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.

 

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