Theorizing the Web

12:30PM–1:45PM ET Session 1

Studio A #a1

Tales From the Script: Infrastructures and Design

.Moderator
Michael Connor

.Participants
Karen Levy, Sebastian Benthall, Angela VandenBroek, R. Stuart Geiger,

Karen Levy
The Myth of the End User

Sebastian Benthall
Designing Digital Publics for Participatory Parity

Angela VandenBroek
Tweeting Sweden: Complicating Anthropology through the Analysis of the World's Most Democratic Twitter Account

R. Stuart Geiger
Successor Systems: Enacting Ideological Critique Through the Development of Software

Studio B #b1

World Wide Web(s): Theorizing the Non-Western Web

.Moderator
Jillet Sarah Sam

.Participants
David Peter Simon, Jason Q. Ng, Tolu Odumosu, Dalia Othman,

David Peter Simon
The Do-Gooder Industrial Complex?

Jason Q. Ng
Fit for Public Display: Rethinking Censorship via a Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia with Hudong and Baidu Baike

Tolu Odumosu
Phoning the Web: A Critical Examination of Web Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dalia Othman
Social Media, Activism and the Middle East

Studio C #c1

Small Data: Big Trends in the Little Ns

.Moderator
Tricia Wang

.Participants
Timothy Recuber, Molly Kalan, , Lesley Gourlay,

Timothy Recuber
Commemorating the Self: Online Suicide Notes as Cultural Artifacts

Molly Kalan
co-authored by
Expressions of Grief on Facebook: Navigating Discomfort, Persistent Identity, and Public Memorialization

Lesley Gourlay
The Digital, Critique and Utopian Fantasies

2:00PM–3:15PM ET Session 2

Studio A #a2

Screenplay: Nations, Ideologies, and the Games They Play

.Moderator
Jeremy Antley

.Participants
Cameron Kunzelman, Catherine Goodfellow, Daniel Joseph,

Cameron Kunzelman
Videogames Are Alive and They Live On the Internet

Catherine Goodfellow
Games of (Russian) Empire: Cultural Proximity and Video Game Ideology in Eastern Europe

Daniel Joseph
What Does a Materialist Account of a Ludic Century Look Like? or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love CounterStrike: Global Operations

Studio B #b2

Meetspace: Rethinking Public Spheres

.Moderator

.Participants
Dara Byrne, Laura Norén, Alex Leavitt, ,

Dara Byrne
Digilante Culture

Laura Norén
Ritual Online: Anthropological Theory for Social Media

Alex Leavitt
co-authored by
Visibility, Accountable Infrastructures, and the Failure of Networked Collaboration in Reddit’s /r/findbostonbombers

Studio C #c2

Suggestive Results: Algorithms, Information, and Control

.Moderator
Sara M. Watson

.Participants
, John Cheney-Lippold, Rebecca Lieberman, Michael Pepi,

Algorithmic Regulation of Queer of Color Cultural Production

John Cheney-Lippold
Jus Algoritmi: The NSA’s Algorithmic Citizenship and Foreignness

Rebecca Lieberman
Visually Similar Imgs and the Poetics of Search

Michael Pepi
The Postmodernity of Big Data

3:30PM–4:45PM ET Session 3

Studio A #a3

Consensual Hallucination: Fantasy in Public Life

.Moderator
Benjamen Walker

.Participants
Lauren Burr, , Molly Sauter, Aaron Knochel,

Lauren Burr
Doing It Wrong On Purpose: The Creative Misuse of Social Media

“Playable” Nationalism: Nusantara Online and the Gamic Reconstruction of National History

Molly Sauter
co-authored by Aaron Knochel
An Exploration of Civic Fiction: A Gay Girl in Damascus and the Cosmopolitan Romance of the Digital Bridge Figure

Studio B #b3

Wa$ted: The Making and Unmaking of Commodities

.Moderator
David Paul Strohecker

.Participants
Mél Hogan, Brian Thill, Tyson Mitman, Heather Rosenfeld,

Mél Hogan
Out of Site & Out of Mind: A (Speculative) Historiography of Techno-trash

