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conference

Agenda

26th June 2025 – Jesus College
Timing
10:00 – 10:20 Arrival Coffee and Welcome
10:20 – 10:30 Welcome Remarks Professor Victoria Nash (Remote) (Atrium)
10:30 – 11:30 Opening Keynote Dr Fabian Braesemann (Atrium)
11:30 – 12:30 Morning Panels Evolving Digital Market (Atrium) Governance and Infrastructure (Level 1)
11:30 – 11:50 Presentation 1 The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI:

Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project

 

Professor Mark Graham

Layered Digital Colonialism in LLMs:

A Critical Global South Framework for Analysis and Counter-measures

 

Zixuan Ji

11:50 – 12:10 Presentation 2 World Building in Emerging Markets: From The Passion Economy to Outer Space

 

Utkarsh Amitabh

The case study of EquiLabs

 

EquiLabs is a global youth- and queer-led digital rights initiative working to reimagine participation in the governance of data and AI systems

 

Luisa Franco Machado

12:10 – 12:30 Presentation 3 Algorithmic Mirror: Visualising Data Across Platforms Supporting Adolescents’ Sense of Data Autonomy
on Social Media

 

Yui Kondo

Neither Queer nor Just a Transaction”: Double Moral Anxiety and the Boundary Work of Intimacy in Otome Cosplay Commissions

Ziyu Deng

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Networking)
13:30 – 14:30 Interim Keynote HYBRIDIZED REALITIES: The Rise of Screen Corporeality

 

Professor Richard Koeck (Atrium)

14:30 – 15:30 Afternoon Panels Digital Society and Empowerment (Level 1) Creativity and Humanities (Atrium)
14:30 – 14:50 Presentation 1 Gen-AI and the implications for intellectual autonomy: a provocation

 

Professor Cristina Costa (Remote)

TECHNO-UTOPIA

 

Dr Robert Laidlow

14:50 – 15:10 Presentation 2 Measuring Verbal Violence: Studying Online Dehumanisation in the Russia-Ukraine War

 

Elizaveta Chernenko

Digitally unlocking Hidden and Complex Histories

 

Professor Kathryn Eccles

15:10 – 15:30 Presentation 3 I Used to Pray for Vines Like This: Digital Nostalgia, Archival Practices, and the Preservation of UGC

 

Joelle Saunders

Morphogenesis: Creating Art with Digital Biology

 

Andy Lomas

15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Break (Networking)
16:00 – 16:50 Closing Keynote Revisiting AI Justice in China: Rationale and Risks behind the Progressive Movement

 

Professor Weiwei Shen (Atrium)

16:50 – 17:00 Closing Remarks CL Committee Team (Atrium)
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