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CFP 9 - Roundtables: WORKS IN PROGRESS / RESEARCH FEEDBACK: Media and Technology as Sites of Digital Contestation and Resistance
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Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change

Organizer: Sara Tehrani, University of Central Florida

Description: 

Resistance and social action manifest across a range of spaces, including the symbolic and discursive realms of media and technology. This session conceptualizes media and technology as dynamic arenas of social engagement, contestation, and transformation. It examines how individuals, communities, and movements strategically mobilize digital platforms, technological tools, and AI systems to articulate identities, confront inequality, amplify marginalized voices, raise awareness of social problems, organize collective action, and contest dominant narratives. Papers may examine a range of topics at the intersections of media, technology, and social change, including digital activism, cultural production, political communication, grassroots organizing, algorithmic bias, platform politics, and the role of media technologies in shaping public discourse and policy outcomes.

Roundtable #1 Title: AI, Technology, and Education and Pedagogy

Presider: Marina I. Rivera Ramos, Rutgers University

Papers:

“Visualizing Opportunity: Using Community Asset Mapping to Uncover Trends in Resource Mobilization and Positive Outcomes in Detroit’s Motor City Match Grant Program,” Marya R. Sosulski, Michigan State University School of Social Work, Nathaniel G. Nowsch, Michigan State University and Randi Mae Clayton-Ames, Michigan State University School of Social Work

“Experiments in AI-Engaged Pedagogy,” Greg Scott and Julie Patarin-Jossec, DePaul University

“Co-Creating Artificial Intelligence Classroom Policies,” Atticus M. Wolfe, Agnes Scott College

“Virtual Co-Learning as Resistance: An Analysis of an Online Community Co-Producing Knowledge toward Post-Capitalist and Entangled Futures,” Marina I. Rivera Ramos, Rutgers University

“Exploring Motivations for Online Courses at MSIs and PWIs,” Kea Saper, University of California, San Diego

“Digital Connectivity and Social Solidarity,” Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University

Roundtable #2 Title: Media, Technology, and Inequality

Presider: Yvonne A. Braun, University of Oregon

Papers:

“‘Comphet Is Ableism’s Nextdoor Neighbor’: #Neuroqueer Counterdiscourses on TikTok,” Jules Vivid, Rutgers University

“Digital Activism: Social Media, Framing and Collective Action in the Struggle against Femicide in Kenya,” Constance Manga Ndeleko and Yvonne A. Braun, University of Oregon

“Beyond Basic Skills: Intersectional Digital Health Literacy Challenges and Resources for Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Hong Kong,” Padmore Adusei Amoah, Lingnan University and Adwoa Owusuaa Koduah, Tung Wah College

“Media as a Site of Transformation and Resistance in the Weight-Inclusive Healthcare Movement,” Gabby Gomez, Macalester College

“Supply and Care: Campus Food Pantries and Graduate Student Hunger at an Elite University,” Ambria Jones, Brandeis University

“The Professional Medicalization of Homelessness: Poverty Governance and Doctoring in the Streets of the City,” Irene Del Mastro Naccarato, University of California, Los Angeles

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