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CFP Special Issue: At the Intersections of Mobile Online and Offline Spaces
by Monika Palmberger 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Apologies, the links were deactivated in the last email. Please find the call with the full information below. ————————————————————————————————————— CfP Special Issue: Media and Communication, Volume 10, Issue 3 THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS ————————————————————————————————————— Organizers: Katja Kaufmann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) & Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna, Austria) Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 September 2021 Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 January 2022 Publication of the Issue: July/September 2022 This thematic issue seeks to advance the methodological scholarship and cross-disciplinary exchange on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their embeddedness in everyday practices across mobile online and offline spaces. For more information see: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#… If you are interested to submit an abstract, please consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit your abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstract system: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/abstracts/ Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Best wishes, Monika and Katja ----------- Monika Palmberger, DPhil https://ksa.univie.ac.at/palmberger-monika https://kuleuven.academia.edu/MonikaPalmberger

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CFP Special Issue: At the Intersections of Mobile Online and Offline Spaces
by Monika Palmberger 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

————————————————————————————————————— CfP Special Issue: Media and Communication, Volume 10, Issue 3 THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS ————————————————————————————————————— Organizers: Katja Kaufmann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) & Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna, Austria) Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 September 2021 Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 January 2022 Publication of the Issue: July/September 2022 This thematic issue seeks to advance the methodological scholarship and cross-disciplinary exchange on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their embeddedness in everyday practices across mobile online and offline spaces. MORE If you are interested to submit an abstract, please consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit your abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstract system (here). Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Best wishes, Monika and Katja ----------- Monika Palmberger, DPhil https://ksa.univie.ac.at/palmberger-monika https://kuleuven.academia.edu/MonikaPalmberger

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barely about the Internet but of possible interest, on media accountability
by Patricia Aufderheide 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

With the caveat that probably the biggest Internet connection in our new report relates to the new power of commercial streamers, I'm alerting you to our newest report, about who's keeping documentary film accountable. Journalism's in crisis, ethics standards are lacking, and streamers are making bank on docs as "just entertainment." https://cmsimpact.org/report/the-state-of-journalism-on-the-documentary-fil… Will appreciate any reactions, and of course unbounded gratitude for any mentions on social. Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/they) PhD Program Director Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
by Seungahn Nah 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS* *RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON * *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATION * *Publisher: Edward Elgar* Artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered growing scholarly attention in the communication field and beyond as AI becomes omnipresent in everyday lives from search engine through voice recognition technology to mobile news apps. Although research on the intersection between AI and communication is plethora, this emerging field remains unexplored in terms of conceptual, theoretical, methodological approaches as well as ethical, legal, practical, and policy issues. This research handbook epitomizes a rich body of studies concerning “communicating of, by, and with AI” from interdisciplinary perspectives and international scopes. Specifically, the research handbook deals with a wide range of the following topics and issues but are not limited to: - Meta-analysis or systematic review of studies regarding the intersection between AI and communication -Conceptual and theoretical essays concerning the interrelationship between AI and communication -Methodological approaches to analyzing artificial intelligence and communication -News media coverage of artificial intelligence (single, multiple, and cross-country comparison) -Online discourse concerning artificial intelligence across the digital communication platforms -Public opinion, attitude, perception, and behavior -Public adoption and use -Public trust and credibility -Public knowledge and literacy -Public discussion and news use -Diffusion of AI -AI-Mediated Communication -Human-AI Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction -Human-Virtual and Augmented Reality -AI in Education *-*Ethical (e.g., algorithmic bias), legal (e.g., privacy), and policy issues -Practical Issues (e.g., AI design) Before submitting a manuscript, potential contributors should send the editor a title, 150 words abstract, 6 key words, and 80 words author bio with a short CV or Google scholar profile. -Abstract submission due by October 31, 2021 -Decision for full manuscripts due by November 31, 2021 -Final submission (APA 7th edition) with 6,500 words in WORD due by June 31, 2022 -Final manuscripts due by November 31, 2022 -Anticipated publication 2023 Editor: Seungahn Nah (University of Oregon), snah(a)uoregon.edu All the best, SEUNGAHN <seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu>

