotechnical assemblages shaped by material, geographic, political, and social forces. Keywords: feminist; grosz; research; women
• POLICING "FAKE" FEMININITY: ANGER AND ACCUSATION IN INFLUENCER "HATEBLOG" COMMUNITIES by Duffy, Brooke Erin; Miltner, Kate; Wahlstedt, Amanda (2020.0) - Key repositories of such critique are influencer “hateblogs,” community-oriented sites that seem to blur the boundaries between critique and cyber-bullying. Amid the pervasive culture of social media fame, hateblogs have emerged as especially vibrant—and vitriolic—sites for communities of anti-fans to collectively police the activities of highly visible Instagrammers, YouTubers, and the like. Keywords: gomi; hateblogs; influencers; women
• IMAGES OF POST-MASTECTOMY SCARRING ON INSTAGRAM: AN EVALUATION OF CONTENT MODERATION AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH by Witt, Alice E A; Rivera, Yonaira M (2020.0) - In general, women who undergo mastectomies face unique experiences related to body image, with some expressing feelings of empowerment in light of this procedure.17 Content moderation that is consistent with Instagram’s policies may provide additional support for the effective use of this platform to promote body positivity,18 which can be leveraged for interventions that share the lived experiences of breast cancer survivors. Body image. Keywords: content; images; instagram; mastectomy; moderation; women
• TRANSNATIONAL VISUAL INQUIRY: ARAB WOMEN’S INTERDEPENDENT/INDEPENDENT MOVES ON TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM by Hurley, Zoe (2021.0) - It takes Instagram and TikTok, image and video sharing platforms, as a case to illustrate examples of Arab women’s curated visual identities. First, in contextual terms, feminist transnational inquiry graphics recognises the long-standing visual traditions of and by Arab women in MENA, across cinema, photography, art, magazines, fashion, mass media, music, dance, other visual and aesthetic modes (Kraidy, 2015). Keywords: feminist; inquiry; study; women
• PLEASURE+GENDER+PLAY by Chess, Shira; Massanari, Adrienne; Kruse, Holly; Consalvo, Mia; Boudreau, Kelly (2021.0) - While this is the experience of some casual game communities, there is little research on the ways in which casual game players who identify as part of the core player base may engage in their own form of problematic or toxic behaviors. However, the ways in which casual game players engage in boundary keeping and potential problematic behavior may vary widely and be expressed in very different ways than the tactics seen in more mainstream, male dominated toxic gamer culture. Keywords: culture; games; gaming; gender; girls; hobbyhorse; play; players; press; speed; time; video; women
• #FAITHANDFITNESSCOLLIDE: SPREADING THE WORD OF MULTILEVEL MARKETING IN CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S FITNESS INSTAGRAM POSTS by Prins, Kai; Wellman, Mariah (2021.0) - We look specifically at how Christian women navigate the potential shame of occupying a masculine economic role and a muscular body by reframing fitness MLMs like Beachbody as an opportunity to fulfill God’s plan and (re)inhabit the home. #FAITHANDFITNESSCOLLIDE: SPREADING THE WORD OF MULTILEVEL MARKETING IN CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S FITNESS INSTAGRAM POSTS Kai Prins University of Wisconsin - Madison Mariah Wellman University of Utah Introduction With the emergence of the coronavirus in 2020 leading to the closing of gyms and churches, along with the “she-cession” in which women disproportionately left the workforce (Hammer, 2021), women have increasingly turned to fitness-based multilevel marketing (MLM) for a sense of purpose and community – and money. Keywords: beachbody; fitness; mlm; women
• AFFECTIVE PUBLICS: “MAY GOD BLESS YOUTUBE” by Bagdogan, Seyda (2023.0) - To be precise, the research question I ask in this paper is: “How do Islamic values have impact on the hopes of Turkish Muslim women to construct their self-branding activities of digital domesticity?” Therefore, my research on the spirituality of hopes Turkish Muslim women will contribute to the scarce literature. Keywords: cooking; digital; women; youtube
• VIDEOGAMES IN RELATIONSHIP CONFLICTS by Butt, Mahli-Ann (2023.0) - Speaking with women about how they negotiate gaming with romantic partners thus helps to paint a more complex and complicated picture of their lives, gaming practices, and gaming lifeworlds. The medium of videogames is historically constructed around a default hypermasculine ‘gamer’ identity that views girls and women as ‘Other’ and ‘outsiders’ (Shaw, 2011; Vossen, 2018). Keywords: gaming; play; women
• RECLAIMING DIGITAL INTIMACY FOR YOUTH: PILOTING DIGITAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE WORKSHOPS FOR UNDER-18S DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND by Ging, Debbie; Ringrose, Jessica; Mendes, Kaitlynn; Horeck, Tanya; Milne, Betsy; Desborough, Karen; Castellini de la Silva, Ricardo (2023.0) - The respective studies used participatory workshops and focus groups as well as online surveys to explore young people’s experiences of and attitudes towards online sexual abuse and harassment. Only sluts love sexting: Youth, sexual norms and non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images. Keywords: abuse; online; ringrose; women
• THE INTELLECTUAL LABOR OF DIGITAL BLACK FEMINIST ENCLAVES IN HASHTAG CONSTRUCTION, RECEPTION, AND STRATIFICATION ONLINE by Hardy, Alisa (2023.0) - Extending this research to online platforms, Steele (2022) argued that digital Black feminist enclaves are online spaces created for and by Black women that “produces knowledge through discussion” (84-85). #MuteRKelly brings attention to musical artist's, Robert Sylvester Kelly, sexual exploitation of Black women and girls. Keywords: digital; feminist; media; women
• A GIRL DEFINED BY GOD: BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD, ANTI-FEMINISM, AND WHITE EVANGELICAL MICROCELEBRITIES by Lawson, Caitlin (2023.0) - Relevant Literature This project extends existing scholarship in three subject areas: women’s agency in gender-traditional religions, questions of authority among Evangelical white women in the United States, and tensions around Evangelical microcelebrities. Research on Evangelical white women in the US has explored their reactionary relationship to two secular forces: anti-racism and feminism. Keywords: feminism; girl; womanhood; women
• “ARE WE DATING THE SAME GUY?”: COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING AS A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FACEBOOK GROUPS by Casteel, Diana Michelle; Leiser, Sarah; Papacharissi, Zizi (2023.0) - Using discourse analysis, this study analyzes the collective sensemaking practices of AWDTSG groups oriented at constructing knowledge, managing privacy boundaries, content moderation, and providing social support. Providing and seeking social support in AWDTSG groups are an integral part of the broader practice of collective sensemaking. Keywords: dating; group; knowledge; sensemaking; women
• THESE GIRLS (STRIP) FOR THE CLOUT: EXPLORING ASPIRATIONAL, EMOTIONAL AND EROTIC LABOR OF BLACK WOMEN HIP-HOP ARTISTS ON ONLYFANS by Evans, Jabari Miles (2023.0) - Within strip club culture, Black women routinely use their bodies to seek monetary and cultural capital within their social networks. In both instances, Black women are required to use their racial identity in emotional labour to fulfill men’s fantasies and use relational labour to accomplish the illusion of intimacy, submissiveness, and attraction. Keywords: digital; hip; hop; labour; onlyfans; women
• WOMEN REVOLUTIONISING MONEY?: INVESTIGATING MEANING-MAKING AND GENDER MESSAGING IN FEMALE-TO-FEMALE FINFLUENCING ON INSTAGRAM by Li, Yuening ; Garwood-Cross, Lisa; Kerr, Aphra (2023.0) - The existing scholarly work largely criticises the lack of credibility for social media influencers in providing financial advice and the potential for compromised content generated under paid partnerships, leaving a gap in understanding female financial influencing as a cultural phenomenon of female- to-female online community support and care (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017). These phases will further delve into issues related to finfluencer labour, monetisation, risk, and the socio-technical, economic, and cultural significance of the emergence of female personal finance influencers and the practice of online saving communities. Keywords: female; instagram; posts; university; women
• FEMINIST QUEEN OR CONSPIRACY THEORIST? FEMALE SPREADERS OF WOMEN'S HEALTH DISINFORMATION by Martin, Zelly C; Trauthig, Inga K; Woolley, Samuel C (2023.0) - In fact, Graumann and Moscovici (2012) argue that those with fewer civil liberties (e.g., Black Americans, women, and particularly Black women due to intersectional oppression) are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. This problematizes definitions of conspiracy theories as “false, harmful, and unjustified”—notably only one definition (Graumann & Moscovici, 2012, p. 204). Keywords: abortion; conspiracy; control; disinformation; knowledge; women
• TOXICITY AGAINST BRAZILIAN WOMEN DEPUTIES ON TWITTER: A CATEGORIZATION OF DISCURSIVE VIOLENCE by Tavares, Camilla; Recuero, Raquel (2023.0) - These ways of describing and depreciating women associate female behavior with elements already observed in the literature and disqualify women deputies in front of their male colleagues. Thus, these platforms can effectively decrease women's representation as they increase gender violence (Paz, Montero-Díaz, & Moreno-Delgado, 2020; Silva, Francisco, & Sampaio, 2021) and increase the trend of growing global political violence against women (Krook, 2018). Keywords: 2020; deputies; discourse; toxicity; tweets; violence; women
• REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH APPS AND EMPOWERMENT – A CONTRADICTION? by Tylstedt, Beatrice; Sadowski, Helga; Eklund, Lina; Normark, Maria (2023.0) - Reproductive health apps and empowerment–a contradiction?. While reproductive health apps are often marketed in terms of female empowerment (Hendl & Jansky, 2021; Healy, 2021) and seem to offer women new and improved ways of managing their health, they are at the same time criticized for lacking data privacy (Mehrnezhad & Almeida, 2021; Fox, Howell, Wong & Spektor, 2019). Keywords: apps; design; health; tracking; women
• GENDER AND MISINFORMATION: DIGITAL HATE AND HARASSMENT (PART II) by Nanditha, Narayanamoorthy ; Hermanova, Marie; Rega, Rosella; Henrichsen, Jennifer; Lalwani, Sheila Babulal; Gehrke, Marília (2023.0) - Women parliamentarians who report online harassment may be new to elected office, and others have served for years. The chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists. Keywords: digital; gender; harassment; hate; india; journalists; media; misinformation; misogyny; news; parliamentarians; politics; university; violence; women
• MEDIATING, MEDIATIZING, OR DATAFYING IRANIAN WOMEN’S STRUGGLES? IMPERIAL FEMINIST CAMPAIGNS, THE ECONOMIES OF VISIBILITY, AND SUFFERING OF OTHER WOMEN by Badiei, Bahareh (2025.0) - By emphasizing the bravery of Iranian women while neglecting the impact of U.S.-imposed sanctions and other structural inequalities, these narratives reinforced a racialized dichotomy between gendered and racialized suffering. Theoretical Frameworks The research puts the frameworks of imperialist feminist and platform feminism into conversation to explore how the Orientalist trope of the veil emerges as a discursive and material metric to measure the suffering of Other women and mobilize platform feminism for women in Iran, who are under multiple of forms of systemic oppression including the compulsory hijab. Keywords: campaign; feminist; media; women
• BOYCOTT WOKENESS, SHOP LIKE A PATRIOT: A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF CONSERVATIVE MLM PROMOTION ON INSTAGRAM by Casteel, Diana Michelle (2025.0) - The genesis of conservative MLMs such as Patriot Wellness Box is unclear due to the lack of transparent business practices that purposefully obfuscate who owns or runs the company. Conceptual Framework Using Abidin’s (2021) framework of refracted publics and Cotter’s (2019) concept of “playing the visibility game,” this study seeks to understand the ways that vaguely coded conservative MLMs such as Patriot Wellness Box enable conservative female influencers to circumvent algorithms and sentiment seed more radical conspiracies within lifestyle content. Keywords: influencers; instagram; media; mlms; women
• I HAVE STOPPED CARING IF I SHOULD THINK BEFORE POSTING ONLINE: JOURNEY OF INDIAN WOMEN TO DIGITAL ACTIVISM AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE by Chatterjee, Nivedita (2025.0) - Yet, there remains a gap, when it comes to understanding what motivates women to become digital activists and how do they take digital activism beyond social media activism and why, in a socio-cultural framework marked by digital and power divide. This project investigates digital activism by Indian women against sexual violence under the overarching question of; how digital feminist protest by Indian women activists against sexual violence transpire in India? Keywords: activism; violence; women
• MEASURING MISOGYNY: DEPP V HEARD AND THE LIMITS OF ATOMISTIC CONTENT MODERATION by Nelson, Lucinda; Suzor, Nicolas (2025.0) - While they have made some changes – banning specific groups and pages; committing to reducing the spread of “borderline content”; introducing features that allow users to add additional context when reporting content – the foundational approach to content moderation has remained largely the same. DEPP V HEARD AND THE LIMITS OF ATOMISTIC CONTENT MODERATION Lucinda Nelson Queensland University of Technology Nicolas Suzor Queensland University of Technology Introduction and background There is a fundamental disconnect between existing approaches to content moderation and the dynamics of violence against women. Keywords: content; misogyny; moderation; violence; women
• DE-CONSTRUCTING ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’ MYTHS ON REPRODUCTION AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING THROUGH CDA: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN’S NGOS SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK” by Oliveira Matos, Carolina (2025.0) - Some of the experts interviewed recognized that public health arguments and the mere adherence to advocating on reproductive health based on facts, reports and statistics is not enough and is not ‘winning hearts”, at a particularly crucial time where emotions and cultural values around various political, cultural and social issues run high, particularly in the digital age and in the context of increasing political polarization, populism and rise of opinionated commentary in the media and online sphere. This includes the ability to provide in depth, detailed and critical information on SRHR, permitting that citizens can question messages and information, and can also make connections between reproductive health rights to issues of poverty and inequality. Keywords: health; media; ngos; rights; women
• BEYOND THE SWIPE: UNPACKING INDIAN WOMEN’S SAFETY STRATEGIES ON BUMBLE by Rajan, Benson (2025.0) - Background India is the fifth fastest-growing dating app market globally, and it is projected to become the second-largest revenue-grossing country for dating apps by 2027 (Gupta, 2023). Despite the persistence of patriarchal forms of marital arrangements and the complexities of restrictions surrounding caste, class, and religion, the proliferation of dating apps has led to some degree of normalisation of digital dating culture in urban India (George et al., 2021). Keywords: app; bumble; dating; india; safety; women
• CONTROVERSIES, PROBLEMATIC INFORMATION, AND POLARISATION: CASE STUDIES ACROSS SIX COUNTRIES by Bruns, Axel; Bastos, Marco; Vinhas, Otávio; Recuero, Raquel; Soares, Felipe; Iannelli, Laura; Marino, Giada; Serani, Danilo; Valeriani, Augusto; Choucair, Tariq; Svegaard, Sebastian; Vodden, Laura; Whelan-Shamy, Daniel; Azmi, Alia; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2025.0) - This was particularly salient in Brazil’s latest election cycle, when Bolsonaro supporters took up a central role in promoting narratives antithetical to democratic principles and that endorsed alternative facts with self-validating participatory disinformation ecosystems crafted via social media and messaging applications like WhatsApp and Telegram (Ozawa et al., 2023). Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps. Keywords: australia; campaign; case; communication; digital; disinformation; election; government; media; messages; news; polarization; public; research; study; university; violence; women
• #YesAllWomen (have a collective story to tell): Feminist hashtags and the intersection of personal narratives, networked publics, and intimate citizenship by Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan (2016.0) - Twitter  hashtags  invite  women  to   participate  in  a  more  temporal,  ephemeral,  contextual  manner  –  that  is,  to  articulate  a   particular  subjectivity  –  which  is  made  visible  in  that  moment,  both  individually  and   collectively.   I  have  organized  the  hashtags  that  fit  the  criteria  into  four  categories  that  all  reflect  the   ways  in  which  public  discourses  and  institutions  aim  to  regulate  the  bodies  and   experiences  of  women:  rape,  domestic  violence,  sexual  (street)  harassment,  and  bodily   autonomy. Keywords: hashtags; personal; women
• A DIFFERENT MODEL FOR ACADEMIC MENTORING: HOW RACE, MULTIPLICITY AND HOLISM INTERSECT WITH ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA by Steele, Catherine Knight; Korn, Jenny (2014.0) - Online social networks afford an integration of the self that is encouraged by Black feminist mentoring models. Context collapse facilitates holistic selves A participant described online mentoring relationships as more impactful in providing deep connections than those which she cultivated in person. Keywords: media; mentoring; model; women
• BEYOND BAYONETTA'S BARBIE BODY by Harper, Todd (2015.0) - Their work predates the appearance of the first Bayonetta title by three years, and was an exploration of the question: do women occupy a greater and more prominent space in video games as heroes and player characters than they had to that point in history? Put reductively, Mulvey argues that women characters in screen media often become objects onto which a dominant, hegemonic heterosexual gaze is imprinted for the pleasure of an assumed viewer coming from that very viewpoint. Keywords: bayonetta; character; drag; games; gender; player; video; ways; women
• CASCADING EXPLOITATIONS: THE CELEBRITY NUDE PHOTO HACK AS DIGITAL PHENOMENON by Lawson, Caitlin (2015.0) - For the “crackers” who stole the celebrity nudes, the “problem” they sought to solve was their lack of access to nude photos of celebrity women. Thus the masculine aspects of hacker culture, its fringe nature, the affordances of social media sites like 4chan and Reddit, and the resonances of online pornography coalesce to explain the celebrity nude photo hack as a digital extension of misogyny, sexual harassment, and our culture’s fascination and desire for intimacy with celebrities. Keywords: celebrity; hacking; images; media; online; photos; pornography; women
• FANBOYS, FANGIRLS, AND GEEKS PANEL by Blodgett, Bridget; Salter, Anastasia; Torrey, KT; Lowe, JSA (2015.0) - While previous episodes have only depicted fan women as predators (literally, in the case of Becky’s use of a spell to ensnare Sam as her husband) and otherwise as a minority within the Supernatural fan community, the 200th episode thus placed teenage girls front and center as fans and producers. The 200th episode of Supernatural takes another step in constructing the fan as subject: entitled “Fan Fiction,” it centers on young women fans creating a musical based on the Supernatural characters. Keywords: actors; dean; episode; fan; fandom; fans; female; marie; series; supernatural; women
• FROM “GEEK” TO “CHIC:” WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND THE WOMAN QUESTION by Wissinger, Elizabeth (2016.0) - This  failure  to  catch  on  is   informative,  arguably  stemming  from  problematic  cultural  attitudes  about  women  and   technology  revealed  by  device  designs.1   and  the  products  themselves,  to  uncover  how  negative  attitudes  about  women  are  being   smuggled  into  wearables,  in  the  name  of  what  the  market  ‘wants.’ Keywords: fashion; tech; women
• GIRL GAMERS?: PLAYER AND INSTITUTIONAL ORIENTATIONS TOWARDS WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN AND AROUND E-SPORTS by Witkowski, Emma (2014.0) - The variety of organizations and players I have collaborated with since 2008 comprises ethnographic work within progress raiding guilds, where women were guild leaders and key players (2009 - 2012); qualitative fieldwork at organized LAN e-sports tournaments (DreamHack 2009, 2011; MLG 2010; WCG 2010; BlizzCon 2010; Blizzard Invitational 2008; D3 Expo 2008); and extensive player/team and e-sports organizer interviews conducted online or on-site at various events. Player and institutional orientations towards women’s participation in and around e-sports. Keywords: gamer; girl; players; taylor; women
• MAKING SPACE FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY: RHETORIC, DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY (CYBER)MUSEUM by Chabot, Shersta (2015.0) - Using the National Women’s History (Cyber)Museum (NWHM) as a focus, this paper explores the significant shifts that history museums in the United States have recently undergone within the cultural imaginary, shifts necessitated by a booming digital entertainment industry, social media and mobile devices. From a cultural-political standpoint, the existence and mission of a women’s history “cyber” museum calls into question the traditional role that history museums have played in the United States. Keywords: history; museum; nwhm; women
• Queer Travels: Networked Society, Digitizing Queerness and Political Surveillance by Wong, Yuenmei (2013.0) - The first festival was organized in conjunction with the Independence Day of Malaysia (August 31) by a small group of gay and lesbians in the capital city of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur in 2008. As Mitchell explained, (public spaces are) very importantly, spaces for representation. Keywords: cities; city; london; lumpur; malaysia; merdeka; new; politics; press; public; queer; rights; saskia; sassen; sexuality; space; women; york

• The Uber Game: Exploring Algorithmic Management and Resistance by Allen-Robertson, James (2017.0) - Secondly, the paper draws together literature on algorithmic power, with the field of game studies to provide complimentary insights into the knowledge and power relations between individuals and algorithmic systems. This paper, based on a computer-aided content analysis of 28,458 forum threads, argues that whilst gig economy workers are governed by algorithmic systems, that same system facilitates resistance. Keywords: game; management; paper; rules
• INTELLIGENT FAILURES: CLIPPY MEMES AND THE LIMITS OF DIGITAL ASSISTANTS by Baym, Nancy; Shifman, Limor ; Persaud, Christopher; Wagman, Kelly (2019.0) - Yet this failure in “knowing its limits” is also what gives Clippy character. This now-iconic query was posed by Clippy, an animated paperclip with fierce eyebrows, beseeching eyes, and fatal shortcomings in its ability to determine when users actually needed help. Keywords: aoir; clippy; digital; paper; shifman
• CHEMSEX: DIGITAL, CHEMICAL AND COMMUNAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF DISINHIBITION by Hakim , Jamie; Møller, Kristian; Florêncio, João; Murphy, Dean; Race, Kane; Pienaar, Kiran; Lea, Toby (2019.0) - The overriding effect of consuming chemsex drugs was a ‘loss of inhibitions’. Notably, anxieties, risk, and modes of trust are not absent from chemsex practices and imaginaries, but rather co-constitutive of its pleasures. Keywords: chemsex; digital; drugs; gay; london; media; men; new; paper; prep; press; race; trust
• THANKS AMAZON FOR SCARRING ME FOR LIFE: WORKER BREAKDOWN AND THE DISRUPTION OF CARE AT AMAZON by Smith, Brendan (2020.0) - The rallying cry of Amazon workers, “we are not robots,” implies that there is a direct relationship between the treatment of their minds and bodies as machinery, and the forms of mental and physical breakdown they experience. Drawing from political and technological theories of labour and care, this paper will look into how Amazon workers navigate (and often escape) the affective and embodied confines of Amazon's augmented despotism. Keywords: amazon; breakdown; paper; workers
• WHY PLAY WHEN YOU CAN WATCH OR LISTEN? MULTI-MODAL ENGAGEMENTS IN DIGITAL GAMING by Jovic, Dahlia; Butt, Mahli-Ann; Stanton, Ryan; Willma, Tom (2023.0) - Video game music: High scores: Making sense of music and video games. Cheating: Gaining advantage in video games. Keywords: content; culture; games; gaming; media; music; new; paper; play; practices; press; research; studies; university; video
• HASHTAGS, HIERARCHIES AND HEGEMONIES: MAINSTREAM DIGITAL FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND INTERSECTIONAL CRITIQUES by Fox, Izzy E (2023.0) - Furthermore, as illustrated by the discussion of Hollaback!, above, the failure by mainstream feminists to recognize the role that digital tools and platforms can play in perpetuating inequalities and discrimination under the guise of ‘protecting women’ underscores the duty of care that feminists have to ensure that intersectionality informs every stage of a campaign, including online activism. For Mohanty, western feminist discourse contributes to the construction of “the third world woman” (1988 333) in opposition to the ‘enlightened’ western feminist, which often results in the perpetuation of a ‘rescue narrative’ by those assuming the role of ‘white saviour’. Keywords: discourse; feminist; paper; sex
• REVISITING KEY CONCEPTS IN DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH: INFLUENCE, POPULISM, PARTISANSHIP, POLARISATION by Bruns, Axel ; Bechmann, Anja; Charquero-Ballester, Marina; Walter, Jessica G.; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; McKernan, Brian; Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Stanziano, Anna; Choucair, Tariq; Esau, Katharina; Svegaard, Sebastian; Vilkins, Samantha (2023.0) - The third approach offers a more efficient and unbiased way of classifying political media, at least in that it is entirely data-driven. The prevalence of extremist positions over moderate ones in some recent elections and the emergence of hyperpartisan media (Benkler et al., 2018) have brought renewed attention to the impact of political polarisation (Wojcieszak, 2015) on public discourse in liberal democracies (Katsambekis, 2017). Keywords: analysis; attention; communication; digital; influence; media; media research; news; paper; partisanship; polarisation; populism; research; university
• IDEOLOGY AND AFFECT IN POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND FANDOM ONLINE by Svegaard, Sebastian ; Barnes, Renee; Vieira, Eloy; Aquino, Maria Clara; Ferreira, Driele; Blanco, Beatriz; Amaral, Adriana; Schuch, Cassia; Moody, Kyle; Rosenberg, Allegra; Vilkins, Samantha (2023.0) - The conflict between fan communities and ideologies regarding Harry Potter and Hogwarts Legacy remains a strong one, highlighting how personal identities and brands are wrapped up in the very public act of playing video games online. As consequence, there are prominent recent streams of work explicating what exactly the fields of fan studies and political sociology can offer each other for researching communities online in such contexts. Keywords: consumption; culture; debate; fandom; fans; game; hogwarts; identity; labor; legacy; media; online; paper; politics; public; university
• HUMOUR, HARM, AND HATE: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN FAR-RIGHT EXTREMIST MEMES by Andreasen, Maja Brandt (2025.0) - Harlow, S., Rowlett, J. T., & Huse, L.K. (2020) ‘Kim Davis be like  … ’: a feminist critique of gender humor in online political memes. Going beyond current focus on the importance of definitions in relation to memes (Bogerts & Fielitz, 2019; Shifman, 2013), I characterize the visual posts on my selected platforms as visual culture (McSwiney et al., 2021) encompassing a multitude of visual content including but not limited to strict definitions of memes. Keywords: gender; humor; memes; paper; right
• VIRTUAL CELEBRITY INDUSTRIES IN EAST ASIA by Berryman, Rachel; Abidin, Crystal; Kim, Do Own Donna; Hwang, Seol; Miyake, Esperanza (2025.0) - Based on digital ethnography and visual analysis, it proposes virtual influencers are used to signify technological advancement, extending a “halo of innovation” to associated brands and products. This paper’s chronology is by no means comprehensive of all predecessors but uniquely incorporates Japanese and Korean cases that are historically rich but lesser known in English-based international Internet research, drawing on a larger project on virtual influencers (Kim, 2022; see Kim, forthcoming). Keywords: analysis; asia; celebrity; china; chinese; culture; digital; east; entertainment; human; idols; imma; industries; industry; influencers; japanese; journal; marketing; media; new; news; paper; pop
• TECHOLOGIES OF THE IMAGINATION by Stevenson, Michael; Ankerson, Megan Sapnar; Gehl, Robert; Murray, Sarah (2015.0) - What is the status of Perl in web history, and how was it implicated in early imaginings of the web’s identity? This paper situates the uncertainty and confusion surrounding popular understandings of web history alongside the recent surge in web nostalgia. Keywords: calculation; counting; digital; history; media; paper; perl; self; software; web
• That was Then, This is Now by Gershon, Ilana; Ensmenger, Nathan; Carlson, Gordon; Deuze, Mark (2013.0) - Expansion in several sports during the 1980s and early 1990s aided by an explosion in cable television and a concerted effort by several sport leagues, professional sports rapidly shifted into a traditional “big business” phase modeling other successful industries (transmission in Carey’s context). This paper argues this occurred because of the rapid increase in speed and richness of information about professional sports brought about by ubiquitous web access. Keywords: latour; media; paper; sports

• Panel: Shifts In Socially Mediated Visual Cultures: Images By/For Machines And Humans by Tiidenberg, Katrin; Schreiber, Maria; Lehmuskallio, Asko; Fausing, Bent; Bechmann, Anja; Markham, Annette; Seppänen, Janne; Häkkinen, Jukka (2017.0) - Algorithms are constantly tasked with interpreting social media images that carry multiple social functions and meanings for people creating and uploading them. Thus this presentation asks how deep learning algorithms used on social media images are used to predict gender of the uploader, and what the potential political, social and ideological implications of such data-driven categorizations are. Keywords: affordances; communication; culture; digital; images; instagram; media; new; photography; pictures; practices; sense; snapchat; university
• Jamming The Political With “Intergalactic Peace” – Constitution Of An Anti-Racist Online S by Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Porttikivi, Merja (2017.0) - Following Blaschke et al. (2012) proposition, we use network analysis to study the network of communication episodes, where the vertices of the network represent communication episodes and the edges represent individuals. ! Consequently, Bart Cammaerts (2007) introduces the concept of politi- cal jamming, which means “the cultural jamming techniques used by political actors, as well as by citizens, in their political communication within fragmented counter-public spheres, as well as in the mainstream public sphere”. Keywords: communication; episodes; jamming
• TRANSNATIONAL AND POST HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION by Foster, Jamie; Sawyer, Kristina; O'Connell, Carrie; Van De Wiele, Chad; Garcia, Melina (2018.0) - While a methodology is not presented here, the hyper-memory framework offers a way to deduce what of human memory virtual agents have at their disposal. • Transference of human memory to cloud-based memory through voice commands as the foundation for algorithmic future-thinking. Keywords: agents; communication; development; digital; future; human; machine; memory; new; relationships; research; robots; self; trust
• RELIEF FROM COMMUNICATION: PARENTAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES, TRUST AND CARE by Damkjær, Maja Sonne; Southerton, Clare Victoria; Albrechtslund, Anders (2019.0) - Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child’s experience of trust, risk and responsibility? Affording surveillance To understand the complex relationship between trust and privacy, we explore the interconnection between parenting, digital communication technologies and surveillance. Keywords: communication; surveillance; technologies; trust
• CALL ME MAYBE: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND TRUST ASSOCIATED WITH TELEPHONY by Einarson Pérez, Cecilie; Leong, Lorian (2019.0) - Crucially, this research delves into the level of trust in communications mediums and interpersonal relationships. Considered an intrusive form of communication phone numbers were not shared amongst weak ties/acquaintances, and instead reserved for close friends and family members whom were trusted to know of and to adhere to these codes. Keywords: calls; communication; mobile; telephony
• SOCIAL MEDIA LOGIC AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTRAINTS: EVIDENCE FROM ITALY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Locatelli, Elisabetta; Lovari, Alessandro (2021.0) - Although it could be expected, it was not taken for granted that social media communication would become pivotal during the early phase of the emergency. On the other side, social media platforms shaped health communication, pushing LHAs to adapt their institutional languages to the styles of social media communication. Keywords: communication; covid-19; health; media; posts
• FEMINIST APPROACHES TO DISINFORMATION STUDIES by Marwick, Alice E.; Losh, Elizabeth; Schlüter, Maximilian; Markham, Annette; Phipps, E. Brooke (2023.0) - By centering intersectional identity in “disinformation studies,” we contribute to the long- standing scholarly recognition of knowledge production as a feminist issue. Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics. Keywords: communication; communities; conspiracy; disinformation; feminist; identity; media; new; science; studies; theories; tiktok; trolling; videos
• MY PRODUCT, YOUR GREEN CHOICE: EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN INFLUENCER’S SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATION AND GREEN MARKETING STRATEGIES ON TIKTOK by Bombaci, Mael; Nespoli, Francesco (2025.0) - TikTok, with its distinctive communicative style characterised by highly visual, vernacular, and meme-based content (Hautea et al., 2021), emerges as a particularly effective channel for addressing companies' communication needs, especially through the narratives shaped by green influencers. Green influencers are emerging, committed to raising public awareness of sustainability (Abell & Pittman, 2021). Keywords: communication; influencers; sustainability; tiktok
• A PROPOSED CYBERBYSTANDER INTERVENTION MODEL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by Dillon, Kelly (2015.0) - Individuals uninvolved in incidents are considered cyberbystanders, and a new model is necessary to test the boundary conditions of cyberbystander intervention. A more comprehensive model of cyberbystander intervention is proposed. Keywords: communication; cyberbystander; intervention; model
• Appropriating new communication technologies in migrants’ home communities: A case study from Brazil by Vieira, Kate (2013.0) - First, literacy scholars have begun to examine the pedagogy of transnational communication technologies from the perspective of migrant youth. My coding categories included: how particular technologies contribute to feelings of proximity or distance; the material and practical means by which migrants sponsored family members’ learning of new communication technologies (such as by giving them a computer and/or teaching them how to use it); the way that transnational communication technologies permeated local interactions and professional goals. Keywords: communication; family; migrants; migration; technologies
• From Internet to the streets: An approach to activism in Aguascalientes, Mexico by Flores Márquez, Dorismilda (2013.0) - This research project addresses to analyze the connection between public space and online communication, by examining participation of activist groups in public space through online expression practices. Keywords Public expression, online communication, protest, media coverage, activism The study of online public expression of activists in Aguascalientes, Mexico: A research in progress The paper presents the outcomes of an empirical exploration on activism and the link among online communication practices, the streets demonstrations, and media coverage, as well as the implications for their study. Keywords: communication; coverage; media; practices
• Hacking healthcare: Navigating disconnection in the pursuit of medical care by Ems, Lindsay; Gonzales, Amy (2013.0) - Denver, USA 1 Overcoming the authority problem: A subculture-centered approach for health communications Lindsay Ems Indiana University United States lems@indiana.edu Amy Gonzales Indiana University United States gonzaamy@indiana.edu Keywords Social media; social marketing; health communication; social support; subcultures; inequalities A subculture-centered approach Traditionally, health communicators have assumed an interventionist stance, seeing their job as “distributing” or “transferring” knowledge to at-risk populations. Findings Interviews with staff at the clinic revealed that they circumvent the authority problem using a subculture-centered approach to circulate salacious, personalized health messages through a variety of subcultural social media platforms Below we focus on two specific examples of this: one describes the use of Instagram and the other describes the use of Grindr for communicating HIV health information. Keywords: communication; health; media; staff; subculture
• Its Not All Zeroes and Ones: constructing online identity assembly theory by Tyma, Adam W.; Leonard, Lynnette G. (2011.0) - Often, the reported age of an individual user via her/his online identity will invite unsolicited contact from other online identities, thereby expanding the user’s network and further assembling the user’s presented online identity. Abstract The construction of online identity, though examined in other disciplines, has not yet been approached theoretically in the communication scholarship. Keywords: assembly; communication; identities; identity; online; osc; process; research; theory; user
• RESISTING SOVEREIGN SURVEILLANCE: AN ACTIVIST AGENDA FROM THE INCARCERATED by Lingel, Jessa; Sinnreich, Adam (2014.0) - RESISTING SOVEREIGN SURVEILLANCE: AN ACTIVIST AGENDA FROM THE INCARCERATED Jessa Lingel Microsoft Research Aram Sinnreich Rutgers University Keywords online surveillance, information activism, prisons In the wake of recent disclosures about government surveillance, longstanding questions of privacy and individual control of information have become vitally and politically important. These tactics form the crux of our inquiry, in that we use these forms of protest as a means of thinking through possibilities for coping with and perhaps even undermining institutional surveillance. Keywords: communication; hunger; resistance; self; surveillance
• Revisiting the Emergent Norm Theory to Understand Protest Communication in Social Media: the Improvisation-Verification-Solidification (IVS) Framework by Kwon, Hazel (2013.0) - We revisit the classical theory of collective behavior, called the emergent norm theory by Killian and Turner (1987), to introduce the analytic framework that highlights major genres of protest communication activities in social media. In particular, ENT helps to articulate three characteristics of social media communication, manifest especially during political crises when the society is challenged by high-level of uncertainty and ambiguity of information: the hybridity of interpersonal conversations and factual news (Papacharizzi & De Fatima Oliveira, 2012), the instantaneous and episodic flow of contents (Kwak et al., 2010), and the spontaneous communicative participation (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012). Keywords: communication; framework; improvisation; media; verification

• When Does Irl Matter? Location And Networked Creativity In Gamer, Hacker And Maker Publics by Braybrooke, Kat; Annika, Richterich; Karin, Wenz; Tim, Jordan (2017.0) - First, we will ask whether collocation or physical connection remains a structuring element in different networked publics, and why this has been under- appreciated and theorised. when a primarily, if not at this time wholly, online group moved offline. Keywords: communities; culture; digital; game; groups; media; new; offline; online; private; production; public; spaces
• Transnational Social Spaces And Diasporic Publics. How Migrants Are Changing Traditional Conceptualisations Of The Public Sphere by Marino, Sara (2017.0) - As Couldry and Dreher pointed out (2007), this framework fails to address the complexity of today’s global mobility, which is characterised by the emergence of counter-public spheres, indigenous public spheres, and diasporic public spheres, which represent the main focus of this presentation. My research also intends to stimulate a discussion on the differences between media platforms: online communities and social networking sites present disparities that need to be taken into account when we discuss the impact of transnational connections on contemporary public spheres. Keywords: london; networks; public; spaces; sphere
• Public Deliberation and Civic Engagement in Public Health Politics: Everyday Political Talk about Public Health Issues on Chinese BBS forums by Sun, Yu; Graham, Todd; Broersma, Marcel (2017.0) - A comparative study of everyday political talk across three different Chinese online forums was conducted to better understand how ordinary Chinese citizens talk about public health issues in different contexts. Moving beyond the formally political spaces, this paper zooms in the internet- enabled everyday life spaces to see how disorganized ordinary citizen actors in public health politics use internet to practice their individual agency as well as how they negotiate with the established power structure at the micro level in their everyday talk about public health issues. Keywords: health; public; talk
• MEMORY OF THE FUTURE? DIGITAL ARCHIVES IN PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA by Eberwein, Tobias; Gerard-Wenzel, Corinna (2018.0) - Technological innovations and digitization open up new possibilities for generating cultural memory, as data can be stored and made accessible more easily. Theoretical background The study finds a theoretical starting point in the concept of cultural memory that can be defined as the tradition in us, which is transmitted via generations over texts, pictures and rituals and affects our worldview (Assmann, 1995). Keywords: archives; media; memory; public
• SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF AI AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF ETHICS by Kerr, Aphra; Barry, Marguerite; Kelleher, John (2020.0) - A face to face administered survey of 164 individuals visiting a science gallery provided an opportunity to explore expectations of AI and ethical AI amongst a sub-section of the public. By 2016 formal public and professional reports directly addressed negative expectations of AI, and included efforts to develop ethical guidelines founded on European values and research on ethical AI. Keywords: ethics; expectations; public
• HOW WE ARE (NOT)COPING UNDER THE NEW GAMING PUBLIC: AN EXISTENTIAL-MATERIALIST ETHNOGRAPHY OF LIFEWORLDS WITHIN (AND AGAINST) GAMER HEGEMONY by Butt, Mahli-Ann (2021.0) - Accordingly, feminist critiques of sexist, racists, and homophobic depictions of in-game characters will often also seek to promote the ‘diversification’ of games industry workforces in order to achieve overall ‘greater representation’ from the ground up. Anna Everett declares, “a sign of our millennial times” is that gaming journalists are more willing than ever to “raise concerns about race, gender, and sexuality discourses in gaming culture and the gaming industry complex,” (2017, p. ix). Keywords: feminist; gaming; public; research
• RECKONING AND REPAIR: THE URGENT CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE IN THE BLACK CHRISTIAN PODCAST CIRCUIT by Laughlin, Corrina (2021.0) - To create a space for their own community and to influence the larger public, Black Christian podcasters create both an enclaved space where Black listeners can feel at home and cocoon themselves in Black cultural idioms, and a counterpublic space that engages with— and hopes to change— the larger Christian public. Through a critical discourse analysis of three podcasts and interviews with prominent Black Christian podcasters, this paper focuses on the Black Christian response to the 2020 uprisings against police brutality in the United States. Keywords: black; christian; public
• ONE HUNDRED NAZI SCREENS: INTERFACES AND THE STRUCTURE OF U.S. WHITE NATIONALIST DIGITAL NETWORKS ON TELEGRAM by Van Schenck, Reed (2023.0) - Findings I argue that white nationalist Telegram networks co-opt the “enclave public” (Squires 2002; Bratich 2006) or a constituent and oppositional mode of secrecy within the unitary public, as a mode of white supremacist countermovement. One hundred Nazi screens: Interfaces and the structure of U.S. white nationalist digital networks. Keywords: interface; public; right; telegram; user; white
• REPARATIVE MEDIA: REVOLUTIONARY STORYTELLING AND ITS ENEMIES IN A STREAMING ERA by Christian, Aymar J ; Aufderheide, Patricia A; Haywood, Antoine; Clark, Jessica (2023.0) - Reparative research is work that is not only about but with reparative media communities, using both quantitative and qualitative research. However, the reparative work also builds upon efforts in previous eras in self-styled movements for alternative media, community media, public-service media, and activist media. Keywords: access; community; culture; development; documentary; media; philadelphia; phillycam; press; production; public; streaming; television; university
• MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY, AND POLITICIZATION IN DIGITALLY MEDIATED SCIENCE by Abhari, Rod Morgan; Ma, Lai; Schneider, Jodi; Tosoni, Simone; Loeb, Zachary (2025.0) - In this way, science misinformation may have immediate effects on specific science issues as well as long-term consequences for the ability of science to contribute to public policy (Southwell et al., 2022). Motivated by these challenges, our proposed panel will discuss how the internet shapes public (mis)understandings of science and explore possible regulatory and design decisions to counteract science misinformation. Keywords: article; covid-19; literacy; media; mentions; misinformation; public; research; retraction; science; scientists; social
• Culpable Media: Digital Disembodiment and the Rise of “Crowdsourced Morality” by Ryasvy, Wayne Erik (2013.0) - I draw on the dramaturgical metaphors for impression management and public life from Erving Goffman (1959) and Richard Sennett (1977) to consider how public expression has changed and how “crowdsourced morality” is performed as an increasingly common practice of online interactions. Microsoft Word - 818-564-1-PB.docx Culpable Media/Culpable Selves: Digital Disembodiment and the Rise of “Crowdsourced Morality” Wayne Erik Rysavy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States wrysavy@email.unc.edu Abstract Social media encourage collective practices of public expression and individualized practices of privacy and reputation management. Keywords: expression; individual; media; morality; public
• E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Public Participation by Karpf, David (2013.0) - To avoid the Field of Dreams Fallacy, digital government efforts must be calibrated in light of existing public interest levels. The problem with these initiatives is rooted in a set of common misunderstandings about the structure of citizen interest in public participation – simply put, the Internet does not create public interest, it reveals public interest. Keywords: government; interest; new; polarization; public
• IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH THE INTERNET AND BEYOND by Eckert, Stine; Deller, Ruth; Croeser, Sky; Donovan, Gregory (2015.0) - (( The(city’s(rationalization(for(why(this(policing(policy(was(not(a(matter(of(unconstitutional(( racial(profiling,(was(predicated(on(the(notion(that(police(officers(were(simply(stopping( and(frisking(those(statistically(most(likely(to(be(carrying(an(illegal(weapon.(Data,(and(not( the(passions(of(cultural(politics,(supposedly(guided(the(practice(despite(88%(of(those( stopped((3.8M(people)(being(found(of(no(wrong(doing.(To(counter(the(ways(black(and( brown,(and(mostly(male,(youth(have(been(represented(within(public(databases,(as(well( as(the(local(and(national(urban(imaginary,(the(RFP(have(been(developing(videos(for( social(media(that(look(critically(at(the(statistics(behind(Stop(and(Frisk(and(also(amplify( the(narratives(of(young(people(who’ve(been(frisked.(Examples(from(their(public(media( work(will(be(highlighted(and(discussed(as(a(way(of(organizing(meaningful( understandings(of(injustice(in(the(smart(city(through(the(sharing(of(lived(experience.(& The(more(material(aspects(of(smart(urbanism’s(uneven(geography(will(also(be(explored( by(comparing(and(contrasting(two(different(WiFi(initiatives(in(NYC.(The(first(example,( LinkNYC,(is(a(cityAwide(initiative(to(convert(existing(payphones(into(high(bandwidth(WiFi( kiosks.(Following(the(publicAprivate(partnership(model(that(governs(most(NYC(parks(in(( affluent(areas,(this(‘public(Wifi’(is(being(developed(as(a(profitAdriven(infrastructure( focused(on(generating(ad(revenue.(In(contrast,(Red(Hook(WiFi(is(a(communityAbased( initiative(aimed(at(enhancing(digital(access(within(the(Red(Hook(Houses(and(their( surrounding(community(in(Brooklyn.(In(this(example,(the(community(itself(builds(and( maintains(a(free(mesh(network(that(provides(people(in(the(area(with(access(to(both(a( local(intranet(and(the(broader(internet.(While(LinkNYC(is(a(consortium(of(corporations( represented(within(the(digital.nyc(map(that(aims(to(generate(more(revenue(for(the(city( by(upgrading(an(existing(communication(infrastructure,(Red(Hook(WiFi(builds(a(local( infrastructure(with(and(within(a(lowAincome(neighborhood(unlikely(to(generate(significant( advertising(revenue(and(thus(unlikely(to(attract(many((if(any)(LinkNYC(kiosks.( Empathy&as&Ontological&Stance( Quantified measurements of WiFi access in NYC, or of innocent youth frisked by armed officers in their own neighborhoods, are unlikely to produce statistical generalizability and thus warrant broad public concern. 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• Keeping It Fake: Exploring User-Generated Political Fakes and Their Publics by Ferrari, Elisabetta (2016.0) - (USA) Introduction This paper investigates user-generated political satire, focusing in particular on one genre: fake political accounts. Table 1 - Characteristics of the sample of fake accounts Fake Account Facebook likes Twitter followers Number of interviewees Number of authors Renzo Mattei 14,511 37,000 3 3 Gianni Kuperlo 2,392 27,300 1 1 Casalegglo 304 74,100 2 7 Keywords: accounts; public; satire
• PRIVACY WITH PUBLIC ACCESS: DIGITAL MEMORIALS ON QR CODES by Gotved, Stine; Bjerager, Klaus (2014.0) - Privacy with public access: digital memorials on QR codes. In sum, the physical space around QR codes on gravestones is an arena for renewed negotiations of private- public distinctions, closely connected to contextual integrity (Nissenbaum, 2010) and the physical introduction of digital memorials. Keywords: death; memorials; public

• A GOOD LIFE? CRITICAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO INFLUENCER ECOLOGIES by Glatt, Zoë; Banet-Weiser, Sarah; Bishop, Sophie; Sobande, Francesca; Wissinger, Elizabeth; Entwistle, Joanne; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Rocamora, Agnès; Arriagada, Arturo (2020.0) - Social media influencers are envied by audiences as having achieved ‘the good life’, one in which they are able to ‘do what they love’ for a living (Duffy 2017). In 2020, influencer content can lie on a spectrum of amateur to highly professional; mythologies about influencers’ independence have also been complicated as we catch glimpses of managers, photographers and PR teams. Keywords: analysis; content; creators; culture; duffy; fashion; feminist; influencer; media; mum; new; press; style; university; visibility; york; youtube
• FEVER DREAMS AND THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA ON TIKTOK by Conner, Viki (2023.0) - FEVER DREAMS AND THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA ON TIKTOK Viki Askounis Conner University of Illinois – Chicago From politics to popular culture, no aspect of contemporary society appears to be immune from nostalgia – the bittersweet emotion commonly associated with “a sentimental longing for the past” (Sedikides & Wildschut, 2019). To the extent digital media condition us to see the world through nostalgia-colored glasses at the same time that they afford new forms of nostalgic expression, the political issue at stake is whether these emergent social formations of nostalgia invite us to look regressively (restoratively) back or enable us to move forward imaginatively (reflectively) in the face of the complex problems facing societies around the world, as Svetlana Boym (2001) invites us to consider in The Future of Nostalgia. Keywords: media; nostalgia; press; tiktok; time
• BETWEEN THE (LIVE) STREAM: CONFIGURATIONS OF/FOR EMBODIMENT, TECHNICITY AND VICARIOUS SPACES by Durham, Charlotte (2025.0) - As such, we can see live streaming not as two separate, discrete spaces, but as transmitting across this binary and as complexly and powerfully embodied, lived and everyday. By positioning live streaming among the mundane, I am asking us to consider how, as a practice, it is embedded within a set of routine and normative experiences (see Morris, 1988; Seigworth, 2000) that are part and parcel of Internet culture more broadly. Keywords: disney; methods; press; space; streaming
• PREDICTIONS OF THE SELF: AI AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUBJECTIVATION by Frizzera, Luciano (2025.0) - Focusing on Kaggle, a platform for crowdsourcing AI development, I examine the practices of the data science community on three high- profile machine learning projects and conclude by arguing that machine learning has been thought of and developed as a prediction of the self in order to prescribe individual behaviour to fulfill specific economic conditions. AI systems datafy our body—our face, our gender, the colour of our skin—and our identity, producing live databases for computable linkages between humans and nonhumans. Keywords: competitions; models; press; subjectivation
• BEAUTY BRANDS ONLINE: VISUALITY, LABOUR, AND REPRESENTATION by Premika, Anuja (2025.0) - Beauty brands online: Visuality, labour, and representation. Online beauty culture, however—co-produced by beauty brands, content creators, and audiences— presents a space where the imprecise lines between individual and industry become still hazier. Keywords: beauty; brands; content; culture; media; press; university
• A Digital Black Press?: Exploring What Constitutes the Black Press Online by Williams, Miya Christine (2016.0) - Interview  subjects  were  selected  based  on  the  following   criteria:  their  publication  attracted  a  sizable  audience,  their  content  was  news  related   and  had  a  clear  emphasis  on  African  Americans  and  their  website  was  up-­to-­date.   The  consumption  of  online  news  by  black  audiences  is  also  integral  to  this  research. Keywords: news; online; press
• Digital, material, affective by Passonen, Susanna; Sundén, Jenny; Tzankova, Veronika (2013.0) - 2) Turkish online sexual networks mediate affective states by providing the conditions for transforming the physical sexual body into a verbal abstraction. Whereas Turkish governmental politics have extensively reinforced morally conservative sexual norms for the last several years, Turkish online sexual networks have been expanding sexual practice, expression, and understanding. Keywords: affect; affective; analog; digital; intensities; media; networks; new; press; steampunk; thread
• MAKING AND BREAKING RULES ON THE INTERNET by Tiidenberg, Katrin; Abidin, Crystal; Siibak, Andra (2016.0) - We  analyze  the  rule  breaking  and  rule  making  through  social  media   practices  like  teacher-­student  interactions  on  Facebook,  friendship  and  flirting  on   Tumblr,  microcelebrity  attention  seeking  practices  and  self-­presentation  on   different  social  networking  sites.         It  brings  together  three  presentations,  all  of  which  speak  to  the  central   conference  theme  by  engaging  with  how  specific  rules  and  norms  regarding   privacy,  friendship,  shame  and  commodification  are  appropriated,  rejected  or   transformed. Keywords: attention; influencers; media; online; practices; press; shame; teachers; university

