Numerous ZeMKI Members represented at the AoIR2024

From October 30, 2024 to November 02, 2024, this year’s Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference will take place at the University of Sheffield, where numerous ZeMKI members will give presentations.

The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic organization dedicated to advancing the cross-disciplinary field of Internet research. Each year, the Association of Internet Researchers organizes an AoIR conference that brings together hundreds of researchers, students and other participants to take an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological look at the Internet.

To the conference program

Contributions from ZeMKI members:

• Pre-Conference

  • “Moderating climate change content: The role of platforms in moderating visibility of climate content” (AoIR Online Doctoral Colloquium 17-18/Oct/2024 · Online)
    by Vasilisa Kuznetsova
  • “Introducing the Platform Governance Archive” (Pre-Conference “Alternative Platform Archives: Methods, Politics, Impact at Oktober 30, 2024 – 09am – 4:30pm)
    by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Daria Dergacheva and Dr. Dennis Redeker

• Thursday, October 31, 2024

  • “Governing and defining misinformation: A longitudinal study of social media platforms policies”
    by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Daria Dergacheva, Vasilisa Kuznetsova and Adrian Kopps (09am – 10:30am)
  • “Tiktok’s AI Hype – Creators’ Role in Shaping (Public) AI Imaginaries” (Panel “AI & Hype”)
    by Vanessa Richter (09am – 10:30am)
  • “Community PechaKucha and Demo Session: Gaps and Interoperability of Platform Governance Datasets”
    by Dr. Dennis Redeker, Dr. Daria Dergacheva, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero, Vanessa Richter, Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Fee Cohausz (National Chengchi University), Ariadna Matamoros Fernández (Queensland University of Technology), Nadia Jude (Queensland University of Technology), Taylor Annabell (Utrecht University), Cătălina Goantă (Utrecht University), João Vieira Magalhães (University of Groningen) and  Adrian Kopps (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) (11:00-12:30 Uhr)
  • “The Collective Individualism of YouTube Makeup Reviews” (Panel “Gendered Labour”)
    by Dr. Rebecca Scharlach, Blake Hallinan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Tommaso Trillò (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Saki Mizoroki (University of Tokyo), Pyung Hwa Park, Avishai Green (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) und Limor Shifman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (1:30pm – 3pm)

• Friday, November 01, 2024

  • Panel by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach: “Moderation: Platform Approaches” (15:30-17:00 Uhr)

• • “AI INDUSTRY EXPECTATIONS AND UNDERPERFORMING IMAGINARIES”
    by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Vanessa Richter, Natalia Stanusch (University of Amsterdam), Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam), Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research), Chuncheng Liu (Microsoft Research), Ryland Shaw (Microsoft Research), Sigrid Kannengießer (Universität Münster), Anne Mollen (Universität Münster), Saba Rebecca Brause (Universität Zürich), Heng Yang (Shanghai University), Mike Schäfer (Universität Zürich), Jing Zeng (University of Utrecht) (1:30pm – 3pm)
    
  • “BEYOND MAINSTREAM INDUSTRY: UNVAILING SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACHES FOR PLATFORM GOVERNANCE”
    by Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero (1:30pm – 3pm)

• Saturday, November 02, 2024

  • Panel by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp: “Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI” (11am – 12:30am)
    To the Abstract
    
    • “PIONEERS OF COMMUNICATIVE AI: VISIONS OF DIGITAL FUTURES AND THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY”
      by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
    • “AI AS KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE AND COLONIAL LANDGRAB”
      by Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry
    • “WHAT’S THE VALUE OF COMMUNICATIVE AI? A CRITIQUE OF VALUATION IN AUTOMATED MARKETS”
      by Prof. Dr. Göran Bolin
    • “POWERING COMPUTERS, DISMANTLING PUBLIC VALUES: THE ENERGY POLITICS OF COMPUTATION WORK IN SWEDEN”
      by Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova
    • “BEYOND EXTRACTIONISM AND EXISTENTIALISM: AN ECO POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATIVE AI”
      by Prof. Dr. Benedetta Brevini

• • “Trust in alternative governors: Exploring user confidence in companies, states and civil society in platform content moderation”
    by Dr. Dennis Redeker (09am – 10:30am)
  • “An anatomy of value orientations on social media” (Panel: Materialities)
    by Dr. Rebecca Scharlach, Limor Shifman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Tommaso Trillo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Blake Hallinan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Saki Mizoroki (University of Tokyo), Avishai Green (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) und Paul Frosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (09:00-10:30 Uhr)
  • “Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical and Practical Experiences with Large Language Models for Text Classification and Annotation in Communication Studies”
    by Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Tariq Choucair (Queensland University of Technology), Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam (University of Vienna), Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna), Jana Bernhard (University of Vienna), Hajo Boomgaarden (University of Vienna), Bruna Oliveira (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Rousiley Maia (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Laura Vodden (Queensland University of Technology), Katharina Esau (Queensland University of Technology), Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology), Sebastian Svegaard (Queensland University of Technology), Kate Farfan (Queensland University of Technology), Hendrik Meyer (University of Hamburg), Michael Brüggemann (University of Hamburg), Fabio Giglietto (University of Urbino), Luca Rossi (IT University of Copenhagen), Nicola Righetti (University of Urbino) und Giada Marino (University of Urbino)  (11am – 12:30am)