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📣Survey respondes recruitment! A research project of global digital propaganda that adopts an innovative survey design.
by Ziyu Jiao 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Hi everyone, I hope you’re making process of your research on these difficult days. I’m Ziyu, a last semester master student from the University of Sydney. I’m recruiting survey respondents for my dissertation project! It concerns the employment of social media as a new arena for political propaganda across many countries. The topic is mostly related to internet research, international relations (also as my degree), political communication (e.g., propaganda, public perceptions, media literacy, digital information market, etc.). And any other area for who may consistently following the process of regulating online propaganda. Desired participants should be qualified as “expert” in the related fields. It’s because that I adopt the Delphi method in the study. This method is an iterative anonymous panel discussion among knowledgeable individuals that allow them to present their future forecast and exchange opinions in a safe environment. You find more information about this method via this link: https://www.rand.org/topics/delphi-method.html (as who invented it in the 1960s). I plan to run three rounds of this survey, and currently it’s in fact running to the end of the first round. I really don’t want you to be deterred by the expectation of “expertise”. The first-round already have 11 participation who comes form 9 countries, different academia interest and discipline. However, one of them may consider dropping out in the next round. So, I highly encourage anyone who may be interested and considering joining the project to reach out. I’m more than happy to talk! You can also read the brief background information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jllh8DqWNBxI0AmcdBnTgSnI8pddUe4E/view?usp=… for understanding the context of my project, And the participation information statement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rbRws5IlnGKfKfyKFpMFEZWjEUWdUDpm/view?usp=… for more information about your status as research participant as required as it’s required by the Ethical Department of the University of Sydney. Due to the restriction of my research method, I need to know you first then send you access to the survey. But I can still brief you on the content of my questionnaire. It is designed in three parts to understand your perception of the employment and development of current online propaganda; how different stakeholders have addressed these problems; and discuss a few scenarios of future online environments and regulations. It also concludes a few jargon such as “information operation” “deterrence” “grand strategy”, and requires your judgment and analysis of the political or commercial motivation of countries and internet companies. If you have more knowledge of their technical ability to control and detect propaganda information on social media platforms, that would be desirable. Please get in touch with me if you have a mere interest to join! You can also forward this information to anyone you think may interesting in my topic. Feel free to email me or call me if that’s more convenient for you. Kind regards, Ziyu Master student of International Relations Department of Social and Political Science Faculty of Arts and Social Science The University of Sydney zjia4517(a)uni.sydney.edu.au +86 183 2809 2092

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[WEBINAR] Introduction to Social Network Analysis: 16 / 21 September 2021
by Alessandro Zonin 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Interested in understanding methodology and applications of *Social Network Analysis with particular attention to the world of Social Media*? Consider attending this two hours webinar planned on two different dates and times to meet different time shifts. Learning objectives * Origins, applications, and basic knowledge of Social Network Analysis * Mono-partite and n-partite graph * BOTs on Twitter, how identify them with Social Network Analysis metrics * Overview of some entry-level tool (SocioViz, Gephi) * Analyze Twitter conversations to identify the most active and influential users * Analyze a Facebook page and find posts that generated more engagement and identify communities of interest Details and enrollments here: *Thu, Sep 16, 2021 5:00 PM CEST* https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-introduction-to-social-network-analysi… *Tue, Sep 21, 2021 10:00 AM CEST* https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-introduction-to-social-network-analysi… *IF INTERESTED PLEASE APPLY AOIRONLY 10% PROMO CODE* Slide, laboratory material and the event registration will be available to all participants.