• Context Collapse In News by Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae; Chaparro Domínguez, María Ángeles; Følstad, Asbjørn (2017.0) - Finally, the potential implications of context collapse in social media news stories, especially concerning the distribution of fake news and the misinterpretation of the facts, are discussed. Sixty- six percent of Facebook users reported reading news stories on the site, while nearly 59% of Twitter users reported the same. Keywords: context; media; news; stories
• How To Understand Trust In News Media – A Theoretical Model by Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae; Lüders, Marika; Følstad, Asbjørn (2017.0) - We predict news media type to have a moderating effect on the main determinants of trust in news media, as well as a direct effect on trust. Outline of the theoretical model Through a typology of news media user types, we address three different layers of factors that are likely to determine the type of news media user, particularly relevant for trust in news media: (1) Individual differences, that is, varying inherent characteristics of the individual news consumer. Keywords: media; model; news; trust; user
• Framing Wikileaks In The Networked Fourth Estate by Maggs, Catherine Ann (2017.0) - The paper analyses WikiLeaks’ depiction in two major political journals of record by identifying the construction and use of media frames in the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Framing WikiLeaks in the Networked Fourth Estate. Keywords: frame; framing; media; news; power; wikileaks
• EXAMINING THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF EMERGING SOCIAL NEWS OUTLETS AND THEIR ADVOCACY JOURNALISM IN THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE POSTAL SURVEY by Hurcombe, Edward Flipo (2018.0) - The editorial perspectives of social news outlets are frequently overt, a quality I term ‘positionality’. Social news outlets also eschew and critique ‘balance’, an established journalistic norm. Keywords: media; news; outlets; survey
• TRUST IN TAIWAN’S MEDIA ECOLOGY, AUDIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: 2018 TAIWANESE LOCAL ELECTIONS AND NATIONAL REFERENDA AS A CASE STUDY by Chen, Pai-Lin; Cheng, Yu-Chung; Fu, Wen-Cheng; Lin, Trisha T.C (2019.0) - In modern society, news media operate under a heavy-duty organization with rigid news production processes and long-standing paths to the delivery of contents (Fishman, 1980). On the other hands, news media in a liquid society owns flat organization, flexible production process, as well as virtual path in delivery news messages. Keywords: election; liquid; media; news; online; participation; reality; referenda; society; study; taiwan; trust
• NAVIGATING THE POST-TRUTH ERA: TRUST, MISINFORMATION, AND CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT ON ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA by Kyza, Eleni A.; Varda, Christiana (2019.0) - Social media and the spread of fake news The rise of social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) has shifted the distribution of news away from the traditional gatekeepers (e.g. media outlets and journalists) to lay persons, peer networks, and algorithmic technologies (e.g. recommender engines and bots). Navigating the post-truth era: trust, misinformation, and credibility assessment on online social media. Keywords: media; misinformation; news; online
• TRUST IN DECONSTRUCTED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS. CASE STUDY: NEWS RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS by Martens, Marijn; De Wolf, Ralf; Berendt, Bettina; De Marez, Lieven (2019.0) - Social scientists have focused on biases that arise when algorithms are implemented in everyday life: black people who are perceived as gorillas by image recognition software, criminal justice risk assessment algorithms that are racially biased against black prisoners, and job recruitment algorithms that have gender bias (Barocas & Selbst, 2016). TRUST IN DECONSTRUCTED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS CASE STUDY: NEWS RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Marijn Martens imec-mict-UGent Ralf De Wolf imec-mict-UGent Bettina Berendt KU Leuven Lieven De Marez imec-mict-UGent Extended abstract Increasingly, algorithms play an important role in everyday decision-making processes. Keywords: algorithms; news; recommender; systems
• RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: WHAT TERMS AND CONDITIONS MODERATING READER COMMENTS TO AUSTRALIAN ONLINE NEWS SITES SAY ABOUT TRUST IN THE AUDIENCE by Son, Catherine Jane (2019.0) - However, the extent to which participants can express themselves through reader comment sections is often constrained by the terms and conditions news organisations use to govern reader comments. Yet, reader comments can also be problematic for news organisations, and many fear the legal repercussions and potential challenges to journalistic authority that come with letting the audience “inside the gates”. Keywords: comments; news; reader
• NEWS JUNKIE OR ONLY ACCIDENTALLY INFORMED? AN IN-SITU STUDY ON SITUATIONAL TYPES AND INDIVIDUAL REPERTOIRES OF MOBILE NEWS ACCESS AMONG GERMAN YOUNG ADULTS. by Karnowski, Veronika; Knop-Huelss, Katharina; Olbermann, Zoe (2020.0) - Information criteria for various cluster solutions for mobile news access type and types of mobile news repertoires. Description of mobile news access types and types of mobile news repertoires based on multilevel latent class analysis. Keywords: access; media; mobile; news; repertoires; types
• THE GREAT RANDOMIZER: USING VIRTUAL AGENTS FOR AUDITING THE EFFECTS OF YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM ON IDEOLOGICALLY-CHARGED NEWS CONTENT DISTRIBUTION by Makhortykh, Mykola; Urman, Aleksandra (2020.0) - ​The great randomizer: using virtual agents for auditing the effects of Youtube recommendation algorithm on ideologically-charged news content distribution ​. Paper presented at AoIR 2020: The 21 ​th ​ Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. For these reasons, it is difficult to study the effects of algorithmic filtering and ranking on the distribution of societally relevant information, but not impossible - researchers can use algorithmic auditing in order to infer the patterns in the ways the algorithms function (Mittelstadt, 2016). Keywords: agents; algorithms; news; youtube
• RECOMMENDED FOR YOU: INVESTIGATING THE USE OF ALGORITHMIC NEWS RECOMMENDATION IN THE SCANDINAVIAN DAILY PRESS by Møller, Lynge Asbjørn (2021.0) - With the exception of one email exchange, semi- structured interviews were conducted with representatives at all the newspapers between December 2020 and January 2021, determining whether each newspaper uses algorithmic news recommendation, whether the systems are personalised, whether the systems are developed in-house, where on the website news recommendation is in place, and which kind of filtering is applied. Furthermore, the research interviews were used to investigate the reasonings behind implementing the technology and central concerns in the decision-making process, thus bringing a qualitative dimension to the analysis and allowing for a perspective on how journalists at different news organisations evaluate the use of algorithmic news recommendation and its further potential. Keywords: journalism; news; recommendation; systems
• INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE: MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF FINNISH YOUTH’S EXPERIENCES OF TRUST IN NEWS ONLINE AND VIA SOCIAL MEDIA by Horowitz, Minna; Matikainen, Janne (2021.0) - News media trust and its impact on media use: toward a framework for future research. Especially the first, comprehensive survey in 2019, has included numerous questions that are intended to detect aspects of generalized trust in news media and journalism, and generalized trust has been addressed in qualitative segments as well. Keywords: media; news; trust; young
• HOW ARE PUBLIC SPHERES TRANSNATIONAL? COMPARING NEWS AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS DURING THE MADRID CLIMATE TALKS by Neff, Timothy James; Jemielniak, Dariusz (2021.0) - Theoretical framework We use public sphere theory (Habermas, 1989, 1998) and the concept of “thick big data analysis” (Jemielniak 2020) to understand how transnational public spheres might arise out of news media and Twitter networks. Moments of consensus and dissent will arise out of these contradictory currents of homogeneity and heterogeneity in transnational networks. Keywords: media; networks; news
• INTERDEPENDENCE AND INTERVENTION: NEWS ORGANIZATIONS’ CONTRADICTORY RELATIONSHIP WITH ONLINE COMMENTS by Rantasila, Anna; Väätäjä, Heli; Kiskola, Joel; Olsson, Thomas; Syrjämäki, Aleksi; Ilves, Mirja; Isokoski, Poika; Surakka, Veikko (2021.0) - In this paper, we examine how managers of online comments in large Finnish news organizations view online comment moderation and moderation technologies in relation to questions of inter- and independence. Regarding RQ2, most of the interviewees’ organizations had either outsourced or looked to outsource comment moderation, and some used automated moderation. Keywords: comments; moderation; news; online; tampere
• THE DISINFECTANT DIVERSION: FRAMING STRATEGIES OF PARTISAN MEDIA IN INTERPRETING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Trifiro, Briana; Wells, Chris; Rochefort, Alexander (2021.0) - We employ quantitative data exploration to provide context and guide a focused qualitative analysis examining how media outlets constructed topics related to COVID- 19. Similar to the work of Benziman (2020) and Chadwick (2017), the present analysis utilizes a grounded theory approach to identify recurrent themes utilized within media coverage. Keywords: coverage; media; narratives; news
• DECOLONIZING NEWSMAKING ON YOUTUBE: THE CASE OF CLIMATE JOURNALISM DURING THE COP26 SUMMIT by Ritter, Christian; Goel, Rahul; Sharma, Rajesh (2023.0) - We center our study on network analysis, to investigate how the clustering of YouTube channels evolved during the summit COP26. Three core metrics of network analysis were created in Gephi to assess the popularity of the network nodes: in-degree, out-degree, and PageRank. Keywords: climate; network; news; youtube
• ACTIVE CURATION FOR CULTURAL COMMENTARY: YOUNG ADULTS, ALGORITHMS, AND NEWS CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Stepnik, Agata Joanna (2023.0) - Active curation for cultural commentary: young adults, algorithms, and news content on social media. ACTIVE CURATION FOR CULTURAL COMMENTARY: YOUNG ADULTS, ALGORITHMS, AND NEWS CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA Agata Stepnik The University of Sydney, Australia Introduction Social media is a key source of news for young people (Newman et al., 2021). Keywords: content; media; news; practices
• VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL by Brites, Maria José; Castro, Teresa Sofia; Maneta, Margarida; Pinto de Sousa, Andreia (2023.0) - Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL Maria José Brites Lusófona University, CICANT Teresa Sofia Castro Lusófona University, CICANT Margarida Maneta Lusófona University, CICANT Andreia Pinto de Sousa Lusófona University, HEI-Lab The study of young people and news has been dominated by a Westernized research- centred view of the youth’s relation with the news and about their life contexts. “I imagine the news going completely digital, taking newspapers out of the picture - not that this is a good thing, but I can see it” (Cape Verde, Neutral, 19, High school, student); “In the future, perhaps there will be more evolved news, i.e. news that can not only be projected on a television or mobile phone” (Peru, M, 23, works and has a degree); “In the future I imagine that the news will disappear for several reasons, one of which is fake news, another is that there's almost no reason for there to be news and if there is, it will all be with intelligent computers” (Venezuela, M, 23, technical-professional course, works). Keywords: future; media; news; world; youth
• FABRICATING STATELESS INCOME: DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSES OF MULTINATIONAL PLATFORM CORPORATIONS’ TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA by Dugmore, Harry (2025.0) - DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSES OF MULTINATIONAL PLATFORM CORPORATIONS’ TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA Harry Dugmore University of the Sunshine Coast While upending domestic and global news media’s advertising income streams via the provision of superior “commercial datafication” (Mansell, 2021) and “digital tracking and profiling” (Christl, 2017) functionalities, Multinational Platform Corporations (MNPCs) have also implemented opaque strategies to minimize their domestic and global tax liabilities. MNPCs have been able to not just continue to transform the majority of their revenue into stateless” income (Kleinbard, 2016), which is not taxed in the country where the income is generated (nor, often, even in the country where the corporation is headquartered) but to get better at this and other forms of tax avoidance, via improving both their ability to “navigate institutional complexity” (Kornelakis & Hublart, 2022) and, as this paper argues, to shape national and transnational discourses about their strategies. Keywords: australia; journalism; media; news; strategies; tax
• THE PHOTOJOURNALISTIC GIF: VISUAL JOURNALISM IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA by Kopelman, Sara (2025.0) - The ceaseless repetitive motion of the GIF stands in overt contrast to conventional photographs and videos in the news but, at the same time, seems to echo the transformations that followed the intense use of smartphones that have affected visual news production and news consumption. The emergence of the GIF in online news as a legitimate image for the documentary representation of disaster, violence, and tragedy is unexpected. Keywords: digital; gif; journalism; media; news
• ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL: NEWS INFLUENCERS AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN LOCAL AND STATE POLITICS DISCOURSE DYNAMICS ON TIKTOK by Svegaard, Sebastian; Vilkins, Samantha (2025.0) - What is considerably understudied is how TikTok is forging connections in political discourses more locally. Growing generational differences in behaviour on the app, as well as its unique affordances, means political discourse on TikTok may operate differently to elsewhere. Keywords: elections; news; queensland; state; tiktok
• HOW USER COMMENTS ON A NEWS SITE AFFECT PERCEPTIONS OF JOURNALISTIC QUALITY. AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING by Kümpel, Anna Sophie; Springer, Nina (2015.0) - Method To examine the effects of user comments on perceptions of journalistic quality, we used a 2 × 4 between-subjects experimental design and exposed German participants (n = 224) to an online news article and corresponding user comments. News articles and user-generated information—like user comments or metrics about sharing and ratings—are inseparable in modern-day online journalism. Keywords: comments; media; news; online; perceptions; quality; user
• Making Machines Safe for Humans: The Case of Siri by Guzman, Andrea L. (2013.0) - Snide, sassy Siri has plenty to say. Denver, USA 1 Making Machines Safe for Humans: The Case of Siri Andrea L. Guzman University of Illinois at Chicago United States aguzma31@uic.edu Abstract This paper explores cultural conceptions of human-machine communication through a discourse analysis of U.S. news media accounts of Apple’s launch of Siri – a voice-activated, personal assistant application. Keywords: apple; machine; news; siri
• REIMAGINING SWEARING EFFECTS ONLINE: THE USE OF SWEARWORDS IN NEWS AUDIENCE COMMENTING by Kwon, K. Hazel; Cho, Daegon (2015.0) - The results of this study provoke two topics for further discussions: First, swearing norms may vary across news topical areas: Swearing in political comments, on the one hand, could have become the norm in audience community and thus not as surprisingly perceived as in non-political comments. Political comments include more swearing than non-political topics. Keywords: comments; effect; news; swearing
• SHARING IS THE NEW PRIVATE: CONCEPTUALIZING SHARING AND PRIVACY THROUGH READER COMMENTS TO ONLINE NEWS by Quinn, Kelly; Powers, Renee (2014.0) - Public is the new private: conceptualizing sharing and privacy through reader comments to online news. SHARING IS THE NEW PRIVATE: CONCEPTUALIZING SHARING AND PRIVACY THROUGH READER COMMENTS TO ONLINE NEWS Kelly Quinn University of Illinois – Chicago Renee Powers University of Illinois – Chicago Abstract Sharing, as a counterposition to privacy as a normative state, is under-theorized and under-conceptualized. Keywords: comments; news; online; privacy; sharing
• WHERE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES MEET: A NETWORK ANALYSUS OF POLITICAL NEWS SITE AUDIENCES by Nelson, Jacob; Webster, James (2015.0) - Using network analysis and web data provided by comScore, we argue that political news sites share more audiences than many realize, and that this holds true regardless of the political ideologies of either the audience or the outlet. As Boczkowski, Mitchelstein, and Walter observed (2013), news audiences exercise more interest in political news as Election Day nears, so this month was chosen because it was a month leading up to political elections throughout the country. Keywords: audiences; media; network; news
• THE CHANGING PATTERNS OF NEWS – FROM GATE-KEEPING TO SOCIAL SHARING by Jensen, Jakob Linaa (2014.0) - On the meso level, I focus on the citizens and analyze their patterns of news sharing through Twitter. This paper is a theoretical discussion of such issues and a first quantitative assessment of changing news patterns among Danish media users. Keywords: media; news; patterns; sharing

• THE MEMEIFICATION OF #SCHOOLSHOOTINGS IN THE U.S.: YOUTH, TIKTOK, AND PLAYFUL MEDIATED BODIES by Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan (2020.0) - Focusing on the mediated memeification of school shootings, there exists an entire genre of #darkhumor videos on TikTok in which young people create and circulate irreverent humorous media texts as a response to the constant threat of – and perceived political inaction to - school shootings in the U.S.1 Through an analysis of teens’ #darkhumor school shooting videos on TikTok, this paper asks: what can we learn about how young people understand cultural trauma through an examination of their playful and memetic social media practices? Visual and Discursive Analysis There are at least three genres of #schoolshooting meme videos that I have identified which can be organized alongside two intersecting axes: the use of particular memetic themes (e.g. narratives, tropes, music, visuals) and their memetic function (e.g. parody, critique, coping). Keywords: media; school; shootings; tiktok; videos
• IT'S THERE FOR YOU, BUT IS IT #FYP?: A METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTION OF RESEARCHING CONTENT VS. COMMUNITY ON TIKTOK by Messina, Nicole (2021.0) - Blended from a 2014 app Musical.ly launched in Shanghai, then purchased by the Chinese company ByteDance in a rebranding of their 2016 Douyin, TikTok thrives on its “extraordinarily powerful algorithm, which learns what content users like to see far faster than many other apps” (Tidy & Galer, 2020). However, we need to acknowledge the difficulties in replicating user experiences, and in figuring out who sees what, and when, and how. Keywords: content; health; media; tiktok
• ON GETTING CARRIED AWAY BY THE TIKTOK ALGORITHM by Schellewald, Andreas (2021.0) - Aside from that, a variety of different types of videos (such as vlogs or dance videos), genres (like Cottagecore), or topics and ‘TikTok sides’ (like ‘Gay TikTok’, ‘British TikTok’, or ‘DnD TikTok’) characterized each participants’ individual feed. Tracing these small moments of everyday TikTok use, in my work I show how people actively appropriated and engaged with the addictive quality of the TikTok algorithm as a means of escape, of getting carried away. Keywords: algorithm; app; media; tiktok
• LIKES, SARCASM AND POLITICS: YOUTH RESPONSES TO A PLATFORM-INITIATED MEDIA LITERACY CAMPAIGN ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Literat, Ioana; Abdelbagi, Abubakr; Law, Nicola YL; Cheung, Marcus Y-Y; Tang, Rongwei (2021.0) - LIKES, SARCASM AND POLITICS: YOUTH RESPONSES TO A PLATFORM-INITIATED MEDIA LITERACY CAMPAIGN ON SOCIAL MEDIA Ioana Literat Teachers College, Columbia University Abubakr Abdelbagi Teachers College, Columbia University Nicola YL Law Teachers College, Columbia University Marcus Y-Y Cheung Teachers College, Columbia University Rongwei Tang Teachers College, Columbia University Introduction Amidst an alarming rise in online misinformation, there has been a growing interest in media literacy education as a way to combat the rapid spread of misinformation (Bulger & Davison, 2018). While young people appreciated the urgency of media literacy education and understood its relevance to their social media participation, negative comments—often sarcastic in tone—far outweighed the more positive takes. Keywords: literacy; media; tiktok; youth
• DOUYIN AND TIKTOK: A CROSS-LANGUAGE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP ON SISTER APPS by Poh, Yu Ting; Abidin, Crystal (2021.0) - Regarding methodological approaches, Douyin publications tended to employ qualitative approaches (n=49), with fewer quantitative (n=4) and mixed (n=5) approaches. Regarding research questions, Douyin publications tended to engage with e-commerce (n=10), development of short form videos (n=8), practices, cultures and communities (n=8), intersections of traditional and new media (n=7), platform logics (n=5), transmission of traditional Chinese culture (n=5) and “playful patriotism” (n=5) with the latter being defined as “state-endorsed, but not necessarily orchestrated, light-hearted or amusing media content that promotes an established State ideology” (Chen et al., 2021: 111). Keywords: chinese; douyin; publications; tiktok
• “DEAR CONGRESS, JUST PLAY DEAD”: TIKTOK’S ABSURD GUIDE TO SURVIVING #LOCKDOWN by Vickery, Jacqueline; Cardenas, Jen (2021.0) - Conclusion Through irreverent humor, TikTok creators build playful imitation publics to critique and cope with structural problems related to gun violence in the U.S. Imitation publics We approach school shootings as doubly memetic: both the actual phenomenon of school shootings and the media texts created about them function as repetitive, malleable, polysemic, and “contagious patterns of cultural information” that “shape the mindsets and significant forms of behaviors and actions of a social group” (Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, p. 199). Keywords: practices; school; shootings; tiktok
• TIKTOK’S ‘FOX EYE’ TREND AND EVERYDAY ACTIVISM: GEN Z AGENCY IN AN AUDIOVISUAL NARRATIVE CASE STUDY by Zhao, Xinyu Andy; Abidin, Crystal (2021.0) - Moreover, they strengthen TikTok narratives to make them more appealing and convincing. Similarly, hashtags are commonly used in TikTok videos. Keywords: activism; eye; tiktok; trend
• 'GASLIGHT, GATEKEEP, GIRLBOSS': MEMEFIED FEMININITIES AND DISIDENTIFICATION IN TIKTOK YOUTH CULTURES by Chen, Shirley Xue; Zeng, Natasha (2023.0) - Expanding on scholarship examining teenage girlhood on TikTok (Kennedy 2020) and the ‘memeified’ politics of Gen Z (Zeng and Abidin 2021), we consider how young girls on TikTok have developed ‘remixed’ feminine identities by positioning figures such as the ‘girlboss’, the ‘pick me girl’ and ‘that girl’ as imagined others. Kennedy, M, 2020, ‘“If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now”: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. Keywords: disidentification; girl; girlboss; tiktok
• MOROCCAN-SPANISH COUPLES’ DECOLONIAL RESPONSES ON TIKTOK by Civila, Sabina; Jaramillo-Dent, Daniela (2023.0) - And they were (not) happy: The fatality of mixed couples in colonial Spanish literature written by women during the 20th century. Theoretical framework In the past, mixed couples between Spanish women and Moroccan men were considered a threat to colonial policies and the relationship between colonizer and colonized. Keywords: couples; moroccan; tiktok; videos
• THE VIBES ARE OFF: TRACING VIRAL TARGETED THEORIES ACROSS TIKTOK by Eadon, Yvonne Melisande (2023.0) - How are the identities of targeted creators who are marginalized exploited and even weaponized as part of targeted theorizing? In addition to Stella, other TikTok creators who have been subject to targeted theorization include The Daydream Collective, a person with dissociative identity disorder who was bullied off2 the platform after being accused of faking their mental illness (Colombo 2022); and Couch Guy, whose “weird vibes” in a video of his long-distance girlfriend surprising him with a visit resulted in speculation that he was cheating. Keywords: creators; stella; theories; tiktok; vibes
• CANCER ON TIKTOK–EVALUATING POSITIVE CULTURE AND ONLINE SELF-DISCLOSURE USING DIRECTED CONTENT ANALYSIS AND IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS by Pluta, Magdalena; Siuda, Piotr (2023.0) - The study focuses on TikTok videos by users with cancer and their experiences. The researchers ask the following questions: 1) are TikTok videos disclosing information in the manner the previous research on Instagram shows? Keywords: content; research; self; tiktok
• “CHECK YOUR FACTS, FETUS”: #GENZ VS. #MILLENNIALS AND THE ROLE OF TIKTOK IN THE GENERATIONING PROCESS by Vickery, Jacqueline (2023.0) - I argue that simply dismissing these debates as trivial “generational conflicts” masks Gen Z’s attempt to resist colonization of their digital spaces and obscures deeper anxieties about space, belonging, social change, and the development of a generational habitus. Memetic Discursive Patterns Figure 2 Memetic Discursive Cycle between Gen Z and Millennials on TikTok As the memetic discursive cycle in Figure 2 reveals, a paradox emerges in which Millennials disavow Gen Z’s credibility because of Gen Z’s young age, yet such a defense serves to reify Millennials’ credibility precisely because they are the older generation. Keywords: gen; millennials; tiktok
• TRENDING RESISTANCE: A STUDY OF THE TIKTOK #DEINFLUENCING PHENOMENON. by Bainotti, Lucia (2023.0) - If searching TikTok for this hashtag (which counts over 264 million views), one can see videos aimed at challenging the hype about specific products (especially fashion and make-up products) and criticising the large number of consumer goods purchased as a result of influencers’ recommendations and TikTok trends. The emergence of the deinfluencing trend is not a new phenomenon, as it represents an iteration of already existing critiques concerning content creators and the influencer industry. Keywords: content; deinfluencing; tiktok; trend
• #VLADDYDADDY ON TIKTOK: IMAGINED INTIMACY AND MEMETIC PARTICIPATION IN TIMES OF WAR by Divon, Tom ; Jaramillo-Dent, Daniela; Gekker, Alex (2023.0) - We gathered #Vladdydaddy meme re-emergence on TikTok's 'for you' page from the days before the Ukraine invasion in February 2022 to July 2022. For instance, one popular meme addresses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski’s “too many bitches” - implying he is an object of courtship by members of the opposite sex. Keywords: intimacy; meme; putin; tiktok; videos; vladdydaddy
• COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING AND INTERSEMIOTIC DISSONANCE: A STUDY OF CRISIS DISCOURSE ON TIKTOK by Khoury, Christy; Hemsley, Jeff (2023.0) - I. Videos Gillian Rose’s Visual Methodologies informed the foundation of video analysis, with a specific focus on semiology, which questions how images make meanings (2001). However, one under-researched category within TikTok scholarship is crisis discourse as current research focuses on the COVID- 19 pandemic (Carter et al., 2021). Keywords: analysis; crisis; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?hjdtbm https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?hjdtbm; sensemaking; tiktok; videos
• spir-13466 by None (None) - The second portion of the paper examines how LGBTQ+ TikTok users have built up folk knowledges and intuitive understandings of TikTok’s blackboxed algorithms and opaque content moderation policies, situating this discussion within theories of the ‘algorithmic imaginary’. Utilizing comment spaces and forums on other platforms to collectively produce, collect, archive, and disseminate folk knowledge for LGBTQ+ TikTok users Keywords: content; lgbtq+; mar; moderation; tiktok
• THE IMPACT OF TIKTOK POLICIES ON INFORMATION FLOWS DURING TIMES OF WAR: EVIDENCE OF ‘SPLINTERNET’ AND ‘SHADOW-PROMOTION’ IN RUSSIA by Romano, Salvatore ; Kerby, Natalie; Schüler, Miazia; Beraldo, Davide; Rama, Ilir (2023.0) - Test 2: Pro-War Content Further investigations showed how TikTok unevenly applied their content policies, allowing pro-war content to proliferate in Russia despite their claim that they had enforced a ban on new content uploads in Russia (Gilbert 2022). We started monitoring TikTok's response to the Russian invasion with the initial aim of comparing the content tKeywords: content; russian; tiktok; war
• PERCEIVED ENTITLEMENT AND OBLIGATION BETWEEN TIKTOK CREATORS AND AUDIENCES by Watson, TX (2023.0) - The purpose of this paper is to examine and describe the specific demands on the affective labor and attention of content creators on TikTok, the ways in which those demands tend to exceed what the creators themselves are comfortable with or capable of sustaining, and the challenges and limitations that prevent creators from setting, communicating, or maintaining boundaries around their labor, relationships, or personal and professional lives. To explore this phenomenon of interconnectedness, I combined my ongoing participation observation with my experiences as a content creator and six semi- structured one-hour interviews with content creators. Keywords: audience; creators; tiktok
• UNFREE; INDENTURED; INFLUENCER by Lim, Elisha (2023.0) - For example, Instagram users could be targeted by subjects that they or their friends have shown interest in, as specific as, for example “credit cards / credit finance / credit history,” once an advertiser selects that as a user interest, they are offered even more refined suggestions like Loans or Personal Finance or Line of Credit. TikTok’s 28 categories of potential tastes in ads are based on what kind of creators users follow uploaded content, and how users interact with them, for example, how long they watch or repeat or like or share videos. Keywords: ads; categories; content; tiktok
• TIKTOK ‘DOGSHOWS’ AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF ONLINE INCIVILITY AMONG GEN Z INFLUENCERS IN THE PHILIPPINES by Cabbuag, Samuel Idris; Abidin, Crystal (2025.0) - Summary of findings We found two types of dogshow content: (1) Egging on dogshows, where the influencer provokes or promotes the dogshow, and thus invites the audience to contribute to the flaming; and (2) Self-inflicting dogshows, where the influencer willingly places themselves as the victim in the dogshow. We historicise and explore TikTok dogshows in the context of the Philippines, beginning with setting the local context, reviewing relevant scholarship on TikTok and online incivility, and considering how our study contributes to age-based and culturally- specific developments of emergent TikTok cultures. Keywords: children; dogshows; gen; incivility; tiktok
• NOSTALGIC NEIGHBORHOODS OF TIKTOK: MAPPING A TOPOLOGY OF AFFECTIVE PUBLICS by Conner, Viki (2025.0) - Conceptualizing Networked Nostalgia This study brings the scholarship on nostalgia and media (e.g., Niemeyer, 2021) into dialogue with theories of social organization in the networked public sphere to define and operationalize networked nostalgia. Given the centrality of technical hashtags (#fyp, #viral) in the overall co-tag network connected to #nostalgia (figure 1), I found the differential use of technical hashtags, as co-linked with affective and discursive hashtags, impacted the affective intensities and meanings of nostalgia within these publics. Keywords: affective; media; network; nostalgia; publics; tiktok
• PERFORMING PREVIVORSHIP ONLINE: EXAMINING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ON TIKTOK by Ditchfield, Hannah; Vicari, Stefania (2025.0) - Social media platforms have been established as important spaces for the performance of both health and illness identities (see Tembeck, 2016; Kent 2020). We also found that previvors identity performances are still very much networked, interactive and connected to specific communities. Keywords: cancer; media; self; tiktok
• CONTENT CREATORS VS THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF THE TECHNO-CULTURAL AUTHORITY OF ADHD TIKTOK by Holroyd, Deanna (2025.0) - I ultimately argue that the techno-cultural authority of ADHD TikTok challenges customary understandings of medical authority figures and disrupts the traditional authority of the medical and healthcare industry, by impacting how users understand themselves and their mental health, and who is deemed an expert on the body. Traditionally, medical anthropologists and science and technology scholars have understood medical authority as a discursive, normalizing power generated through institutional knowledge; by creating medical knowledge about the body, and then circulating this knowledge through medical textbooks, research journals, and practitioner training programs, medical and educational institutions create particular scientific discourses that become standardized ‘regimes of truth’ (Foucault, 1973, 1980; Starr, 1984). Keywords: adhd; authority; content; media; tiktok
• UNVEILING TIKTOK'S SHADOW: A TYPOLOGY OF WHITE NATIONALIST NARRATIVES AS EUDAIMONIC ENTERTAINMENT by Niemann-Lenz, Julia; Kleinen-von Königslöw, Katharina; Kantenwein, Leia; Oelschlägel, Leonie; Scherf, Hannah (2025.0) - Indeed, research on nationalist videos disseminated on digital platforms has identified recurring motifs, such as nature symbolizing patriotism and the portrayal of women confined to traditional roles. Our typology of nationalist videos on German TikTok offers nuanced insights into the specific strategies extremists use for narrative dissemination on the platform, and sheds light on potential avenues for platform moderation. Keywords: content; narratives; tiktok; videos
• CULTURES OF SEX ADVICE: EXAMINING TIKTOK COMMUNITIES AROUND SEXUAL HEALTH IN THE US by Pinch, Annika Caroline; Suenzo, Facundo (2025.0) - Our research builds upon Steven Epstein’s (2022) thesis on the diversification of sexual health expertise, where the “blossoming of expertise constitutes a kind of democratization of knowledge and advice-giving, while also raising perplexing questions about who should be trusted and why” (p.19). However, little is known about how audiences engage with sexual advice, with some exceptions (Yeo & Chu, 2017). Keywords: advice; creators; health; media; sex; tiktok
• NAVIGATING THE GRAY: THE ECONOMIC UNDERBELLY OF TIKTOK'S SIDE HUSTLES by Terenzi, Massimo (2025.0) - [RQ2] What strategies are used to transition from economic content to ideologically driven narratives, and how do these tactics leverage TikTok’s algorithmic features? Platforms capitalize on this resource by selling user attention to advertisers and optimizing algorithms for maximum engagement. Keywords: attention; content; engagement; media; tiktok

• Networked Publics and the Social Construction of Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Digital Age by Kiel, Paula (2017.0) - While many scholars in the field of digital death and thanatology are fascinated with these processes, additional critical engagement with the limitations, challenges and exclusions implicated by these practices is required. By focusing on the specific practice of post-mortem online communication, this paper highlights some of these main challenges, linking them critically to some of the fundamental issues of networked publics in an increasingly digitsed media world. Keywords: death; practices; websites
• Exploring the Digital Hinterland: Internet Practices surrounding the Pursuit of "Offline" Hobbies by Rogerson, Melissa Jane; Gibbs, Martin; Smith, Wally (2017.0) - Being a BoardGameGeek is not simply about playing games; in accruing gaming capital, users engage with a specific set of digital practices that support and enable material acts of play, and that invite users to co-create emic information about games and the gaming hobby, even when the user themself sees their engagement with boardgames as a rejection of technology. Researching: Participants research games on BoardGameGeek, often in preparation for large events such as the Spiel fair in Essen, Germany. Keywords: games; goodreads; play; practices; ravelry
• QUEER DE/STABILIZATIONS IN AND OF DIGITAL CULTURAL RESEARCH by Dobson, Amy Shields; Race, Kane; O'Riordan, Kate (2019.0) - I suggest that in such socially striated and digitally collapsed contexts, a kind of “reparative reading” of youth social media practices (following Wiegman, 2014, on Sedgwick), especially acts and practices of “seeking attention”, is politically important; so too, an ethics of “queer comradery and generosity” (Warner cited in Albury, 2017). The kind of approach to data analysis and future research I want to suggest is one concerned, firstly, with asking where and how both the less-than-conscious and the non-human actants might “show up”, or make appearances, in data on youth social media practices, with discussion of some examples from our data. Keywords: digital; human; media; new; practices; queer; research; sexuality; social; theory; youth
• RESEARCH ETHICS PRACTICES IN A CHANGING SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE by Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina E.; Weller, Katrin (2020.0) - RESEARCH ETHICS PRACTICES IN A CHANGING SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Katrin Weller GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences This contribution considers the evolution of social media research and specifically focuses on changes in ethical practices and decision making. First, a wider variety of people are much more concerned about the ethics of social media research in addition to individual researchers themselves. Keywords: media; practices; research
• CONTESTING TECHNOCOLONIALISM? THE 'ORDINARY TRANSCRIPTS' OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE by Madianou, Mirca (2023.0) - Drawing on seven years of research in the humanitarian and development sectors, the paper explores forms of resistance to digital aid practices. The following section explores the hidden transcripts of everyday resistance to digital aid projects among marginalized communities. Keywords: aid; practices; resistance; transcripts
• MODERATING MENTAL HEALTH: ARE AUTOMATED SYSTEMS TOO RISK AVERSE? by McCosker, Anthony (2023.0) - When ‘integrity’ and content moderation systems are trained primarily to find and restrict content designated as risky and harmful, they provide an incomplete response to mental health interaction and content. Background Gillespie and Aufderheide (2020, p2) define content moderation in relation to unacceptable content and behaviour. Keywords: content; health; moderation; practices
• AN INTIMATE REVOLUTION: DIGITAL PRACTICES OF INTIMACY DURING COVID-19 AND BEYOND by Garcia Iglesias, Jaime; Heaphy, Brian; Yodovich, Neta (2023.0) - This paper reports on the first study of its kind to explore how dating app use during COVID-19 transformed practices of intimacy, how these transformations were spread among populations—comparing heterosexual and LGBT+ communities—, and whether these changes have endured after COVID-19. COVID-19 has developed in a time marked by the transformative possibilities for relating and social connection on the internet, particularly by means of dating apps— which have long been the subject of internet and social scholarship (Mowlabocus 2010; Keywords: apps; changes; covid-19; dating; intimacy; practices
• TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES OF REFUSAL: RADICAL REIMAGINATION IN M EIFLER’S COMPUTATIONAL PROSTHETICS by May, Emma (2023.0) - Extending the literature concerning feminist refusal and technology, technological practices of refusal additionally look toward Black feminist theory and critical disability studies to examine how technological practices are means to challenge normative logics and engage in collective world-making practices toward liberation and societal transformation. Integrating race, transforming feminist disability studies. Keywords: eifler; feminist; practices; refusal
• “I TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND CAME OUT AS GC”: EXCAVATING GENDER CRITICAL INFORMATION LITERACY PRACTICES AND ANTI-TRANS RADICALIZATION ON OVARIT AND MUMSNET by Berge, PS; Schmalzer, Madison (2025.0) - Following the closure of r/GenderCritical (and subsequent banning of dozens of high-profile, transphobic subreddits including r/ActualWomen, r/GenderCriticalSociety, and r/truelesbians), GC users—especially those in North America and Western Europe—migrated to more hidden, invite-only spaces. GC users regularly perform transphobic mythmaking. Keywords: media; ovarit; practices; trans
• GENDER, INTIMACY, AND DIGITAL PRACTICES: INSIGHTS INTO ITALIAN TEENAGERS' EXPERIENCES by Bernardini, Vittoria; Comunello, Francesca; Scarcelli, Cosimo Marco; Parisi, Lorenza (2025.0) - In the Italian context, despite interesting insights coming from works on teens and digital media (Mascheroni & Ólafsson, 2018), research is still scarce and there are no systematic works on digital practices, gender, and intimacy in teens’ everyday life. Through this framework, scholars have sought to understand how the social meaning of digital media is shaped by widespread gender conceptions (Wajcman, 1991), and how technologies help to re-shape or co-construct gender itself as “something that is done” and continuously re-created by social action and discursive negotiations. Keywords: gender; media; practices; research
• “LIKE A MONKEY WITH A MINIATURE CYMBAL”: CULTURAL PRACTICES OF REPETITION IN VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA by Highfield, Tim; Duguay, Stefanie (2015.0) - In addition to textual analysis of LGBTQ looping visual social media content, the study will further explore the platform context as part of the experience of looped media. Research context This paper analyses practices around looping visual media, focusing on gifs and Vine videos. Keywords: culture; media; practices; tumblr; vine
• PINNING ORIGINALITY: CURATION PRACTICES OF CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS by Scolere, Leah; Humphreys, Lee (2015.0) - The strategic and creative selection and arrangement of digital images becomes a mode of artistic production that results in a series of ongoing exhibits in the form of Pinterest boards. Discussion Curation as understood through the designers of this study can be described as a type of creative authorship where creative selection and arrangement of digital images becomes a mode of artistic production that results in a series of ongoing exhibits in the form of Pinterest boards. Keywords: boards; curation; design; designers; images; media; originality; pinning; pins; pinterest; practices; process; professionals

• MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY: A FRAMING EXPERIMENT by Epstein, Dmitry; Quinn, Kelly (2019.0) - If we subscribe to the idea that critical participation in the information society is beneficial overall, findings about the (in)consistency of privacy framing highlight the importance of both research and education to the multidimensionality of privacy as a pivotal concept. RQ3: What effect does (lack of) consistency between one’s ‘frames in thought’ and ‘frames in communication’ have on privacy concerns and privacy self- efficacy? Keywords: concerns; frames; framing; privacy
• EVERY CLICK YOU MAKE: ALGORITHMIC LITERACY AND THE DIGITAL LIVES OF YOUNG ADULTS by Henderson, Monica Jean; Shade, Leslie Regan; Mackinnon, Katie (2020.0) - Frameworks for defining and evaluating digital literacy proliferate in academia and policymaking (Eshet, 2012; Nichols & Stornaiuolo, 2019; Pangrazio, 2016; Pangrazio & Selwyn, 2019; Van Dijk & Van Deursen, 2014). We therefore propose ‘algorithmic literacy’ become an essential element for digital literacy in young adult media education. Keywords: literacy; new; privacy; research; toolkit
• UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE: USERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE by Standlee, Alecea Irene (2020.0) - The intersection of these two areas of scholarship has the potential to give us a better understanding of not only how young adults perceive and manage online privacy, but also the cultural and policy implications of data privacy rights. Due to recent journalistic visibility, participants found themselves to be increasingly informed about the nature of online surveillance and their own position within the system. Keywords: online; participants; privacy; surveillance
• VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL? AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF PRIVACY LITERACY AND PRIVACY SELF-EFFICACY ON THE DIMENSIONALITY OF PRIVACY by Epstein, Dmitry; Quinn, Kelly (2021.0) - This is particularly important as we recognize that users of social media tend to adopt horizontal views of privacy (Quinn et al., 2019), whereas many systemic threats stem from vertical privacy relationships (Baruh & Popescu, 2017). The fundamental relationship between privacy concerns and PPB is further complicated by mediating and moderating factors, such as digital privacy literacy and privacy self-efficacy, or the belief in one’s ability to achieve a desired level of privacy (Chen & Chen, 2015; Dienlin & Metzger, 2016; Masur, 2020). Keywords: efficacy; ppb; privacy; self
• VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: PRIVACY DISCOURSE IN GITHUB README FILES by Levy-Eshkol, Keren; Ribak, Rivka (2023.0) - Privacy discourse in GitHub README files. Linking platforms, practices, and developer ethics: Levers for privacy discourse in mobile application development. Keywords: design; developers; discourse; privacy; readme
• ANTECEDENTS OF PRIVACY PROTECTION BEHAVIORS AT THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEVELS by Bartol, Jošt ; Vehovar, Vasja; Petrovčič, Andraž (2023.0) - This suggests that horizontal privacy concerns are more easily translated into protection from other internet users, presumably because related privacy protections are more readily available and easier to employ compared to privacy protections against institutions (Heyman et al., 2014). Research has shown that privacy concerns (threat appraisal) and online privacy literacy (OPL; coping ability) are two important factors that increase the frequency and diversity of PPBs, and that OPL might moderate the influence of privacy concerns on PPBs because a certain level of literacy is required to understand privacy threats and employ appropriate protective measures (Li, 2012; Keywords: concerns; levels; opl; ppbs; privacy; vertical
• EXPLORING HOW U.S. K-12 EDUCATION ADDRESSES PRIVACY LITERACY by Kumar, Priya; Hyde, Lily (2023.0) - The 5Ds of privacy literacy: A framework for privacy education. Taken together, these analyses will contribute a comprehensive picture of what expectations for privacy education exist across the U.S. Scholars involved in developing privacy literacy efforts can then tailor their work toward meeting these standards or advocating for changes that reflect the kinds of privacy lessons important for children who grow up immersed in digital environments. Keywords: education; kumar; literacy; privacy; standards
• IDENTIFYING WITH PRIVACY: REFERENCES TO PRIVACY IN DEVELOPERS’ GITHUB PROFILES by Levi-Eshkol, Keren; Ribak, Rivka (2023.0) - Using VOSviewer software, an NLP tool designed for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks (van Eck & Waltman, 2010), we identified four distinct clusters that, based on the words in each cluster, we labeled: “freedom” (in red), “privacy advocacy” (green), “academia” (blue), and “professional experience” (yellow). Identifying with privacy: References to privacy in developers’ GitHub profiles. Keywords: developers; freedom; privacy; software
• A GAME OF PRIVACY TUG OF WAR: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF PRIVACY SETTINGS by Horne, Chelsea Leigh (2025.0) - In 2008, Facebook deployed privacy settings that set user information to private by default (Kirkpatrick, 2010), indicating that privacy was central for Facebook and the main place where privacy was controlled and enacted was via user privacy settings. At the heart of this longstanding, ongoing privacy “game” are privacy settings, a key lever of power at the intersection of platforms, users, and regulation (Horne, 2023a). Keywords: changes; meta; privacy; settings
• NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL IDENTITY INDUSTRY by van der Nagel, Emily (2025.0) - A discussion of whether or not participants feel they have achieved, or could achieve, digital identity integrity will then be held, with a focus on attitudes towards identity verification and resistance strategies to having one’s entire digital identity connected. In this paper, I present a concept to aid those working in this space: digital identity integrity, the ability to use a range of personal accounts and platforms to meaningfully participate in digital cultures and economies. Keywords: identity; industry; integrity; privacy
• ALL QUIET ON THE FACEBOOK FRONT: TEENS’ NEGOTIATION OF SOCIAL AND MOBILE MEDIA PRIVACY by Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan (2014.0) - Additionally, compared to adults, teens ( and in particular low- income teens) are subjected to greater surveillance (Kelly, 2000, 2003), thus further complicating privacy management. ALL QUIET ON THE FACEBOOK FRONT: TEENS’ NEGOTIATION OF SOCIAL AND MOBILE MEDIA PRIVACY Jacqueline Ryan Vickery University of North Texas Introduction & Research Question At a time when teens increasingly communicate via mobile and social media, it is not a surprise they are willing to share incredibly personal information with their peers, yet this should not be misinterpreted as a disregard for social privacy (boyd; 2014; boyd and Marwick, 2011). Keywords: mobile; privacy; research; teens
• CITIZENFOUR: INTERNET PUBLICS AND THE IMAGINARY OF PRIVACY A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TWITTER COMMENTARIES AROUND THE 2015 OSCAR WINNING DOCUMENTARY by Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Giglietto, Fabio; Gemini, Laura (2015.0) - We  focused on the type of representations produced around the relationship between  privacy and the Internet, ie the imaginary related to privacy conveyed by Snowden case.  Finally, a sample of original tweets will be  content analyzed using a codeset derived by DeCew (1997) definitions in order to  identify the emerging imaginary of privacy.   Keywords: citizenfour; documentary; privacy; snowden
• DEAD, ENCRYPTED OR STREAMED? AMERICAN FILE SHARING AND THE FUTURE OF PIRACY by Larsson, Stefan; Halbert, Debora (2015.0) - American file sharing and the future of privacy. How do American file sharers conceptualize and understand future landscapes of file sharing and media consumption? Keywords: american; file; privacy; sharing
• NOT MYSELF: ANTI-SURVIELLANCE AESTHETICS AND THE CHIN- DOWN SELFIE by Shorey, Samantha (2015.0) - Yet,  the  desire  for  anonymity  results  in  an  interesting  hurdle  for  selfies,  which  are   common  feature  of  Tumblr’s  visual  vocabulary.     While  the   discussions  of  anonymity  and  privacy  found  in  this  paper  are  derived  from  in-­person   interactions,  the  discussion  of  selfies  is  drawn  primarily  from  a  year  long  period  of   observation  during  the  completion  of  this  project.   Keywords: privacy; selfie; tumblr
• PRIVACY FOR PROFIT: COMMODIFYING PRIVACY IN LIFESTYLE BLOGGING by Abidin, Crystal (2014.0) - Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org. PRIVACY FOR PROFIT: COMMODIFYING PRIVACY IN LIFESTYLE BLOGGING Crystal Abidin University of Western Australia Commercial lifestyle bloggers in Singapore publicize their personal lives on blogs and social media, using their lifestyles as a vehicle to advertise goods and services. Through a processual analysis of how bloggers manipulate privacy throughout their careers, I analyze progress from lesser-known ‘low-status’ bloggers to well-known ‘high- status’ bloggers. Keywords: bloggers; privacy; status
• REPUTATION, INC.: THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF DIGITAL SELF PRESENTATION AND ONLINE PRIVACY by Draper, Nora (2015.0) - In the context of a new information environment that lacks both appropriate regulation and shared social norms, a collection of for profit companies has emerged over the past two decades to help support and define personal privacy for the digital age. Reputation Inc.: The industrialization of digital self presentation and online privacy. Keywords: companies; digital; industry; online; privacy
• Scandal or Sex Crime? Ethical Implications of the Celebrity Nude Photo Leaks by Marwick, Alice E. (2016.0) - At  the  same  time,  celebrities  are  somewhat  of  a  unique  class  in  American  law,  as  they   have  fewer  privacy  rights  than  the  average  American.   Thus,   attitudes  towards  nude  photos  of  celebrities  may  mirror  public  attitudes  towards  stolen   photos  of  the  non-­famous  (e.g.  revenge  porn).       Keywords: fappening; photos; privacy; reddit

• NOT SUFFERING FOOLS GLADLY: CRAFTING PROSOCIAL COMMUNITY IN ONLINE MULTIPLAYER MINECRAFT by Woodbridge, Kenzie Ann Burniston (2018.0) - However, game social spaces range from supportive and kindly (Williams et al., 2006; Ratan et al., 2010; Whippey, 2010; Kaye & Bryce, 2012; O’Connor et al., 2015) to hostile, violent, and bullying (Ballard & Welch, 2015). Online multiplayer games function as the modern equivalent to pubs, parks, or community centers (Williams, Ducheneaut, Xiong, Yee, & Nickell, 2006; Ducheneaut et al., 2007) where players come together casually and find social learning (Ducheneaut & Moore, 2005; Banks & Potts, 2010; Ratan et al., 2010), social interaction (Lee-Leugner, 2013), and even community (Cole & Griffiths, 2007; Ducheneaut et al., 2007; Poor & Skoric, 2014; O’Connor et al., 2015, Riordan & Scarf, 2016). Keywords: community; doi; games; online
• THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS ON TRUST IN TECHNOLOGY by Chen, Yi-Ning Katherine; Wen, Chia-Ho Ryan (2019.0) - Third, mediation effects, with government trust and corporation trust as mediators, are sought with general news and political news attention, but not with scientific news attention. As a result, our study aims to understand the social disjuncture between public opinion and science, looking deeper into the reasons behind the long-term distrust of the government, corporations as well as science community, and discussing the influence of the media Theoretical Framework The theory of motivated reasoning proposes people tend to make conclusions by biasedly selecting and trusting things that reconcile with their previously held viewpoints and political beliefs in particular. Keywords: community; science; trust
• MATERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF COMMUNITY SURVEILLANCE & INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER by Bridges, Lauren E. (2020.0) - Ring Neighbors Is the Best and Worst Neighborhood Watch App. This paper aims to highlight the complex human and non-human entanglements that constitute community surveillance networks in order to move towards an infrastructural understanding of Ring products so that we may more effectively evaluate the social and material costs of such systems. Keywords: amazon; community; neighbors; networks; power; recognition; ring; surveillance
• DISPLACED DISCUSSION: THE IMPLICATIONS OF REDDIT QUARANTINE AND THE MOVEMENT OF THEREDPILL TO SELF-HOSTING by Cousineau, Luc S. (2020.0) - r/TheRedPill was quarantined in September of 2018, and has since engaged in regular discussion about the movement of community discussion and forums away from Reddit to their own site, www.trp.red. Data collection included community post and comment observation, and using website capture tools to systematically capture the landing page and top-rated posts over a period of three months. Keywords: communities; community; content; discussion; reddit
• LIFE AS A NETWORKED FAN by Garrison, Stephanie T; Jacobs, Naomi Jane (2020.0) - Implications – different lives in different platforms Our case studies illustrate cases where fans have personal networks which span different platforms and spaces of fan community and fan expression both online and offline. Outlander fans who were selected for study as members of a particular Facebook group, but who often participate simultaneously in multiple fan spaces both online and offline. Keywords: community; fan; fans; spaces
• TUNING OUT HATE SPEECH ON REDDIT: AUTOMATING MODERATION AND DETECTING TOXICITY IN THE MANOSPHERE by Trott, Verity; Beckett, Jennifer; Paech, Venessa (2020.0) - This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. Reddit has responded to the mounting public scrutiny by sanctioning subreddit communities that are deemed offensive to the mainstream public. Keywords: community; reddit; toxicity
• QUEER MATERIALITIES AND INSTAGRAM LIVE INTERVIEWING: COMMUNITY ENTANGLEMENTS by Willcox, Marissa Grace; Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine (2020.0) - With this theoretical frame in mind, we invite discussion on how we can redefine the ethics of digital community making through queering notions of online and offline material ways of being. Therefore, we reconsider the idea of the digital community to assert that digital community making has become an essential human and nonhuman life form which is necessary for our times. Keywords: community; digital; human; queer
• PERFORMING LIFESTYLE POLITICS: EXPLORING THE SLOW FASHION COMMUNITY ON INSTAGRAM by Ataman, Jimil (2021.0) - Recently slow fashion practitioners have been using their slow fashion performances to publicly navigate issues of race, class, gender, and ethics present in slow fashion and the broader fashion industry. At first glance slow fashion Instagram appears to consist mostly of perfectly manicured photos of highly curated outfits, accessories or clothing. Keywords: community; fashion; instagram; lifestyle; politics
• “I STARTED THE DAY JUST CRYING FOR 2 HOURS STRAIGHT.” ECHO-LOCATING THE VULNERABLE SELF ON INSTAGRAM. by Schreiber, Maria (2021.0) - The paper therefore investigates communicative online practices of adapting to a new body, identity and self from a symbolic-interactionist perspective. An additional challenge of echo-locating the vulnerable self on Instagram is the diffuse audience of public postings and a specific kind of context collapse: stroke survivors on Instagram do not communicate with only each other in a closed, safe space for survivors only, they share their experience simultaneously with friends and family, who also know their previous, “non-stroke”-self. Keywords: community; identity; instagram; media; self
• ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL ATTENTION ON SUBREDDIT COMMUNITY PRACTICES: THE CASE OF /R/HONGKONG by Kuznetsov, Dmitry ; Ismangil, Milan (2023.0) - In this extended abstract, we will briefly examine the existing research on subreddits as a community, consider the potential significance of media events and subsequent influxes of new users for community practice, outline our methodological approach, and highlight some findings. Media Events Our analysis of /r/hongkong aims to explore the changes in posting behaviour and content since the establishment of the subreddit. Keywords: community; events; media; reddit; subreddit
• THE IMPERIAL HAIKU COMMISSION APPROVES THIS MESSAGE’: AN EXAMINATION OF AUTOMATED PLAY AND CULTURE AS (RE)DESIGNED BY BOTS.    by Whelan-Shamy, Daniel; Carlon, Dominique (2023.0) - Interactions with bots in Subreddit Simulator reflect an environment where bots are treated not solely as clever automations, but as what Bollmer & Rodley (2017) refer to as ‘bots qua bots with their own distinctive goals’. Since then, people have experimented and played with bots, and online communities have arisen to specifically foster ‘ecologies’ (Bollmer & Rodley, 2017 p. 161) where bots interact with other bots, creating narratives, and adopting personas to be performed for an audience. Keywords: bots; community; culture; subreddit
• UNEARTHING CONNECTIONS: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN A CONSPIRACY BELIEVERS’ FACEBOOK GROUP by Kalisky, Alma; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta (2025.0) - Yet, in the case of conspiracy theory groups, such a sense of belonging can also have negative repercussions. This research thus asks: How is a sense of community established and maintained in online conspiracy groups? Keywords: community; conspiracy; group; members
• AUTOMODERATOR AS AN EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY DRIVEN PRODUCT DESIGN by Lo, Claudia; Walton, Sam (2025.0) - Product development for the Automoderator project included a participatory process, where the product team integrated volunteer feedback and direction on a continuous basis, rather than writing software in isolation and deploying rapidly. We hope that by sharing more about a contemporary alternative system for product development, we demonstrate that it is possible to conduct product development in a more collaborative manner within the technology world. Keywords: automoderator; community; design; development; product
• DIGITAL SOCIAL CONNECTION AT THE LONELY URBAN FRINGE by Savic, Milovan; McCosker, Anthony; Farmer, Jane (2025.0) - These were used to facilitate different modes of digital social connection, enabling distinct functions across four layered categories of social connection. The project addresses the need to revisit mediated or digital social connections in place-based digital media research. Keywords: community; connection; groups; media; university
• A NO LONGER IMAGINED COMMUNITY: THE VISIBILITY OF THE ONLINE MUG SHOT by Jackson Young, Sarah (2015.0) - According to Finn (2009), mug shots were designed with the same essential objective of the Bentham’s Panopticon: visibility. For mug shots, the photos were part of system where criminal monitoring could also take place. Keywords: community; criminal; mug; shot
• Couch Award Winner: Stigma Resistance in Online Communities by Yeshua-Katz, Daphna (2013.0) - Abstract Media scholars often employ concepts from Goffman’s dramaturgical approach to study online communities of stigmatized individuals as a “backstage” -- a refuge from social disapproval. This paper contributes to the theoretical development of the study of online communities, specifically to communities of stigmatized individuals. Keywords: ana; community; group; online; stigma
• Managing community through digital talk: Podcasting in the South Asian diaspora by Wolock, Lia (2013.0) - Denver, USA 2 category of South Asian diasporic podcasts frequently overlaps with the other two major categories: institution-affiliated and interview programs. It is a community with porous, and variable borders, welcoming all and managing discordant temporalities (e.g. time zones and delayed listening) and backgrounds, but providing a special site of exalted interaction for those who are professional journalists of South Asian heritage covering South Asian topics living in North America. Keywords: asian; community; media; south; talk
• The Source of Open-Source Culture: Participation in the Production of an Open Media Artifact, Minecraft by Leavitt, Alex (2013.0) - Minecraft players fall in line with Bartle’s typology of game players: achievers (action on the world), explorers (interaction with the world), socializers (interaction with other players), and killers (action on other players) (Bartle 1996). While many players refer to their gameplay as simply “addictive,” familiarity with the game’s mechanics and elements also impacts how players perceive the extent of Minecraft’s world: for instance, experiences players prefer to explore advanced features and experiment with modifications, while new players are content to investigate the boundaries provided by the original game. Keywords: community; developers; experience; game; minecraft; mods; mojang; new; participants; participation; players; playing; process; produsage

