Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 05/Oct/2016
8:00am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: HU Ground Floor Foyer

All sessions except keynotes/plenaries take place at Humboldt University, Dorotheenstrasse 24, Building 1. The conference desk is located in Room 402.

9:00am
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12:30pm
WS-01: Early Career
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Andrea L. Guzman
 

AOIR EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS WORKSHOP

Andrea L. Guzman1, Jeff Hemsley2, Marisa Elena Duarte3, Kelly Boudreau4, Catherine Steele5

1: Northern Illinois University, United States of America; 2: Syracuse University, United States of America; 3: Arizona State University, United States of America; 4: Brunel University, United Kingdom; 5: Colorado State University, United States of America

9:00am
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5:30pm
AoIR 2016 Doctoral Colloquium
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Ben Light
WS-02: Digital Methods
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Patrik Wikstrom
 

Digital Methods in Internet Research: A Sampling Menu

Erik Borra2, Axel Bruns1, Jean Burgess1, Carolin Gerlitz3, Anne Helmond2, Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez1, Peta Mitchell1, Richard Rogers2, Fernando N. van der Vlist2, Esther Weltevrede2, Patrik Wikstrom1

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 3: University of Siegen, Germany

WS-03: History
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Kevin Driscoll
 

404 History Not Found: Challenges in Internet History and Memory Studies

Kevin Driscoll1, Camille Paloque-Berges2

1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), France

WS-04: STS
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Julia Pohle
 

The Internet Rules, But How? An STS take on doing Internet governance

Julia Pohle1, Francesca Musiani2, Dmitry Epstein3, Christian Katzenbach4

1: Berlin Social Science Center; 2: CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC Paris; 3: University of Illinois at Chicago; 4: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

WS-05: Labor
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Nancy Baym
 

Studying Labor: A Workshop on Theory and Methods

Nancy Baym1, Mary Gray1, Kylie Jarrett2

1: Microsoft Research; 2: National University of Ireland Maynooth

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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5:30pm
WS-06: Higher Ed
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Kerry Jean Burner
 

Internet rules … for higher education

Kerry Burner1, Rajash Rawal2, Vanessa Dennen1, Paul Nixon2

1: Florida State University, United States of America; 2: The Hague University, The Netherlands

WS-07: Hackathon
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Maximilian von Grafenstein
 

Legal Hackathon: Building Standards of Privacy- and Security-by-Design for the IoT

Maximilian von Grafenstein

Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany

 
5:30pm
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7:00pm
Break

Registration will be open between 6pm-7pm in the Audimax foyer.

7:00pm
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8:30pm
Keynote: The Platform Society. José van Dijck (University of Amsterdam)
Location: HU Audimax
Chair: Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Date: Thursday, 06/Oct/2016
8:00am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: HU Ground Floor Foyer

All sessions except keynotes/plenaries take place at Humboldt University, Dorotheenstrasse 24, Building 1. The conference desk is in Room 402.

9:00am
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10:30am
PA-01: India
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Sangeet Kumar
 

Digital politics in India: Asymmetries of power and the reshaping of the political

Aswin Punathambekar1, Sahana Udupa2, Payal Arora3, Ralph Schroeder4, Sangeet Kumar5

1: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 2: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; 3: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 4: Oxford Internet Institute, UK; 5: Denison University, United States of America

PA-02: Platforms
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Jean Burgess
 

Platform Studies: The Rules of Engagement

Jean Burgess1, Nancy Baym2, Stuart Cunningham1, David Craig6, Anne Helmond3, Taina Bucher4, Nicholas John5, Asaf Nissenbaum5

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Microsoft Research; 3: University of Amsterdam; 4: University of Copenhagen; 5: Hebrew University of Israel; 6: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

PA-03: Memorials
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Katrin Christiane Döveling
 

ONLINE MEMORIALS, EMOTIONS AND INTERACTIONS. INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

Katrin Christiane Döveling1, Fiorenza Gamba2, David Garcia3, Stine Gotved4, Ylva Hård af Segerstad5, Dick Kasperowski5, Tobias Raun6, Bernard Rimé7

1: Universität Leipzig, Germany; 2: University of Sassari, Italy; 3: ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 4: the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 5: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 6: Roskilde University, Denmark; 7: University of Louvain, Belgium

PS-01: Publics
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Jan-Hinrik Schmidt
 

Ambivalence in the (Private) Public Sphere: How Global Digital Activists Navigate Risk

Sarah Myers West

Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, United States of America


Becoming a ‘rule-maker’ in cyberspace

Julia Fleischhack

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany


State-Aiding, Empire-Building or Multitude Fulfilling? An Anonymous Role in International Politics

Robert M Tynes

Bard College, United States of America


Countering Climate Change: Climate Skeptic Comments in the German Networked Public Sphere

Jonas Kaiser

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society

PS-02: Rules I
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Christian Katzenbach
 

Re-thinking Internet’s Regulability: From Lessig to IPv6

Vasiliki Koniakou

University of Turku, Finland


INTERNET POLITICS. MAPPING WSIS+10 CONTROVERSIES ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE

Mauro Santaniello

University of Salerno, Italy


The place of free speech in Internet governance debate

Artem Antonyuk

St. Petersburg State University, Russian Federation


From the “Five Eyes” to the “SIGINT Seniors Europe”: The intelligence community as a transnational field

Ronja Kniep

WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany


Rules As Theatrical Method In Internet Surveillance Research

David J Phillips

U. Toronto, Canada

PS-03: Fakes
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Katrin Tiidenberg
 

Images of protest in contested social media: Production, propagation, and narratives

Luca Rossi, Christina Neumayer, Julie Vulpius

IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark


Keeping It Fake: Exploring User-Generated Political Fakes and Their Publics

Elisabetta Ferrari

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America


Seeing Is Believing: Do People Fail to Identify Fake Images on the Web?

Mona Kasra1, Cuihua Shen2, James O'Brien3

1: University of Virginia, United States of America; 2: University of California - Davis, United States of America; 3: University of California - Berkeley, United States of America


Eye Tracking Audit To How We Use Social Media: Do We See The Advertising Presented?

