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Platformed Belonging: Identity, Visibility, and Exclusion in Digital Spaces

Sat, August 8, 8:00 to 9:30am, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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Digital platforms are not neutral conduits but active architects of social life. This session investigates how platform design, algorithms, and governance shape contemporary identity, community, and exclusion. Moving beyond narratives of digital connection, we examine how belonging is “platformed”—mediated, managed, and often monetized by corporate technologies.

While platform affordances can empower marginalized groups to find community, they simultaneously enable new forms of surveillance, algorithmic discrimination, and social sorting. This session explores how race, gender, sexuality, and class are encoded into digital systems and how platform governance often reinforces existing hierarchies under claims of neutrality.

We invite empirical studies and theoretical interventions addressing: How do algorithmic systems shape identity performance and social categorization? What new forms of solidarity and exclusion emerge through platform affordances? How do individuals and communities resist, adapt to, or reshape these technological constraints? By centering the interplay between identity, power, and technology, this session advances a critical understanding of digital belonging within the changing landscape of new media.

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