• The Saudi Government Reactions to YouTube based Programming: the Content Makers’ Perspective by Daoudi, Omar (2017.0) - The vagueness and uncertainty has enabled young people to unleash their creativity and boost the scale and the scope of YouTube based programmes but also this ambiguity has offered the government an opportunity to intervene whenever it wants to protect its interests. Thirdly, the reaction of the Saudi government was subject to various factors, including the nature of content, the context and the timeframe of YouTube based programmes. Keywords: media; research; saudi; youtube
• FROM YOUTUBE TO TV, AND BACK AGAIN: VIRAL VIDEO CHILD STARS AND MEDIA FLOWS IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA by Leaver, Tama; Abidin, Crystal (2018.0) - However, the networks might also be considered parasitic, exploiting viral children for ratings in a fashion they and their carers may not have been prepared for. However, we argue that the media flows relating to viral children as exemplified by Sophia Grace & Rosie are more complex. Keywords: grace; media; sophia; youtube
• EXAMINING THE “ELSAGATE” PHENOMENON: DISTURBING CHILDREN’S YOUTUBE CONTENT AND NEW FRONTIERS IN CHILDREN’S CULTURE by Balanzategui, Jessica (2019.0) - Yet, as increasing numbers of children consume much of their video content outside of the legacy media spaces of film and television, serious concerns are being raised in policy, advocacy (Centre for Digital Democracy, 2018), and journalistic (Bridle, 2017) discussions around the globe because many new children’s video streaming genres are not “child-appropriate” according to extant definitions and guidelines, such as the internationally endorsed Children’s Television Charter. Furthermore, reportage consistently dwells on parents’ and adult commentators’ belated awareness of these unfamiliar, “bizarre” (Popper, 2017) genres popular with children, and suggests that children value this content for reasons that are unclear to adult guardians. Keywords: children; content; genres; media; youtube
• COLLABORATIVE VIDEO LOGS: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND ALIVENESS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM by Cayari, Christopher (2019.0) - Method I assigned CVL projects to students in seven courses at three large public universities in the Midwest United States, in which self-selected groups of four to seven students each posted on their assigned day of the week to have an asynchronous discussion. The final principle of developing a rhythm manifested within CVL groups, which allowed students—or perhaps required students—to experience a flow and momentum for learning and online content creation. Keywords: learning; students; video; youtube
• ALGORITHMIC COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT ON YOUTUBE: USING MACHINE LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AT SCALE by Gray, Joanne; Suzor, Nicolas (2019.0) - The initial sample of YouTube videos is derived from YouTube’s search API (‘list’ endpoint). We use a Transformer attention-based deep learning model to perform classification on YouTube video titles and descriptions, and undertook several rounds of active learning to train the classifier (we ultimately manually labeled approximately 5000 videos to develop an adequate training set). Keywords: content; copyright; scale; videos; youtube
• LEVERAGING TRUST: YOUTUBE ENTERTAINERS AND THE ROLE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING IN ENGENDERING TRUST. by Healy, Guy Hamilton (2019.0) - But this paper suggests that any such stereotype of widespread thoughtless creators is misplaced, and instead, leading creators are doing problem-solving that is highly valued by their fan communities, who creators report can also be thoughtful and co-creative. LEVERAGING TRUST: YOUTUBE ENTERTAINERS AND THE ROLE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING IN ENGENDERING TRUST Guy Hamilton Healy QUT Negative accounts of YouTube creators can dominate mainstream media Dominant accounts of social media entertainers emphasise their roles as micro- celebrities and influencers, with some of these accounts focusing on the negative, especially their performance of dangerous and often ‘idiotic’ stunts as part of their audience-building and sustainability (Goriunova, 2012), for example the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges. Keywords: creators; problem; solving; trust; youtube
• COPYRIGHT GOSSIP: EXPLORING COPYRIGHT KNOWLEDGE, SENTIMENT AND BLACKBOX THEORIES ON YOUTUBE by Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos; Gray, Joanne E (2020.0) - In digital spaces, copyright enforcement is governed in significant part by the private copyright rule-making and enforcement policies of internet platforms (Bridy, 2016; Gray, 2020). Often, when doing so, YouTubers participate in copyright discourses, posting videos sharing their experiences with copyright enforcement. Keywords: copyright; creators; enforcement; law; youtube
• “EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED FOR A GOOD NIGHT’S REST”: TRANSACTIONAL TINGLES AND ASMR AS EMERGING MEDIA GENRE by Maddox, Jessica (2020.0) - But while specifically sexual ASMR does exist, ASMRtists themselves eschew accusations that ASMR is inherently sexual and insist there is more to the craft and the ASMR YouTube community. What began as a relaxation habit become a research activity, and between February 2017 and February 2020 I watched over 180 hours of ASMR videos. Keywords: asmr; media; tingles; youtube
• MAPPING VALUE(S) IN AI: THE CASE OF YOUTUBE by Rieder, Bernhard; Gordon, Geoff; Sileno, Giovanni (2020.0) - Taking recommender systems more generally and the one built by YouTube more specifically, we develop a methodology for conceptualizing and studying the broad array of “ideas”, “norms”, or “values” such systems mobilize. This paper uses the case of recommender systems more generally and the one built by YouTube more specifically to develop a methodology for conceptualizing and studying the broad array of “ideas”, “norms”, or “values” such systems mobilize. Keywords: design; recommender; systems; youtube
• BLACK GIRL TRIES KOREAN MAKEUP: RACE, GENDER, AND TRANSNATIONAL PLATFORM by Kim, Dasol (2021.0) - In response, some Korean audiences have strongly argued that Korean beauty cannot be judged by “Western standards,” asserting that Korea is a mono-ethnic country where light skin preference does not necessarily translate into anti-Blackness. (p.73) Method To examine YouTube videos, comments, and the module in YouTube Creator Academy, I adopt a Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) as a method, which emphasizes how digital content creations are not constructed in a vacuum, but rather deeply rooted in various social relations (Brock, 2018). Keywords: beauty; black; youtube
• THE ALGORITHM PLAYGROUND: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF USER-PRODUCED CHILDREN’S VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE by Vogelman-Natan, Kalia (2021.0) - The escalation in children’s consumption of YouTube videos and the precedented multi- million-dollar revenues of high-subscriber channels (including ad view earnings, sponsored content, merchandise sales, and more) have contributed to the establishment of children’s video production into a popular, lucrative venture. These companies engage YouTube content in various ways, including purchasing and distributing channels to networks, YouTube channel management, assisting existing TV shows in developing content for YouTube, and grassroots attempts at low-tier incorporation, among others. Keywords: children; content; media; videos; youtube
• ‘THE GREAT YOUTUBE PURGE OF WRONGTHINK’: ALTRIGHT ADAPTATIONS IN A CHANGING PLATFORM ECOLOGY by Burnett, Scott; P. Moura Trancoso, Fotini (2021.0) - Microsoft Word - Burnett-'The Great YouTube Purge of Wrongthink'-'The Great YouTube Purge of Wrongthink'.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Burnett, Scott and Trancoso, Fotini Paleologou Moura. “‘The Great YouTube Purge of Wrongthink’: AltRight adaptations in a changing media ecology”. Keywords: content; media; right; tgo; youtube
• LIZIQI AND CHINESE RURAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS: SCOPING A GENRE by Guo, Chen; Abidin, Crystal (2021.0) - Figure 1 & 2: Screenshot of examples of Chinese rural YouTube videos. First, the genre of Chinese rural YouTube videos is constituted by some necessary elements in the video content, including rural scenery, thematic content of rural life activities, paratexts to introduce the content or (optionally) embed advertising, and the use of diegetic or non-diegetic sound to enhance the atmosphere. Keywords: genre; liziqi; videos; youtube
• WHAT’S ‘UP NEXT’? INVESTIGATING ALGORITHMIC RECOMMENDATIONS ON YOUTUBE ACROSS ISSUES AND OVER TIME by Matamoros-Fernandez, Ariadna; Gray, Joanne Elizabeth; Bartolo, Louisa; Burgess, Jean; Suzor, Nicolas (2021.0) - Drawing on the idea of platform observability, this paper combines computational and qualitative methods to investigate the types of content YouTube’s ‘up next’ feature amplifies over time, using three search terms associated with sociocultural issues for which concerns have been raised about YouTube’s role: ‘coronavirus’, ‘feminism’ and ‘beauty’. These findings indicate that YouTube has not effectively addressed content diversity from a social perspective (failing to attend to factors such as race, gender, nationality, sexuality and ability). Keywords: content; media; time; youtube
• FROM BUZZFEED CREATOR TO (IN)DEPENDENT YOUTUBER - MANAGING PRECARIOUS LABOUR THROUGH GOSSIP by Mniestri, Aikaterini; Richter, Vanessa (2021.0) - How does the migration from Buzzfeed to YouTube creator offer both independence and a host of new precarious contingencies to creators? Several well known Buzzfeed Creators moved on to an autonomous career as YouTube creators hoping that the previously acquired audience would migrate with them to support their company independent channel as an entrepreneurial career move. Keywords: buzzfeed; creators; labour; research; youtube
• COMING OUT AND COMING UP: QUANTIFYING QUEER IMMATERIAL LABOR by Homant, Ellie; Russell, Aspen (2023.0) - To be considered a makeup YouTuber, the channel must produce YouTube videos about makeup and adjacent products and processes. Moving forward, there are clear opportunities to investigate queer immaterial labor on YouTube, specifically to test the boundaries of claims made. Keywords: beauty; labor; queer; youtube
• CLIMATE ANXIETY AS A LENS INTO YOUNG PEOPLE'S POLITICAL EXPRESSION ON YOUTUBE by Literat, Ioana ; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta (2023.0) - However, though our data included users from across the world, videos seemed to focus on the experience of climate anxiety by youth in Western contexts, versus those most directly affected by climate change, living in the Global South. Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: A global survey. Keywords: anxiety; change; climate; videos; youtube
• WORD ON THE (DIGITAL) STREET: EXPLORING YOUTUBE VLOGS AS REPUTATION MANAGEMENT FOR ARTISTS IN CHICAGO’S DRILL RAP SCENE by Evans, Jabari Miles (2025.0) - Moreover, the highlighted narratives suggest that in the world of social media entertainment, Driller’s ability to monetize YouTube content incentivizes them to both embellish and/or promote their past participation in gang activities. Though Drillers have inherently violent reputations from their music, their authenticity and established fan community, combined with the ability to monetize YouTube content, has created new opportunities for Drill musicians to establish themselves as influential figures in the creator economy. Keywords: chicago; digital; drill; drillers; media; music; rap; youtube
• THE COLLECTIVE INDIVIDUALISM OF YOUTUBE MAKEUP REVIEWS by Hallinan, Blake; Trillò, Tommaso; Mizoroki, Saki; Scharlach, Rebecca; Park, Pyung Hwa; Green, Avishai; Shifman, Limor (2025.0) - If a review answers the questions of what a product is and whether is it any good (Blank, 2006), YouTube beauty reviews spend most of their time on the former. We employed content analysis on the top 20 videos in each language (n=100) to compare the videos’ evaluative criteria using a codebook of ten values we adapted from Boltanski and Thévenot’s (2006) typology of justifications for a prior study of YouTube reviews (Hallinan, 2023). Keywords: media; reviews; university; youtube
• “You’re in my World 1-1 Now!” - The practice of remixing gaming culture on YouTube by Plothe, Theo (2013.0) - An analysis of personal medical information disclosed in YouTube videos created by patients with multiple sclerosis. YouTube is the logical destination for many users and their expressions of remix culture, but there are the looming issues of copyright and creative culture in a formal context. Keywords: comments; content; culture; remix; videos; youtube
• PERIPHERIES OF CIVIL DISSENT: YOUTUBE’S CIVIC CULTURES AND PLURALISTIC MICROPUBLICS by McCosker, Anthony (2014.0) - Keywords Digital protest, micro-publics, peripheral voices, YouTube channel, video, comments This paper examines peripheral channels of protest, or more specifically the use of YouTube vlogs to garner large numbers of subscribers around acts of civil dissidence and dissident beliefs. Despite the coherence of these themes, the analysis of video comments reveals a far greater contestation over identity and affinity or affiliation than might be expected by the high subscriber numbers and as a factor of effective civic cultures in Dahlgren’s framework. Keywords: channel; comments; protest; videos; youtube

• Those Led-Lit Water-Kooled Multi-Screen Streamline Battlestations by Gibbs, Martin; Carter, Marcus; Nansen, Bjorn (2017.0) - Battlestations are, we contend, monuments built and displayed to celebrate the personal computer’s central transformative role in the creation and liberation of internet gamer cultures. Battlestations r/Battlestations is the place to post and look at clear photographs of desktop battlestation setups. Keywords: battlestations; computer; culture; figure; gaming
• MEDICALIZED MASCULINITIES by Møller, Kristian; Jensen, Mie Birk; Nebeling, Michael; Raun, Tobias (2020.0) - In this paper, I explore the emergence of Viagra spam in the nexus between online technologies and the medicalization of masculinity that make spam both possible and profitable. I ask what we may gain by approaching Viagra spam as “frozen moments” (Haraway, 1994) that give insight into changes in the medicalization of masculinity and men’s everyday lives, both online and offline, as the boundaries between human and technology are increasingly blurred. Keywords: culture; masculinity; media; men; self; spam; tracking; university; viagra; video
• JOSS IS (NO LONGER?) BOSS: FANS’ NEGOTIATIONS AROUND THE “CANCELLING” OF JOSS WHEDON by Gur-Ze'ev, Hadas; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta (2023.0) - In order to understand how Whedon fans perceive “cancelling” as a tool to promote feminist ideals, and the perceived effect this practice has on the ambivalent relationship between creators, cultural products and audiences, we will conduct 20 in-depth interviews with Whedon fans and former fans, sampled from the fan community on Twitter. Over the past two decades, popular culture has been described as a “new front” of culture wars between liberal and conservative opposing values, with a particular focus on gender. Keywords: cancelling; culture; fans; whedon
• INSTITUTIONAL MEMETICS: METONYMY, LIMINALITY, AND DIGITAL RELIGION by Burroughs, Benjamin (2015.0) - Despite the rapidly growing body of scholarly work on Internet memes, very little research has been conducted on religious memes. This is most often performed as small, banal enactments and engagements with religious memes--simple, facile, and non-threatening avenue for sharing faith with others online. Keywords: culture; memes; memetics; religion
• Playful Participatory Culture: Learning from Reddit by Massanari, Adrienne (2013.0) - Abstract This project considers how we might understand participatory culture platforms such as Reddit through the lens of game studies. My work suggests that using concepts from game studies as a lens for understanding interactions on participatory culture platforms like Reddit can provide a richer description of play in these spaces. Keywords: culture; game; play; reddit; research
• Shaking off the ‘Other’: Appropriation of marginalized cultures and the ‘Harlem Shake’ by Steele, Catherine Knight (2013.0) - Drawing upon the idea of misappropriation and ‘eating the other’, this internet phenomenon allows us to address the ways in which participatory culture can serve to further marginalize rather than liberate. This case follows similar patterns within the historical legacy of commodification of Black culture and causes us to complicate our sometimes overly optimistic notions of participatory culture online. Keywords: appropriation; culture; harlem; media; shake
• Subversive Memes: Internet Memes as a Form of Visual Rhetoric by Huntington, Heidi E. (2013.0) - Based on the literature, the paper then proposes that the theory of visual rhetoric—not known to have been previously applied to the study of memes—is an appropriate theoretical and methodological lens for research on internet memes as a form of public discourse. Denver, USA   parallels to traditional media and by considering memes as a form of subversive communication, scholars have a platform by which to elevate the study of internet memes within a participatory media culture. Keywords: culture; media; memes; rhetoric; visual
• The Circuit of Culture: A Useful Theoretical Model for Studying Social Media by Keats, Emily Sue (2013.0) - Social media environments have illustrated the interconnections between production and consumption given that consumers can now produce content to be consumed by other participants in the environment. While producers at the corporate level were once solely in charge of creating messages for mass consumption, consumers who engage in social media environments now have a great deal of power in how such messages are received and reproduced. Keywords: circuit; culture; media; model; self
• THE LABOR OF VISIBILITY: GENDERED SELF-EXPRESSION IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGINARY by Duffy, Brooke (2015.0) - Despite significant attention to the texts and contexts of gendered self- branding in recent years, further insight is needed to better understand the cultural implications for female social media producers. Despite the insight of this scholarship, more research is needed to understand the cultural experiences of female social media producers in their own voices. Keywords: culture; female; labor; media; self; visibility

• “MISINFODEMICS”— UNPACKING THE CORE NARRATIVES OF MULTINATIONAL DRINK COMPANIES’ ONLINE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES by Dugmore, Harry (2019.0) - Social media marketing on popular sugar- sweetened beverages Facebook and Twitter pages in Mexico. This paper explores in particular how so-called ‘Big Food’ multinationals combine their traditional ‘sell more product’ marketing, via the relatively new overlay of their multiple social media channels, with a ‘our products are harmless’ defences via both attempts to influence the understanding of the science and their attempts to engage and shape, via social media, public discourses around health, eating, weight gain and excess kilojoule consumption-related disease. Keywords: health; marketing; media; products
• THE BIRDS AND THE BEES ONLINE: UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN ONLINE SEX-ED SITES by Ross, Janet Nalubega; Walker, Shawn (2019.0) - One result of the continued use of abstinence only curricula has been a general decline in the provision of sexual health education in schools, a move that has pushed adolescents to online spaces to find sexual health education (Buhi, Daley, Fuhrmann, & Smith, 2009; Buhi et al., 2010; Holstrom, 2015). Numerous studies have reviewed how adolescents search for sexual health information online but very few studies have interrogated the content of sexual health education online. Keywords: adolescents; education; health; online
• DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH AS A PROFESSIONAL LIVE STREAMER by Johnson, Mark Richard (2020.0) - Pires and Simon (2015, p. 225) define live streaming as a platform or practice through which ‘anyone can become a TV provider’. Such a shrinking of the distance between media producer and media consumer, and the centrality of this responsiveness to the success of the phenomenon, highlights the profound newness and wider importance of live streaming in a rapidly changing media ecosystem. Keywords: digital; health; streaming; twitch
• FROM ONLINE ENGAGEMENT TO OFFLINE ACTIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ENGAGEMENT AMONG LATINO FACEBOOK USERS by Rivera, Yonaira M (2020.0) - The majority of cancer prevention posts participants engaged with were about food/diet (53% or n=35). A model of social media engagement: User profiles, gratifications, and experiences. Keywords: cancer; cpsi; engagement; health; media; posts
• DEEP GAMES: ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH INDEPENDENT VIDEOGAME DEVELOPMENT by Ruffino, Paolo (2021.0) - The present study contributes to scholarship on independent videogame development by exploring how research participants reflect on their affective relations with labour and how their responses mobilise the debates surrounding mental health. These failures typically give rise to social, psychological, and emotional crises, and frequently force independent developers to abandon their projects, social media presence, or, in some cases, even their careers. Keywords: game; health; industry; videogame
• VIRAL HEALTH MISINFORMATION FROM GEOCITIES TO COVID-19 by Walker, Shawn; Roschke, Kristy; Padejski, Djordje; Simeone, Michael; Muldoon, Anna; Brown, Major (2023.0) - Examining health misinformation from a historical perspective, using an archive dataset of the popular 1990s and 200s online community GeoCities, widens our lens to better understand how people have been using technology to communicate important health information over time. • What is the relationship between sensemaking and misinformation surrounding early HIV information posted on GeoCities? Keywords: geocities; health; misinformation; pages
• MENTAL HEALTH AND THE DIGITAL CARE ASSEMBLAGE: MODERATION PRACTICES & USER EXPERIENCES by McCosker, Anthony; Farmer, Jane; Kamstra, Peter (2023.0) - MENTAL HEALTH & THE DIGITAL CARE ASSEMBLAGE: USER & MODERATOR PRACTICES Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Jane Farmer Swinburne University of Technology Peter Kamstra University of Melbourne Introduction and background This paper examines the socio-technical ecosystems that shape the moderation of mental health content. While mental health content often falls into the category of 'problematic', 'borderline' and ambiguous content for commercial platforms, it poses different challenges to other moderated material such as misinformation, 'obscenity', or hate speech (Gillespie and Aufderheide, 2020). Keywords: assemblage; care; health; moderation; moderators
• COMMUNICATING CARE - HEALING, THERAPY AND INFLUENCER PRACTICES ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Schreiber, Maria ; Hendry, Natalie Ann (2023.0) - Theorising health-related influencer practices Other scholarship demonstrates how health influencers emerge in different ways. In anonymous mental health groups, users become health influencers who are peer mentors and role models through their intensive engagement, non-professional expertise, and authority (McCosker, 2018). Keywords: cultures; health; influencers; media; social
• INSTAGRAM CLOSE FRIEND STORIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AMONG LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE by Byron, Paul (2025.0) - As such, the use of Instagram Close Friend Stories can foster more intense experiences of connection, intimacy, and a culture of vulnerable sharing that is felt to be reciprocal. Madianou’s (2016) concept of ‘ambient co-presence’ is used to consider participants’ everyday Instagram use, and a range of Close Friend Story practices related to mental health support – whether this is sought or offered. Keywords: friend; health; instagram; stories
• BIOMETRIC GOVERNMENTALITIES: THE RISE OF DATAFICATION AND THE UNIQUE HEALTH IDENTIFICATION PROJECT IN INDIA by Muhammed M. P, Faheem; Kachari, Samarjit (2025.0) - Whereas, enrolment into health identity systems becomes a condition for citizens' rights to access healthcare and welfare. Dwelling on how citizen bodies and identities are formed and (re)negotiated across multiple identity systems, it concludes that digital health and biometric welfare often make enrolment into health identity systems a condition for citizens' rights to healthcare. Keywords: aadhaar; abha; biometric; health; india
• Apps for Those Who Help Themselves: Mobile Self-Guided Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health by Seko, Yukari; Kidd, Sean; Wiljer, David (2013.0) - Discussion The authors of the reviewed articles tend to favor implementing mobile phone tools to clinical practices as a suitable and effective means for facilitating self-monitoring among users. Literatures on mobile mental health tools were identified by searching for peer-reviewed, English articles in electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and CINAHL. Keywords: health; interventions; mobile; phone; self; tools
• BIOSENSORY EXPERIENCES AND MEDIA MATERIALITY by Fotopoulou, Aristea; O'Riordan, Kate (2015.0) - Fitbit  wearables  form  part  of  a   digital  health  promotion  apparatus,  which  as  Deborah  Lupton  (2014)  argues,   emphasises  individual  responsibility  to  the  disregard  of  social  and  political  dimensions   of  technology.         Fitbit  is  designed  to  address  users  and  consumers  as  learners   of  technology,  instructed  to  incorporate  self-­logging  in  their  everyday  lives,  making   everyday  practices  productive,  and  engaging  discourses  about  the  responsibility  of  the   1 Juniper  Research  www.juniperresearch.com  and  NDP  www.npd.com,  both  figures  were  reported  widely  in  2013  in  the  press  with   estimates  that  the  market  was  worth  $330  million.     Keywords: fitbit; health; media; promotion
• DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL DIGITAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT? THE CASE OF TWITTER AND MOVEMBER 2013 by Burgess, Jean; Cassidy, Elija; Light, Ben (2014.0) - In enfolding clinical practice expectations, evaluation is configured as seeking to establish irrefutable links between a deep and meaningful intervention (or social media engagement) and a clinical outcome. A key actor with Movember has been social media – Movember has presences on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter. Keywords: engagement; health; media; movember
• Educating About Diabetes: Conversations on a Social Networking Site by Tirthali, Devayani (2013.0) - Conclusion As Walkley (2009) pointed out, health education is ‘social, ubiquitous, and partially authorized by authorities’ and there is little research on these ‘unscripted, unobserved educational moments’. There was a lot more that Y1 and participants she interacted with had to 'figure out' in order to apply the abstract/generalized knowledge that they receive from health professionals in structured interactions. Keywords: diabetes; education; health; research

• NAVIGATING NETWORKED TIME: VISUAL SELF-IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT AMONG YOUTH by Gorea, Michelle (2018.0) - Semi-structured interviewing was used to gain detailed understanding of the rationales different youth have for making, sharing and viewing images, whether they consider them to be significant and in what ways, how they understand the expectations for communicating visually, and to what extent they try to adapt and negotiate their immersion in visual social media. This work in progress paper is a component of a broader study, which focuses on: how the curation and circulation of images may be shaping how youth manage and negotiate their identities; the extent to which socio-economic differences frame youths’ encounters with, and understandings of, visual images; and the different practices that visual media devices allow, encourage, or constrain and how this may be creating scripts for behavior. Keywords: images; media; self; youth
• THE CONCEPT OF ‘SHARING’ IN CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA by Zhao, Luolin; John, Nicholas (2019.0) - Fenxiang and gongxiang—the Mandarin words for ‘sharing’—are central words in the context of Chinese social media and have profound socio-cultural connotations, though different meanings and implications. We find that the Chinese translations for sharing—fenxiang and gongxiang—are indeed both keywords in Chinese SNSs. Keywords: fenxiang; media; self; sharing
• MOVE, EAT, SLEEP, REPEAT: RHYTHMIC STRUGGLES IN PROACTIVE SELF-TRACKING PRACTICES by Bergroth, Harley; Saariketo, Minna (2020.0) - While self-tracking may present harmonious sequences of human-technology co-operation, for the purposes of this paper, we will focus on the diverse layers of struggle in self-tracking practices, including for example falling out of rhythms, longing for rhythms, being unable to understand or follow certain rhythms, or unwillingness to adhere to specific rhythms. Our observations shed light on the ways in which the technologies bent us into new rhythms. Keywords: devices; everyday; rhythms; self; tracking
• ECHOLOCATING THE DIGITAL SELF: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK by Markham, Annette N (2020.0) - The development of the theory of social echolocation draws on my observations and close readings of autoethnographic accounts of a group of around 50 young participants, a theoretical sample from a larger 6-year study (involving approximately 1500 persons, between 2012-2018, about everyday social media use (cf Markham, 2018; Tiidenberg, et al, 2017). It argues that these are central in positioning or mapping social space as well as the characteristics of the Self within these spaces, particularly in, but not limited to, digitally saturated contexts. Keywords: material; media; notifications; participants; self
• SELF-TRACKING ‘FEMTECH’: COMMODIFYING & DISCIPLINING THE FERTILE FEMALE BODY by Roetman, Sara (2020.0) - I subsequently argue that self-tracking femtech is a new category of digital labour focused on management and reproduction of the normative fertile, hormonal, and sexual female body within the post-Fordist context. Femtech constructs and intertwines medical devices, economic exchange, expertise knowledge, bodies, affective experiences, social relations, and labour. Keywords: body; self; tracking
• WHAT DO YOU WEIGH? POPULAR FEMINISM AND BODY POSITIVITY AS MEDIATED DISEMBODIMENT by Taylor, Hannah; Meisner, Colten (2020.0) - This movement, now millions in reach, signals a departure from the conventions of body positivity. Body positivity initially rose to prominence as a component of the radical and fringe ideologies that included public anti-discrimination protests and anti-capitalist advocacy against the diet industry (Mull, 2018). Keywords: body; feminism; positivity; self
• QUARANTINE VLOGS: DIGITAL AFFECTIVE LABOR AND SELF-GOVERNANCE DURING COVID-19 by Yalın, Alkım (2021.0) - This research explores how did the COVID-19 effect the cultural production of influencers – specifically, the affective labor carried out by women content creators – by examining the recent genre of quarantine vlog. In parallel to my ongoing research on influencer cultures, I realized the emergence of quarantine vlogs in March 2020. Keywords: content; quarantine; self; vlogs
• DIGITAL TRACES, SOCIAL RESIDUES: USAGE AS SELF-REPRESENTATION ON LIFESTYLE APPS by Butkowski, Chelsea Paige; Bimo, Sara; Bhandari, Aparajita (2023.0) - (2) How might self-representational practices differ in these “re-purposed” environments, when compared to conventional self- representational practices on existing social media platforms? The qualified self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life. Keywords: media; self; traces; usage
• FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL: A STUDY OF OFFLINE-FIRST COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT by Elfen, Z (2025.0) - Open-source, Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and local-first networks — collectively termed “P4P” (Peer-for-Peer) — have emerged as promising models for resilient communication systems. Modularity in both technical design and social organization enhanced adaptability and local innovation, with lower financial barriers enabling community- aligned protocols. Keywords: development; organization; organizing; p4p; self; systems
• MASCULINE OPTIMIZATION INFLUENCERS AND THE SACRALITY OF SELF-OPTIMIZATION by Reinis, Sara (2025.0) - In this space, the mind and body are inextricably bound and proper discipline of both is necessary for general success. Through identifying how “emotions circulate between bodies and signs,” and paying particular attention to the emotions of shame and disgust, this research examines how this affective economy mobilizes emotions to sacralize their ascendance in a dissymmetric economic system (Ahmed, 2004, p. 119). Keywords: body; influencers; optimization; self
• A Narrative Approach to Studying Writers Weblogs as Interactive Processes of Identity Performance by Beyl, Joke (2011.0) - Keywords linguistic ethnography, online identity, weblog research, literary writers, blog readers New media as transformers of artistic relations According to Susan Sontag (1966, p.49-51), artists are granted authority because they possess the sense of a personal and intellectual extremity. Abstract Our research is directed at understanding how literary writers together with their readers narratively construct a sense of self through blogging. Keywords: artist; audience; author; blog; blog comments; blog posts; blogging; case; comments; narrative; number; posts; readers; self; writer
• Governing Our Souls, Mutilating Our Bodies – The appropriation of social media as a means of corporeal annihilation, resisting the neoliberal logic of self-optimization by Bächle, Thomas Christian (2013.0) - Keywords governmentality; body; self regulation; digital media; social media Discussion Coping with depression; watching your sexual health; preventing cancer; healthy lifestyles and the war against obesity; pre-implantation genetic diagnostics in in-vitro-fertilization; calculating genetic risk and proactive breast amputation; optimization of self through therapy; or biopolitics and incentives for reproduction. Keywords: governmentality; media; optimization; regulation; self
• LIVING A LIFE ONLINE: TRUST, EXPRESSION, AND INTERACTION IN MMOGS by Wirth, Richard; Guadagno, Rosanna (2015.0) - Once the ability to measure self-disclosure levels in online game players is established, the challenge becomes finding the methodology with which one relates disclosure to trust, and the context at work in online games. According to Yee, social players are motivated by relationships, teamwork, and self-disclosure. Keywords: disclosure; guild; online; participants; players; self; study; trust
• THE BODY IN PAIN ONLINE: EXPLORING DIGITAL AFFECT THROUGH USER-GENERATED SUFFERING by Seko, Yukari (2015.0) - In response to dominant psychomedical and popular media approach, this paper employs a critical and interdisciplinary perspective to identify how SI images are actually perceived by those who self-injure and whether these visuals enable or disable the imagining of others’ pain. The following discussion draws on empirical findings from a series of semi-structured online interviews with 17 producers of SI images conducted via email and chat, as well as in-depth visual analysis of 300 SI images uploaded on a micro-blogging network, Tumblr. Keywords: images; pain; self
• THE THINGS WE CAN’T SAY IN SELFIES – NARRATING THE SELF THROUGH GPOY, REACTION-GIF AND ‘CURRENT STATUS’ IMAGES by Tildenberg, Katrin; Tekobbe, Cindy (2014.0) - GPOY based visual self-narration is, thus, a result of identity work (Alvesson, Ashcraft & Thomas, 2008). Communicating in GPOY thus emerges as a coherent genre at the service of identity work. Keywords: gpoy; images; self; status

• IN EACH OTHER WE (STRATEGICALLY) TRUST: THE DISCURSIVE NETWORKS OF TRUST IN TWITTER DISCUSSION OF IMMIGRATION IN AUSTRAILIA by Dehghan, Eshan (2019.0) - However, collectives of users also actively form alliances with other discourses involved in the broader discursive environment, through the use of affordances of Twitter, such as retweets. Furthermore, the discourse of immigration in Australia has also been influenced by the global rise of anti-immigration discourses, and the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe. Keywords: analysis; discourse; immigration; politics
• EXTENDING GAMING DEMAND: SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND SOCIAL VIDEOGAMING REQUIREMENTS by Bowman, Nicholas David; Banks, Jaime (2020.0) - For social demand, five themes emerged: social structures, interpersonal/group communication dynamics related to the game; social (un)realism, non-human characters and considerations of their perceived (lack of) “humanness;” interdependence, the necessity of coordination for co-playing; single-player sociality, characterizations of playing with others compared to playing alone; and contingency, the interdependence dynamics of in-game social dialogue. For social demands, this analysis revealed a compelling departure from VGDS. Keywords: analysis; bowman; demand; game
• AFFECTIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE CROSS-PLATFORM STUDY OF EMOTION AND RACE ON TWITTER, GAB, AND FACEBOOK by boler, megan (2021.0) - The talk shares some of the challenges faced in developing this novel approach we term affective discourse analysis, addressing the following issues: x cross-platform data access and challenges posed by ensuring symmetry of coding across platforms x limitations of academic access to big data x challenges and limitations of qualitative research data software Atlas.ti x the challenge of identifying and interpreting emotional expressions embedded within social media text x developing a coding system with credible intercoder agreement, particularly given the intrinsically subjective nature of coding emotion Contributing to a nascent field of mixed-methods studies related to affect within social media, this talk invites discussion of the importance of interdisciplinary study of affect and emotion in social media, and how qualitative research can augment quantitative methods of sentiment analysis (Bouvier and Rosenbaum 2020). Scholars are challenged to develop innovative methods for studying emotion and affect within studies of popular culture, social media, and political communications (Boler and Davis 2020). Keywords: affective; analysis; emotion; media; social
• “MY MINIMALIST JOURNEY:” NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF YOUTUBE MINIMALISM STORIES by Zhao, Lizhen (2021.0) - Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. However, the analysis also highlights the self- entrepreneurship in such narratives. Keywords: analysis; minimalist; narrative
• NARRATIVES IN AMERICA: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION AND VICTIMHOOD IN THE 2020 US ELECTION by Gharib, Hoda; Boler, Megan (2021.0) - Through extensive 4-month ethnography and grounded theoretical coding and discourse analysis of 2500 social media posts and comment sections, we address debates relating to the nature of cross-partisan dialogue and affective polarization on social media. Conclusion: Through innovative and nuanced coding of emotions, beliefs, and narratives of self/other on social media, our study deepens understandings of the nature and manifestation of affective polarization in the U.S. Keywords: analysis; media; polarization; victimhood
• DISCOURSES OF VICTIMHOOD AND IDENTITY POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: UNDERSTANDING AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION DURING THE US ELECTION by Trigiani, Amanda; Boler, Megan (2021.0) - Discourses of victimhood and identity politics on social media: Understanding affective polarization during the US Election. Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org. DISCOURSES OF VICTIMHOOD AND IDENTITY POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: UNDERSTANDING AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION DURING THE US ELECTION Megan Boler University of Toronto Amanda Trigiani University of Toronto This cross-platform digital ethnography examines the nuances of how emotions are expressed and who they are directed towards within social media in order to better understand the phenomenon of affective polarization and the increased emotionality online. Keywords: analysis; media; polarization
• spir-13471 by None (None) - Against this background, we investigate comparatively, in a sample of crowdworkers and student coders, which influence coder characteristics have on the validity and reliability of the coding results. All coders ere adequatly compensated, either in form of credit points (student coders) or with a monetary incentive (crowdworker). Keywords: analysis; coders; coding; content; crowdworkers
• POTHOLES AND POWER: A MULTIMODAL CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ‘LOOK AT THIS F*CKIN’ STREET’ ON INSTAGRAM by Turvy, Alex (2023.0) - I argue that LATFS is an effective and powerful participatory platform for exposing a broad range of systemic problems and their causes, allowing residents to take back the narrative of their city’s infrastructure challenges, diminish and demean the powerful interests responsible, and ultimately attempt to reclaim the power lost to negligent or even bad-faith municipal authorities in New Orleans. Foundationally, I take my approach from Fairclough's (2003) socio-cultural approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA), which is a three-dimensional framework for the analysis of text and discourse and thus views discourse as simultaneously a text, discourse practice, and socio-cultural practice. Keywords: analysis; city; latfs; power
• MEMES, MULTIMODALITIES, AND MACHINES: ASSEMBLING MULTIMODAL PATTERNS IN MEME CLASSIFICATION STUDY by Zhu, Guangnan; Chand, Kunal; Angus, Daniel; Graham, Timothy (2023.0) - One of the most interesting and prevalent multimodal information forms online is visual memes such as image macros, which are media objects made up of photos and superimposed texts, symbols and other exploitables. Understanding visual memes: An empirical analysis of text superimposed on memes shared on twitter. Keywords: analysis; machine; media; memes; text
• THE UNFRIENDING PERFORMANCE: THE LOGIC OF DISCONNECTIVE ACTION IN CRISES by Asmolov, Gregory; Logunova, Olga (2025.0) - THE UNFRIENDING PERFROMANCE: THE LOGIC OF DISCONNECTIVE ACTION IN CRISES Gregory Asmolov King’s College London Olga Logunova King’s College London Introduction: A broad literature addresses the role of crises as times of increasing connectivity and triggers for manifestations of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012), where digital media serve as organizing agents. Therefore, alongside the logic of connective action, there is a need to explore the logic of disconnective action as a process of social untying where digital media serve as disorganizing agents. Keywords: action; analysis; disconnection; memory; unfriending
• FROM BLACK TO WHITE: DISSECTING PROPGAGNDA IN NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES, FINDING AI-ENABLED DISINFORMATION by Han, Seungtae; Kuerbis, Brenden (2025.0) - The research categorized disinformation narratives using Martino et al.'s (2020) framework of 18 propaganda techniques, enabling systematic analysis of how these methods are deployed across different contexts and platforms (Méndez-Muros et al., 2024). The research identified several key disinformation narratives in each case. Keywords: analysis; disinformation; narratives; nuclear; propaganda
• A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the "It Gets Better Project" by Phillips, Laurie (2013.0) - Findings contribute to online participation research concerning how the internet is used for social change and how social inequalities are (re)produced in online projects. Method: Critical Discourse Analysis is concerned with “the effect of power relations and inequalities in producing social wrongs,” with the ultimate goal of moving beyond the interpretation of texts and advocating for social change (Fairclough, 2010, p. 8). Keywords: analysis; class; discourse; gender; igbp; participants
• BEYOND BIG BIRD: THE ROLE OF HUMOR IN THE AGGREGATE INTERPRETATION OF LIVE-TWEETED EVENTS by Driscoll, Kevin; Leavitt, Alex; Guth, Kristen; Bar, François (2015.0) - Microsoft Word - Driscoll-Beyond Big Bird-Beyond Big Bird.doc Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 BEYOND BIG BIRD: THE ROLE OF HUMOR IN THE AGGREGATE INTERPRETATION OF LIVE-TWEETED EVENTS Driscoll, Kevin Microsoft Research New England Leavitt, Alex Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California Guth, Kristen Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California Bar, François Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California How do emergent discourses impact the interpretation of large social media events? The initial findings underscore an urgency for considering humor and other contextual aspects of communication in studies of participatory politics on social media. Keywords: analysis; humor; media; tweets

• WHO PUT THE ‘SOCIAL’ IN MOBILE AND SOCIAL PAYMENT PLATFORMS? RE-READING SIMMEL AND COLLEAGUES IN LIGHT OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION by Riedl, Martin Johannes (2018.0) - Mobile payments, social money: Social payments: Innovation, trust, Bitcoin, and the sharing economy. Keywords: money; payment; simmel; social
• DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS ON TWITTER DURING THE BRAZILIAN 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION by Recuero, Raquel; Soares, Felipe; Vinhas, Otavio; Zago, Gabriela (2020.0) - Our goal is to present a case study and offer some insights about disinformation campaigns in Latin America, which is currently an understudied context. Disinformation campaigns are problematic because they negatively influence conversations in the public sphere by misleading people (Derakhshan & Wardle, 2017). Keywords: campaigns; content; conversations; disinformation; media; social
• *EXPLORING NIGERIA`S ENDSARS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE NEXUS OF MEMORY* by Udenze, Silas (2023.0) - The rhythms of social movement memories: the mobilisation of Silvio Meier’s activist remembrance across platforms. In this vein, the cultural turn in social movement studies has meant that growing attention is being paid to how protesters make sense of themselves, their environments, and the past (Baumgarten, Daphi, and Ullrich, 2014; Johnston, 2009). Keywords: digital; endsars; media; memory; movement; social; story; studies
• AFFECTIVE TEMPORALITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: WORLD YOUTH DAY 2023 by Jorge, Ana; Kubrusly, Ana (2025.0) - Pilgrimage can be augmented by digital media, for instance in the form of blogs, groups, or virtual pilgrimage that support the preparation of the experience; as well as in the sharing of the experience through social media, as a form of 'expressive release', sense-making and community affirmation (Maddrell & della Dora, 2013). The official WYD app and website also offered an interactive map which highlighted points of interest to pilgrims and a daily schedule with events across the city. Keywords: event; media; pilgrimage; pilgrims; social; world
• SIMULATING SUBJECTIVITY - BAUDRILLARD AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LLMS by Quelhas Freire, Sebastião (2025.0) - Thus, I propose that Baudrillard's dense and polemical conceptual apparatus serves critical AI studies by placing the onus on the identification of human social agency in the context of processes of valorisation Baudrillard himself could not fully anticipate. The problem of subjectification has been examined extensively by the post-operaist tradition, through discussions of immaterial labour in the context of digital systems (Terranova, 2000; Virno & Hardt, 2010), wherein it is argued that the digital economy relies on the capture of the social knowledge of the networked interactions of subjects acting therein. Keywords: baudrillard; llms; social; systems
• “I LOVE THINKING ABOUT ETHICS!” PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICS IN SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH by Weller, Katrin; Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina (2014.0) - Our intention in this paper is therefore a) to show how the adapting of guidelines plays out and what the resulting individual strategies look like b) to shed some light on social media researchers’ stances and opinions on the issue of ethics in social media research, and c) to offer these insights with the intent to allow other social media researchers to learn from these examples. Perspectives on ethics in social media research. Keywords: ethics; media; research; researchers; social
• Netizen Mobs and Their Performance: a content analysis of participants and their political participation in Chinese online forum by Yin, Siyuan (2011.0) - The study found that social classes (based on occupation) and monthly income exert no significant effect on online civilized behavior, but the specific uncivilized behavior varies with different social classes. On one hand, it breaks the social hierarchy and promotes the flow of social classes. Keywords: china; civility; class; engagement; forum; levels; online; participants; participation; performance; social
• WHITENESS AS DIGITAL IMAGINARY: SJW AS BOUNDARY OBJECT by Brock, André (2015.0) - This paper seeks to extend research into this area by applying the concept of boundary objects (Star and Griesemer 1989; Star 2010; Bowker and Star 1999) to racial ideology as articulated in a video game, Social Justice Warriors, alongside associated online discussions about the game, and video games and race in general. Video games, through their capacity for simulation, representation, and ludic experience, are an uniquely concretized take on cultural belief and discourse. Keywords: game; sjw; social; star
• The paradox of networked politics: A critical examination of presidential campaigns in the United States by Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2013.0) - Paradox of Networked Politics 3 Yet, for the innovations and shifts in presidential campaign practices to integrate digital media, an emancipatory transformation of presidential campaigns has not come to pass. Thus, although political elections are essential to a democracy, political campaigns are decidedly undemocratic. Keywords: campaigns; dcts; media; social

• ‘MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK’: TRUST AND AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ADVERTISING INDUSTRY by Kininmonth, Samuel Stanley (2019.0) - ‘MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK’: TRUST AND AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ADVERTISING INDUSTRY Samuel Kininmonth RMIT University This paper examines how the Australian advertising industry discusses trust in the infrastructures of digital advertising. The advertising industry is undergoing a major change as digital advertising is increasingly dominated by new advertising technology (adtech) players and major tech companies such as Facebook and Google. Keywords: advertising; industry; trust; verification
• TRUST IN TRANSLATION: A CASE STUDY OF COPYRIGHT AS A LEGAL TRANSPLANT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN MYANMAR by Valdovinos Kaye, D. Bondy (2019.0) - Throughout its development, Myanmar music professionals have developed their own solutions to problems that take into account history, culture, and language. This study examines transplanted copyright regulation in an emergent and increasingly digitalized creative industry: the music recording industry of Myanmar. Keywords: copyright; industry; music; myanmar
• WHAT IS BEHIND THE (GLASS)DOOR? EXAMINING TOXIC WORKPLACE CULTURES VIA AN EMPLOYMENT REVIEW SITE by Bergstrom, Kelly (2021.0) - In an effort to collect data in a way that reduces the risks faced by current employees, game scholars have begun to investigate public texts written for and by game industry professionals. While the reviewer left it vague, fairly graphic humour—when viewed in the context provided by D'Anastasio’s interviews with current employees describing toxic masculinity pervading Riot’s workplace culture where even men might find themselves having their genitals groped—it becomes much easier to read between the lines. Keywords: company; employees; game; industry; riot
• PASSION, PIPELINES, AND PRECARITY: WORKING LIVES IN GAMES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HIGHER EDUCATION by Harvey, Alison (2021.0) - I explore how the normalization of the above-mentioned professional identities are in some part based on how students in games higher education are exposed to ideas about what working in games looks like. The legibility of this approach to gamesworkers before their entry into the industry can be seen in the ongoing dominance of the talent discourse across the mission statements and activities of major trade bodies such as UKIE, advocacy groups including European Women in Games and BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) in Games, and charity organizations like the British Games Institute, which has to date organized two summits focused on games education. Keywords: education; future; games; industry; talent
• ‘ETHICAL BIOMETRICS’ AND THE FACE OF THE CHILD: THE SURVEILLANCE OF CHILDREN WITHIN FACIAL RECOGNITION INDUSTRY DISCOURSE by O'Neill, Christopher Allan; Andrejevic, Mark; Selwyn, Neil; Gu, Xin; Smith, Gavin (2021.0) - We draw attention to three key case studies in which the face of the child comes to serve as a justification for the careful deployment of facial recognition technologies – the use of facial recognition in the audit of aid supplies in the developing world, the control of alleged ‘family staging’ (by which a child is used to ‘fake’ a family unit for the purpose of beneficial treatment at the border), and in the monitoring of underage gambling in Australia. We identify three key ‘use cases’ in which the face of the child takes on a prominent role as justifying and legitimating the use of facial recognition technologies – in the auditing of humanitarian food supply programs, in the detection of so-called ‘staging’ of family units at the US border, and in the detection of underage gambling in Australia. Keywords: child; face; industry; recognition; university
• PRECARITY, DISCRIMINATION AND (IN)VISIBILITY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF “THE ALGORITHM” IN THE INFLUENCER INDUSTRY by Glatt, Zoë (2023.0) - Some may wonder if ethnography is a useful method for investigating platforms’ algorithmic recommendation systems, unable to get to the heart of how they “actually work”, but I argue that attending to the lived experiences of content creators who navigate algorithms on a daily basis adds a powerful and complimentary dimension to more macro structural critiques of the asymmetries of power built into capitalist algorithmic systems (for example, Noble, 2018). This paper explores with an anthropological lens the multifaceted and situated ways that YouTube content creators understand and respond to “The Algorithm” in their working lives. Keywords: algorithm; content; creators; industry
• THE INTIMACY TRIPLE BIND: STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES AND RELATIONAL LABOUR IN THE INFLUENCER INDUSTRY by Glatt, Zoë (2023.0) - This involved a number of complimentary methods: (1) offline participant observation at key industry events (VidCon London and L.A., Summer in the City), as well as formal and informal content creator meet-ups and events; (2) online participant observation of content creator/influencer culture across a wide range of social media platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs, and so on); (3) in-depth semi-structured interviews with 30 London-based content creators; and (4) autoethnographic research in the form of becoming a YouTube creator myself, with the aim of gaining first-hand experiential insights into the nature of content creator labour. The work of content creators, or influencers, bears many of the hallmarks of creative labour that have been identified by researchers of the Creative and Cultural Industries going back three decades. Keywords: creators; industry; influencer; labour; media
• A STUDY OF INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN THE FIELD OF AI RESEARCH by Berman, Glen; Williams, Kate; Cohen, Eliel (2025.0) - Findings We find that national research funders and university bureaucracies incentivise industry investments in AI research, both at the level of researchers, for whom career progression may be tied to their ability to broker intersectoral collaborations, and at the level of research networks, whose funding may be tied to their facilitation of industry- academic partnerships. A study of industry influence in the field of AI research. Keywords: field; industry; influence; research; university
• IN THE SHADOW OF LLMS: TROUBLE IN THE “SMART” AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY by Gekker, Alex; Hind, Sam (2025.0) - Technical limitations expose the inadequacies of autonomous vehicles in meeting their promised capabilities. Until large language models (LLMs) took the crown with OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, autonomous vehicles were considered the greatest possible application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the modern era. Keywords: 2022; automotive; industry; limitations; limits; new; vehicles
• BOUNDARYLESS CAREERS IN-BETWEEN VIDEO GAME FIELDS AND INDUSTRIES: THE JOB EXPERIENCES OF EXPATRIATE AND REMOTE WORKERS IN CZECH VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY by Houška, Jan (2025.0) - The one-off interviews would be at risk of missing this dynamic side of game industries. But in comparison with commercial engines such as Unity or Unreal, proprietary engines point to the specific provenance of local game industries and contextually specific games (Nicoll & Keogh, 2019). Keywords: czech; game; industries; industry; production; workers
• FROM NEIJUAN TO BUJUAN: CHINESE IT PROFESSIONALS' CHANGING PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS WORKING by Liang, Boyang (2025.0) - FROM NEIJUAN TO BUJUAN: CHINESE IT PROFESSIONALS' CHANGING PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS WORKING Boyang Liang School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds Introduction Having the highest average salary in China, IT professionals have enjoyed rapid development and upgrades in their industry. Given the high uncertainty within the industry itself, the outcome of neijuan among IT professionals is not necessarily success in competition; it can lead to a sense of anxiety for others and calls for more internal competition (Mulvey & Wright, 2022). Keywords: bujuan; chinese; industry; neijuan; professionals
• ARTIFICIAL AUDIO: EMERGING USES OF AI IN PODCASTING by Morris, Jeremy Wade (2025.0) - Even shows that remain on platforms, like AI Radio - a “current events” show hosted by chat bots Adam and Bella that discuss topics like different sex acts human enjoy and kangaroos invading Uganda - come with content warnings and feel like they could be taken down any day: “These segments are made up by AI. The paper will also present a discourse analysis of industry texts about a variety of AI tools designed for podcasters. Keywords: audio; industry; media; podcasting; podcasts
• A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF VIRTUALHUMANS.ORG AND ITS ROLE IN VIRTUAL INFLUENCER RESEARCH, 2019 TO PRESENT by Park/Parke, Jul (2025.0) - Often driven by a team of creators, an agency, or conglomerate which participates in their aesthetic design, storyline, tone of voice, and real-time interaction with followers in the comments section or inbox (Oosterom et al., 2023; Sands et al., 2022), virtual influencers represent a nascent presence on social media platforms. Background Since 2019, VirtualHumans.org has described itself as “the best source of information on virtual influencers, directly from industry insiders” (homepage). Keywords: industry; influencers; media; research; virtualhumans.org; website

• MARDI GRAS THROUGH INSTAGRAM STORIES: HOW EPHEMERAL MEDIA SHAPE EVERYDAY ENGAGEMENTS WITH IDENTITY POLITICS by Cassidy, Elija; Matamoros Fernandez, Ariadna; Thomson, T.J. (2019.0) - Method Our overarching project takes an ethnographic approach to the study of digital media, integrating content analysis of Instagram stories with semi-structured interviews with relevant public actors involved in Mardi Gras who used Instagram Stories as part of their engagement with the event. Number of daily active Instagram Stories users from October 2016 to January 2019 (in millions). Keywords: instagram; mardi; media; stories
• A NEW BLACK BOX METHODOLOGY: THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF INTERROGATING THE MODERATION OF IMAGES DEPICTING WOMEN’S BODIES ON INSTAGRAM by Witt, Alice Elizabeth Ameila (2019.0) - In doing so, it evaluates the methodological, legal and ethical challenges of studying content moderation in practice. Input in this paper refers to individual images, while output pertains to the outcome of content moderation (ie, whether an image is removed or not removed). Keywords: content; images; instagram; moderation
• “DO YOUR RESEARCH”: COVID-19, POST-SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE AND THE NARRATIVE OF INFORMATION INDEPENDENCE AMONG CZECH INSTAGRAM INFLUENCERS by Hermanova, Marie (2021.0) - The aim of the paper is to analyse the role of lifestyle Instagram influencers in shaping the public narrative that explains COVID-19 as an orchestrated political event aimed at curbing civic freedom in the Czech Republic. While social media influencers undoubtedly play an important role in spreading awareness and sometimes vital information about covid-related situation to their audience (Abidin et al 2020) there’s also evidence of Instagram and TikTok influencers involvement in the spread of conspiracies and false information regarding the pandemic (Maly 2020) and of the role that Instagram influencers played in the mainstreaming of QAnon-related narratives in the US (Remski, 2020). Keywords: context; czech; influencers; instagram; media
• INFLUENCER CULTURE & ALGORITHMIC APARTHEID ON GAY INSTAGRAM by Quick, Tyler (2021.0) - For many reasons, white elites in Western metropolises are made more visible to Instagram users, even when others could conceivably fulfill their same representational function, troubling the notion that influencer status can be attained through an individual’s “labor” without algorithmic assistance. What this makes clear to me is that the algorithmic processes that mediate whose content is made visible in order to sate Instagram audiences’ scopophilic desires Image 1 conceptualize the supply and demand of homoerotic imagery in a manner that compounds existing social biases and further privileges the visibility of the white, Western, and wealthy gay person. Keywords: accounts; content; gay; instagram
• TECHNOLIBERAL PARTICIPATION: BLACK LIVES MATTER AND INSTAGRAM SLIDESHOWS by Salzano, Matthew (2021.0) - Set in a black and white theme, the post explains that “the absolute least you can do is repost the millions of Instagram posts helping people spread the message on how to help, donate, protest, and converse. Technoliberal Participation: Black Lives Matter and Instagram Slideshows. Keywords: instagram; participation; post; slideshows
• IT LOOKS BETTER ON INSTAGRAM: NETWORKED PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC ART IN MUMBAI by Savnal, Ketaki (2021.0) - This was also my attempt to engage in the same fragmentary, humourous and spontaneous mode as Instagram photography, and participate as a visitor as much as a researcher. To examine how the desire for networked visibility alters ideas of space and place, object production and meaning making, I draw from research on social networking sites, algorithms, branding and the production of subjectivity (Lazzarato 2014, Carah and Shaul 2016, Brodermerkel and Carah 2016) and global Instagram cultures (Leaver, Highfield and Abidin 2019). Keywords: art; festival; instagram; installations
• ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM: CONNECTIONS AND FRICTIONS BETWEEN ACTIVISM, LIFESTYLES AND CONSUMPTION. by San Cornelio, Gemma; Ardèvol, Elisenda; Martorell, Sandra (2021.0) - These preliminary findings allow a characterization of a new mode of social activism with specific features. ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM: Keywords: activism; influencers; instagram; lifestyle
• #COTTAGECORE, #FUTURECORE, #SADCORE: USING CRITICAL SIMULATION TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN MACHINE VISION AND VERNACULAR INSTAGRAM AESTHETICS by Burgess, Jean; Carah, Nicholas; Brown, Maria-Gemma; Angus, Daniel (2023.0) - Building on the first phase of the project, which explored the ability of machine vision to identify meaningful clusters of objects and environments given the Instagram images from a popular music festival (Carah, Angus & Burgess, 2022), this paper moves on to a harder problem: to understand the capacity of machine vision systems to recognise and reproduce the diverse vernacular aesthetics and affects (the ‘vibes’ and ‘moods’) associated with particular scenes on Instagram (Carah & Angus, 2018) - in this case, drawing on a case study of Instagram’s ‘-cores’ hashtags. The tendency of vernacular aesthetics to evade verbal description and symbolic representation may pose a significant challenge to machine vision systems, which are primarily trained to detect and match objects and faces. Keywords: -cores; images; instagram; machine; vision
• DRAWING TO DISRUPT: ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES TO THE MANOSPHERE by Gerrand, Vivian (2023.0) - Rogers, R. 2020 ‘Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media.’ Popular feminist influencer and cartoonist Lily O’Farrell’s (@vulgadrawings) memes about sexism began to engage with the nuances of the manosphere in 2021 when she decided to talk to young men who were trolling her Instagram account. Keywords: incels; instagram; men; o’farrell
• INSTAGRAM’S SHIFT TOWARDS LIVE: HOW STORIES AND LIVE VIDEOS SHAPE HOW WE EXPERIENCE BEING AT EVENTS by Hammelburg, Esther (2023.0) - While these images are often understood as displaying the unfolding unpredictable moment, they are themselves part of that happening; stories and streams have become part of event environments and create specific new physical realities that are experienced as authentic moments. Instagram’s Shift Towards Live: How Stories And Live Videos Shape How We Experience Being At Event. Keywords: event; instagram; live; stories
• “HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY, BEAUTIFUL QUEEN”: #JUSTICEFORBRE AND THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT ON INSTAGRAM by Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Literat, Ioana (2023.0) - Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ioana Literat Teachers College, Columbia University Introduction and Theoretical Framework On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician (EMT) from Louisville, Kentucky, was killed by police officers during a raid on her apartment. In this study, we analyze the complex intersections between race, gender, and the aesthetic norms dominant on Instagram (see Leaver, Highfield & Abidin, 2020), as they played out in the political expression around the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement— specifically around the killing of Breonna Taylor. Keywords: birthday; breonna; instagram; taylor
• ADAM MOSSERI: CONSTRUCTING INSTAGRAM’S TOP DAD by Leaver, Tama (2023.0) - In this context, Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri is an important figure not just as the person most directly responsible for an Instagram Kids app, but also, I shall argue, in terms of the way he has carefully constructed a public persona as a caring and trustworthy parent, deeply involved in his children’s lives, and that this persona has significant strategic value in Meta and Instagram’s future chances of deploying Instagram Kids, or something similar. Rather than abandoning the Instagram Kids idea, this announcement remained consistent with Mosseri’s own public persona as a concerned, active parent trying to ensure Instagram empowers other parents to guide their children’s social media use. Keywords: children; instagram; kids; mosseri
• THE CIRCULATION OF FEELINGS ON POLITICISED INSTAGRAM by Lehto, Mari; Mannevuo, Mona (2023.0) - When social media influencers go political: An exploratory analysis on the emergence of political topics among Finnish influencers. As the followers’ written responses or reactions to Stories come via private DMs, they increase the desire for intimate connections, although popular influencers may receive hundreds or even thousands of messages every day. Keywords: influencers; instagram; media
• (RE)SHARING FEMINISMS: RE-SHARING INSTAGRAM STORIES AS EVERYDAY FEMINIST PRACTICES by Caldeira, Sofia P. (2025.0) - (Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices. As engaging with political topics online can be perceived as risky (Ekström, 2015), it’s essential to explore these small acts of engagement that for different degrees of political engagement, facilitating the integration of feminist practices into everyday life, even for reticent participants. Keywords: feminist; instagram; media; stories
• SCROLL, PRINT, ALGORITHMICALLY CLUSTER: A CO-ANALYSIS APPROACH TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN USERS, PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMIC MODELS ON INSTAGRAM by Carah, Nicholas; Brown, Maria-Gemma; Tesiram, Rani; Kahukura, Hine; Enright, Lisa; Hawker, Kiah (2025.0) - We have ‘critically simulated’ the capacity of machine vision models to recognise and reproduce the patterns in the visual cultures of Instagram including images posted on hashtags relating to cultural events like music festivals, food and dining scenes, and intimate publics surrounding alternative art, culture and fashion. We have also explored the capacity of machine vision models to recognise visual patterns in advertisements on Instagram. Keywords: images; instagram; machine; vision
• CONNECTING WITH SPORTS FANS: GAMBLING MARKETING STRATEGIES ON INSTAGRAM by Kerr, Aphra; Bidav, Tugce; McEvoy, Erin; Kitchin, Paul (2025.0) - Unlike televised live sporting events that provide an avenue for distributing direct gambling messages, social media platforms such as Instagram facilitate the distribution of a wide variety of content types that not only seek to capture the attention of adult and youth sports fans, but also users who would not typically engage with gambling content. It furthers a growing body of evidence that evidences the extent of gambling marketing that young people are exposed to and how gambling companies exploit fandom to target both gamblers and non-gamblers alike. Keywords: content; gambling; instagram; marketing; media; sports
• BREADWINNER OR BREADMAKER: CONTRADICTIONS IN TRADWIVES' CREATOR LABOR, RELIGIOUS VERNACULAR, AND AESTHETICS by Muenster, Roxana Mika; Foster, Margaret E. (2025.0) - We ask the following research questions: RQ1: How do tradwife creators reconcile their professed identification with traditional gender roles and their entrepreneurial activities in text and audiovisual content? RQ2: However, this seems at odds with their labor as content creators. Keywords: creators; instagram; labor; media; tradwife; tradwives
• IMAGINING THE ENDS OF IDENTITY: BIRTH AND DEATH ON INSTAGRAM by Leaver, Tama; Highfield, Tim (2015.0) - The sharing of ultrasound images begins an individual’s social media footprint before they are born, and does important affective work situating them within a family group. Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 IMAGINING THE ENDS OF IDENTITY: BIRTH AND DEATH ON INSTAGRAM Tama Leaver Curtin University Tim Highfield QUT Introduction While social media is communal by definition, the use, regulation and understanding of social media is frequently limited to individuals (even if those individuals add together as a group or community of some kind). Keywords: funeral; images; instagram; media

