Full list of papers for #SMSociety 2026
| Author(s) | Paper title |
| Aanila Kishwar (Indiana University Bloomington)* | Coded Biases And Demographic Stereotyping in Facebook’s Curation of AI-Generated Images |
| Aditya Deshbandhu (University of Exeter); Devina Sarwatay (City St George’s, University of London)*; Aparna Vincent (Indian Institute of Management – Indore) | The Platform Turn in Online Games |
| Adrienne Hall-Phillips (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)*; Khushali Shah (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Navigating Mental Health Online: How Platform Affordances Shape Emotional Connection on TikTok and Threads |
| Ali Fuad Selvi (University of Alabama); Erhan Aslan (University of Reading)* | Who owns #RealEnglish? Influencer Teachers’ Construction of Authenticity on Instagram |
| Amanuel Tesfaye Kebede (Helsinki University )* | Aesthetic Authoritarianism? Visual Propaganda and the Politics of Urban Renewal in Ethiopia |
| Amber Priem (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)*; Malaika Brengman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Nanouk Verhulst (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) | Designing for Attention vs. Designing for Wellbeing: The Impact of a Screentime Nudge on TikTok Flow |
| Andreas Schellewald (Goldsmiths, University of London)*; Hui Lin (King’s College London) | “Meaningful” or “meaningless” social interactions? The automation of commenting in live streams on Douyin |
| Anna Pujadas-Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)*; Clara Virós-Martín (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | Algorithmic Femininity on Instagram: A Case Study of the VI @fit_aitana |
| Anuja Premika (Mahindra University)* | Creators, journalists, and relational precarity in India’s beauty web |
| Aparajita Bhandari (University of Waterloo); Sara Bimo (York University); Chelsea Butkowski (American University)* | Hyper-datafication: How Platforms Make Everything Feel Like Social Media |
| Arafat Al Yeasin (University of Liverpool)* | Hybrid AI Visuals and Deepfakes as instruments of political deception in the pre-election period of Bangladesh |
| Areyana Proctor (University of Wisconsin – Madison)* | Misogynoir, Influencer Tactics, and Profit Maximization on YouTube |
| Asher Kessler (London School of Economics)* | Conducting History: Speed, Progress and Exponentiality in Meta’s Discourse |
| Ashwin Nagappa (Queensland University of Technology)*; Daniel Angus (Queensland University of Technology); Kateryna Kasianenko (Queensland University of Technology) | Decentered Platform Governance: Learning trust and Safety Practices with Communities on Decentralised Social Media Platforms |
| Ayşenur Benevento (Bahcesehir University)* | Children in Political Imagery: A Visual Values Analysis of Turkish Leaders’ Instagram Posts |
| Ben Xu (University of Leeds)* | Algorithmic Visibility as a Capital Conversion Mechanism: The Practice Logic of Content Creators in the Digital Public Sphere |
| Bhavani Singh (Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology)*; Rashmi Jha (Banaras Hindu University) | Platform culture and Traditional Performance: Algorithmic Mediation of Ghoomar Dance on Instagram |
| Biying Wu-Ouyang (Education University of Hong Kong)* | Algorithm Adoration, Synergy, Discord, and Apathy: Categorizing Human–Algorithm Relationships in Social Media |
| Borchuluun Yadamsuren (LUC)*; Undrah Baasanjav (Southern Illinois University); Iderjargal Dashdondog (National University of Mongolia) | Mongolian Stand-Up Comedy on YouTube as Public Discourse |
| Bruna Paroni (University of Urbino)* | “Flooding the Tropical Zone”: Understanding Algorithmic Amplification on Instagram During Election Campaigns |
| Camilla Volpe (University of Milan); Luca Giuffè (University of Milan); Giulia Giorgi (University of Milan)* | ZOOMWORK: Work imaginaries in platform culture. Content creators and Gen Z |
| Carlos Entrena Serrano (Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel))*; Thomas A. Wright (University of Sheffield) | “TikTok… Are You Okay?!” Understanding the U.S. TikTok Ban and Forced Sale through Infrastructural Inversion |
| Carolin Lehmann (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) Tübingen)*; Sonja Utz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) Tübingen) | Seeing what your friends are up to: FOMO through group chats |
| Catarina Feio (Universidade de Aveiro)*; Lídia Oliveira (Universidade de Aveiro) | A Deficit of Shared Reality? Youth, Fragmented Information Environments, Social Media, and Political Participation |
| Catherine Baker (Dublin City University)* | From Mate Selection to Testosterone Talk: Mapping Science Claims in the (Neo-) Manosphere |
| Chenfei LI (King’s College London)* | Mediating ‘my London’ on social media: Knowledge migrants’ urban place experiences and perceptions through digital place memories |