Ryan Payne1, Jeremy Shtern2

1: Seneca College, Canada; 2: Ryerson University, Canada

PS-04: News
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Mike Ananny
 

Like, Share, Discuss? How News Factors and Secondary Factors Predict User Engagement with News Stories on Facebook

Marc Ziegele, Oliver Quiring

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany


Retweeting the News: Towards a formalized approach to the study of Twitter networks

Frederik De Grove, Evelien D'heer, Pieter Verdegem

iMinds - MICT - Ghent University, Belgium


News Sharing on Twitter: A Nationally Comparative Study

Axel Bruns1, Brenda Moon1, Felix Münch1, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt2, Lisa Merten2, Hallvard Moe3, Sander Schwartz4

1: Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung an der Universität Hamburg; 3: Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen; 4: Department of Digital Culture and Mobile Communication, IT University Copenhagen


Sourcing and engaging the crowd: Audience interaction and participation in online-only slow journalism platforms

Lena Knaudt, Renske Siebe, Frank Harbers, Todd Graham

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, The


Bill Cosby on Twitter and Beyond

Karin Assmann

UMD, United States of America

RT-01: Hacking
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Angela Krewani
 

Hacking Cultures: ‘Hack all the Things’?

Tim Jordan2, Angela Krewani4, Annika Richterich1, Karin Wenz1, Sebastian Kubitschko3

1: Maastricht University, NL; 2: University of Sussex, UK; 3: University of Bremen, GER; 4: University of Marburg, GER

RT-02: Ethics I
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Charles Melvin Ess
 

Internet research ethics roundtable I. “New Problems, New Relationships”

Charles Melvin Ess1, Patricia Aufderheide2, Nathalie Casemajor3, Adrienne Massanari4, Tijana Milosevic1, Nathanial Poor5, Michael Zimmer6

1: University of Oslo, Norway; 2: American University, Washington, DC; 3: Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada; 4: University of Illinois, Chicago; 5: Independent Researcher; 6: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am
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12:30pm
FB-01: Big Data
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Stefania Milan
 

Big Data Meet Grassroots Activism

Stefania Milan, Lonneke van der Velden, Jonathan Gray, Becky Kazansky, Frederike Kaltheuner

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

PA-04: Economies
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Andrew Herman
 

Economies of the Internet

Andrew Herman1, Holly Kruse2, Nancy Baym3, Shair Mowlabocus4, Julia Velkova5

1: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 2: Rogers State University, USA; 3: Microsoft Research, USA; 4: University of Sussex, UK; 5: Södertörn University, Sweden

PA-05: Identities
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Tero Jukka Karppi
 

Algorithmic Identities

Tero Karppi1, Taina Bucher2, Michael Stevenson3, Robert Prey4

1: University at Buffalo, United States of America; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 3: University of Groningen, Netherlands; 4: University of Groningen, Netherlands

PA-06: Linguistics
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: David Barton
 

Sociolinguistic perspectives on everyday digital practices

David Barton1, Carmen Lee2, Rodney Jones3, Camilla Vasquez4

1: Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: University of Reading, United Kingdom; 4: University of South Florida

PS-05: (Non)Participation
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Eszter Hargittai
 

‘I can’t see you any more’: A phenomenology of political Facebook unfriending

Nicholas John, Noam Gal

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


Political expression on Facebook in a context of conflict: Dilemmas and coping strategies of Jewish-Israeli youth

Yifat Mor, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Ifat Maoz

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel


#‏al_Aqsa_Is_In_Danger‬: The digital gatekeepers of al-Aqsa mosque

Maya de vries, Eman Alyan, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Moshe Ma’oz, Ifat Maoz

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


The Dark Side of Online Participation: Exploring Non- and Negative Participation

Christoph Lutz1, Christian Pieter Hoffmann2

1: BI Norwegian Business School, Norway; 2: University of Leipzig, Germany

PS-06: Crimes
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Patricia Aufderheide
 

Scandal or Sex Crime? Ethical Implications of the Celebrity Nude Photo Leaks

Alice E. Marwick

Fordham University, United States of America


High-profile criminal trials, social media conversations and juror prejudice: understanding media regulation in the digital age

Rachel Jane Hews

Queensland University of Technology, Australia


Augmented Criminality – How Mobile Augmented Reality Crime Overlays Affect People’s Sense of Place

Tony Chung-Li Liao, Hocheol Yang, Songyi Lee, Kun Xu, Ping Feng, Spencer Bennett

Temple University, United States of America


Gagged and Doxed: Hacktivism’s Selfie-Incrimination Complex

Adam Fish, Follis Luca

University of Lancaster, United Kingdom


'Do not hack'. Rules, values, and communal practices in hacker- and makerspaces

Annika Richterich

Maastricht University, Netherlands, The

PS-07: Politics
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: David Karpf
 

Social Media, U.S. Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects

Jennifer Stromer-Galley1, Patricia G. C. Rossini2, Jeff Hemsley1, Kate Kenski3, Feifei Zhang1, Lauren Bryant4, Bryan Semaan1

1: Syracuse University; 2: Federal University of Minas Gerais; 3: University of Arizona; 4: University at Albany, SUNY


A Typology of Digital Astroturfing

Marko Kovic2, Adrian Rauchfleisch1,2, Marc Sele2

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: ZIPAR - Zurich Institute of Public Affairs Research


DIGITAL HUMANITARIANISM: MYTHS AND REALITIES

Mirca Madianou

Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

RT-03: Rights
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Lex Gill
 

Imagining and Encoding Rights on the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities

Lex Gill1, Dennis Redeker2

1: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Affiliate), McGill University Faculty of Law, Canada; 2: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Affiliate), Jacobs University Bremen; University of Bremen

RT-04: Ethics II
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Charles Melvin Ess
 

Internet research ethics roundtable II: Crossing Boundaries, Mapping New Distinctions

Charles Melvin Ess1, Sky Croeser2, Ylva Hård af Segerstad3, Dick Kasperowski3, Amanda Lagerkvist4, Elisabetta Locatelli5, Mirko Tobias Schäfer6, Michael Zimmer7, Gerwin van Schie6

1: University of Oslo, Norway; 2: Curtin University, Western Australia; 3: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 4: Stockholm University, Sweden; 5: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy; 6: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 7: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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3:30pm
FB-02: #
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Nathan Patrick Rambukkana
 

FISHBOWL: HASHTAG PUBLICS & POLITICS

Nathan Patrick Rambukkana1, sava saheli singh2, Meredith Clark3, Jaigris Hodson4, Jenny Ungbha Korn5

1: Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; 2: NYU, USA; 3: University of North Texas, Denton, USA; 4: Royal Roads University, Canada; 5: Harvard University, USA

PA-07: Arenas
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Gitte Stald
 

Civic Participation as Lived Experience: Emerging Practices of Digital Politics

Gitte Stald1, Maria Bakardjieva2, Delia Dumitrica3, Jakob Svensson4, Giovanna Mascheroni5