• DOING YOUR HOMEWORK: THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS A FRIENDSHIP FILTER by Standlee, Alecea Irene (2018.0) - This paper expands this work to consider how the use of social media as a filter in the establishment of friendship networks among college students in offline spaces, shapes the composition of such social networks. For young adults who were born in the midst of the current technological age, social media and information distribution technologies and practices are part of normal everyday social interaction, even within their intimate lives. Keywords: filter; media; networks; participants
• ‘SENSORIAL LITTER’: BUILDING REFLEXIVE TRUST THROUGH EXAMINING DIGITAL DETRITUS by Hare, Kathleen Allyson (2019.0) - I posit that when refuse/d from the body, too intense experiences are not lost, but rather manifest materially in digital media litter (e.g., anxiety filled texts, emails to supervisors, search histories). I first draw from phenomenological embodiment theories to put forward the idea of sensorial litter to conceptualize these too intense embodied experiences. Keywords: experiences; litter; participants; research
• DON'T JUST SAY THANK YOU: EXPLORATION OF TYPES OF POSTS INSPIRING AND HINDERING DEEP CONVERSATIONS ONLINE by Tirthali, Devayani; Murai, Yumiko (2019.0) - Open discussion space not only allowed people to collectively build understanding about a topic but also helped them ground those discussion in personal experiences. Learner participation and engagement in open online courses: Insights from the Peer 2 Peer University. Keywords: course; discussion; learning; participants; posts
• DIGITAL DETOX CAMP: VALUES AND MOTIVATIONS FOR ENGAGING IN DIGITAL DISCONNECT by Karlsen, Faltin (2020.0) - Rules directed toward media technology have informal formulations such as Don't be online because it is so incredibly difficult to play with someone while simultaneously checking Facebook. In contrast to the domestication process where new media technology is tamed, reverse domestication implies cognitive processes and practical strategies involved when distancing from media technology (Karlsen and Syvertsen 2016). Keywords: activities; camp; media; participants
• EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL DISTANCE AND SOCIAL CLOSENESS IN VR AND TEXT ON SPATIAL DISTANCE ESTIMATION by Won, Andrea Stevenson; Kim, Byungdoo (2021.0) - We also investigated whether manipulating social presence by using a rich medium such as virtual reality versus texting would change the relationship between social distance, conversational partner location, and estimated physical distance participants. Thus, we hypothesized that the effect of social distance on the estimated spatial distance to the target city will depend on the presumed location of the conversational partner. Keywords: closeness; distance; participants; partner
• CONDUCTING CROSS-CULTURAL ONLINE AUDIENCE RESEARCH WITH TWO GENERATIONS: METHODOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES AND REFLECTIONS FROM THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT by Bolin, Göran; Figueiras, Rita; Kalmus, Veronika (2023.0) - Online interviews needed to be shorter than f2f interviews since it was more difficult to uphold concentration among participants, and a balance had to be struck between creating a calm atmosphere and time efficiency. Levels of digital skills and self-confidence in use also played a role in older participants' possibilities and willingness for taking part in online research. Keywords: interviews; online; participants; research
• PATHWAYS TO RADICALISM: EXAMINING ONLINE COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL PATHWAYS TO MORE RADICAL BELIEFS ON REDDIT by Zulli, Diana; Mann, Marcus; Foote, Jeremy; Ku, Emily; Primm, Emily (2023.0) - We report four themes below, using them to propose new theoretical insights about political radicalization. Collectively, the “Unsorting the Self” model offers a new framework for studying radicalization on online platforms like Reddit that addresses gaps in current understandings of political radicalization and the role of online communities. Keywords: communities; participants; radicalization; reddit
• GAMING PLATFORMS AS CHAOTIC NEUTRAL?: TOXIC PERFORMANCE, COMMUNITY RESISTANCE, AND AGONISTIC POTENTIAL by Adams, Philippa R; Scholl, Ben; Sommers, Maria (2023.0) - The first tool, a tier-list maker, asked participants to drag icons of toxic behaviours to the list and explain the rationale behind their choices. Our gaming-themed tools encouraged participants to pause and think through their experiences of toxicity during play. Keywords: games; gaming; participants; toxicity; university
• spir-13467 by None (None) - We pay close attention to how participants made sense of algorithmic controversies and their social implications for LGBTQ+ communities by queering dominant algorithmic imaginaries. ‘IF WE LOOK AT IT FROM AN LGBT POINT OF VIEW…’ MOBILIZING LGBTQ+ STAKEHOLDERS TO QUEER ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES David Myles Institut national de la recherche scientifique Alex Chartrand Concordia University Stefanie Duguay Concordia University Introduction In the past decade, platform algorithms, implemented to curate, exploit, and predict user activities online, have been criticized for exacerbating social inequalities that disproportionally affect women and people of color (Noble, 2018). Keywords: algorithms; controversies; imaginaries; lgbtq+; participants
• spir-13483 by None (None) - We then asked questions about their general use of BeReal, the kinds of pictures they post on the app, their reactions to BeReal features like the random notification and time limits, their thoughts about authenticity and social media, and how BeReal compared to other social media apps they used. One participant likened BeReal posts to “old Instagram,” saying the app seems to be appealing to nostalgia and “the good ol’ days” of social media. Keywords: authenticity; bereal; media; participants
• BETWEEN GRAPHICAL 'EXCELLENCE‘, LITERACY, AND POLYSEMY: A BI-NATIONAL STUDY OF DIGITAL POLITICAL VISUALIZATION RECEPTION by Amit-Danhi, Eedan; Pentzold, Christian; Rakebrand, Thomas (2025.0) - 1: The spectrum of graphical polysemy in digital political visualizations Across our focus groups, participants thought of graphical literacy as the ability to read beyond the intended meaning and to discern underlying political strategies among the inevitable polysemy of political visualizations. We thus suggest that the inevitability of polysemic meanings in political visualizations requires audiences to develop a different set of graphical literacy skills. Keywords: group; literacy; participants; visualizations
• DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER DNA PLATFORMS & DIGITAL DISPLAYS OF FAMILY by Newton, Giselle (2025.0) - (Brad, 65, male, genealogy enthusiast) Participants often described how it was important that they added accurate and detailed information and photos to, not only to their DNA profile, but also to other social media profiles so that they were ‘findable’ or ‘discoverable’ if/when family members matched with them and began sleuthing. As such, direct-to-consumer DNA testing raises novel and complex questions related to how this technology might (re)shape individuals’ sense of self and connectedness to family. Keywords: dna; family; genealogy; participants
• ALGORITHMIC GOSSIP IN YOUNG PEOPLE’S ACCOUNTS OF ‘UNHEALTHY’ ADVERTISING ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Robards, Brady; Carah, Nicholas; Hayden, Lauren; Dobson, Amy (2025.0) - This makes me think that the platforms had collected some data, but their predictions were off’ and Erika (20, female) explained ‘I actually find it funny that I get alcohol ads as I myself have never drank and don't plan on doing so either!’ Notably, many participants also commented on how being part of the study and taking screenshots of certain ads changed their algorithm: ‘I noticed that the more I screenshotted the alcohol ads in particular the more I got them’ (Samantha, 19, female) and ‘as a result of interacting with these ad pop ups by screenshotting, I believe the algorithm changed to show me more ads associated with that product’ (Gracie, 19, female). Keywords: ads; advertising; gossip; media; participants
• “What we write is used against us”: The participants' views on tightened control in online debate after the Oslo terrorist attacks by Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Løvlie, Anders Sundnes (2013.0) - Denver, USA 1 “What we write is used against us”: The participants' views on tightened control in online debate after the Oslo terrorist attacks Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk University of Oslo Norway k.a.ihlebak@media.uio.no Anders Sundnes Løvlie Gjøvik University College Norway anders.lovlie@hig.no Abstract This paper investigates the participants' experience of changes in the editorial control with online debate after the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway. Keywords: control; debate; editorial; participants; respondents
• Ethical Behaviour, Personal Growth and Becoming a Citizen of the World: the power of online games by Boskic, Natasha (2011.0) - Cheating in video games is treated differently than cheating in other games. Phelps claims that “as game players, we are not just systemic thinkers, but ethical actors” (p. 145). Keywords: design; eds; education; ethics; evoke; game; new; participants; players; teaching; values; york
• Seeing Is Believing: Do People Fail to Identify Fake Images on the Web? by Kasra, Mona; Shen, Cuihua; O'Brien, James (2016.0) - Seeing Is Believing: Do People Fail to Identify Fake Images on the Web? Our exploratory study is an initial step toward addressing the need to better understand how and why people trust online images, and how people are influenced by manipulated images both when they are aware or unaware of the manipulation. Keywords: image; participants; source; study

• Game Analytics and Participatory Efficacy by Chia, Aleena (2017.0) - This paper demonstrates how consumer delegates represent their constituents by using the logics of game analytics to translate player interests into representative samples for the game publisher. However, this is less because of the delegation’s vaunted electoral processes, and more because of their legitimation of “datafied” forms of collective self-knowledge that are not aggregated from players’ opinions and choices, but are extracted from game analytics. Keywords: analytics; company; efficacy; game; players
• Moving From Theory To Practice: Creating Empirical, Digital Game-Based Research With K-12 Teachers by Jenson, Jennifer; Herbert, Cristyne (2017.0) - Recognizing the prevalence of arguments in favour of the use of educational games and the gap between claims and evidence, this project addresses the question of how teachers can be best supported in using digital games in their classrooms, with a specific focus on teaching strategies developed through professional development and guided support. MOVING FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: CREATING EMPIRICAL, DIGITAL GAME-BASED RESEARCH WITH K-12 TEACHERS Jennifer Jenson York University Cristyne Hébert York University Background Educators and educational theorists have long recognized the potential of digital games to transform educational experiences in K-12 classrooms (Gee, 2003, 2007; Prensky, 2007). Keywords: classroom; game; learning; play
• THE STRUCTURAL ROLE OF USER CLASS IN CHAT INTERACTIONS ON TWITCH by Cahill, Tiernan (2018.0) - This study aims to offer a quantitative framework for analysing user interactions in Twitch chat rooms. Notably, there were no significant differences in the centrality of Twitch Prime users. Keywords: chat; game; twitch; user
• VIDEOGAME ENGINES AND THE POLITICS OF 'DEMOCRATISED' SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT by Nicoll, Benjamin (2019.0) - Whitson J (2018) Voodoo software and boundary objects in game development: How developers collaborate and conflict with game engines and art tools. The Unity engine—a key player in this industry, and the main case study of this paper—aims to ‘democratise game development’ through an accessible editing interface, a flexible licensing structure, and a toolset that is interoperable with a range of different design tools, middleware software, programming languages, and production workflows. Keywords: development; game; software; unity; videogame
• NOSTALGIA FOR THE NEW: VIDEO GAME "REMAKES" AND THE LIMITS OF REFLECTION by Neill Hoch, Indira (2020.0) - Video games as time machines: Video game nostalgia and the success of retro gaming. In Z. Whalen & L. N. Taylor, Playing the past: History and nostalgia in video games (pp. 51-68). Keywords: game; garda; nostalgia; yakuza
• SOWING SEEDS OF DISTRUST: VIDEO GAME PLAYER PERCEPTIONS OF COMPANIES IN ONLINE FORUMS by Tomlinson, Christine; Anderson-Coto, Maria J. (2020.0) - Video game companies have recognized these communities as important spaces for spreading the word for their games and maintaining bonds with their audience (Ruggles, Wadley, & Gibbs, 2005). From our analysis, many players discuss video game companies as beacons of obsession with profit, leaving audiences feeling forgotten or seen as a means to a financial end. Keywords: companies; esports; game; video
• NOSTALGIA AND THE BACKLOG: /R/PATIENTGAMERS AND THE TRANSACTIONAL NATURE OF LEISURE by Scully-Blaker, Rainforest (2021.0) - Specifically, users’ nostalgia for their childhoods and their anxieties around possessing a video game backlog are both emblematic of the way that video game play has been made legible to capitalist logics such that any distinction between labour and leisure becomes moot. The figure of the patientgamer was selected not just because of their explicitly protracted approach to video game consumption, but because the grows out of a frustration with the financial and temporal costs to access leisure. Keywords: game; play; time; video
• “PLAY IS PULLING THE GODDAMN TRIGGER”: DIGITAL GAME VIDEO CONTENT PRODUCERS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF GAMESPACE by Plothe, Theo (2015.0) - Video game worlds: Working at play in the culture of EverQuest. Their videos remix characters and situations from digital games, and their videos range from hundreds to millions of views. Keywords: creators; game; gamespace; play; videos
• EVE Online Newbie Guides: Helpful information or gatekeeping mechanisms at work? by Bergstrom, Kelly (2013.0) - EVE newbie guides In this paper I expand on Paul’s explorations and investigate the content of these necessary player generated resources in order to learn more about what EVE players think about this particular MMOG’s community makeup. These guides provide clues to the behaviours, slang, and norms that must be met if one wishes to be welcomed by other players to become part of the EVE community. Keywords: eve; game; guides; online; players
• In-game marriage and computer-mediated collaboration: An exploratory study of Audition by Zhang, Guo; Herring, Susan C. (2013.0) - Keywords collaboration; dance; gender; in-game marriage; multiplayer online game; sexual orientation Introduction and background Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) provide software platforms that “encourage sophisticated collaboration […] in a way that players find fulfilling” (Pace et al., 2010, p. 233) via computer- mediated and avatar-mediated communication. Out-battle garden in farm c. Out-battle matching clothing and accessories d. Out-battle matching poses Figure 4: Examples of in-battle and out-battle couple collaboration In-game and out-game collaboration Compared to other MOG collaborations, the collaborations of Audition couples are more likely to cross the boundary between the game world and out-game worlds due to their emotional intensity, which can be similar to what is experienced in committed real-life relationships (Kolotkin et al., 2012). Keywords: audition; battle; collaboration; couple; game; marriage; players
• Serenity Now bombs a World of Warcraft funeral: Negotiating the Morality, Reality and Taste of Online Gaming Practices by Gibbs, Martin Ross; Carter, Marcus; Arnold, Michael; Nansen, Bjorn (2013.0) - Evans (2010) points to contested notions of the reality and consequences of online game spaces and suggests both groups, raiders and mourners, have an entirely valid, if conflicted, perception of the gamespace. Others argue that serious matters such as funerals have no place in online games and that the raiders were playing the game how it should be played. Keywords: game; online; serenity; video; warcraft; world
• The duo is in the details: Game genre differences in player-avatar relations by Bowman, Nick; Banks, Jaime; Downs, Ed (2016.0) - Conversely, PAR/PAX might be more characteristic of  players’ orientations toward games and avatars broadly, given that these relations (a)  persist through drastic game changes character models and environments (Banks, in  press) and (b) given demographics have little impact on PAR/PAX variance (Banks &  Bowman, 2016).  From a total sample ​N ​ = 1,302, all listed videogames were  coded into their representative genres (using available data from Wikipedia and  IGN.com), and genres mentioned a minimum ​n ​ = 30 times were included in final  analysis, along with ​n ​ = 30 randomly selected ​WoW​  cases as an anchor for comparison  with extant literature on PAR/PAX. Keywords: banks; game; par; pax
• The (not so) invisible hand: Perceptions of game designers and the impact on play by Young, Alyson Leigh; Lutters, Wayne (2013.0) - One player astutely compared player control to the experience of an amusement park ride where you are given a degree of freedom in steering the vehicle but you are ultimately tethered to the track: “We control the game about as much as we control those Autopia go-carts in Disneyland” (P367). An ARG fansite, Unfiction.com, hosted the Haunted Apiary message board that served as the primary communication hub for ILB players. Keywords: control; game; players; puppetmasters

• “I PREFER TO BUILD TRUST” – EXAMINING PARENTAL CONFIDENCE IN CHILDREN’S DIGITAL SKILLS by Savic, Milovan (2019.0) - “I PREFER TO BUILD TRUST” – EXAMINING PARENTAL CONFIDENCE IN CHILDREN’S DIGITAL SKILLS Milovan Savic Swinburne University of Technology Introduction Digital and social media have become deeply ingrained in youth culture and an inseparable part of daily routines for children growing up throughout the Western world (Robards 2012, Green et.al. 2011). Using digital media to construct and explore the world around them, children develop a broad repository of online practices ranging from media consumption, learning, communication, socialising, exploring identities, and even flirting (Livingstone 2008, boyd 2014). Keywords: children; skills; trust
• #BABIESOFINSTAGRAM: THE DIGITALLY MEDIATED LIVES OF ‘ASPIRING’ BABY MODELS AND BRAND REPS by Ruiz-Gomez, Alexandra; Gavilan, Diana; Avello, Maria (2020.0) - This paper is part of an on-going study of baby accounts created by ordinary parents to reach audiences outside friends and families. The question guiding this research is: What sort of practices and technical affordances are used in baby accounts to attract visibility and attention of brands? Keywords: accounts; baby; children; posts
• LIVING WITH THE SMARTPHONE: RELIGIOUS MUSLIM FAMILIES IN ISRAEL PRACTICE MOBILITY AND PIETY by Younis, Muhammad; Ribak, Rivka; Abu Baker, Khaula (2020.0) - In this paper, we explore some practices and meanings involved in the adoption of the smartphone among religious Muslim families in Israel. Religion: The main characteristic of Muslim religious practices is their independence from space, suggesting “ontological connection between mobility and Islam” (Bağlı, 2015, p. 309). Keywords: children; family; israel; media
• ‘WHEN YOU REALISE YOUR DAD IS CRISTIANO RONALDO’: CELEBRITY SHARENTING AND CHILDREN'S DIGITAL IDENTITY by Jorge, Ana; Marôpo, Lidia; Neto, Filipa Fernandes (2021.0) - While it refers to sharing any type of information about children and parenting, we interrogate sharenting in its eminent visual dimension, and in relation to celebrity parents. The goal is to understand the digital identity of a child of a global celebrity through their presentation on social media; and to retrieve visual formats of the child’s representation and undergo a qualitative analysis. Keywords: children; cristiano; media; sharenting
• THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD’S GENERAL COMMENT ON THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT by Livingstone, Sonia; Third, Amanda; Burton, Patrick; Witting, Sabine; Lievens, Eva; Steinberg, Stacey; Gilutz, Shuli; Souter, David (2023.0) - PAPER 4 DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL WORLD: INTRODUCING A GLOBAL VOLUNTEER NETWORK INITIATIVE Shuli Gilutz Tel-Aviv University EXTENDED ABSTRACT – PANEL INTRODUCTION Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science Amanda Third Western Sydney University For too long, child rights advocates knew little about the internet while internet governance experts knew little about children’s rights. Keywords: children; comment; digital; environment; gc25; general; online; policy; protection; rights; states
• LEVERAGING AI-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CYBERBULLYING AMONG CHILDREN: A RIGHTS-BASED PERSPECTIVE by Milosevic, Tijana; Verma, Kanishk; Vigil, Samantha; Carter, Michael; Staksrud, Elisabeth; Davis, Brian; O'Higgins Norman, James (2023.0) - Leveraging AI-Based Interventions to Address Cyberbullying among Children: A Rights-Based Approach. LEVERAGING AI-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CYBERBULLYING AMONG CHILDREN: Keywords: children; cyberbullying; interventions; online; rights
• CHILD RIGHTS BY DESIGN: UNBOXING CHILDREN FROM THE CHILD-ONLY DIGITAL CORNER by Pothong, Kruakae; Livingstone, Sonia (2023.0) - CHILD RIGHTS BY DESIGN: UNBOXING CHILDREN FROM THE CHILD-ONLY DIGITAL CORNER Author #1 This framework maps a typical Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) - UN-mandated tool for realising child rights, initially used by states parties (ENOC, 2020) - with a typical product development process abstracted from our interviews and designer workshops, supported by a universally accepted innovation process (Ball, 2022). Keywords: children; compliance; products; rights
• EXPLORING PARENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF DARK DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN’S DIGITAL WELL-BEING by Bessant, Claire ; Cook, Laurel Aynne; Ong, Luei Lin; Fox, Alexa; Hoy, Mariea Grubbs; Gan, Pingping; Nottingham, Emma; Pereira, Beatriz; Steinberg, Stacey (2023.0) - EXPLORING PARENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF DARK DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN’S DIGITAL WELL-BEING Claire Bessant Northumbria University L. Lin Ong California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Laurel Aynne Cook West Virginia University Mariea Grubbs Hoy University of Tennessee Beatriz Pereira Monash University Alexa Fox University of Akron Emma Nottingham University of Winchester Stacey Steinberg Levin College of Law, University of Florida Pingping Gan Iowa State University Digital technology is increasingly important to children for their education, entertainment, and social lives. “The Protection of Children Online: Risks faced by children online and policies to protect them: OECD Digital Economy Paper 179.” Keywords: children; design; digital; online; parents; patterns; rights; university
• DESIGNING ETHICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEMS WITH MEANINGFUL YOUTH PARTICIPATION: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS by Verma, Kanishk ; Milosevic, Tijana; Davis, Brian; Norman, James O'higgins (2023.0) - However, ethical and rights-based concerns persist regarding informed consent, participation, and addressing biases, necessitating safeguarding measures for children in AI system design. By engaging children and young people in role-playing online bullying and aggression scenarios, computational researchers [17], [18], were able to devise conversations that serve as training data for AI systems to identify both bullying and aggression. Keywords: association; children; content; design; online; research
• FATHERHOOD ON DATING APPS: A NORWEGIAN TWIST by Diesen, Plata Sofie (2025.0) - On dating app profiles, men disclosed details about their fatherhood in various ways, often making it their focal point beside name, age, and profession. In this paper, I aim to address the following question: How do single dads in mid-life present themselves as parents on dating apps in Norway? Keywords: apps; children; custody; dating; research
• EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF K-POP DANCE CHALLENGES: CHILDREN’S K-POP DREAM, INTERNET STARDOM, AND CUTE LABOR IN THE EVOLVING CULTURE INDUSTRY by Lee, Jin (2025.0) - Similarly, the influencer industries across the Asia Pacific region, mainly in Korea, Japan, and China, have introduced “K-pop academy programs” aimed at nurturing children into child influencers and debuting “child idol” groups that serve as stepping stones towards professional idol careers in the entertainment industry amidst the rise of K-pop culture (Lee et al., forthcoming). Consequently, the challenges transform into online K-pop auditions, similar to child pageant shows where visualities of children are assessed against the criteria of ‘idol materials’ and ‘idol standards’. Keywords: challenges; children; dance; idol; pop
• FINANCE APPS AND THE DATAFICATION OF CHILDREN’S ECONOMIC LIVES by Nansen, Bjørn; Bliss, Lauren (2025.0) - The paper undertakes an analysis of features across child finance apps, exploring their role in the datafication of children’s finances and economic participation. We identify and argue that the data produced by child finance apps simultaneously enables increased agency and control of children’s financial lives by initiating a lifelong digital trace. Keywords: apps; children; chore; datafication; family; features; finance; prepaid
• HOW DO THE DIVERSE DRIVERS OF CHILDREN’S (6-12) DIGITAL PLAY MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL GAMES AND CHILDREN’S SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING? by Scott, Fiona Louise (2025.0) - The significant time that children invest in digital game play on and offline poses risks, but also presents an opportunity for stakeholders to make bold decisions that will contribute positively to children’s well-being. Though welcome, this positioning of children’s subject learning, cognition and skills development as central to the value of digital play is at odds with how children’s play has been valued more generally, with due acknowledgment of the diverse and vital purposes it serves. Keywords: children; digital; drivers; games; play
• RESEARCHING THE EDTECH INDUSTRY FOR CHILDREN: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON A DESIGN-BASED APPROACH by Zhao, Xinyu; Ng, Rebecca; Zomer, Chris; Duffy, Gavin; Sefton-Green, Julian (2025.0) - How do EdTech companies frame the educational needs of children? The design process consisted firstly of collecting and curating publicly available data about EdTech companies and services for young children in Australia, including those that may be intentionally obscured by commercial providers, such as countries of operation, APIs, and third-party data sharing. Keywords: children; companies; database; design; edtech
• ENGENDERING CREATIVITY, ENGENDERING LABOUR: GIRLS AND DIY MEDIA by Harvey, Alison; Grimes, Sara M. (2014.0) - Our paper engages with some of the gaps and questions that remain unanswered in these studies, in particular the social, spatial, and technical limitations that can still shape the creative practices of young girls. While the above-mentioned body of work made a major contribution towards addressing the absence of girls’ creative practices in research on digital spaces, the tendency towards finding the use of the Internet and participation in virtual realms emancipatory can fall into the trap of overlooking the significant barriers and constraints young girls and women face in both online and offline spaces. Keywords: children; girls; kearney; media
• NEW RULES: YOUNG CHILDREN’S TOUCHSCREEN HABITUS by Nansen, Bjorn; Jayemanne, Darshana (2016.0) - Touchscreen   habitus   considers   how   embodied   practices,   norms   and   imperatives   are   produced   through   situated  media   relations:   children   are   no   longer   necessarily   ‘sat’   in   front   of   media.   Drawing   from   ongoing   qualitative  research  with  families  and  children  aged  from  0  to  5  in  their  domestic  media   settings  in  Melbourne,  Australia,  this  paper  reports  on  young  children’s  embodiment  and   enculturation  of  dispositions  towards  touchscreen  media  by  developing  the  concept  of  a   touchscreen  or  haptic  media  ‘habitus’.     Keywords: children; habitus; media; touchscreen

• STUDYING 'LIVE' CROSS-PLATFORM CIRCULATION OF IMAGES WITH A COMPUTER VISION API: AN EXPERIMENT BASED ON A SPORTS MEDIA EVENTd'Andréa, Carlos Frederico de Brito (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) by d'Andréa, Carlos Frederico de Brito; Mintz, André Goes (2018.0) - In order to compare how the selected four popular images circulated on social media platforms and on the open web over time, streamgraph visualizations (Figure 2) were created, using RAWGraphs. Some of the most evident of those are: the seemingly counterintuitive decrease of the total number of URLs retrieved in some of the iterations, and the late indexation of the selected pictures on social media platforms (including Twitter occurrences). Keywords: images; media; vision; web
• WEB ARCHIVING AS CULTURE: TUMBLR AND THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ARCHIVED WEB by Ogden, Jessica (2020.0) - Although featured in numerous news media articles since their formation in 2009, the specifics regarding the processes that underpin Archive Team web archiving activities have yet to receive critical attention within the field. This paper examines efforts on the part of Archive Team - a self-described ‘loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage’ - to archive Tumblr NSFW posts.1 The study forms part of a wider ethnographic investigation of web archiving across three field sites, with the aim of examining how web archival practices shape the archived Web. Keywords: archive; archiving; team; web
• WEB ARCHIVING AFTER PLATFORMIZATION: READING ARCHIVED SOCIAL MEDIA ALONG THE GRAIN by Hegarty, Kieran (2025.0) - Yet, the impact of platformization on the records of the web’s past—in web archives—is only starting to be explored (Acker & Kreisberg, 2020; Ben-David, 2020). While this recent work sheds light on the changing power dynamics that condition the formation of archives, there is currently little research exploring how platformization impacts the day-to-day work of building collections, how web archivists navigate the challenges of collecting material from platform environments, and what this means for the content and character—and therefore the future use—of web archives. Keywords: archives; collecting; media; platformization; web
• ADIEU WIKIPEDIA: UNDERSTANDING THE ETHICS OF WIKIPEDIA AFTER GAMERGATE by Famiglietti, Andrew (2015.0) - It is exactly this limitation of strategic action on the part of Wikipedia editors that the battleground policy seeks to achieve. “Wikipedia Is Not A Battleground:” The Ethical Importance of Civility for Wikipedia While the arbcom cited a variety of Wikipedia policies in their decision on the gamergate case, one in particular was presented by the committee as key to their decision, and used in the rationale for almost all of the actions taken to discipline editors. Keywords: arbcom; article; case; editors; gamergate; levinas; web; wikipedia
• INSTANT RESULTS WITH LINGERING EFFECTS: HOW GOOGLE CAN BIAS OUR SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS by Muñoz-Bates, Sarah (2015.0) - This study takes a comparative approach by examining the US Google search results side by side with Google results in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. With the above explanation of how Google returns search results, it seems that the search engine serves merely as a reflection of society and what it thinks. Keywords: feb; google; immigration; results; search; searches; web; word
• Professionally Yours: Anonymity, Trust, and Self-Portrayal on the Deep Web by Jakaitis, Leah Berkman; Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad (2013.0) - In spite of their involvement in illegal activities, DW marketplaces are observably aware of this fact. In this paper, we have shown how anonymity and trust play a crucial role in DW marketplaces and how the same rules with regards to these concepts on the surface web apply to the DW, but not without nuances. Keywords: anonymity; trust; web

• WHAT CAN “WHY I LEFT BUZZFEED” VLOGS TEACH US ABOUT INVISIBLE LABOUR? by Bergstrom, Kelly (2018.0) - Ultimately this leaves BuzzFeed employees with the option to quit or to stagnate in place, or what Gaby Dunn (2015) stated are ultimately the two options for a BuzzFeed viral video star: “Get Rich, or Die Vlogging.’” References Abidin, C. (2018). Data collection began by collecting links to YouTube videos related to the topic of quitting BuzzFeed using the keywords “quit” or “leave” and “buzzfeed”. Keywords: buzzfeed; employees; videos; vlogs
• TIKTOK’S PEER PEDAGOGIES - LEARNING ABOUT BOOKS THROUGH #BOOKTOK VIDEOS by Dezuanni, Michael Luigi (2021.0) - The paper shows how #booktok videos typically include practices such as ‘selfies’ and ‘shelfies’ featuring book stacks and book hauls, brief commentaries about books, micro- reviews, and explanations about book related practices such as shelving, and room design. Tiktok’s Peer Pedagogies - Learning About Books Through #Booktok Videos. Keywords: books; learning; pedagogies; peer; videos
• WHITE SUPREMACISTS DECEPTIVELY USING SCREENSHOTS AS EVIDENCE: A SOCIAL SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO ANALYSING CONSPIRATORIAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS by Inwood, Olivia (2021.0) - Figure 1 - Sample of the Relationship between Key Bonds and Legitimation Strategies Figure 2 – Sample of Specific Screenshots linked to Legitimation and Affiliation Strategies Authorisation Moral evaluation Rationalisation Mythopoesis suspicious fire valuable info Legitimate Delegitimate Legitimate Delegitimate truthful clip fearless viewer evil Migrants evil Islam powerful NWO lying authorities powerless Islam evil migrants valuable conspiracy Technological authority Scrolling through the Newsweek website Suspicious fire bond Personal authority Clown Pepe meme associated with white nationalism + ‘name a more toxic community’ meme Fearless viewer bond Technological authority Scrolling through the Newsweek website Suspicious fire bond Technological authority Screenshots from twitter Highlighted text Suspicious fire bond + Evil Migrants bond Conclusion This paper has highlighted how a social semiotic approach can further illuminate the legitimation of screenshots in conspiratorial YouTube videos and the values that they are attached to. Microsoft Word - Inwood-White Supremacists Deceptively Using Screenshots as Evidence-White Supremacists Deceptively Using.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Inwood, O. (2021, October). Keywords: evidence; fire; screenshots; videos
• 'IT'S 1776, BABY!': BROADCASTING REVOLUTIONARY PERFORMANCE DURING THE U.S. CAPITOL RIOTS by Gilmore, James N; Hamer, Madeline; Erazo, Valerie; Hayes, Patrick (2021.0) - In what ways did participants in the U.S. Capitol Riot draw on imagery and language of revolution in the video content shared on online platforms? We analyzed videos participants recorded and shared through seven different platforms: the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, and Parler; the live-streaming sites DLive, Twitch, and Periscope; and the messaging application Snapchat. Keywords: capitol; riot; u.s; videos
• THE ROLE OF THE DRAMA INTERPRETATION INDUSTRY IN THE TRANSNATIONAL RECEPTION OF KOREAN TV SERIES IN CHINA by Lin, Hui (2025.0) - This contrasts with drama interpretation videos on YouTube which thrives for participatory culture, where low-barrier interactive features allow users to re-edit TV series (Jenkins, 2006), or share clips of TV series to participate (Hutchinson, 2016; Ford & Green, 2013). This article examines how the drama interpretation industry on video-streaming platforms influences the transnational reception of Korean TV series in China. Keywords: drama; series; videos

• Disaffordances And Dysaffordances In Code by Wittkower, D.E (2017.0) - This paper puts forth a theory of non-affordances which allows for distinguishing unproblematic exclusionary code from problematic and discriminatory code, which is described as either discriminatory through disaffordances or through dysaffordances. First, this theorization allows for the identification of thresholds where non-affordances become issues of ethics and justice, allowing for stronger, clearer arguments about the need to reform discriminatory code. Keywords: case; code; design; dysaffordances
• GOOD SOCIAL MEDIA?: UNDERREPRESENTED YOUTH PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICAL AND EQUITABLE DESIGN OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Brough, Melissa; Literat, Ioana; Ikin, Amanda (2020.0) - Several interviewees felt that social media platforms would better serve them if they included features to help limit excessive time spent on them, and most interviewees had at least a vague sense that social media is designed to capitalize on users’ psychological and cognitive vulnerabilities to maximize time spent on the platform. Research is increasingly engaging the question of social media design in relation to user experiences, particularly for non-dominant groups (e.g. Literat & Brough, 2019; Noble, 2018; Massanari, 2017), and a growing number of researchers and designers are calling for more “ethical software” to address concerns of equity and ethics. Keywords: design; media; percent; youth
• DARK PATTERNS AND PEDAGOGY: EXPANDING SCHOLARSHIP AND CURRICULUM ON MANIPULATIVE MARKETING PRACTICES by Iantorno, Mathew; Guadagnolo, Dan; Petterson, Adrian (2023.0) - Dark patterns and pedagogy: Expanding scholarship and curriculum on manipulative marketing practices. Originally coined by cognitive scientist Harry Brignull in 2010, dark patterns refer to a set of design strategies that co- opt the human-centered values advocated for in the fields of user experience (UX) design and human-computer interaction (HCI) for deceptive aims (Gray et al., 2018). Keywords: design; digital; patterns; university
• spir-13478 by None (None) - To provide a nuanced picture of this, we conducted a 2022-study combining data about dating apps and Norwegian app users: (A) 22 in-depth interviews with current and previous users (aged 24–49 years) of dating applications users; (B) a systematic analysis of 30 dating apps for persons looking for a partner (and not a fling, hook up or friends) in Google Play and Apple’s App Store; and (C) a diary study of four of these 30 dating applications where a female and a male researcher individually studied the apps for one week each in a walk-through-method way (Light et al., 2018) by employing an ethnographic approach (writing daily field notes). Mobile app monetization: app business models in the digital era. Keywords: app; apps; business; dark; design
• MINDFUL AUTOMATION: TECHNOLOGY AND MEANING IN SMART HOMES by Jacobs, Naomi Jane; Changede, Sejal; Gradinar, Adrian (2025.0) - Conclusion We concur with Markum (2024) that HCI and internet research fields will benefit from further research into connected technology interacting with embodied experience and ritual in home practice. We ask: how is value and meaning in embodied ritual practice impacted by intervention with digital technologies in the home? Keywords: design; home; meaning; practice; ritual
• DESIGNING A GAME-INSPIRED CLASSROOM: VIDEOGAMES AS MODELS OF GOOD TEACHING by Holmes, Jeffrey Brandon (2015.0) - Indeed, it is possible to reconsider Gee’s learning principles as design principles which can drive instructional practice. Students played games--primarily World of Warcraft--as a regular part of their class meetings and course assignments. Keywords: design; learning; students
• Resisting Meritocracy and Reappropriating Games: Rhetorically Rethinking Game Design by Paul, Christopher (2013.0) - Keywords Game studies; rhetoric; game design; meritocracy; game balance Video Games, Meritocracy, and Resistance One of the foundational principles of video games is that they should be balanced (Paul, 2012). In an attempt to account for the prominence of balance as a rhetorical trope in video game discourse, this project discusses the implications of balance in video games and explores the impacts of centering design choices around a framework of balance in an effort to reappropriate a key trope of game design and foment resistance to broaden what is considered as a ‘good’ game. Keywords: balance; design; games; video

• Characterising Twitter Reply Chains in the Australian Twittersphere by Moon, Brenda (2017.0) - CHARACTERISING TWITTER REPLY CHAINS IN THE AUSTRALIAN TWITTERSPHERE Brenda Moon Queensland University of Technology Introduction This research contributes to the understanding of conversation on Twitter by looking at reply chain networks in the Australian Twittersphere. By examining all of the reply chains in November 2016 from the comprehensive TrISMA dataset this paper develops a description of the characteristics of reply chains in the Australian Twittersphere. Keywords: reply; trisma; tweets
• HUMOR WITHOUT BOUNDARIES? A TYPOLOGY OF GLOBALLY SPREAD HUMOR ON TWITTER by Nissenbaum, Asaf; Freud, David; Shifman, Limor (2020.0) - In order to study global social media humor, we sampled Twitter using keywords indicating humor in English, German, Spanish, and Arabic. While studies have examined the features of global humor in relation to localization or cross-cultural dynamics (Boxman-Shabtai & Shifman, 2015; Laineste & Voolaid, 2017), none, to date, have systematically analyzed the features characterizing the humor globally distributed through social media. Keywords: failure; humor; media; tweets
• DELETION WILL BE MY EPITAPH: JOURANLISTS DELETION PRACTICES ON TWITTER by Ringel, Sharon; Davidson, Roei (2020.0) - From the perspective of journalism as a profession, it argues that the study of tweet deletion is a means of examining the constraints under which journalists operate today including the occupational precarity (Davidson & Meyers, 2016) and polarized public sphere with which they contend. We argue that the occupational and physical threat journalists experience together with the lack of nuanced deletion tools on social media platforms and a lack of employer and platform support to deal with online abuse result in massive deletion that damages journalists, news organizations, the platforms and society more generally. Keywords: deletion; journalists; media; tweets
• HOW A CONNECTIVE ACTION IS DISRUPTED IN RESTRICTIVE CONTEXTS? THE CASE OF DISMANTLING #RAPE ON PERSIAN TWITTER by Kermani, Hossein; Hooman, Niloofar (2021.0) - The phenomenon which is referred to as hashtag feminism in scholarly literature is rooted in the idea of hashtag activism; a discursive practice by which minor and peripheral groups use Twitter to challenge any form of systematic violence and inequality (Linabary et al., 2020; Xiong et al., 2019). Nonetheless, hashtag activism could encounter many challenges in non-democratic societies which is less probable in Western democracies. Keywords: activism; hashtag; rape; tweets
• DEMOGRAPHIC, OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PREDICTORS OF TWEET DELETION AMONG U.S. JOURNALISTS by Ringel, Sharon; Davidson, Roei (2024.0) - In in- depth interviews, American journalists reported deleting tweets frequently. In interviews with American journalists, they linked their feeling of occupational uncertainty with their decision to delete tweets as a means of constructing an online presence that would not offend employers and therefore would not endanger their future employment prospects (Ringel & Davidson, 2022). Keywords: deletion; harassment; journalists; media; tweets
• WHY DO ARAB-PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS DELETE TWEETS? by Zedan, Moatasem; Ringel, Sharon; Davidson, Roei (2023.0) - Interviews with American journalists suggested many journalists deleted tweets. Women and minority journalists are especially likely to be harassed under such conditions (Waisbord, 2022). Keywords: arab; israel; journalists; tweets
• LOOKING FOR (LESBIAN) LOVE: SOCIAL MEDIA SUBTEXT READINGS OF RIZZOLI AND ISLES by Hemphill, Libby (2015.0) - Though he didn’t introduce the term semiotic supermarket until later (Fiske, 1989), Fiske does provide a semiotic framing that is useful for analyzing social media readings of television texts. Of those tweets, 499 were retweets and 1125 were original tweets. Keywords: gayzzoli; isles; lesbian; rizzoli; tweets
• ON THE ATTACK: U.S. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE DIRECT CAMPAIGN DIALOGUE ON TWITTER by Hemsley, Jeff; Tanupabrungsun, Sikana; Semaan, Bryan; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2015.0) - Table  1:  Shows  number  of  candidates  and  tweets  by  party     Incumbents  mention  challengers  in  1,207  tweet,  but  challengers  mention  incumbents  in   1,362  tweets.   Table  1  shows  the  number  of  candidates  and  tweets  by  party  and   incumbent  /  challenger  status.       Keywords: attack; candidates; tweets
• TO BE OR NOT TO BE CHARLIE: TWITTER HASHTAGS AS A DISCOURSE AND COUNTER-DISCOURSE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2015 CHARLIE HEBDO SHOOTING IN FRANCE by Giglietto, Fabio; Lee, Yenn (2015.0) - Literature Review The present study draws upon a combination of three strands of work in the current scholarship: the network characteristics of Twitter-mediated discussion; the roles of hashtags in such discussion; and the expressions of identity in social media activism. We created a by-minute time series (N=6,444, AVG TPM=11.5) of activity and used the Breakout Detection R package, which had recently been open-sourced by Twitter (James, Kejariwal, & Matteson, 2014), to identify breakouts or shifts in the mean of tweet per minute (TPM). Keywords: charlie; hashtag; jenesuispascharlie; tweets

• SOCIAL COLLECTIVES AND NETWORKED MOVEMENT: DIFFUSION DYNAMICS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING #FRIDAYSFORFUTURE NETWORK ON TWITTER by Zhang, Xixuan (2021.0) - In social movement research, information diffusion, associated with mobilization and participation, is a long-standing concept of mechanisms explaining the prevalence of social movements and the spread of symbols and tactics. In social movement research, most empirical diffusion studies on digital social movements are primarily issues-centric, based on analysis of the key actors and the most proliferated messages in retweet networks, which may overvalue the connections between retweeted and retweeting actors without taking information traversal, intermediary actors, and retweets into account. Keywords: actors; diffusion; fridaysforfuture; network
• INVITATION TO LISTEN: MAPPING CLUBHOUSE’S EARLY INVITE-ONLY SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORK by Fang, Cindy; Iliadis, Andrew (2023.0) - Bonini defines this new listening experience as the “augmented radio listening experience” which consists of listening, discussion, comments, and the production of content on social networks connected to the radio (p.14-15). Social capital theory explains the processes of capitalization in social networks and argues that capital transforms into social relations as a form of investment with expected market returns, whether economic, political, labor, or community (Lin, 2001). Keywords: capital; clubhouse; individuals; media; network; structure
• MINERAL EXPLORATION IN INDIGENOUS LANDS: THE DISCURSIVE NORMALIZATION OF ILLEGAL MINING IN BRAZIL by Volcan, Taiane de Oliveira (2023.0) - Illegal mining in indigenous lands is the kind of a challenge that needs to be faced by the state and the judiciary, but also by society and, mainly, by the press, which often approaches the issue from an exclusively economic perspective, as if the debate on environmental preservation and the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples was a threat to the financial market and the brazilian economic interests. In a country that experienced a 495% increase in mining in indigenous lands and 301% in conservation units between 2010 and 2020 [2], we believe that analyzing how such profound transformations in a society like the Brazilian has been discursively constructed is fundamental to understanding the current and relevant challenges such as environmental preservation and the subsistence of indigenous peoples. Keywords: agenda; debate; lands; mining; network
• REVEALING COORDINATED IMAGE-SHARING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A CASE STUDY OF PRO-RUSSIAN INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS by Zhu, Guangnan ; Graham, Timothy; Whelan-Shamy, Daniel; Fleet, Robert (2023.0) - Pro-Russian images shared in the influence campaigns from the Russia- Ukraine War. Revealing image-based coordination in social media: A case study of pro-Russian influence campaigns. Keywords: coordination; image; multimodal; network; text
• ACCESS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE SHARING ECONOMY: THE CASE OF LOCAL ONLINE EXCHANGE IN A SINGLE PARENTS’ NETWORK by Lampinen, Airi; Huotari, Kai; Cheshire, Coye (2014.0) - We present a case study of local online exchange among an existing community network of single parents, including participant observation and thirteen formal, semi-structured interviews. Building on fieldwork we conducted with single parents in the San Francisco Bay Area, this paper considers access to participation in local online exchange and issues that can hinder sharing practices from taking off even when the potential benefits of participation are considered desirable and needed. Keywords: exchange; network; participation; sharing
• Black Boxes and Co-Creation in LittleBigPlanet 2 by Jones, Dave (2011.0) - System within a black box, locking the moderation process away from the view of other network actors, including the reporting player and the player-creator of the griefed level (see Figure 2). In this way, network actors outside of the black box ―need focus only on [the black box‘s] inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity‖ (1999, p. 304). Keywords: actors; black; grief; moderation; network; player; system
• FIELDS OR NETWORK? STRATEGIC ACTION AND SOCIAL SKILL AMONGST TWITTER ACTIVISTS by O'Neil, Mathieu; Ackland, Robert (2014.0) - To what extent are new online activist fields likely to emerge nearby existing fields, likely to be populated by existing groups who “migrate” or by offshoots of existing groups? Online social networks and bottom-up politics. Keywords: ackland; actors; field; network
• OPEN FOR PROMPTS, OPEN FOR FILLS: CREATIVE DEPLOYMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORK SITES INTO FANDOM KINK MEMES by Neill Hoch, Indira (2014.0) - The seeming contradiction between the public aspect of social network sites and the private notion of diary or journal writing is examined. Research concerning LiveJournal.com's connection with fan cultures focuses on the fan and her product, rather than the particular interaction between fan, product and social network site (Lothian, Busse, & Reid, 2007). Keywords: kink; meme; network; sites
• Positively Deviant: the role of moderately anti-normative behaviours in online forums by Niemi, Fa Martin (2011.0) - This paper focuses on the empirical material coded as ‘deviant behaviour’ and in particular on forum members ‘calvin’3 While most members of the forum interacted in pro-normative manners, there was also deviance evident. Most of the interaction between forum members follows distinct patterns of behaviour. Keywords: behaviours; crowd; deviance; discussion; forum; members; network; norms; online; study; stupid
• The ‘Friending’ rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife by Quinn, Kelly (2013.0) - Despite arguments that social network site connections do not possess characteristics of friendship (Condella, 2010; Tedesco, 2010), connection on social network sites for participants has substance: connections are not just passing acquaintances, but are grounded personal history, and do not include those who might share only a peripheral interest. Denver, USA 1 The ‘Friending’ rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife Kelly Quinn University of Illinois at Chicago USA kquinn8@uic.edu Abstract ‘Friending’ is most commonly understood to convey the idea that some relationship exists between individuals, yet the unnuanced and decontextualized nature of social media connections and their discursive association with friendship has obscured the meaning of this practice. Keywords: adults; connection; meaning; media; network
• Transgressive Networks: This Week in Blackness and Resistance through Online Programming by Florini, Sarah (2013.0) - As a result of its transgressive programming, designed in ways that are largely incompatible with the logics of existing media networks, TWiB has found difficulty gaining support from advertisers and other media outlets. Keywords race and ethnicity; podcasts; independent media This paper explores the dynamics of power and resistance that surround the programming of the independent online media network This Week in Blackness (TWiB). Keywords: blackness; media; network; twib

• RECALIBRATING DAILY LIFE: SYNCHRONIZING, COORDINATING, AND SCHEDULING THROUGH SMARTPHONES by Hand, Martin (2018.0) - Interviews included talking through temporal data of many kinds on personal devices. There is a related ambivalence about temporal data, or the ‘fear’ of ‘wasting time’. Keywords: activities; life; scheduling; time
• TOWARDS A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL THEORY OF TEMPORAL CONTROL IN THE GIG ECONOMY by Kwok, Chi; Chan, Ngai Keung (2021.0) - On the one hand, labor platforms promise to liberate gig workers from traditional bureaucratic labor markets through flexibly scheduling. Specifically, we focus on different types of platform-based temporal control and respective effects on workers’ autonomy, value of free time, and their social and political Suggested Citation (APA): Kwok, C., and Keung Chang, N., (2021, October). Keywords: economy; gig; time; workers
• TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF CHILLING EFFECTS OF DATAVEILLANCE: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS FROM A LONGITUDINAL FIELD EXPERIMENT by Odermatt, Céline; Kappeler, Kiran; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael (2025.0) - TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF CHILLING EFFECTS OF DATAVEILLANCE: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS FROM A LONGITUDINAL FIELD EXPERIMENT Céline Odermatt University of Zurich Kiran Kappeler University of Zurich Noemi Festic University of Zurich Michael Latzer University of Zurich Introduction Everyday internet use generates vast amounts of data enabling a specific form of surveillance of individuals, i.e., digital dataveillance: “the automated, continuous, and unspecific collection, retention, and analysis of digital traces by state and corporate actors” (Büchi et al., 2022, p. 1). Empirical research on chilling effects is sparse. Keywords: dataveillance; effects; sense; time

• DISAPPOINTING AND BEING DISAPPOINTED: VIDEO GAME PLAYER TRUST IN EACH OTHER by Tomlinson, Christine (2019.0) - To better understand these dynamics among video game players, I use qualitative methods to collect data through 54 interviews and approximately 1900 posts from five online gaming forums. The majority of online players make new friends in online game settings and many are even comfortable sharing private information with these new online ties (Cole & Griffiths, 2007; Bourgonjon, Vandermeersche, De Wever, Soetaert, & Valcke, 2015). Keywords: games; online; players
• THE VIRTUAL CENSUS 2.0: A CONTINUED INVESTIGATION ON THE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND AGE IN VIDEOGAMES by Harrisson, Annie; Jones, Shawn; Marchessault, Jessie; Pedraça, Sâmia; Consalvo, Mia (2020.0) - Given the media’s influence to shape a consumer’s worldview, there is growing concern over the lack of diversity in the representation of videogame characters, which could have significant social impacts on players—for example, normalizing power imbalances and marginalizing certain groups (Gerbner et al. 1994; Harwood and Anderson 2002). In conducting a virtual census of the human characters present in the best-selling UK games of 2017, the researchers hope to bring an awareness to the continued lack of diverse representation of videogame characters, while simultaneously underlining the positive changes and trends that are slowly emerging due to the pressure of a more diverse and socially conscious gaming community. Keywords: characters; games; race; representation
• POLITICAL GAMES IN VIRTUAL HONG KONG by Davies, Hugh (2021.0) - Discussing a number of videogames that were specifically developed as objects of protest such as Liberate Hong Kong (2019), Revolution in Our Time (2019), and Add Oil (2019), this paper also considers the ways in which existing digital games such as GTAV (2013), Pokémon GO (2016), Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) as well as digital platforms such as Twitch, Airdrop, and Uber were tactically deployed as sites of protest by Hong Kong activists. Lacking formal or centralised leadership, Hong Kong activists structured their activities in social media and game spaces, using these digital platforms to recruit new participants, to plan and enact protest events, and to advance their activist agenda. Keywords: games; hong; kong; protest
• SELL YOUR CARDS TO WHO: NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS AND DIGITAL TRADING CARD GAMES by Murray, Jack Anthony (2021.0) - The website boasts that, in contrast to other digital trading card games, players will maintain ownership over their cards through the implementation of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as a solution to ownership in digital card games (Doctor Who - Worlds Apart, 2021). This paper examines the implications of NFTs in digital card games via the material histories of TCGs to discuss the way that digital TCGs accelerate the extraction of capital from their player communities. Keywords: cards; games; nfts; trading
• “THE CREATURE ITSELF IS NASTY, BUT NOTHING REALLY COMPARES TO THE BUILDING OF DREAD BEFORE YOU EVER GET TO IT”: ONLINE PLAYER AND DEVELOPER COMMENTARY ON FEMALE MONSTROSITY IN VIDEO GAMES by Stang, Sarah Marie (2021.0) - “The reature itself is nasty, but nothing really compares to the building of dread before you ever get to it”: Online player and developer commentary on female monstrosity in video games. In this presentation, I will go through some examples of player and developer discourse regarding female monstrosity in these games which, together with some discussion of the monsters themselves and how their design remediates harmful tropes and stereotypes, will demonstrate how textual analysis and internet research can be brought together to unpack the ways that monstrosity is intertwined with questions of representation and misogyny in games, game design, and gaming culture. Keywords: female; games; monstrosity; video
• DEVELOPING A MOBILE GAMES DATABASE: TRACING INTERDEPENDENCIES AMONG EARLY MOBILE GAMES by de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Glover-Rijkse, Ragan (2021.0) - For this reason, mobile games have become woven into the fabric of daily life, as individuals carry their phones with them on-the-go, squeezing in moments of play or setting aside specific playtimes. Since the release of the iPhone 3G and the App Store in 2008, the number of mobile games has increased substantially, reflecting what Mäyrä (2015) refers to as a growing and increasingly complex genre. Keywords: database; games; mobile; phones
• Close intimate playthings? Understanding player-avatar relationships as a function of attachment, agency, and intimacy by Banks, Jaime; Bowman, Nicholas David (2013.0) - Work has attempted to explain the relationship by focusing on the technologies of social presence, the socio-emotional relationship between players and avatars as distinct social others, the capability of players to adopt the personae of their avatars, and the psychological merging of player and avatar as a unified person. Banks (2013) suggested these two dimensions coalesce, with lower intimacy associated with player agency and higher intimacy associated with avatar agency. Keywords: agency; avatar; games; intimacy; player; video
• INTERSECTIONS OF PLAY AT THE MARGINS: EXPERIENCES ACROSS GENDER, TEHNICITY AND SEXUALITY IN GAME CULTURE by Richard, Gabriela T. (2014.0) - However, LGBT gamers are often frustrated by the homophobia and hetereonormative nature of gamer lingo, which often frames homosexuality in negative terms (such as “gay” being used as a term for incompetence or stupidity in game play). In particular, the paper will discuss how gender and ethnic signifiers play similar and different roles in shaping play, as well as the tenuous role of negotiating homophobic norms in game space. Keywords: experiences; games; gender; kafai; play
• PAYING TO PLAY: THE EVOLVING STRUCTURE OF GAME PRICING AND INDUSTRY LEGITIMACY by Consalvo, Mia; Paul, Christopher (2015.0) - This project builds on existing work into the rhetorical construction of real games, which identified several traits that mark certain games as ‘real’ and other games as outside that boundary. payment structure intersect with other elements of real games? Keywords: games; payment; play; real
• The Mystery of the Hidden Gamer: Women, Leisure, and Hidden Object Games by Chess, Shira (2013.0) - Hidden object games include series such as Mystery Case Files (produced by Big Fish), Time Mysteries, and Surface (though there are hundreds of games that are not at all part of a larger series). But hidden object games also are capable of helping us learn more about their audiences. Keywords: games; leisure; object; player
• Urban Jamification: Gincanas as location-based mobile games in Brazil by de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Froes, Isabel (2013.0) - Playful urban spaces: A historical approach to mobile games. By exploring the history of Brazilian gincanas and how they have evolved through the spread and appropriation of mobile technologies, this article addresses two main research questions: (1) how mobility and the configuration of urban space influence the design and performance of location-based mobile games; and (2) how the urban and socio-economic context of developing countries, specifically Brazil, shape mobile technology appropriation and location- based mobile game design. Keywords: games; location; mobile; silva; souza

• DEFENDING AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA: HOW PUBLIC CRIMINAL DEFENSE HELPS US ADDRESS SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE by Lane, Jeffrey; Ramirez, Fanny Anne; Patton, Desmond Upton (2020.0) - Defending against social media: How public criminal defense helps us address social media governance. Judicial governance is a rich area then to further conceptualize social media governance and identify equal access and fairness issues (Klonick, 2018) and appropriate checks and balances. Keywords: companies; defenders; governance; media
• THE TURN TO TRADE AGREEMENTS IN GLOBAL PLATFORM GOVERNANCE by Pohle, Julia; Gorwa, Robert; Miller, Hailey (2020.0) - Existing research tends to concentrate on multi-level governance and the role of the WTO in the negotiation of digital trade issues (Burri, 2017; Weber, 2015). This dataset has led to a clearer mapping of digital governance issues addressed by trade and the implementation of specific state preferences. Keywords: agreements; digital; governance; trade
• HOW TO BE ALGORITHMICALLY GOVERNED LIKE THAT: DATA- AND ALGORITHMIC AGENCY FROM USER PERSPECTIVE by Pop Stefanija, Ana; Pierson, Jo (2021.0) - We take the theoretical conceptualizations about algorithmic governance (Katzenbach and Ulbricht, 2019; Latzer and Festic, 2029; Introna, 2016) and the related notion of algorithmic governmentality (Bellanova, 2017; Rouvroy 2013, 2020) as a starting point for discussing the state of how it is so we arrive to what ought to be. Algorithmic governance. Keywords: agency; algorithms; governance; latzer
• GOVERNING ALGORITHMS ON THE INTERNET APPROACHES, OPTIONS, GAPS by Saurwein, Florian; Just, Natascha; Latzer, Michael (2016.0) - The  paper  centers  on  a  risk-­based  approach  and  a  classification  of  modes  of   governance  and  provides  an  explorative  assessment  of  the  governance  of  algorithms   (Latzer  et  al.   Approach:  risk-­based  approach  and  governance  options     Justifications  for  governance  are  provided  by  the  risks  that  arise  with  the  diffusion  of   algorithms  (Latzer  et  al.  2016). Keywords: algorithms; governance; market

• INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS) AS OPPRESSORS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A POWER PERSPECTIVE by Azer, Evronia; Zheng, Yingqin; Harindranath, G. (2020.0) - The oppression of social movements raises the question of how surveillance makes ICTs work against collective action, and threatens activists’ lives (Hier & Greenberg, 2009; della Porta, 2013; Hosein & Nyst, 2013). This paper makes a contribution to explain power struggle in ICTs, by applying the paradoxes concept to social movements, and thus analysing tensions and challenges (Zheng et al., 2011) manifested in the online space. Keywords: activists; icts; power
• FACTS OF (FINANCIAL) LIFE: POLITICAL POWER AND RE-VISUALIZATION STRATEGIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Amit-Danhi, Eedan (2021.0) - Accordingly, I ask: How do different types of political actors visualize the same political reality? While studies have looked at political mechanisms of visualizations, the interplay depicted in this study provides much needed insight into the wide variety of strategies this growing genre provides political actors of all types for the dissemination of both benign and dis- informative visualized messages on social media. Keywords: actors; fig; media; power
• ONLINE IMAGERY: THE NON-STATE MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Kasra, Mona (2016.0) - Images of humiliation and public shaming exercise power by making the target visible and by the pervasive power of internalization of discipline through normalization or self-policing. Any vigilante or vigilante group with access to the Internet is able to disseminate images of abomination, humiliation, grief, and punishment as a way to stir fear in the viewers or to prompt them to discipline and police others. Keywords: control; images; power

• #UNMASKEDSELFIESINSOLIDARITY: FROM SELF CARE TO COLLECTIVE CARE—AFFECTIVE ARTIVISM, NETWORKED BELONGING AND MOBILE MEDIA PARTICIPATORY ART. by Lanson, Klare Louise (2020.0) - Designed as a set of action strategies including social media and public paste ups, this paper critically reflects on the project #unmaskedselfiesinsolidarity to consider how participatory art can be a socially transformative process, through its messages of care alongside messages from Chinese students suffering anxiety and isolation, waiting for the travel bans to be lifted, a tempering of the stigma and racism that has accompanied the coronavirus event here in Australia. A blurring of art and activism within selfie making on social media platforms like the public Facebook Group, Weibo, WeChat and Instagram used in #unmaskedselfiesinsolidarity allows for the private bodies currently in COVID-19 lockdown mode to be heard around the affective atmospheres of social isolation. Keywords: art; care; media; mobile; new; selfie; university
• DECOLONIZING CREATIVITY: A CROWDSOURCING PROJECT ABOUT CREATIVITY AS SURVIVAL by de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Dufresne, Kelsey; Xiong-Gum, Mai Nou Xiong-Gum (2023.0) - In this presentation, we will describe the conceptualization and development of our online repository of Mobile Networked Creativity examples, focusing on how open science knowledge and crowdsourced information can help and inform non-traditional creative processes. Keeping in mind that most Mobile Networked Creativity processes occur outside Global North and English-speaking contexts, we are in the process of translating the PubPub into different languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin. Keywords: creativity; mobile; networked; pubpub
• DIGITAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF URBAN PLACE by Halegoua, Germaine (2015.0) - While mobile communication between users, the utilization of geo-coded texts and GPS coordinates in locative media projects and games, and the disclosure or sharing of location within social media systems tends to be the focus of scholarly and industry research, there is still much to investigate about the lived experiences and practices of utilizing digital navigation technologies to interact with public space and place. In contrast to popular assumptions about the distracted perception of space and place encouraged by digital navigation technologies, this study illustrates and analyzes the ways in which the exact opposite processes are observable: that navigation technology users are developing wayfinding strategies that re-embed themselves within urban space, re- Suggested Citation (APA): Halegoua, G. (2015, October 21-24). Keywords: media; mobile; navigation; place; technologies
• Site-Specificity, Pervasive Computing, and the Reading Interface by Farman, Jason (2013.0) - By employing a media archaeology approach (Gitelman, 2008; Huhtamo, 2011; Parikka, 2012), an analysis of mobile story projects is contextualized in light of the historical practices of sited narratives. Mobile media storytelling project seek to intervene in these dichotomies by sitting at the hinge of durable and ephemeral inscriptions. Keywords: media; mobile; projects; story; storytelling
• THE LIFE CYCLE OF A MOBILE PHONE: MATERIAL CULTURES OF MANUFACTURING AND CONSUMPTION by de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Farman, Jason; de Cunto Bueno, Daniela (2015.0) - Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway. The fields of mobile communication and internet studies have increasingly pushed toward an examination of the material conditions that contextualize digital media use in general, and mobile phone use specifically (de Souza e Silva, 2006; Packer & Wiley, 2013; Sheller & Urry, 2006). Keywords: mobile; phones; silva
• Using Mobile Augmented Reality to Tactically Re-Encounter, Re-Create, and Re-Appropriate Public Spaces by Liao, Tony Chung Li; Humphreys, Lee (2013.0) - As augmented reality (AR) is becoming technologically possible and publicly available through mobile smartphone and tablet devices, there has been relatively little empirical research studying how people are utilizing mobile AR technologies and forming social practices around mobile AR. While there are structural and pervasive power asymmetries in the strategic creation of physical spaces, we see examples in this study where people are utilizing mobile AR technology to tactically exert their own power on these places. Keywords: mobile; place; reality; space

• BRIDGING, COACHING, AND BOUNDARY SPANNING: BROKERAGE AND INTERMEDIATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ONLINE PLATFORM LABOR ECONOMY by Soriano, Cheryll; Cabalquinto, Earvin (2019.0) - Yet, we see an emerging category of digital labor intermediaries—locally called influencers, peer mentors, and coaches-- who are playing a significant role in the expansion and continued uptake of digital platform labor in the country. Drawn from a combination of participant observation in digital labor online groups and interviews with prominent coaches and digital workers, we present insights into the digital interventions that these brokers engage to wield influence by filling in critical structural gaps: a) coaching digital workers on the ‘possibilities’ of the digital labor economy, on how to address the structural ambiguities of digital labor platforms, on how to build ‘marketable skills’ to attract and sustain foreign clients, and on how to find ‘good jobs’ in these platforms, (b) aiding workers to span digital work boundaries and fluidly move across available platforms and job types to mitigate labor arbitrage; and c) bridge geographically dispersed workers that allow them to form a supportive online space where opportunities for labor are shared, exchanged, and debated. Keywords: brokerage; economy; labor; lehdonvirta; workers
• ON BROWN BOXES: HIDDEN INTERDEPENDENCE IN UNBOXING VIDEOS by Li, Zizi (2021.0) - Unboxing videos offer a particular venue to consider creator labor in relation to logistics work. But influencer work is more than brand management and audience engagement. Keywords: boxes; brown; labor; unboxing
• INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE ONLINE LABOR MARKET: A SCOPING REVIEW by Fiers, Floor (2023.0) - While this is a type of online participation that is in theory accessible to all Internet users, online labor market participation requires external admission in the form of getting hired. We break down online labor participation into a progression of eleven behaviors leading to participation in an online labor platform: from having heard of a platform to receiving payments and reviews (see Figure 1). Keywords: labor; market; participation; review
• EXPLOITATION IN ONLINE CONTENT MODERATION by Frost-Arnold, Karen (2023.0) - The emotional trauma of PTSD reported by CCM workers and the emotionally desensitizing nature of the work both harm the mental health of workers. “CCM Workers: Tales from the Moderation Screen.” Presented at the All Things in Moderation Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, December 7. Keywords: ccm; content; labor; moderation
• spir-13468 by None (None) - In this paper, we articulate the labor executed by the Human Infrastructure of Misinformation (HIM) as heteromated labor (see Nemer & Marks, in press). As for Bolso-Army, they did not engage in heteromated cognitive labor, instead, they were in charge of repetitive microtasks that followed a predefined script and/or reacted to a previous trigger. Keywords: average; groups; labor; misinformation; nemer
• spir-13469 by None (None) - In this paper, we articulate the labor executed by the Human Infrastructure of Misinformation (HIM) as heteromated labor (see Nemer & Marks, in press). As for Bolso-Army, they did not engage in heteromated cognitive labor, instead, they were in charge of repetitive microtasks that followed a predefined script and/or reacted to a previous trigger. Keywords: average; groups; labor; misinformation; nemer
• DIGITAL LABOR UNDER THE STATE/CAPITALIST DUOPOLY: STATE LABOR AND PLAYFUL WORKAHOLICS IN CHINESE DIGITAL SPACE by Sun, Qingyue (2023.0) - What are some different implications of Chinese digital labor? As full-fledged service providers, MCNs are actively involved in Chinese digital creative industries. Keywords: china; chinese; digital; labor; mcns
• Production Politics: Gender, Feminism, and Social Media Labor by Pruchniewska, Urszula; Duffy, Brooke Erin (2016.0) - Production politics: Gender, feminism, and social media labor. In the end, we argue that these findings are symptomatic of key trends at the intersection of post-feminism, neoliberal economies, and social media labor. Keywords: female; feminist; labor; media; politics

• CRIME INVESTIGATIONS OF ‘CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL’: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES POSED BY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES by Eneman, Marie (2020.0) - The presence of child sexual abuse and child abuse material in our society constitute serious, global and growing challenges for law enforcement agencies, not least due to technological innovations and advancements. Child abuse material (sometimes also referred to as child pornography) refers to documented material depicting the sexual abuse and/or sexual exploitation of a child (or children). Keywords: abuse; child; material; technologies
• THE OFFLINE STRIKES BACK: COMPLICATING THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN COVID-19 MUTUAL AID ACTIVISM by Ferrari, Elisabetta (2025.0) - The offline strikes back: complicating the role of digital technologies in Covid-19 mutual aid activism. One aspect discussed in this literature is particularly important to examine Covid-19 mutual aid activism: the relationship between the online and the offline. Keywords: activism; activists; aid; pandemic; technologies
• MAPPING THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM: AN ACCOUNT OF RELIGION AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN NORTHERN INDIA by Raval, Noopur (2014.0) - Drawing on the framework of “aesthetic formations” or dynamic communities bound through sensorial experiences, as explained by Birgit Meyer (Meyer 2009), I attempt to map religious practice across Hindi speaking peoples from northern India and the diaspora to discover the throbbing parallel life of spiritual practice through decades in the post-colony. Before one can engage with the transformation of religious practice, it is necessary to critically consider how religious practice itself becomes a space, a site of articulation and interaction with the contemporary political, legal and the idea of modern. Keywords: india; media; new; religion; technologies
• RE-PLACEING THE CITY: DIGITAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF URBAN PLACE by Halegoua, Germaine (2015.0) - In contrast to popular assumptions about the distracted sense of space and place encouraged by digital navigation technologies, I illustrate and analyze the ways in which the exact opposite processes are observable: that navigation technology users are developing wayfinding strategies to re-embed and imagine themselves within urban space and to cultivate a sense of place within urban environments. Through interviews and questionnaires with 132 navigation technology users, this paper identifies the ways that people actually use digital navigation technologies, why they use these technologies, how these technologies influence their physical movement, and how navigation technology users cognitively map and understand their embeddedness within urban space. Keywords: media; navigation; place; technologies

• TRUSTED MACHINES? MACHINE LEARNING, MORE-THAN-HUMAN SPEED AND DEAD LABOR IN PLATFORM CAPITALISM by Taffel, Sy (2019.0) - Firstly, digital automation is examined as a way of saving time and/or reducing human labor, such as when programmers use automated build tools or graphical user interfaces. Unlike other digital systems, which follow rules that are explicitly written for the computational system to follow, machine learning systems and neural networks construct their own modes of categorization. Keywords: automation; human; machines; systems
• RESCRIPTING FAILURE: THE REFLEXIVE STORIES THAT FIELDWORK TELLS by Lammes, Sybille; Hjorth, Larissa; Richardson, Ingrid; Jungnickel, Kat; Hickey-Moody, Anna (2020.0) - Research failure - in the form of mess, mistakes and mishaps rarely feature in finished scholarly work. Taking a deliberately unassuming approach that deviates from human-centred thinking, pushing against methodological limits, and deliberately exploring ethnographic failure becomes especially important in the age of the Anthropocene. Keywords: digital; failure; fieldwork; human; media; methods; play; research; university; ways
• WEIZENBAUM'S PERFORMANCE AND THEORY MODES: LESSONS FOR CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CHATBOTS by Yang, Misti ; Salzano, Matthew (2023.0) - Working from the perspective of digital rhetoric, we revive a historical vocabulary and illustrate, in a few suggestive anecdotes, its theoretical utility.2 We conclude by forecasting how theory mode may inform public accountability of AI. Thus, we theorize theory mode as a mode of engagement that questions results or products against an understanding or responsibility for how a program should work—not just technically, but also ethically. Keywords: human; mode; performance; theory; weizenbaum
• NON-HUMANS AS MEANING-MAKERS: ELIZABETH AS A CO- DESIGNER of BIOSHOCK INFINITE by Malazita, James W. (2015.0) - More specifically, Bogost argues for a post- postmodern model of object inquiry, where due respect is given to the relationships and interpretations of the world aside from those with humans that objects undergo: To be sure, computers often do entail human experience and perception. Even Actor-Network Theory, which attributes causal power to non-human material objects, stops short of crediting objects with interpretive power and meaning-making ability. Keywords: elizabeth; human; meaning; world
• Technologizing Touch: Tactile Magic, Education, and Domestication in Apple iPad Advertisements by Archer, Jason Edward (2013.0) - How does machine touch compare to human touch in influencing perceptions and development? This study provides a discourse analysis about the tactility of human-machine communication by using Apple iPad advertisements as case studies. Keywords: human; ipad; machine; touch

• My Life Is A Mess: Self-Deprecating Relatability And The Memefication Of Student Publics by Ask, Kristine; Abidin, Crystal (2017.0) - This paper aims to address this discrepancy by analyzing memefied discourses about higher education as an expression of a new student public: How is higher education framed by student memes? What do student memes tell us about the lifeworld and collective identities of students? Keywords: education; memes; publics; student
• “I’VE GOTTA DO IT FOR THE BIT”: MEMETIC MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY THROUGH STREAMER PERFORMANCE ON TWITCH by Jackson, Nathan J (2020.0) - Internet memes as contested cultural capital: The case of 4chan’s /b/board. This paper draws upon ongoing ethnographic research as part of a larger project involving the close examination of a small number of Twitch streamers with a focus on streaming personas and the different forms of collective identity that they facilitate. Keywords: collective; memes; memesis; twitch
• HAVE A GREAT, POSITIVE, BEAUTIFUL DAY!: GOOD MORNING MEMES AND THE CROSS-CULTURAL ARTICULATION OF VALUES by Trillò, Tommaso (2021.0) - Overall, good morning memes embed the general mandate for “politeness” that infuses the communicative genre of greetings, transposing it in the meme format through impersonal messages and a saccharine aesthetic. The English language version of the meme upholds the value of “achievement and self-efficacy,” possibly because of the influence of American values on globalized social media content. Keywords: memes
• FROM TOP-DOWN TO BOTTOM-UP: POLITICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND THE PRESERVATION OF WHITE SUPREMACY THROUGH VISUALS AND MEMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Winter, Rachel; DeCook, Julia (2021.0) - Examining white supremacist memes from reddit and Instagram, this paper aims to uncover the ways that time, memory, and the abstract conception of “the past” are used in these modes of digital propaganda. How do white supremacist memes use time and memory in their iconography and text? Keywords: identity; media; memes; right; supremacy; white; whiteness
• BRINGING THE PANDEMIC HOME: MEMES AS LOCAL POLITICS AT TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS by Murru, Maria Francesca; Vicari, Stefania (2021.0) - In all their dimensions, Italian pandemic memes played a key role in generating affecting tuning. Italian pandemic memes did develop the ridiculing and delegitimizing techniques typical of political memetics (Ross and Rivers, 2017) Keywords: local; media; memes; pandemic
• FOLLOWING LENIN AND STALIN THROUGH INSTAGRAM: VARIETIES OF DISSIMULATIVE PLAY IN LEFT-REVOLUTIONARY MEMES by Knuutila, Aleksi; Arjoranta, Jonne (2025.0) - We also ask how Politigram establishes itself as a community through memes and how participants express political stances. Methods and data We identified accounts posting political memes on Instagram by combining several search strategies. Online political ideation and how fringe political perspectives circulate widely through memes have become pressing concerns for research, particularly after meme culture has been appropriated and weaponised by reactionary political forces. Keywords: accounts; lenin; memes; politigram; stalin
• TRANSPHOBIC MEMES IN THE QUEBEC ALTERNATIVE NEWS INDUSTRY by Stewart, Michelle Robin; Laperle, Samuel; Gagnon, Dominique (2025.0) - The repetition of content (hashtags, memes, news items, reposts, videos) between larger hyperpartisan media outlets (in the U.S. and Canada – The Daily Wire, Rebel News) and in the smaller Quebec-linked network of influencers led us to investigate the dynamics that enabled transphobic content to travel so quickly (and effectively) between different countries, across linguistic barriers and without coordination. By tracking a range of right-wing content, we traced the opportunistic mobilisation and reach of transphobic content between a range of right-wing influencers producing content linked to Quebec politics. Keywords: content; media; memes; quebec; right
• Making Sense? The structure and meaning of digital memetic nonsense by Katz, Yuval; Shifman, Limor (2016.0) - Nonsensical  texts  in  these  environments  often  take  the  form  of  memes  –  clusters  of   digital  texts  imitated  and  circulated  by  many  participants  (who,  for  instance,  put  their   heads  in  freezers  or  pretend  to  be  owls).   Memes  strongly  embody  the  three   aforementioned  features  of  digital  environment:  many  of  them  are  visual,  they  are  often   based  on  remixes,  and  they  are  used  for  community-­building  purposes  (Milner,  2013;;   Shifman,  2013). Keywords: meaning; memes; nonsense; texts
• MENACING MEMES? AFFECT AND EFFECTS OF POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES by Huntington, Heidi (2015.0) - Political memes are used to critique and comment on social and political issues, from elections, to food stamps, police violence and issues of equality. By exploring this question of meme effects, this paper seeks to answer Shifman’s (2014) call for future meme research to establish what constitutes an effect of memes and how such effects might be measured. Keywords: affect; effects; media; memes; politics

• PLAYING WHILE FEMALE: RE-READING IDENTITY FIXATIONS IN OVERWATCH by Jensen, Jennifer; de Castell, Suzanne; Skardzius, Karen (2019.0) - PLAYING WHILE FEMALE: RE-READING IDENTITY FIXATIONS IN OVERWATCH Jennifer Jenson The University of British Columbia Karen Skardzius York University Suzanne de Castell The University of British Columbia Introduction & Context In early 2019, Overwatch professional player, “Ellie” quit playing just weeks after having been named to one of the teams seeded into the professional league. Not much later, Ellie was revealed (and confirmed by Blizzard, the parent company of Overwatch) to be an account created by a male player (Tassi, 2019). Keywords: ellie; female; identity; overwatch
• A REPERTOIRE OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL (IN)SECURITY: CONSTRUCTING THE ROHINGYA DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Aziz, Abdul (2021.0) - To situate the conceptualisation of everyday digital media practices in diasporic settings, I use Scott’s (1985) concept of “everyday forms of resistance” with a combination of Goffman’s (1959) work on self-representation. A repertoire of everyday resistance and technological (in)security: Constructing the Rohingya diaspora and transnational identity politics on social media. Keywords: digital; everyday; identity; media; resistance
• FACEBOOKING TOWARD DEATH: HOW DIGITAL LEGACY IMPACTS CURATION IN ONLINE SETTINGS by Pattwell, Ashley B. (2015.0) - By considering Heidegger’s being-toward-death in matters of digital identity and online social interaction, we might get a sense of some of the values or standards by which users choose to curate their online identity. Often a look at the press’s coverage of someone’s death will show the ways online identity is mined for clues as to who a person was, what they valued, or even what their “last words” and pictures were. Keywords: identity; legacy; media; new
• SEARCHING GUANGZHOU: REGIONALIZING CHINA’S WEIBO by Wang, Wilfred Yang (2014.0) - It seems like Weibo groups, such as EDPF, attempt to formulate a network of identity that its algorithmic networking function helps its users to recognize the online presence of their geo-identity, and to develop a sense of belonging to the city. Weibo intersects with this identification process and mediates the tension between the region and the nation. Keywords: china; guangzhou; identity; weibo
• The NRA and Social Media: Power, Multilevel Identity Construction, and Resisting Context Collapse by Gilpin, Dawn R. (2013.0) - Henderson (2005) pointed out that issue identities have practical consequences, since “the ways in which public issues are signified in discourse . . . Given the importance of interactivity in constituting issues, many organizations turn to social media platforms in an attempt to strategically influence the emergence of publics and issue identities. Keywords: identity; issue; media; nra; organizations

• THE RELEVANCE PEOPLE ASSIGN TO ALGORITHMIC-SELECTION APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE by Reiss, Michael V.; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael; Rüedy, Tanja (2020.0) - The 21st Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 27-31 October 2020 THE RELEVANCE PEOPLE ASSIGN TO ALGORITHMIC-SELECTION APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Michael V. Reiss University of Zurich Noemi Festic University of Zurich Michael Latzer University of Zurich Tanja Rüedy University of Zurich Introduction Fast growing public and academic attention dedicated to algorithmic selection on the internet goes along with appraisals of their high social significance and impact on daily life in digital societies (Beer, 2017; Gillespie, 2014; Latzer & Just, 2020; Willson, 2017). Appropriate governance choices, however, call for an accurate and empirical understanding of the relevance of algorithmic selection in order to assess the scope of potential associated risks. Keywords: applications; life; relevance; selection
• NÜZHUBO AND HER “BROTHERS”: STREAMING LIFE AND MEDIATING INTIMACY AT SCALE by Gu, Jingyi (2021.0) - To understand how seemingly intimate social relationships are formed within nüzhubos and their viewers, as well as mediated through the media technology of live streaming, I conducted 8-months digital ethnography on two Chinese live streaming platform, Inke and Huajiao. Chinese affective platform economies: Dating, live streaming, and performative labor on Blued: Media, Culture & Society. Keywords: intimacy; life; streaming; viewers
• EVOLVING SPATIALITIES OF DIGITAL LIFE: TROUBLING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SMART CITY/HOME DIVIDES by Sweeney, Miriam E ; Lynch, Casey (2023.0) - Bringing together home studies and urban studies, this research agenda aims to “address the interplay between lived experiences https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=12285976989264514140 of urban homes and the contested domestication of urban space” (Ibid., p. 829-830) by exploring the complex entanglement of urban dwelling and mobility, including migration. Four Conceptual Lenses This conceptual/theoretical paper brings recent scholarship on digital geographies together with feminist insights on the relationship between domestic and urban space in order to explore emerging smart city domesticities and the urban entanglements of the smart home, and question how these categories are troubled by processes of digitalization. Keywords: city; digital; home; life
• Taxation of Virtual World Economies: an empirical review by Switzer, Jamie S.; Switzer, Ralph V. (2011.0) - Keywords real money trading; tax code; virtual world transactions; virtual worlds 2 The taxation of virtual world economies is uncharted terrain, one that both researchers and government officials are just beginning to scrutinize. One possible consequence of taxation would be for virtual worlds to move to a peer-to-peer network or another country to avoid detection and identification by a government. Keywords: currency; economies; goods; income; law; life; tax; taxation; transactions; worlds

• How An Epistemology Of Ignorance Maintains Wikipedia’s Gender Gap by Frost-Arnold, Karen (2017.0) - Passing On is an experiment that uses reader-sourcing to create Wikipedia content to increase the coverage of women’s biographies (Matias, Diehl, & Zuckerman 2015). Thus, this paper outlines some of the sources of ignorance of gender that surround Wikipedia and attempts to remedy its gender gap. Keywords: gap; gender; ignorance; wikipedia
• DIGITAL GENDER DISIDENTIFICATIONS: QUEER MIGRANTS AND TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES OF GENDER DIVERSITY by Szulc, Lukasz (2020.0) - The main contribution of the paper is to reveal the abundant practices of digital gender disidentifications, which I categorize into 1) strategic disidentifications (disidentifying instrumentally for different reasons, e.g. to protect oneself against microaggressions or dumbing down one’s identifications to remain intelligible), 2) contextual disidentifications (disidentifying differently in different contexts, e.g. on different social media platforms or when using different languages), and 3) doubtful disidentifications (disidentifying as a result of questioning identifications, e.g. questioning one’s right to a particular identification or questioning the finality of one’s identification). The twenty-first century has observed the emergence of new practices of gender diversity, which eschew rigid gender binary and proliferate new gender labels, including “nonbinary,” “genderfluid,” and “agender.” Keywords: disidentifications; diversity; gender; media
• REAL HARASSMENT, VIRTUAL ROBOTS? IMPLICATIONS OF ONLINE HARASSMENT GEARED AT VIRTUAL ASSISTANT BIA by Rodrigues, Beatrys; Peruzzo, André (2023.0) - Most of the commenters seem oblivious to the importance of symbolic harassment, at the same time, they support their objection by reclaiming the boundaries of humanness, especially the humanness that is denied women in assistant roles. The video was aligned with UNESCO's international initiative Hey Update My Voice, a movement aiming at pushing back against gender bias and sexual harassment of AIs (heyupdatemyvoice.org, 2021). Keywords: bia; bradesco; campaign; comments; gender; harassment
• THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF NETWORKED AND REFRACTED MISOGYNY AMONG ESTONIAN MANFLUENCERS ON TIKTOK by Lott, Kaarel (2025.0) - Persistence guarantees that content is difficult to delete; searchability ensures that content is easily found; replicability allows for the copying of information and lastly, scalability enables the viral spread of misogynist content (boyd, 2010). Methods and Data First, digital ethnography (Pink et al., 2016; Markham, 2017) is conducted to deeply immerse the researcher in misogynist content on various social media platforms. Keywords: content; gender; manfluencers; media; study
• Dwarf acts like a lady: The importance of gender roles in understanding gender switching and player behavior by Martey, Rosa Mikeal; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Banks, Jaime; Wu, Jingsi; Consalvo, Mia; Castillo, Daniella (2013.0) - Results and Conclusions Initial findings reveal that player gender correlated strongly (.702, p < .0001) with avatar gender, and men were more likely (35%) to switch genders than women (10%). Levels of femininity or masculinity however, did not correlate with avatar gender, nor with player gender. Keywords: gender; male; men; play
• Transitioning in Thailand Online by Enteen, Jillana Beth (2013.0) - Abstract This paper argues, via transnational cyberculture studies and the examination of English language websites generated in Thailand marketing gender-related surgeries, that both sexuality and gender are diffuse sets of social, political, and interpersonal expectations with particular histories and effects. This paper will show, through the examination of English language websites generated in Thailand marketing gender-related surgeries, that both sexuality and gender are diffuse sets of social, political, and interpersonal expectations with particular histories and effects. Keywords: gender; thailand; websites

• A TOPOGRAPHY OF VIRTUAL INFLUENCERS by Berryman, Rachel; Abidin, Crystal; Leaver, Tama (2021.0) - A TOPOGRAPHY OF VIRTUAL INFLUENCERS Rachel Berryman Curtin University, Australia Crystal Abidin Curtin University, Australia Tama Leaver Curtin University, Australia Introduction Informed by my first six months of doctoral research, this paper offers a topography of virtual influencers that at once acknowledges their continuation of and breaking with the precedents of a lineage of “virtual beings” who have achieved celebrity status. Responding to the ahistoricism of much recent commentary, it draws on archival press and web research to situate virtual influencers at the intersection of technological advancements, discourses, and anxieties similarly characterising Hollywood’s “synthespians” at the turn of the twenty-first century; the legacy of “virtual idols” in East Asia (also known as “Vocaloids” in Japan); and the latter’s recent democratisation by a new generation of “vTubers” across video-sharing sites. Keywords: abidin; celebrity; figure; idol; influencers; leaver; media; voice
• FROM DIGITAL INFLUENCERS TO INFLUENCER-LABORATORIES. A CASE STUDY OF LIL MIQUELA by Bitencourt, Elias Cunha; Castelhano, Grégori da Costa; Lopes, Catarina (2021.0) - Treated as microcelebrities (Senft, 2008) that have achieved their status by attracting a large audience in social networks, digital influencers are frequently associated with people who use social capital acquired online to gain access to financial resources (Abidin, 2015). The literature tends to differentiate between digital influencers and celebrities in the traditional media based on two general factors: authenticity and entrepreneurship (Duffy & Hund, 2015; Marwick, 2015, 2018) Keywords: character; influencers; miquela; version
• FROM FRINGE TO MAINSTREAM: QANON NARRATIVES IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN DIGITAL SPACES by Hermanova, Marie (2023.0) - The paper proposes a structure for tracing the journey of conspiracy narratives from English to Czech/Slovak speaking digital spaces: 1) the emergence of the narrative on a website such as GreenMedInfo.com, in English 2) the posting of the narratives on a platform that within the CEE spaces could be consider fringe (Bail 2012) such as Reddit, 8chan, Telegram or local web fora and discussion groups, were the content is translated into a local language 3) the reposting of memes, banners or posts based on these narratives in both English and Czech/Slovak within semi-closed communities such as Facebook groups or parts of TikTok – I propose the term niche platforms to describe the function of these platforms within the local context 4) the reposting by mainstream and major influencers and in groups on mainstream platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and parts of TikTok where the context of the original post with local narratives about authoritarianism blurs and merges together and finally 5) following backlash from mainstream publics and attempts at content moderation, the content moves to dark platforms (Zeng & Schäfer, 2021), within the Czech and Slovak speaking context now mostly represented by Telegram. Research has also focused on the role of influencers and digital opinion leaders in the proliferation of conspiracy narratives on social media (Lewis, 2018). Keywords: conspiracy; content; influencers; narratives
• MONETIZING QUEERBAITING: BOYFRIEND DAILY CHECK-INS AS A STRATEGY TO ENGAGE QUEER FANDOM by Meng, Fancheng (2025.0) - Furthermore, most queer content creators on Douyin often present themselves as straight precisely because of their tacit engagement with queerbaiting strategies. The research sample consists of 10 male influencers who use the boyfriend's daily report queerbaiting strategy, with follower counts ranging from 10,000 to 1 million. Keywords: douyin; influencers; media; queer; queerbaiting

• TRUST IN FRIENDSHIP: LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOOK-UP APP SAFETIES by Byron, Paul; Albury, Kath; Pym, Tinonee; Race, Kane; McCosker, Anthony (2019.0) - Sometimes making friends through dating apps was unintentional, and sometimes these connections were more difficult to define than simply sexual or friend-based, perhaps combining elements of both. This movement from discussing friends on dating apps and other social media illustrates how friendships extend into spaces traditionally deemed sexual (e.g. Tumblr naked selfies) through networked media practices. Keywords: apps; friends; hook
• ‘SMART WAKE UP’ AND ‘BINAURAL BEATS’: SLEEP APPS AND THE ACOUSTIC MODULATION OF SLEEP-WAKE RHYTHMS by nansen, bjorn; o'neill, christopher (2019.0) - ‘Smart wake up’ and ‘binaural beats’: sleep apps and the acoustic modulation of sleep-wake rhythms. A key finding of this analysis is that sleep apps extend beyond the personal tracking of sleep patterns through two novel acoustic features – ‘smart wake up’ alarms and ‘binaural beats’ frequencies. Keywords: apps; beats; sleep; wake
• AFFORDANCES IN DIGITAL DETOX AND PRODUCTIVITY APPS by Karlsen, Faltin (2021.0) - Methods, material and framework The analysis is based on an mapping of product descriptions of 70 digital detox and productivity apps retried from the App Store and Google Play. This has also, alongside other commercial endeavors such as digital detox retreats and dumb mobiles, incited a booming app industry where digital detox and productivity apps are offered as tools to restrain smartphone use. Keywords: affordances; apps; media; smartphone
• CONSTRUCTING CONTEMPORARY PARENTHOOD IN DIGITAL SPACES: A WALKTHROUGH OF INFANT FEEDING APPLICATIONS by Langton, Katrin (2021.0) - Infant feeding apps continue to be extremely popular, with apps like Feed Baby being downloaded millions of times (Feed Baby, n.d.), making them important mediators of how early parenthood is experienced and practiced. The findings highlighted above indicate that infant feeding apps can be very diverse in design, warranting exploration as a distinct category of tools within the range of reproductive health apps available. Keywords: apps; baby; feeding; infant
• BORED GHOSTS AND ANXIOUS TEXT GAMES: HOW DATING APPS ALGORITHMICALLY CHANNEL THE DESIRE FOR INTIMACY INTO ANXIOUS ENGAGEMENT by narr, gregory (2021.0) - The first finding indicates that my respondents began using dating apps because they wanted to engage in intimate exchanges to get to know their matches, something they felt the elaborate essays on OkCupid rendered redundant. The second finding indicates that instead of intimacy they encountered anxious text games exacerbated by the widespread practice of ghosting on dating apps. Keywords: apps; dating; media; tinder
• A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: QUEER CHRISTIANS & DATING APPS by King, W.E. (2023.0) - I discuss the ways technoculture informs the creation and implementation of dating app identity categories and matchmaking methods and how queer Christians often do not fit the categories available to them. Queer Christians using dating apps complicates an already sensitive combination of social and cultural commitments, values, and beliefs. Keywords: apps; christians; queer
• “TO BE QUEER, TO BE IN DATING APPS, TO BE QUEER IN DATING APPS”: THE ON-LIFE INDUSTRIOUSNESS OF CREATING STRATEGIES BEHIND STIGMAS AND FEARS OF ONLINE DATING OF ITALIAN AND AUSTRALIAN QUEER YOUNG ADULTS by Reschiglian, Rachele; Robards, Brady; Scarcelli, Cosimo Marco (2025.0) - Scripts and sexual markets of transgender people on online dating apps: a Netnographic study. The nuanced dynamics of online dating practices among queer young adults in Italy and Australia are presented here, shedding light on the complexities of navigating stigmatisation and fears within digital intimacy spaces. Keywords: apps; dating; online; queer

• TRUST UNDER TRIAL: THE EFFECT OF SURGE PRICING ON TRUST TOWARD RIDE-HAILING PLATFORMS IN MANILA by Ramizo, Godofredo Jr (2019.0) - Hence, this paper investigates two related questions: First, how do attitudes on surge pricing influence trust toward Manila’s ride- hailing platforms? Second, why do attitudes on surge pricing influence trust of ride- hailing platforms the way they do? Keywords: pricing; surge; trust

• Human Agency on Algorithmic Systems by Koene, Ansgar; Perez Vallejos, Elvira; Webb, Helena; Patel, Menisha (2017.0) - In order to perform this inference of personal interests the algorithms have to rely on certain basic assumption about user behavior, such as an assumption that browsing behavior is rationally efficient (e.g. time spent on a website is assumed to correlate with level of interest). The next step in our exploration of user agency on algorithmic systems will consider the feasibility and desirability of implementing the proposed capabilities that were identified as ‘fairness’ enhancing factors. Keywords: algorithm; behavior; results; systems; user
• TRUST IN THE MUSIC? AUTOMATED MUSIC DISCOVERY, MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS & ALGORITHMIC CULTURE. by Sophie Olivia, Freeman (2019.0) - As music recommendation systems seek to incorporate and expand their reach into the private life world of users, by providing recommendations based on context factors like mood or activity, how does this affect the privacy of users? This ongoing project aims to elucidate the user experience of music recommender systems and perhaps suggest ways that aspects such as serendipity, novelty and diversity can be better incorporated into music streaming services. Keywords: discovery; music; systems
• Open algorithmic systems: lessons on opening the black box from Wikipedia by Geiger, R.Stuart; Halfaker, Aaron (2016.0) - In  the  English-­language  Wikipedia,  22  of  the  25  most  active  editors  are  bots,  and   in  January  2016,  they  made  28%  of  all  edits  to  pages  in  the  project  and  20%  of  all  edits   to  encyclopedia  articles.1  Bots  and  bot  developers  have  long  been  an  important  part  of   the  volunteer  community  of  editors.   OPEN  ALGORITHMIC  SYSTEMS:  LESSONS  ON  OPENING  THE  BLACK  BOX   FROM  WIKIPEDIA   R.  Stuart  Geiger,  Berkeley  Institute  for  Data  Science   Aaron  Halfaker,  Wikimedia  Foundation       Methodological  and  theoretical  overview   An  ethnography  of  algorithmic  governance     This  paper  reports  from  a  multi-­year  ethnographic  study  of  automated  software  agents   in  Wikipedia,  where  bots  have  fundamentally  transformed  the  nature  of  the  notoriously   decentralized,  ‘anyone  can  edit’  encyclopedia  project. Keywords: bots; systems; wikipedia
• SUCCESSOR SYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF REFLEXIVE ALGORITMS IN ENACTING IDEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE by Geiger, R. Stuart (2014.0) - Hollaback, a system for reporting and representing street harassment, provides a safe space for victims of street harassment to assemble as a networked public. When faced with issues like the institutional ignorance of street harassment, the exploitation of microtask workers, and the gender gap in Wikipedia, ideological critique can be enacted not only through discourse, but also through the production of infrastructure. Keywords: harassment; street; successor; systems

• TIKTOK’S AI HYPE - CREATORS’ ROLE IN SHAPING (PUBLIC) AI IMAGINARIES by Richter, Vanessa (2025.0) - The study does this by inquiring into the different types of AI content, types of creators posting on AI, different topical foci, and lastly larger AI imaginaries. Therefore, the first analysis of AI content is based on a hashtag network analysis and mapping of TikTok content on AI to understand the composition of video content and account clusters. Keywords: content; creators; imaginaries; media
• NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL WAVE: THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF ORDINARY ELDERLY SHORT VIDEO CREATORS IN CHINA by Wang, Yingwen (2025.0) - Results This study reveals the multifaceted challenges faced by older content creators on Douyin and the adaptive strategies they have adopted to overcome these barriers. The short video involvement not only fortifies the social connections of older adults but also bolsters their social adaptation and participation following their exit from the workforce. Keywords: adults; challenges; creators; video

• WHEN ‘HOMELAND’ IS NO LONGER ‘HOME’, THE IDENTITY CRISIS, THE LOSS OF MOBILITY, AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN ——A STUDY OF SOCIAL MEDIA TESTIMONIOS BY CHINESE TRANSNATIONAL WORKERS UNDER COVID-19 GLOBAL PANDEMIC by GUO, Jing (2021.0) - Second, under the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese transnational workers were in a space of uncertainty, high risk and immobility. Through new media technologies, Chinese transnational workers from various locations gathered and reached out to the public. Keywords: chinese; home; narratives; pandemic; workers
• DIESEL DEATH ZONES IN THE AMAZON EMPIRE: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN ALGORITHMICALLY MEDIATED WORK by Bergmann, Rachel; Solomun, Sonja (2021.0) - This case situates questions of tech justice in a specific place and moment in time and provides an opportunity to analyze the ways platform technologies affect communities “on the ground.” Findings SBAC argued that Amazon, already the largest employer in the area, would enact environmental racism with their new air cargo hub in the predominantly Hispanic, working-class Riverside and San Bernardino counties (Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, 2020). Yet environmental justice remains largely siloed from these important interventions. Keywords: amazon; aoir; climate; diesel; justice; workers
• “WOULD YOU DATE A MAID?” by Kantachote, Krittiya (2023.0) - In Singapore, the temporary legal status of migrant domestic workers binds them in servitude to their employer-sponsor as their residency is contingent on their continuous and sole live-in employment with a sponsor whose permission they must secure to transfer jobs. Each year, thousands of domestic workers from India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines seek legal employment in Singapore. Keywords: singapore; workers
• THE HIGH-TECH ELITE? ASSESSING VALUE PRIORITIES OF TECHIES USING THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY 2012-2020 by Be'ery , Gilad; Epstein, Dmitry (2023.0) - Inspired by those findings, we build on Schwartz’s taxonomy of basic values as a validated approach to assess value orientations at an individual level, to ask how the values of tech workers differ from those of the general public as well as among people working in tech. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/78715 SHORT ABSTRACT Using data from the European Value Survey 2012-2020 and Schwartz’s theory of basic values, this paper aims to map the value priorities of people working in tech compared to the general population, understand to what extent those value priorities differ from value priorities of other occupational elites, and how they vary among tech workers, focusing particularly on developers as a sub-group. Keywords: researchers; tech; value; workers

• CULTURAL INTERMEDIATION AT THE INTERSECTION POINT OF INSTITUTIONAL CO-CREATION: RECONFIGURING PARTICIPATION WITHIN THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ABC) by Hutchinson, Jonathon (2014.0) - Here the term refers to the role ‘in the middle’ facilitating cultural production. The process of managing the co-creative arrangement for cultural artifact production was previously understood to be the role of the community manager (Wilson, Hutchinson & Shea, 2010). Keywords: abc; media; online; production; research
• THRESHOLDS FOR PARTICIPATION IN OPEN ANIMATION PRODUCTION: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SOME ASSUMPTIONS ON PEER-PRODUCTION by Velkova, Julia (2014.0) - The case is one of two which I explore within a bigger research project on open- content media production with the aim to understand the mechanics and cultural aspects of producing independent industry-quality animation films in the domain of digital commons .“Morevna” project is an interesting case because in the course of 4 years it tried different models of alternative production. Coordination of production tasks over email and Internet with project contributors has been recognized as cumbersome and time- consuming. Keywords: media; participation; production; project

• CHALLENGING SPATIAL MARGINALIZATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION? A CASE STUDY OF THE TWITTER DISCOURSE ON HOUSING IN BERLIN by Stoltenberg, Daniela (2020.0) - Empirically, the contribution asks: In what ways is the representation of urban locations through place-naming in social media issue discourses distributed along the lines of spatialized social stratification? utilities, new contracts) .10 1.00 Rent Increase (2009 to 2017) .01 1.00 Nagelkerke’s Pseudo-R2 .75 Dependent variable: n = Significance: Note: Number of references per Berlin district in N = 10,943 with at least one such reference 96 Berlin districts *: p <.05; **: p <.01; ***: p <.001 SE = standard error; Exp(B) = odds ratio Discussion and Outlook These results reveal an intriguing, if confusing picture of the issue spatiality of the housing discourse in Berlin’s Twittersphere. Keywords: attention; berlin; discourse; districts; media
• IS IT (MICRO)CHEATING? HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CONFOUND ASSUMPTIONS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS by Foster, Margaret E; Omapang, Aspen K.B.; Johnson-Zafiris, Marina (2023.0) - The phenomenon of interest in our study is discourse around what constitutes “cheating” as it relates to social media, that is, discourse around the limits of new technologies’ acceptable uses for relating outside an established relationship. Individuals have long used technologies to coordinate extramarital sex (Rambukkana, 2015), and social media have introduced spaces for new transgressions to emerge (Muise et al., 2009; Tokunaga, 2011). Keywords: cheating; discourse; media; monogamy; reddit
• “A.I. IS HOLDING A MIRROR TO OUR SOCIETY”: LENSA AND THE DISCOURSE OF VISUAL GENERATIVE AI by Miltner, Kate (2025.0) - Critiques of Lensa’s sexualized and racialized results map directly onto discourses about “algorithms of oppression” (Noble, 2017) and other forms of gendered and racialized algorithmic biases, and analyses of Lensa user behaviors were plucked directly from the selfie moral panic playbook, with their insistence that digital technologies amplify our most deleterious narcissistic tendencies (e.g., Tiidenberg, 2018). Articles were sourced from Nexis using the term “Lensa AI” in English-language coverage across all regions from November 2022 to July 2023. Keywords: corpus; coverage; discourse; lensa
• DOES ALGORITHMIC CONTENT MODERATION RPOMOTE DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE? RADICAL DEMOCRATIC CRITIQUE OF TOXIC LANGUAGE AI by Oh, Dayei; Downey, John (2025.0) - Google’s Perspective API is an example of toxic language moderation algorithms to remove content that are ‘rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable […] that is likely to make someone leave a discussion’ (Dixon et al., 2018: 68). Does algorithmic content moderation promote democratic discourse? Keywords: content; discourse; incivility; language; moderation
• UNDERSTANDING PERCEPTIONS AND EFFECTS OF ONLINE INTOLERANCE: A FOUR-COUNTRY EXPERIMENTAL STUDY by Rossini, Patricia; Vaccari, Cristian; Theocharis, Yannis; Tromble, Rebekah (2025.0) - To address this gap, we focus intolerant online discourse—content that is hateful, threatening, discriminatory, or harassing (Rossini, 2022). We leverage pre-registered survey experiments on large samples (N = 2,000 per country) constructed to mirror the adult population on key characteristics in these countries to examine perceptions of and reactions to intolerant online discourse. Keywords: discourse; incivility; intolerance; speech

• THE 'STUFF’ OF LIFE: MATERIAL PLAY AND PERFORMANCE IN DIGITAL VIDEO CULTURES AND CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE by Nolan, Katherine (2020.0) - I aim to trace and examine material play as a trope of digital video culture obscured in the ‘visual soup’ of YouTube. The ‘Stuff of Life’: Material Registers of Re-presentation The items used in material play videos are often mundane domestic or artificial, pop- tastic and iridescent objects and materials; Through a DIY culture aesthetic and the ostensibly user-generated setting of YouTube, these materials are represented as the objects to hand, part of the everyday: ‘the stuff’ of life. Keywords: labour; material; play; video
• BEWARE ASIAN SERVERS: RACIALIZED PERCEPTIONS OF CHEATING AND SKILL AMONG VIDEO GAME PLAYERS by Tomlinson, Christine; Srauy, Sam (2021.0) - This theoretical project considers the patterns of racism aimed at Asian players. Thus, in our context, we see the rhetorical strategy of attributing White players’ gaming success as one of skill, while successes by Asian players as the result of cheating/automation (e.g., aimbots or gold farming). Keywords: cheating; players; racism; video
• VICARIOUS NOSTALGIA? PLAYING RETROGAMES FOSTERS AN APPRECIATION FOR GAMING HISTORY by Bowman, Nicholas David ; Condis, Megan; Yoshimura, Koji; Bohaty, Emily (2023.0) - Once upon a game: Exploring video game nostalgia and its impact on well-being. As gamers age, so does an interest in the history of video games. Keywords: bowman; nostalgia; play; retrogames; video
• USER-GENERATED PARODY AS NEGOTIATION OVER MEANING:A TYPOLOGY OF FRAME ALIGNMENT IN MUSICAL RENDITIONS by Boxman-Shabtai, Lillian (2015.0) - Taxonomy of frame alignment in music video parodies Frame Bridging Frame Extension Referential frame transformation Rhetorical frame transformation Frame abandonment Definition The reproduction of a frame into a new text Extension of frame's original boundaries to encompass new meanings Referential components in original frame reversed to convey opposite meaning Rhetorical components in the original frame exposed and ridiculed Original material used as a shell to which unrelated meanings and frames are cast Content similar broadened twisted/reversed meta- communicative un-related Stance uncritical uncritical thematic critique textual critique, critique of artist uncritical Salient form close- rendition spin-off spin-off close-rendition spin-off User-generated parody as negotiation over meaning: A typology of frame alignment in musical renditions. Keywords: alignment; frame; music; original; parody; video

• SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURES IN AND FOR CRISES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA’S DEVELOPMENT OF QUARANTINE SURVEILLANCE MOBILE APPLICATIONS DURING COVID-19 by Kim, Youngrim; Chen, Yuchen; Liang, Fan; Hussain, Muzammil (2020.0) - As China being the epicenter of the outbreak and South Korea being one of the closest countries from mainland China, these two countries have been actively developing health surveillance infrastructures to monitor and control the pandemic and maintain the state. SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURES IN AND FOR CRISES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA’S DEVELOPMENT OF QUARANTINE SURVEILLANCE MOBILE APPLICATIONS DURING COVID-19 Youngrim Kim University of Michigan Yuchen Chen University of Michigan Fan Liang University of Michigan Muzammil Hussain University of Michigan Introduction This article examines China and South Korea’s health surveillance infrastructures that are being developed and deployed during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic (COVID19). Keywords: china; infrastructures; korea; surveillance
• PUBLIC POLICY MEETS PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE by Strover, Sharon; Esteva, Maria; Cao, Tiancheng; Park, Soyoung (2021.0) - Public policy meets public surveillance. Data Most city-sponsored projects in our study lack explicitly stated data policies regarding public surveillance projects. Keywords: city; diego; portland; san; surveillance
• Rules As Theatrical Method In Internet Surveillance Research by Phillips, David J (2016.0) - These  games  would  be  designed  to  recreate  and  disrupt  rules  and  theories   organizing  our  practice  and  understanding  of  surveillance.     My  research  continues  to  ask  the  question  “What  is  it  to  live  our  lives   mediated  by  infrastructures  and  practices  of  surveillance?       Keywords: desire; project; research; surveillance

• RESEARCHING THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN ENABLING EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG REFUGEES by Kutscher, Nadia; Fujii, Michi (2020.0) - Against this background, the question emerges, what role digital media do play in terms of benefits and risks when it comes to overcoming barriers in participation and education. So far, the relevance of digital media (and associated practices) for young refugees in formal (school), non- formal (youth welfare) and informal (leisure) educational contexts is scarcely investigated. Keywords: education; kutscher; media; participation; refugees; research
• PRACTICES AND PARTICIPATION OF MARGINALISED YOUTH IN NON-FORMAL AND DIGITALISED EDUCATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS by Bosse, Eva Maria; Wiese, Amelie (2023.0) - Research Questions The question emerges, whether non-formal digitalised educational arrangements actually succeed in enabling educational participation of marginalised youth, therefore reducing social and digital inequalities. Non-formal educational institutions often aim at targeting marginalised youth as participants, for example by residing in ‘deprived’ urban areas, potentially creating opportunities to reduce educational inequalities among youth. Keywords: arrangements; education; kutscher; participation; research; und; youth
• CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN CHINA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN WECHAT AND DOUYIN AS A DEMOCRATIC ARENA by Lin, Hui (2023.0) - As social media platforms in China are highly censored by the government and have followed the state’s internet regulations (Chen et al., 2021), how does democratic civic participation develop in the Chinese media landscape? To answer this question, this study examines how citizens express democratic opinions against dominant interpretations, what role social media platforms play as an arena for activists’ participation, and what social media factors facilitate active online civic participation and influence it to be translated into offline activities. Keywords: douyin; media; participation; wechat
• RESEARCHING YOUTH PERSPECTIVES – GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN NON-FORMAL DIGITISED EDUCATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS by Bosse, Eva M.; Wiese, Amelie; Kutscher, Nadia (2025.0) - Recognising (marginalised) youth’s realities and establishing trust and respect are considered important factors in order to successfully reduce inequalities in non-formal educational arrangements (Fujii et al. 2021; Streicher et al. 2014; Walther 2014). Applying a broad understanding of education1 as a transformation of self-world-relations (Jörissen/Marotzki 2009), non-formal digitalised educational arrangements aim at 1 In accordance with the German tradition of ‘Bildung’. Keywords: arrangements; discussions; education; group; institutions; participation; youth

• DISRUPTIVE HUMOUR: A CITIZEN PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGES FROM MASS PROTESTS by Neumayer, Christina; Rossi, Luca; Jensen, Minna S. (2020.0) - Humorous images from conflict in social media have mainly been studied as memes (e.g., Bayerl & Stoynov, 2015; Jensen, Neumayer & Rossi 2020). Disruptive humor: a citizen perspective in social media images from mass protests. Keywords: images; media; protests; rossi
• GUY NEXT DOOR AND IMPLAUSIBLY ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMEN: THE VISUAL FRAMES OF SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA by Bastos, Marco; Mercea, Dan; Goveia, Fabio (2021.0) - We probe this question by taking stock of studies in visual propaganda research and testing whether social media propaganda seeks to embody the vox populi by employing relatable, familiar, or alternatively attractive faces of ordinary people―the archetypal “man on the street” (MOTS). To this end, we analyzed the visual frames in profile images released by Twitter’s Elections Integrity, which identified and removed the universe of false accounts operated by the Internet Research Agency (Elections Integrity, 2018). Keywords: images; media; profile; propaganda
• WHICH HUMAN FACES CAN AN AI GENERATE? LACK OF DIVERSITY IN THIS PERSON DOES NOT EXIST by Sequeira, Lucas Nunes; Moreschi, Bruno; Santos, Vinicius Ariel Arruda dos (2021.0) - This is empirical evidence that the creation of fake faces is not independent of characteristics such as whiteness imposed by processes that are already historically known. Fig. 5: “Cluster-images” of two overlaps: A (54 images of different fake faces of black people) and B (54 different fake faces of white people). Independently of the group of fake human faces sampled, the same generic white face always appeared as a result (Fig. 1). Keywords: cluster; faces; fig; images; tpdne
• GENERIC WAR IMAGINARIES: AI-GENERATED IMAGES OF THE ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT IN THE ADOBE STOCK CONTROVERSY by Brilli, S`tefano; Gemini, Laura; Spaggiari, Chiara (2025.0) - • Image site: A computational analysis was performed on the RGB spectra of 762 most downloaded images from Adobe Stock, collected in October 2024. • Image site: Computational analysis, dividing the dataset into 10 clusters, revealed no clear separation between photographic and AI-generated images. Keywords: adobe; images; media; photography; stock
• Images of protest in contested social media: Production, propagation, and narratives by Rossi, Luca; Neumayer, Christina; Vulpius, Julie (2016.0) - Media,  on  the  opposite,  largely  used  images  containing  explicit  violence   (56.8%),  but  only  sharing  a  minor  number  for  images  with  no  violence  (18.2%)  or  latent   violence  (11.4%).   Combining  these  two  approaches  we  were  able  to  observe  how  different  actors   produce  specific  types  of  visual  content  and  to  identify  the  conflicting  narratives   produced  by  police,  activists,  and  journalists/media.     Keywords: images; media; violence

• COLLABORATING AT MICROSCOPIC AND MASSIVE SCALES: THE CHALLENGE AND VALUE OF COVID ISOLATION FOR CRITICAL INTERNET STUDIES by Herman, Andrew; Markham, Annette; Luka, M.E.; Carlson, Rebecca; Dilkes, Danielle; Stirling, Fiona; Pronzato, Riccardo; Sarwatay, Devina (2021.0) - The emerging shape of the project itself showcases the challenges and possibilities of how research projects at scale can (or don’t) reflect and build social movements. The emerging shape of the project itself showcases the challenges and possibilities of how research projects at scale can (or cannot) reflect and build social movements, how serendipity plays a strong role in emergent research design, how independence and interdependence are emergent and ad hoc temporal qualities of large scale collaborations rather than built-in or top-down properties. Keywords: autoethnography; covid; covid-19; digital; markham; mms; pandemic; project; research; researchers; sensemaking; university
• TO SCREENSHOT OR NOT TO SCREENSHOT? TENSIONS IN REPRESENTING VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM POSTS by Schafer, Joseph Scott; Halperin, Brett A.; Ghosh, Sourojit; Vera, Julie (2025.0) - Alongside image formats of VSMP screenshots, we also see diversity in what screenshots are taken. Below, we outline three value questions researchers should reflect upon when including VSMP screenshots (or not): what is (in)visibilized, what is consensual, and what is legal, when representing VSMP posts? Keywords: media; posts; researchers; screenshots; vsmp

• INCELS ON REDDIT: A STUDY IN SOCIAL NORMS AND DECENTRALISED MODERATION by Gillett, Rosalie Mary; Suzor, Nicolas (2021.0) - Our study shows how the moderators of major incel subreddits resisted external pressure by adopting techniques to neutralize their behaviour and by enforcing boundaries to insulate their communities from critics. We argue that content moderation is an insufficient frame to understand the regulation of harmful communities; real change requires addressing the underlying cultural norms rather than focusing on individual pieces of content. Keywords: moderation; norms; reddit; subreddits
• COVID ONLY ON THURSDAYS: DEALING WITH AN INFODEMIC IN LANGUAGE- AND REGION-BASED ONLINE COMMUNITIES by Rohden, Frauke (2023.0) - Methods Some practical considerations make Reddit an interesting object of research to trace content moderation rules in relation to covid-19: Many subreddit communities actively engage in discussing moderation practices, giving insights into the negotiation of new rules related to the pandemic (accessible and searchable through the pushshift API (Baumgartner et al., 2020)). Keywords: content; moderation; rules; subreddits
• spir-13477 by None (None) - It follows a bifurcated approach to theorizing and mapping algo-design: first, it tracks instances of content moderation of book paratext; and second, it looks at examples of paratext design that is intended to evade content moderation algorithms, or at least responsive to algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017). Building on conceptualizations of algospeak, a strategy that involves creating code words or phrases to create a brand-safe lexicon, I theorize algo-design as a broader creative strategy used by online creators that involves using and avoiding specific language and visuals to evade content moderation by platforms. Keywords: authors; content; moderation; paratext
• GPT4 V THE OVERSIGHT BOARD: USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR CONTENT MODERATION by Nelson, Lucinda; Suzor, Nicolas (2025.0) - We deliberately focus on hard cases as a way of exploring the potential that foundation models present to approach content moderation tasks in a radically different way. GPT4 v the Oversight Board: Using large language models for content moderation. Keywords: content; hate; language; models; moderation
• TRUST IN ALTERNATIVE GOVERNORS: EXPLORING USER CONFIDENCE IN COMPANIES, STATES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN PLATFORM CONTENT MODERATION by Redeker, Dennis (2025.0) - Trust in alternative governors: Exploring user confidence in companies, states and civil society in platform content moderation. Even less so, we know what users think about different roles for states, international organizations or different civil society actors in platform content moderation. Keywords: content; governors; moderation