| Chisom Omeokachie (Independent Researcher)* | Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Audience Trust, Scepticism, and AI-Generated Visuals on Social Media |
| Claire Stravato Emes (claire. stravato @gmail.com)* | Who Should Be in Charge? Safety and Agency in the Public Imagination of EU Platform Governance |
| Daniel Barredo Ibáñez (Universidad de Sevilla)*; Lucía Caro Castaño (Universidad de Cádiz) | Predictive Approaches to Suicidal Thoughts in Spanish Youth: The Role of Online Media Engagement Patterns |
| Daniel Jordan (University of Glasgow)* | Sowing Discord: Exploring the use of online chat platforms in mobilising worker resistance |
| Dayei Oh (University of Strathclyde)*; Craig Ryder (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ) | Trust Café: A Marxist-feminist approach to digital commons and content moderation |
| Deep Sanghvi (Worcester Polytechnic Institue)*; Khushali Shah (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | From Feed to Floor: AI-Powered Social Media as a Sensory Buffer in Neurodivergent Retail Experiences |
| Devina Sarwatay (City St George’s, University of London)*; Anubha Sarkar (City St George’s, University of London); Swatantra A (Indian Institute of Management Indore); Kealeboga Aiseng (University of the Witwatersrand) | AI, Social Media, and Higher Education: A Comparative Policy Analysis across UK, India, and South Africa |
| Dora Weubel (USI Università della Svizzera italiana)*; Sophie Mayen (USI Università della Svizzera italiana); Kathrin Karsay (University of Vienna); Ruth Wendt (Ludwig Maximilian University ); Anne-Linda Camerini (USI Università della Svizzera italiana) | The Many Faces of Stigma: Profiles of Adolescent Mental Illness Stigma Beliefs and Social Media Use Across Switzerland, Germany, and Austria |
| duygu karatas (University of Siegen)* | Mainstreaming the Red Pill:The Popularization of Red Pill Ideology on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube |
| Elinor Carmi (City, University of London)* | “Don’t hurt me, no more”: What can we learn from the pharmaceutical industry regulation about platform and AI regulation |
| Elinor Carmi (City, University of London)*; Anna Feigenbaum (Glasgow University); Photini Vrikki (UCL) | The AI Citizenship Framework: Developing interactive AI literacies for critical and proactive citizens |
| Elisabetta Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)* | Children in the Creator Economy of Family Influencers: Visibility, Engagement, and Regulatory Gaps in Italy |
| Elizaveta Chernenko (Oxford Internet Institute)*; Balazs Vedres (Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University) | Networked Hatred: Co-evolution of Dehumanising Discourse and Channel Structure of Russian and Ukrainian Telegram During the 2022 Invasion |
| Ella Duncan (University of the Fraser Valley); Kathleen Rodgers (University of the Fraser Valley)*; Avery Fraser (University of the Fraser Valley) | “Cuckoo Nut Lady C*nt Face McGee”: Gendered Constructions of Mothers Who Kill in True Crime Content |
| Elsa Soro (european business school)*; Lluís Garay Tamajón (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)) | Fentanyl Tourism on YouTube: Serial Commodification of Urban Marginality |
| Erika Ningxin Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)* | AI Fortune-Teller: Procedural Rhetoric and the Algorithmic Construction of Trust in AI Divination |
| Erika Ningxin Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)* | Constituting Affective Reality: Platformed Nostalgia and Digital Materiality in the Chinese Hanfu Revival Movement |
| Errol Salamon (University of Stirling)* | Platform-Mediated Labour and Professional Precarity: Producing Preconditions for Union Organizing in Journalism |
| Essi Holopainen (University of Helsinki)*; Meri Kulmala (University of Helsinki); Anu Katainen (University of Helsinki); Anna-Maija Multas (University of Helsinki) | To understand and to be understood: Young people’s perceptions of peer support for mental health in social media |
| Esteban Morales (University of Groningen)* | A wholesome insult, an uplifting threat: Making sense of toxicity amid ‘good vibes’ digital cultures |
| Gil Sharon (University of Leeds)* | MAGA on TikTok: Issue Mapping a Political Network |
| Giota Alevizou (King’s College London)* | From Encyclopedic Authority to Platformed Knowledge: Wikipedia, Social Media, and the Reconfiguration of Epistemic Power |
| Gordon Dimitrieff (Antwerp Management School)* | Platform Nonmarket Strategies as Power Projection |
| Guillaume Latzko-Toth (Laval University)*; Clémentine Fruchard (Université du Québec à Montréal); Elsa Fortant (INRS); Claudine Bonneau (Université du Québec à Montréal); Florence Millerand (Université du Québec à Montréal) | Algorithms for Academia: Mapping Users’ Imaginaries of Academic Social Networks |