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: University of Calgary, Canada; 3: Erasmus University, Holland; 4: Uppsala University, Sweden; 5: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

PA-08: Representation
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Katie Margaret Warfield
 

REPRESENTATION, PRESENTATION, EMBODIMENT/EMPLACEMENT

Katie Margaret Warfield1, Crystal Abidin2, Natalie Hendry3, Jill Walker Rettberg4, Katrin Tiidenberg5

1: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada; 2: Anthropology & sociology, communication & media studies, University of Western Australia, Australia; 3: School of Education, Deakin University School of Media & Communication, RMIT Univerity, Australia; 4: Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway; 5: Institue of Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia

PA-09: Porn
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Clarissa Jael Smith
 

Engaging with Porn Online

Feona Attwood1, Clarissa Smith2, Patricia Macleod1, Lucy Neville1

1: Middlesex University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

PS-08: Infrastructures
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Taina Bucher
 

A Digital Black Press?: Exploring What Constitutes the Black Press Online

Miya Christine Williams

Northwestern University, United States of America


Moderating Readers and Reading Online

Bronwen Thomas

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom


NEGOTIATING THE DIGITIZATION OF WORK: NEW CHALLENGES FOR EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS’ COUNCILS FROM THE USE OF SOCIAL COLLABORATION PLATFORMS

Tanja Carstensen

Hamburg University of Technology, Germany


Between policy and practice - The (d)evolution of British Public Service Media’s professional standards and codes of conduct across social networks & non-proprietary platforms

Inge Ejbye Sorensen

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom


Digital Data Infrastructures: interrogating the social media data pipeline

Susan Halford, Mark Weal, Ramine Tinati, Les Carr, Catherine Pope

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

PS-09: Privacy
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Michael Zimmer
 

Unconnected: How Privacy Concerns Impact Internet Adoption

Eszter Hargittai, Ashley Walker

University of Zurich


ENHANCING ONLINE PRIVACY AT THE USER LEVEL: THE ROLE OF INTERNET SKILLS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Moritz Büchi, Natascha Just, Michael Latzer

U of Zurich, Switzerland


Navigating between privacy settings and visibility rules: online self-disclosure in the social web

Manuela Farinosi1, Sakari Taipale2

1: University of Udine; 2: University of Jyväskylä


WHOSE PRIVACY? LOBBYING FOR THE FREE FLOW OF EUROPEAN PERSONAL DATA

Jockum Philip Hildén

University of Helsinki, Finland


In Search of Safe Harbors - Privacy and Surveillance of Refugees in Europe

Paula Kift

New York University, United States of America

PS-10: Algorithms
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Tarleton Gillespie
 

GOVERNING ALGORITHMS ON THE INTERNET APPROACHES, OPTIONS, GAPS

Florian Saurwein1, Natascha Just2, Michael Latzer2

1: Austrian Academy of Sciences | University of Klagenfurt, Austria; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland


Open algorithmic systems: lessons on opening the black box from Wikipedia

R.Stuart Geiger1, Aaron Halfaker2

1: University of California, Berkeley; 2: Wikimedia Foundation


The Algorithmic Politics of Transactional Data

Rachel Anne O'Dwyer

CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland


The structuration of the filter bubble: A longitudinal field experiment

Cedric Courtois, Lennert Coenen

KU Leuven, Belgium


My Algorithm: User Perceptions of Algorithmic Recommendations in Cultural Contexts

Terje Colbjørnsen

University of Oslo, Norway

RT-05: Capitalism
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Christian Christensen
 

Internet Rules and the Cool Capitalism of Silicon Valley

Christian Christensen1, Victor Pickard2, Stefania Milan3, James Losey1

1: Stockholm University, Sweden; 2: University of Pennsylvania, USA; 3: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

RT-06: !=
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Nancy Baym
 

Technically Unequal: Representational Issues in Technology Scholarship and Journalism

Nancy Baym1, Siva Vaidhyanathan2, Molly Sauter3, Stephanie Ricker Schulte4, Brooke Duffy5

1: Microsoft Research; 2: University of Virginia; 3: McGill University; 4: University of Arkansas; 5: Cornell University

3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee break
4:00pm
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5:30pm
FB-03: AR
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Andrea L. Guzman
 

Augmented Reality Rules! New Agendas, Collaborations, and Best Practices for Conducting Augmented Reality Research

Tony Chung-Li Liao1, Matthew Lombard1, Andrea Guzman2, Jaime Banks3, Nick Bowman3

1: Temple University, United States of America; 2: Northern Illinois University, United States of America; 3: West Virginia University, United States of America

PA-10: Open Source
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Stefan Baack
 

Acting through technology: The proliferation of open source practices and its consequences

Stefan Baack1, Julia Velkova2, Sebastian Kubitschko3, Raul Ferrer4, Reinhard Handler4

1: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany; 2: Södertörn University, Sweden; 3: University of Bremen, Germany; 4: Karlstad University, Sweden

PA-11: Whiteness
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Miriam Sweeney
 

COLOR-CODED: BREAKING THE RULES OF WHITENESS ONLINE

Miriam Sweeney1, Sarah Florini2, Catherine Steele3, Kishonna Gray4, Jenny Korn5

1: University of Alabama, United States of America; 2: Old Dominion University, United State of America; 3: Colorado State University, United States of America; 4: Eastern Kentucky University, United States of America; 5: University of Illinois, Chicago, United States of America

PA-12: LGBTQs
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Lukasz Szulc
 

LGBTQs, Digital Media and Culture in Europe

Lukasz Szulc1, Ulrike Roth2, Jakob Svensson3, Andrew DJ Shield4, Giulia Evolvi5

1: LSE, United Kingdom; 2: University of Münster, Germany; 3: Uppsala University, Sweden; 4: Roskilde University, Denmark; 5: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

PS-11: Language
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: David Barton
 

MEDIATIZED CONVERSATION AS SMUGGLING: Playing With Communication Rules

Asta Zelenkauskaite1, Carmel Vaisman2

1: Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A; 2: Tel Aviv University, Israel


Language Policy in Self-Regulated Collaborative Communities: Comparing Hebrew Wikipedia and Hebrew Facebook

Carmel Vaisman1, Ilan Gonen2, Yuval Pinter1

1: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Being both correct and creative in a minority language: the online language practices of German-Upper Sorbian bilingual teenagers

Sarah McMonagle

Universität Hamburg, Germany


Technology Meets Postmodern Epistemology: The Discourse of Hebrew Wikipedia Deletion Pages

Anat Leshnick, Oren Livio

University of Haifa, Israel


Making Sense? The structure and meaning of digital memetic nonsense

Yuval Katz, Limor Shifman

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

PS-12: Bodies
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Brooke Erin Duffy
 

FROM “GEEK” TO “CHIC:” WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND THE WOMAN QUESTION

Elizabeth Wissinger

City University of New York/BMCC and Grad Center, United States of America


TRACK YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH US. DIGITAL SELF-TRACKING AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE.

Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller

University of Bamberg, Germany


Feminism in the era of the Quantified Self: Agency, labour and future markets:

Aristea Fotopoulou

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, United Kingdom


AN ETHICS OF AMBIGUITY IN AN ALGORITMIC CULTURE: RELATING TO ‘THE OTHER’ IN MEDIA LIFE

Stina Bengtsson

Södertörn University, Sweden


Big Dataphenomenology: Embodied Big Data

Karolin Eva Kappler

FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

PS-13: Twitter
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Axel Bruns
 

‘#SomeoneTellCNN we’re hotbed of media criticism’: Media accountability from the perspective of Kenyans on Twitter

David Kimutai Cheruiyot

Karlstad University, Sweden


Mining one week of Twitter. Tracing local networked publics in the Dutch Twittersphere

Daniela van Geenen1, Piet Bakker1, Mirko Tobias Schäfer2, Erik Hekman1, Jonas Moons1, Thomas Boeschoten2

1: Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The


Binge watching the algorithmic catalog: an analysis of Twitter’s reaction to the launch of Netflix Italia

Fabio Giglietto1, Chiara Checcaglini2, Lella Mazzoli3

1: Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; 2: Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; 3: Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy


#MissingData: A methodological inquiry of the hashtag to collect data from Twitter

Evelien D'heer, Pieter Verdergem, Frederik De Grove

iMinds - MICT - Ghent University, Belgium


Beyond Hashtags: Collecting And Analysing Conversations On Twitter

Brenda Moon, Nicolas Suzor, Ariadna Matamoros Fernández

Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

RT-07: IR
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Victoria Nash
 

The Politics of Internet Research: Reflecting on the challenges and responsibilities of policy engagement

Victoria Nash1, Wolfgang Schulz2, Juan-Carlos De Martin3, Ivan Klimov4, Bill Dutton5, Kate Coyer6

1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung, Germany; 3: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 4: New Economic School, Russia; 5: Michigan State University, USA; 6: Central European University, Hungary

RT-08: Censorship
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Tarleton Gillespie
 

ROUNDTABLE: Censorship online, and the challenges of studying what’s no longer there

Tarleton Gillespie1, Jillian York2, Sarah Myers West3, José van Dijck4, Kate Klonick5

1: Microsoft Research; 2: Electronic Frontier Foundation; 3: University of Southern California; 4: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; 5: Information Society Project, Yale School of Law

5:30pm
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7:00pm
Break
7:00pm
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8:30pm
Plenary Panel: Who Rules the Internet? Kate Crawford (Microsoft Research NYC), Fieke Jansen (Tactical Tech), Carolin Gerlitz (University of Siegen)
Location: HU Audimax
Chair: Cornelius Puschmann
Date: Friday, 07/Oct/2016
8:30am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: HU 1.402
9:00am
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10:30am
PA-13: Lies
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Fabio Giglietto
 

RESEARCHING MISLEADING INFORMATION WITHIN HYBRID MEDIA ECOLOGIES. WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING

Fabio Giglietto1, Augusto Valeriani2, Laura Iannelli3, Luca Rossi4, Shira Dvir Gvirsman5, Jing Zeng6, Chung-hong Chan7, King-wa Fu8, Johan Farkas9, Jannick Schou10

1: Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; 2: Università di Bologna, Italy; 3: Università di Sassari, Italy; 4: IT University of Copenhagen; 5: Tel Aviv University; 6: Queensland University of Technology; 7: University of Hong Kong; 8: University of Hong Kong; 9: IT University of Copenhagen; 10: IT University of Copenhagen

PA-14: Apps
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Anne Helmond
 

App Studies: Platform Rules and Methodological Challenges

Anne Helmond1, Fernando N van der Vlist1,2, Carolin Gerlitz5, Esther Weltevrede1, David Nieborg1,3, Thomas Poell1, Jeroen de Kloet1, Guohua Zeng4, Johannes Paßmann5

1: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2: Utrecht University, the Netherlands; 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US; 4: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; 5: University of Siegen, Germany

PA-15: Communities
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Kate O'Riordan
 

GENERATIONS OF DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT: COMMUNITIES, USERS, HACKTIVISTS AND GAMERS.

Kate O'Riordan, Caroline Bassett, Timothy Jordan, Stephen Fortune

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

PS-14: Cultures
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Payal Arora
 

Rethinking networked solidarity: mediating the movement for Kurdish autonomy

sky croeser

Curtin University, Australia


Digital Dublin: the Water Protests and Social Media in Ireland

Christian Ritter

Kadir Has University, Turkey


FAN-ACTIVISM AS RESISTANCE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF BRAZILIAN DIGITAL CULTURE

Adriana Amaral1, Rosana Souza2, Sandra Montardo2,3, Camila Monteiro3

1: UNISINOS, Brazil; 2: FEEVALE, Brazil; 3: University of Huddersfield, UK


Wikipedia and the postcolonial politics of naming: The case of an Indian river

Sangeet Kumar

Denison University, United States of America

PS-15: Divides
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Christoph Lutz
 

The Empowered Refugee: The Smartphone as a Tool of Resistance on the Journey to Europe

Katja Kaufmann

Austrian Academy of Sciences and Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria


Social media, participation, peer pressure, and the European refugee crisis: a force awakens?

Nils Gustafsson

Lund university, Sweden


An interrupted history of digital divides

Bianca Christin Reisdorf, Whisnu Triwibowo, Michael Nelson, William Dutton

Michigan State University, United States of America


Levelling the socio-economic playing field with the Internet? A case study in how (not) to help disadvantaged young people thrive online.

