Friday 15 April
NOON–1:15PM ET Session 1
Room A #a1
Transitioning Identity
.Moderator
Katherine Cross
Katherine Cross
Junior Dare
Accumulating Names: The Poetry of Prismatic Identity as Hot Process not Hot Mess
Accumulating Names: The Poetry of Prismatic Identity as Hot Process not Hot Mess
Corey Gilmore
GPOY, or Gendered Presentation of Yourself: What Transgender Selfies Do For the Transgender Self
GPOY, or Gendered Presentation of Yourself: What Transgender Selfies Do For the Transgender Self
Brian Callahan
Diverse Be-longings: Trans Hacker Collectives as New Sites of Tech Diversity Understandings
Diverse Be-longings: Trans Hacker Collectives as New Sites of Tech Diversity Understandings
Rachel Stonecipher
'How to Be Gay' on Autostraddle: The New Separatism and Counterpublic Strategy
'How to Be Gay' on Autostraddle: The New Separatism and Counterpublic Strategy
Room B #b1
Site Seeing
.Moderator
Whitney Mallett
Whitney Mallett
Chris Peterson
Imagining an Internet Worth Filtering: Mapping the Geography of Censorship in Alabama Public Schools and Libraries
Imagining an Internet Worth Filtering: Mapping the Geography of Censorship in Alabama Public Schools and Libraries
Jonathan Karp
The Right to Rename
The Right to Rename
Matthew Tiessen
Big Data and the Digital Remediation of Human/Nature Relations
Big Data and the Digital Remediation of Human/Nature Relations
Shannon Sindorf
Guns and the myth of the post-geographic web
Guns and the myth of the post-geographic web
Room C #c1
Hack the Planet
.Moderator
Michael Connor
Michael Connor
Tyler Tracy
Materializing Crypto-Anarchy: Political Economy at the Intersection of 3D Printing and Digital Piracy
Materializing Crypto-Anarchy: Political Economy at the Intersection of 3D Printing and Digital Piracy
Laura Norén
Quitting “Toxic Open Source Communities”: Towards a theory of disengagement among regular Open Source contributors
Quitting “Toxic Open Source Communities”: Towards a theory of disengagement among regular Open Source contributors
Emma Stamm
Block Party People: Off The (Bitcoin) Chain
Block Party People: Off The (Bitcoin) Chain
1:30PM–2:45PM ET Session 2
Room A #a2
Posthuman Nature
.Moderator
Jeremy Antley
Jeremy Antley
Morgan Morel
Type AMEN if you believe! Embodied Belief and the Digital Mediation of Religious Fervor
Type AMEN if you believe! Embodied Belief and the Digital Mediation of Religious Fervor
Carmel Vaisman
'Forget What You Know About Disability': How Cyborg & Transhuman discourses are reconfiguring disability
'Forget What You Know About Disability': How Cyborg & Transhuman discourses are reconfiguring disability
Room B #b2
Far Sighted
.Moderator
Chris Gilliard
Chris Gilliard
Karen Levy
Refractive Surveillance: New Data Ecologies in the Workplace
Refractive Surveillance: New Data Ecologies in the Workplace
Karina Russ
On Being Warrant Proof
On Being Warrant Proof
Matthew Crain
The transparency trap: Data brokers and the limits of consumer empowerment
The transparency trap: Data brokers and the limits of consumer empowerment
Joan Donovan
The Ferguson Effect
The Ferguson Effect
Room C #c2
In Formation
.Moderator
Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders
Eve Ahearn
Locating the Person in Personal Data: A Comparison of Open Government Data Implementation in the U.S. and the U.K.
Locating the Person in Personal Data: A Comparison of Open Government Data Implementation in the U.S. and the U.K.
3:00PM–4:15PM ET Session 3
Room A #a3
Get Real
.Moderator
Austin Brown
Austin Brown
Meredith Salisbury
The #nofilter self: The contest for authenticity among social networking sites, 2003-2015
The #nofilter self: The contest for authenticity among social networking sites, 2003-2015
Eman Shahata
You Can’t Chat with Us
You Can’t Chat with Us
Joseph Reagle
Geek Policing: Fake Geek Girls and Contested Attention
Geek Policing: Fake Geek Girls and Contested Attention
Heather Holmes
Image Pruning in the Digital Ecology
Image Pruning in the Digital Ecology
Room B #b3
Near Sighted
.Moderator
Lauren Burr
Lauren Burr
Tony Liao
The New Augmented Labor: The Shifting Promise of Wearable Augmented Reality to Industrial/Enterprise Applications
The New Augmented Labor: The Shifting Promise of Wearable Augmented Reality to Industrial/Enterprise Applications
Ruth Tsuria
"Dear Rabbi, I can’t stop Masturbating" – The Construction and Negotiation of Gender and Sexual Norms in Orthodox Jewish Online Discourse
"Dear Rabbi, I can’t stop Masturbating" – The Construction and Negotiation of Gender and Sexual Norms in Orthodox Jewish Online Discourse
Room C #c3
Screen Grab
.Moderator
Tanya Lokot
Tanya Lokot
Mahsa Alimardani
Repertoires of Online Activism for the Women's Movement
Repertoires of Online Activism for the Women's Movement
Izul Zulkarnain
"Nationalistic Networked Publics": The Use of Social Media as a Nationalistic Platform in Indonesia
