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Vorträge von ComAI-Mitgliedern bei der 76. Jahrestagung der ICA „Communication and Inequalities in Context”

Die 76. Jahrestagung der International Communication Association (ICA) wird vom 02. bis 08. Juni in Kapstadt, Südafrika, stattfinden. Die diesjährige Konferenz steht unter dem Leitthema „Communication and Inequalities in Context“ und bringt über 2.900 Forschende aus dem Bereich der Kommunikationswissenschaft zusammen. Mitglieder des ZeMKI und der Forschungsgruppe ComAI sind auf der Jahrestagung vertreten und werden im Rahmen der Veranstaltung eigene Forschungsarbeiten vorstellen.

Liste der Vorträge mit ComAI / ZeMKI Mitgliedern:

Donnerstag 4. Juni, 14:15 – 15:00, Protea (CTICC2, Lev 1): “ “Loops of emergence”: How communicative AI’s inequalities emerge in recursivity tension between sociomaterial constitution and domain-specific appropriation”

• Wiebke Loosen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute, GERMANY
• Andreas Hepp, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Freitag 5. Juni, 10:30 – 11:45, Bluebell (CTICC2, Lev 3): “Anger-Driven Climate-Skeptic Message Propagation during the 2021 German Elections”

• Nicola Righetti, U of Urbino Carlo Bo, ITALY
• Petro Tolochko, U of Vienna, AUSTRIA
• Aytalina Kulichkina, U of Vienna, AUSTRIA
• Azade Kakavand, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute, GERMANY
• Daisuke Nakamura, U of Vienna, AUSTRIA
• Yuru Li, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Paul Pressmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Stephanie Geise, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Annie Waldherr, U of Vienna, AUSTRIA

Freitag 5. Juni, 10:30 – 11:45 Westin Ballroom East (Westin, Old Harbour Level): “Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Research Escalator”

• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Activism, Communication and Social Justice Chair

Freitag 5. Juni, 12:00–13:15, 1.64 (CTICC1, Lev 1): “From Clicks to Action: Investigating the Relationship between Climate News Exposure and Political Participation”

• Patrick Zerrer, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Vasilisa Kuznetsova, Weizenbaum Institute & ZeMKI, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Hendrik Meyer, U of Hamburg, GERMANY
• Lisa Merten, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute, GERMANY
• Cornelius Puschmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Freitag 5. Juni, 13:30–14:45, 2.44-2.46 (CTICC1, Lev 2): “Criminals or Heroes? How Media Portrayals of Climate Activists Shape Affective Polarization”

• Clara Schultz, Friedrich Schiller U Jena, GERMANY
• Lisa Merten, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow Institute, GERMANY
• Edda Humprecht, Friedrich Schiller U Jena, GERMANY
• Cornelius Puschmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Freitag 5. Juni, 15:00–16:15 CTICC BALLROOM WEST (CTICC1, Lev 1): “(HYBRID) Curating Reality: Gatekeeping and Digital Capital in the Age of Algorithms”

• Andreas Hepp, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Interdivisional Chair

Freitag 5. Juni, 16:30–17:45 Westin Ballroom East (Westin, Old Harbour Level): “Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Business Meeting”

• Rasha El-Ibiary, Nile U, EGYPT als Activism, Communication and Social Justice Chair
• Elisabetta Ferrari, Aarhus U, DENMARK als Activism, Communication and Social Justice Chair
• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Activism, Communication and Social Justice Chair

Samstag 6. Juni, 9:00–10:15 1.44 (CTICC1, Lev 1): “Elaboration of Multimodal Frames in News Reception: A Mixed-Method Eye-Tracking and Think-Aloud Study”

• Stephanie Geise, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Nieki Samar, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Samstag 6. Juni, 12:00–13:15, 2.61-2.63 (CTICC1, Lev 2): “Epistemic Expectations and Contested Knowledge: Seeking or Managing Truth(s) in Alternative Media Repertoires”

• Jule Ubben, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Samstag 6. Juni, 13:30–14:45, 1.43 (CTICC1, Lev 1): “Entertainment Media: Algorithmic Bias, Structural Power, and the Reproduction of Social Inequality”

• Paloma Otero, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Media Industry Studies Chair

Samstag 6. Juni, 13:30–14:45, Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2): “Media Practices of Contradicting by Far-Right Actors”

• Hanna-Sophie Ruess, U of Augsburg, GERMANY
• Susanne Kinnebrock, U of Augsburg, GERMANY
• Michael Johann, U of Augsburg, GERMANY
• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Annett Heft, U of Tübingen, GERMANY
• Yanran Gong, U of Texas at Austin, USA
• Zhi Lin, U of Texas at Austin, USA

Sonntag 7. Juni, 10:30–11:45, 1.64 (CTICC1, Lev 1):

“MEOW-ney in AI: Exposure Payments, Deepseek Breakthroughs, and Preferred Rules”

• Andreas Hepp, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Communication and Technology Chair

Sonntag 7. Juni, 10:30–11:45, Westin Ballroom West (Westin, Old Harbour Level): “Leveraging LLMs in Survey Research: Towards an Issue Polarization Scale from Open Text Responses Research Escalator, Comp Methods Division”

• Paul Pressmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Cornelius Puschmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Sonntag 7. Juni, 12:00–13:15, Edward & Schappen (Westin, Mezzanine Level): “ “If We Bombed London…” Language of Conflict in the Media Statements of Russian Sports Officials during Wartime”

• Gleb Tomashevskii, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Philip Sinner, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Sonntag 7. Juni, 13:30–14:45, de Gama (Westin, Old Harbour Level): “Rethinking War Photography in the Digital Age: An Analysis of Press Photographs from 2005 to 2025”

