Navigating Algorithmic Society: Audiences’ tactics to understanding the world

Conference programme

29 October 2025: Pre-conference workshop: ChatGPT and Beyond: AI Literacy for Early-Career Scholars

This workshop is organised by the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section and is specifically designed for young scholars. It is an in-person workshop for 15-20 PhD students and early-career scholars which will take place at Södertörn University on the 29th October 2025 from 14:00-17.00. The workshop will offer a space to explore and discuss ethical, professional, and societal dimensions of AI in academia, including concerns and opportunities arising from generative AI technologies. To register for the workshop follow this link: [https://forms.gle/49dapPMqpYwzCGcWA External link.]. For further information, contact Nivedita Chatterjee (n.chatterjee@surrey.ac.uk) Paulo Couraceiro (paulo_couraceiro@iscte-iul.pt) or Jan Weis (jan.weis@sh.se) via email.

Main conference

30 October 2025

10.00-10.30 Coffee and registration

10.30-11.00 Opening session

11.15-13.00 Parallel paper sessions

13.00-13.45 Lunch

13.45-15.30 Parallel paper sessions

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Audience and reception studies section division meeting

19.00-22.00 Conference dinner, restaurant Hermans

31 October 2025

9.00-10.45 Keynote panel

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.00 Parallel paper sessions

13.00-13.45 Lunch

13.45-15.30 Parallel paper sessions

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-16.30 Closing session

For a more detailed programme, follow this link:

Conference programme pdf, 4.7 MB.

Book of abstracts pdf, 4.7 MB.

Getting to Södertörn University

Södertörn university is located in Flemingsberg, a suburb 15-20 minutes south of Stockholm city. The easiest way to get there is to take the commuter train from either Stockholm Central Station (in the city centre) or from Stockholm Södra Station (at Södermalm), to the station Flemingsberg.

Tickets to the commuter train can be bought either at any of the stations, or by using Stockholm PublicTransport's (SL) app.

Hotels

The most convenient places to stay during the conference is close to one of the commuter train station, or in Flemingsberg, next to Södertörn University.

Hotels near Stockholm Södra station (south station at Södermalm)

Scandic Malmen, https://www.scandichotels.com/en/hotels/scandic-malmen External link.

Sofo Hotel, https://www.sofo-hotel.com/ External link.

Scandic Sjöfartshotellet, https://www.scandichotels.com/en/hotels/scandic-sjofartshotellet External link.

Hellstens glashus, https://hellstensglashus.se/en/ External link.

Hotels near Stockholm Central Station (in the city centre)

Scandic Continental, https://www.scandichotels.com/en/hotels/scandic-continental External link.

Thon Partner Hotel Kungsbron, https://www.thonhotels.com/our-hotels/sweden/stockholm/kungsbron/ External link.

Radisson Blu Royal Viking Hotel, https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-stockholm-royal-viking

Comfort Hotel Xpress Stockholm Central, https://www.strawberryhotels.com/hotels/sweden/stockholm/comfort-hotel-xpress-stockholm-central/ External link.

Hotels in Flemingsberg

Forenom Aparthotel Stockholm Flemingsberg, https://www.forenom.com/aparthotels/stockholm/forenom-aparthotel-stockholm-flemingsberg/ External link.

Attendo Park Hotell, https://www.attendoparkhotell.se/ External link.

Confirmed keynote speakers

Stine Lomborg, Professor, University of Copenhagen Denmark

Professor Stine Lomborg’s research explores the meanings and implications of digital tracking and data-driven decisions for humans and societies, aiming at theory development regarding media and communication approaches to digital tracking and datafication. She is one of the directors of the research center Tracking and Society at the University of Copenhagen, project leader of the ERC project Datafied Living as well as editor of the recently published The digital backlash and the paradoxes of disconnection (with Albris, K., Fast, K., Karlsen, F., Kaun, A., Lomborg, S., & Syvertsen, T. (2024), Nordicom

Tiziano Bonini, Associate Professor, University of Siena, Italy

Associate Professor Tiziano Bonini conducts research in the broad fields of platform studies, critical algorithm studies, media production studies and critical political economy, public service media and social construction of technology, often from a cultural studies perspective. He is the author of Algorithms of Resistance: the everyday fight against platform power (with Emiliano Treré (2024), The MIT Press) and Platformed! How streaming, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are shaping music cultures (with Magaudda, P. (2024), Palgrave McMillan).

Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia

Her research interests are focused around opportunities and risks surrounding the use of the internet and new technologies. She has published widely on young people’s online practices, datafication of childhood, self-presentation on social media, teacher/parental/sibling mediation of young people’s technology use, mediatization of parenting, dataveillance and AI-based technology use in education, etc. In 2021, she co-authored together with Giovanna Mascheroni Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives, published by Peter Lang.