Friday 25 April
12:30PM–1:45PM ET Session 1
Studio A #a1
Tales From the Script: Infrastructures and Design
.Moderator
Michael Connor
Michael Connor
Karen Levy
The Myth of the End User
The Myth of the End User
Sebastian Benthall
Designing Digital Publics for Participatory Parity
Designing Digital Publics for Participatory Parity
Angela VandenBroek
Tweeting Sweden: Complicating Anthropology through the Analysis of the World's Most Democratic Twitter Account
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
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
Jillet Sarah Sam
David Peter Simon
The Do-Gooder Industrial Complex?
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
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
Phoning the Web: A Critical Examination of Web Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dalia Othman
Social Media, Activism and the Middle East
Social Media, Activism and the Middle East
Studio C #c1
Small Data: Big Trends in the Little Ns
.Moderator
Tricia Wang
Tricia Wang
Timothy Recuber
Commemorating the Self: Online Suicide Notes as Cultural Artifacts
Commemorating the Self: Online Suicide Notes as Cultural Artifacts
Molly Kalan
Expressions of Grief on Facebook: Navigating Discomfort, Persistent Identity, and Public Memorialization
Expressions of Grief on Facebook: Navigating Discomfort, Persistent Identity, and Public Memorialization
Lesley Gourlay
The Digital, Critique and Utopian Fantasies
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
Jeremy Antley
Cameron Kunzelman
Videogames Are Alive and They Live On the Internet
Videogames Are Alive and They Live On the Internet
Catherine Goodfellow
Games of (Russian) Empire: Cultural Proximity and Video Game Ideology in Eastern Europe
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
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
Dara Byrne
Digilante Culture
Digilante Culture
Laura Norén
Ritual Online: Anthropological Theory for Social Media
Ritual Online: Anthropological Theory for Social Media
Alex Leavitt
Visibility, Accountable Infrastructures, and the Failure of Networked Collaboration in Reddit’s /r/findbostonbombers
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
Sara M. Watson
John Cheney-Lippold
Jus Algoritmi: The NSA’s Algorithmic Citizenship and Foreignness
Jus Algoritmi: The NSA’s Algorithmic Citizenship and Foreignness
Rebecca Lieberman
Visually Similar Imgs and the Poetics of Search
Visually Similar Imgs and the Poetics of Search
Michael Pepi
The Postmodernity of Big Data
The Postmodernity of Big Data
3:30PM–4:45PM ET Session 3
Studio A #a3
Consensual Hallucination: Fantasy in Public Life
.Moderator
Benjamen Walker
Benjamen Walker
Lauren Burr
Doing It Wrong On Purpose: The Creative Misuse of Social Media
Doing It Wrong On Purpose: The Creative Misuse of Social Media
Molly Sauter
An Exploration of Civic Fiction: A Gay Girl in Damascus and the Cosmopolitan Romance of the Digital Bridge Figure
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
David Paul Strohecker
Mél Hogan
Out of Site & Out of Mind: A (Speculative) Historiography of Techno-trash
Out of Site & Out of Mind: A (Speculative) Historiography of Techno-trash
Heather Rosenfeld
Plug Into Choice? The Neoliberal Environmental Justice of Smart Electricity Technologies
Plug Into Choice? The Neoliberal Environmental Justice of Smart Electricity Technologies
Studio C #c3
Casual Encounters: Sex, Sexuality, and Intimacy
.Moderator
Alyce Currier
Alyce Currier
Justus Harris
Visions of Desire: Technologies of the Oppressed & Tools for [R]evolution
Visions of Desire: Technologies of the Oppressed & Tools for [R]evolution
Maggie Mayhem
NotYourRescueProjects: The Red Light District Speaks
NotYourRescueProjects: The Red Light District Speaks
Kevin Geyer
Doing Digital Gender: A Multi-Level Analysis of Gendered Behavior and Masculinities in Virtual Space
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
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
7:45PM–9:00PM ET Plenary 2
9:30PM ET Social @ South 4th Bar & Cafe
11:00PM ET Radio Dispatch Live
Tuesday 26 April
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
Peter Dobey
Benjamin Grosser
What Do Metrics Want? Facebook Demetricator and the Easing of Prescribed Sociality
What Do Metrics Want? Facebook Demetricator and the Easing of Prescribed Sociality
Megan Bigelow
RGB: You and Me
RGB: You and Me
Meagan Winkelman