Huw Crighton Davies, Rebecca Eynon, Sarah Wilkin

Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom

PS-16: Intimacies
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Ofer N. Nur
 

STRUCTURING DIGITAL ROMANCE: ANALYSIS OF MOBILE DATING APPS’ TECHNOLOGICAL FEATURES ACROSS PLATFORMS

Kate Keener Mays

Boston University, College of Communication, United States of America


What’s Behind the Mask?: Understanding Stealth Practices of Grindr Users

Ian N. Wesley-Smith, W. E. Chapin

University of Washington, United States of America


Shameful transgressions and intimate boundary works: On gay hook-up app research ethics

Kristian Møller Jørgensen

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

RT-09: Wearables
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Dawn M. Armfield
 

Rules of Engagement in the Age of Wearable Technologies

Dawn M. Armfield1, Jana Rosinski2, Megan McGrath3, Krista Kennedy2, Ann Hill Duin3

1: Frostburg State University, United States of America; 2: Syracuse University; 3: University of Minnesota

RT-10: Intermediaries
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Tarleton Gillespie
 

ROUNDTABLE: Still platforms: the apparent stability of digital intermediaries in the face of change and challenge

Tarleton Gillespie1, Mike Ananny2, Karine Nahon3, Angèle Christin4, Balazs Bodo5, Solon Barocas6

1: Microsoft Research; 2: University of Southern California; 3: Government School, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya-IDC; 4: Data & Society Research Institute; 5: School of Information Law, University of Amsterdam; 6: Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

XP-01: Storytelling
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Anna Feigenbaum
 

And then your data did what? An interactive workshop on storytelling techniques for gathering, analysing and communicating data

Anna Feigenbaum, Brad Gyori

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

10:30am
-
11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am
-
12:30pm
FB-04: Visual
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Uta Russmann
 

Instagram – the return of visual communication and its methodological challenges

Uta Russmann1, Jakob Svensson2, Barry Brown3, Giovanni Boccia Artieri4, Elisa Serafinelli5

1: FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW, Austria; 2: Uppsala University; 3: University of Stockholm; 4: Università di Urbino Carlo Bo; 5: University of Central Lancashire

PA-16: Political Organizations
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: David Karpf
 

Digital Media and Political Organizations

David Karpf1, Luis Hestres2, Nina Hall3, Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken4, Michael Dedmon4, Jaclyn Petruzzelli4, Hans Peter Schmitz5

1: George Washington University, United States of America; 2: University of Texas - San Antonio, United States of America; 3: Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany; 4: Syracuse University, United States of America; 5: University of San Diego, United States of America

PA-17: Make/Break
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Katrin Tiidenberg
 

MAKING AND BREAKING RULES ON THE INTERNET

Katrin Tiidenberg1, Crystal Abidin2, Andra Siibak3

1: Aarhus University; 2: National University of Singapore; 3: University of Tartu

PA-18: Boundaries
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Stacy Blasiola
 

The Rules of Engagement: Managing Boundaries, Managing Identities

Stacy Blasiola1, Airi Lampinen2, Asko Lehmuskallio3, Sander Schwartz4, Suvi Uski5

1: University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America; 2: Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; 3: University of Tampere, Finland; 4: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 5: University of Helsinki, Finland

PS-17: Laws
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Francesca Musiani
 

Cyberlaw 2.0 - The New International Law of Internet Governance

Thomas Streinz

New York University School of Law, United States of America


The responsibilities of platforms: a new constitutionalism to promote the legitimacy of decentralized governance

Nicolas Suzor

Queensland University of Technology, Australia


Free trade agreements and internet rules: new actors, new agendas

Christopher Foster1, Shamel Azmeh2

1: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2: London School of Economics, United Kingdom

PS-18: Rules II
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Julia Pohle
 

Is the Dark Web Legit? The Case of Dark Web Search Engines

Robert William Gehl

University of Utah, United States of America


Peeling the Onion: The Political Economy of Tor

Nathalie Marechal

University of Southern California, United States of America


When Censorship is not an option: Internet Trolling by National Intelligence Agency of S. Korea:

Ho Young Yoon1, Woo Chang Kang2

1: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America; 2: Yale University, United States of America


Smart world, smart rules? On the Legitimacy of Digital Systems of Social Rules

Carsten Orwat, Anika Hügle, René König

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

RT-11: Nudging
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Jeanette Hofmann
 

Big Nudging:a dream of social cybernetics come true?

Jeanette Hofmann1, Lena Ulbricht1, Holger Straßheim2, Natascha Just3, Lucia Reisch4,5, Victoria Nash6

1: WZB, Germany; 2: Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; 3: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 4: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; 5: Zeppelin University, Germany; 6: Oxford Internet Institute, UK

RT-12: Fem Big Data I
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Helen Kennedy
 

What would feminist big data, data studies and datavis look like? 1 VISIONS

Helen Kennedy (chair/submitter)1, Jean Burgess2, Kate Crawford3, Aristea Fotopoulou4, Rosemary Lucy Hill5, Kate O'Riordan6

1: University of Sheffeld, United Kingdom; 2: QUT, Australia; 3: Microsoft, USA; 4: University of Brighton, UK; 5: University of Leeds, UK; 6: University of Sussex, UK

XP-02: Carnival
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Jason Edward Archer
 

Carnival of Privacy and Security Delights

Jason Edward Archer, Nathanael Edward Bassett, Peter Snyder

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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3:30pm
FB-05: Play
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Tim Highfield
 

Playing with the rules

Tim Highfield1, Kate Miltner2, Amy Johnson3, R. Stuart Geiger4

1: Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Southern California, USA; 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 4: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, UC-Berkeley, USA

PA-19: Standards
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Elinor Carmi
 

NETWORK STANDARDS AND CULTURE

Elinor Carmi1, Robert W. Gehl2, John L. Sullivan3, Dan Burk4

1: Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: The University of Utah, United States; 3: Muhlenberg College, United States; 4: School of Law University of California, Irvine, United States

PA-20: Aging
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Kelly Quinn
 

Aging in a Digital World

Kelly Quinn1, Adrienne Massanari1, Johanna Birkland2, Francesca Comunello6, Andrea Rosales3, Simone Mulargia7, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol3, Anabel Quan-Haase4, Trent Kays5

1: University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America; 2: Syracuse University; 3: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; 4: Western University; 5: Hampton University; 6: Lumsa University; 7: Sapienza University

PA-21: Viral
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Rex Lansing Troumbley
 

When the Internet Goes Viral on Things

Rex Lansing Troumbley1, Marisa Elena Duarte2, Stefan Larsson3, Kathleen P.J. Brennan4

1: Rice University; 2: Arizona State University; 3: Lund University; 4: University of Hawaii at Manoa