Brian Thill
co-authored by Tyson Mitman
Tab-Flab, Dry Docs, Fave-Holes: On Digital Wastelands

Heather Rosenfeld
Plug Into Choice? The Neoliberal Environmental Justice of Smart Electricity Technologies

Studio C #c3

Casual Encounters: Sex, Sexuality, and Intimacy

.Moderator
Alyce Currier

.Participants
Justus Harris, Maggie Mayhem, Kevin Geyer, Julian Gill-Peterson,

Justus Harris
Visions of Desire: Technologies of the Oppressed & Tools for [R]evolution

Maggie Mayhem
NotYourRescueProjects: The Red Light District Speaks

Kevin Geyer
Doing Digital Gender: A Multi-Level Analysis of Gendered Behavior and Masculinities in Virtual Space

Julian Gill-Peterson
The Unruliness of the Cyberbully: Governing the Sexual Child Online

4:45PM–6:00PM ET Food / Social Break

6:00PM–7:30PM ET Plenary 1

Studio C #f1

Sex Work and the Web

.Moderator
Melissa Gira Grant

.Participants
Emma Caterine, Hawk Kinkaid, , Stoya,

Emma Caterine

Hawk Kinkaid

Stoya

7:45PM–9:00PM ET Plenary 2

Studio C #f2

TMI: Theorizing Big Data

.Moderator
Zeynep Tufekçi

.Participants
Kate Crawford, Winter Mason, ,

Kate Crawford

Winter Mason

9:30PM ET Social @ South 4th Bar & Cafe

11:00PM ET Radio Dispatch Live

12:00AM–12:00AM ET Setup

12:00AM ET Doors Open

10:00AM–11:15AM ET Session 4

Studio A #a4

Remix: Refashioning the Web Through Art

.Moderator
Peter Dobey

.Participants
Benjamin Grosser, Megan Bigelow, Meagan Winkelman, Conor McGarrigle,

Benjamin Grosser
What Do Metrics Want? Facebook Demetricator and the Easing of Prescribed Sociality

Megan Bigelow
RGB: You and Me

Meagan Winkelman
Perfoming Technological Camp in Animated Gifs on Tumblr

Conor McGarrigle
The Data of Vine

Studio B #b4

Gone Viral: All Watched Over by Memes of Loving Grace

.Moderator

.Participants
Patrick Sharbaugh, Joel Penney, ,

Patrick Sharbaugh
Lulz Will Find a Way: How Meme Culture Is Empowering Civic Engagement in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Joel Penney
Meme Warriors and Media Viruses: Theorizing the Persuasive Political Power of the Web

Virality, Uncreativity, and the End of Self-Expression

Studio C #c4

Reality Bytes: Beyond On/Offline

.Moderator
Shane Tilton

.Participants
Susana Galán, Susan Matt, Stéphane Vial, Thomas Conner,

Susana Galán
co-authored by Susan Matt
co-authored by Stéphane Vial
The Web as a Shopping Mall: Exclusiveness of Access, Surveillance, Gender-Mingling, and Protest in Saudi Arabia’s Online and Offline Semipublic Spaces

Thomas Conner
Virtual Pop Stars and the Digitization of Performance

11:30AM–12:45PM ET Session 5

Studio A #a5

Pics: Sex and the Selfie

.Moderator
Rotem Rozental

.Participants
Anne Burns, Ofer Nur, Apryl Williams, Molly Crabapple,

Anne Burns
Disciplining the Duckface: Online Photographic Regulation as a form of Social Control

Ofer Nur
The Quest for the “Real”: Erotic Selfies, In-depth Interviews and the Transformation of the Gay Pornographic Landscape after Web 2.0

Apryl Williams
Selfie Love: Exploring Notions of Self and Ethnicity on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

