Program

September 2nd
PWILL activities
9:00-11:30 Core Group meeting (by invitation, for core group members only) (Room 18)
12:00-14:30 Management Committee meeting (by invitation, for MC members only) (Room 18)
14:30-16:00 Lunch break
16:00-18:00 Working Group meetings (Rooms 18, 104, 205)

September 3rd
Conference Day 1
9:00-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:15 Plenary session (Room 18)
Keynote: Barbara Biglia “Gender Relations Mediated by Virtual Spaces: Linguistic Interactions, Microviolence, and Resistance.”
10:15 – 11:00 Plenary session (Room 18)
Keynote: Sylwia Spurek “Cyberviolence against women: a new face of an old problem”
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions
Smart cities and communities (Room 18), chair: Anna Domaradzka-Widła
Sramana Mukherjee and Dr. Sthitapragyan Ray “Looking into Slum Communities and their ‘Right to the (Smart) City’ within the Indian Urban Diaspora” (online)
Volodymyr Ksienich and Dmytro Khutkyy „Ukrainian smart cities in wartime: Predicting the success of local restoration projects on the DREAM platform”
Izabela Kapsa “Online Voting in Participatory Budgeting in Polish Cities: Innovation for Convenience or a Tool of Exclusion?”
Liva Grinevica “Invisible Labour in the Digital Age: Legal Injustice and Gendered Precarity in Platform Work”
Power imbalances in AI and Art (Room 104), chair: David Dueñas-Cid
Maria Kyriakidou “Gender Implications in Visual Tech Art” (online)
Ann-Kathrin Watolla and Sarah Spitz “Introducing the ThinkLab: A modular blueprint for deconstructing AI from an intersectional feminist perspective”
Rose Marie Azzopardi “Women, Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Malta”
Remigiusz Żulicki “ChatGPT Usage Rates Across 21 Countries Reveals Power Asymmetries Between Global North and Global South”
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Plenary session (panel) (Room 18)
Challenges and Opportunities emerging from the Digital and Artificial Intelligence Revolutions for gendered power relations: Reflections from Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies perspective
Introduction and moderation: Mayo Fuster Morell, PWILL Chair & Harvard University
Panelists:
Carla Barrios, National University of Distance Education (UNED) “Difficulties and challenges in studying digital social differences from a feminist perspective”
Giuglia Campaioli, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) & Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) “Contributions of Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies for Understanding the Impact of AI on Social Inequalities”
Firuzeh Shokooh, Valle Franklin & Marshall College and Puerto Rico University, “‘How Will You Give Back?’: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks” (online)
Discussant, comments & questions:
Barbara Biglia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Parallel sessions
Technology for empowerment (Room 104), chair: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Joanna Mazur and Renata Włoch “The AI Act and the Politics of (Non)Emancipation”
Jeremy Pitt, Asimina Mertzani, Matthew Scott and Ciske Smit “Ethical Platformisation and Empowerment through Platform Sovereignty”
Brikene Dionizi and Merise Rukaj “Platform business models and gendered labor inequalities in Albania: An intersectional perspective”
Olivija Filipovska “Gender Balance in Fintech Platforms – Investigating Factors and Regulatory Response”
Disinformation and Gender: Challenges to Women’s Participation in Democratic Processes (Room 18), chair: Miren Gutiérrez Almazor
Evrim Erol “Glass Ceilings and Disinformation in Academia: The Experiences of Women Academics in Digital Spaces”
Agata Żbikowska and Mikołaj Biesaga “Framing gender empowerment in a polarized media landscape: an analysis of Polish online news sources”
Maria Sikorska “The Power of Parole in the Political Environment”
Natalia Gruenpeter “Women Have Already Destroyed Europe”: Framing the Anti-Women Narrative in the Polish Infosphere”
Xhuana Abazi “Countering Gendered Disinformation: Evaluating Institutional Frameworks to Safeguard Women’s Political Participation”
19:00- Dinner

September 4th
Conference Day 2
9:00-10:15 Plenary session (Room 18)
Keynote: Katina Michael “Who Governs the Machine? Technology, Power, and the Fight for Democratic Control
10:15-11:00 Poster session (hall)
Kübra Yenel “Empowering Women Leaders in Higher Education: A Case Study on Digital Transformation and Gender Equity in a Faculty of Education”
Eglantina Dervishi “Gender Disparities In Academia And Mental Health: A Systematic Review Of The Albanian Higher Education Context”
Katarzyna Goncikowska and Joanna Witowska „Digital technology among caregivers: how DT shapes time and everyday life”
Julia Heller “Compliance or Resistance: understanding users’ approaches against e-surveillance”
Elena Stoykova and Antoaneta Getova “Professional Trajectories, Gender and Evolving Skills: A LinkedIn Analysis of Sofia University Sociology Graduates (2013-2023)”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions
Gender & Technology in Sociology (Room 18), chair: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis and Sarunas Paunksnis “Celebrating Toxic Masculinity: YouTube Roast Videos and Gender Dynamics in West Bengal”
Klaudia Khan “‘A Man’s Job?’: Gig Work and the Redefinition of Migrant Masculinities in Poland”
Wojciech Podsiadłowski, Tomasz Oleksy and Jakub Rycerz „Engaging with misogyny: Manosphere engagement and cyberbullying are fostered by male collective narcissism”
Lily Rodel “Coordinative Labour In The Hybrid Home: Work, Care, and Technology in Hybrid-Working Households”
Mónica Grau Sarabia “Gendered Injustices and the Political Economy of Cybersecurity”
Digital transformation in labour markets (Room 104), chair: Karolina Bolesta
Weronika Łebkowska and Renata Włoch „Mapping Digital Skills Demand in the Accommodation & Food Sector: Evidence from Labour Market Data and Sectoral Stakeholders”
Lucian Sfetcu “Algorithmic Management, Gendered Precarities and Decent Work in the European Gig Economy”
Bresena Kopliku and Elvisa Drishti “Beyond the Metrics: Unpacking the Gendered Barriers to Advancement in Albania’s Freelance Platform Economy”
Tatjana Jakobi, Branka Andjelkovic, Petar Čolović and Vladan Ivanović “Structured, Narrative, and Platform Modifying Signals: Self-Presentation and Success in Platform Labour”
Lidia De La Iglesia “Menstrual health in labour environments”
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Plenary session (panel) (Room 18)
“Digital technology – friend or foe of equality?”
Introduction and moderation: Anna Domaradzka-Widła
Panelists:
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikipedia)
Katarzyna Szczepaniak (Feminoteka)
TBA
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Parallel sessions
Technology for empowerment (Room 18), chair: Agnieszka Rychwalska
Guiomar Rovira “Feminist Hacktivism and Decolonial Imaginaries: Rethinking AI from Abya Yala”
Elvisa Drishti and Bresena Kopliku “Empowering Migrant Voices through Technology: Using Life-course Calendars and AI-Enhanced Sequence Analysis to Capture Migration Cycles”
Pauline Baudens “Feminist Digital Geographies: Mobile Digital Platforms Reshaping Women’s Urban Mobility”
Miren Gutierrez, Adriana Calvo and Antonia Moreno Cano “Under the Radar Female Migrants in Spain as a User Moral Economy: Collective Agency in the Platform Economy”
Daniela Ilieva “Digital Mentoring Ecosystems: Using Technology for Development of Gender-Inclusive Leadership in Business Settings” (online)
17:30-17:45 Closing