• Stephanie Geise, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Elira Turdubaeva, International Ala-Too U, KYRGYZSTAN
• Fritz Cropp, U of Missouri in Columbia, USA

Sonntag 7. Juni, 15:00–16:15, 2.64 (CTICC1, Level 2): “You’ve Got the Power(?) Playlist Curation as a Technology of the Self on Music Streaming Platforms”

• Xavier Saldes Martí, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Philip Sinner, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Sonntag, 7. Juni, 15:00–16:15, Bluebell (CTICC2, Lev 3): “Engineering Diversity? Exploring Hidden Diversification Labels on TikTok and Their Role in Algorithmic Recommendations”

• Vasilisa Kuznetsova, Weizenbaum Institute & U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Yuru Li, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Paul Pressmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Sonntag 7. Juni, 16:30–17:45, Edward & Schappen (Westin, Mezzanine Level): “A Reinforcing Spiral? Online News Exposure and Polarization in the Climate Discourse”

• Lisa Merten, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut, GERMANY
• Clara Schultz, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut, GERMANY
• Cornelius Puschmann, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Patrick Zerrer, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Edda Humprecht, Friedrich Schiller U Jena, GERMANY
• Helena Rauxloh, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, GERMANY
• Sebastian Stier, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, GERMANY
• Juhi Kulshrestha, Aalto U, FINLAND

Montag 8. Juni, 9:00–10:15, CTICC Ballroom West (CTICC1, Lev 1): “(HYBRID) HIGH-DENSITY: Political Communication, Disinformation, and Democratic Crisis”

• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Theme Chair

Montag 8. Juni, 9:00–10:15, de Gama (Westin, Old Harbour Level): “Becoming Champions: Postfeminist Freedom and Neoliberal Constraint in Alpine Youth Culture”

• Thomas Neumann, U of Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA
• Joerg-Uwe Nieland, U of Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA
• Philip Sinner, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 9:00–10:15, 2.41-2.43 (CTICC1, Lev 2): “Mapping Global Repertoires of Journalistic Roles: Comparative Evidence from 74 Countries”

• Thomas Hanitzsch, Ludwig-Maximilian-U Munich, GERMANY
• Jan Fredrik Hovden, U of Bergen, NORWAY
• Mia Grünewald, Ludwig-Maximilian-U Munich, GERMANY
• Folker Hanusch, U of Vienna, AUSTRIA
• Imke Henkel, U of Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM
• Corinna Lauerer, Ludwig-Maximilian-U Munich, GERMANY
• Wiebke Loosen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 10:30–11:45, 1.62 (CTICC1, Lev 1): “The Devil Is in the Details: The Politics of Value Specification in AI Governance”

• Rebecca Scharlach, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• CJ Reynolds, U of Copenhagen, DENMARK
• Vasilisa Kuznetsova, Weizenbaum Institute & U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Blake Hallinan, Aarhus U, DENMARK
• Christian Katzenbach, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 10:30–11:45, Watsonia (CTICC2, Lev 3): “Feel Informed to Be Informed? Rethinking News-ness through the Sense-Making-Practices of Alternative Media Users”

• Katharina Schöppl, U of Mannheim, GERMANY
• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 10:30–11:45, de Gama (Westin, Old Harbour Level): “Football Fandom and Media Use: Exploring Team Identification and Team Loyalty among Colombian Football Fans”

• Philip Sinner, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Paloma Otero, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 12:00–13:15, 1.44 (CTICC1, Lev 1): “Silicon Valley’s Slippery Futures: Artificial General Intelligence, Technofascism, and the Limits of Reinventing the World”

• Andreas Hepp, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Philosophy, Theory and Critique Chair

Montag 8. Juni, 12:00–13:15, 1.44 (CTICC1, Lev 1): “On the Paradox of Superintelligence: The “Ideological Flip-Flop” of AGI and the Threat to the Future”

• Andreas Hepp, U of Bremen, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 13:30–14:45, Protea (CTICC2, Lev 1): “Studying Digital Activism in the Age of Big Data: A Systematic Review of Online Protest Research”

• Annett Heft, U of Tübingen, GERMANY
• Valerie Hase, Ludwig-Maximilian-U Munich, GERMANY
• Merja Mahrt, Weizenbaum Institute, GERMANY
• Stephanie Geise, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Julia Niemann-Lenz, German Center for Higher Education and Science Studies, GERMANY

Montag 8. Juni, 15:00–16:15, Protea (CTICC2, Lev 1): “Framing, Activism, and Social Justice”

• Christian Schwarzenegger, U of Bremen, GERMANY als Activism, Communication and Social Justice Chair

Montag 8. Juni, 15:00–16:15, Orchid (CTICC2, Lev 2): “Against the Tide: Tracing Media Persistence through Big Tech’s Enclosure (2005–2025)”

• Paloma Otero, U of Bremen, GERMANY
• Elizabeth Ferries, U College Dublin, IRELAND
• Eugenia Siapera, U College Dublin, IRELAND

Das volle Programm können Sie hier finden.

Über ICA26

Die International Communication Association (ICA) ist eine weltweit tätige wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaft, die Forschende, Lehrende und Praktizierende aus allen Bereichen der Kommunikationswissenschaft vereint. Ihre jährliche Tagung fördert den internationalen Austausch über aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse. Das diesjährige Leitthema „Kommunikation und Ungleichheiten im Kontext“ lädt zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Kommunikation und Ungleichheit in verschiedenen sozialen, kulturellen und geografischen Kontexten ein. Mit über 600 Sessions und mehr als 3.000 Präsentierenden wird die Konferenz zudem hybrid ausgerichtet, um eine weltweite Teilnahme zu ermöglichen.

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