Many ARNIC doctoral students and faculty members will be sharing their work at the annual International Communication Association Conference this year, held in San Diego, California. Please see below for a list of preconferences, presentations, and sessions at which they will be in attendance:
Wednesday, May 24 (Preconferences)
Hernan Galperin, PhD. Plenary session on “The Future Research Agenda of the Digital Divide”. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide. Location: Best Western Plus Island Palms Hotel & Marina
Matthew N. Bui. Disaggregating the Data: Digital Divides of Broadband Access and Adoption. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide. Location: Best Western Plus Island Palms Hotel & Marina
Hernan Galperin, PhD. Learning from or Leaning On? How Children Affect Internet Use by Adults. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide. Location: Best Western Plus Island Palms Hotel & Marina
Thursday, May 25 (Preconferences)
8:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Sarah Myers West. Disconnecting from the Net: Encryption as a Counterforce Against Surveillance Capitalism. Location TBC.
10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Rachel Moran, Matthew N. Bui, & Rogelio Lopez. In Pursuit of “Inclusive” Digital Platforms: Examining ICTs, Policy, and Alternative Spaces from an Activist/Organizer Perspective. Location: Off Site. (UCSD, Atkinson Hall Room 5302)
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Ming Curran, Jingyi Sun. Imagining New Forms of Human-Machine Communication: A Case Study of Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo. Hilton Bayfront 3, Aqua 314
Friday, May 26
8:00 AM to 9:15 AM
Anna Loup. Surveying the Terroir of Protocol Politics: Examining the Case of the “.Wine” and “.Vin” Top-Level Domains. Location: Hilton Bayfront, 2, Indigo Ballroom C
Sulafa Zidani, Limor Shifman (Hebrew University), Lihi Yariv-Laor (Hebrew University). Represented Dreams: Subversive Expressions in the Chinese Blogosphere as Alternative Symbolic Maps. Location: Hilton Bayfront, 3, Aqua 310AB
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Annenberg Reception — Hilton Bayfront, Promenade Plaza
Saturday, May 27
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Sarah Myers West. Policing the Digital Semicommons: Researching Content Moderation Practices by Social Media Companies. Location: Hilton Bayfront, 3, Aqua 307
Sunday, May 28
3:30 PM to 4:45 PM
Hernan Galperin, PhD. Blue Sky Workshop “Policy Research Methods: Improving the Craft.”
Monday, May 29
8:00 AM to 9:15 AM
Matthew N. Bui. In Pursuit of Digital Inclusion Interventions: Exploring the Utility of Mapping Intra- and Intercity Digital Divides. Location: Hilton Bayfront 2, Indigo Ballroom A
5:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Rachel Moran, Thomas Chivers (Goldsmiths). Don’t EU Want Me Baby: Successes and Failures in Brexit Campaigning. Location: Hilton Bayfront, 2, Indigo 206