The final conference programme was published on 23 June. As no further changes can be made to the PDF version, any updates, corrections, withdrawals, room changes, or schedule changes made after that date will be published on this page.
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Monday 29 June
Session DIM-3 Digital Platform Practices
4:00pm - Lecture Room G008 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 3505 From Headlines to Handhelds: Migrants’ Mobile Home-Making Under Unequal Platformed Visibility in Italy
Session ORG-2 Organizational Culture, Leadership and Well-Being
10:30am - Room G006 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 1781 Visibility by design: Communication infrastructures, mediation, and knowledge transfer on neurodivergence in institutional contexts
Tuesday 30 June
Session ORG-3 AI, Organisational Communication and Trust Dynamics
8:30am - Lecture Room G006 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
6008 Organizational Communication in the Age of Platforms: A Conceptual Model for Transitional Societies
Session ISM-2 Reconstructing Frameworks: Epistemology, Diplomacy, and Gender
10:30am - Lecture Room G009 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 6507 Islam, Racism, Anti-Palestinianism, and the Problem of Scientism in Popular Media
Session CPN-3 Authoritarian Platforms, Platform Authoritarianism
10:30am - Lecture Room G007 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 3365 Spectres of Digital Authoritarianism: Statecrafted Collective Forgetting on Social Media Platforms in China
Session ESN-4 ESN-CPT Joint Session: Contemporary Discourses on Policy, Artificial Intelligence, and ICTs
4:00pm Lecture Room G009 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 699 - Assessing CARICOM’s plan for a Single ICT Space and its potential for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean
Session GEN-16 Datafied Intimacies and Gendered Technological Selves
4:00pm Dillon Theatre - Arts Science Building
Removed from programme
Paper ID 6856 You can’t read the doll!: Artificial intelligence and the analysis of queer self-deprecating humour in social media.
Wednesday 1 July
Session ORG-5 CSR, ESG and Communication for Social Change
10:30am - Lecture Room G006 - Arts Millennium Building
Added to programme
Paper ID 7272 Branding from the margins: EU GREEN, sustainability and the reconfiguration of academic peripheries
Session POL-15 Networked Advocacy and the Circulation of Peripheral Voices
8:30am Lecture Room G036 - Arts Millennium Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 8234 Decolonising the Digital Public Sphere: The Infrastructural Publics Framework for Studying Digital Participatory Politics in Africa
Session CJD-11 Governance, Affect, and Technology: Orders of Harm, Justice, and Punishment
1:30pm - Lecture Room AC213 - Arts Science Building
Withdrawn from programme
Paper ID 6151 The Chronopolitics of Carcerality: Weaponizing and Contesting Temporalities under Lebanon’s Penal Laws
Session GEN-30 Female Celebrities in China’s Changing Society: From Role Model, Film Star, to Influencer
1:30am - Dillon Theatre - Arts Science Building
New designated chair: Changchang WU (School of Communication, East China Normal University)
Session ESN-7 ESN-GEN Joint Session: Intersectional Gendered Digitalities: Between Democracy and Intimacy
1:30pm - Lecture Room G009 - Arts Millennium Building
New Designated Chair: Dr. Jun Wu, Fudan University
Session CPT-12 Platform Governance and AI in Media Ecosystems
1:30pm Lecture Room AC202 - Arts Science Building
Rescheduled
Paper ID 6109 Cloud Geopolitics and Sustainable Futures: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Alibaba Cloud and Amazon Web Services in Reshaping Global Data Infrastructure
Thursday 2 July
Session ESN-6 Journalism Conditions and Practices: Frameworks, Ecosystems, and Institutional Responses
10:30am - Lecture Room G009 - Arts Millennium Building
New Designated Chair: Ms. Fadiyah Rabin, University of Cape Town.