Perfoming Technological Camp in Animated Gifs on Tumblr
Perfoming Technological Camp in Animated Gifs on Tumblr
Conor McGarrigle
The Data of Vine
The Data of Vine
Studio B #b4
Gone Viral: All Watched Over by Memes of Loving Grace
Patrick Sharbaugh
Lulz Will Find a Way: How Meme Culture Is Empowering Civic Engagement in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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
Meme Warriors and Media Viruses: Theorizing the Persuasive Political Power of the Web
Studio C #c4
Reality Bytes: Beyond On/Offline
.Moderator
Shane Tilton
Shane Tilton
Susana Galán
The Web as a Shopping Mall: Exclusiveness of Access, Surveillance, Gender-Mingling, and Protest in Saudi Arabia’s Online and Offline Semipublic Spaces
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
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
Rotem Rozental
Anne Burns
Disciplining the Duckface: Online Photographic Regulation as a form of Social Control
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
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
Selfie Love: Exploring Notions of Self and Ethnicity on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
Molly Crabapple
Tweeting From Amongst the Corpses
Tweeting From Amongst the Corpses
Studio B #b5
Unique Visitors: The Economics of Attention
.Moderator
Karen Gregory
Karen Gregory
Sand Avidar-Walzer
The Exposure Economy and the Ethics of Collective Protest
The Exposure Economy and the Ethics of Collective Protest
Poe Johnson
Digitized Skin: Race in the Fandom Era
Digitized Skin: Race in the Fandom Era
Kirsty Park
No consent needed - The ethics of sharing embarrassing content online in Irish culture
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
“…when no one is hearing them swear” - Internet Safety as Pedagogy of Surveillance
Studio C #c5
Streetview: space, place, and geography
.Moderator
Joanne McNeil
Joanne McNeil
Tim Hwang
An Urban Geography of the Web Industry
An Urban Geography of the Web Industry
Sarah Jaffray
Aesthetic Action: Instagram’s Technogeographies of Resistance
Aesthetic Action: Instagram’s Technogeographies of Resistance
Mathias Crawford
Procedural Communities: Post-War Los Angeles and the Rise of the Network Self
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
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
Alice Marwick
Nora Madison
New Mediations of Bisexuality: Technologies of Visibility Online
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
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
Fashion Modeling and the Entanglements of Glamor
Studio B #b6
Ref(user): Movements of Resistance
.Moderator
Jay Owens
Jay Owens
Fredrika Thelandersson
Subversive Online Identities – Tumblr, Feminism, and the Radical Potential of Unrestricted Social Network Sites
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
Rachel Rosenfelt
Ana Cecilia Alvarez
Tumblr Grrrl: On Feminism and Digital Publishing
Tumblr Grrrl: On Feminism and Digital Publishing
Joseph Staten
Rethinking the Thinkpiece
Rethinking the Thinkpiece
Matthew Clair
Rethinking Technology and Culture: Digital Technologies and Neoliberalism in the Literary Field
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
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
Steven Losco
Leigh-Anne Goins
Theorizing PostRacial Conversations: QuvenzhanéWallis Oscars2013
Theorizing PostRacial Conversations: QuvenzhanéWallis Oscars2013
Deanna Day
Unpacking Cyborg Fertility: Natural Family Planning and the Quantified Self
Unpacking Cyborg Fertility: Natural Family Planning and the Quantified Self
Nadav Assor
Building a More Perfect Drone
Building a More Perfect Drone
Una Tanović
The Posthuman Condition in New Media Art and Electronic Literature
The Posthuman Condition in New Media Art and Electronic Literature
Studio B #b7
Mobilized: Actors and Activism
.Moderator
Malcolm Harris
Malcolm Harris
Elizabeth Saldaña
“That’s Never Going to Work Here” – Social Media Mobilization in Kathmandu, Nepal
“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
Queering Dixie: Movement Micro-publics and the Southern LGBT Movement
Laura Portwood-Stacer
Free Labor on Strike?
Free Labor on Strike?
Adrienne Massanari
“Why are all of you such assholes?” ShitRedditSays, Gender, and Counterperformance on reddit
“Why are all of you such assholes?” ShitRedditSays, Gender, and Counterperformance on reddit