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8:00-8:30
Registration/Sign-in
8:30-9:00 Welcome/Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 Keynote Address
Snarkiness as Protest or Opiate? Lessons from Frustrations in Cultural Journalism
Phillipa Chong (McMaster University)
10:00-10:20 BREAK
10:20-11:30 Parallel Panel Sessions 1
1.1
Fake News, Information, Disinformation
Moderator: Jason A. Smith
-Legacies of Media Power: Hacking Meaning
and Attention in the (Dis)Information Age, Stephen R. Barnard (St. Lawrence
University)
-Combating
Fake News: Educational Approaches, Leocadia
Díaz Romero (Murcia State University)
-Inside 3
Million Russian Troll Tweets: What Did the factory-Made Trolls “Talk” About?, Dhiraj
Murthy (University of Texas at Austin), Yixuan Du (University of Texas at
Austin), Kelly Conlon (University of Texas at Austin), Samuel Wooley
-An Unlikely
Seducer: Kim Jong-un’s Charm Offensive from the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
Until the Trump-Kim Summit, Julia Sonnevend (The New School) and YoungRim Kim (University
of Michigan)
1.2 Mediated
Space, Place, and Knowledge Production
Moderator: Yidong Wang
-“/R/THEWORLDISFLAT”:
The Production of Scientific Knowledge in Online Communities, Ahad Ali (The New
School)
-Managing
the Moral Dilemma of AI Design, William Orr (The Australian National University)
-Geospatial Memory: An Introduction, Joshua
Synenko (Trent University)
1.3 Chinese
Media Sociology 1
Moderator: Julie Wiest
-National
Image in Social Network: Study on the Weibo Public Diploma Strategy of the
Embassy, Fenju Fu (Peking University)
-Characterizing
Fake Video on Social Media: Origins, Evaluation and Approach, Lurong Lei (Chongqing
University)
-Compromise
and Incorporation: The Presentation of Rock Culture in the Context
of
Contemporary China, Shuguang Hu (Yunnan Normal University) and Shuyuan Zhang (Tsinghua University)
-The Political
Consequences of Internet Censorship in China: Are Chinese Netizens Becoming Apolitical
or Conforming? Tsz Fung Hans Tse (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Yang
Hu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
-Hybridized
Culture and Local Consciousness: The Rise of Chinese Hip-Hop in an Era of
Globalization Peinan Wang (Tsinghua University) and Feiya Suo (The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
11:30-11:50
BREAK
11:50-1:00 Parallel Panel Sessions 2
11:50-1:00 Parallel Panel Sessions 2
2.1 Media, Diversity,
and Representation
Moderator: Andrea Press
-Managing
Someone Else’s Privacy on Social Networking Sites: A Focus on Latinx Youth, Celeste
Campos-Castillo (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Linnea Laestadius (University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
-Hidden, Yet
Effective: How the Wealthiest 0.1% Do Not Meet the Media, Anu Kantola
(University of Helsinki)
-The Image
as a Diagnostic: Visual Representation as Pathology and Symptomatology of
Mental Illnesses.