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Disrupting Disruptions Speaker Series, Season 3 starts this week
by Alexandra Ketchum 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

You are invited (and please invite your friends and colleagues)! This Wednesday we begin the 3rd season of Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/schedule-of-… . All events are free to attend, unless otherwise indicated. You need to sign up on eventbrite to get the zoom webinar link (we do this to mitigate zoom bombings)- here you can see the full list of our events on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-feminist-and-accessible-publishing-communi…. Time zone is ET. Virtual events are professionally live captioned in english. *Season 3, Part 1 (September- December 2021):* Due to the ongoing Climate Change pandemic, times and dates are subject to change. For season 3, all events are going to be virtual. September 8, 2021: Claire L. Evans on Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, <https://fb.me/e/APlKShNB> 7 PM (VIRTUAL) September 15, 2021: Dr. Moya Bailey on Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance <https://fb.me/e/17in6OuSX>, 7 PM (VIRTUAL) October 1, 2021: Dr. MC Forelle on Right to Repair <https://fb.me/e/2s6gzuBbj>, 5 PM (VIRTUAL) October 6, 2021: Caroline <https://fb.me/e/2aDgJw7d2>Running Wolf <https://fb.me/e/2aDgJw7d2>and Michael Running Wolf on Indigenous AI <https://fb.me/e/2aDgJw7d2>, 7 PM ET (VIRTUAL) October 22, 2021: Dr. Julie Podmore and Dr. Elspeth Brown on the Challenges for LGBTQ+ Archives, Including Digitization <https://fb.me/e/2eOO7ZzxW>, 5 PM (VIRTUAL) October 27, 2021: Dr. Alessandra Renzi on Hacked Transmissions: How Social Movements Change Across Cycles of Struggle and Across Technology <https://fb.me/e/Vz4NQnK6>, 6 PM (VIRTUAL) November 3, 2021: Op-Ed Writing and Analytical Commentary Workshop with Dr. Diane Dechief <https://fb.me/e/1BK0M12AH>, 12:00- 1:30 PM (Lunchtime workshop) (VIRTUAL) - feel free to attend while eating lunch! November 10, 2021: Dr. Yuriko Furuhata on Environmental Technologies and Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, <https://fb.me/e/1uBf9kn5c> 6 PM (VIRTUAL) November 17, 2021: Dr. Jennifer Lundquist on <https://fb.me/e/2pmAp0IZK>Addressing the Digital Harassment and Trolling of Scholars <https://fb.me/e/2pmAp0IZK>, 7 PM (VIRTUAL) December 1, 2021: Dr. Biella Coleman: <https://fb.me/e/cbjmvorle>From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon, <https://fb.me/e/cbjmvorle> 7 PM (VIRTUAL) -- Alexandra (Alex) Ketchum, PhD Faculty Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab <http://www.justfeministtechandscholarshiplab.com/p/about.html> Founder of Disrupting Disruptions: disruptingdisruptions.com The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Series Creator of The Feminist Restaurant Project: thefeministrestaurantproject.com alexketchum.ca <http://www.alexketchum.ca/>| pronouns she/her

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“Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemics” – Open registration
by German.Llorca＠uv.es 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