| Hannah Artman (University of Missouri)*; Rutendo Chimbaru (University of Miami); Bonnie Deal (Phoenix College) | “The culture is CHANGING!!!”: #MAHA, RFK, and the TikTok health influencer |
| Hao Xie (University of Warwick)* | Performing ‘Mountains and Spices’ on Dianping: Cultural Politics and Platform Marketing of “Yunguichuan Bistros” in Urban China |
| Hui Lin (King’s College London)*; Yingwen Wang (University of The Arts London) | Playing with Fate: Play Framing, Context Collapse, and Personal Data Disclosure in AI-Mediated Bazi Divination |
| Inessa De Angelis (University of Toronto)* | Using YouTube Data to Measure Online Harassment in Canadian Politics |
| Inhwa Song (Princeton); Manoel Horta Ribeiro (Princeton); Marianne Aubin Le Quere (Princeton)* | Information Wellbeing: Balancing News Knowledge and Mental Health |
| Irida Ntalla (University of the Arts London)* | Intimacy capital, recognition, and ordinary creators on TikTok |
| Irina Bănoiu (Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna (IHS))* | Out for the Algorithm: Queer Visibility and Self-Presentation on TikTok |
| Isabela Braga de Moura (COPPEAD Graduate School of Business)*; Claudia Araujo (COPPEAD Graduate School of Business); Marina Martins Siqueira (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (HIAE)) | Infodemics and Routine Vaccine Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Social Media and Communication Environments |
| Jaigris Hodson (Royal Roads University)* | Discourses of Anti-Trans Disinformation on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis |
| Jake Street (Nottingham Trent University)*; Isibor Ihianle (Nottingham Trent University); Ahmad Lotfi (Nottingham Trent University) | Differentiating Contact and Fatasy Online Grooming Offenders |
| Jessica Souza (University College Dublin)*; Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (University College Dublin) | When Precarity Goes Viral: Entrepreneurial Ideology, Algorithmic Visibility and the Cross-Platform Reframing of Formal Employment |
| Jessica Witte (University of Edinburgh)*; Ari Stillman (University of Edinburgh) | Terms of Service as Boundary Objects, or What the Post-API Era Actually Means for Research Ethics |
| Jiahao Sun (Hitotsubashi University)* | Speaking Back Between Misogyny and Censorship: Three Counterpublic Strategies by Chinese Women |
| Jiayi Chen (University of Warwick)* | Impatient feminism: Platform-mediated intimacy advice on Chinese social media |
| Jihye Kim (Umass Amherst)* | The Duality of Media Actors and Culture: The White Afrikaner Refugee Controversy on YouTube |
| Jingyuan Liu (Boston University)* | How do Terms of Service Influence Social Media Users Dynamics – A Privacy Anxiety Perspective |
| Joan Owen (Royal Roads University)*; Jaigris Hodson (Royal Roads University) | Enhancing Micro-phenomenology with Qualitative, Semi-structured, Elicitation Interviews When Combined with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis |
| John Hodson (University of Salford)* | “Amazing body. Does the face match:” A Qualitative Study of how Queer Embodied Masculinities on Dating Apps Practice, Communicate and Build Trust with Anonymity |
| Joohee Kim (University of Massachusetts)* | How Topics Flow Across Reddit Communities Through Shared User Participation: Comparative Study of Pre and Post COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse |
| Juan Pérez Martirené (Universidad Católica del Uruguay)*; Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez (Universidad Católica del Uruguay); Fernando Rosenblatt (University of Manchester) | Do Electoral Stages Shape Digital Campaigning? Meta Strategies in Uruguay’s 2024 Elections |
| Julian Canjura (The Pennsylvania State University)* | Stance-taking as a technology of power and the self: A linguistic anthropological approach for analyzing social media interaction |
| Jyoti . (IIT Jodhpur )* | Memes as Micro-Archives: Documenting Everyday Life in Digital Culture |
| Kaitlyn McNamee (Marist University)* | “Chat, Is This Real?”: Truth-Seeking Heuristics & Distributed Trust on Reddit’s r/isthisAI |
| Kata Számel (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences)* | Status in the Palm of the Hand: Class-Based Patterns of Digital Leisure |
| Kate Mays (University of Vermont)*; Ellen Kozelka (University of Vermont) | The Dynamics of Use, Motivations, Mindsets on Well-Being for Young Adults on TikTok |
| Kateryna Bystrytska (Rutgers University)* | “My cat asks you to buy a drone”: How civilians in Ukraine strategically navigate social media logic to run small grassroots military fundraising campaigns |
| Katy Jordan (Lancaster University)* | Where do UK universities represent themselves online? The institutional social media landscape post-Twitter |
