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All Department of Media and Communications contributions to the conference are listed below, in alphabetical order by presentation title. Further details about the papers (e.g. abstracts and presentation times) are available in the searchable conference programme which can be accessed .

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• A pluralistic perspective on gig-platform rating systems: disciplining labour and evaluating capital - George Maier
• All are welcome: the critical race to squaring the circle of oneness - Miriam Rahali
• Beyond authenticity and ‘woke-washing’: regimes of visibility in the promotional industries - Cesar Jimenez-Martinez; Lee Edwards
• Beyond verification: user-generated content and the significance of embodiment in conflict news - Lilie Chouliaraki; Omar Al-Ghazzi 
• Bubbles: a media history of containment - Dylan Mulvin; Cait McKinney
• Children and adolescents experiencing mental health difficulties – the benefits and risks of gaining digital skills - Sonia Livingstone; Elisabeth Staksrud; Mariya Stoilova
• Cities, knowledge, and friction - Alison Powell
• Comparing inequalities in outcomes of internet use in Chile and the Netherlands - Magdalena Claro-Tagle; Ellen J. Helsper; Patricio Cabello; Alexander Van Deursen; Tania Cabello-Hutt; Luc Schneider
• Convivial reflexivity in the changing city – a tale of hospitality or hostility? Afroditi Koulaxi
• Corporate social advocacy as a crisis response strategy to issue-based opinion polarization: Evidence from China - Yingru Ji; Chang Wan
• Crisis-ready responsible selves: national productions of the pandemic - Shani Orgad; Radha Hegde
• Digital ethnography: methods for networked worlds (Blue Sky workshop) - Alberto Lusoli; Will Marler; Mirca Madianou; Caitlin Petre; Jabari Evans; Miao Lu; Frederik Lesage and Zoe Glatt
• Digital skills as moderators of the association between online activities and excessive adolescent’ internet use - Ellen J. Helsper; David Smahel; Giovanna Mascheroni; Davide Cino; Luc Schneider
• Discourse analysis in platform capitalism - Lilie Chouliaraki
• Disrupting the centre - Wendy Willems
• Feeling history’s first draft - Omar Al-Ghazzi
• Framing transgender: gender panic, institutional crisis, and competing epistemologies of gender in Chinese state newspapers - Xiaogao Zhou; Songyin Liu
• Implementing privacy in a digital world: can a universal child rights approach succeed? Sonia Livingstone
• Inequalities in negative outcomes of internet use - Ellen J. Helsper; Alexander Van Deursen; Luc Schneider
• Invisible feminists: decolonizing the global history of feminism - Ruhi Khan
• It’s not who I want to be!’: negotiating the ‘illegible’ single woman in US-UK popular culture - Kate Gilchrist
• Looking back, sideways and forward: probing the relevance of digital equity and justice research in “a networked world” - Hernan Galperin; Ellen J. Helsper
• Mediated as-if-ness: toward a critical phenomenology of liveness in social media - Ludmila Lupinacci
• Moving digital images in the shadows of the war on terror - Omar Al-Ghazzi
• Networked communication and the contradictions and ambiguities in transnational articulations of (anti)-racism(s) - Wendy Willems
• Post-covid: what is cultural theory useful for? - Nick Couldry
• Post-Television prime time: everyday uses of mobile devices - Hossein Derakhshan
• Phenomenal algorhythms: The sensorial orchestration of ‘real-time’ in the social media manifold - Ludmila Lupinacci
• Playful by design: a consultative approach to enhancing children’s play in a digital world - Kruakae Pothong; Sonia Livingstone
• Publicness and commoning: pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis - Myria Georgiou; Gavan Titley
• Recording and conceiving digital skills and risks through the experience of young refugees - Myria Georgiou; Leen d'Haenens; Verónica Donoso; Emilie Bossens
• Rethinking cultural criminalization: from the ‘construction of criminality’ to the mediated security imaginary - Kathryn Higgins
• Revolution as an Arabic keyword - Omar Al-Ghazzi
• Technological refusal in the clouds - Seeta Peña Gangadharan
• The bias of research on global news - Terhi Rantanen
• The influence of social media on the ways that journalists negotiate their relationships with others: a case study of The Guardian - Vaios Papanagnou
• The mediation of social VR: community, embodied experiences and everyday life of Chinese-speaking VRChat players - Runze Hu
• "The more you search the less you find": How low-qualified job seekers use and experience ICTs - Guillaume Dumont; Ellen J. Helsper; Stefano DeMarco
• Victimcould: whiteness, woundedness, and the prospective politics of fear - Kathryn Higgins
• Who’s afraid of trial by media?: sexual violence and the politics of doubt - Kathryn Higgins; Sarah Banet-Weiser
• Women against women: affective mediation of “Po-xi” tension in rural Chinese family under the crisis of care - Hao Wu

• World wide web, multiple online experiences: vulnerable youth, mental health and the challenges of platform design and regulation - Sonia Livingstone