CMDS Fellows at ICA 2022

Several CMDS Fellows participate in the 72nd conference of the International Communication Association, held in a hybrid format in Paris, 26-30 May. This year’s theme is One World, One Network‽, which invites reimagining communication scholarship on globalization and networks. For more information check out the conference website.

Here are the talks featuring our Fellows:

• PRECONFERENCE: Critique, post-Critique and the Present Conjuncture; Critique and technology magic: reclaiming the environment, Benedetta Brevini

• The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Pinterest, Jaelle M. Fuchs, Eszter Hargittai
• Information Sharing on Social Media Platforms During COVID-19 Lockdowns, Jaelle M. Fuchs; Eszter Hargittai
• “I Don’t Know What It Has to Do With Cookies”: Awareness of Personal Data Collection as a Type of Algorithm Skill, Jonathan Gruber; Eszter Hargittai
• HYBRID: Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces: How to Use Computational Research to Inform Interventions That Address Inequities, Chairs(s): Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (U of Pennsylvania) and Brooke Foucault Welles (Northeastern U), Discussant(s): Eszter Hargittai (U of Zurich), Participant(s): Emese Domahidi (Technische U Ilmenau), Emoke-Ágnes Horvát (Northwestern University), Isabelle Langrock (U of Pennsylvania) and Cuihua Shen (U of California, Davis)

• Winning Hearts and Minds During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Vaccination Coverage in Chinese and Russian State-Controlled Media, Marcel Schliebs; Mona Elswah; Anna George; Aliaksandr Herasimenka; Kate Joynes-Burgess; Aleksi Knuutila; Alexandra M. Pavliuc; Jonathan Bright; Philip Howard
• Political Economy of Online Misinformation Campaigns: The Hybrid Strategies of Anti-Vaccination Actors, Aliaksandr Herasimenka; Yung Au; Anna George; Kate Joynes-Burgess; Aleksi Knuutila; Jonathan Bright, Philip Howard
• Engaging Social Media Audiences: A Comparative Study Between English-Language State-Backed Media Outlets, Mona Elswah; Marcel Schliebs; Hannah Bailey; Jonathan Bright; Philip Howard

• Data in Movement: The Shifting Space of Social Movements (Research), Davide Beraldo; Stefania Milan

• Algorithms as Cultural Objects: Exploring Topic Modeling to Investigate How People Tweet About Algorithms, Davide Beraldo; Massimo Airoldi; Sander van Haperen; Stefania Milan

• Self Tracking & Social Support Design Workshop, Chairs(s): Gina Neff (U of Cambridge)
• Connected Fitness During COVID-19: Care, Control, and Social Connection Through Digital Self-Tracking Across Three Countries, Blake DiCosola; Jaimie L. Freeman; Gina Neff
• ICA SPONSORED THEME SESSION: One World, One Net(Workplace)‽, Chairs(s): Mo Wang (U of Florida), Participant(s): Tara Behrend (National Science Foundation), Shiv Ganesh (The U of Texas at Austin) and Gina Neff (U of Cambridge)
• Datafication at Work: Subjects, Categories, and Organizations, Chairs(s): Gina Neff (U of Cambridge), Participant(s): Matthew Bui (U of Michigan), Daniel Greene (U of Maryland), Usha Raman (U of Hyderabad) and Julia Ticona (U of Pennsylvania)

• PRECONFERENCE: Alternative Content Regulation on Social Media; Constructive Consensus Building or Coerced Cooperation? Approaches to Polycentric Content Moderation, Courtney Radsch

• PRECONFERENCE: Communicating Multi-Modally: Research and Expressive Culture, Chairs(s): Lisa Henderson (U of Western Ontario), Sandra Ristovska (U of Colorado Boulder), John Jackson (U of Pennsylvania), Cherian George (Hong Kong Baptist U) and Juan Escobar-Lamanna (Western U)
• Images of Fake News, Propaganda: When Seeing Should Not Be Believing, Chairs(s): Sandra Ristovska (U of Colorado Boulder), Discussant(s): Patricia Aufderheide (American U)
• Datafication and Resistance, Chairs(s): Sandra Ristovska (U of Colorado Boulder)
• Images and the Law: Tackling Questions About Epistemology, Power, and Legal Practice, Chairs(s): Sandra Ristovska (U of Colorado Boulder), Discussant(s): Mary Bock (The U of Texas at Austin), Participant(s): Vicente Riccio (Federal University of Juiz de Fora), Clarissa Diniz Guedes (Federal University of Juiz de Fora), Sandra Ristovska (U of Colorado Boulder), Eitan Diamond (Tel Aviv U) and LaCharles Ward (University of Pennsylvania)
• Through the Lens of the Law: Interpreting Video Evidence in U.S. Courts, Sandra Ristovska 
• VIRTUAL: Digital Witnessing: When Images Across Borders Are Worth a Thousand Words (or Less), Chairs(s): Natacha Yazbeck (U of South Florida), Discussant(s): Maya Gebeily (Thomson Reuters Foundation), Participant(s): Allissa Richardson (University of Southern California), Omar Al-Ghazzi (The London School of Economics & Political Science), Sandra Risovska (U of Colorado Boulder) and Natacha Yazbeck (U of South Florida)
• Witnessing Human Rights: Agents, Technologies, and Platforms, Sandra Ristovska

• The Politics of Caring: Jacinda Ardern’s Performances of Authenticity on Facebook, Julia Sonnevend
• Boredom in the Spotlight: The Limited Charm Approach of Angela Merkel, Julia Sonnevend; Olivia Steiert