| Kimberly Glasgow (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)* | “I’m Crushed, Ashamed, and Shattered”: Moral Sentiment, Network Position, and Recovery Communities on Reddit |
| Klara Matusewicz (University of Manchester)*; João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester) | Social media ‘back in the hands of the people’? Nuancing assumptions of legitimate content moderation on Mastodon |
| Kunqiang WU (School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University)*; Wanting HUANG (School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University) | Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure Motivation to AI: A Multidimensional Perspective |
| Kunsang Choden (University of Washington)* | Navigating Social Media in the Remote High Mountains: Aging, Literacy, and Technological Obsolescence in Nubri Valley, Nepal |
| Laia Corxet Solé (Scuola Normale Superiore)* | Paths towards the far-right: the role of social media in young people’s political socialization |
| Laura Vodden (Digital Media Research Centre, QUT)*; Axel Bruns (Digital Media Research Centre, QUT) | The Shifting Frontier of Data Access: Research, Restriction, and Rigmarole in the Meta Content Library |
| Linan Tang (King’s College London)* | Student social media etiquette: Negotiating teacher authority in a Chinese university |
| Longxuan Zhao (Tongji University)*; Yuyang Cao (Tongji University) | What Else Can We Do? Pessimistic Proactivity and Coerced Domestication in Chinese Gay Men’s Negotiations with Algorithms |
| Marianne Etherson (University of Glasgow)* | Distinguishing suicide attempts from suicidal ideation in young people: The role of addictive digital behaviours and negative life events. |
| Marie Heřmanová (University College London)* | Who gets to speak the truth? Russian invasion of Ukraine and construction of authenticity in social media communication |
| Matías Valderrama Barragán (Adolfo Ibáñez University)* | The Social Life of the MSI Metric: Rationalities and Metrologies around “Meaningful Social Interactions” at Meta |
| Melissa Holland (North Carolina State University)*; Kyle Walker (North Carolina State University); Oreoluwa Badejoh (North Carolina State University); Vanessa Volpe (North Carolina State University); Brian TaeHyuk Keum (University of California, Berkeley); Jimi Huh (University of Southern California); Hans Oh (University of Southern California) | Online Racism, Digital Mental Health Tools, and Online Mental Health Communication: A Cross Sectional Study Among Black Young Adults With and Without Depression or Anxiety |
| Michael Nevradakis (College Year in Athens)* | From ‘Diaploki’ to Pluralism — Does Social Media Still Drive Change in Greece’s Political and Media Spheres? |
| Monica Chavez (University of Glasgow)*; Anna Feigenbaum (Universityof Glasgow); Rinlapas Ketverapong (University of Glasgow) | ‘Tapping into Your Feminine Energy’ Down the Alt-Right Pipeline: Comparing Narratives and Community Bonds in the Comment Sections of Tradwife and Divine Feminine Content Creators on TikTok |
| Monika Fratczak (Manchester Metropolitan University)* | Feeling climate: how emotional responses to data visualisation shape political engagement |
| Nadia Urban (East China Normal University)* | Learning the Algorithm: Algorithmic Grooming and Governance in Social Media Cultures |
| NAJIA NAZIR (Texas Tech University)* | “What Should I Wear?” Facebook Groups as Sociotechnical Infrastructures for Embodied Rhetorical Agency |
| Nathalie Schäfer (Bauhaus-University Weimar)* | Call the (Bot-)Police: User-Led Platform Governance of “(In)Authenticity” on Instagram |
| Neha Murthy (International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad)*; Brishti Sen Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Rajorshi Ray (International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad) | Bartering networks: An ethnographic study on how Indian fashion micro-influencers engage in non-monetary exchanges |
| Nicholas John (The University of Manchester)* | How is the internet imagined?: An analysis of drawings of the internet, 2014-2024 |
| Nicole Sanchotene (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)*; Débora Salles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Daphne Silva (Federal University of Alagoas); João Haddad (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Marie Santini (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) | “The solution to your pains!”: How scam ads exploit health disinformation on Meta platforms in Brazil |
| Nisha Rani (Manipal Institute of Communication)*; Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (School of Information and Communication Studies); Padma Rani (Manipal Institute of Communication) | Navigating Health Information on YouTube: Trust, Misinformation, and Health Decision Making During COVID-19 in India |
