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Subject: Social Media and Society event in Michigan
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Hello Devendra,
Sending this your way in case students or colleagues are interested.
JOyojeet
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The Social Media & Society in India symposium takes place Apr 8-9, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is free to attend online or in person and brings together a great line-up of speakers. Registration
is free for both online and in-person.
Registered attendees can view all the talks and also sign up for office hours with the speakers. This year’s line-up includes a variety of topics including political and electoral social media use, platform governance,
brand management, finance, healthcare, and hate speech. Details and registration info for in person and online viewing here: https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu
Full Program
April 8, 2024, 9.00 AM, US Eastern Time
Matthew Hull: Introductory Remarks
April 8, 2024, 9.10 AM, US Eastern Time
Session 1: Free Expression Discussant: Bilal
Butt
Hussain Haidry: From
Babar Ki Aulaad to K2A: The vocabulary of anti-Muslim hate speeches and everyday slurs
Disha Wadekar: The
Expressive Function of Social Media - Navigating Free Speech Concerns in the Digital Domain
Parth MN: Social Media
and Surveillance of Muslims in Rural India, and the changing landscape of Indian villages
Shilpa Kannan: Escalations
and platform policies on political content
April 8, 2024, 12.30 PM, US Eastern Time
Session 2: New Markets Discussant: Pranav
Malhotra
Sanjay Sharma: Building a YouTube News Channel From the Ground
Up
Anushka Rathod: Financial Influencing on Instagram: The scope
and risks of short-form finance content online
Gunjan Arya: Branding and marketing YouTube Shorts in India
Balram Vishwakarma: Decoding Mumbai's Hidden Stories: Bringing
Urban working class stories online
April 8, 2024, 3.30 PM, US Eastern Time
Session 3: Politics Discussant: Omolade
Adunbi
Mohd. Talha Rashid: Building Political Narratives on Social Media: Differences
between Local, State and National Campaigns
Amitabh Dubey: Large-scale political campaigns on Social Media
Dhanya Rajendran: Digital Journalism and Social Media Spaces
in South India
Shahana Shaikh: Social Media and In-Person Mass Campaigns: Evidence from
State Elections in North India
April 9, 2024, 8.00 AM US Eastern Time
Session 4a: Platforms & creator identities Discussant: Sarah
Khan
Tanvi Kanchan: “Instagram
is like a karela”: Censorship and surveillance in Indian queer digital cultures
Rudransh Mukherjee, Shaily
Desai: Anatomy of a "Chapri": Exploring the Decontextualization of Casteist Slurs on Social Media
Simiran Lalvani: Food
delivery platforms as content creators on social media
Amber: A Threat to Identity: The Pipeline from a Content Creator to Activist in Post-CAA NRC India
April 9, 2024, 9.00 AM US Eastern Time
Session 4b: Platforms & access Discussant: Soham
De
Farhana Shahid, Dhruv
Agarwal, Aditya Vashistha:
One Style Does Not Regulate All': Moderation Practices in Public and Private WhatsApp Groups
Tanvi Roy, Meghna
Gupta: Weaponizing Cringe for Virality: Paving the Way for Democratization on Social Media
Sakshi Bhalla: Navigating Narratives: Selective Exposure to Indian Journalists
Ankolika De: WhatsApp for Business: A Decolonial Perspective
April 9, 2024, 10.00 AM US Eastern Time
Workshop Mechanics of Misinformation: Kiran Garimella, Sunandan
Chakraborty, Jimmy Narang
April 9, 2024, 1.00 PM US Eastern Time
Session 5: New Voices Discussant: Ding
Wang
Hana Mohsin Khan: Soaring beyond stereotypes: the articulation of women’s
professional lives on Indian social media
Venkatesh Potluri: Social Media Use by Blind and Visually Impaired People
in India
Ambarish Satwik: The X thread as a genre: the social media offerings
of a vascular surgeon
Rajshri Deshpande: Use of Social Media for Activism and
Social Justice and its impact
April 9, 2024, 3.45 PM US Eastern Time
Session 6: People & Culture Discussant: Matthew
Hull
Shephali Bhatt: From SMS to Stickers: the disappearance of words from
communication
Rafiul Rehman: The Queer Muslim Project: Addressing Stereotypes
on Social Media
Kunal Purohit: H-Pop Stars and The Ecology Of Hate Pop Culture on YouTube