The 10th Conference of the Spanish Association for Communication Research (AE-IC), held in Pontevedra from May 19 to 22, 2026, under the theme “Communicating in Uncertainty,” provided a key space for debating the role of algorithms in shaping contemporary communication practices. Among the contributions presented, the studies conducted by the ALCOM team stood out, addressing […]
The paper “Competency Prescriptions by Social Media Platforms and the Rise of Organizational Professionalism Among Content Creators”, presented by Dr. Liana Pithan and Drs. Willian Araujo and Marlon Dalmoro at The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (Niterói, Brazil, 15–18 October 2025), analyzes how social media platforms define and promote specific competencies […]
The paper “Engagement Exchanges and the Collective Pursuit of Visibility on TikTok in the Brazilian Context”, presented by Dr. Isaaf Karhawi and Dr. Willian Araujo at The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (Niterói, Brazil, 15–18 October 2025), examines how Brazilian users and creators on TikTok organize around engagement as a collective […]
The paper “Algorithmic Literacy: Navigating TikTok Creators’ Algorithmic Strategies”, presented by Dr. Gemma Gómez Bernal in collaboration with Drs. Fernanda Pires, Celina Navarro, and Gemma San Cornelio, within the framework of the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Conference 2025, “Navigating Algorithmic Society: Audiences’ tactics to understanding the world”, held on October 30–31, 2025, at Södertörn […]
The presentation “Digital Identity and Algorithmic Biases: Experiences of Women Streamers on Twitch”, presented by Dr. Gemma Gómez Bernal in collaboration with Drs. Celina Navarro, Fernanda Pires, and Esmeralda Vázquez, at the 8th International Congress on Communication Research of the Catalan Society of Communication, explored how visibility and identity are shaped for female content creators […]
Dr. Celina Navarro delivered the lecture “Content Reception on Digital Platforms: Audience Interaction with Algorithm-Based Personalization Systems” on June 3, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. The event, organized by the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Santa Maria (Poscom/UFSM), was moderated by Prof. Dr. Liliane Dutra Brignol (Poscom/UFSM) and held in the auditorium […]
The congress took place on June 5 and 6, 2025, in Barcelona, at the headquarters of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. The project’s researchers participated with a total of three presentations: Gemma Gómez Bernal, Celina Navarro, Fernanda Pires, and Esmeralda A. Vázquez-Tapia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) — Digital Identity and Algorithmic Biases: Experiences of Women Streamers […]