PS-19: Learning
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Richard Keith Smith
 

NEW RULES: YOUNG CHILDREN’S TOUCHSCREEN HABITUS

Bjorn Nansen, Darshana Jayemanne

University of Melbourne, Australia


MODULATING STUDENT SUBJECTIVITIES: DIGITAL AFFECTS IN ONLINE SPACES

Selena Nemorin

Monash University, Australia


Understanding crowdworkers' learning practices

Anoush Margaryan

Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom


Regulatory issues concerning the promotion of media literacy

Krisztina Nagy

HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Hungary


Literacy and Training in Digital Research: the Researcher’s Perspective

Panayiota Tsatsou

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

PS-20: Inequalitaties
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Koen Leurs
 

Racial Formation and the Political Economy of Web Traffic

Charlton Mcilwain

New York University, United States of America


GIFs as Racial Discourse

Charlton Mcilwain, Diana Kamin, Rachel Kuo

New York University, United States of America


PLATFORMED RACISM AS ARTICULATION OF WHITENESS: VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE ADAM GOODES BOOING CONTROVERSY

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez

Queensland University of Technology, Australia


Six seconds to talk back: The emergence of racial comedy as a sociopolitical discourse genre on Vine

Kendra Nicole Calhoun

University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America


Platform labor: On the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the "on-demand" economy

Niels van Doorn

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

RT-13: Activism
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Michael Zimmer
 

Privacy, Policing and Protest: Locational Privacy and the Politics of Online Social Activism & State Control

Michael Zimmer1, Mathias Klang2, Allissa Richardson3, Bryce Newell4, Meg Young5, Sandra Braman6

1: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; 2: University of Massachusetts Boston; 3: University of Maryland; 4: Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society; 5: University of Washington; 6: Texas A&M

RT-14: Fem Big Data II
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Helen Kennedy
 

What does feminist big data, data studies and datavis look like? 2: PRACTICES

Helen Kennedy1, Rena Bivens2, Catherine D'Ignazio3, Anna Feigenbaum4

1: University of Sheffeld, United Kingdom; 2: Carleton University, Canada; 3: Emerson University, USA; 4: Bournemouth University, Uk

XP-03: #Cards
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Li (Saengsanthitam) Feyerabend
 

#Cards: Exploring contemporary Internet culture and online personas in an interactive card game session

Li Feyerabend1, Robin Fabbro2

1: Private, Georgia; 2: CENN, Georgia

3:30pm
-
4:00pm
Coffee break
4:00pm
-
5:30pm
FB-06: (Anti)Feminism
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Susanna Paasonen
 

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FEMINISM AND ANTI-FEMINISM AFTER GAMERGATE

Kishonna Gray1, Jenny Sundén2, Susanna Paasonen4, Adrienne Massanari3

1: Eastern Kentucky University, United States; 2: Södertörn University, Sweden; 3: University of Illinois at Chicago, United States; 4: University of Turku, Finland

PA-22: Politiken
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Lisbeth Klastrup
 

SOCIAL MEDIA POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE DANISH PARLIAMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2015

Lisbeth Klastrup1, Sander Schwartz1, Luca Rossi1, Morten Hjelholt1, Jakob Linaa Jensen2, Niels Lind3

1: IT University at Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark; 3: Independent scholar, Denmark

PA-23: Visibility
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Maria Schreiber
 

Visibility Rules

Maria Schreiber1, Edgar Gómez-Cruz2, Crystal Abidin3, Tobias Boll4

1: University of Vienna, Austria; 2: RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; 3: National University of Singapore; 4: Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

PA-24: Reading
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund
 

NETWORKED READING: CONCERNS AND PROSPECTS FOR A DATA-DRIVEN READING CULTURE

Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund, Mette Skov, Toine Bogers, Rasmus Grøn

Aalborg University, Denmark

PA-31: Feedback
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Katrin Weller
 

Caught in a feedback loop? Algorithmic personalization and digital traces

Wiebke Loosen1, Marco T Bastos2, Cornelius Puschmann3, Uwe Hasebrink1, Sascha Hölig1, Lisa Merten1, Jan­-Hinrik Schmidt1, Katharina E Kinder­-Kurlanda4, Katrin Weller4

1: Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research; 2: University of California, Davis; 3: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society; 4: GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

PS-21: Mourning
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Katrin Christiane Döveling
 

The emerging practices of the collective afterlife: multimodal analysis of websites for post-mortem digital interaction

Paula Kiel

LSE, United Kingdom


‘There’s a Starman waiting in the Sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter

Hilde Van den Bulck1, Anders Olof Larsson2

1: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 2: Westerdal Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Norway


The (net)work of mourning: emotional contagion, viral performativity, and the death of David Bowie

Peta Mitchell, Axel Bruns, Felix Victor Münch

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PS-22: Youth
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Lynn Schofield Clark
 

‘No more birthday greetings on my Facebook wall, please.’ Social media platform usage patterns, user perceptions, and idioms of practice among young Italian users

Francesca Comunello1, Simone Mulargia2

1: LUMSA University, Rome, Italy; 2: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy


Making it ‘Facebook Official’: Reflecting on romantic relationships through sustained Facebook use

Sian Lincoln1, Brady Robards2

1: Liverpool John Moores University, UK; 2: University of Tasmania, Australia


A snap of intimacy: Investigating photo sharing practices on Snapchat and Instagram

Malene Charlotte Larsen1, Jette Kofoed2

1: Aalborg University, Denmark; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark


You're always online: Negotiating internet temporalities in the secondary school

Nicola Frances Johnson

Federation University, Australia

RT-15: Disconnect
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Nicholas John
 

Disconnect. Unfriend. Disengage.