"Nationalistic Networked Publics": The Use of Social Media as a Nationalistic Platform in Indonesia
6:00PM–7:30PM ET Keynote Panel 1
7:30PM–9:00PM ET Keynote Panel 2
9:00PM–10:30PM ET Party
Saturday 16 April
11:00AM ET Doors Open
NOON–1:15PM ET Session 4
Room A #a4
1099 Problems
Brooke Erin Duffy
Female Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy: Worker Subjectivities Refracted through an Instagram Filter
Female Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy: Worker Subjectivities Refracted through an Instagram Filter
Niels van Doorn
Overworked and Underpaid: On the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-wage service workers in our ascendant 'gig economy'
Overworked and Underpaid: On the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-wage service workers in our ascendant 'gig economy'
Lucas G. Pinheiro
The Absent Factory: Rethinking Marxist Theories of Informational Capitalism
The Absent Factory: Rethinking Marxist Theories of Informational Capitalism
Emily Hund
Audience metrics and creative labor
Audience metrics and creative labor
Room B #b4
Gif Economies
.Moderator
Sha Hwang
Sha Hwang
Lyle St
im stressed about making this video: Performing a Body of Knowledge in YouTube Makeup Tutorials
im stressed about making this video: Performing a Body of Knowledge in YouTube Makeup Tutorials
Anastasia Tuazon
Queering Narcissism: Reinterpreting the Politics of Self-Imaging in Feminist Art
Queering Narcissism: Reinterpreting the Politics of Self-Imaging in Feminist Art
Penelope Papailias
HumanityWashedAshore: Social media memorials and the politics of affect online
HumanityWashedAshore: Social media memorials and the politics of affect online
Tim Highfield
On (the) loop: The animated GIF and cultural logics of repetition
On (the) loop: The animated GIF and cultural logics of repetition
1:30PM–2:45PM ET Session 5
Room A #a5
White Balance
.Moderator
Apryl Williams
Apryl Williams
Larkin Hiott
Remediating Feminized Whiteness: The Racial Politics of YouTube “Boy Beauty” Vlogs
Remediating Feminized Whiteness: The Racial Politics of YouTube “Boy Beauty” Vlogs
Aria Dean
White People Be Like: Race and the Instagram Meme
White People Be Like: Race and the Instagram Meme
Sara Lillo
Culture of Image-Makers: College Partiers' Constructions of Physical Experiences in the Digital World
Culture of Image-Makers: College Partiers' Constructions of Physical Experiences in the Digital World
Ludmila Lupinacci
Bitter about Glitter: Brazilians’ hatred towards sparkly animated GIFs as a manifestation of ethnocentrism
Bitter about Glitter: Brazilians’ hatred towards sparkly animated GIFs as a manifestation of ethnocentrism
Room B #b5
Sound Logic
.Moderator
Terence Hannum
Terence Hannum
Elizabeth Newton
The Mixed Metaphors of Digital Music Content
The Mixed Metaphors of Digital Music Content
Paula Harper
'UNMUTE THIS': Ubiquitous Listening and Vernacular Media Theory
'UNMUTE THIS': Ubiquitous Listening and Vernacular Media Theory
Room C #c5
Politics of Platforms
.Moderator
Whitney Erin Boesel
Whitney Erin Boesel
Geoff Shullenberger
Mimetic Desire and Venture Capital: René Girard, Peter Thiel, and the Uses of Theory
Mimetic Desire and Venture Capital: René Girard, Peter Thiel, and the Uses of Theory
Alex Worrad-Andrews
What Does Facebook Want From React?
What Does Facebook Want From React?
Kendra Albert
Put Down the Talismans: Abuse-Handling Systems, Legal Regimes and Design
Put Down the Talismans: Abuse-Handling Systems, Legal Regimes and Design
3:00PM–4:15PM ET Session 6
Room A #a6
Infinite Scroll
.Moderator
Marley-Vincent Lindsey
Marley-Vincent Lindsey
Marcella Szablewicz
Winning at #Failing: The Viral Appeal of Loser Culture in Urban China
Winning at #Failing: The Viral Appeal of Loser Culture in Urban China
Anna Jobin
Year in Search: relevance and limitations
Year in Search: relevance and limitations
Scott Wark
The Meme is in Circulation
The Meme is in Circulation
Samantha Culp
Taobao-haus: Chinese digital aesthetics and global contemporary art
Taobao-haus: Chinese digital aesthetics and global contemporary art
Room B #b6
Hacks of Aggression
.Moderator
Johannah King-Slutzky
Johannah King-Slutzky
Megan Farnel
Archives of Feeling, Archives of Work: On the Feminized, Affective Labours of Gamergate
Archives of Feeling, Archives of Work: On the Feminized, Affective Labours of Gamergate
Stuart Geiger
Moderating harassment in Twitter with blockbots: a counterpublic and algorithmic strategy
Moderating harassment in Twitter with blockbots: a counterpublic and algorithmic strategy
Md Nabil
From sex tapes to revenge porn: Construction of a genre
From sex tapes to revenge porn: Construction of a genre
Natalie Kane
All's Well That Means Well
All's Well That Means Well
4:15PM–6:00PM ET Food / Social Break
6:00PM–7:30PM ET Keynote Panel 3
Redstone Theater #k3