Dear friends and colleagues, Please, do not miss this nice initiative: As an institution, the University faces the challenge of its own survival in the 21st century. The educational ecosystem that integrates it is under pressure and some hard conditions that restrict the work of teachers and researchers. The ‘Accelerated Academy’ project is promoted by an international group of academics willing to problematize the university institution. The global aim of the initiative is to critically reflect and rethink the spaces and times that constitute the university as an institution. Edition #8 of the ‘accelerated academy’ arrives in Valencia on the 1st and 2nd October 2021 with the title: “Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemics”. The event is sponsored and co-organized by the University of Valencia (Spain) and CRITICOM and it is open to the entire international university, academic and research community. The conference will feature the opening and closing lectures by César Rendueles and Remedios Zafra and expects to open spaces for debate and the construction of alternatives for a ‘better university’. The main topics of the congress section of the event cover a great variety of points of view: - COVID-19 as leverage of previous debates of knowledge production and creative work. - Creative production within lockdown measures and online environments. - Intersectional inequalities as key factors in the pandemic consequences of creative labor. - Lasting and new hierarchies in Academic labor and their visibility. - North-South relationships regarding the investigation and the diffusion of results. - Deceleration of Academic workflows. - Uncertainty in future work and their emotional (enthusiasm) and material (Academic duties) implications. NOW, we have already open the registration period for GENERAL ATTENDANCE. Both VIRTUAL and IN PERSON modalities are available: https://framaforms.org/accelerated-academy-8-registration-inscripcion-16306… In the following link you can access the complete communications program: https://criticom.blogs.uv.es/files/2021/06/PROGRAMA_ESP.pdf The organizers have put at your disposal the email address (accacademy8(a)uv.es) so that you can make any inquiries you may consider about the event. You all are invited to be part of it (!!!) The Organizers -- **************************** Germán Llorca Abad **************************** CLÀUSULA DE CONFIDENCIALITAT Aquest missatge ha estat generat des d'un compte de la Universitat de València per a les finalitats pròpies de la institució. El seu contingut es considera confidencial i, llevat que la seua naturalesa així ho exigisca, no se’n permet la reproducció o distribució sense autorització expressa. Si heu rebut indegudament el correu, us demanem que advertiu d'aquest fet al remitent i que l’elimineu. En el lloc web institucional de la Universitat de València podeu consultar les nostres condicions d'ús i polítiques de privacitat pel que fa a l'enviament de correu electrònic (http://links.uv.es/E0GKasq, http://links.uv.es/26uC3dX) Podeu comunicar qualsevol incidència relacionada amb la recepció dels nostres correus electrònics, i en particular aquelles que es relacionen amb la seguretat i la confidencialitat, mitjançant lopd(a)uv.es.

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Reminder: International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference next week
by Cristian Vaccari 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

