AoIRchive – Symposia
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2024 Flashpoint Symposium, University of Hyderabad, India
13 April 2024
Theme: Constructing the Digital: Working from the Global South
Website: https://aoir.org/2024-aoir-flashpoint-symposium/
Programme: 2024 Program AoIR Flashpoint Symposium
Conference/Programme Chair: Usha Raman (Co-Chair), University of Hyderabad, and Nimmi Rangaswami (Co-Chair), Indian Institute of Information Technology
Organizing Committee: Usha Raman, Nimmi Rangaswami, Rahul Garg, Manisha Madapathi, Chinar Mehta, Anuja Premika
Keynote Panel #1: Janaki Srinivasan, Pradip Thomas, and Gayatri Nair, Redefining Digital Labor: Forms and Structures in Shifting Tech Landscapes
Keynote Panel #2: Padmini Ray Murray, Tarunima Prabhakar, and Bhanupriya Rao, Towards a more just and fair Internet: working through design, code, and content
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2023 Flashpoint Symposium, University of Naples, Federico, Italy
15 June 2023
Theme: Speculating at the End (?) of Times
Website: https://aoir.org/2023-flashpoint-symposium/
Programme: 2023 Program AoIR Flashpoint Symposium
Conference/Programme Chair: Adam Arvidsson
Keynote speakers:
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (University College London), The World Speculation Made
Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick), Correlational Power and the Bayesian Conjuncture
Corina Giacomello (Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas), Prison Futures
Jerry Yang (HCVC), The Future of Venture Capital and tech investment- a Scenario
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2020 Virtual Flashpoint Symposium
3-4 September 2020
Theme: Digital Transformations: Polarization, media manipulation, and resistance
Website: https://aoirflashpoint20.home.blog/
Programme: 2020 Program AoIR Flashpoint Symposium
Conference/Programme chair: Adriana Amaral
Local organizing committee: Adriana Amaral, Raquel Recuero, Suely Fragoso, Ronaldo Henn
Keynote #1: Susanna Paasonen, That’s absurd! Humor and feminist tactics in social media
Keynote #2: Patricia Rossini, Losing Friends Over Politics: The Relationship Between Dysfunctional Online Activities and Social Sanctions on WhatsApp and Facebook
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2019 Flashpoint Symposia Urbino, Itlay
Theme: Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms and Ephemeral Content
Website: https://sites.google.com/uniurb.it/dms-week/aoir-symposium
Programme: https://sites.google.com/uniurb.it/dms-week/aoir-symposium/program
Edited collections:
Conference/Programme chair: Fabio Giglietto
Local organizing committee: Laura Gemini, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Manolo Farci, Stefano Brilli, Elisabetta Zurovac, Giada Marino, Nicola Righetti
Keynote #1:
Crystal Abidin
Public shaming, Vigilante trolling, and Genealogies of transgression on the Singaporean internet
Keynote #2:
Rebekah Tromble
We don’t know what we don’t know: Navigating platforms’ proprietary black boxes in internet research
