Program 2024

Thursday 4 July 2024 (MindLabs)

1000-1100Keynote address by Mark Alfano
Title: The affiliative use of emoji and hashtags in the Black Lives Matter movement
1100-1130Digital Resistance through Internet Memes: A Case Study of Digital Mobilization in Pakistan
Speaker: Ahsan Chandio
1130-1200The Characterization of (Gen)AI: Insights from Literary Studies
Speakers: Emmy Stevens & Siebe Bluijs
1200-1300Lunch Break
1300-1330Can we still rest in peace?
Speaker: Anuj Puri
1330-1400“TikTok Gave Me ADHD”: On User-Algorithm Relations in Platformed Diagnosis
Speaker: Anthony Longo
1400-1430We are all dividuals now. Algorithmic management in the gig economy
Speaker: Tim Christiaens
1430-1500Coffee Break
1500-1530Narrative identity, technology and virtue: being and becoming empathetic in the digital age
Speakers: Caroline Bollen & Lyanne Uhlhorn
1530-1630Coffee Break
1630-1700Imaginative Contagion and Moral Corruption
Speaker: Alex Fisher
1700-1730Migration Narratives: Visual Representations, Emotions, and Socioeconomic Contexts
Speaker: Juan Sebastian Olier

Friday 5 July 2024 (Online)

0900-1000Keynote address by Payal Arora
Title: From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
1000-1030Digital Abuses on our Digitally Extended Persons
Speakers: Marco Viola & Fabio Patrone
1030-1130Coffee Break
1130-1200Digital Identity at the Margins: Social Disadvantage and the Online Self
Speaker: Will Marler
1200-1230“Online identities”: From anonymity to visibility and back again?
Speaker: Mingyi Hou
1230-1300No Bias, No GAN: Generative Models Produce Widespread, Unexpected, and Uninterpretable Biases
Speaker: Linus Ta-Lun Huang
1300-1400Lunch Break
1400-1430Making Sense of the Self: Generative AI, Understanding, and Language
Speaker: Jacob Martin Rump
1430-1500Avatar Identity Realism, Virtual Ethics, and Virtual Realism
Speaker: Cody Turner
1500-1530Coffee Break
1530-1600Digital Traces of Smartphone Self-Extension
Speaker: Morgan Quinn Ross
1600-1630Negotiating Expertise with(in) AI: Dynamics of Identity and Authority at Work
Speaker: Ignacio Fernandez Cruz
1630-1700“Alexa, Who is TS Madison?”: Black Trans Femininity and Audience Engagement with Maddie in the Morning
Speaker: Melissa Brown

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