The 2022 Association of Internet Researchers Conference is coming up and we have an especially strong contingent of SMC alumnae and current members presenting. These talks and panels cover a range of topics including visibility in underground music scenes, chronic and crip technologies, feminist approaches to disinformation studies, and the #FreeBritney campaign.
For those of you headed to Dublin in early November, we’ve gone ahead and put together a schedule of all the SMC-affiliated speakers and organizers. We hope you enjoy some of these fantastic talks!
Note: All times listed are in Irish Standard Time (EDT+4). The meeting room is in [brackets].
Thursday November 3rd
9:00am – 10:30am
Governance: Managing Digital Creation – “Mass reporting in the creator economy: Enacting and contesting platform governance” (Colten Meisner) [EQ-211]
Hate: Hate and Conspiracy (Alice Marwick, chair) [EQ-208]
Archives – “Unearthing the Digital Dirt: Contestation and Deletion within the Submerged State” (Muira Nicollet McCammon) [EQ-110]
Race 1: Representing Racial Politics – “From #MelaninMansion to #BlackTikTokStrike: Black TikTok, Joy, and the Politics of Refusal” (Elena Maris) [EQ-116]
11:00am – 12:30pm
Health 1: Digitising Health – “Viral health misinformation from Geocities to COVID-19″ (Shawn Walker) [RCQ-512]
1:30 – 3pm
Mobile Media 1 (Stephen Yang, Chair) [EQ-116]
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Platforms 3 – “Policing Platforms: Addressing Power and Inequalities in Platform Policies” (Robyn Caplan) [EQ-002]
Biotech “TikTok and Tics: Three Media Theoretical Diagnoses” (Tero Karppi, Aleena Chia, chair) [CQ-310]
Health 2: Mental Health (Katrin Tiidenberg, chair) [EQ-110]
Friday November 4th
9:00am – 10:30am
Care – “Enacting the Politics of Care with Chronic and Crip Technologies” (Dylan Mulvin) [EQ-117]
Commodification: Commodities and Consumption (Lana Swartz, chair) [CQ-310]
Roundtable: Research 1 – “The Impact of Impact: Contending with the Risks and Rewards of Public Engagement” (Kate Miltner, Elena Maris, Ysabel Gerrard) [EQ-112]
Mobile Media 2: Liveness (Christopher Persaud, chair) – “From “Text for Location” to “No Phone on the Dance Floor”: Negotiating Visibility in Underground Electronic/Dance Music” (Stephen Yang) [EQ-203]
11:00am – 12:30pm
Fishbowl: Research 1 – “Building (And Burning) Bridges: The Challenges and Opportunities of Research Partnerships with Government and Non-government Organisations and Industry” (Alice Marwick) [EQ-204]
Fandoms – “#FreeBritney: Strategies of Counternarratives and Self-regulation Within Fan Activism” (Jessa Lingel) [EQ-208]
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Histories 1 -” Internet Histories I” (Kevin Driscoll) [EQ-211]
Games 1 – “The Engine is the message: Videogame Infrastructure and the Future of Digital Platforms” (Aleena Chia) [EQ-116]
Creators 2 – “Platforms and the Precarity of Creator (In)visibility” (Colten Meisner) [EQ-002]
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Dating Apps – “‘What are you looking for?’: Sexual Imaginaries and Affordances on Grindr and Scruff” (Christopher Persaud, Calvin Liang) [EQ-203]
Roundtable: Algorithms 2 – “Highly Recommended” (Nick Seaver, chair; co-organized by Tarleton Gillespie, not attending) [EQ-208]
Histories 2 – “Internet Histories II” (Tero Karppi) [EQ-112]
Protest 1: Platforms of Protest – “Platformed Solidarity: Gestural social justice through Twitter hashflags” (Kate Miltner) [CQ-311]
Saturday November 5th
9:00am – 10:30am
Privacy 2: Privacy and Surveillance (Jessa Lingel, chair) [CQ-009]
Toxic Turn – “The Toxic Turn? Conceptual and Methodological Advances on Problematic Contents on Social Media” (Shawn Walker) [EQ-211]
Cultures: Cultures and Communities – “Hybrid Constellations: Examining Social Media’s Role in the Montreal Lesbian Social Scene” (Stefanie Duguay) [EQ-203]
Platforms 4 – “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” (Robyn Caplan) [CQ-006]
11:00am – 12:30pm
Disinformation 3 – “Feminist Approaches to Disinformation Studies” (Alice Marwick) [CQ-105]
Roundtable: Intimacies 2 – “Platform Intimacies” (Stefanie Duguay) [EQ-203]
Health 4 – “Social Media and Mental Wellbeing” (Katrin Tiidenberg) [EQ-204]
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