• TOP 5 TINDER HACKS! BLACKBOXING ALGORITHMS IN THE DATING APP INDUSTRY by Myles, David; Blais, Martin (2021.0) - Furthermore, dating guides promote a common injunction to hack Tinder. Tinder’s swipe feature – which operates classification and recommendation algorithms that have been likened to the Elo scoring technique – has been particularly influential, giving way to a new generation of dating apps (Ranzini & Lutz, 2017). Keywords: algorithms; blackboxing; dating; tinder
• ALGORITHMIC FOLK THEORIES OF ONLINE HARASSMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS ENABLE ONLINE HARASSMENT AND PREVENT INTERVENTION by Lackey, Cait; Hardman Taylor, Samuel (2023.0) - Algorithmic folk theories of online harassment: How social media algorithms enable online harassment and prevent intervention. ALGORITHMIC FOLK THEORIES OF ONLINE HARASSMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS ENABLE ONLINE HARASSMENT AND PREVENT INTERVENTION Cait Lackey University of Illinois Chicago Samuel Hardman Taylor University of Illinois Chicago The prevalence of online harassment is undeniable, with 64% of U.S. citizens under the age of 30 having experienced some form of online harassment, and people with marginalized identities reporting being victimized most often (Lenhart & Zickuhr, 2016; Vogels, 2021). Keywords: algorithms; folk; harassment; media; theories

• MAPPING DISCORD’S DARKSIDE: DISTRIBUTED HATE NETWORKS ON DISBOARD by Heslep, Daniel Grant; Berge, PS (2021.0) - Because Discord only allows users to search partnered and verified servers (generally with 10,000 member minimums), third-party sites like Disboard—a public bulletin for Discord servers—are popular for searching smaller communities. Disboard relies on its own third-party bot, which, when integrated directly into Discord servers, displays a public invite link and the number of currently active members (Figure 1). Keywords: communities; discord; hate; party; servers

• HYBRID CONSTELLATIONS: EXAMINING SOCIAL MEDIA’S ROLE IN THE MONTREAL LESBIAN SOCIAL SCENE by Duguay, Stefanie; Chartrand, Alex; Trépanier, Anne-Marie (2023.0) - This paper examines the role of social media, alongside other modes of communication, in the definition and organization of lesbian1 sociocultural landscapes. Preliminary findings indicate that social media is a focal tool, among others, to support lesbians’ networked social arrangements but that platforms lack affordances for the fluidity integral to ever-fluctuating lesbian/queer identities, locations, and temporalities. Keywords: constellations; lesbian; media; montreal; space
• PODCASTING, VR, AI AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTIMACY by Karathanasopoulou, Evi (2025.0) - This paper then, will situate intimacy as place-based affect and will look to find common ground with previous radiophonic and podcast intimacies as well as to reveal where there may be new intimacies if/when podcasting enters the Virtual Reality media space. I examine this antithesis: On the one hand, radiophonic intimacy is based on the listener filling in the visual gaps through imagination and by using their private and personal noumenal imagery. Keywords: intimacy; podcasting; space

• YOUTH IN THE DIGITAL AGE: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL SKILLS by Haddon, Leslie; Livingstone, Sonia; Mascheroni, Giovanna; Stoilova, Mariya; Cino, Davide (2020.0) - ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL SKILLS Leslie Haddon LSE, London, UK Sonia Livingstone, LSE, London, UK Giovanna Mascheroni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Mariya Stoilova, LSE, London, UK Davide Cino Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Mary-Alice Doyle LSE, London, UK Introduction What actors and factors shape children and young people’s digital skills? These are the two research questions addressed in this paper, along with an analysis of how the research literature to date has measured digital skills. Keywords: activities; consequences; skills; studies
• REB/VODKA IS MY OTP: SCHOOL SHOOTER AND MASS MURDERER FANFICTION AS NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE by Jones, Bethan Victoria (2023.0) - Undertaking a content analysis of fanfiction posted to Archive of Our Own, as well as media reports focusing on these fans, I demonstrate – as Rico suggests – that “dark fandoms remain rooted in the first wave [of fan studies] where these fans are dismissed as Others and their communities lack legitimization and acceptance by society” (2015, online). Rather than fanfiction as a practice through which fans express emotional connections with popular media texts, I argue that fans write fanfiction about school shooters and mass killers not as a means of showing their ‘love’ for the perpetrators, but as a way to recontextualize and understand their motives and actions. Keywords: fan; killers; mass; studies

• STOR(Y)ING DESMADRE ON THE INTERNET: THE POLITICS, AFFECT AND ETHICS OF ONLINE QUEER LATIN AMERICAN CABARET ARCHIVES by GUZMAN, CARINA (2020.0) - In the case of the MeB project, I have partnered with the Cabaret Commons Critical Practice and Exhibition Place (cabaretcommons.org); an initiative that is deeply concerned with TFQ community ethics of “onlining” archival material. We decided to ask people for archival materials, but also works they could create now to remember those events such as memes, collages, stories, etc. Keywords: archive; cowan; materials; queer
• QUEERING THE MAP: PHYSICAL TRACES AND DIGITAL PLACES OF QUEER LIVES by Robards, Brady; Watson, Ashleigh; Kirby, Emma; Churchill, Brendan; LaRochelle, Lucas (2020.0) - Our focus here, however, is on posts that variably reference digital media. We break these posts down into two categories: a) records of moments where a relationship moves from a digital space to a physical one (‘Going Physical’); and b) posts documenting encounters in physical spaces that explicitly referenced digital media (‘Digital Tracing’). Keywords: digital; posts; queer; stories
• MERGING QUEER READINGS AND GAMES: AN ANALYSIS OF CO-CREATED QUEER NARRATIVES OF SIDON AND LINK THROUGH PLAY IN TEARS OF THE KINGDOM by Dennin, Kimberly Grace (2025.0) - In K. Hellekson & K. Busse (Eds.), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the internet: New essays. Outside of the creation of new narratives, there was a consistent acknowledgment that Sidon and Link are often romantically paired together. Keywords: link; queer; sidon
• Shameful transgressions and intimate boundary works: On gay hook-up app research ethics by Jørgensen, Kristian Møller (2016.0) - Boundary crossing, backstabbing opportunist”: Practice based ethics as intimate boundary work. Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media. Keywords: app; ethics; intimacy; media; queer

• Insiders And Outsiders: A Comparative Study Of The Political Debates On The Facebook Pages Of Party Leaders During Two Danish Election Campaigns by Schwartz, Sander; Rossi, Luca (2017.0) - Based on this we cannot conclude that the amount of critical comments and smear is related to the size of the politician alone. Here we can identify a slight increase in negative comments without a relation to political issues. Keywords: comments; contestation; inter
• MOONWALKING: TRACING REDDITORS’ DIGITAL MEMORY WORK ON MICHAEL JACKSON by Esteve Del Valle, Marc; Smit, Rik (2020.0) - That is, 58.12 % of the posts in our sample engaged in some form of memory work, which we defined as the conscious and dynamic process of reconstructing the past in the present by means of assembling historic facts, sharing personal memories, or otherwise aiming to stabilize Michael Jackson’s memory. When Redditors’ engage in memory work, they are mostly sharing information about MJ’s persona (23.37%), immediately followed by posts and comments containing personal memories related to MJ (21. 68%). Keywords: comments; memory; replies
• Countering Climate Change: Climate Skeptic Comments in the German Networked Public Sphere by Kaiser, Jonas (2016.0) - This  is  especially   visible  in  a  country  like  Germany  where  skeptics  are  a  small  minority  (Metag,  Füchslin,   &  Schäfer,  2015)  that  have  formed  a  counterpublic  online  (Kaiser  &  Puschmann,  2016).   The  study  at  hand  is  looking  at  the  relationship  between  counterpublic  and  mainstream   in  the  networked  public  sphere  (Benkler,  2006)  to  find  out  how  and  where  skeptics  are   trying  to  make  their  voices  heard  and  how  users  from  the  mainstream  react  to  that. Keywords: climate; comments; skeptics
• EXPERIENCES OF REPERCUSSIONS FROM PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE DEBATE by Løvlie, Anders Sundnes; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2016.0) - Respondents  who  answered  yes  to  this  first  question  (11%),  were  presented  with  a   conditional  follow-­up,  free-­text  question:  Can  you  give  an  example  of  problems  that   have  occurred  as  a  consequence  of  online  discussions  (as  mentioned  in  the  previous   question)?   The  diagram  below  (Figure  1)  shows  the  types  of  problems  mentioned  by   respondents,  separated  by  gender.       Keywords: comments; online; survey

• RESISTING TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: THE DIGITAL SECURITY PRACTICES OF DIASPORA AND EXILED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS by Michaelsen, Marcus (2020.0) - It moves beyond the focus mere technical solutions to online threats in order to consider the broader human and behavioral factors shaping practices of privacy protection and digital security. In turn, activists feel more empowered and resilient when they have close ties to local and global networks for incident response, support, and information sharing on digital security. Keywords: activists; digital; rights; security
• IS THERE A TEMPLATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM? – A STUDY OF UGANDAN LGBT+ ORGANIZATIONS’ DIGITAL SPACES by Strand, Cecilia Karolina; Svensson, Jakob (2023.0) - Against this backdrop of decades of state-sponsored homophobia, and more recent intensified attention from conservative transnational norm entrepreneurs in partnership with local partners, as well as contemporary LGBT+ inclusive actors’ norms diffusion; this study seeks to explore if and how Ugandan LGBT+ organizations working towards equal rights for individuals with non-conforming sexualities and/or expression of gender identities, take advantages of digital media’s affordances of unrestricted voice-giving. Six Ugandan LGBT+ organizations met the criteria. Keywords: development; lgbt+; organizations; rights; ugandan
• The DMCA Rulemaking and Digital Legal Vernaculars by Conti, Olivia G (2016.0) - A common theme that I have found throughout my work on digital rights is the discursive evolution of technological principles (like DRM) into rights issues, a process that is certainly evident in the DMCA proceedings. However, given that the Rulemaking process is grounded in U.S. law, the commenters also assert a sort of “dual citizenship,” invoking their rights as Americans alongside their fundamental mistrust of the United States government and their unshakeable faith in the forward march of digital progress. Keywords: dmca; process; rights; rulemaking

• LABOUR AND DIGITIZATION by Barnett, Tully (2019.0) - Notions of the particularities of digital labour of all kinds are central to developing a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of digital cultural objects, both born-digital and digitized. Using Google Books as a case study, this paper argues that increasingly digitized cultural experiences need to take into account the broader conditions behind the production of cultural infrastructure. Keywords: digital; digitization; google; infrastructure; labour
• GOING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION: CRITICAL ARTS-BASED APPROACHES TO GOOGLE MAPS by Noone, Rebecca (2020.0) - I then mapped this empirical research onto a discourse analysis of Google’s own discursive framing of Google Maps evidenced through its application, its web presence, and its developer conference, I/O. I looked at street-level wayfinding the context of this rhetoric through the lens of Sara Ahmed’s (2006) theorizing on orientation as actions made in relation power. As the city was made legible in these moments, I noted how informants were locating themselves in techno-imaginaries of Google Maps evident through phases like: “thank goodness for Google” or “I just put on Google Maps and I go” or “It’s my favourite app because I’m obsessed with finding the best way.” Keywords: directions; google; maps; wayfinding
• DECOUPLING AS RHETORICAL STRATEGY IN GOOGLE’S GREEN DISCOURSE by Riemens, Rianne (2021.0) - Through decoupling, Google is able to present its wish to save ‘nature’ without discussing its use of nature, thus legitimating green platform capitalism. I add that decoupling, as example of divisio, reflects the rhetoric function of visuals and text to direct the connections readers make, in this case between Google and the climate crisis (Greenwood et al., 2019). Keywords: climate; crisis; decoupling; google
• ‘SORT BY RELEVANCE’ – WHOSE RELEVANCE? A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF ALGORITHM-MEDIATED ACADEMIC LITERATURE SEARCHES by Jordan, Katy (2023.0) - For example, following in the wake of its market dominance as a search engine, Google Scholar is an extremely popular way of searching the academic literature, and uses an algorithm to determine the order in which search results are presented: “Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.” While Google Scholar has received a great deal of research attention in the bibliometric field, studies have more frequently focused upon questions relating to the size and coverage of the database, and reliability of citation counts. Keywords: google; literature; relevance; scholar
• GEOGRAPHIES OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY: PROTOTYPING EXPLORATION, EXPERIENCE, AND ACCESS by Noone, Rebecca (2023.0) - PROTOTYPING EXPLORATION, EXPERIENCE, AND ACCESS Rebecca Noone University College London Introduction Scrolling through Google Maps application or website, it is difficult to avoid Google Maps’ hallmark promises of explore and experience. What these critical modes of access demonstrate are the hard limits to Google Maps view of “the universal” and how geographically insufficient Google Maps is in the face of all the radical spatial practices beyond the map. Keywords: access; experience; google; maps
• AN IMAGINARY ALGORITHMIC PUBLIC: HOW MEDIA REPORT ON SEARCH QUERY METRICS  by Jobin, Anna (2015.0) - Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 AN IMAGINARY ALGORITHMIC PUBLIC: HOW MEDIA REPORT ON SEARCH QUERY METRICS Anna Jobin University of Lausanne Abstract Web search engines provide search query metrics in different formats for different audi- ences, notably annual search query statistics by country, which are often reported on by traditional media outlets. An imaginary algorithmic public: how media report on search query metrics. Keywords: google; media; query; search; year
• “NO OVERLY SUGGESTIVE PHOTOS OF ANY KIND”: TECHNICS AND NORMATIVITY IN SOCIAL NETWORK CONTENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES by Roth, Yoel (2014.0) - In evaluating the relationship between policy and practice on these services, this study outlines both a model of content policies as their most specific, as well as a model for how the relationship between technical systems and subcultural practice should be conceptualized. Framing content management policies as derived from the technical rules of platforms like Apple’s App Store obscures normative judgements about proper self-presentation and community formation. Keywords: apple; content; google; policies
• Google Books as Infrastructure of In/Justice by Hoffmann, Anthony L (2013.0) - Employing a practice-dependent account of social justice informed by the concept of “infrastructural inversion” (Bowker, 1994), this paper examines the interdependence between technologies and social practices organized by Google and inquires whether or not the “egalitarianism of information” touted by Google is rendered possible by the sociotechnical relations it mobilizes. A focus on infrastructure, the author argues, allows a close examination of the interdependence between technologies, individuals and social practices mobilized by the Google Books project. Keywords: books; google; infrastructure; justice; practice

• “CLIMATE JUSTICE IS RACIAL JUSTICE”: THE YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT AND INTERSECTIONAL MEDIA ORGANIZING IN AN ALGORITHMIC SOCIETY by Lee, Ashley (2021.0) - As youth organizing come to rely more on the digital space, what challenges do platforms and algorithms introduce for youth climate activists? As youth movements come to depend heavily on the digital space, social media platforms and their algorithms may further complicate young people’s ability to exercise political power. Keywords: climate; media; movement; youth
• “Is There Anything Else You Would Like to Share?”: Methods to Support Teen Agency by Magee, Rachel M. (2013.0) - This rises from multiple perceptions, including the difficulty of working with ethics review boards to achieve approval for study with youth (Rode, 2009), or as critiqued by Amato and Ochiltree (1987), the developmental, experiential, or communicative skills of youth participants. Denver, USA 3 Conclusion As this work highlights, there are many opportunities to support the agency of teen participants. Keywords: experiences; methods; research; teens; youth

• 'FASCISM IS THE NEW HIP': ONLINE ANTI-PUBLICS AND POST-NORMATIVE DEMOCRACY by Davis, Mark Raymound (2019.0) - Examples are given of anti-public discourse used by white supremacist groups, ‘men’s rights’ groups, anti-climate science groups, neoreactionary groups, and extreme anti-vaccination groups, to demonstrate close similarities in their discourse. Such groups, I argue, can be understood as belonging to a loose-knit, diverse online ‘anti-public sphere’, populated by overlapping ‘anti-publics’ such as the ‘alt-right’, white supremacist groups, ‘men’s rights’ groups, anti-climate science groups, and ‘neoreactionary’ or ‘Dark Enlightenment’ groups, among others. Keywords: anti; groups; publics; right
• THINKING FOR THEMSELVES: EXAMINING THE REACTIONARY RIGHT'S "BOOTSTRAPS EPISTEMOLOGY" by Ma, Cindy (2023.0) - Thinking for themselves: Examining the reactionary right’s bootstraps epistemology. Just as the bootstraps narrative in politics argues that individuals have the duty to reject government “handouts” and improve their circumstances through hard work and thrift, bootstraps epistemology encourages people to reject dogma and instead pursue knowledge through solitary study and intellectual combat with opponents. Keywords: bootstraps; epistemology; media; right
• SUCCESS AS ANTITHETICAL TO SAFETY: RESEARCHING THE FAR RIGHT IN AN ACADEMIC CONTEXT by Vaughan, Antonia C (2023.0) - This paper critiques the broader environment researchers of the far right operate in, particularly focusing on the impact of digital presence and success metrics on researcher safety and wellbeing. Success metrics in academia, both of institutions and individual researchers, have increasingly moved towards emphasising impact, production, and efficiency. Keywords: right; safety; success

• FROM OPEN KNOWLEDGE SHARING TO SEMI-CLOSED GROUPING: THE EVOLUTION OF ACADEMIC SOCIAL MEDIA IN CHINA by Ren, Xiang (2019.0) - From open knowledge sharing to semi-closed grouping: The evolution of academic social media in China. On the other hand, Chinese technology companies have developed alternatives with vast amounts of users like WeChat and Weibo, which create a different system of academic social media, with different evolutionary trajectories and political economy (Yu, Asur, and Huberman, 2001). Keywords: china; knowledge; media; wechat
• CHINESE SMART CITY, AN ORGANIC ENTITY IN THE AGE OF AI: A GENEALOGY OF CHINESE SMART CITY METAPHORS by Shen, Jie (2025.0) - Chinese smart city serves as a microcosm of the nationwide intelligent infrastructure still underway in China. With the increasing integration of digital and intelligent technologies, such as AI, Chinese cities are evolving into smart cities with a new image. Keywords: china; cities; city; metaphor

• LAUGHTER OUT OF PLACE: AFFECTIVE HOMOPHILY AND THE ABSURD COMEDY OF #METOO by Sundén, Jenny ; Paasonen, Susanna (2019.0) - Starting from this scene of absurd laughter out of place, and the contagious energy that it involves, this paper investigates feminist humor as a strategy of resistance in connection with #MeToo, asking what laughter may do to, and in the affective politics driving the movement. Secondly, and as a counter force of sorts to such intense sameness, we open up the door to feminist humor in the absurd, something which traffics in the unreasonable, illogical, and inappropriate. Keywords: affective; feminist; humor; metoo
• THE PROS AND PERILS OF INTERDEPENDENCE: FEMINIST ORGANIZING IN ONLINE GAME FORUMS by Cote, Amanda Catharine (2021.0) - The pros and perils of interdependence: Feminist organizing in online game forums. Initial analysis focused on the top 100 posts per search term (600 total), coding each for the following variables: 1) relevance (e.g. a thread on toxic players would be relevant; a thread on a toxic waste environment in a game would not) 2) number of likes 3) number of comments 4) overall topic (e.g. venting, sexism, news, meme, etc.; up to three labels/post) Given the sensitive nature of conversations about harassment, the searchability of online forums, and in line with ethical guidelines for internet research (e.g. Franzke et al., 2020), I am choosing not to identify the specific forums or quote from them directly. Keywords: female; feminist; forums; online
• #AVERAGEYETCONFIDENTMEN: CHINESE STAND-UP COMEDY AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE ON DOUYIN by Meng, Xingyuan; Literat, Ioana (2023.0) - Whereas in traditional Chinese forms of comedy like sketch shows or crosstalk, women have typically been the butt of the joke, stand-up comedy—a Western performance genre that has recently seen surging popularity—has given Chinese female comedians a space to push back against dominant gender stereotypes. Their performances have received intense attention and circulation online, becoming trending topics on Chinese social media. Keywords: chinese; comedians; comedy; douyin; feminist

• Share! Like! Create! How Fan Labor Is Cultivated And Practiced In The Contemporary Music Industry by Ryan Bengtsson, Linda; Fast, Karin; Ferrer Cornill, Raul (2017.0) - This paper explores how music consumers perform and act within music marketing campaigns, posing the question: How do music consumers navigate across the transmediascapes constituted by marketing campaigns? Spatial metaphors offer both a way to represent and visualize the movements of the consumers, as well as to understand how marketing campaigns construct immersive worlds where free labor is promoted and exploited. Keywords: campaign; marketing; media; music
• SPOTIFY AND NETFLIX AS INNOVATIONS: STREAMING MEDIA HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF INNOVATION THEORY by Fagerjord, Anders (2019.0) - These differences can be seen in the different kinds of offering in different services: Music services have comprehensive, and quite similar catalogues, while television and film sites compete with unique material. Spotify and Netflix as Innovations: Streaming Media History in light of Innovation Theory. Keywords: innovation; music; new; streaming
• CONVENIENCE TRUMPS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTING CONTINUED INTENTION TO USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES by Lüders, Marika (2019.0) - Convenience trumps algorithms: predicting continued intention to use music streaming services. CONVENIENCE TRUMPS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTING CONTINUED INTENTION TO USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES Marika Lüders Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway A decade after the launch of Spotify, music streaming services (MSS) have become a default way of listening to music. Keywords: music; services; streaming; value
• MUSICAL RECYCLING: MASHUP AESTHETICS AND AUTHORSHIP by Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild (2016.0) - While mashup music continues to increase in relative ubiquity and variety, its practice is generally characterized by the extensive use of samples from popular recordings, according to the principle that those samples reveal themselves as samples to the informed listener. Mashup music is also banned from the commercial marketplace due to its much-disputed legal status, though there have been, to date, no verdicts against mashup music in court. Keywords: copyright; mashup; music; new

• WATCHING THE WATCHDOG: ONLINE DISCOURSES ABOUT MEDIA FRAUDS by Eberwein, Tobias (2020.0) - While an extensive literature review and 13 problem-centered interviews with journalistic storytellers are helpful to highlight and systematize the specific benefits and the ethical challenges of narrative journalism in the German-speaking world and beyond, a comparative analysis of the discourses about the Relotius case in professional journalistic online media, on the one hand, and non-professional media watchblogs, on the other hand, makes it possible to juxtapose different attributions of responsibility and suggested consequences for practical journalism. Public discussions about the mandate of narrative journalism are often triggered by fraud scandals such as the ones provoked by pseudo-reporters Janet Cooke or Jayson Blair in the U.S., and Tom Kummer or Claas Relotius in the German-speaking world (e.g., Jones Patterson & Urbanski 2006; Reus 2004). Keywords: journalism; media; narrative; relotius
• TAKING INTERDEPENDENCIES SERIOUSLY: THE CASE OF MOZILLA’S ENTANGLEMENTS WITH JOURNALISM by Baack, Stefan; Conill, Raul Ferrer; Cheruiyot, David (2021.0) - The interviews were conducted online and lasted between 30 minutes and one hour.1 Interviewees were selected based on their role in Mozilla projects with clear connections to journalism. Researching how digital journalism is changing due to the influence of online non-journalistic actors is important, but doing so exclusively (or primarily) takes a reductionist view of the much more complex interdependencies between journalism and other actors. Keywords: interdependencies; journalism; manifesto; mozilla
• THE LIMITS OF FACT CHECKING: EIGHT NOTES ON CONSENSUS REALITY by Vinhas, Otávio; Bastos, Marco (2021.0) - Conclusion We reviewed the literature in the area and argued that the central problem with fact- checking is the premise that false information can be offset with more information and that facts are events universally agreed upon. THE LIMITS OF FACT-CHECKING: EIGHT NOTES ON CONSENSUS REALITY Otávio Vinhas University College Dublin Marco Bastos University College Dublin; City, University of London Introduction Considerable efforts and resources have been allocated to the fact-checking industry as a potential solution to correcting prior knowledge and offsetting the upsurge in hyper- partisanship that nurtures misinformation (Marietta & Barker, 2019). Keywords: checking; fact; journalism; misinformation
• “I LOVE THIS PHOTO! I CAN FEEL THEIR HEARTS”. HOW USERS ACROSS THE WORLD EVALUATE SOCIAL MEDIA PORTRAITURE by Trillò, Tommaso; Hallinan, Blake; Green, Avishai; Kim, Bumsoo; Mizoroki, Saki; Scharlach, Rebecca; Frosh, Paul; Shifman, Limor (2023.0) - HOW USERS ACROSS THE WORLD EVALUATE SOCIAL MEDIA PORTRAITURE Tommaso Trillò Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Blake Hallinan Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Avishai Green Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bumsoo Kim Department of Media & Communication, Pusan National University Saki Mizoroki Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rebecca Scharlach Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Paul Frosh Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Limor Shifman Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Abstract Personal portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. We thus ask: What values do people identify in different types of social media portraits? Keywords: journalism
• COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN JOURNALISM: THE CONFLICT AND THE INTERPLAY OF THE LOGIC OF THE CROWD AND THE LOGIC OF JOURNALISM by Aitamurto, Tanja (2015.0) - The readers were asked to share their knowledge, experience, and expertise as bases for stories, which were then written by professional journalists. The cases include several instances, in which professional journalists crowdsourced knowledge for articles in established publications. Keywords: crowd; intelligence; journalism; logic; stories
• Sourcing and engaging the crowd: Audience interaction and participation in online-only slow journalism platforms by Knaudt, Lena; Siebe, Renske; Harbers, Frank; Graham, Todd (2016.0) - And  how  do  journalists   and  the  audience  together  negotiate  journalism’s  quality  standards  in  their  interaction?   Consequently,  the  exchange  between  newspaper  staff  and  audience  is  usually   given  a  low  priority,  which  means  that  journalists  often  lack  the  motivation  as  well  as  the   time  to  engage  more  with  the  public  (Canter  2013).       Keywords: audience; journalism; quality
• Writing for Old and New Media: A Natural Experiment by Bode, Leticia (2013.0) - While a growing number of scholars are pursuing questions of content across medium (Lee 2007, Baum and Groeling 2008, Haynes and Pitts 2009, Bode and Hennings 2012), these are generally restricted to particular subject, and often to online media only. Research on online political news coverage and blogs, for example, shows that users of online media are influenced in different ways as compared with traditional media like newspapers and television (Atkinson 2007, Johnson and Kaye 2004). Keywords: content; journalism; media; online

• PROTOTYPING AN EDTECH ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: TOWARDS TECHNICAL DEMOCRACY by Witzenberger, Kevin; Swist, Teresa; Gulson, Kalervo (2025.0) - Prototyping an EdTech Assessment Toolkit: Towards technical democracy. When we refer to technical democracy, we mean attempts to include, activate, and mobilise ordinary citizens into the development and implementation of emerging information technologies (such as teachers into the implementation of AI products in school) through collective forms of experimentation (Callon et al., 2011). Keywords: edtech; education; issues; toolkit
• The Forum, the Sardine Can and the Fake: contesting, adapting and practicing the Massive Open Online Course. by Knox, Jeremy Keith (2013.0) - A student review, posted online during the course, described E-learning and Digital Cultures as analogous to a ‘sardine can’ that had been smuggled into an art gallery to fool the unsuspecting visitors. In addition to specific content from E-learning and Digital Cultures, this section will draw upon promotional material from MOOC providers and example video lectures and assessment exercises from a number of Coursera MOOCs. Keywords: course; education; learning; mooc; university

• ACTIVIST BROWSER EXTENSIONS AS INTERFACE DÉTOURNEMENT: REMINDING, COPING, AND INFRASTRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT by Cao, Tiancheng (2020.0) - Activist browser extensions as interface détournement: Reminding, coping, and infrastructural alignment. “Activist extensions” disrupt a webpage’s intended use and redirect users’ attention by modifying textual, visual, or auditory elements of the web user interface. Keywords: activist; browser; extensions; interface
• TOWARDS AN INFRASTRUCTURE-BASED SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY PRACTICES: THE 'PILOT CASE' OF RUSSIA by Musiani, Francesca (2021.0) - Learn more Safari Opera Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• MEMEING AGAINST MAINSTREAM. AN ANALYSIS OF DANK MEMES AND THE PICTORIAL (COUNTER-)PRACTICES OF MEME CULTURE by Pauliks, Kevin (2021.0) - Learn more Microsoft Edge Safari Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Opera Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• KNOW YOUR MEME AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF WEB HISTORY by Pettis, Ben (2021.0) - Learn more Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AS A PRACTICE OF RESISTANCE TO ALGORITHMS by Pronzato, Riccardo (2021.0) - Learn more Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Safari Opera Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• THE QUANTUM STATE OF INFRASTRUCTURE RECONFIGURATION IN 5G by ten Oever, Niels (2021.0) - Learn more Safari Google Chrome Opera Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• EVERYDAY DATA CULTURES by Albury, Kath; Burgess, Jean; Kaye, Bondy; McCosker, Anthony; Kennedy, Jenny; Wilken, Rowan (2021.0) - Learn more Opera Safari Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• ‘FAKE NEWS’ AND OTHER PROBLEMATIC INFORMATION: STUDYING DISSEMINATION AND DISCOURSE PATTERNS by Angus, Daniel; Bruns, Axel; Hurcombe, Edward; Harrington, Stephen; Glazunova, Sofya; Montaña-Niño, Sílvia Ximena; Obeid, Abdul; Coulibaly, Souleymane; Copland, Simon; Graham, Timothy; Wright, Scott; Dehghan, Ehsan (2021.0) - Learn more Opera Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• AUSTRALIA’S BIG GAMBLE: THE NEWS MEDIA BARGAINING CODE AND THE RESPONSES FROM GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK by Bruns, Axel; Bailo, Francesco; Meese, James; Hurcombe, Edward; Leaver, Tama; Barnet, Belinda; Angus, Daniel (2021.0) - Learn more Google Chrome Safari Microsoft Edge Opera Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• PLATFORMISATION OF RIDE HAILING, FOOD DELIVERY AND DOMESTIC WORK SERVICES IN URBAN INDIA by Lalvani, Simiran; Zia, Sarah; Gupta, Anushree; Rathi, Aayush (2021.0) - Learn more Safari Opera Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• THE CONVERSATION, TEN YEARS ON: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A UNIQUE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING INITIATIVE by Riedlinger, Michelle; Fleerackers, Alice; Bruns, Axel; Burgess, Jean; Guenther, Lars; Joubert, Marina; Osman, Kim (2021.0) - Learn more Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Opera Mozilla Firefox Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• NEOLIBERAL CARTOGRAPHY: A VISUAL-SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THREE NAVIGATION APPS by Baum, Igal; Ribak, Rivka (2021.0) - Learn more Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• GEOPOLITICS IN THE INFRASTRUCTURAL IDEOLOGIES OF 5G by Dunajcsik, Peter 'Maxigas'; ten Oever, Niels (2021.0) - Learn more Safari Opera Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• RURAL DATA DIVIDES: CRITICAL FACTORS OF DIGITAL AGTECH ADOPTION ON AUSTRALIAN FARMS by Marshall, Amber; Turner, Krystle; Richards, Carol; Foth, Marcus; Dezuanni, Michael (2021.0) - Learn more Opera Safari Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Keywords: browser
• CART NARCS AND THE ENGINEERING OF SOCIAL SHAMING AS ENTERTAINMENT by Reynolds, CJ; John, Nicholas (2021.0) - Learn more Mozilla Firefox Safari Opera Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• LOCALIZING CONTENT MODERATION: APPROACHING THE ORIENTATIONAL SPACES OF FACEBOOK GROUP ADMINS AND MODS by Rodgers, Scott; McLoughlin, Liam; Ballatore, Andrea; Moore, Susan (2021.0) - Learn more Opera Safari Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Keywords: browser
• CROSS-CULTURAL STORYTELLING APPROACHES IN TIKTOK'S MUSIC CHALLENGES by Vizcaíno-Verdú, Arantxa; Abidin, Crystal (2021.0) - Learn more Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• DECLARATIONS OF INTERDEPENDENCE: HOW MEDIA LITERACY PRACTICES ARE DEVELOPED, NEGOTIATED, REJECTED, AND EXPLOITED ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS by Lim, Elisha; Sipley, Gina Marie ; Mohamed, Ladan Siad ; Tripodi, Francesca Bolla Tripodi; Perez, Vincente (2021.0) - Learn more Safari Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Opera Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser
• COLONIALISM, INDEPENDENCE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY by Toupin, Sophie ; Nikoi, Nii Kotei Nikoi; Mare, Admire ; Willems, Wendy (2021.0) - Learn more Opera Safari Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety © 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Keywords: browser

• National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation by Koltsova, Olessia; Koltcov, Sergey; Nikolenko, Sergel; Alexeeva, Svetlana; Nagorny, Oleg (2017.0) - Method for automatic detection of attitudes We therefore make a sample where we overrepresent rare ethnic groups and obtain 7,181 texts with most ethnic groups represented by 75 texts. We therefore limit our research to ethnic groups “indigenous” to post-Soviet space. Keywords: ethnicity; groups; russian
• OBSERVING THE TECH, USING MEETUP DATA TO STUDY THE EVOLUTION OF THE DISCOURSE AROUND IOT by Rossi, Luca ; Magnani, Matteo; Vega D'aurelio, Davide; Hanteer, Obaida (2019.0) - Geographical distribution of IoT groups in Europe (size represent the number of members) Figure 2. Keyword used to describe the related interests of IoT groups over the years The presented visualizations offer a glimpse of the possible analysis that can be done on the longitudinal evolution of the IoT space using MeetUp data. Keywords: groups; iot; meetup
• VOICES FROM THE LOCKER ROOM: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOICE MESSAGES WITHIN ITALIAN NSFW GROUPS. by Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Brilli, Stefano; Zurovac, Elisabetta (2020.0) - Voices from the locker room: a qualitative analysis of voice messages within Italian NSFW groups. However, besides the risks related to the growing number of spaces eluding public scrutiny, the pervasive presence of IMs shows also that interactions with a higher level of self-disclosure such as voice messages are spreading as well through different platforms (i.e. WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat). Keywords: groups; messages; research; voice
• THERE ARE MALE TEARS IN THAT COMMENT SECTION. THE DISCURSIVE NEGOTIATION OF MASCULINITY IN ITALIAN ONLINE MEN'S GROUPS by Farci, Manolo (2020.0) - Anti-sexist, anti-feminist, and “pro male” groups give the chance to understand how men dispute and negotiate opinions, beliefs and world views in an attempt to destabilize and/or reaffirm essentialist notions of what is culturally allowed in terms of being man and being woman in our society Our findings suggest that in these groups, masculinity is rarely negotiated or discussed but it is assumed as a common sense, providing a basis for shared social understandings. A discursive psychological framework for analyzing men and masculinities. Keywords: discourses; groups; masculinity; men
• THE ‘SEARCH-FOR METHOD’: EXAMINING INSTANCES OF SUPPORT IN FACEBOOK GROUPS FOR DONOR-CONCEIVED PEOPLE by Newton, Giselle (2020.0) - While donor-conceived members of Facebook groups have diverse needs, common concerns that arise in Facebook groups for donor-conceived people include queries about how to find donors or donor siblings, how to interpret DNA connections from commercial DNA testing platforms, how to navigate relationships with newfound genetic relatives and how to reform policy and legislation on donor conception. Within the field of donor conception, recent studies have explored how media platforms are being used to link donor siblings through donor sibling registries (Hertz & Nelson, 2018) and Facebook groups for mothers of donor-conceived children (Andreassen, 2018). Keywords: donor; groups; method
• SEARCHING FOR (AND FINDING) NEOCOLONIAL FANTASIES: SEXUALIZATION OF WOMEN FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE GLOBAL EAST IN GOOGLE'S TEXT SEARCH RESULTS by Urman, Aleksandra; Makhortykh, Mykola (2023.0) - While this important work has examined representations of different ethnic groups in text search results, this examination was focused on the Global North context. Research Questions We address the following Research Questions: RQ1: Is there evidence of sexualization of different groups in sponsored search results? RQ2: Keywords: global; groups; results; search
• EQUALITY THROUGH EXCLUSION? TOWARDS A NEW CONCEPTUALIZATION OF DEMOCRATIC EXCLUSION IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL PUBLIC VENUES by Holm, Malin Charlotte (2023.0) - However, the dramatic consequences of the rapid development of digital public venues for democratic processes and practices show the urgent need for also analysing when and how the access to public venues needs to be limited or even denied. Nevertheless, we lack systematic studies of how digital public venues should be governed to protect – rather than undermine – democratic values through exclusion. Keywords: exclusion; groups; online; venues
• Who has the right to speak? The role of social media in spreading dissent among anti-nuclear groups in post 3-11Japan by Tamura, Takanori; Hamada, Tadahisa (2013.0) - One reasons for this lack of unity is the contention around “who has legitimacy to assert opinions about the matter” (in Japanese, tōjisha). However, the premise of solidarity was shown to be somewhat fragile as conflict began to arise not only between tōjisha and hi-tōjisha (non-tōjisha) but also among tōjisha themselves. Keywords: groups; japan; mcan; media; tōjisha

• FROM USER GENERATED CONTENT TO A USER GENERATED AESTHETIC: INSTAGRAM, BRANDS AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY by Simatzkin-Ohana, Liron; Frosh, Paul (2020.0) - Overall, our project highlights the aesthetic vernacularization of brand images on social media and the adoption by brands of amateur styles associated with user-generated content. We take fashion brands on Instagram as our case study for two reasons: first, fashion photography is strongly connected to overt professional stylization; second, fashion can be seen as structurally definitive of consumer society in general (Lipovetsky, 1994). Keywords: brands; media; new; user

• Religious Narratives And Networked Learning Spaces: Using Blogs To Connect Individuals To History by Williamson, George S.; Dennen, Vanessa (2017.0) - The instructor used edublogs to create student blogs that would not be indexed with pseudonyms for each student author. Four types of data were collected for this study, student blogs, student grades, an end-of-term survey (completed by 25/73.5% of the students), and instructor reflections. Keywords: blogs; course; learning; students
• VIRTUAL LEARNING AFFORDANCES AND IDENTITY: A CASE STUDY by Cirucci, Angela M (2021.0) - While how to engage students online is a popular topic of study, largely left out are the ways in which the VLEs themselves have implications for student identity maintenance and, consequently, learning quality. Indeed, social media apps allow students to craft identities and edit before posting; but VLEs, although borrowing some social media functionalities, place students in new, live contexts. Keywords: learning; media; students; zoom
• OPEN PEDAGOGY: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN TEACHING ABOUT NEW MEDIA by Cuillier, Cheryl; Daly, Diana (2021.0) - Research on open pedagogy is growing, although studies of student experiences with open pedagogy are limited (Baran & AlZoubi, 2020; Hilton et al., 2019; Hollister, 2020). Whether students prefer this type of open pedagogy project to traditional learning activities (e.g., writing papers, taking quizzes). Keywords: learning; open; pedagogy; students
• THE POLITICS OF MACHINE-LEARNING EVALUATION: FROM LAB TO INDUSTRY by Luitse, Dieuwertje Maria Rebecca; Schjøtt Hansen, Anna (2025.0) - Taking a Critical AI Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS) research approach, we outline how to study what we call industrialised accounts of AI evaluation beyond the laboratory. Concretely, we present three analytical entry points that address the sociotechnical and political nature of AI evaluation. Keywords: development; evaluation; learning; machine
• CONNECTING BADGES: EXPLORING THE UTILITY OF DIGITAL BADGES FOR LEARNING IN AFFINITY SPACES by Duncan, Sean; Huang, Joey (2015.0) - Supplementary interviews were conducted with members of each affinity space in order to capture first-person accounts of digital badge considerations, as well as the ways that individuals within affinity spaces conceived of the social practices within each space. While some have advocated for the implementation of digital badges in order to better credentialize, assess, and promote informal learning practices online, there has been very little study of how current, non-educational badging (and other recognition systems) may impact activities within existing online spaces (if at all). Keywords: affinity; badges; learning; online; spaces

• PERFORMATIVE MEDIA POLICY: SECTION 230’S EVOLUTION FROM FOOTNOTE TO LOYALTY OATH by Sinnreich, Aram; Aufderheide, Patricia; Perry, Neil W. (2021.0) - Thus, legislators who propose amending Section 230, though they may not understand how the law actually works, let alone the broader implications of changing it, are nonetheless cognizant that the social media attention such bills garner help to advertise their loyalty to Trump among core constituents. Thus, while benefiting financially from their role at the nexus of the new digital public sphere, social media platforms have also been subject to increasing pressure in threading the needle between their telecommunications and traditional media functions, with calls from both sides of the political aisle to both increase and decrease the role they play in actively mediating the flow of information through their networks (Gillespie, et al, 2020). Keywords: bills; media; policy; section
• The Onlife Manifesto: rethinking the human condition in a hyperconnected era by Dewandre, Nicole (2013.0) - From that basis, I have set up the Onlife Initiative4, which has gathered 12 scholars5 for a one-year collective thought process, around a background note6 calling for the need to re-engineer the concepts on which policy frameworks rely. They are deeply inspired both by my professional experience, as policy maker, and by Hannah Arendt’s work. Keywords: arendt; making; new; policy

• THE STREAMYARD CYPHERS: ONLINE PLACE-MAKING WITHIN AN INDIAN HIP HOP COMMUNITY by Sarkar, Pradip Kiran (2021.0) - The first online cypher was held in June, 2020, but owing to infrastructural challenges associated with Internet bandwidth and latency (Hammar and Marshall 2020), the cyphers were replaced with online discussion sessions that took place every Sunday. Moreover, the simplicity of Streamyard’s user interfaces and widespread familiarity with Facebook and YouTube aligned with the plain look-and-feel, or low profile, aspect of third places. Keywords: cyphers; hip; hop; oldenberg; place; streamyard
• STREAMING SMALL SHARED SPACES: EXPLORING THE CONNECTEDNESS OF THE PHYSICAL SPACES OF MICROSTREAMERS AND THEIR AUDIENCE by Phelps, Andrew; Consalvo, Mia; Bowman, Nicholas; Smyth, Samuel (2021.0) - Unlike the performative nature of professional streams (Ruberg & Lark, 2020), microstreamers stream from their intimate and “lived in” first places. This study more closely considers microstreamers through the lens of shared space—considering both the elements displayed on-camera and how those elements might impact how audiences interpret the experience. Keywords: microstreamers; place; spaces; streaming
• An inappropriate sense of place by Mortensen, Torill Elvira (2013.0) - This discussion reactivates his understanding of how media changes society, while it underlines the extent to which digital media have changed society. Since then print and electronic media have converged in and been altered by digital media, and the sense of place has changed. Keywords: grandma; media; meyrowitz; place

• FROM DEVELOPMENT TO DEPLOYMENT: FOR A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ETHICS OF AI AND LABOUR by Posada, Julian (2020.0) - Recent studies on the impact of AI deployment in traditional workplaces raise several concerns that are, in many cases, discussed in the ethical record of AI systems. By development, this paper refers to the processes of creating, sustaining, and maintaining AI systems. Keywords: deployment; development; labour
• RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN: REMIX AND CO-OPTION IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRY by Delfanti, Alessandro; Phan, Michelle (2021.0) - The commodification of Black cultural labour is not novel. To fulfill this necessity, creative labour is fostered, datafied and quantified into order to be made productive. Keywords: labour; media; remix; rip
• “OH, YOU MEAN… GAY?”: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS by Kelly, Anthony Patrick (2025.0) - “Oh, you mean… gay?”: Relational labour and the industrial articulation of hegemonic masculinity by Andrew Tate and his followers. “OH, YOU MEAN… GAY?”: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS Anthony Patrick Kelly University College Dublin Introduction This paper examines how the figures and imaginaries of hegemonic masculinity are co- produced and contested among a reactionary influencer fandom. Keywords: influencer; labour; masculinity; media; tate
• “MY MARXIST FEMINIST DIALECTIC BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD”: WHAT MARXIST FEMINIST THEORY CAN TELL US ABOUT CONSUMER LABOUR IN DIGITAL MEDIA by Jarrett, Kylie (2014.0) - This paper will argue that a renewed emphasis on the particularity of domestic labour is essential to a more complete understanding of how consumer labour is implicated in capitalism. “My Marxist feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard”: What Marxist feminist theory can tell us about consumer labour in digital media. Keywords: digital; labour; marxist; media

• Digital scholarship and the social network site: How academics conceptualise their networks on academic social network sites and Twitter by Jordan, Katy (2016.0) - DIGITAL  SCHOLARSHIP  AND  THE  SOCIAL  NETWORKING  SITE:  HOW   ACADEMICS  CONCEPTUALISE  THEIR  NETWORKS  ON  ACADEMIC   SOCIAL  NETWORKING  SITES  AND  TWITTER   Katy  Jordan   Institute  of  Educational  Technology,  The  Open  University,  UK     Background     Academic  social  networking  sites  (SNS)  seek  to  bring  the  benefits  of  online  networking   to  an  explicitly  academic  audience.   Network  analysis  showed  that  the  structure  of  academics’  ego-­networks  differs   according  to  platform  (Jordan,  forthcoming);;  discussing  the  structures  with  participants   uncovered  reasons  behind  the  structural  differences. Keywords: academic; networks; sns

• MEDIATED DEATH AND DIGITAL MARTYRDOM: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCHERS by Lewis, Kelly Marie (2018.0) - This ethical imperative is of particular importance for visual social media research that extends beyond a Western context and considers the cross-cultural, transnational dimensions of memetic protest. I argue a new form of martyrdom has emerged post the 2010-11 Egyptian uprisings: one that is digitally mediated by individuals through the affordances of visual social media and digital technologies; has given rise to new performative rituals of witnessing and commemoration; offers new possibilities for popular political participation and expression; and challenges the dominant ways of doing politics online. Keywords: death; digital; media
• A HAUNTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MEMORIALIZATION OF THE DEAD by O'Connell, Carrie (2018.0) - During the 19th century-- arguably the last time an epochal evolution of media technology occurred--fascination with ghost-themed theatre, poetry, and literature (not so) coincidentally paralleled a rise in new technologies that forever changed both the way we preserve and chronicle our human existence, as well as the manner in which we socially engage with our fellow humans, mass culture, and the artefacts of that mass society due to those new technologies. Advances in media technologies provided new avenues for dyadic communication between living beings, yet forced a re-evaluation of concepts like distance and temporal synchronicity in regards to those relationships. Keywords: death; media; new
• DYING AND BEING DEAD IN XR: IMMERSIVE REHEARSALS OF DEATH; AFFECTIVE ARTEFACTS POST-LIFE by Heemsbergen, Luke; Hawker, Kiah; Meyrick, Tonya; Greuter, Stefan (2025.0) - We explore theorisation of two multi-site case studies of dying and being dead in Extended Reality (XR) to investigate immersive death experiences facilitated by these media. Re-feminizing death: Gender, spirituality and death care in the anthropocene. Keywords: death; dying; reality
• DEAD ONLINE: PRACTICES OF POST-MORTEM DIGITAL INTERACTION by Kiel, Paula (2015.0) - Most recently, digital platforms such as www.deadsoci.al, www.lifenaut.com and www.liveson.org, open up new possibilities for post-mortem forms of interaction that potentially allow an active participation of the dead through digital media. The aim of this section is to provide an analysis of available platforms designed to enable post-mortem digital interaction. Keywords: death; digital; interaction; post
• SELFIES AT FUNERALS: REMEDIATING RITUALS OF MOURNING by Gibbs, Martin; Nansen, Bjorn; Carter, Marcus; Kohn, Tamara (2014.0) - Contextualizing the culture of funeral selfies Others frame the problem more broadly to suggest it is not simply a product of youth, but rather belongs to a contemporary western and increasingly secularized culture that has disengaged from death and emptied the grieving process of established rituals: “Our cultural traditions have failed them, and selfies at funerals are one of their only outlets to ritual and mourning in the age of the smartphone” (Doughty 2013). Given the waning of institutionalized mourning rituals in contemporary western societies (Margry & Sánchez-Carretero 2011; Wouters 2002), disentangling the vitriol from the vernacular in expressions of digital culture are needed if we are to adequately comprehend how funeral rituals are being remediated. Keywords: death; funerals; media; mourning; selfies
• The emerging practices of the collective afterlife: multimodal analysis of websites for post-mortem digital interaction by Kiel, Paula (2016.0) - The  emerging  practices  of  the  collective  afterlife:  Multimodal  analysis  of   websites  for  post-­mortem  digital  interaction.   THE  EMERGING  PRACTICES  OF  THE  COLLECTIVE  AFTERLIFE:   MULTIMODAL  ANALYSIS  OF  WEBSITES  FOR  POST-­MORTEM   DIGITAL  INTERACTION   Paula  Kiel   London  School  of  Economics  and  Political  Science     Introduction     This  paper  offers  to  deploy  Scheffler’s  notion  of  the  collective  afterlife  in  order  to   conceptualize  and  explore  newly  emerging  websites  enabling  the  planning  and   preparing  of  post-­mortem  online  interactions. Keywords: afterlife; death; websites

• APP IMPERIALISM: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CANADIAN APP STORE by Nieborg, David; Young, Chris; Joseph, Daniel (2018.0) - Our aim is to determine if Canadian app developers are effective in creating economic value, which we measure as the ability to generate revenue, within their own national App Store. Therefore, we analyze the plight of Canadian app developers. Keywords: app; canadian; developers; store

• BOTS AMONG US: PREVALENCE, INFLUENCE, AND ROLES OF AUTOMATED ACCOUNTS IN THE GERMAN TWITTER FOLLOW NETWORK by Münch, Felix Victor; Puschmann, Cornelius; Thies, Ben; Bruns, Axel (2019.0) - To address this gap, we present what to our knowledge is the first study that assesses the prevalence, influence, and roles of automated accounts in a Twitter follow network on a national scale: the German-speaking Twittersphere. ​Bots among us: prevalence, influence and role of automated accounts in the German Twitter follow network​. Paper presented at AoIR 2019: Keywords: accounts; bots; figure; german; sample
• THANKS SVETLANA: PRIVACY, TRUST, HUMOR, AND THE RUSSIAN PSYOP ON TUMBLR by Neill Hoch, Indira (2019.0) - good for them when i see them on my dash theyve all become part of the landscape of my dash Tumblr users who had followed, liked, and/or reblogged posts from IRA-linked accounts were assured in the March 24th email they weren’t “in trouble,” and that they didn’t “need to take any action if you don’t want to.” Tumblr users responded to the reveal of the Russian “Psyop” with a mix of disbelief, humor, and accusations. Keywords: accounts; ira; posts; tumblr
• MISINFORMATION OR ACTIVISM: MAPPING NETWORKED MORAL PANIC THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF #SAVETHECHILDREN by Moran, Rachel Elizabeth; Prochaska, Stephen; Schlegel, Isabelle; Hughes, Emelia May; Prout, Owen (2021.0) - Conspiracy accounts seemed wholly motivated by spreading their worldview, often using rhetoric that connected the #SaveTheChildren movement with specific QAnon conspiracy theories. Accordingly, it is a pertinent case study for understanding both the anatomy and consequences of networked social movements in an era of information disorder (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017). Keywords: accounts; misinformation; movement; qanon; savethechildren

• COMBINING MULTIPLE DISINFORMATION COUNTERMEASURES TO REGULATE ELECTION DISRUPTIONS: THE SOUTH KOREAN CASE by Ahn, Soyun (2020.0) - The South Korean Case South Korea is unique in that it has operated a system dealing with disinformation for over a decade now, and in that it has a system specifically dedicated for election protection. At the same time, this system has been criticized as largely discounting the freedom of speech in South Korea (Haggard & You, 2015). Keywords: disinformation; election; offenders; south
• PAYING RESPECTS, STREAMING AFFECT: ELECTION DAY 2016 AT SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S GRAVESITE by Butkowski, Chelsea Paige (2020.0) - In line with traditions of media events and media witnessing, I examine each of them. Media events: The live broadcasting of history. Keywords: anthony; election; livestream; media
• SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS AMID THE ELECTION EVERYDAY: DIGITAL BOUNDARIES AND DISRUPTION DURING THE 2020 U.S. ELECTION by Butkowski, Chelsea Paige (2023.0) - Social media feeds amid the election everyday: The internet and social media have contributed to collapsing abstract distinctions between personal or everyday life and political events, even amid democratic milestones (Highfield, 2016). Keywords: election; everyday; feeds; media
• SEEDING DOUBTS ABOUT VOTING BROADLY AND STRATEGICALLY: TRUMP AND BIDEN RHETORIC ONLINE IN THE 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION by Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Kim, Pyeonghwa; Khoury, Christy; McKernan, Brian; Hemsley, Jeff (2023.0) - During the general election, Trump’s ads and his social media accounts argued that absentee ballots were legitimate but “mail in” ballots were fraudulent. He described mail-in ballots as those automatically sent by state governments to all registered voters, as compared with absentee ballots where voters had to request a ballot to be sent to them. Keywords: ballots; election; trump

• RETHINKING VISIBILITY, PERSONALIZATION AND REPRESENTATION: DISABILITY ACTIVISM IN SOCIAL MEDIA by Bitman, Nomy (2021.0) - These narratives are generated using two central features of social media activism: visibility and personalization (Barrasi, 2018). These elements are not only essential to social media activism in general, but also may be conflictual for activists with concealable communicative disabilities, given their diverse functioning nature and the potential stigma. Keywords: activism; activists; disability; media

• CYBERHATE ANONYMITY AND THE RISK OF BEING EXPOSED by von Essen, Emma; Jansson, Joakim (2018.0) - Discussion Our study contributes to the current policy debates on how to combat online hate. Turning to the event, we find that an unexpected decrease in anonymity leads to a lower share of hateful posts in the discussions. Keywords: anonymity; economics; group; hate
• “IMAGINE WE’RE ALL IN THE LIVING ROOM TALKING ABOUT POLITICS”: ISRAELI WHATSAPP GROUPS DEVOTED TO INFORMAL POLITICAL TALK by Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta (2016.0) - At the same time, Israeli political talk has its own challenges, many of which are mirrored in online spaces. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Theorists point to informal political talk as a way for citizens to deepen their understanding of why the political world matters to them, form opinions, and set the ground for collective action (Barber, 1984). Keywords: group; talk; whatsapp

• MONETIZING RELATIONSHIPS: STREAMING ALONE WITH ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS by Skardzius, Karen (2020.0) - For example, they tell users, “Watch what you love, connect with streamers, and chat with tons of communities” and they tell potential streamers, “Bring your passions; we’ll help you build a community around them” (Twitch, 2020). Rather than directing more attention to those streamers who have attained ‘success’ as Twitch would frame it, this study is centered around a group of streamers unique from those who are typically the focus. Keywords: streamers; streaming; twitch
• “I’M AN E-COMMERCE STREAMER, NOT INFLUENCER” ——THE LOGISTICAL STRUGGLE FOR PERFORMING AUTHENTICITY ON DOUYIN by Duan, Shichang (2025.0) - The visibility politics on platforms (Peter et al, 2019; Bishop, 2019; Duguay, 2016) impact what kinds of authenticity streamers will perform. These stories will contribute to a typology of platform labor and a global perspective on platformization. Keywords: authenticity; commerce; media; products; streamers; streaming

• HATRED OF/AND DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS OF REDDIT’S MODERATION STRUCTURE by Smith, Trevor Garrison (2018.0) - If human moderators and algorithmic moderation are both “worse,” how can this debate about how to foster genuine political discussion online be solved? The first was the idea that the subreddit was suffering from a lack of moderation, leading to the addition of more moderators (including, strangely, moderators of the rival r/metacanada subreddit which is dedicated to mocking the users of r/Canada). Keywords: canada; democracy; hate; reddit

