CLCF researchers were once again active at the 2025 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, held in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 15–18 October. Hosted by the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) at the Campus Gragoatá, this year’s event was particularly impactful as it was the conference’s first time in the Global South.

CLCF’s presence included a preconference session, a lively gathering at Calma Bar, three panel proposals, and four individual paper presentations. Read more below and browse our image gallery to see highlights from the week!

Catch us next at the GenAI & Creative Practices conference in Amsterdam this December, or at AoIR 2026 in Mexico City!

Images courtesy of Daphne Idiz, ME Luka, Rafael Grohmann, Tom Divon, and AoIR

Tom Divon¹, Zoë Glatt², Rafael Grohmann³, M.E. Luka³

1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2: Microsoft’s Social Media Collective; 3: University of Toronto

Speakers: Arturo Arriagada, David Craig, Roseli Figaro, Alessandro Gandini, Daphne Idiz, Vicki Mayer, David Nieborg, Caitlin Petre, Thomas Poell, Robert Prey, Godwin Simon, Jiaru Tang, and Julia Ticona.

M.E. Luka¹, Mélanie Millette², Jessica Rauchberg³, Zoë Glatt⁴, Christine Tran¹, Cate Alexander¹, Kenzie Gordon⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; 3: Seton Hall University, USA; 4: Microsoft Research, USA; 5: University of Alberta, Canada

Rafael Grohmann¹, Julian Posada², Kruskaya Hidalgo-Cordero³, Helena Martins⁴, Camilla Salim Wagner⁵

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Yale University, United States; 3: Observatorio de Plataformas ODP; 4: Federal University of Ceara, Brazil; 5: Weizenbaum Institute, Germany

Thomas Poell¹, Jonathan Ong², Laura Guimarães Corrêa³, Usha Raman⁴, Bruce Mutsvairo⁵, Burcu Baykurt², Smith Mehta⁶, Zhen Ye⁷, David Nieborg⁸, Godwin Simon⁸, Lorena Caminhas⁹, Arturo Arriagada¹⁰

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Massachusetts – Amherst, United States; 3: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; 4: University of Hyderabad, India; 5: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 6: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 7: Erasmus University, Netherlands, The; 8: University of Toronto, Canada; 9: Maynooth University, Ireland; 10: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

David Nieborg¹, Tero Karppi¹, Danah Boyd²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: Cornell University

Godwin Simon¹, David Nieborg²

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: University of Toronto, Canada

Kaushar Mahetaji, David Nieborg

University of Toronto, Canada

Jul Jeonghyun Parke

University of Toronto, Canada