Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop ▶Schedule | Details (Times listed in EST - click here for time zone conversion) 10:00am Welcome! Z oomkeeping (25 min) Opening Remarks (Robyn Caplan), Agreements (William Partin), and Discussion Groups (Meredith Clark) 10:25am Networking | Lightning Talk Videos + Breakout Group Discussions (30 min) Anjali Mehta | The Civic Data Library of Context Group Anchor: Rigoberto Lara Guzmán (A vision to build context-aware systems through inclusionary practices) (or) Ashwin Nagappa | Minor Platforms & Platform Biography Group Anchor: Meredith Clark (or) John Lunsford | Relationship Between Ride Share Platforms and the Built Environment (In equality becomes built in the transportation system) Group Anchor: Sareeta Amrute (or) Nina Medvedeva | "It was all these black people" Group Anchor: Smitha Khorana (Airbnb's location rating and contests over spatial meanings in DC's 7th and 8th ward) (or) Sophie Bishop | Cultural Studies and Creative Industries Group Anchor: Robyn Caplan (or) Zahra Stardust | How platforms mediate sexual communication, expression, and representation (How artificial intelligence makes meaning of sex, the implications of this for users, and how we might do it differently) Group Anchor: William Partin 10:55am Welcome Back - Intro to Paper Session 1 (Robyn Caplan) (5 min) 11:00am Paper Workshops - Session 1 4 simultaneous sessions (1hr 15min) Author(s): Daniel Joseph, Katie MacKinnon | Discussant: Cassius Adair Title: P latform determinism & the case of the TCCN (or) Author(s): Jonathan Corpus Ong | Discussant: T arleton Gillespie Title: S pinning and Surviving the Techlash in Southeast Asia: From Exposing Disinformation Shadow Economies to Resisting State Regulation (or) Author(s): Rida Qadr i | Discussant: Elizabeth Watkins Title: A lgorithmized but not Atomized? How Emerging Technologies Can Engender New Forms of Worker Solidarity (or) Author(s): Thomas Poell, David Nieborg, Brooke Erin Duffy & José van Dijck | D iscussant: J ulie Cohen Title: The Space of Negotiations: Analyzing Platform Power in the Cultural Industries Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop use only | January 14, 2021 @datasociety | [email protected] Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop 12:15pm Welcome Back - Spectrogram (William Partin) (5 min) 12:20pm Break (30 min) 12:50pm Welcome Back - Sonic Communion, Intro to Paper Session 2 (Meredith Clark) (10 min) 1:00pm Paper Workshops - Session 2 5 simultaneous sessions (1hr 15min) Author(s): Aditi Surie | Discussant: Ranjit Singh Title: S eeing like a state – what is the platform? Evidence from on-demand platforms in urban India during the COVID19 pandemic lockdown (or) Author(s): Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin | Discussant: Annemarie Navar-Gill Title: “ Pose”: Examining moments of ‘digital’ dark sousveillance on TikTok (or) Author(s): Kelsey Cameron | Discussant: Br enda Dvoskin Title: C ontesting Captions: Netflix and the Limits of Platform Design (or) Author(s): Lianrui Jia | Discussant: A ngéle Christin Title: F orgotten Passwords and Long-Gone Exes: the Life and Death of Renren (or) Author(s): Till Straube, Seyram Avle | Discussant: Iris Bull Title: T he politics and economics of global AI: Chinese facial recognition in Zimbabwe 2:15pm Welcome Back - Spectrogram (Robyn Caplan) (5 min) 2:20pm Networking | Platform Governance Network Talk (Sonja Solomun, Robert Gorwa) + Breakout Discussions (35 min) (Choose your own group)) 1. Barriers: W hat could interfere with platform governance research? 2. Communication/Coordination: W hat tools work best, etc.? 3. Diversity: What types of diversity are most needed and how do we increase diversity in platform governance research? 4. Goals: W hat does the community need from a platform g overnance research network? 5. Governance: Executive committee, turnover, etc. 6. Scope: What disciplines and approaches do we need? Which should we try to incorporate more? Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop use only | January 14, 2021 @datasociety | [email protected] Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop 2:55pm Break (10 min) 3:05pm Welcome Back - Spectrogram, Intro to Paper Session 3 (10 min) 3:15pm Paper Workshops - Session 3 5 simultaneous sessions (1hr 15min) Author(s): Alejandra Josiowicz | Discussant: A disa Vera Beatty Title: N aming Performativity: Alternative Lineages of Antiracist Brazilian Feminism on Twitter (or) Author(s): Harris Kornstein | D iscussant: J ohanna Brewer Title: “ Moes Getting Hoes Where They Needz 2 Goes:” Homobiles’ Queer Values Disrupt Surveillance Capitalism (or) Author(s): Mehitabel Glenhaber | Discussant: Becca Lewis Title: C ode as Mutual Aid: User Agency and Social Media Modding (or) Author(s): Tamara Kneese | Discussant: Julia Ticona Title: K eep it Oakland: Putting the Local to Work in the Global Retail Economy (or) Author(s): Torin Monahan | Discussant: Shelly Steward Title: C oding Out Justice: Digital Platforms’ Enclosure of Public Transit in Cities 4:30pm Closing Remarks (Robyn Caplan), F eedback (Wiliam Partin) (10 min) 4:40pm [Optional] N etworking: Small Groups + Mingling (Introduction by Meredith Clark) (20 min) 5:00pm Event ends - Thank you! ▶Additional Resources Crowdsourced Reading List Paper Abstracts Discussant Guide | Lightning Talks Presenter Suggestions Accessibility | Zoom [email protected] | Data & Society Points Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop use only | January 14, 2021 @datasociety | [email protected] .