Molly Crabapple
Tweeting From Amongst the Corpses

Studio B #b5

Unique Visitors: The Economics of Attention

.Moderator
Karen Gregory

.Participants
Sand Avidar-Walzer, Poe Johnson, Kirsty Park, Nathan Fisk,

Sand Avidar-Walzer
The Exposure Economy and the Ethics of Collective Protest

Poe Johnson
Digitized Skin: Race in the Fandom Era

Kirsty Park
No consent needed - The ethics of sharing embarrassing content online in Irish culture

Nathan Fisk
“…when no one is hearing them swear” - Internet Safety as Pedagogy of Surveillance

Studio C #c5

Streetview: space, place, and geography

.Moderator
Joanne McNeil

.Participants
Tim Hwang, Sarah Jaffray, Mathias Crawford, Jay Springett,

Tim Hwang
An Urban Geography of the Web Industry

Sarah Jaffray
Aesthetic Action: Instagram’s Technogeographies of Resistance

Mathias Crawford
Procedural Communities: Post-War Los Angeles and the Rise of the Network Self

Jay Springett
Colonising the Clouds. Infrastructure Territory and the Geopolitics of the Stacks

12:45PM–2:00PM ET Lunch Break

2:00PM–3:15PM ET Session 6

Studio A #a6

a/s/l: Identity and Self-Performance

.Moderator
Alice Marwick

.Participants
Nora Madison, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Elizabeth Wissinger,

Nora Madison
New Mediations of Bisexuality: Technologies of Visibility Online

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
WHEN I WRITE TO YOU: Lennay Kekua, @horse_ebooks, and the Precarious Promise of Inventing Subjectivities Online

Elizabeth Wissinger
Fashion Modeling and the Entanglements of Glamor

Studio B #b6

Ref(user): Movements of Resistance

.Moderator
Jay Owens

.Participants
Fredrika Thelandersson, , Hector Postigo,

Fredrika Thelandersson
co-authored by
co-authored by Hector Postigo
Subversive Online Identities – Tumblr, Feminism, and the Radical Potential of Unrestricted Social Network Sites

Studio C #c6

Discipline and Publish: The New Politics of Publishing

.Moderator
Rachel Rosenfelt

.Participants
Ana Cecilia Alvarez, Joseph Staten, Matthew Clair, Mathias Klang,

Ana Cecilia Alvarez
Tumblr Grrrl: On Feminism and Digital Publishing

Joseph Staten
Rethinking the Thinkpiece

Matthew Clair
Rethinking Technology and Culture: Digital Technologies and Neoliberalism in the Literary Field

Mathias Klang
Is that your book? The impact of e-books on culture

3:30PM–4:45PM ET Session 7

Studio A #a7

The New Flesh: Bodies and Biopolitics

.Moderator
Steven Losco

.Participants
Leigh-Anne Goins, Deanna Day, Nadav Assor, Una Tanović,

Leigh-Anne Goins
Theorizing PostRacial Conversations: QuvenzhanéWallis Oscars2013

Deanna Day
Unpacking Cyborg Fertility: Natural Family Planning and the Quantified Self

Nadav Assor
Building a More Perfect Drone

Una Tanović
The Posthuman Condition in New Media Art and Electronic Literature

Studio B #b7

Mobilized: Actors and Activism

.Moderator
Malcolm Harris

.Participants
Elizabeth Saldaña, Laura Meadows, Laura Portwood-Stacer, Adrienne Massanari,

Elizabeth Saldaña
“That’s Never Going to Work Here” – Social Media Mobilization in Kathmandu, Nepal

Laura Meadows
Queering Dixie: Movement Micro-publics and the Southern LGBT Movement

Laura Portwood-Stacer
Free Labor on Strike?

Adrienne Massanari
“Why are all of you such assholes?” ShitRedditSays, Gender, and Counterperformance on reddit

Studio C #c7

–––⁂–(⊗__⊗)–⁂–––: Drones, for better or worse

.Moderator
stephanie laudone

.Participants
, James Bridle, Olivia Rosane, Adam Rothstein, Eleanor Saitta,

James Bridle

Olivia Rosane

Adam Rothstein

Eleanor Saitta

Friday 25 April