• Nuclear Fear And Loathing – Commenting News About Fukushima Daiichi Disaster On Facebook by Rantasila, Anna (2017.0) - The comments about Fukushima Daiichi disaster on Facebook provide an interesting and fruitful context in which to study affect in networked publics for several reasons. Moreover, the paper investigates how commenters circulate affect while discussing the news about Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Facebook. Keywords: affective; disaster; publics
• SPREADING THE WORD: TRACING THE AFFECTIVE ECOLOGY OF DIGITAL ORAL STORIES by Brekke, Anjuli Joshi (2018.0) - Analysis of each platform acts as a separate chapter: 1) StoryCorps stories edited and broadcast through a partnership with National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Drawing together recent work on affect from rhetorical studies, cultural studies and new media studies, this project uses textual analysis to trace the affective resonance of StoryCorps conversations shared online. Keywords: affective; difference; storycorps
• FUCK YOUR FEELINGS: THE AFFECTIVE WEAPONISATION OF FACTS AND REASON by Hong, Sun-ha; Hermann, Selena Neumark (2020.0) - Our analysis focuses on Ben Shapiro, who has explicitly built his personal brand around the imagined ideal of cold, dispassionate Reason and principled truth-telling in the face of censorship. We show how Ben Shapiro and Blair White’s physical appearance and biography, their debating techniques and slogans, consistently emphasise a confident, adversarial, patronising performance of rationality. Keywords: affective; fact; shapiro; white
• CAREFUL ATTUNEMENTS: THE CHOREOGRAPHING OF CARE THROUGH SMARTPHONE PRACTICES DURING, AND AFTER, CRISIS by McGrane, Caitlin; Hjorth, Larissa (2020.0) - We frame affective witnessing in terms of feminist materialism of care practices (Pols, 2011; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011; Lupton and Hjorth, 2020) to focus on the importance of taking care seriously—care at a distance of family and friends, self-care and care of intimate digital publics. Careful Attunements: The choreographing of care through smartphone practices during, and after, crisis. Keywords: affective; care; crisis; witnessing
• THE AFFECTIVE BODY: PLATFORMED PRESENCE AND VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT IN THE POPULIST POLITICS OF NARENDRA MODI by Bhattacharya, Laboni (2021.0) - In pre-COVID celebrations of Yoga Day, Modi made highly choreographed and often mocked appearances in mass demonstrations of yoga where he visibly struggled to model the competencies that his virtual body demonstrates. Yoga Day is part of a general UN mission of world health, but in India, the Modi administration has rapidly created state infrastructure that officializes yoga’s role in disciplining unruly bodies and minds. Keywords: affective; body; hindu; modi; yoga
• ROCKETING SHEEP: AFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE IN ANONYMOUS MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA JODEL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Rantasila, Anna (2021.0) - Rocketing sheep: Affective discipline in anonymous mobile social media Jodel during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study focuses on Covid-19 related discussions on anonymous, ephemeral mobile social media platform Jodel. Keywords: affective; discipline; jodel; pandemic
• AMBIVALENT AFFECTIVE LABOUR, DATAFICATION OF QING AND DANMEI WRITERS IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY by Ge, Liang (2025.0) - First, danmei writers as affective laborers, their temporality is governed by writing male-male romance and erotica, and the flexible hours significantly disorders their work-life balance. For danmei writers, the datafication and monetization of qing leads to increasingly formulaic writing. Keywords: affective; affects; danmei; qing; writers

• Understanding eSports Spectatorship: Players, Fans, Recruits by Carter, Marcus; Gibbs, Martin; Witkowski, Emma (2017.0) - Of note in this regard is the fact that participants often did not differentiate between watching competitive eSports tournaments live and watching competitive eSports players live while they practiced, educated, entertained and interacted to build a fan base. P1 (24/M) noted that “keeping up with the metagame” and “trying to understand how changes would change the way I have to play” drove them to third-party sites to engage with eSports content. Keywords: content; esports; media; players
• RECASTING COLLEGIATE ESPORTS: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF UNIVERSITY TWITCH STREAMERS by Foxman, Maxwell; Cote, Amanda; Can, Onder; Harris, Brandon; Rahman, Waseq; Hansen, Jared; Fickle, Tara (2021.0) - Recasting Collegiate Esports: Independence and Interdependence of University Twitch Streamers. RECASTING COLLEGIATE ESPORTS: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF UNIVERSITY TWITCH STREAMERS Maxwell Foxman University of Oregon Amanda Cote University of Oregon Onder Can University of Oregon Brandon Harris University of Oregon Waseq Rahman University of Oregon Jared Hansen University of Oregon Tara Fickle University of Oregon Introduction Few online communities exhibit tensions between independence and interdependence better than collegiate esports. Keywords: collegiate; esports; players; twitch; university

• The Role Of Standard Form Contracts In An Information Society And ‘Smart Contract’ Furture by Cornelius Way, Kristin (2017.0) - Since their successful implementation with the Ethereum blockchain in 2015, smart contracts have recently been adopted by Microsoft, Intel, and more than two dozen banks (Foley, 2017) and have been at the center of discussions for several national and international governments institutions and the entire, worldwide financial industry. While smart contracts seemingly promise an a decentralized, networked environment similar to the ideal information society proposed by Castells (1996, 2007), smart contracts (and blockchain more generally) suggest that technology can enforce the “same rules for everyone,” rather than just facilitate a platform. Keywords: contracts; form; law; sfcs; standard
• REGULATING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN WORK AND SELF: EMERGING LEGAL TENSIONS AROUND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE by Buchbach, Jacinta (2014.0) - This paper calls for a new conceptual framework to better evaluate employer risk and employee interests in online social contexts. REGULATING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN WORK AND SELF: EMERGING LEGAL TENSIONS AROUND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE Jacinta Buchbach Queensland University of Technology Both law and business practice are struggling to grapple with the blurred boundaries of identity in social media. Keywords: employees; employment; law; media

• BUILDING PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA by Buck, Amber (2014.0) - Building professional identities through social media. Professional Identities and Online Spaces In a transitional space between school and the workplace, upper-level courses in students’ majors allow them to not only practice more advanced disciplinary work, but also allow students the opportunity to develop professional identities in these fields. Keywords: identities; media; students
• Youth Participation in Civic Engagement Through Social Media: a case study by Leonard, Lynnette G. (2011.0) - Incorporating media literacy into civic engagement projects that involve social media ensures that participants understand how to produce good content and empowers participants with the skills to continue participating well beyond the initial project. Social media can facilitate the process and disseminate the results of civic engagement. Keywords: civic; engagement; media; noma; omaha; project; students

• ‘HOW MUCH SPACE AM I SUPPOSED TO TAKE?’: UNDERSTANDING 'DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT' THROUGH FA'ASAMOA by Hourigan, Aimee (2023.0) - In the independent state of Samoa, local and foreign governments have argued digital inclusion will ‘leapfrog’ the nation into the 21st century (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, 2020). The latter is especially influential to the extent that inclusionary paradigms of technology for social ‘progress’ (such as digital inclusion) are deeply encoded (practically and conceptually) into ‘knowledge’ of how the future (‘the modern’) Keywords: development; digital; fa’asamoa; inclusion; samoan
• Design by Bot: Power and Resistance in the Development of Automated Software Agents by Geiger, R.Stuart (2013.0) - Given the way in which bot developers see themselves, how are the inevitable issues surrounding bot development articulated and resolved? However, bots raise new issues in the development of software, as bot developers cannot rely on the same regimes of sovereignty that make a feature embedded into a platform instantly implementable. Keywords: bot; bots; developers; development; new; software

• RELIVING MEMORIES (OVER AND OVER AGAIN): GIFS, MOVING PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SMARTPHONE ALBUM by Kopelman, Sara; Frosh, Paul (2020.0) - These applications not only enable the seamless display of both still and moving images in smartphone photography albums but even create new looped images from stills taken by the user. Smartphone albums – which organize and display images but also initiate temporally novel photographic formats – are at the heart of these complex intersections between continuities in mnemonic practices and techno-cultural transformations. Keywords: image; memory; photography; smartphone
• SUBVERSIVE COMMEMORATION: MAPPING THE ASSEMBLAGE OF COUNTER-MEMORY ON TWITTER by Gaw, Fatima; Bunquin, Jon Benedik (2021.0) - Outside the digital realm, social institutions also still play a crucial role in the legitimation of memory, and other venues and forms of commemoration where memories are legitimized, (re)constructed, and even revised must be explored, as our study provides only one of long-standing debates about Marcos’ legacy in digital media. Subversive Commemoration: Mapping the Assemblage of Counter-memory on Twitter. Keywords: assemblage; counter; media; memory

• FANGIRLS AND FAKE NEWS: DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE AFFECTS OF FANDOM by McCann, Hannah; Southerton, Clare (2019.0) - Digital Ethnography and Ethical Considerations Our digital ethnography consisted of observation, participation, and interviews, in order to gain an embedded understanding of digital practices (Hine 2015, Simonetto 2016). Fangirls And Fake News: Digital Ethnography And The Affects Of Fandom. Keywords: ethnography; fandom; fans; larry
• REAL BUT FAKE, REAL BECAUSE FAKE: TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED K-POP IDOLS AND META-AUTHENTICITY by Kim, Do Own (2023.0) - TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED K-POP IDOLS AND META-AUTHENTICITY Do Own (Donna) Kim University of Illinois at Chicago Introduction “Hi, H. I.,” greets the two heavily filtered faces of JHo and Tan, the duo from the K-pop idol group “Mad Monster”. According to the self-claimed fans in YouTube comments, Mad Monster is the most authentic K-pop idol group there is despite their “natural” autotune singing voice, highly curated “genuine” fan interactions—such as their “cool” signature move to spell out all (but only if it is easy) English words like “Hi, H. I.”, and their “born beautiful” heavily filtered faces that occasionally morph back into the original whenever the members “mistakenly” disturb the AR filter sync. Keywords: authenticity; fans; media; monster; pop

• FRAMING COVID-19: HOW FACT-CHECKING CIRCULATES ON POLITICAL FACEBOOK by Recuero, Raquel (2021.0) - Research note: Bolsonaro’s firehose: How Covid-19 disinformation on WhatsApp was used to fight a government political crisis in Brazil. However, this research shows that fact-checking does circulate on political Facebook groups/pages that share disinformation (particularly on right-wing and conservative ones), but it is used to reinforce their discourse, rather than debunk it. Keywords: checking; covid-19; fact; framing; posts
• MASK NARRATIVES PROMOTED BY ANTI-VACCINATION ACCOUNTS ON INSTAGRAM PRIOR TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Koltai, Kolina; Grohmann, Iva; Johnson, Devin T.; Rondini, Samantha; Foley, Ella R. (2021.0) - Future planned work involves comparing mask sentiments before and during the pandemic by anti-vaccine accounts on multiple social media platforms and evaluating the accounts and sources that pushed for this shift in mask sentiment. Further, some posts around mask efficacy highlight that wearing a mask can signal that vaccines do not work. Keywords: masks; posts; vaccine
• TRACING THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC PATTERNS OF POLARIZATION IN THE FACEBOOK DEBATE ON CLIMATE ACTION by Arminio, Luigi; Rossi, Luca (2025.0) - Reflecting on the previously posited and discussed relevance of communicational patterns in political communication, it must be noted that while some studies discuss language codes' impact on political discourse, we can spot a lack of systematic examination of the full range of linguistic features determining the stylistic diversity of social actors and how they impact political polarization dynamics. The findings indicated both the restricted accessibility of certain parties' communicational styles (Gyasi, 2023) and the enhanced accessibility of language codes employed by specific political figures (Kayam, 2023). Keywords: actors; climate; language; posts; score

• THE ONLINE LIFE OF LITERACY EDUCATION: HOW THE 2018 #PHONICSDEBATE IS RESHAPING THE FIELD by Barnes, Naomi Joy (2021.0) - Figure 2 shows that USP advocates harnessed the collectivising power of social media, legacy news media, and professional (teacher journals) media, effectively blanketing social media content with their perspective. Microsoft Word - Barnes-The online life of literacy education-The online life of literacy education.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Lastname, Firstinitial. Keywords: aoir; field; literacy; media
• CHEATGPT? THE REALITIES OF AUTOMATED AUTHORSHIP IN THE UK PR AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES by Kant, Tanya (2025.0) - Finally, though we find the majority respondents believe generative text AI use is ethical, many writers and managers lack the assurances needed to confidently negotiate the legal, IP and employment implications of generative AI tools. This project looks to map generative AI usage and understanding of smaller stakeholders in UK communications sectors in ways that might empower such stakeholders to use generative text AI tools ethically and critically. Keywords: generative; literacy; text
• Regulatory issues concerning the promotion of media literacy by Nagy, Krisztina (2016.0) - Media  literacy   presumes  knowledge  and  skills  that  result  in  responsible  and  autonomous  decision-­ making,  as  well  as  the  maximisation  of  opportunities  that  arise  out  of  the  informational   environment  and  the  minimisation  of  the  corresponding  risks.   References     Lunt,  P.  &  Livingstone  S.  (2012)  Media  regulation  –  Governance  and  the  Interest  of   Citizens  and  Consumers. Keywords: literacy; media; regulatory

• THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS: DARK PARTICIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE QANON CONSPIRACY by Partin, William Clyde; Marwick, Alice Emily (2020.0) - What archives, research techniques, and interpretive tools do QAnon researchers draw upon? Soon after, QAnon slogans and symbols, such as the hashtag #WWG1WGA (“Where We Go One We Go All”), began appearing throughout the conservative media ecosystem and even at rallies across the country hosted by President Trump. Keywords: conspiracy; knowledge; media; qanon
• WIKIPEDIA'S ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEM: DECOLONIZING WESTERN EPISTEMOLOGIES THROUGH CRITICAL OPEN EDUCATION PRACTICES by Vetter, Matthew A.; McDowell, Zachary J. (2023.0) - WIKIPEDIA’S ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEM: DECOLONIZING WESTERN EPISTEMOLOGIES THROUGH CRITICAL OPEN EDUCATION PRACTICES Matthew A. Vetter Indiana University of Pennsylvania Zachary J. McDowell University of Illinois Chicago Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales once described the vision behind Wikipedia in the following optimistic terms: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge” (“Wikipedia Founder,” 2004). Wikipedia survey overview of results. Keywords: encyclopedia; knowledge; vetter; wikipedia
• Technology Meets Postmodern Epistemology: The Discourse of Hebrew Wikipedia Deletion Pages by Leshnick, Anat; Livio, Oren (2016.0) - In  this  study  we  analyze  deletion  discussion  pages  on   the  Hebrew  Wikipedia  in  order  to  examine  the  ways  in  which  definitions  of  “worthy”  and   “unworthy”  encyclopedic  knowledge  are  negotiated  in  contemporary  discourse,   reflecting  local  perceptions  regarding  the  role  of  Wikipedia  and  its  meanings,  as  well  as   broader  cultural  perceptions  of  the  relation  between  technology  and  epistemology  in  an   age  characterized  by  an  ongoing  tension  between  modernist  and  postmodern   conceptions  of  truth,  knowledge,  and  authority.       Second,  while  encyclopedias  since  the  18th  century   were  customarily  viewed  as  representing  authoritative  knowledge  produced  by  experts   (Sullivan,  1990),  Wikipedia  operates  within  a  sociocultural  atmosphere  characterized  by   greater  ambivalence,  and  sometimes  downright  skepticism,  toward  traditional  sources  of   authority  and  knowledge  (Van  Zoonen,  2012).Third,  whereas  in  traditional  encyclopedias   deleted  entries  were  simply  not  included  in  the  published  volumes  –  with  relatively  little   information  made  public  regarding  the  process  whereby  decisions  regarding  inclusion  and   exclusion  were  made  –  on  Wikipedia,  even  when  a  particular  entry  is  deleted,  the   negotiations  that  took  place  regarding  the  article’s  fate  remain  available  on  the  site  and   are  accessible  by  any  internet  user  –  thus  providing  a  rich  source  for  examining  the  actual   process  of  boundary  construction.     Keywords: deletion; knowledge; wikipedia

• A Phenomenology of SNS Sharing by Wittkower, D.E. (2013.0) - This is similar to the internal narrativization of daily experience in anticipation of the possibility of later recounting to friends who may be concerned with or amused by the events experienced, but is substantially different in that sharing constructs the object itself as subject to shared experience, while narrative recounting can aim only towards an “as if” presence of the object of experience to the other. While the focus of this paper is SNS sharing, it is hoped that the analysis will be of a kind fundamental enough to be clearly applicable (although perhaps sometimes in different and incomplete ways) to these similar modes of mediated construction of shared experience. Keywords: experience; sharer; sharing
• A snap of intimacy: Investigating photo sharing practices on Snapchat and Instagram by Larsen, Malene Charlotte; Kofoed, Jette (2016.0) - A snap of intimacy: Investigating photo sharing practices on Snapchat and Instagram . A SNAP OF INTIMACY: INVESTIGATING PHOTO SHARING PRACTICES ON SNAPCHAT AND INSTAGRAM Malene Charlotte Larsen Aalborg University Jette Kofoed Aarhus University In this paper we investigate photo sharing practices among young people on the social media platform Snapchat. Keywords: intimacy; photo; sharing; snapchat
• ‘SEEDBOX HOGS’ AND ‘RATIO WHORES’: DISCUSSIONS OVER FILE SHARING STRATEGIES IN PRIVATE BITTORRENT COMMUNITIES by John, Nicholas (2015.0) - Second, file sharing is a site in which we can see the metaphor of ‘sharing’ at work and enquire into its modus operandi there, both by looking at the ways in which the word itself is used, as well as the ways it is explicitly highlighted as a resource in attempts to shape the moral contours of the file sharing endeavor. In this regard, the paper builds on previous work on sharing as a keyword for Web 2.0 (John, 2013), as a new/old form of distribution (Belk, 2010), and as a crucial metaphor in the term ‘file sharing’ (Gillespie, 2009; Litman, 2004; Mirghani, 2011; Yar, 2008). Keywords: file; ratio; sharing
• CONTRADICTIONS OF THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY: MAKING SENSE OF DIGITAL FOOD SNAPS by Larsen, Jessica Nicole (2015.0) - Food photography has been claimed to affect restaurant experience, create conflict between chefs and consumers, and has been ridiculed for its amateurism. Ultimately, however, the ideological criticism of food photography contradicts with its existence as a popular practice among the social collective. Keywords: food; online; photography; sharing

• BULLYING IN CON/FFLATING SPACES – WHY A ‘SPACE’ PERSPECTIVE MATTERS FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUNG PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICES OF BULLYING by Bork-Hueffer, Tabea; Mahlknecht, Belinda; Kaufmann, Katja (2020.0) - Even when bullying practices themselves seemed to be restricted to digital spaces, they are still entangled within the spatialities of participants’ relations, practices, identities and life-worlds that stretch across inseparable socio-material and technological spheres. In our view, more recent conceptualisations of ‘space’ offer valuable contributions to a reflection upon the epistemological and related methodological considerations when seeking to understand the lifeworlds, practices and experiences of young people involved in bullying. Keywords: bork; bullying; hüffer; spaces

• FROM #BODYPOSITIVE TO #WEIGHTLOSSJOURNEY – EXPLORING WEIGHT LOSS NARRATIVES WITHIN THE FAT COMMUNITY by Holi, Ella Maria (2025.0) - I argue that the body positive weight loss narratives represent a change in how body positivity is understood. Furthermore, some of the content creators subvert the traditional before and after element of hegemonic weight loss narratives. Keywords: body; content; fat; loss; narratives; weight
• I HAVE A DREAM! ON THE PERCEIVED LIMITS AND MAGINED POSSIBILITIES OF BODY MONITORING by Berg, Martin (2015.0) - Focusing on how the practice and outcome of body monitoring are described in textual and graphic communication between developers and designers in online communities and discussion boards along with a study of technical documentation, this paper provides an understanding of how the technological limits and possibilities of body monitoring software and hardware are perceived and imagined. Kozinets, 2010) study of a number of body monitoring devices, most importantly Withings, RunKeeper, FitBit and Jawbone Up! Keywords: body; media; monitoring

• Mapping The Affordances And Dynamics Of Activist Hashtags by Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan (2017.0) - Duality is a lens for analyzing the dynamics of activist hashtags that - when combined with the curational, polysemic, and memetic affordances - highlights the contradictions, ambivalences, and tensions underlying activism and participation within networked publics. The use of activist hashtags within networked publics invites ephemeral, temporal, and fragmented participation as an identify signifier that is read and understood within a particular online community. Keywords: activist; affordances; dynamics; hashtags
• NOT NATURAL, NOR NEUTRAL: THE CULTURAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA AFFORDANCES WITHIN CHILEAN INFLUENCER INDUSTRY by Arriagada, Arturo; Siles, Ignacio (2020.0) - Similar to other studies about digital content creators practices (Duffy 2017), in-depth interviews allowed to explore how users imagine technological affordances. Key findings: the cultural configurations of social media affordances A specific technological frame shapes how individuals imagine and act on the affordances of social media in this circuit or network of actors. Keywords: affordances; content; influencer; media
• MATCHING DIGITAL INTERVENTION AFFORDANCES WITH TASKS: THE CASE OF ZOOM AND WHATSAPP MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION FOR SENIORS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Yeshua-Katz, Daphna; Shapira, Stav; Aharonson-Daniel, Limor; Clarfield, A. Mark; Sarid, Orly (2021.0) - Matching digital intervention affordances with tasks: The case of Zoom and WhatsApp mental health intervention for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the media richness theory (MRT) and affordances approach, in this study we used netnography to explore how Zoom and WhatsApp technological affordances/constraints matched intervention tasks and increased intervention performance. Keywords: affordances; intervention; tasks; whatsapp; zoom
• THE COMPLEX SIMPLICITY OF CONTEXT. AFFORDANCES AS FLOWS OF SOCIAL INFORMATION by Rama, Ilir (2023.0) - Additionally, underlining how individual factors can affect social action on platforms points at how affordances can aid in structuring social situations on digital environments. Considering affordances sociologically allows to give greater weight to social norms and cultural codes, in turn going over situated understandings of the relation between technical features and social action. Keywords: affordances; context; environments; media
• THE VALUE AFFORDANCES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT FEATURES by Scharlach, Rebecca; Hallinan, Blake (2023.0) - Our value cards included the name and basic definition of 32 values, combining values used in values in design research (Belman et al., 2011; Flanagan & Nissenbaum, 2014) and studies of social media values (Scharlach et al., 2023; Trillò et al., 2021). Defined as core features of engagement (C. Kim & Yang, 2017), modes of interaction such as liking, sharing, and commenting are ubiquitous on social media platforms. Keywords: affordances; engagement; features; media; values
• A MATERIAL DESCENT INTO DIGITAL MEDIA by Allen-Robertson, James (2015.0) - By ’descending’ into the Hard Disk Drive the paper demonstrates how its operation plays a role in the affordances of digital media and how these affordances are prefigured in older media technologies. The paper hopes to demonstrate that, given the right conceptual frameworks, we can learn from a radically material approach to media technologies whilst retaining recognition of the social. Keywords: affordances; material; media

• HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SEEN BY A MACHINE LIVELY DEVICES IN DIGITAL HORROR by Gunderson, Marianne (2020.0) - The ways in which machine vision devices are haunted, infected or possessed, and haunt, infect or possess the lives of the narrators, bring out a cluster of fears that all revolve around how machine vision technologies mediate our relationship with reality and redistribute agency within human/machine assemblages. Surveillance and machine vision technologies are often talked about with a certain level of unease, discomfort, or anxiety - but what are the meanings and narratives through which these devices are imagined to be scary? Keywords: devices; machine; stories

• THEORIZING ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIATION THROUGH IRELAND'S PEATLANDS by Brodie, Patrick (2023.0) - From Energetic Resource to Natural Capital The Irish Free State, established as a dominion of Britain in the early-1920s after a long revolutionary period, inherited ways of seeing Irish peatlands as “wastelands” in need of “improvement” (Ruuskanen 2018), drawing upon colonial maps to learn how to develop them for large-scale industry like agriculture and energy. The bogs of Ireland: an introduction to the natural, cultural and industrial heritage of Irish peatlands. Keywords: carbon; climate; environmental; ireland; media; peatlands; university
• DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? EMOTIONAL REACTION TO VISUAL CONTENT IN THE ONLINE DEBATE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE by Rossi, Luca; Segerberg, Alexandra; Magnani, Matteo; Arminio, Luigi (2025.0) - We ask the following questions: (1) whether visual content posted in the context of progressive action and activism is shared also on pages and groups that oppose such progressive climate action and activism; (2) whether emotional reaction to visual content changes as it is shared in ideologically distinct pages and groups; Methods The data builds on the online communication performed by a manually curated list of public Facebook pages and groups, manually coded as actors or counter actors, respectively advocating for more urgent action against climate change, or supporting climate change denialism and/or objecting to progressive action on climate change. We focus on the role of visual content in these processes. Keywords: actors; change; climate; content

• FIRM DISCOURSES AND DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS by O'Neil, Mathieu; Muselli, Laure; Zacchiroli, Stefano; Cai, Xiaolan; Pailler, Frederic (2020.0) - Firm Discourses and Digital Infrastructure Projects. Background and research question IT firms have embraced open licenses and the hacker ethic of self-fulfillment: free and open source software (a.k.a. FOSS or ‘digital infrastructure’) is now fully integrated into commercial ecosystems. Keywords: aoir; discourses; firm; infrastructure; projects
• FACT CHECKING THE PANDEMIC IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CORRECTION STRATEGIES BY LATIN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN META FACT CHECKERS by Montaña-Niño, Silvia; Riedlinger, Michelle; Watt, Net; Joubert, Marina; García-Perdomo, Víctor (2023.0) - Fact Checking the Pandemic in the Global South: Correction Strategies by Latin American and African Meta Fact Checkers. Fact checkers addressed government-influenced accounts of the virus spread as “mistakes”, “partially true”, or aggregated them into “multiple checks”, or “explainers” instead of declaring a single false verdict. Keywords: aoir; checkers; checking; fact; latin

• DISTRIBUTING SERVICES THROUGH THE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CASE OF A NORWEGIAN SOFTWARE FIRM by Ritter, Christian Simon (2018.0) - The observable everyday practices of human actors, such as consultants and software users, indicate that the cloud infrastructure enables a transnational built network connecting the transnationally dispersed material worlds of office spaces. Based on the evidence studied, I suggest that programmers can scale the socio-technical assemblage by writing scripts that organize the membership hierarchies within the APIs of industrial software. Keywords: cloud; services; socio; software

• BIG TECH SOVEREIGNTY: PLATFORMS AND DISCOURSE OF SOVEREIGNTY-AS-A-SERVICE by Grohmann, Rafael; Barbosa,, Alexandre Costa (2025.0) - According to Amazon, digital sovereignty is about “having control over digital assets”, and the company is able to help “customers to meet digital sovereignty requirements”. AoIR 2024.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK / 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 BIG TECH SOVEREIGNTY: PLATFORMS AND DISCOURSE OF SOVEREIGNTY-AS-A-SERVICE Alexandre Costa Barbosa University of Arts Berlin Rafael Grohmann University of Toronto Introduction The notion of digital sovereignty has been mobilized by various stakeholders as a response to platform power (Dijck, Nieborg & Poell 2019, Herlo et al. 2021). Keywords: companies; company; digital; microsoft; sovereignty

• HUMAN-MACHINE WRITING AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE MODELS by McKee, Heidi A.; Porter, James E. (2020.0) - Human-machine writing and the ethics of language models. Language models are unsupervised multitask learners. Keywords: language; machine; model; writing
• HOW FACT-CHECKERS ARE BECOMING MACHINE LEARNERS: A CASE OF META’S THIRD PARTY PROGRAMME by Skop, Yarden; Schjøtt Hansen, Anna (2025.0) - De- and recoding algorithmic systems: The case of fact checkers and fact checked users. The first is a series of semi-structured interviews with fact checkers who are members of the International Fact Checkers’ Network (IFCN) and partake in Meta’s third-party fact-checking program (3PFC). Keywords: checkers; checking; fact; machine; meta

• Gay Men's Digital Cultures Beyond Gaydar And Grindr: Line Use In The Gay Chinese Diaspora Of Australia by Cassidy, Elija; Wang, Wilfred (2017.0) - Against a background of significant levels of Chinese immigration over the past several decades (ABS, 2016)1 we focus, in particular, on the Chinese diaspora of gay men in this context, and on key services popular amongst this demographic, such as Blued, Zank, LINE and Weibo. 1 http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3412.0/ The current paper, emerging from this much broader project, presents research in progress on the social chat application LINE and its use amongst the Chinese diaspora of gay men in Australia. Keywords: australia; gay; line; men

• THE SITUATED HINTERLANDS OF ONLINE GAMING PRACTICES by Cumming, David; Rogerson, Melissa Jane (2019.0) - The gathering of artifacts and stories from event attendance can be used to retell experiences and demonstrate strong commitment to a hobby. Throughout the night, spectators of TI8 reminisced about watching other esports events at the bar as social boundaries dissolved. Keywords: bar; esports; experience; tourism
• ‘NOT LIKE OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS’? BEREAL AND THE REMEDIATION OF LIVENESS IN THE PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT by Lupinacci, Ludmila (2023.0) - BeReal’s normative conception of authentic experience seems grounded in values such as spontaneity, simultaneity, and shared experience – which is a clear refashioning of historical claims of mediated liveness (Scannell 2014). Yet, I argue that BeReal favors a new modality of platformized social organization envisioning the production of authentic experiences. Keywords: authenticity; bereal; experience; liveness; media

• Playing With The Pixelated Past: Need Satisfaction And Entertainment Experiences In Gaming Memories by Bowman, Nick; Wulf, Tim; Velez, John; Breuer, Johannes (2017.0) - Forums such as r/RetroGaming encourage discussion of nostalgic gaming memories. Enjoyment was more prevalent in recent memories. Keywords: entertainment; experiences; gaming; memories
• REGULATING EXPRESSION AND EQUALITY IN COLLEGIATE ESPORTS by Burk, Dan; Rosenblatt, Betsy (2021.0) - In this paper we therefore examine problems of Title IX eSports compliance in light of the First Amendment. For example, it seems likely that the culture surrounding computer gaming is even less welcoming to transgender and LGBTQ+ players than it is to cis-gendered women, and this may have implications for Title IX collegiate eSports compliance, raising a set of complex questions beyond the scope of our discussion here. Keywords: computer; esports; gaming; title

• SOCIAL MEDIA AND MINORITY LANGUAGES IN EVERYDAY LIFE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO TWITTER CAMPAIGNS PROMOTING THE IRISH LANGUAGE by Ní Bhroin, Niamh; McMonagle, Sarah (2020.0) - (2019) content analysis of minority language hashtags on Twitter. In recent years, social media campaigns have been organised to promote the use of Irish online. Keywords: irish; language; media
• THE HEGEMONY OF KEYBOARD DEFAULTS by Zaugg, Isabelle Alice; Reeve, Jonathan (2021.0) - While widely recognized as a political move to distance ethnic Oromos from other Ethiopic language communities, one official justification given was that Latin characters are better supported by digital technologies (Yimam 1992). Furthermore, considering the global reach of QWERTY against the backdrop of language diversity, and particularly the approximately 300 non-Latin scripts in existence, the hegemony of default QWERTY keyboards is a manifestation of the ongoing impacts of the colonial legacy within digital technologies. Keywords: english; keyboard; language; qwerty; writing
• LLMS AND THE GENERATION OF MODERATE SPEECH by de Keulenaar, Emillie (2025.0) - Emillie de Keulenaar University of Groningen Extended abstract In the emerging sociological research on large language models, it has become clear that LLMs have become both new actors and interfaces of public debate. Six discursive techniques used by Mistral, GPT 3.5 & 4, Llama 2 & 3, and Claude 3, 3 Sonnet and 3.5 when answering “risky” and controversial questions. Keywords: language; llms; questions
• LANGUAGE CHOICE ON UNIVERSITY WEBSITES IN ARAB COUNTRIES by Callahan, Ewa; Kirshenbaum, Nurit (2015.0) - Currently English is considered the international lingua franca, but this mode of communication also allows other languages to have a strong presence on the web. However, questions about the current status of languages on the Internet requires constant research considering the effects of globalization, increased popularity of English, and, at the same time increased popularity of other languages (Callahan and Herring, 2012). Keywords: countries; language; sites

• State-Aiding, Empire-Building or Multitude Fulfilling? An Anonymous Role in International Politics by Tynes, Robert M (2016.0) - In order to tease out the socio-political dynamics of GhostSec actions, this study utilizes discourse analysis of news stories about, and interviews with, GhostSec and the Ghost Security Group. According to GhostSec member, TorReaper, the US government helped funnel funding to GhostSec (Raincoaster 2015). Keywords: anonymous; ghostsec; negri; state

• _EVEN MORE_ COMPLICATED: THE NETWORKED LIVES OF TEENAGERS IN A CONTEXT OF EXCLUSION IN BRAZIL by Cardozo Sarli, André (2023.0) - Even more complicated: the networked lives of teenagers in a context of exclusion in Brazil. EVEN MORE COMPLICATED: THE NETWORKED LIVES OF TEENAGERS IN A CONTEXT OF EXCLUSION IN BRAZIL Keywords: access; brazil; exclusion; media; teenagers

• SURVEILLANCE FOR INDEPENDENCE: DISCURSIVE FRAMEWORKS IN SMART CARE FOR DEMENTIA by Hine, Christine; Barnaghi, Payam (2021.0) - Understanding how ethical issues are identified and managed in the implementation of smart care from the perspective of those involved may enrich principle-based ethical evaluation of smart care technologies. Microsoft Word - Hine-Surveillance for independence-Surveillance for independence.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Hine,C. and Barnaghi, P. (2021, October).Surveillance for independence: discursive frameworks in smart care for dementia. Keywords: care; dementia; living; smart

• INTO THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: THE RESEARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND COVID-19 MISINFORMATION IN 2020 by Righetti, Nicola; Rossi, Luca; Marino, Giada (2021.0) - Social media platforms have been into the belly of the infodemic beast. Into the belly of the beast: The research on social media and covid-19 misinformation in 2020. Keywords: covid-19; media; misinformation; research
• WHEN FACT-CHECKING IS NOT WEIRD: CHALLENGES IN FACT-CHECKING BEYOND THE WESTERN WORLD by Vinhas, Otávio Iost; Bastos, Marco (2023.0) - There are, however, peculiar challenges that emerge in contexts where public discourse lacks a well-established stable political body and political sphere to support deliberation, including non-partisan organizations providing support for deliberation and democratic dispute so that they are kept apart from partisan disputes that cut across the fault-lines in local politics. We aimed to identify the emerging challenges posed to non-WEIRD fact-checkers and what strategies they implement in their fight against misinformation locally. Keywords: challenges; checkers; checking; fact; misinformation

• When Censorship is not an option: Internet Trolling by National Intelligence Agency of S. Korea: by Yoon, Ho Young; Kang, Woo Chang (2016.0) - In  a  certain  context,  however,  there  are  far  more  advantages  of  employing  trolling  for   controlling  public  discourses  and  opinions  than  employing  censorship.   Furthermore,  censorship  is  a  passive  measure  of  intervention  whereas   trolling  is  more  active  measure,  enabling  the  government  to  create  public  noise  or  to   manipulate  public  discourse  –  which  causes  more  detrimental  effects  on  democracy.   Keywords: censorship; government; trolling

• FEELING MYSELF: THE RISE OF INTIMACY AS AUTHENTICITY IN ADDRESSING IMAGINED PODCAST LISTENERS by Sharon, Tzlil; John, Nicholas (2025.0) - How are these imagined listeners shaped by the creators’ personal dispositions, their own experiences as podcast listeners, their assumptions about podcasting as a medium, and their actual interactions with their listeners? Indeed, podcast scholarship and popular media have highlighted the strong engagement, loyalty and trust podcast listeners express toward their favorite podcast personalities (Marx et al., 2021; Schlütz & Hedder, 2021; Soto-Vásquez et al., 2022). Keywords: audience; intimacy; listeners; media; podcast

• ENTANGLED AUTONOMY ON AUTOMATED AIRWAVES: THE CASE OF RIVENDELL by Stuhl, Andy Kelleher (2021.0) - Another tension is much more prevalent though: the opening pages acknowledge that “[s]ome people,” and perhaps the majority of a station’s volunteers, “might think radio automation is inherently evil” (Shaw, 2008). Analysis of this source code demonstrates how techniques and devices from early automation systems have persisted as structural metaphors in software. Keywords: automation; radio; rivendell; software

• CORPSES, FETUSES AND ZOMBIES: THE DEHUMANIZATION OF MEDIA USERS IN SCIENCE FICTION AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA by Walker Rettberg, Jill (2015.0) - In Daemon software and augmented reality media appear to control humans completely and in a very frightening manner, but in the sequel Freedom we see how that same software and media tools allow humans to create a better society. Today MMOGs like World of Warcraft are important alternate worlds for millions of people, but in mainstream discourse, and in some scholarship such as Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together (2011), immersive media have become a threat. Keywords: fiction; humans; media; science

• CLICK FRAUD: ADVERTISING AND THE TERRITORIALISATION OF PERSONAL BLOGS by Hopkins, Julian (2014.0) - ADVERTISING AND THE TERRITORIALISATION OF PERSONAL BLOGS Julian Hopkins Monash Unversity Malaysia Abstract Drawing upon Deleuze & Guattari’s concept of the assemblage, and Callon’s actor- network theory analysis of economic markets, this paper draws upon ethnographic research to examine a case study of changing practices amongst personal bloggers in Malaysia. Introduction This paper looks at how Malaysian personal bloggers’ practices became entangled with market relations through the use of web analytics that enable the ‘cost per click’ (CPC) pricing model, whereby the advertiser pays for metered clicks on advertisements (Bermejo, 2007, pp. 113–14). Keywords: advertising; bloggers; blogs; callon; click; market

• ILLUMINATI(NG) THE SEARCH PROCESS: THEORIZING THE RESEARCH PRACTICES OF "ALTERNATIVE" OR "CONTROVERSIAL" RESEARCH by Eadon, Yvonne Melisande (2020.0) - Previous scholarship has examined how conspiracy theories spread online;8 addressed the question of what conspiracy theorists believe and why;9 asked whether or not conspiracy theorizing is a reasonable form of sense-making;10 and characterized the socio-cultural effects of conspiracy theories.11 Few studies tackle the topic using participant-centered interviewing, as many individuals whom scholars may want to call conspiracy theorists understandably eschew the label.1 Keywords: conspiracy; new; research; theories; theory; york

• COORNET: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SURFACE PROBLEMATIC CONTENT, MALICIOUS ACTORS, AND COORDINATED NETWORKS by Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Rossi, Luca; Marino, Giada (2021.0) - It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections. Various types of COVID-19 skepticism, anti-vaxx, and anti-mask are prominently featured in the list of coordinated news stories (top_urls) shared by these networks. Keywords: actors; content; giglietto

• TRUSTING SMART SPEAKERS: A TYPOLOGY OF INVOCATIONARY ACTS by Chesher, Chris (2019.0) - Austin explained the dynamics of speech acts by distinguishing between three elements: the locutionary, the illocutionary, and the perlocutionary. So, what can we say about speech acts have taken place? Keywords: act; acts; invocation; representative; speech
• EXPLORING SURVEY INSTRUMENTS IN ONLINE HATE SPEECH RESEARCH: A COMPREHENSIVE SCOPING REVIEW by Šubelj, Živa; Vehovar, Vasja; Wisteria, Avis; Bartol, Jošt; Petrovčič, Andraž (2025.0) - Exploring survey instruments in online hate speech research: A comprehensive scoping review. EXPLORING SURVEY INSTRUMENTS IN ONLINE HATE SPEECH RESEARCH: A COMPREHENSIVE SCOPING REVIEW Živa Šubelj Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Vasja Vehovar Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Avis Wisteria Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Andraž Petrovčič Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Jošt Bartol Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Introduction Over the last decade, online hate speech (OHS) has emerged as a subject of active debate among a wide range of scholars as well as governmental and private entities. Keywords: hate; ohs; online; speech; survey

• BIG AI: THE CLOUD AS MARKETPLACE AND INFRASTRUCTURE by van der Vlist, Fernando N; Helmond, Anne; Ferrari, Fabian (2023.0) - Big AI is not just “big” because of this infrastructural dependence, but also because it provides marketplaces for the commodification of AI solutions. The Political Economy of AI This paper critically examines what we call Big AI, or those types and deployments of AI that simply would not be feasible or even possible without the infrastructural support, Suggested Citation (APA): van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. (2023, October). Keywords: cloud; doi; infrastructure; tech

• YOU [DON’T] GOTTA PAY THE TROLL TOLL: A TRANSACTION COSTS MODEL OF ONLINE HARASSMENT by Blasiola, Stacy (2015.0) - The language of transaction costs is commonplace in economics and I will argue that it presents an opportunity to rethink platform design in ways that create quantifiable differences for harassers and victims. Additionally, transaction costs can be understood as a type of friction that is introduced to a market to curb a particular outcome (Klaes, 2000). Keywords: costs; harassment; transaction

• TOOLS BEYOND CONTROL: PRIVATE INFORMATION INTERMEDIARIES AND THE WORK OF ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS by Hestres, Luis (2015.0) - If current trends hold, non-specialized private information intermediaries—particularly social networking services—should become even more important as collective action platforms. Content Censorship in Intermediary Platforms Some strategists recalled instances when non-specialized intermediaries disrupted their work more directly by censoring content. Keywords: advocacy; intermediaries; tools

• #FREEBRITNEY: STRATEGIES OF COUNTERNARRATIVES AND SELF-REGULATION WITHIN FAN ACTIVISM by Vaidya, Akhil Raghav; Lingel, Jessa (2023.0) - In the full version of this paper, we expand on these themes, particularly as they relate to scholarship on fandom (e.g. Dym, 2020) and social movements (e.g. Jackson & Foucault-Welles, 2015). From social movements to cloud protesting: The evolution of collective identity. Keywords: conservatorship; freebritney; movement; spears

• Beyond Freedom and Oppression - Social Media, Refusal, and the Politics of Participation by Feldman, Zeena (2012.0) - Through these practices, CS members took up the “right to refusal,” which Patrick Hanafin argues, “involves a questioning of why it is that the law presumes to be in control of language. Beyond this, ordinary CS members – so not volunteers in any formal sense of the term – did the site’s main work of hospitality exchange; they were the ones welcoming strangers into their homes. Keywords: couchsurfing; media; members; new; profile; profit; refusal; resistance; site

• IS OTT IN INDIA ‘OVER-THE-TOP’? RE-PRESENTATION, REGULATION AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS IN INDIAN OTT by Dutta, Anmol (2021.0) - The recent OTT (over-the-top) regulation measures in India brings Netflix India and Amazon Prime Video, among other subscription based video platforms under the ambit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A few weeks after the release of the adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy on Netflix India in November 2020, furore erupted as a result of an on-screen kiss shared between a Hindu girl, Lata and a Muslim boy, Kabir against the backdrop of a temple—calling for a ban on the OTT platform as #BanNetflixIndia trended on Twitter. Keywords: india; netflix; ott; regulation

• EVERY WORD YOU JUST SAID IS WRONG: ONLINE RAGE AND INCLUSIVITY IN DISNEY FRANCHISE FANDOM by Blodgett, Bridget; Salter, Anastasia (2018.0) - Racist trolls are saying Black Panther fans attacked them. Demographically, Black Panther is nearly the opposite of previous films in the franchise, which have primarily featured black characters in sidekick roles--not as stereotyped as previous superhero franchises, but very far from leading roles (Claverie, 2017). Keywords: case; february; film; panther

• FROM AD HOC ISSUE PUBLICS TO DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES: A YEAR OF PUBLIC DEBATE ON TWITTER by Dehghan, Ehsan (2018.0) - The use of Twitter hashtags in the formation of ad hoc publics. Initial Findings The different communities created as a result of the various communicative affordances of Twitter could potentially create different network structures. Keywords: issue; publics

• FINNISH RIGHT TO BE -CITIZENS INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN AND THE “FEELING OF BEING COUNTED" by Vähäpassi, Valo (2021.0) - Finnish Right to be-citizens initiative campaign and the “feeling of being counted”. Background of the Right to Be -citizens initiative campaign Keywords: campaign; finnish; initiative; trans

• “YOU EITHER LOVE IT IMMEDIATELY, OR YOU HATE IT” REFLECTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF ESTONIAN EMPLOYEES WITH MICROCHIP IMPLANTS by Siibak, Andra; Otsus, Marleen (2020.0) - Even though scholars have theorized upon different ethical and legal concerns (Rodriguez, 2019; Ogriseg, 2017) regarding employee microchipping, empirical scholarship (Petersen, 2019) which would reflect upon the experiences and opinions of microchipped employees themselves is still currently lacking. Reflections and experiences of Estonian employees with microchip implants. Keywords: employees; implants; michael; microchip
• Legal issues in BYOP: Bring Your Own Persona by McNealy, Jasmine (2013.0) - Although researchers have and are currently studying the impact of social media on business and the use of social media strategy by business, little research exists concerning the legal issues related to having employees create and maintain social media personas related to their work. The researcher calls this phenomenon BYOP as a reference to a related trend in business, “Bring Your Own Device,” in which companies allow employees to use their own smart devices or provide employees with smart technology in the workplace, and as a direct invocation of the marketing practices from which business social media usage has its foundation (Oliver, 2012). Keywords: account; business; employees; media

• PURSUANCE AND THE PRACTICE OF DE-INSTITUTIONALIZED DEMOCRACY by Tynes, Robert; Peters, Claire (2018.0) - We then compare the experiences of digital activists to Pursuance’s envisioned structure, examining where Pursuance will augment the digital activist's experience - how it will harness the revolutionary aspects of online activism and minimize the issues that can arise. This lessens the need for formal institutions to direct civic or political activism, thus opening a plethora of possibilities for the future of civil organizing. Keywords: anonymous; democracy; project; pursuance
• ARCHIVING THE INSURRECTION: THE CASE OF R/DATAHOARDER by Chapman, Edward Miezio (2023.0) - Retrieved February 17, 2021 from https://facesoftheriot.com/. Appendix A: Code List Code Description evidence URL links to insurrection evidence strategy Coordinating archival efforts; technical support saving Downloading evidence content; uploading to archive analysis Analyzing insurrection media doxing Proposals to target rioters via release of personal information arguing Political arguments seeding Contributing internet bandwidth to help distribute the archive encouragement Words of encouragement motivation Personal motive for participating in the archive fbi Proposals to share archive with FBI removal Flagging evidence as removed by user or platform caution Expressing ethical hesitation regarding archive project Such activities included emotional arguments, political analysis, calls for doxing and punishment, calls for evidence submission to the FBI, as well as activities traditionally associated with digital archiving such as locating sources, deduplicating material, and preserving material. Keywords: archive; datahoarder; insurrection; project

• RACE AND RISK: EXPLORING ONLINE RESPONSES TO THE EURO 2020 FINAL by Rosamond, Emily (2023.0) - In this paper, I analyze online responses to the 2020 Euro finals, with a focus on narratives expressing expectations about posters’ and platforms’ roles in propagating online racism. Analyzing a range of online responses to the 2020 Euro finals, with a focus on narratives expressing expectations about the level of racism Black players would face, I contextualize these responses within what I call a topological-colonial space: layered, shifting colonial temporalities, from the long history of British empire and its racisms, expressed in recent conflict over immigration in the UK (Kapoor, 2018; Gunaratnam, 2019; Bhattacharyya, 2018); to “data colonialism” (Couldry and Mejias, 2019), which sees large tech companies profiting from monopolizing data. Keywords: capitalism; euro; new; online; race; racism

• Digital Vigilantism As A Form Of Political Engagement? A Comparative Approach by Loveluck, Benjamin (2017.0) - Digital vigilantism as a form of political engagement? Drawing on both digital ethnography and political sociology, this contribution will first provide a more precise definition of what is meant by digital vigilantism. Keywords: action; form; university; vigilantism
• Social media, participation, peer pressure, and the European refugee crisis: a force awakens? by Gustafsson, Nils (2016.0) - These  extraordinary  events  calls  for  revisiting  a  number  of  recent  theoretical   developments  in  participation  research:  taking  into  account  the  vast  societal  impact  of   the  refugee  crisis  and  Sweden  as  a  country  characterised  by  high  levels  of  both  civic   voluntarism  and  social  media  use,  as  well  as  extreme  degrees  of  individualism  and   social  trust  (cf.  Gustafsson,  2013:  57f),  they  can  be  considered  to  be  a  critical  case  for   evaluating  Bennett  &  Segerberg's  (2013)  notions  of  personal  action  frames  and   connective  action,  as  well  as  Amnå  and  Ekman's  (2014)  standby  citizens  and  latent   participation,  describing  emerging  personalised  ways  of  interacting  with  social  and   political  issues  of  the  day  in  digitally  enabled  networks,  and  occasionally  becoming   mobilised  into  action.       Sweden  slams  shut  its  open-­door  policy  towards   refugees. Keywords: action; crisis; media; refugee
• The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Anti-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Coordination in Connective Action by Mercea, Dan; Funk, Andreas; Nixon, Paul (2013.0) - 9 (2%) .84 Personal Communicatio n A post that is a comment unrelated to ACTA and anti-ACTA actions. The first derives from social movement scholarship and alerts investigators to the pivotal position of activist organisations in fostering mobilisation in collective action by way of incentivising prospective participants. Keywords: acta; action; coordination; media; protest

• DINING ‘ON AND OFF’: FOOD, WELLBEING AND WECHAT USE AMONG OLDER CHINES MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA by Wang, Wilfred Yang; Yang, Yanan Jana (2020.0) - Redefining migrant media The surge of old Chinese migrants in Australia since early 2000s has coincided the global expansion of the PRC (People’s Republic of China) media (Kean and Wu 2018), which is particularly visible in Australia (Sun 2019). Food, Wellbeing and Wechat Use Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia . Keywords: australia; chinese; media; wechat
• (IN)DEPENDENCY ON THE HEGEMONIC TO BE HEARD: NEWS-FOCUSED WECHAT OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS IN AUSTRALIA AS A CASE STUDY by Yang, Fan (2021.0) - Chinese ethnic media in this research are characterised by the Chinese-language legacy or digital media developed by Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia. Based on the 27 interviews with Australian-Chinese media professionals, I argue that Chinese ethnic media perform an advocacy role for the Chinese diaspora with financial independence; however, they are dependent on and aspire to be part of Australia’s hegemonic postcolonial structure to be heard. Keywords: australia; hegemonic; media; migration

• If You’re Going Through Something Difficult, We’d Like To Help: The Limitations Of Hashtag Logics In Pro-Eating Disorder Content Moderation by Gerrard, Ysabel (2017.0) - It explores how: (1) pro-ED content can still be found without using the hashtag as a search mechanism; (2) users learn to recognize and signal each other as pro-ED in the absence of hashtags, and given the vulnerability of their posts to user-driven forms of moderation like flagging (see Crawford and Gillespie, 2016), and (3) platforms’ recommendation systems suggest pro-ED content to users despite policing. By May of 2012, Tumblr - along with Instagram and Pinterest - had publically announced its plans to minimize the spread of pro-ED content. Keywords: content; hashtag; media

• THE NEW SELFIE STANDARD: FACETUNE AND THE SHIFT TOWARD EAST ASIAN SELFIE AESTHETICS by Swerzenski, JD; Kim, Dasol (2021.0) - American users have taken to the app for its plethora of digital reconstructive tools not available through mainstream American apps such as Instagram or SnapChat (Solon, 2018). Using a Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA), we highlight how this friction resulted in differing East Asian cultural beliefs around technological practice (Brock, 2018). Keywords: asian; east; facetune; image
• A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND PROMPTS: TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES by Han, Jing; Iliadis, Andrew (2025.0) - TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES Jing Han Klein College of Media and Communication Temple University Andrew Iliadis Klein College of Media and Communication Temple University Text-to-image generation (AI art) has become a mainstream phenomenon since the introduction of DALL-E by OpenAI in January 2021 (Nast, 2023). Our study explores this aspect of AI art, aiming to understand the topics and themes within online AI art communities. Keywords: art; image; midjourney; models; photo; prompts; topics

• DIGITAL KINK OPACITY: SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA BEYOND VISIBILITY AND COMPREHENSION by Sundén, Jenny (2023.0) - Digital kink opacity: Sexual social media beyond visibility and comprehension. DIGITAL KINK OPACITY: SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA BEYOND VISIBILITY AND COMPREHENSION Jenny Sundén Södertörn University Building on and expanding discussions of the value of anonymity and pseudonymity in digital cultures in general (Hogan 2012, Marwick & boyd 2011, van der Nagel 2017, van der Nagel & Frith 2015), and in queer digital cultures in particular (e.g. Cassidy 2013, Dhoest & Szulc 2016), this paper explores notions of opacity as modes of resistance to dominating regimes of visibility on and beyond social media platforms. Keywords: digital; kink; media; opacity; visibility
• FROM “TEXT FOR LOCATION” TO “NO PHONE ON THE DANCE FLOOR”: NEGOTIATING VISIBILITY IN UNDERGROUND ELECTRONIC/DANCE MUSIC by Yang, Stephen (2023.0) - As engagement with social media increasingly turned mobile, the spatial and temporal dimensions of mobile and social media use afford new possibilities of visibility management. Much of visibility management entails the calibration “between hyper-visibility and under-visibility to avoid over-exposure in some areas and redirect audience interest to others” (Abidin, 2021, p. 1). Keywords: media; phone; underground; visibility

• EVOLVING IDENTITY ECONOMIES IN SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLDS by Won, Andrea Stevenson; Davis, Donna Zimmerman (2020.0) - However, properly understanding how users experience embodiment in social VR will also require a deep understanding of the history of social virtual worlds such as the now 17-year-old Second Life. Author #1 Andrea Stevenson Won Author #1 Cornell University Author #2 Donna Z. Davis Author #2 University of Oregon How have the cultures, economies and expectations of virtual worlds influenced users’ assumptions of privacy and the ability to express identity in immersive virtual worlds? Keywords: environments; immersive; reality; worlds
• COMMERCIAL AND RESEARCH CLUSTERING OF AUGMENTED REALITY: DISCOURSES AND DIVIDES BETWEEN AR APPS AND APPLICATIONS by Heemsbergen, Luke; Cadman, Same (2021.0) - The first is reviewing retrospective histories of AR research (see Kim et al. 2018) via mixed methods to make science and technology relationships visible in new ways. Cipresso et al. (2018; p15) use Web of Science (WoS) data - up to 2016 - to track the evolution of networks and cluster in AR research, stressing that as hardware becomes commodified (i.e. scalable to market) concerns are shifting to interaction potentials measured through a clinical phase of AR research. Keywords: media; reality; research

• CREDIBILITY AND SEARCH ENGINES. THE EFFECTS OF SOURCE REPUTATION, NEUTRALITY AND SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE SELECTION OF SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS by Unkel, Julian; Haas, Alexander (2015.0) - From a theoretical perspective, (1) this small influence can be seen as evidence for the secondary nature of credibility (cues) when it comes to the selection of search engine results. This means that neither were there any limitations of search results allowed to be viewed, nor were there any consequences of being exposed to inaccurate or biased information. Keywords: credibility; reputation; research; results; search; selection

• MACHINE OVER MIND? THE CLASH OF AGENCY IN SOCIAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS by McConnell, Stephen Joseph (2023.0) - Human agency in social cognitive theory. Stephen J. McConnell New York University / Colorado State University Extended Abstract Underlying many social media platforms are personalization engines designed to give people instant content and social recommendations to keep them engaged. Keywords: agency; environments; theory

• PARENTS’ DIGITAL COPING RESOURCES WITH ONGOING POLITICAL CONFLICTS by Yeshua-Katz, Daphna; Shapira, Stav; Braun-Lewensohn, Orna (2023.0) - To date, the role WhatsApp groups play for individuals, families, and communities living in regions affected by ongoing conflicts has yet to be investigated. PARENTS’ DIGITAL COPING RESOURCES WITH ONGOING POLITICAL CONFLICTS Daphna Yeshua-Katz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Stav Shapira Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Orna Braun-Lewensohn Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Mobile technologies such as the instant messaging application WhatsApp have become significant resources for information and social support in times of crisis (Laranjo et al., 2015) ), as well as for crisis communication (Afifi et al., 2019, 2020; Stephens et al., 2020). Keywords: coping; parents; whatsapp

• INDEPENDENT AUTHORS’ DEPENDENCE ON BIG TECH: CATEGORIZATION AND GOVERNANCE OF AUTHORS OF COLOR ON AMAZON by Parnell, Claire Louise (2021.0) - This conceptual model enables and understanding of the distinctive features of book publishing platforms and their influence on the processes of production and reception online. Book publishing on digital platforms is intensely mediated by the technology companies on which authors rely to publish and disseminate their work. Keywords: amazon; authors; books; publishing

