ARNIC at ICA’23

The 73rd Annual ICA (International Communication Association) Conference starts this week, and ARNIC-affiliated faculty and students will be presenting their work in various divisions and venues. Special congratulations to our top paper awardees!

  • Prof. Hernan Galperin and Heonuk Ha (doctoral student) who will receive the top faculty paper award from the Communication Law and policy division for their paper Political Beliefs and the Take-Up of Consumer Broadband Subsidies
  • Rohan Grover (2nd year doctoral student), who will receive the top student paper award from the Communication Law and Policy division for his paper Obfuscating Citizenship on GitHub: The Technopolitics of Social Coding and Claiming “Open Source”.
  • Ke Maddie Huang-Isherwood and Eugene Jang (3rd year doctoral students) who will receive the top paper award from the Games Studies division for their paper Birds of a Feather Play Together: Individualism, Player Homophily, and Well-Being in a Massively Multiplayer Online Mobile Game

See the table below for details on the presentations at ICA. We hope to see you there.

PresenterSessionDay/TimePaper
Lichen ZhenOrganizational Communication Poster SessionFriday 12:00–13:15Enterprise Social Media Use in China: Communication Privacy Management, the Promise of Openness, and Knowledge Sharing
Rohan GroverQuestioning Media Research and PracticesFriday 12:00–13:15Obfuscating Citizenship on GitHub: The Technopolitics of Social Coding and Claiming “Open Source”
Kyooeun Jang/Rohan GroverIssues in Personal Data RegulationFriday 16:30–17:45Beyond Digital Protectionism? Comparing Personal Data Regulation Frameworks in China, India, and South Korea
Alex Alvarado RojasHYBRID HIGH-DENSITY EXTENDED ABSTRACTS: CommunitiesSaturday 9:00–10:15The Social Function of Data Cooperatives: Making Community in the Data Economy
Ke Huang-IsherwoodHYBRID: HIGH-DENSITY: Human vs. MachineSaturday 12:00–13:15Human or Not? An Experiment with Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts
Sarah WiseHIGH-DENSITY: Female Labor, Work, and EntrepreneurshipSaturday 12:00–13:15Critical Success Factors and Challenges for Female Entrepreneurs in Technology Startup Ventures
Rohan GroverHYBRID: State, Data, and Knowledge ProductionSaturday 15:00–16:15Encoding Privacy: Knowledge Production in Data Protection Compliance Work (Top student paper award)
Hernan Galperin/Heonuk HaPolitical Economy, Communication Infrastructures, and PoliciesSunday 10:30–11:45Political Beliefs and the Take-Up of Consumer Broadband Subsidies (Top Faculty paper award)
Francois Bar/Rong WangGlobal Communication and Social Change Poster SessionSunday 12:00–13:15Digital Silk Road and China’s Foreign Aid in the Telecommunication and Technology Sector between 2000 and 2017
Eugene JangSocial Support and Health OutcomesSunday 12:00–13:15The Network Structure of Informational and Emotional Support in a Twitter-Based Long Covid Support Community
So Yun AhnInformation Systems Research Escalator SessionSunday 13:30–14:45How Platforms as Infrastructure Privatize Spatial Knowledge
Ke Huang-Isherwood/Eugene JangHYBRID Game Studies Division Top Paper SessionSunday 15:00–16:15Birds of a Feather Play Together: Individualism, Player Homophily, and Well-Being in a Massively Multiplayer Online Mobile Game (Top paper award)
Kyooeun JangHIGH DENSITY: Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication: A Law and Policy PerspectiveSunday 15:00–16:15Towards a New Grammar of Content Policy in the Metaverse: Challenging the Politics of Categories
Lichen ZhenHYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Internet Studies and Platform GovernanceSunday 15:00–16:15Do Multidimensional Incentive Systems Encourage Prosocial or Competitive Behavior in Online Communities?
Rohan GroverHYBRID: Decoding Data JournalismMonday 12:00–13:15From Paywalls to Datawalls? Datafication and Platformization in Digital News