ARNIC at ICA’23

The 73^rd 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.

Presenter	Session	Day/Time	Paper
Lichen Zhen	Organizational Communication Poster Session	Friday 12:00–13:15	Enterprise Social Media Use in China: Communication Privacy Management, the Promise of Openness, and Knowledge Sharing
Rohan Grover	Questioning Media Research and Practices	Friday 12:00–13:15	Obfuscating Citizenship on GitHub: The Technopolitics of Social Coding and Claiming “Open Source”
Kyooeun Jang/Rohan Grover	Issues in Personal Data Regulation	Friday 16:30–17:45	Beyond Digital Protectionism? Comparing Personal Data Regulation Frameworks in China, India, and South Korea
Alex Alvarado Rojas	HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY EXTENDED ABSTRACTS: Communities	Saturday 9:00–10:15	The Social Function of Data Cooperatives: Making Community in the Data Economy
Ke Huang-Isherwood	HYBRID: HIGH-DENSITY: Human vs. Machine	Saturday 12:00–13:15	Human or Not? An Experiment with Chatbot Manipulations to Test Machine Heuristics and Political Self-Concepts
Sarah Wise	HIGH-DENSITY: Female Labor, Work, and Entrepreneurship	Saturday 12:00–13:15	Critical Success Factors and Challenges for Female Entrepreneurs in Technology Startup Ventures
Rohan Grover	HYBRID: State, Data, and Knowledge Production	Saturday 15:00–16:15	Encoding Privacy: Knowledge Production in Data Protection Compliance Work (Top student paper award)
Hernan Galperin/Heonuk Ha	Political Economy, Communication Infrastructures, and Policies	Sunday 10:30–11:45	Political Beliefs and the Take-Up of Consumer Broadband Subsidies (Top Faculty paper award)
Francois Bar/Rong Wang	Global Communication and Social Change Poster Session	Sunday 12:00–13:15	Digital Silk Road and China’s Foreign Aid in the Telecommunication and Technology Sector between 2000 and 2017
Eugene Jang	Social Support and Health Outcomes	Sunday 12:00–13:15	The Network Structure of Informational and Emotional Support in a Twitter-Based Long Covid Support Community
So Yun Ahn	Information Systems Research Escalator Session	Sunday 13:30–14:45	How Platforms as Infrastructure Privatize Spatial Knowledge
Ke Huang-Isherwood/Eugene Jang	HYBRID Game Studies Division Top Paper Session	Sunday 15:00–16:15	Birds of a Feather Play Together: Individualism, Player Homophily, and Well-Being in a Massively Multiplayer Online Mobile Game (Top paper award)
Kyooeun Jang	HIGH DENSITY: Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication: A Law and Policy Perspective	Sunday 15:00–16:15	Towards a New Grammar of Content Policy in the Metaverse: Challenging the Politics of Categories
Lichen Zhen	HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Internet Studies and Platform Governance	Sunday 15:00–16:15	Do Multidimensional Incentive Systems Encourage Prosocial or Competitive Behavior in Online Communities?
Rohan Grover	HYBRID: Decoding Data Journalism	Monday 12:00–13:15	From Paywalls to Datawalls? Datafication and Platformization in Digital News