Nicholas John1, Tero Karppi2, Adi Kuntsman3, Ben Light4, Esperanza Miyake3

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: State University of New York at Buffalo, USA; 3: Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; 4: Queensland University of Technology, Australia

XP-04: Data Race
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez
 

THE #BERLINDATARACE

Jacinta Mary Buchbach, Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez, Jing Zeng, Katherina Drinkuth, Rachel Hews

QUT, Australia

7:00pm
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10:00pm
AoIR 2016 Banquet at Ballhaus Berlin
Date: Saturday, 08/Oct/2016
8:30am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: HU 1.402
9:00am
-
10:30am
PA-25: Datafication
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Helen Kennedy
 

Living and working with data in times of datafication

Helen Kennedy1, Mirko Tobias Schäfer2, Aline Franzke2, Minna Ruckenstein3, Mika Pantzar3, Thomas Poell4

1: University of Sheffeld, United Kingdom; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands; 3: Helsinki University, Finland; 4: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

PA-26: Migration
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Koen Leurs
 

Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe – communicative infrastructures, regulations and media discourses

Koen Leurs1, Mark Latonero2,3, Paula Kift3, Çiğdem Bozdağ4, Kevin Smets5,6, Eugenia Siapera7, Moses Boudourides8, Kaarina Nikunen9

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2: Data & Society Research Institute, NY; 3: New York University, NY; 4: Kadir Has University, Turkey; 5: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 6: Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium; 7: Dublin City University, Ireland; 8: University of Patras, Greece; 9: University of Tampere, Finland

PA-27: Playful
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: John McManus
 

The Playful Web

Jacob Johanssen1, Catherine Bouko2, Miguel Sicart3

1: University of Westminster, UK; 2: Université libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels, Belgium); 3: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

PS-23: Methods
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Grant Blank
 

Credibility Assessment and Tie Strength on Facebook

Tsahi {Zack} Hayat1, Arnon Hershkovitz2, Nicole Krämer3, Stephan Winter3

1: Interdisciplinary Center; 2: Tel-Aviv University; 3: Universität Duisburg-Essen


Collapse of an Online Social Network: Who Started the Avalanche?

Laszlo Lorincz1, Anna Fruzsina Gyor2, Julia Koltai3,4, Takacs Karoly3

1: Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; 2: Corvinus University of Budapest; 3: Centre for Social Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; 4: Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest


Using web browsing histories to facilitate multi-method research

Ericka Menchen-Trevino

American University, Washington D.C., United States of America


Popularity indicators in online media. A review of research on the effects of metric user information

Anna Sophie Kümpel, Mario Haim

LMU Munich, Germany


A Topic Analysis Approach To Revealing Themes In The Australian Twittersphere

Brenda Moon

Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PS-24: Rulemaking
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Sandra Braman
 

The DMCA Rulemaking and Digital Legal Vernaculars

Olivia G Conti

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America


The Case of the Missing Fair Use: A Multilingual History & Analysis of Twitter’s Policy Documentation

Amy Johnson

MIT, United States of America


Evolution of Google’s and Microsoft’s Information Practices

Tatevik Sargsyan

American University, United States of America


Visual Arts in Digital and Online Environments: Changing Copyright and Fair Use Practice among Institutions and Individuals Abstract

Patricia Aufderheide, Aram Sinnreich

American University, United States of America

PS-25: Images
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Jill Walker Rettberg
 

The Impact of an Image: Alan Kurdi and the Civil Society Response in Norway

LIN PRØITZ

University of Sheffield, Norway


ONLINE IMAGERY: THE NON-STATE MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Mona Kasra

University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America


‘THESE SNAPS ARE MADE FOR TALKING’: VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND INSTANT EXPRESSION ON SNAPCHAT

Camilla Michelle Best

The University of Melbourne, Australia


“Reblogging someone's selfie is seen as a really nice thing to do”: spatiality and emplacement within a non-dominant platform vernacular on Tumblr

Katie Margaret Warfield

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada


#nofilter: Remaking U.S. National Parks for Internet Audiences on Instagram

Amber Buck

University of Alabama, United States of America

PS-26: Labor
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Andrew Herman
 

Cultural Work in the Social Media Age: Lessons from the Insta-Glam

Brooke Erin Duffy1, Elizabeth Wissinger2

1: Cornell University, United States of America (as of 7/1/16); 2: City University of New York, United States of America


Media Labour and the Extended Commodification of the Life-World

Göran Bolin

Södertörn University, Sweden


Production Politics: Gender, Feminism, and Social Media Labor

Urszula Pruchniewska1, Brooke Erin Duffy2

1: Temple University, United States of America; 2: Cornell University, United States of America (as of 7/1/16)


SNS Caregiving: Filipino Migrant Workers’ Occupational Community Building over Facebook

Oren Golan, Deby Babis

University of Haifa, Israel


Digital scholarship and the social network site: How academics conceptualise their networks on academic social network sites and Twitter

Katy Jordan

The Open University, United Kingdom

PS-27: Debates
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Anatoliy Gruzd
 

Gender and Online Commenting: How commenting architectures affect inclusion and discussion quality

Rolf E. Fredheim, Alfred Moore

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom


EXPERIENCES OF REPERCUSSIONS FROM PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE DEBATE

Anders Sundnes Løvlie1, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk2

1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: University of Oslo, Norway


“IMAGINE WE’RE ALL IN THE LIVING ROOM TALKING ABOUT POLITICS”: ISRAELI WHATSAPP GROUPS DEVOTED TO INFORMAL POLITICAL TALK

Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


SHOUTING AT THE TELEVISION: ARGUMENTATION STRATEGIES IN SECOND SCREEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE FOR CHILEAN POLITICAL TV SHOWS

Daniela Ibarra Herrera, Johann Wolfgang Unger

Lancaster University, United Kingdom


An attribute-based approach to understanding qualities of discourse on social media

Elliot Panek

The University of Alabama, United States of America

RT-17: Post
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Daniel Miller
 

Why We Post

Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Juliano Spyer, Xinyuan Wang

University College London, United Kingdom

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am
-
12:30pm
FB-07: Bending
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Alison Harvey
 

Bending the Rules: Developing an Agenda for Feminist Digital Research Methods

Alison Harvey1, Mary Elizabeth Luka2, Jessalynn Keller3, Tamara Shepherd4, Mélanie Millette5

1: University of Leicester, United Kingdom; 2: York University, Canada; 3: University of Calgary, Canada; 4: University of Calgary, Canada; 5: Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada

PA-28: Sharing
Location: HU 1.102
Chair: Nicolas Suzor
 

The Sharing Economy and its discontents

Nicolas Suzor1, Jean Burgess1, Ben Light1, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez1, Jacinta Buchbach1, Stefanie Duguay1, Ben Goldsmith4, Mary Gray3, Patrik Wikstrom1, Yujie Chen2, Jack Qiu2, Deepti Kulkarni3, Siddharth Suri3

1: Queensland University of Technology; 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: Microsoft Research; 4: University of the Sunshine Coast

PA-29: Data/Code
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Aubrey Anable
 

Visualizing Data and Feeling Code

Gloria Chan-Sook Kim1, Lisa Cartwright2, Aubrey Anable3

1: Cornell University, USA; 2: University of California, San Diego, USA; 3: Carleton University, Canada

PA-30: Tech/Place
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Jessica Lingel
 

INTERSECTIONS OF TECHNOLOGY & PLACE

Erika Polson1, Rowan Wilken2, Germaine Halegoua3, Bryce Renninger4, Adrienne Russell1

1: University of Denver, United States of America; 2: Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Australia; 3: University of Kansas, United States of America; 4: Rutgers University, United States of America

PS-28: Remix
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Jeanette Hofmann
 

Cultural Enthusiasm Online: Technology, Paratexts and Value in Fans’ Use of Digital Media

Cornel Sandvoss

University fo Huddersfield, United Kingdom


The More Things Change: Who Gets Left Behind as Remix Goes Mainstream?

