Midterm Conference of International Sociological Association 

Working Group 10 on Digital Sociology (ISA WG10)

 

Hosts: Institute for Social Studies, Faculty of Sociology, DeLab (University of Warsaw)

Location: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Sociology, Karowa 18, Room 18, Ground Floor

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Monday 16th September 2024

9:00-9:30 Conference opening

David Duenas i Cid (WG10 President), Julia Kubisa (Dean of Faculty of Sociology), Renata Włoch (Digital Economy Lab), Anna Domaradzka (Director of Institute for Social Studies)

9:30-11:00 Keynote lecture – “A Personal Journey through the Three Stages of Digital Social
Research” – prof. Giuseppe Veltri

11:00-12:00 Poster session + coffee break

12:00-13:30 Session 1A: Digital Sociology and its Challenges (chair: David Duenas i Cid)

  1. Polite Divergence? Exploring the Barrenness of Digital Sociology Due to Absence of Conflict and “Controversy” David Adam
  2. The Nomadism of Digital Technology – An Unsettling Sociology Attila Marton, Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając and Mike Zundel
  3. Global Data Migration as a Challenge to Sociology Anu Masso

12:00-13:30 Session 1B: Digital Sociology and Public Services (chair: Marta Kołodziejska)

  1. How context matters: human oversight of automated-decision-making systems in welfare administration Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska
  2. Aspirations of AI in PES: The dialectical taming of sociodigital futures Thomas Zenkl
  3. Digitalization of Public Services: Just a Band-Aid for Wicked Problems? Deconstructing narratives of digital services in Poland Mateusz Trochymiak, Anna Domaradzka, Celina Strzelecka and Monika Berdys

13:30-14:30 Lunch break 

14:30-16:00 Session 2A: Digital Activism and Social Movements (chair: David Duenas i Cid)

  1. #travelforall: Mapping the potential and limitations of social media influencers as social change agents Manuela Farinosi and Filippo Trevisan
  2. WhatsAppers from the Global South Sérgio Barbosa
  3. “I love how irrelevant Tumblr is”: Platform decline and the evolution of Tumblr nostalgia Briony Hannell

14:30-16:00 Session 2B: AI and Digital Technology in Society (chair: Anna Domaradzka)

  1. Artificial Intelligence in Organizations – Employee Acceptance of an AI Tool in the Workplace Niklas Ullrich
  2. Python and PowerPoint: Demystifying AI From a Data Science Perspective Remigiusz Żulicki
  3. Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Platforms: Insights from Domestic Workers and Food-Delivery Drivers in Johannesburg, South Africa David du Toit

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Session 3: Digital Methods and Data Analysis (chair: Mikołaj Biesaga)

  1. From digital methods to social scientific computational methods? Lasse Uhrskov Kristensen and Johan Irving Søltoft
  2. Eyetrackers in the Study of Fake News: A Sociological Approach Kamil Filipek and Jarosław Chodak
  3. From Human Survey to Machine Survey: Attitude Detection in Large Language Models with Ordering Tasks Dario Chianese
  4. Sound as data: Exploring New Horizons in Political Communication Ignacio-Jesús Serrano- Contreras, Javier García-Marín and Oscar García-Luengo

 

Tuesday 17th September 2024

9:00-10:30 Session 4A: Digital Communication and Media Influence (chair: David Duenas i Cid)

  1. From Posts to Table: Exploring the Impact of Digital Food Communication on Food Behavior Tina Bartelmess
  2. Digital influencers: professionalization and symbolic-ideological mediation Francisco Silva Fontes
  3. The Relationship between Aggressive Humor in Social Media and Sociodemographic Variables: A Study in Turkey Sample Emirhan Serbest, Esin Özten, Zeynep Nurdan Tökel, Yaren Karacaoğlan and Nazlıcan İnci

9:00-10:30 Session 4B: Digital Public Sphere and Data Ethics (chair: Anna Domaradzka)

  1. Digital democracy in Ukraine: Reforms in Peace, Resilience in War Dmytro Khutkyy
  2. The emergence conditions and periodic characteristics of digital public sphere in China Jianpeng Guo
  3. Apparent choice – how Internet users deal with e-surveillance Julia Heller

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Session 5A: Digitalization and Healthcare (chair: Mikołaj Biesaga)

  1. Paradoxes of digital managerialism in social services. Case of the Electronic Care System in Poland Mateusz Trochymiak and Sebastian Sosnowski
  2. Challenges and Future Directions for Integrating Healthcare Wearable Sensors into Smart Cities and Communities Anna Domaradzka, Mikołaj Biesaga, Magdalena Roszczyńska- Kurasińska and Ewa Domaradzka
  3. mHealth During The Covid-19 Pandemic. Patients’ Perspective From A Longitudinal View Piotr Binder

11:00-12:30 Session 5B: Internet and Family (chair: Anna Domaradzka)

  1. Everything is under control: Parental control technologies and parental authority in the digital age Shahar Mendelovich
  2. Being and doing with family and friends: Children in digital spaces Liz Todd, Sue Nichols and Ulrike Thomas
  3. Exploring Gender Differences in “Sharenting”: Motivations, Patterns, and Societal Influences on Mothers and Fathers Zeynep Serap Tekten and Abdurrahman Kultur

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Session 6A: Digital Learning and Internet Skills and Capital (chair: Renata Włoch)

  1. Education against social polarization – creating learning experiences with a complexity lens Agata Komendant-Brodowska, Anna Baczko-Dombi and Katarzyna Abramczuk
  2. The moderating effect of internet skills and uses on the formation of internet privacy concerns among older adults Andraž Petrovčicč, Anabel Quan-Haase, Luka Kalita and Jošt Bartol
  3. Open Data: What ethical issues? Milena Błahuta and Justyna Salamonska

13:30-15:00 Session 6B: Digital Communities and Social Equality (chair: Anna Domaradzka)

  1. The city, digital technologies and gendered social worlds: A study of online communities of women in Gurgaon Pratichi Majumdar
  2. Navigating Tradition and Modernity: The Impact of Dating and Matrimonial Apps on Young Adults in New Delhi Simpi Srivastava
  3. Exploring the Influence of Smart Communities on Shaping Social Behavior Patterns Magdalena Ciesielska

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Session 7A: Digital Capital and Consumption (chair: Mateusz Trochymiak)

  1. Technological intuition as a metaphor for accumulated digital capital Paweł Zalewski
  2. People’s Beliefs regarding Phones ‘Listening’ to Offline Conversations: Comparing results from the United States, the Netherlands, and Poland Claire Segijn, Joanna Strycharz, Anna Turner, Suzanne Opree
  3. Algorithms and Digital Consumption: User Profiling in the ALGOFEED Project Massimo
    Airoldi, Alessandro Caliandro, Alessandro Gandini, Gabriella Punziano, Suania Acampa,
    Noemi Crescentini, Giuseppe Michele Padricelli, Ilir Rama and Domenico Trezza
  4. Sociology and “Sociology” (the Image of Sociology in Popular Digital Media in Bulgaria)
    Antoaneta Getova and Julian Borisov

19:00-23:00 Party and concert – Paloma nad Wisłą Bistro

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