Jonathan Spellerberg | Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Digital Media: From knowledge preservation to postdigital Indigenous knowledge futures

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For Inuit in Nunavut (today part of Canada), it is clear that learning about and engaging with Inuit knowledge (Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit; IQ) has tremendous positive effects for wellbeing, economic resilience, and relationships within the community. For this reason, in the last decades, many digitization initiatives focusing on material culture, place names, and recordings of stories and oral histories have worked successfully to make Inuit knowledge more accessible to communities.

Matteo Rinaldi | Audiences of Toxic Entertainment – Social Media, Masculinity, and the Trojan Horse effect: interventions and the effect on well-being

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This research focuses on the specific interaction between toxic discourse and entertainment platforms in the context of masculinity content on social media. Notably, in the last years, there has been an increase of what has been called “manfluencers”, both as individuals (e.g. Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan, Myron Gaines – as well as women, like Hanna Pearl Davis ) and podcasts (Whatever podcast, Fres&Fit Miami, etc.).

Amanda Burgess | Mediating memory: Remembering Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki through amateur tourist photography on Instagram

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Instagram is frequently used by tourists to share experiences at memorial sites around the world. Traumatic moments in history are acknowledged and remembered on Instagram through selfies and self-portraits, built environment photography, videography and Carousel posts also known as “photo dumps” where several images or videos can be shared at once. Through content analysis, I propose to compare Instagram posts shared in 2025 across three popular World War II memorial locations: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nurul Khansa Fauziyah | Giving-to-Others Videos on YouTube: Representations of Poverty and Inequality in Indonesian Philanthropic Culture

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Indonesia has had the highest level of generosity in the world in the last five years. This philanthropic culture is represented by viral content on YouTube and is welcomed by content creators, who increasingly produce content about donations to the poor. In this research, I call these “giving-to-others videos” to distinguish them from organized “donation” videos. Videos that depict poverty and heroes who help in surprising ways are popular among Indonesian viewers

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