Aram Sinnreich, Fernanda Rosa

American University, United States of America


MUSICAL RECYCLING: MASHUP AESTHETICS AND AUTHORSHIP

Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen

University of Oslo, Norway


DOES IT PAY TO BE ORIGINAL? MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF ORIGINAL AND TRANSFORMATIVE CREATIVE PROJECTS ON KICKSTARTER

Kristofer Erickson1, Fabian Homberg2, Martin Kretschmer1

1: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2: Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

PS-29: Surveillance
Location: HU 1.404
Chair: Nicholas Proferes
 

Decoding Risk: Making Sense of Predictive Data Analytics

Claire Maiers

University of Virginia, United States of America


Evaluating the Harms of Biometric Surveillance

Avi Marciano

University of Haifa, Israel


Situating Agency in Big Data: practices and subjects in predictive policing

Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz

Cardiff University, United Kingdom


Mapping the complexities of big data and surveillance practices.

Sal Humphreys

University of Adelaide, Australia


STRATEGIES OF INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

Nili Steinfeld

Ariel University, Israel

PS-30: Gaming I
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Lies van Roessel
 

Performing Play on Twitch.tv

Mia Lynn Consalvo, Marilyn Sugiarto

Concordia University, Canada


The duo is in the details: Game genre differences in player-avatar relations

Nick Bowman1, Jaime Banks1, Ed Downs2

1: West Virginia University, United States of America; 2: University of Minnesota-Duluth, United States of America


Gamer Rules: Boundaries and Rationales of What Makes a ‘Gamer’

Rosa Mikeal Martey1, Brian McKernan2, Christina Jingsi Wu3, Adrienne Shaw4, Jennifer Stromer-Galley5

1: Colorado State University, United States of America; 2: New York University, United States of America; 3: Hofstra University, United States of America; 4: Temple University, United States of America; 5: Syracuse University, United States of America

PS-31: (In)Visibility
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Crystal Abidin
 

Playing the algorithm: Mobile gamers’ everyday (in)visibility strategies

Michele Willson1, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda2

1: Curtin University, Australia; 2: GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany


WHAT RULES SELFIE CITIZENSHIP? THE CURRENCY OF VISIBILITY IN GLOBALISED DIGITAL POLITICS

Adi Kuntsman

Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom


“Now Objects Perceive Me”: Art That Interrogates Machine Vision

Jill Walker Rettberg

University of Bergen, Norway


The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Graphical User Interface

Paul Frosh

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

RT-18: Industry
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Brooke Erin Duffy
 

Internet Industry Research Rules! A Roundtable on Methods

Daniel Greene1, Nora Draper2, Tony Liao3, Nick Seaver4, Lana Swartz5, Brooke Duffy6

1: Microsoft Research New England; 2: University of New Hampshire, United States of America; 3: Temple University, United States of America; 4: Tufts University, United States of America; 5: University of Virginia, United States of America; 6: Cornell University, United States of America

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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3:30pm
AoIR Institutional Memory Panel
Location: HU 1.205
Chair: Annette N Markham
FB-08: Publishing
Location: HU 1.201
Chair: Benedikt Fecher
 

Scholarly Publishing in a Digital Age: Overcoming Knowledge Asymmetries and Disciplinary Barriers

Benedikt Fecher1,2, Rebecca Kahn3

1: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society; 2: German Institute for Economic Research; 3: King's College London

PA-32: Sexuality
Location: HU 1.103
Chair: Sonja Vivienne
 

Patrolling Sexuality and Gender in Digital Social Spaces

Sonja Vivienne1, Brady Robards2, Crystal Abidin3, Paul Byron4

1: Flinders University of South Australia, Australia; 2: University of Tasmania, Australia; 3: University of Western Australia; 4: University of New South Wales

PA-33: Regulation
Location: HU 1.204
Chair: Rivka Ribak
 

Standards rule? Regulations, literacies and algorithms in times of transition

Rivka Ribak1, Hagar Bohbot1, Roei Davidson1, Avi Marciano1, Sharon Ringel1, Neta Ziskind1,3, Joseph Turow2

1: University of Haifa, Israel; 2: University of Pennsylvania, USA; 3: The Open University, Israel

PS-32: Power
Location: HU 1.403
Chair: Lina Dencik
 

The Terms Of Service Of Online Protest

Stefania Milan

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The


Hate Speech and Social Media Platforms

Eugenia Siapera, Paloma Viejo Otero

Dublin City University, Ireland


#YesAllWomen (have a collective story to tell): Feminist hashtags and the intersection of personal narratives, networked publics, and intimate citizenship

Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

University of North Texas, United States of America


Internet Rules, Media Logics and Media Grammar: New Perspectives on the Relation between Technology, Organization and Power

Caja Thimm

University of Bonn, Germany

PS-33: Gaming II
Location: HU 1.405
Chair: Mia Lynn Consalvo
 

Playing Systems, or why we play with computers

Miguel Sicart

IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark


The Material-Discursive Agonistic Agency of Gaming Architecture

James W. Malazita

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States of America


Breaking New Ground: Web Arcades, Flash, and Indie Praxis

Pierson Avery Browne

University of Waterloo, Canada

PS-34: Histories
Location: HU 1.406
Chair: Kevin Driscoll
 

EMBEDDED DANGERS: THE HISTORY OF THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM AND THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPAIR

Dylan Wesley Mulvin

McGill University, Canada


‘The Old Rules No Longer Apply’: Web Design and User Experience in the Dot-com Era

Megan Sapnar Ankerson

University of Michigan, United States of America


The (post)digital future of anthropological archives: Memory-making and heritage in cyberspace

Katja Müller

Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Germany

   
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee break
4:00pm
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5:30pm
AoIR 2016 General Meeting
Location: HU 1.101
Chair: Jennifer Stromer-Galley

 
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