| Oreoluwa Badejoh (North Carolina State University)*; Shedrick Garrett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Melissa Holland (North Carolina State University); Vanessa Volpe (North Carolina State University); Brian TaeHyuk Keum (University of California, Berkeley); Jimi Huh (University of Southern California); Hans Oh (University of Southern California) | Social Media Use, Online Racism, and Mental Health among Black Emerging Adults |
| Pardis Yarahmadi (QUT)* | A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement on the Islamic Republic Media |
| Patrick McHugh (Brown University)*; Tommy Barton (Brown University); Sami Peretz (Brown University) | Enabling informed voter decisions via parsimonious factually falsifiable social media design |
| Pedro Lucas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)* | New Cultural and Religious Practices: The Use of Facebook by Azorean Religious Communities |
| Peiyao Tang (Queen Mary University of London)*; Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne (Queen Mary University of London ); Aja Murray (University of Edinburgh); Mariya Stoilova (London School of Economics and Political Science); Marianne Etherson (University of Glasgow); Eliz Azeri (King’s College London); Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham); Chris Hollis (University of Nottingham); Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science); Edmund Sonuga-Barke (King’s College London) | Beyond screen time: Differentiating specific digital activities as risks for adolescent mental health problems |
| Piotr Siuda (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz)* | The logistics of visibility: Reconfiguring illicit drug trade on Telegram |
| Piotr Sochoń (Shanghai Jiaotong University)*; Nadia Urban (East China Normal University) | The Epistemic Burden of AI Labels: Interface Governance and User Responsibility on Social Media |
| Qianzao Yang (University of Cambridge)* | Hot Nerd, Femininity and Gender Relations in Post-socialist China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sapiosexuality on RedNote |
| Raquel Recuero (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)* | “It is not about vaccines, it is about THEM!”: Othering and Discursive Violence in Anti-Vaccine Telegram Groups |
| Riley Wilson (Toronto Metropolitan University)* | Reimagining the Metrosexual Moment for the 21st Century: The Plight of the Performative Male |
| Rinlapas Ketverapong (University of Glasgow)* | Authenticity Beyond Strategy: Granfluencers and the Reimagining of Ageing in Digital Culture |
| Robert Pavlovich (Doctoral Candidate, Fox School of Business, Temple University)*; Bertrand Guillotin (Associate Professor, Management Department, Fox School of Business, Temple University) | Governing Social Media Harms: A Critical Realist Extension of the Theory of The Firm |
| Roberto Graziano (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)* | For a Theory of Onlife Practices: Studying Media with Bourdieu to Interpret Practices in the Interaction between Autochthonous Contexts and Digital Platforms |
| Sahar Sagha (Durham University)* | Chords of Small Media Through Time |
| Samantha Vilkins (Queensland University of Technology)*; Katherine M. FitzGerald (Queensland University of Technology); Sebastian Svegaard (Queensland University of Technology); Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology) | Information Practices in Fragmented Online Communities: Taylor Swift Fans and Anti-Fans on Reddit |
| Sanna Malinen (Tampere University)* | Decoding algorithmic suppression: How digital activists uncover and navigate platform censorship in Finland? |
| Sarit Navon (Open University )*; Noam Gal (Open University); Ido Ramati (Hebrew University) | Platformed Placemaking: Commemorative Stickers and the Production of Networked Places |
| Seraina Tarnutzer (University of Fribourg)*; Christian Pipal (University of Zurich) | “Where’s my tradwives at?” A mixed-methods study of tradculture content on TikTok, young users’ perceptions, practices, and effects |
| Sevilay Cesurer (UAL)* | Palestinian women’s social media practices in London: platformed strategies of resistance, solidarity and political expression |
| SHANGRU JIANG (Univeristy of Bristol)* | From Forums to Feeds: The Platformized Transformation of Chinese K-pop Fandom |
| Shirley S. Ho (Nanyang Technological University)*; Junru Huang (CNRS@CREATE); Chang He (Nanyang Technological University) | Combating Climate Misinformation via AI chatbots: How Interactivity and Lateral Reading Support Shape Trust, Perceived Response Credibility, and Further Verification Intentions |
| Shona Rooney (Queen’s University Belfast)* | Masculinity and Social Change: A dramaturgical explanation of online misogyny |
| Sinthu Bhairavi Govindasamy Vinoba (Oktopost Technologies)*; Neelambari Govindasamy Vinoba (Community College, Central University of Tamil Nadu) | Undoing Dravidian Feminism: How Tamil Women Influencers Are Re-Traditionalizing Gender Through Digital Culture |