Case Study: The End of the F***ing World (Channel E4 & Netfix,
2017-), Marta Lopera-Mármol (Pompeu Fabra University) and Daniel Pérez-Pamies (Pompeu
Fabra University)
-Exclusion
Through Inclusion: Deliberative Democracy and Debates Over Measuring Media
Diversity, 2007-2010, Jason A. Smith (George Mason University)
-Legalizing
Same-Sex Marriage for Our Nation: Dialogic Framing in the Taiwan Marriage
Equality Movement, Yidong Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Xiaomei
Sun (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2.2 Mediated
Violence
Moderator: Joshua Synenko
-Examining
Digital and Sexual Citizenship in a FOSTA/SESTA Era: Who Gets to Survive Online
and Who Doesn’t?, Emily Coombes (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
-Reciprocity
of News in the Context of Disaster: News Sharing, Blogs and Collective Actions
Over Time, Stephen F. Ostertag (Tulane University)
-A
Transparent Network: Soldiers’ Digital Activism and Economic Unrest, Shira
Rivnai-Bahir (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
-From the “Monsters
Next Door” to #NeverAgain: How the Media Narrative of School Shootings Has Shifted
from Columbine to Parkland, Linda M. Waldron (Christopher Newport University),
Kaija Craft (Christopher Newport University), and Elizabeth Swetz (Christopher
Newport University)
2.3 Chinese
Media Sociology 2
Moderator: Carmen Spanò
-Research on
Audience’s Acceptance Psychology and Attitude to Algorithm Recommendation in
China Mingli Mei (Tongji University) and Ru Zhao (Tongji University)
-Analysis on
the Impact of Platform Innovation on China's Journalism Order: Take Sina Weibo Platform
and WeChat Platform as Cases, Lei Zheng (University of Southern California)
1:00-2:00
LUNCH
2:00-3:10 Parallel Panel Sessions 3
2:00-3:10 Parallel Panel Sessions 3
3.1 Digital
Inequalities and Why They Still Matter
Organizers
and Moderators: Matias Dodel and Laura Robinson
-Digital
Inequalities and Willingness to Use Emerging Technologies Among Older Adults, Shelia
Cotton (Michigan State University) and Travis Kadylak (Michigan State
University)
-Internet
Cultures and Digital Inequalities, Grant Blank (University of Oxford)
-Determinants
of Cyber-Safety Behaviors in a Developing Country: The Role of Socioeconomic Inequalities,
Digital Skills and Perception of Cyber-Threats, Matias Dodel (Universidad
Católica del Uruguay), Daniela Kaiser (Universidad Católica del Uruguay), and Gustavo
Mesch (University of Haifa)
-Are
Networked, Connected, and Socially Limited Individuals Equal in How They Use
Digital Media? ,Barry Wellman (NetLab Network), Anabel Quan-Haase (Western
University), and Molly-Gloria Harper (Western University)
-Digital
Inequalities and Future Planning: Understudied Connections, Laura Robinson
(Santa Clara University) and Jeremy Schulz (University of California, Berkeley)
3.2 Gender and
Media
Moderator: Andrea Press
-Docusoap
Reality Television and Discourses of Girlhood, Katie Fredricks (Rutgers
University)
-The
Superbowl of Cooking: Hybridizing Gender and Competition in MasterChef USA, Laura
Grindstaff (University of California, Davis) and Rafi Grosglik (University of
California, Davis)
-Social
Networks and Career Success of Women Film Composers, Ju Hyun Park (Emory
University)
-#MeToo
Justice: Exploring the Tensions Between Retribution, Restoration, and
Procedural
Fairness, Kasey
C. Ragan (University of California, Irvine)
3:10-3:30
BREAK
3:30-4:40 Parallel Panel Sessions 4
3:30-4:40 Parallel Panel Sessions 4
4.1 Collective
Action in the Digital Age
*Invited CITAMS
Chair Discussion Panel
Organizer
and Moderator: Deana A. Rohlinger
Jennifer
Earl (University of Arizona)
Jen Schradie
(Sciences Po Paris)
Joan Donovan
(Harvard University)
Mohamed
Zayani (Georgetown University)
David Karpf
(George Washington University)
4.2 Culture and Media Consumption
Moderator: Yidong Wang
-The Visual
Rhetorics of Fonts in Luxury Fashion: Meaning Systems of Typography in Late
Capitalism Media, Lauren Gavin (LIM College) and Kenneth M. Kambara (LIM
College)
-Building
Trust and Ties through Blogs: A Cultural Approach to Affordances, Stephen F.
Ostertag (Tulane University)
-Audience
Engagement with Multi-Level Fictional Universes: The case of Game of
Thrones as a
Comparative Study between Italy and New Zealand, Carmen Spanò (Victoria
University, Wellington)
4:40-5:00
BREAK
5:00-6:30 Plenary Discussion Panel
*Sponsored by Emerald Studies in Media and Communications
5:00-6:30 Plenary Discussion Panel
*Sponsored by Emerald Studies in Media and Communications
Media
Representations of Crime: Constructing Culture and Shaping Social Life
Organizer
and Moderator: Julie Wiest
Valerie J.
Callanan (Kent State University)
Venessa
Garcia (New Jersey City University)
Lisa A.
Kort-Butler (University of Nebraska--Lincoln)
Nickie
Phillips (St. Francis College)
Alicia
Simmons (Colgate University)
