BISA 2025 Conference

Immersive Platforms in Digital Society

TH 19

19 Jun 2025, 13:15

1h 30m

Panel International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group

Description

This panel explores a range of issues arising from insecurity, at the national and international level and how we come to understand these challenges through our digitally mediated experience of everyday life. Platform capitalism is shaping our interaction with global social challenges, shaping not only what we see, but also what we see and believe.

Subcontributions

• The Immersive United Nations: An Actor-Network Examination of the UN’s Adoption of Virtual Reality Technology and its Role in Virtual Interaction, Training Simulations, and Awareness-Raising.
• Algorithms and Extremism: Exploring How TikTok’s Algorithm Structures the Manosphere
• Narrative-Practice Interplay in The Integration of Technologies in Public Spaces and The Consequences for Digital Security
• “If This Is True, Then All Hell Is About to Break Loose”: Information Disorder and the UK 2024 Riots
• (De)Gendering Online Radicalisation: Is Cyber-Security Regulation on the Right Track?