Dear colleagues, I am writing with a reminder that the 2021 conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics will be held next week from 13-16 September. The conference discusses academic research on the relationship between media and political processes around the world. The program is also available at https://cristianvaccari.com/2021/08/27/program-of-the-2021-international-jo… . The conference is free to attend, but registration is required. Those who wish to do so can pay a voluntary contribution for GBP5. Instructions on how to register are below. Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested. ********** Program of the 2021 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference (13-16 September 2021) Logistics The conference will be held via a secure Zoom link shared only with participants and attendees. All times are British Summer Time (BST), or UTC+1. For each paper, participants will have a total of 25 minutes, which includes both the paper presentation and the live discussion. Presentation of each paper will be immediately followed by discussion of the paper. Registration Registration fees can be paid via shorturl.at/gtF35. The fees are £30 for presenters and attendees £5. Payment of the registration fees is entirely voluntary for both presenters and attendees. Those who would like to attend the conference need to sign up via https://forms.gle/rqwRQziivVt6wCpn7. Those who sign up will receive the conference Zoom link in the morning of 13 September. The link will be shared only with conference presenters and those who signed up to attend. It will not be published anywhere. ********** Monday 13 September, 12:30-5:45pm 12:30-12:35pm Welcome and Opening remarks Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University), Editor-in-Chief of IJPP 12:35-1:50pm News and the Pandemic Chair: Alexandra Segerberg (Uppsala University) The Psychological Empowerment of Solutions Journalism: Perspectives from Pandemic News Users in the UK Xin Zhao (Bournemouth University), Daniel Jackson (Bournemouth University), An Nguyen (Bournemouth University), Antje Glück (Bournemouth University) Framing migration during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: a 12-month media monitoring project Thea de Gruchy (University of the Witwatersrand), Thulie Zikhali (University of the Witwatersrand), Jo Vearey (University of the Witwatersrand), Johanna Hanefeld (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) YouTube as a source of information about unproven drugs for Covid-19: The role of the mainstream media and recommendation algorithms in promoting misinformation Felipe Bonow Soares (UFPEL/UFRGS), Igor Salgueiro (UFPEL), Carolina Bonoto (UFRGS), Otávio Vinhas (University College Dublin) 1:50-3:05pm Media and Politics around the World Chair: Edda Humprecht (University of Zurich) The public performance of ANC political demagoguery: The case of Jacob Zuma’s ‘Arms Deal’ court appearances Lefa Afrika (University of Cape Town) Populism Influence on Media Content: Polarization and Professionalization in Ecuador before and during Correa’s era Manel Palos Pons (University of California, San Diego) Risks of COVID-19 reporting in (semi-)authoritarian states: Perceived pressures on journalists in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan Svetlana S. Bodrunova (St. Petersburg State University), Nikita Argylov, (Far Eastern Federal University), Aliaksandr Hradziushka (Belarusian State University), Galiya Ibrayeva, (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) 3:05-4:45pm New Perspectives on Misinformation and Disinformation Chair: C.W. Anderson (University of Leeds, Associate Editor of IJPP) Misinformation and Trust in Institutions in Four Countries in 2019 and 2021 Shelley Boulianne (MacEwan University), Edda Humprecht (University of Zurich) Social media and political misinformation in the 2021 Mexico elections: Maximal panic, minimal effects Sebastián Valenzuela (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Marcelo Santos (Universidad Finis Terrae), Carlos Muñiz (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) Marking the boundaries between visual and textual disinformation in a digital world: A literature synthesis and research agenda Teresa Elena Weikmann (University of Vienna), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna) Setting the agenda through misinformation: Analyzing the vote-by-mail coverage during the 2020 US elections Jonas Kaiser (Suffolk University), Carolyn Schmitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathryn Stapleton (Suffolk University) 4:45-5:45pm Keynote Speech Follow the Ad: Understanding Election Disinformation in the Digital Age Young Mie Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim is a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns data-driven, algorithm-based, digitally mediated political communication. Kim’s recent research project, Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the sponsors, content, and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers the algorithms of political campaigns. Kim and her team’s research, “The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook,” identified “suspicious groups,” including Russian groups on Facebook. The work received the Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year in Political Communication (2018), awarded by the International Communication Association. Kim testified at the Federal Election Commission‘s hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication disclaimers and presented her research at the Congressional briefings on foreign interference in elections. Kim also spoke at the European Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and inequality in political involvement. ********** Tuesday 14 September, 9:30am-2:30pm 9-30:10:45am Hearing or Ignoring the other side: Causes and Consequences Chair: Jason Reifler (University of Exeter) Why read news from the other side? How people’s selection and avoidance of news articles on social media increases polarization Jakob Boggild (European University Institute) Selective Exposure and New Political Cleavages: Political Media Use and Ideological Reinforcement Over Time Adam Shehata (University of Gothenburg), Mats Ekström (University of Gothenburg), Per Oleskog-Tryggvasson (University of Gothenburg) Curating political animosity? The relation of algorithmic news curation to ideological extremity and social and political intolerance Linda Bos (University of Amsterdam), Jakob Ohme (University of Amsterdam), Artemis Tsoulos-Malakoudi (University of Amsterdam) 10:45am-12:00pm Debating the Normative Foundations of the News Chair: Thea de Gruchy (University of the Witwatersrand) “Fair and balanced”: What news audiences in four countries mean when they say they prefer impartial news Camila Mont’Alverne (University of Oxford), Sumitra Badrinathan (University of Oxford), Amy Ross Arguedas (University of Oxford), Benjamin Toff (University of Oxford), Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford) Fake News and Value Pluralism: A Liberal Response to Post-Truth Politics Nick Anstead (London School of Economics) “Polite Watchdog”: Kompas and Watchdog Journalism in the Post Authoritarian Indonesia Wijayanto (Universitas Diponegoro) 12:00-1:15pm Social Media and Politics Chair: Duncan McCargo (University of Copenhagen) (In)Civility of Campaign Videos and User Comments in Facebook: Affective Polarization and Mobilization Taberez Ahmed Neyazi (National University of Singapore), Ozan Kuru (National University of Singapore), Subhayan Mukerjee (National University of Singapore) The role