19:00

Informal Get-Together

08:30—09:00

Registration and Coffee

09:00—10:00

Welcome and Keynote Conversation
Where Do We Stand, and How Did We Get Here?
Chair: Christian Katzenbach (University of Bremen)

• Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam)
• Tarleton Gillespie (Microsoft Research)

10:00—11:30

Panel
Tech Companies & Discoursive Work

• Rebecca Scharlach (University of Bremen), CJ Reynolds (Hebrew University Jerusalem), Vasilisa Kuznetsova (University of Bremen), Christian Katzenbach (University of Bremen), Blake Hallinan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Value Frictions: Competing Priorities in the Public and Private Governance of Generative Artificial Intelligence
• Nicolas Suzor (Queensland University of Technology / ADM+S / DMRC), Lucinda Nelson (Queensland University of Technology / ADM+S / DMRC)
  Beyond ‘toxicity’: Using large language models for power-sensitive automated content assessment
• Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
  The Politics of ‘Big Tech’
• Laurens Naudts (University of Amsterdam), Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam)
  Authenticity Matters: Understanding the Epistemic and Democratic Risks of Generative AI

11:30—11:45

Coffee Break

11:45—12:45

Panel
Generative AI

• Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam)
  Towards hybridised media: Governance of and through GenAI interfaces
• Kate M. Miltner (University of Sheffield), Tim Highfield (University of Warwick)
  Generative AI and the creative industries: Bridging governance and opportunity?
• Soorya Balendra (McGill University)
  Challenges of Platform and Generative AI Governance Research in the Global South
• Stefan Luca (University of Glasgow, CREATe)
  Listening for GenAI across a Chorus of Podcasting Platforms
• Tom Divon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  GenAI in Digital Activism – Rethinking Palestinian Advocacy and Platform Governance

12:45—14:15

Lunch (Markthalle)

14:15—15:45

Panel
Trust & Safety

• Robert Gorwa (WZB Berlin), Clara Iglesias Keller (Weizenbaum Institute / WZB Berlin), João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester)
  Varieties of Trust and Safety: An Institutionalist Perspective on Platform Governance Regimes
• Tomás Guarna (Stanford University)
  Tracing the Social Construction of Technological Harms: Ethnography in the Trust & Safety Field, from Platforms to Generative AI
• Kyooeun Jang (University of Southern California)
  Mediating AI’s Possibilities and Risks: The Role of Trust and Safety Intermediaries in the Shaping of Online Child Safety Frameworks
• Robert Gorwa (WZB Berlin), Michael Veale (University College London)
  Analytically Ambiguous: Conceptualizing Hard Technical Problems for Trust and Safety

15:45—16:00

Coffee Break

16:00—17:30

Panel
AI Governance

• Jason Kalathas (University College Dublin)
  New Governance Challenges for AI in Platforms: The Case of Adversarial Machine Learning as Co-Governance Mechanism
• Bradley McNeil (McMaster University)
  Power and Hegemony in Global AI Governance: A Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis of the UN’s Global Digital Compact
• Vincent Obia (University of Sheffield)
  Concepts and Strategies for Studying AI Regulation and Tech Governance in Africa
• Adio Dinika (Distributed AI Research Institute)
  Decolonizing AI: Resisting Data Colonialism and Platform Extractivism in the Global Majority
• Hengyi Yang (Maastricht University)
  Regulatory Beliefs in Transition: Understanding China’s Policy Changes in Generative AI Through Advocacy Coalition Framework and Discourse Network Analysis

19:30

Evening Panel
Critical Times: Power and Politics in Tech Governance

• Prof. Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam)
• N.N.
• N.N.

08:30—09:00

Registration and Coffee

09:00—11:00

Parallel Workshops

Methods

Content Moderation

• Guy Banim (College of Europe/Build Up), Helena Puig Larrauri (Build Up)
  The Polarization Footprint, a framework to measure societal divides on social media and advocate for algorithmic change
• Jiahui Xing (University of Sydney)
  From data barriers to insights: Algorithmically Mediated Semiotic-
  Discourse Analysis (AM-SDA) as a multi-scalar LLM-assisted framework for AI-governed cultural research
• Kaushar Mahetaji (University of Toronto), David Nieborg (University of Toronto)
  Corporate mapping as method: A holistic systematic approach to study platform companies and AI
• Jeanette D’Arcy (University of Liverpool), Jessica Crosby (Newcastle University), Rachel Franklin (Newcastle University), Simeon Yates (University of Liverpool), Elena Musi (University of Liverpool)
  Researcher access to data: Insights from the Smart Data UK Strategic Advice Team
• Yarden Skop (University of Paderborn), Marcus Burkhardt (University of Paderborn)
  Personal Data Governance in the European Market: Repurposing Article 15 GDPR as a Research Tool