| Son Tung Duong (Deakin University)*; Asma Husna (University of South Alabama); Nhung Nguyen (University of South Alabama) | Virtual vs. Human Faces: A comparative study of influencer opinions and their effects on user perceptions and pro-environmental behavioral intentions |
| Srikanth Nayaka (Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore)* | Enterprising Platform-Dependent Creators and the Rise of Creator-Dependent Labour in India |
| Stephanie Thelwall (London School of Economics)* | Contemporary mediated civic becoming: Filipino American cultivation of civic agency through social media |
| Talia Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)* | Narrative Singularity and Collective Resonance in TikTok Sexual Violence Disclosures and Networked Publics |
| Tamara Bodden (Universität Koblenz)*; Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) | “you are treshhhhh player” – Toxicity in Twitch Livestreams |
| Tess Arnold (Toronto Metropolitan University )* | Not-So-Happy Ending: How failed series finales come to be and the reaction from online fan bases |
| Tobias Kietreiber (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)*; Felix Krejca (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten); Anna Neubacher (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten); Sebastian Neumaier (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten); Lukas Daniel Klausner (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten) | Down the Content Rabbit Hole: Making Algorithmic Content Shift on Short-Form Video Platforms Measurable |
| Tommaso Trillò (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)*; CJ Reynolds (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Pyung Hwa Park (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | From Post-Truth to Post-Objectivity: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Newsfluencer Values |
| Travis Lloyd (Cornell Tech)* | The Day-Job Paradox: AI Vulnerabilities of Independent Musicians |
| Ümit Bedretdin (University of Helsinki)*; Dayei Oh (University of Strathclyde) | Triadic polarisation in climate information sharing: Insights from Twitter during COP26 and COP27 |
| Ursula Shepherd (University of Glasgow)* | Sexual violence (in)justice online: Exploring the influence of negative discourses on victim-survivor justice seeking |
| Vincenzo Luise (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)* | From street to screen: The visibility labor of Italian organized crime on TikTok |
| Wahiba Chair (University Canada West)*; Elva Fisher (University Canada West ) | Bluesky as a Teaching and Learning Tool for International Students in Hybrid Communication Courses |
| Walker Winslow-Stephenson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)* | AI and the Assault on Epistemic Structures in Russian Information Operations |
| William Hollingshead (Toronto Metropolitan University)*; Anatoliy Gruzd (Toronto Metropolitan University); Philip Mai (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Who watches whom: How YouTube channel networks organize migration discourse |
| Xin Zhao (Bournemouth University)*; Yunfei Li (Bournemouth University); Xiao Ma (Bournemouth University) | Navigating Agency and Constraint: Racialised Emotions and Resistant Subjectivities in TikTok Anti-Asian Activism |
| Yang Xu (University of Helsinki)* | Governance over hateful ideology: A longitudinal analysis of TikTok’s hate speech governance in 2018 – 2025 |
| Yena Kang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)* | “My CPU Is Heating Up”: Relational Labor and the Making of AI Companionship in the Creator Economy |
| Yingwen Wang (University of The Arts London)*; Zoetanya Sujon (University of the Arts London) | “I Don’t Know Many Words, But I’m Smart”: Platform Literacies and Older Content Creators on Douyin |
| Yining Wang (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)*; Johannes Gruber (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); Yannik Peters (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); Katrin Weller (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) | Gone But Not Missed? Understanding the Drivers and Implications of Post Deletions on Bluesky |
| Yu-Chung Cheng (National Chengchi University)* | Authenticity Effects of Synthetic Images: Interactions among Political Cues, Context, and Platform Environments |
| Yuyang Cao (Tongji University); Yixiang Zhang (Tongji University); Longxuan Zhao (Tongji University)* | “Cutting Ties” with AI? Perceptions and Management of AI Shaming among Young Art Creators in China |
| Zoe Hurley (American University of Sharjah)*; Sreya Mitra (American University of Sharjah) | Platformed wifestyles: Comparative global #tradwife recipes for feminine social media success |