of Facebook influencers in shaping the narratives of the Rodrigo Duterte era Renee Karunungan (Loughborough University) Politicians and journalists – interactive communication in social media? Kinga Adamczewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) 1:15-2:30pm Communicating Covid-19 Chair: David Smith (University of Leicester, Managing Editor of IJPP) Pandemic Nationalism: How Exposure to Government Social Media Affects People’s Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in China Anfan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), Yingdan Lu (Stanford University), Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Aaron Ng (National University of Singapore) Understanding the Agenda of Alternative and Online Political Media Post-Corbyn and through the Covid-19 Pandemic Declan McDowell-Naylor (Cardiff University), Stephen Cushion (Cardiff University), Richard Thomas (Swansea University) The role of political partisanship for the relationship between trust in the news and trust in the government as sources for coronavirus information: Findings from two cross-sectional online survey studies in six countries Anne Schulz (University of Zurich), Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford) ********** Wednesday 15 September, 12:30-5:30pm 12:30-1:45pm Media Policy between Old and New Challenges Chair: Joyce Y.M. Nip (University of Sydney) Content Moderation in the Digital Democracy: What’s the Problem? Nahema Marchal (University of Zurich), Fabrizio Gilardi (University of Zurich), Emma Hoes (University of Zurich), Jonathan Kluser (University of Zurich), Meysam Alizadeh (University of Zurich), Mael Kubli (University of Zurich) Funding Democracy: Public Media and Democratic Health in 33 Countries Timothy Neff (University of Pennsylvania), Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania) Good Journalism or Good Business? The politics of press support and news production in Taiwan Hsiao-wen Lee (SOAS, University of London) 1:45-3:00pm International Perspectives on Social Media and Political Communication Chair: Danielle K. Brown (University of Minnesota, incoming Associate Editor of IJPP) Exploring Digital Campaign Competence: The Role of Voter Knowledge on Data-Driven Election Campaigns Sophie Minihold (University of Vienna and University of Amsterdam), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna), Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam), Sanne Kruikemeier (University of Amsterdam) The gendered use of social media among political candidates in transition contexts: evidence from Tunisia Malin Holm (Uppsala University), Yasmine Naila Skhiri (Uppsala University), Pär Zetterberg (Uppsala University) Pandemic Politics: Microtargeting Strategies on Facebook India Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj (University of Exeter), Holli A. Semetko (Emory University), Anup Kumar (Cleveland State University) 3:00-4:15pm Digital Media and Politics: Dynamics and Influences Chair: Shelley Boulianne (MacEwan University) Incumbency, corruption, and the politics of online content regulation Kyong Mazzaro (City University of New York) Trolling with the Punches: How Journalists Navigate Online Harassment Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), Chris Tenove (University of British Columbia), Sabrina Wilkinson (University of Ottawa), Trevor Deley (University of Ottawa) News We Can Use: Local news and civic engagement in neighbourhood chat groups online Laszlo Horvath (Birkbeck, University of London), Joshua Blamire (University of Exeter) 4-15-5:30pm Virtual reception ********** Thursday 16 September, 9:30am-2:30pm 9:30:10-45am Understanding Patterns of News Consumption, Avoidance, and Sharing Chair: Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna, Associate Editor of IJPP) I Do Not (Want to) Know! An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Unintentional and Intentional News Avoidance and Their Predictors Dominika Betakova (University of Vienna), Hajo Boomgaarden (University of Vienna), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna), Svenja Schäfer (University of Vienna), Loes Aaldering (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Neither absent nor ambient: A more holistic view of incidental exposure to news in the digital age Ruth Palmer (IE University), Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota and University of Oxford) To convince, to provoke or to entertain? A study on individual motivations behind online misinformation sharing in six Western democracies Sophie Morosoli (University of Antwerp), Peter Van Aelst (University of Antwerp), Patrick van Erkel (University of Antwerp) 10:45am-12:00pm Contentious Politics and Information Flows Chair: Taberez Ahmed Neyazi (National University of Singapore) Now is the time to protest: the eternal sunshine of a spotless polity Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça (UFMG/INCT.DD), Nina Santos (INCT.DD) Conventional vs. Contentious: Exploring the relationship between participation in the social movement and voting intention in Hong Kong Pei Zhi (City University of Hong Kong) Tale of Two Internets: How Information Flows from the US to Chinese Social Media Yingdan Lu (Stanford University), Jack Schaefer (University of California Los Angeles), Jungseock Joo (University of California Los Angeles), Kunwoo Park (Soongsil University), Jennifer Pan (Stanford University) 12:00-1:15pm Perspectives on Media Effects Chair: Laszlo Horvath (Birkbeck, University of London) The Other 98%: Exposure to and Effects of Political Content Beyond News: Evidence from browsing data in three countries Magdalena Wojcieszak (University of California Davis and University of Amsterdam), Sjifra de Leeuw (University of Amsterdam), Bernhard Clemm (University of Amsterdam), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University) Does corruption corrupt? The behavioral effects of mediated exposure to corruption Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa), Patricia Moy (University of Washington), Rico Neumann (University of Washington), Moran Shechnick (University of Haifa) Does Identity Matter? Ethnicity, Religion and Effects of Negative Campaigning on the Perception of Candidates Kelechi Amakoh (University of Amsterdam) 1-15:2:30pm Digital Innovation in News: Challenges and Strategies Chair: Declan McDowell-Naylor (Cardiff University) The creation of algorithmic publics in authoritarian regimes: Explaining digital innovation uptake in Russian news media Olga Dovbysh (University of Helsinki), Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht University and University of Helsinki) Does political position matter? Affective engagement strategies of news providers on Facebook in post-handover Hong Kong Joyce Y.M. Nip (University of Sydney), Benoit Berthelier (University of Sydney) Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy Felix M. Simon (University of Oxford and Columbia University) 2:30-2:45pm Conclusions and farewell Cristian Vaccari Loughborough University, Editor-in-Chief of IJPP Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested. I hope to see you online next week. All the best, Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, *The International Journal of Press/Politics <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb>* ****************************************************** New book: Outside the Bubble: <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?la…>Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?la…> (with Augusto Valeriani, OUP 2021) ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari> Preferred pronouns: he/him/his