• Stefan Baack (Mozilla Foundation) Leveraging generative AI’s open source communities: A critical analysis of Common Crawl
• Paddy Leerssen
  (University of Amsterdam)
  From Murdoch to Musk: Social Media
  Ownership and the Political Economy of Platform Content Moderation
• Yannis Theocharis (Technical University of Munich), Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford), Friederike Quint (Technical University of Munich), Jan Zilinsky (Technical University of Munich), Franziska Pradel (Technical University of Munich)
  Balancing Free Speech and Safety:
  How Target Characteristics Shape Demand for Content Moderation
• Emillie de Keulenaar (University of Groningen)
  Content Moderation, from Adjudication to Consensus-buildling

12:45—14:15

Lunch (Markthalle)

14:15—15:45

Parallel Panels

Current approaches to platform governance

Disinformation

• Mia Nahrgang (University of Konstanz), Nils B. Weidmann (University of Konstanz), Friederike Quint (Technical University of Munich), Sebastian Nagel (University of Konstanz), Yannis Theocharis (Technical University of Munich), Margaret E. Roberts (University of California, San Diego)
  Written for Lawyers or Users? Mapping the Complexity of Community Guidelines
• Esteban Morales (University of Groningen, NL), Ludmila Lupinacci
  (University of Leeds, UK)
  Don’t be a d1*k: Vibe-check as governance of platformized violence
• Mai Van Tran (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Tuwanont Phattharathanasut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Haymarn Soe Nyunt (Notes of Workers), Nalinthip Ekapong (Independent Researcher), Lewis Young (Intellectum Research Consortium)
  Pro-democracy platform advocacy:
  Resisting Big Tech-mediated authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
• Simran Agarwal (Sorbonne Paris
  Nord University, France), Diyi Liu (University of Oxford)
  Theorising governance through
  platforms: recentring the role of the states

• Thales Lelo (Federal University of Minas Gerais/INCT-DSI)
  Critical Challenges in Regulating Generative AI’s Use in Disinformation Campaigns
• Rita Gsenger (Weizenbaum Institute/Freie Universität Berlin)
  Governing AI-generated content and misinformation on online platforms:
  The influence and effect of the Digital Services Act
• Manuel Tonneau (University of Oxford), Dylan Thurgood (University
  of Oxford), Diyi Liu (University of
  Oxford), Niyati Malhotra (World
  Bank), Ralph Schroeder (University
  of Oxford), Scott A. Hale (University
  of Oxford), Samuel Fraiberger (World Bank), Victor Orozco-Olvera (World Bank), Manoel Horta Ribeiro (Princeton University), Paul Röttger (Bocconi University)
  Assessing global hate speech moderation on Twitter
• Christian Katzenbach (University of Bremen), Vasilisa Kuznetsova (University of Bremen), Daria Dergacheva (University of Bremen), Adrian Kopps (University of Bremen), Andrea Roca (University of Bremen)
  The Emergence of Misinformation in Platform Governance: A longitudinal study of social media platforms’ misinformation policies
• Kamile Grusauskaite (Yale/KU Leuven)
  Guardians of disinformation? How
  social media platforms define and
  regulate disinformation, 2006 to 2025.

15:45—16:00

Coffee break

16:00—17:00

Parallel Panels

Digital Services Act

Alternative Platforms – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

• Clément Le Ludec (CERSA/Université Paris Panthéon Assas), Benjamin Loveluck (CERSA/Université Paris Panthéon Assas)
  A Shared Oversight on the Digital Public Space? Confronting the DSA Transparency Requirements with Actual Content Moderation Practices
• Alessia Zornetta (University of California Los Angeles/UCLA ITLP)
  The DSA Database as a Tool for Meaningful Transparency
• Elizabeth Farries (University College
  Dublin), Eugenia Siapera (University
  College Dublin)
  Enforcing the Digital Services Act: Positioning and Powerflows Between Stakeholders

• Paloma Viejo Otero (University of Bremen), Rebecca Scharlach (University of Bremen)
  ‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety
• Bjorn Beijnon (University of
  Amsterdam)
  From Data Subjects to Digital Citizens: The Fediverse as a Model for Civic-Oriented Platform Governance and Algorithmic Resistance
• Mathilde Sanders (Utrecht University)
  Democratizing the Ownership of Public Decentralized Social Media Platforms

17:00—18:00

Concluding Plenary Panel
Where Do We Go From Here?
Chair: Rebecca Scharlach (University of Bremen)

• Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA)
• Jilian York (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• N.N.

20:00

Informal Farewell, Karaoke (Place to be announced)