ARNIC Presentations at ICA 2017

Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 - Monday, May 29th, 2017

12:00 pm - 11:59 pm, San Diego, CA

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