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New book: Communicating COVID-19. Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times
by Christian Fuchs 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

Released today: Christian Fuchs. 2021. Communicating COVID-19. Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times. SocietyNow Series. Bingley: Emerald. 336 pages. Sample chapter, 30% discount, order of review copies, book video, and further infos: https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/communicating-covid-19-everyday-life-digital-ca… This book is a contribution to the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. It takes a sociological and communication studies approach for analysing the following question: How have society and the ways we communicate changed in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis? The book analyses the changes of everyday communication in the COVID-19 crisis and how misinformation has spread online throughout the pandemic. It explores the foundations and rapid spread of conspiracy theories and anti-vaccination discourse on the Internet, paying particular attention to the vast amount of COVID-19 conspiracy theories about Bill Gates. "Communicating COVID-19" also interrogates Internet users' reactions to these COVID-19 conspiracy theories as well as how Donald Trump communicated about COVID-19 on Twitter during the final year of his Presidency.  Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: Pandemic Times Chapter 2. Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism Chapter 3. Conspiracy Theories as Ideology Chapter 4. Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories as Ideology in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis Chapter 5. Users’ Reactions to COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories on Social Media Chapter 6. Donald Trump and COVID-19 on Twitter Chapter 7. Conclusion: Digital Communication in Pandemic Times and Commontopia as the Potential Future of Communication and Society

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