• THE EMERGENT R/ANTIWORK REVOLUTION AND MANAGERIAL ALLIES by Stillman, Ari (2023.0) - In this digital space, without directly referencing Antiwork, managers, recruiters, and business owners critique strawmen business practices and assert how they better serve workers. Heralded by some as the successor to #OccupyWallSt (O’Connor 2022), Antiwork is the other side of the Great Resignation for those who cannot afford to leave their livelihood. Keywords: 2022; antiwork; class; managers; members
• Leaving Church: Resisting Mormon authority and community in online-offline dimensions by Cheong, Pauline Hope; Fisk, Megan (2013.0) - Yet some members choose to leave their religious organizations, resist religious authorities and (re)appropriate religious texts as they exit the church. Prior research on religious disaffiliation have focused on demographic variables such as education level (e.g. Caplovitz & Sherrow, 1977), socio-psychological traits like rebellion against parental control (e.g. Hoge, Johnson, & Luidens, 1993) and life events where positive life experiences, such as job promotion, are associated with increased faith while negative experiences, such as death of a family member, are associated with loss of faith (Albrect and Cornwall, 1989). Keywords: church; disaffiliation; members; religion; research
• ONLINE PEER SUPPORT IN CYBERBULLYING: INVESTIGATING ONLINE FORA OF YOUTH HELPLINE ORGANISATIONS by Bastiaensens, Sara; Vandebosch, Heidi; Poels, Karolien; Van Cleemput, Katrien; DeSmet, Ann; De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse (2015.0) - Furthermore, this study aimed to contribute to existing cyberbullying research that was limited to identifying social support providers (Dehue, Bolman, & Völlink, 2008; e.g. Jacobs et al., 2015; Livingstone et al., 2011), by investigating the content of adolescents’ (online) social support with regard to cyberbullying: what kind of social support is sought or provided and how is social support provided (what do adolescents exactly say to cyberbullying victims). Sara Bastiaensens University of Antwerp Heidi Vandebosch University of Antwerp Karolien Poels University of Antwerp Katrien Van Cleemput University of Antwerp Ann DeSmet Ghent University Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University Research aim: Investigating online social support with regard to cyberbullying Cyberbullying is a pervasive problem with adolescents. Keywords: cyberbullying; fora; members; online; support; victims

• CULTURE, DISCOURSE, AND GAMEPLAY: NEW MEDIA CITIZENSHIP IN SINGAPORE by Williams, J. Patrick; Suhaimi, Zahirah (2014.0) - Culture, discourse, and gameplay: new media citizenship in Singapore. Description of the study and methods In this presentation, we report on a study that seeks to connect (macro-level) public discourses on new media citizenship with (micro-level) interactional narratives about online gameplay. Keywords: citizenship; media; narratives; singapore

• The Ordinary Market For Fake Likes by Beauvisage, Thomas; Mellet, Kevin (2017.0) - These counterfeiting practices aiming at increasing social counters are the main reason for the rise of the market for fake likes, but when the market got more mature, social media agencies realized their interest was in taking clear distance with deceptive practices. Reputation economy is positioned at the convergence of two dynamics: the expansion of quantification and performance measurements contributing to the establishment of an audit society (Espeland and Sauder, 2007), and the rise of social media marketing as an autonomous activity dealing with online reputation, seeking to identify, manage, and domesticate online participation (Mellet, 2016). Keywords: followers; likes; market; media
• NOT YOUR ROBIN HOOD: GAMESTOP AND PLATFORM ECONOMICS AT PLAY by Stanfill, Mel; Salter, Anastasia (2021.0) - Most notably, the corresponding Discord server was banned “for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings…we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks” (Peters 2021a). “Robinhood Stops Users From Trading GameStop Stocks, Other Reddit YOLO Picks.” Keywords: gamestop; january; market; robinhood

• EMBEDDED DANGERS: THE HISTORY OF THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM AND THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPAIR by Mulvin, Dylan Wesley (2016.0) - By  studying  these   three  effects,  this  paper  reconfigures  the  role  of  Y2K  in  the  history  of  computers,   infrastructure,  and  information  systems  by  placing  the  bug  within  the  larger  contexts  of   infrastructure  renewal,  public  works,  and  technological  literacy.       Y2K:   Millennial   reflections   on   computers   as   infrastructure.   Keywords: bug; computer; repair; y2k

• SOCIAL MEDIA INSECURITIES IN EVERYDAY LIFE AMONG YOUNG ADULTS – AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS JODEL DISCLOSURES by Larsen, Malene Charlotte (2020.0) - The analysis is based on a two-year online ethnography (Hine, 2015) conducted on Jodel, an anonymous location based social media app popular among young adults across Europe. During the analysis it is explored how different disclosures of feeling insecure can be linked to the design of different social media apps or recent design updates that have a somehow negative impact on the user’s wellbeing and overall purpose of using the apps: Human connectedness. Keywords: adults; jodel; media; scollon

• WEAPONIZATION OF LIVENESS: STREAMING DEATH AS A HYBRID MEDIA EVENT OF TERRORIST VIOLENCE by Tikka, Minttu Tuulia; Sumiala, Johanna; Harju, Anu; Valaskivi, Katja (2020.0) - Weaponization of Liveness: How Live Streaming Activates Hybrid Media Events of Extreme Violence. Thus, the concept of hybrid media event here refers to the type of media event of violence that is typically created in and by digital media, where legacy media together with other media actors (including perpetrators) all contribute to the ‘live making and sharing’ of violence (Sumiala et al. 2018). Keywords: event; hybrid; liveness; media

• EXPLORING NETWORKED IDENTITY AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILIZATION IN UKRAINE’S EUROMAIDAN PROTEST by Lokot, Tetyana; Boichak, Olga (2020.0) - The centrality of protest discussion and related activity in the semantic maps illustrates the key role of social media in mediating diasporic protest participation by layering digital networks over existing diasporic personal connections. Contribution This study contributes to the broader field of transnational mediated protest participation by using a hybrid methodological approach to examine diasporic mobilization of Ukrainians living in the U.S. during the Euromaidan protests. Keywords: euromaidan; media; protest; ukraine

• CONSPIRITUALITY CAPITALISM: YOGA, AUTHENTICITY, AND WHITENESS ON A STREAMING VIDEO PLATFORM by Eadon, Yvonne (2023.0) - A preliminary topic model of Gaia article headlines from 2019 – 2022 (n=778) reveals that, despite billing itself as primarily a website for on-demand yoga classes, yoga is only the fourth most common topic discussed on the website. Gaia’s particular brand of conspirituality capitalism involves structures that are rooted in the partnership between authenticity and whiteness. Keywords: age; capitalism; conspirituality; gaia; yoga

• HASHTAG ACTIVISM LOST IN TRANSLATION: THE REFORMULATION OF #METOO IN JAPAN by Mizoroki, Saki; Shifman, Limor; Hayashi, Kaori (2021.0) - We tentatively argue that it’s not values as essential orientations but the prevalent perceptions of popular values that limit activism. However, while most participants appreciated the movement, they were afraid of retaliation and isolation, given their perception of Japanese values. Keywords: values
• THE CHESHIRE CAT OF SOCIAL MEDIA: VALUES IN PLATFORM POLICIES by Scharlach, Rebecca; Hallinan, Blake; Shifman, Limor (2021.0) - While prior research has examined the construction of individual values such as privacy and transparency in platform policies, there has been no holistic account of the values invoked in these documents. Values can thus be described as the ‘Cheshire cat’ of social media platform policies – they look magical, but once touched, may assume a different shape, pop up in an alternative location, or even disappear. Keywords: values

• TRACES OF BLACK FREEDOM IN THE MACHINE: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF DIGITAL BLACK RELIGION by Gault, Erika (2021.0) - The work of Black religious media scholars is paired with that of Heidi Campbell and others writing on digital religion to offer a needed approach to the articulation and study of digital Black religion. This paper provides both a survey and framework for the study of digital Black religion. Keywords: digital; religion; study

• The Expert And The Networked Public: Professional And Amateur Wedding Photographers In The Facebooked Wedding by Ribak, Rivka; Fridman-Naot, Dina (2017.0) - Drawing on interviews with ten wedding photographers and ten newlywed couples, as well as Facebook pages of wedding photographers and newlywed groups, we will suggest that as independent, artisanal photographers (Frosh, in press) whose livelihood depends on direct sales to the market, wedding photographers managed to distinguish themselves from the networked public of amateur photographers and overcome this impending crisis through professional, technological and artistic upskilling. THE EXPERT AND THE NETWORKED PUBLIC: PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR WEDDING PHOTOGRAHERS IN THE FACEBOOKED WEDDING Dina Fridman-Naot Department of Communication, University of Haifa Rivka Ribak Department of Communication, University of Haifa A typical middle class wedding in Israel is documented by roughly 3000-6000 still photos taken by friends, family, service providers and professional photographers, uploaded and shared throughout the ceremony, and archived thereafter in various online, offline and printed photo albums. Keywords: guests; photographers; photography; wedding
• THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF PHOTO-BASED MEME GENRES by Shifman, Limor (2014.0) - Yet photo based meme genres represent a transition from death to life and from past to present. The three memetic genres explored in this paper vary greatly in terms of their content, form and stance: (1) Reaction Photoshops are collections of images created in response to memetic photos (author, 2013b): a small group of photographs that provoke extensive creative reactions (e.g. The Situation Room). Keywords: genres; meme; photography; photos

• SMUTTY FANTASY IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE: SELF-PUBLISHED EROTIC ROMANCE AND SPACES OF ALTERNATIVE FEMININISM by Gilbert, Anne (2015.0) - Romance/erotica  brought  in   $1.1  billion  in  2013,  with  digital  book  sales  outpacing  romances  published  in  other   formats  (Terrero,  2014).   Blogs,  with  names  such  as  Shh  Moms  Reading,  Flirty  and  Dirty  Book  Blog,  The   SubClub  Books,  and  Up  All  Night  Book  Blog,  are  modeled  on  longer-­standing  romance   review  sites  such  as  All  About  Romance  and  Smart  Bitches,  Trashy  Books. Keywords: blogs; book; romance

• SECRET KILLERS “AFTER WIKILEAKS”: MAPPING, EVOLUTIONS, AND TAXONOMY OF RADICAL LEAKING by Heemsbergen, Luke (2018.0) - Beyond documenting evidence towards a socio-technical taxonomy of leaks sites, discussion of our findings considers how an ecology of digital leaks served (and severed) normative ties to problematic equations of ‘transparency’ and democracy (Flyverbom, 2016; Hansen and Flyverbom, 2015) in the digital world. Specifically, we offer a critical assessment of leaks sites’ radical disclosures though a frame of governmentality and agonistic and algorithmic (Heemsbergen, 2016; Ananny and Crawford, 2016) democracy. Keywords: leaks; sites; transparency; wikileaks

• The process of adapting to mobile tablet devices by switching between distractive and productive multitasking by Park, Sora (2013.0) - Distractive multitasking � distraction from studies (Diana) � straying off to non-relevant information (Jacob) � push applications as source of distraction (Rene) � Self modulation; � Keywords: devices; distraction; media; multitasking

• CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION: TRUSTING THE MOBILE PHONE TO CROSS BORDERS by Ferris-Dobles, Michele Francis (2019.0) - Central American migrants invest a significant amount of their limited budget in mobile phones and Internet coverage plans because they feel that access to communication provides them with security. While they are crossing through the Mexican territory, Central American migrants face hazardous situations of extortion, torture, and kidnapping, as well as abuse and violence from the organized crime and the Mexican migration authorities (Feldmann et al. 2018). Keywords: american; central; migration; new

• NOT FAR ENOUGH: HOW WORKPLACE HARASSMENT POLICIES FAIL TO PROTECT SCHOLARS FROM ONLINE ABUSE by Gosse, Chandell Enid; Hodson, Jaigris; Veletsianos, George (2021.0) - However, the integration and reliance on these technologies into scholars’ work lives have heightened their online visibility, which has opened the door to new experiences of online abuse, such as Zoom-bombing, doxing, and inappropriate and violent comments (Burnett, 2020; Elmer, Glyn Burton, & Neville, 2020; Frangou, 2019). Scholars also report being left to deal with the consequences of online abuse primarily on their own, with little support from their institution (Authors, 2018b). Keywords: abuse; policies; scholars; university
• CYBERBULLYING, CREEPSHOTS, AND REVENGE PORN: THREE CASE STUDIES IN AUGMENTED SUBJECTIVITY by Rey, PJ; Boesel, Erin (2014.0) - At the same time, however, digital dualism also tells us that digitally mediated interaction is less “real” or meaningful than are other types of interaction, which allows digitally mediated abuse to be brushed off as somehow “less real,” less harmful, or even not abuse at all. While the negative consequences for victims of cyberbullying, creepshots, and revenge porn are often clear, we have difficulty acknowledging and addressing these issues because our culturally inherited framework for understanding them, and even our language for describing them, is encoded with assumptions that our experiences with or through digital technologies are separate and distinct from the rest of our lives. Keywords: abuse; cyberbullying; digital; media

• CARNAL PRACTICES: PORN CONSUMPTION AMONG QUEER EAST ASIAN MEN by Jones, Shawn Suyong Yi (2023.0) - Paasonen identifies three ways in which affect theory can be used in porn studies: theorizing the encounters and intensities between porn and the viewer (this position views affect as non-personal), examining how intensities and attachments are understood and communicated (which positions affect as embodied), and explicitly incorporating the researcher’s affective experiences and reflections. My contribution to affective porn studies is to focus on the latter by building on Paasonen’s concept of carnal resonance and applying it to the examination of how porn is used by consumers. Keywords: affect; paasonen; porn

• Disrupting Online Racism Against Māori In Aotearoa/New Zealand by Rankine, Jennifer Margaret (2017.0) - DISRUPTING ONLINE RACISM AGAINST MĀORI IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND Jenny Rankine University of Auckland, New Zealand This visual presentation illustrated a pilot study that developed anti-racist graphics in an attempt to disrupt dominant anti-Māori discourses on news Facebook pages in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Applying discourse analysis to develop anti-racist graphics also resulted in a methodological finding - a transferable five-step process for developing counter- hegemonic visual and textual alternatives to dominant online discourses that undermine social justice. Keywords: anti; graphics; māori; new; pages; racism

• FISHING FOR FOLLOWERS: USING HASHTAGS AS LIKE BAIT IN SOCIAL MEDIA by Jungselius, Beata; Hilman, Thomas; Weilenmann, Alexandra (2014.0) - Receiving likes has been shown to be a major concern for many social media users (blinded for review). Even those users who did not use hashtags themselves stated that instagrams with many hashtags receive more likes than those without. Keywords: followers; hashtags; likes

• spir-10497 by None (None) - To explore how individuals’ writing changed before and after 7 November, we fit a statistical model to the daily distribution of tweet lengths. The difference between the observed distribution of tweet lengths and the expected lognormal fits for (a) 100 < Keywords: change; character; length; limit; tweet

• SEARCHING FOR TASKS: TASK-ORIENTATION AND THE PROCESSUALITY OF DIGITAL SKILLS by Stewart, Nicole; Lesage, Frederik (2020.0) - Our focus for this project is an investigation into how people perform unfamiliar tasks with digital media using the four processional phases. Unfamiliar tasks are an inherent part of our digitally-mediated everyday life to the extent that we have learned to ‘cope’ (see Sigaut 1994; see Ingold, 2000, p. 332; see also Nicolosi & Falsaperna, 2015, p. 71) with them — making them, in turn, one of our most ubiquitous and essential digital skills. Keywords: ingold; media; skills; task

• ONLINE SHARING OF OFFLINE DO-IT-YOURSELF ACCESSIBILITY HACKING PRACTICES by Robinson, Jerry Lamont (2014.0) - Medical, corporate, consumer and other common disability discourses are built on certain assumptions about what it means to be disabled and can inform the provision of service to people with disabilities [3]. Wheelchairjunkie threads and Hackability blog posts will be content analyzed and coded based on general themes found in the hacker literature and definitions of common disability discourses. Keywords: accessibility; disabilities; disability; discourses; diy; hack

• MOTIVATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS FOR VIRTUAL GIFT-GIVING IN DOUYIN LIVE STREAMS by Klug, Daniel; Qiu, Huilian Sophie (2021.0) - In contrast, our observation of several ‘PK’ (‘player killing’) competitions in ‘good-looking hosts’ Douyin live streams shows viewers send virtual gifts to help their favorite host win the competition which holds implicit expectations. 2 Three Types of Douyin Live Streams We are looking at three types of live streams by young male hosts (= streamers) on Douyin to analyze the motivations of female viewers to watch and make virtual gifts to the hosts and to explore resulting power relations between hosts and viewers. Keywords: douyin; gifts; live; viewers

• GRAPPLING WITH THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH: ASIAN AMERICAN FOOD BLOGGERS’ ACTIVISM THROUGH BLACK LIVES MATTER ON INSTAGRAM. by Dejmanee, Tisha (2023.0) - Instead, Asian American food bloggers distanced themselves from the structural racism experienced by Black Americans in subtle ways such as distinguishing between the microaggressions they had experienced and the ‘more serious’ racism and threats faced by Black Americans. Asian American food bloggers also acknowledged their many privileges and, while it is true that Asian American food bloggers – as with the majority of food bloggers – tend to be socioeconomically privileged given the cultural capital, skills and resources currently required to maintain a professional food blog, when they acknowledge their privilege in conjunction with their identification as Asian American, this works to conflate the myth of Asian American exceptionalism that discounts the distinct socioeconomic bifurcation and heterogeneity within the Asian American community. Keywords: american; asian; bloggers; food
• “Regular People with a Passion for Fashion”: Authenticity, Community, and Other Social Media Myths by Duffy, Brooke Erin (2013.0) - The ascendance of fashion bloggers is also reshaping other sites of cultural production, particularly the women’s magazine and fashion industries. Indeed, fashion bloggers are now granted access to Fashion Week and other haute couture events, encroaching on territory once exclusively reserved for magazine editors and A-list celebrities. Keywords: bloggers; blogging; fashion; media; myth

• THE SILLY PICTURES DISAPPEAR: EPHEMERAL SOCIAL MEDIA AS BOUNDARY PLAY by Shklovski, Irina; Hervik, Simon Bruun (2015.0) - In contrast to the total recall and save everything ethos of digital pioneers (Bell & Gemmell, 2009), recent popularity of applications such as Snapchat that offer erasure of shared media by default suggests that ephemerality of digital content is important. The notion of ephemerality is in direct conflict with the underlying perception of permanence of digital content and its endless multiplication. Keywords: content; ephemerality; media; snapchat

• Smart world, smart rules? On the Legitimacy of Digital Systems of Social Rules by Orwat, Carsten; Hügle, Anika; König, René (2016.0) - Keywords:  Rules,  Legitimacy,  Politics,  Governance     The  rapid  realization  of  the  “Internet  of  Everything”,  e.g.  connected  smart  homes,  smart   cities,  smart  cars  and  infrastructures,  smart  grids,  etc.,  requires  and  causes  that   systems  of  social  rules  for  human  and  machine  interactions  are  implemented,   administered  and  enforced  by  digital  means  to  an  unprecedented  level.   Furthermore,  increasingly  “subnets”  of  the  Internet  emerge  (such  as  more  or  less  closed   traffic  management  networks,  connected  value  chains,  smart  home  and  entertainment   networks,  commercial  platforms)  with  rules  defining  access  and  usages  options. Keywords: legitimacy; rules

• FAKE NEWS DURING NATURAL DISASTER: INFORMATION FLOW, NEWS PRACTICES AND FACT-CHECKING IN INDONESIA by Kwanda, Febbie Austina; Lin, Trisha T. C. (2019.0) - Unlike news media, social media lacks the gatekeeping process of messages, which is likely to increase the virally diffusion of fake news. During a disaster aftermath at Palu city, Indonesia in September 2018; fake news proliferated and news media tried to curb their dissemination to avoid negative impacts on the public. Keywords: disaster; https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/03/research-into-information-disorder-in-asia/; https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/03/research-into-information-disorder-in-asia/ https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/03/research-into-information-disorder-in-asia/; https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-elections-key-issues-religion-fake-news-jokowi-prabowo-11445946 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-elections-key-issues-religion-fake-news-jokowi-prabowo-11445946; media

• Independent Podcasting as a Specific Online Participative Subculture: a case study of Montreal’s podcasters by Millette, melanie (2011.0) - The project is directed by Professor Serge Proulx; Professor Lorna Heaton is conducting a case study on a botanical wiki (TelaBotanica), Mary Jane Kwok Choon is studying the use of Facebook by two NGOs in Mauritius, and I am doing a third case study on independent podcasters and the linkage between their individual and group contributions. In the discussions of Montreal podcasters and their listeners, we observed recurring references to urban and local geography. Keywords: audio; broadcasting; content; media; podcasters; podcasting; practice; radio; subculture; usage

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS IM/MOBILITY: PRE-LIMIRARY THOUGHTS ON UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF AI IN IMMIGRATION SYSTEMS by Toupin, Sophie (2023.0) - These populations become testing grounds to experiment with AI systems and decide who is worthy of im/mobility. Methodologically, this conference paper is informed by access to information requests made to the government of Canada to shed light on the use of AI systems within the IRCC. Keywords: canada; immigration; system

• TOO MANY COOKS: TRUSTING NEW VOICES IN ONLINE CULINARY ADVICE by Kirkwood, Katherine (2019.0) - This paper questions then how media personalities obtain trust in a foodscape that is becoming increasingly complex as both the number of dietary approaches, as well as avenues for engaging with food media proliferate. In relation to digital food media, Lewis (2018, 214) argues that “food citizens increasingly require a critical media literacy…”. Keywords: evans; food; gibson; media
• GUT AND BUTT DESIRES AND THE HETEROSEXUAL IMAGINARY: THE PIONEER WOMAN BLOGS ABOUT FOOD, FAT, AND COWBOYS IN CHAPS by White, Michele (2015.0) - Hello,  lover”  and  highlights  varied  sorts  of  gut  feelings.8  Pie  Near   Woman  stresses  the  queer  eroticism  of  these  addresses  by  depicting  Drummond   rubbing  against,  penetrating  herself  with,  and  dousing  herself  in  food.   She  dreams  of  a  feminine  world  where  the   combination  of  physically  touching  and  emotionally  feeling  produces  clean  whiteness.2   Through  such  images  and  accounts,  Drummond  and  many  of  her  readers  articulate  a   culture  of  shared  tastes,  histories,  and  identities  and  begin  to  trouble  these  positions  by   offering  visions  of  the  queer  relationship  and  child—the  daughter  as  dirty,  “man,”  and   husband.3  Drummond  thus  performs  a  version  of  the  “heterosexual  imaginary”  that,  as   Chrys  Ingraham  argues,  is  a  “way  of  thinking  which  conceals  the  operation  of   heterosexuality  in  structuring  gender”  while  constantly  hinting  at  the  queer.4       Drummond’s  articulation  of  norms  should  be  cause  for  concern  because  her  The   Pioneer  Woman  blog  has  millions  of  readers  every  month.5  In  the  blog,  Drummond   promises  that  she  is  “Keepin’  it  Real”;;  indicates  her  “love”  for  readers;;  and  chronicles   her  life  as  a  rancher,  wife,  mother,  homeschooler,  author,  and  television  personality.6   Drummond’s  self-­identification  as  an  ordinary  white  heteronormative  woman,  without  of   course  ever  using  these  terms,  is  undermined  by  her  own  corporeal  expressions  and  a   group  of  blogging  critics,  including  the  Pie  Near  Woman  blogger  who  deploys   photographs  of  doll  tableaus  as  a  means  of  parodying  Drummond. Keywords: drummond; food; pioneer; woman

• BETWEEN INCLUSION & EXCLUSION: THE DIGITAL LIVES OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES by Bastick, Zach; Mallet, Marie L. (2021.0) - We constructed an interview guide covering pertinent themes: (1) digital access and skills; (2) attitudes towards digital technologies; (3) outcomes related to undocumented status; (4) impacts on transnational family practices; (5) privacy and attitudes towards government and corporate data collection; (6) attitudes towards AI (such as newsfeeds); (7) self-efficacy in detecting fake news; and (8) pandemic related impacts on digital inclusion. Despite the heightened effects that digital inclusion may have on this precarious group, there is a paucity of research on their digital lives. Keywords: exclusion; immigrants; inclusion

• PERCEPTIONS OF DARKNESS: MOBILE MEDIA AND THE EMBODIMENT OF RISK AND SAFETY IN THE URBAN NIGHT by Hardley, Jess; Richardson, Ingrid (2019.0) - Perceptions of darkness: Mobile media and the embodiment of risk and safety in the urban night. A recent conference on darkness convened in Norway (https://darknessconference2019.wordpress.com) covered such topics as folk literature, artificial intelligence, light pollution, religion, philosophy, architecture and nature, yet much of the research in this area neglects the impact of both the networked infrastructure of the city – what de Souza e Silva and Sutko (2009) term “net-local space” – and the place of mobile media in people’s nighttime practices and their experience and perception of the urban dark. Keywords: darkness; media; night; safety

• SHOUTING AT THE TELEVISION: ARGUMENTATION STRATEGIES IN SECOND SCREEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE FOR CHILEAN POLITICAL TV SHOWS by Ibarra Herrera, Daniela; Unger, Johann Wolfgang (2016.0) - The  displaying  of  tweets  on  screen  could  be  relevant  to  the  users  of   these  type  of  media  because  the  fact  of  their  opinions  can  be  display  on  the  screen  and   be  part  of  the  TV  show,  maybe  influence  the  structure  of  their  arguments  and  the   resources  used  in  them.       This  is  particularly  visible  in  situations  where  tweets  are   displayed,  commented  on  or  alluded  to  during  TV  programmes,  thus  creating  a  multi-­ directional  relation  between  viewers  and  TV  shows  (Jensen,  2015). Keywords: media; screen; shows

• Branding the Local: Anti-corporate Resistance in Online Consumer Reviews by Kuehn, Kathleen M (2013.0) - Through a case study of one such listing site, Yelp.com, the following textual analysis asks the following questions: How do consumers construct localism in consumer reviews? Similarly, consumer reviews as expressions of lifestyle politics also appears in the articulations of the “local.” Keywords: consumer; local; localism; reviews

• FROM TOY AND TOOL TO PARTNER AND PERSON: PHENOMENAL CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE AMONG GAME AVATAR METAPHORS by Banks, Jaime; Bowman, Nicholas David (2015.0) - As such, we ask: RQ1: Can avatar metaphors be meaningfully situated within the sociality continuum? and, if so: RQ2: Can avatar metaphors be collapsed into a parsimonious model for metaphorically characterizing player-avatar sociality? Keywords: avatar; metaphors; player; sociality

• Practicing Disconnection in The Digital Age by Dremljuga, Ramona-Riin (2017.0) - While appropriating their own use of social media, the disconnected often make other users aware of the alternatives for remaining connected without the most habitual platforms or features. Imagined Facebook: An Exploratory study of non-users’ perceptions of social media in rural Zambia. Keywords: disconnected; disconnection; media

• The Mediatization Of Leadership: Grassroots Digital Facilitators As Organic Intellectuals by Felt, Mylynn; Bakardjieva, Maria; Dumitrica, Delia (2017.0) - Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. Social movements in an organizational society. Keywords: leadership; media; movements

• CYBERSPACE, THE SOCIAL GRAPH AND NEW MEDIA RUPTURE- TALK by Stevenson, Michael (2014.0) - CYBERSPACE, THE SOCIAL GRAPH AND NEW MEDIA RUPTURE- TALK Michael Stevenson University of Groningen From visions of virtual community in the early 1990s to more recent claims that social media are instilling a culture of openness, the web has long been associated with radical change in the media landscape. What should be made of these narratives of rupture in new media culture? Keywords: new; rupture; talk

• ‘ANNE GOES ROGUE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS!’ EXPLORING DISCURSIVE MATERIALIZATION ACROSS AND BEYOND ONLINE PLATFORMS by Myles, David (2018.0) - For this presentation, we use our case study to understand how pro- choice activists invoked the symbolic ‘figure’ of rogue Anne to give weight to their own arguments by speaking or acting in her name. Hence, our study examined the processes through which the figure of rogue Anne was made present in interaction, the role of digital (online) and physical (offline) affordances in the materialization of this figure, and the differentiated effects that these invocations generated (like countering, defining, (re)framing, publicizing, denying, etc.). Keywords: abortion; anne; figure; rogue

• ISLANDS OF FREEDOM: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WIKILEAKS, AND THE ARCHIVE IMAGINARY by Witte, John James (2015.0) - Not only that, but the Library of Congress has spent most of the last two and half decades seeking to move fully into the information age, and to establish a universal digital archive which might one day provide every single piece of information in existence to all citizens of the United States, and even other citizens of the UN community. Islands Of Freedom: Library Of Congress, Wikileaks, And The Archive Imaginary. Keywords: congress; library; wikileaks

• ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES IN THE MAKING: BRAZILIAN UBERTUBERS ENCOUNTERS WITH SURGE PRICING ALGORITHMS by Guerra, Ana; de Brito d'Andréa, Carlos Frederico (2021.0) - Our focus is understanding how these “Ubertubers” — drivers who built their YouTube presence based on their identity as Uber drivers — explain and demonstrate how SP works, producing and sharing their own visual inscriptions (Latour, 1999). This algorithmic governance is routinely questioned and appropriated by drivers. Keywords: drivers; uber; ubertubers

• HANDMADE HUSTLE: ETSY, WHITENESS, AND GENDERED PRECARITY by Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth (2021.0) - In their book Starting an Etsy Business for Dummies, Allison Strine and Kate Shoup (2011) outline strategies for aspiring Etsy sellers to “channel their passion for their craft into their life’s work” (p. 1). I analyze products sold on Etsy that rhetorically engage gendered labor dynamics and precarity through the language of hustling or entrepreneurship. Keywords: boss; etsy; hustling; products

• INTERNET SAFETY EDUCATION: HOW WE EDUCATE OUR GIRLS TO BEWARE OF OTHERS, AND OUR BOYS TO BEWARE OF THEMSELVES by Steinfeld, Nili (2019.0) - With respect to risks, the survey indicates girls are more concerned than boys about almost every aspect of online risks, including exposure of information about them to others and being exposed to inappropriate content. How does “talking about the Internet with others” affect teenagers’ experience of online risks? Keywords: boys; girls; online
• GIRLS, GADGETS AND GATEKEEPERS: HOW GENDER AND CLASS ASPIRATIONS SHAPE ADOLESCENT ACCESS TO MOBILE PHONES IN MUMBAI, INDIA by Bhallamudi, Isha (2021.0) - Taylor 2019; Poushter 2016), despite the fact that the majority of the world’s population relies on mobile phone sharing, which is egregiously understudied, to access mobile phones (Donner 2008). GIRLS, GADGETS AND GATEKEEPERS: HOW GENDER AND CLASS ASPIRATIONS SHAPE ADOLESCENT ACCESS TO MOBILE PHONES IN MUMBAI, INDIA Isha Bhallamudi UC Irvine Research Question, Context and Methods Indian society, broadly speaking, views mobile phones as simultaneously a cause of risk to girls and women, and a way to reduce the risks they face; as an artefact that poses dangers but also represents safety; that offers opportunities to empower individuals and at the same time the potential to disrupt the social order of class, caste and gender and its internal hierarchies. Keywords: class; girls; phones

• ONLINE SPACES, IMPOSSIBLE IMAGINARIES, AND SYNTHETIC SOCIALITY by Sinnreich, Aram; John, Nicholas (2023.0) - The affordances of social media platforms are not handed down from on high, or birthed in their final form (Bijker & Law, 1992); to the contrary, this ever-changing feature set is continually reshaped through a contingent set of circumstances: the fact of online abuse and harassment (Massanari, 2017); the features for controlling the presence of others (Author, 2022); the economic incentives for social media platforms, which grant users control over their experience so that they remain on the platform (Light & Cassidy, 2014); and the large-scale political functions of social media (Gillespie, 2018). However, not everyone wishes to be in contact with so many people at once; nor do social media users wish to hear everything that every other user has to say. Keywords: feature; media; sociality

• PRESENTING PERFECTION: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN THE REHEARSAL STAGE OF ONLINE INTERACTION by Ditchfield, Hannah (2020.0) - The pre-post space of online interaction has also, until now, not been theorised. This analysis, however, unveiled an elaborate editing process in which users engage in several minutes of work that including multiple edits, large deletions and complete rewrites with users altering presentations of self drastically in this preparatory space of online interaction (see full paper: Ditchfield, 2020). Keywords: interaction; media; post

• Personal Digital Storyworlds, Narrative Architects, and Gmail by Zalinger, Jason (2013.0) - Facebook and Google have become what I call personal digital storyworlds. The goal is to provide new insights that advance academic conversations about personal digital archives, which will become an essential element of Web 3.0. Keywords: gmail; narrative; storyworlds; winston

• Binge watching the algorithmic catalog: an analysis of Twitter’s reaction to the launch of Netflix Italia by Giglietto, Fabio; Checcaglini, Chiara; Mazzoli, Lella (2016.0) - Methodology Dataset consists of 36,976 tweets (45% retweets, 0.6% @replies) created by 22,635 unique contributors between 10/20/2015 and 10/24/2015 and containing the official hashtag #ciaoNetflix, a mention to the official Twitter account of Netflix Italia (@NetflixIT) or the generic term Netflix in tweets written in Italian language. Longly awaited by local fans of TV series, the launch of the platform in the Italian market expanded the existing growing offer of TV content providers. Keywords: binge; netflix; series; watching
• COMMERCIAL-FREE TV?: EXAMINING THE COMMODITY FLOW OF NETFLIX by Yale, Camille (2015.0) - In this paper I take on the assertion that Internet media services like Netflix are challenging the commercially- driven traditional media model and democratizing media consumption. Netflix is a player in this TV revolution, and its rallying cry is its modest price and personalized, commercial-free experience. Keywords: commodity; media; netflix; new

• THE ANATOMY OF DIGITAL CLOUT(CHASING): BLACK AESTHETICS, ONLINE VISIBILITY AND RELATIONAL LABOR AMONG DIY HIP-HOP MUSICIANS ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE by Evans, Jabari Miles (2021.0) - Social media support the strength of fan communities by providing launching pads for these burgeoning artists to speak directly to fans of their music, build personal relationships with them and let them share in their creative process (Baym, 2012). Much research on various forms of Influencers on social media has focused on self-curation (Abidin, 2014; Marwick, 2015; Wissinger, 2015), follower-engagement (Abidin, 2015), authenticity (Hopkins and Thomas, 2011) and advertorial disclosure (Ots and Abidin, 2015), as well as ordinary users as ‘promotional apparatus’ for brands (Carah and Shaul, 2016) and as participants in electronic word of mouth (Erkan, 2015). Keywords: clout; hip; hop; media

• ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE. FRUSTRATION EXPERIENCES WITH NETWORKED MEDIA AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT by Peil, Corinna (2021.0) - Checking if the site connection is secure vimeo.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. Corinna Peil - On the verge of collapse Verify to continue To continue, please confirm that you're a human (and not a spambot). Keywords: connection
• ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE VIDEO CONFERENCING ‘SPACE' by Jacobs, Naomi Jane; Lindley, Joseph (2021.0) - Room for Improvement in the Video Conferencing (Space) Verify to continue To continue, please confirm that you're a human (and not a spambot). Checking if the site connection is secure vimeo.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. Keywords: connection

• DIGITAL STRESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE by Wimmer, Jeffrey; Waldenburger, Lisa (2020.0) - How do they describe digital stress, is it different from other forms of stress and how does digital stress express itself? DIGITAL STRESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Jeffrey Wimmer University Augsburg – Department for Media, Knowledge and Communication Lisa Waldenburger University Augsburg – Department for Media, Knowledge and Communication Research question: What is digital stress? Keywords: stress; und

• Navigating A New Life: Syrian Refugees And Their Smartphones In Vienna by Kaufmann, Katja (2017.0) - Forced migrants, new media practices, and the creation of locality. Mobility, migration and new media: Manoeuvring through physical, digital and liminal spaces. Keywords: digital; media; new; refugees; smartphones

• MEGAPHONE: SOCIAL-MEDIA-NATIVE OUTLETS BETWEEN EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE AND ALGORITHMIC CONSTRAINTS by Frayha, Assil; Kraidy, Marwan M. (2021.0) - While we mainly focus on the rise of independent digital media outlets like Megaphone which accompanied Lebanon’s 2019 uprising, we also show how, in Lebanon, independence movements, protest movements, and uprisings have historically contributed to introducing new media forms and outlets and shaping Lebanon’s media. Though the role of digital media in protests has received plenty of attention since the onset of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Uprisings (Penney & Dadas, 2014; Herrera, 2014; Howard & Hussain, 2013) a decade ago, the way that protest movements have enabled the institutional development of independent digital news media has received less attention. Keywords: lebanon; media; megaphone; outlets

• STAYING IN THEIR LANES: ISSUE OWNERSHIP IN THE 2016 AND 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER by Hemsley, Jeff; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Rossini, Patrícia; Smith, Alexander (2021.0) - Prior research has identified issue-ownership across partisan lines, with Republicans seen to focus on issues such as taxes and national defense, and Democrats more likely to focus on social issues and welfare (Petrocik, Benoit & Hansen, 2003). Proportion of attack, advocacy and contrast messages per party and issue Conclusion This study examines how candidates use social media to talk about political issues across the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaign. Keywords: democrats; issues; republicans

• DEEPFAKES: A PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE by Carvajal, Laura; Iliadis, Andrew (2020.0) - The fourth theme was literacy articles, which focus on the documents that generate awareness about the effects of deepfakes. Finally, a total bar chart was made with results from all four electronic databases to have an overview of the approach of published sources concerning deepfakes (Figure 1). Keywords: articles; deepfakes; sources

• IMAGINARY PARLIAMENTS: EXCAVATING THE METAPHOR OF CONSENSUS WITHIN BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES by Jankowski, Steve J. (2023.0) - Through a combination of metaphor analysis and content analysis I demonstrate how the oscillation between technical and political meanings became the basis of the celebratory discourses around blockchain technologies. They use a combination of metaphor analysis and content analysis by providing a general etymology of data and big data which is connected to an analysis of how the metaphor was circulated within news media. Keywords: blockchain; consensus; media; metaphor

• THREE PROVOCATIONS FOR CIVIC CROWDFUNDING by Davies, Rodrigo (2014.0) - Yet on the other hand, civic crowdfunding can also be framed as a mechanism that expands the range of public-private partnerships that are possible, since government can partner with crowdfunded groups. The campaigns, which emerged within a few days of each other, demonstrated the risk of a 'contagion effect' through which resourced communities could use civic crowdfunding campaigns from other localities as templates for building their replacement public services. Keywords: crowdfunding; davies; new; projects

• SPOTLIGHT ON DEEPFAKES: MAPPING RESEARCH AND REGULATORY RESPONSES by Birrer, Alena; Just, Natascha (2025.0) - The literature review shows that emphasis is on three major regulatory challenges (i.e., difficulties in detecting deepfakes, deepfake disinformation, and deepfake pornography). Moreover, there is some evidence that common countermeasures such as raising awareness or labelling deepfake content may not be as effective in mitigating their potential harms. Keywords: deepfakes; literature; research; responses; review

• CONTENT MATTERS, FAKE OR NOT: MEDIA CONTENT INFLUENCE ON PERCEIVED INTERGROUP THREAT by Steinfeld, Nili; Lissitsa, Sabina (2021.0) - Intergroup Threat Theory distinguishes two types of perceived threats: realistic (a threat to ingroup power, resources, and safety) and symbolic (a threat to ingroup values and way of life), which can lead to negative attitudes and prejudice toward the outgroup (Stephan et al., 2009). We investigate how consumption of media content leads to change in perceived threat towards a geographically distant minority group, and how is such change affected when individuals are aware that the information they consumed is false. Keywords: article; content; media; threat

• INTERSECTIONS OF OFFLINE AND VIRTUAL CONTACT ZONES: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS’ TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN SINGAPORE by Bork-Hüffer, Tabea (2014.0) - There are diverse and multiple types of virtual contact zones in the times of polymedia (Madianou and Miller 2013). In this paper different web 2.0 applications are analysed in regard to their role as virtual contact zones. Keywords: contact; encounters; new

• Moderating Readers and Reading Online by Thomas, Bronwen (2016.0) - This  paper  reports  on  a  study  of   moderators  of  online  book-­related  sites,  which  used  interviews,  ethnographic   observation  and  textual  analysis  of  online  interactions  to  consider  the  issues  of   authority,  hierarchy,  power  and  control  that  arise  from  their  framing  of  discussions.       There  has  been  much  less  emphasis  on  how  moderators  interact   and  deal  with  forum  users  and  those  outside  the  community,  or  how  they  influence  and   shape  the  direction  that  discussion  takes.         Keywords: moderators; online; reading

• Is it time to rethink ‘digital inequality’ (again)? by Sims, Christo (2013.0) - This short paper identifies three persistent shortcomings with prevailing views about digital inequality: slippage between ‘digital inequalities’ and ‘social inequalities’; unacknowledged normativity; and a deficit model of difference. Keywords digital inequality; digital divide; social inequality; skill; education Digital Inequality in the Twenty-First Century Over roughly the past decade, scholars concerned with relations between digital media and social inequalities rightly criticized the concept of the ‘digital divide’ for oversimplifying and distorting relations between digital media and social inequalities (e.g. DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001; Hargittai, 2002; Mossberger, Tolbert, & Stansbury, 2003; Selwyn, 2004; van Dijk, 2005; Warschauer, 2003). Keywords: divide; inequalities; inequality; media

• SOCIAL PRESENCE AND SOCIAL ABSENCE: SOCIO-CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF SELF IN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS by Oztok, Murat (2014.0) - Social presence and social absence: socio- cultural production of self in online learning environments. Social absence is not the opposite of social presence; rather, one’s social presence and absence are always related to each other and both are situated in and defined by Discourses. Keywords: absence; online; presence

• From Port Arthur to the Lindt cafe siege: The role of digital publics in challenging Australian print media agenda setting practices by Son, Catherine Jane (2017.0) - From Port Arthur to the Lindt café siege: The role of digital publics in challenging Australian print media agenda setting practices. Dearing, JW and Rogers, EM 1996, ‘Media agenda studies’, Volume 6 of Communication Concepts, Sage Publications, California, pp. 24-39. Keywords: agenda; media; reports; setting

• Digital Dublin: the Water Protests and Social Media in Ireland by Ritter, Christian (2016.0) - In  the  same  year,  social  media  were  used  for  the  first  time  by  social   movements  in  Ireland  to  disseminate  their  motion  to  a  national  audience.   In  the  political   field,  social  media  are  widely  considered  as  tools  for  democratization  from  below. Keywords: digital; irish; media

• TRACKING THE PILLING PIPELINE: LIMITATIONS, CHALLENGES AND A CALL FOR NEW METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS IN INCEL AND MANOSPHERE RESEARCH by Ging, Debbie; Murphy, Shane (2021.0) - In response to these challenges, we propose new methodological directions that specifically attempt to map dynamic patterns and pathways of anti-women extremism online, based on our recent work on incel formations. We suggest that there is a need to consider a number of pathways, both spatially and temporally: firstly, the spread and extremization of ideas within different components of the incel/manosphere over time; secondly, the migration of ideas across different platforms over time (this relates to flows in both directions, i.e. both mainstreaming and extremization); and thirdly, the spread of ideas to and from other extreme online groups (e.g. alt-right, QAnon, Politigram ‘Doomers’, etc.), bearing in mind that many of these pathways may also be transnational in nature. Keywords: incel; manosphere; new; research
• CAN TOXIC MASCULINITIES BE DE-RADICALISED?: MAPPING THE DYNAMICS AND SPREAD OF INCEL IDEOLOGY ONLINE by Ging, Debbie; Brace, Lewys; Baele, Stephane (2023.0) - Platform contagion: the ways in which Incel ideology spreads across different digital platforms. Incel ideology is a misogynistic formation, whose male proponents blame women for their lack of sexual activity. Keywords: contagion; ideology; incel; online

• HOW TO DO THINGS WITH “VALUES”: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEANINGS AND FUNCTIONS OF A CORE CONCEPT ON TWITTER by Green, Avishai; Shibuya, Yuya; Trillo, Tommaso; Mizoroki, Saki; Scharlach, Rebecca; Hallinan, Blake; Park, Tim; Levi, Effi; Segev, Elad; Shaul Shenhav; Shifman, Limor (2023.0) - Preliminary results suggest fundamental differences in how different cultures perceive and frame values: while the term in English, Italian, and German appears mainly in a partisan political context, Japanese and Korean usage is far more interpersonal and apolitical. Both quantitative tools are complemented by qualitative analysis of full tweets containing key terms and phrases. Keywords: jerusalem; university
• #‏al_Aqsa_Is_In_Danger‬: The digital gatekeepers of al-Aqsa mosque by de vries, Maya; Alyan, Eman; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Ma’oz, Moshe; Maoz, Ifat (2016.0) - #pray_in_Alaqsa  #Resist  #Hang_on  #al_aqsa_is_ours  (15.8.14)     When  media  is  controlled  or  inaccessible  (Morozov,  2011),  as  happens  in  the  case   study  of  East  Jerusalem  Palestinians  (Berger,  2013),  social  media  platforms  such  as   Facebook  permit  individuals  to  bypass  traditional  gatekeepers  and  contribute  directly  to   the  production  of  news  (Castells,  2013).   #AL_AQSA_IS_IN_DANGER:  THE  DIGITAL  GATEKEEPERS  OF  AL-­ AQSA  MOSQUE     Maya  de  Vries,  Neta  Kligler-­Vilenchik,  Eman  Alyan,  Moshe  Ma’oz  and  Ifat  Maoz     Hebrew  University  of  Jerusalem     One  of  the  most  religiously  and  nationally  contested  sites  in  the  asymmetrical  conflict   between  Israelis  and  Palestinians  is  al-­Aqsa  Mosque  (Temple  Mount)1.   Keywords: jerusalem; media

• AI COMPETITIONS AS INFRASTRUCTURES: EXAMINING POWER RELATIONS ON KAGGLE AND GRAND CHALLENGE IN AI-DRIVEN MEDICAL IMAGING by Luitse, Dieuwertje Maria Rebecca; Blanke, Tobias; Poell, Thomas (2023.0) - AI COMPETITIONS AS INFRASTRUCTURES: EXAMINING POWER RELATIONS ON KAGGLE AND GRAND CHALLENGE IN AI-DRIVEN MEDICAL IMAGING Dieuwertje Luitse University of Amsterdam Tobias Blanke University of Amsterdam Thomas Poell University of Amsterdam Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly being taken-up across scientific disciplines, medical imaging is no exception. A prime example of how they play a vital role in AI research is the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) (Russakovsky et al., 2015). Keywords: challenge; competitions; imaging; research

• THE INSURRECTIONIST PLAYBOOK: JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRAZIL by Bastos, Marco ; Recuero, Raquel (2023.0) - Public statements that included no such elements were coded as 0 (no problematic content), with statements coded 1 identifying messages attacking democratic institutions. Figure 3: Public statements made by Bolsonaro fact-checked during the official electoral period The core tenets of this playbook are centered on nationalism, religion, family, and the right to bear arms. Keywords: bolsonaro; electoral; figure; statements

• Six seconds to talk back: The emergence of racial comedy as a sociopolitical discourse genre on Vine by Calhoun, Kendra Nicole (2016.0) - Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. (( ( Carpio,(Glenda.(2008.(Laughing,Fit,to,Kill:,Black,Humor,in,the,Fictions,of,Slavery.(New( York:(Oxford(University(Press.( �( Dresner,(Eli(&(Susan(Herring.(2010.(Functions(of(the(Nonverbal(in(CMC:(Emoticons(and( Illocutionary(Force.(Communication,Theory(20.(249–268.(( ( Friend,(Tad.(2014.(Hollywood(and(Vine.(The,New,Yorker.,December(14(issue.(Online:( http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/hollywoodAvine., , Green,(Lisa.(2002.(African,American,English:,A,Linguistic,Introduction.(New(York:( Cambridge(University(Press.( ( Hall,(Stuart,(Jessica(Evans(&(Sean(Nixon((Eds).(2013.(Representation,(Second, Edition).(Thousand(Oaks:(SAGE(Publications( ( Hutchby,(Ian.(2001.(Technologies,(Texts,(and(Affordances.(Sociology,35(2).(441A456.( ( Kozinets,(Robert.(2010.(Netnography:,Doing,Ethnographic,Research,Online.(Thousand( Oaks:(SAGE(Publications. Keywords: comedy; http://spir.aoir.org

• A Topic Analysis Approach To Revealing Themes In The Australian Twittersphere by Moon, Brenda (2016.0) - Blei and Lafferty (2009) warn us about the interpretation of topic models: The topics and topical decomposition found with LDA and other topic models are not “definitive”. Rather, topic models are a useful exploratory tool. Keywords: blei; dataset; topic

• BEYOND EXPECTATIONS: IMAGINING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES by Antonijevic, Smiljana (2015.0) - Disentangling digital humanities from digital scholarship in the humanities is a prologue to rethinking a set of disciplinary, educational, organizational, and funding questions. Humanities scholarship, even the “mainstream” one, already follows the route of digital scholarship as a condition of contemporary research. Keywords: humanities; research; scholarship

• CAN TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING LEARN FROM HYPERTEXT FICTION? INTRODUCING THREE EXAMPLES OF 4TH GENERATION DIGITAL FICTION by Kronman, Linda (2014.0) - I argue that hypertext fiction theory offers us an understanding of how we read social media fiction. Can transmedia storytelling learn from hypertext fiction? Keywords: digital; fiction; hypertext; media

• Microcredentials on the Open Web by Halavais, Alexander (2013.0) - In many cases (though there are certainly exceptions) traditional certifications or licenses are difficult to share digitally. Keywords identity; reputation; badges; microcredentials; learning; recruiting Beyond Canine Online Identity The online world provides a new context for the presentation of self, and a number of technologies of the social web are built around the process of introducing oneself to others. Keywords: badges; certification; microcredentials; university

• User or Not, Forever an Endorser: FTC Regulation of Online Endorsement and Content Control by Bray, Matthew Thomas (2013.0) - The FTC Revised Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsement and Testimonials in Advertising (hereinafter Guides) was an attempt to gain a modicum of control over online commercial speech. Was it or is it necessary to regulate online commercial speech with the Guides? Keywords: ftc; guides; online

• Free Universal Construction Kit: On appropriation and parasites by Hansen, Lone Koefoed; Stephensen, Jan Løhmann (2013.0) - A collaboration with Sy-lab, Free Universal Construction Kit (figure 1) is a project promising “complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys”. Free Universal Construction Kit thus also reflects an anti-capitalist and anti-proprietary attitude where resistance is primarily a matter of “freeing” material from the hands of capitalist corporations. Keywords: construction; f.a.t; kit

• CONNECTIVE AMBITION AND CREATIVE CAUTION AMONG HOMELESS USERS OF FACEBOOK by Marler, Will (2018.0) - This may stem from the ease with which social media users can store latent and weak ties to tap into for future need (Ellison et al., 2007; Ellison, Lampe, et al., 2011). Participation on social media means contending with the virtual architecture of networked publics which departs from conventional means of gauging exposure (boyd, 2011). Keywords: eric; vicki

• LIFE WITH DICK AND DICK: RACE AND MALE PORNOGRAPHIC SELF-REPRESENTATION ON REDDIT by Bury, Rhiannon; Easton, Lee (2020.0) - Taken together these markers of racialized identities disrupt the unmarked whiteness of Massive. Although a problematic trope which reduces Black men to the stereotypes of hypermasculinity, violence and animality (Smith and Luykx, 2017), on Massive, it was taken up by a number of Black posters. Keywords: dick; posters; psr; subscribers

• VIRAL MUSICKING: AESTHETICS AND ITERATIONS IN ONLINE CONTAGION by Harper, Paula Clare (2020.0) - For me, the term foregrounds ambivalences bound up in digital viral circulation: of bodily threat and aesthetic pleasure, of constant negotiation between everyday users, powerful platforms, and black-boxed nonhuman algorithms. I value the productive friction embedded within the term “viral musicking,” which forces proximity between the human-forward sociality of Small’s “musicking” concept, and “viral”—a term somewhat famously rejected by media scholar Henry Jenkins, for its tendency to construe users as passive zombie hosts.4 In my conception of “viral musicking,” I seek to highlight this tension. Keywords: century; media; musicking; virality

• ALGORITHMIC EMPOWERMENT OR IMPERIALIST WARFARE? DARK SKIN, AI CAMERA, AND A CHINESE COMPANY’S PATENT STRATEGY by Lu, Miao; Qiu, Jack Linchuan (2021.0) - The “warfare” narrative highlights both the economic uncertainty in emerging markets such as Africa and the geopolitical uncertainty of AI industry in the future. Dark Skin, AI Camera, and a Chinese Company’s Patent Strategy. Keywords: chinese; patent; transsion

• INFRASTRUCTURES OF CARE IN NDN SPACES: MUTUAL AID AS A FORM OF RADICAL RELATIONALITY by George, Alaina Sarah; Parkhurst, Nicholet Deschine (2023.0) - Decolonizing Methodologies Decolonizing methodologies are a fundamental centering of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledges (Smith, 2012). Indigenous Feminist Approach In Internet and social media studies, decolonizing research that takes an Indigenous feminist research approach unsettles the dominant theories of social media use and helps center our focus on the possibilities that Indigenous peoples already imagine for themselves whether it be to strengthen their communities and culture, to work towards resistance and decolonization, or to move them towards resurgence and beyond (Carlson & Frazer, 2020; Duarte & Vigil-Hayes, 2021; Deschine Parkhurst, 2021). Keywords: decolonizing; diné; media; peoples

• FOLLOW ME THROUGH INSTAGRAM: FRONT-STAGE, BACK-STAGE, AND INTIMATE-STAGE IN GIORGIA MELONI’S AND MATTEO RENZI’S PERFORMANCES OF CELEBRITY POLITICS by Starita, Giovanni Daniele; Trillò, Tommaso (2023.0) - FRONT-STAGE, BACK-STAGE, AND INTIMATE-STAGE IN GIORGIA MELONI’S AND MATTEO RENZI’S PERFORMANCES OF CELEBRITY POLITICS Giovanni Daniele Starita University of Perugia Tommaso Trillò Hebrew University of Jerusalem Abstract Over the last decade, social media became an indispensable tool for political campaigning for populist political leaders, who successfully used social media to circumvent traditional media elite and establish a seemingly direct relationship with their constituents. Thus, we claim that the two leaders navigate this tension by selectively posting images set “on stage” (e.g., while being interviewed during a talk show), “behind the scenes” (e.g., while working in their office), or on an “intimate stage” (e.g., on a day hike with their family). Keywords: stage

• ASSESSING OCCUPATIONS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A COMPARISON OF HUMANS AND GPT-4 by Lutz, Christoph; Gmyrek, Paweł; Newlands, Gemma (2025.0) - We follow this idea by differentiating two distinct axes of occupational evaluation: occupational prestige (OP) and occupational social value (OSV). Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy. Keywords: gpt-4; occupations; osv; prestige

• A Typology of Digital Astroturfing by Kovic, Marko; Rauchfleisch, Adrian; Sele, Marc (2016.0) - For  example,  research  designs  that  are  routinely  used  in  the  study  of  other   forms  of  political  communication  can  be  impossible  to  implement  in  the  study  of  digital   astroturfing,  since  very  basic  facts  such  as  who  is  doing  what  in  the  pursuit  of  which   strategic  goals  is,  by  definition,  absent  in  digital  astroturfing.   Second,  we  propose  a  typology  of  different  forms  of   digital  astroturfing,  based  on  the  type  of  actor  and  the  type  of  goal  that  is  pursued  by  the   digital  astroturfing  effort.       Keywords: astroturfing; digital; research

• DIGITAL BISEXUALITY: THE SEMIOTICS OF ONLINE SEXUAL IDENTITY by Madison, Nora (2015.0) - These social spaces included national and regional websites for bisexual organizations, blogs dedicated to bisexual issues and topics, bisexual groups on Facebook, and bisexual list-serves. Participant observation and semiotic analysis was employed to analyze how bisexual representation was discussed and performed. Keywords: bisexual; bisexuality; digital; online

• IT’S ALWAYS IN MY BAG, MY LITTLE TRUSTY USB by Wilken, Rowan Cameron; Kennedy, Jenny (2014.0) - USB portable flash drives. While there is a vast literature on mobile media and communications, and a smaller yet significant literature on portable music storage devices (Sterne 2012; Bull 2008) and other portable objects (Ito, Okabe and Anderson 2009), very little work has been done to date specifically on more general portable storage devices, such as USB portable flash drives, and associated practices of use. Keywords: drives; flash; media; usb

• Non-Lethal Farce: "Pepper Spray Cop" Photoshopping as Visual Rhetoric by Peck, Andrew M (2013.0) - When viewed in this way, Pepper Spray Cop photoshopping suggests some of the possibilities for vernacular expression now afforded by networked communication. Abstract This paper examines photoshopping as an important emerging genre of vernacular civic discourse on the Internet. Keywords: pepper; photoshopping; spray

• Title of Paper or Panel Goes Here by Last Name1, First Name1 Middle Name1; Last Name2, First Name2 Middle Name2 (2015.0) - A lot of words here. A lot of words here. Keywords: lot

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