Program 2024

Please find the program of the previous TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium below.

We’ll update it as soon as we’ve finalized the program of the 2026 edition. Consider submitting an abstract here.

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

Want to take part in the Symposium? Registration opens in June!

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