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ICA Hybrid Postconference on Media Sociology
An Unequal Digital World? Critical Perspectives on Media Sociology as Transdisciplinary Global Network
Featured Speakers: Paola Tubaro (CNRS) and Antonio A. Casilli (Télécom Paris)
Institutional Partner: Jen Schradie, Sciences Po Paris
Postconference Event Date: Wednesday June 1st 2022
This event was held in hybrid format to allow both in-person and virtual participation. The in-person event was held at the beautiful new Sciences Po Paris campus in the 7th arrondissement, (1 Place St Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris) thanks to Institutional Host: Jen Schradie of the Observatoire sociologique du changement.
Featured Speakers:
Keynote Paola Tubaro
"Digital Venezuela: Global inequalities, economic crisis and local networks behind the online economy”
Paola Tubaro is Research Professor in sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A specialist of social network analysis, she is currently researching the place of human labour in the global production networks of artificial intelligence, and the social conditions of platform work especially in French and Spanish-speaking countries. Her interests also include data methodologies and research ethics. E-mail: paola [dot] tubaro [at] inria [dot] fr
Keynote: Antonio Casilli
“Towards an ‘end-to-end’ ethical AI:
The role of human labor and natural resources in the production and deployment of sustainable automated technologies"
Antonio A. Casilli is a professor of sociology at Telecom Paris, the telecommunications school of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation (i3). His research foci are digital labor, data governance, and human rights. He is the author of the award-winning book En attendant les robots (Editions du Seuil, 2019) and one of the co-creators of the documentary mini-series Invisibles (France Télévisions, 2020) about platform workers.
Committee and Organizers:
Committee Members: Grant Blank, Antonio Casilli, Wenhong Chen, Massimo Ragnedda, Laura Robinson, Jen Schradie, Jeremy Schulz, Juliana Trammel, Paola Tubaro, and Julie Wiest (in alpha order)
Partnerships:
ICA Division Affiliates: Global Communication and Social Change and Computational Methods Divisions
Institutional Host: Jen Schradie, Observatoire sociologique du changement, Sciences Po Paris
Publication Sponsors: Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities & Emerald Studies in Media and Communications
Institutional Sponsors: Sciences Po, Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University, and the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries at the University of Texas at Austin
Questions?
Email mediasociologysymposium@gmail.com
ON-SITE PROGRAM AT SCIENCES PO
(also full schedule here)
Wednesday June 1, 2022 9:30-17:00 CET Central European Time
9:00-9:30 Coffee/Pastries & Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome: OSC Sciences Po and Wenhong Chen
9:45-11:00 Panels 1 and 2
Panel 1: Current Issues in Media Sociology: Chair Grant Blank
Diversity of Sources in Democratic Communication by Grant Blank, William Dutton and Egle Karpauskaite
Reviving the Collective Behavior Tradition for Media Sociology by Jefferson Pooley
Social Complexity and the Digital Bond by Jeffrey Boase
The Social Life of Biomedical Data: Capturing, Obscuring, and Envisioning Care in the Digital Safety-Net by Taylor M. Cruz
Panel 2: Digital Politics: Chair: Wenhong Chen
Do Twitter Bans Matter? Political Influencers and the Quality of Information They Share Before and After Account Suspensions by Deana Rohlinger, Kyle Rose, Sarah Warren, Robert Lytle, Stu Shulman
Social Media, Inequality and Electoral Participation in Chile: A Quasi Experimental Approach by Andrés Scherman, Sebastián, Rivera, and Cristian Cabalin
Cumulative deliberation: A closer-to-life way of assessing online opinion formation by Svetlana S. Bodrunova
Representation of Margins in Emergent Political Communication Ecologies: Narratives around Islam on French Twitter by Sreya Nath
11-11.15 Coffee Break/Pause
11:15-12:15 Opening Keynote Paola Tubaro (introduction: Grant Blank)
"Digital Venezuela: Global inequalities, economic crisis and local networks behind the online economy”
Paola Tubaro is Research Professor in sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A specialist of social network analysis, she is currently researching the place of human labour in the global production networks of artificial intelligence, and the social conditions of platform work especially in French and Spanish-speaking countries. Her interests also include data methodologies and research ethics. E-mail: paola [dot] tubaro [at] inria [dot] fr
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:30 Panel 3
Panel 3: Digital Differentiation and Cultural Production: Chair Maria Laura Ruiu
Digital Capital and life chances: an empirical analysis of the third level of the digital divide by
Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu
Digital Inequality: A Typology of Mechanisms by Sanna Ali
Rage Against the Streaming Studio System by AJ Christian
The Platformized Underground: Online Inequalities and Invisibility in Transnational Independent Music Networks by François Mouillot
Is Venus in furs? Reflections upon Chiara Ferragni's visit to Uffizi Galleries between digital capital and authenticity by Francesco M. P. Maccarone
14:30-14:45 - Coffee Break/Pause
14:45-16:00 Panel 4: Digital Production: Chair Massimo Ragnedda
Self-expression, connectedness, and community on TikTok by Dhiraj Murthy
Silicon Valley Influencers. The Voices of a New Dominant Ideology by Olivier Alexandre and Samuel Coavoux
The Data Production Dispositive by ulian Posada and Milagros Miceli
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer: A Comparative Study of Media Professionals in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures by Young Eun Moon and Seth Lewis
Labor and Spatialized Domination in Silicon Valley by Christo Sims
Disconnecting from digital news: News avoidance and the ignored role of social class by Johan Lindell and Else Mikkelsen Båge
16:15-17:15 Closing Keynote Antonio Casilli (introduction Massimo Ragnedda)
"Towards an ‘end-to-end’ ethical AI: The role of human labor and natural resources in the production and deployment of sustainable automated technologies"
Antonio A. Casilli is a professor of sociology at Telecom Paris, the telecommunications school of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation (i3). His research foci are digital labor, data governance, and human rights. He is the author of the award-winning book En attendant les robots (Editions du Seuil, 2019) and one of the co-creators of the documentary mini-series Invisibles (France Télévisions, 2020) about platform workers.
E-mail: antonio [dot] casilli [at] telecom-paris [dot] fr
17:15 -17:30 Closing Remarks Jen Schradie
Wednesday June 1, 2022 Virtual/Remote Sessions
10:00 CET Virtual Panel: Global Perspectives on Media Sociology Chair Tatiana Karabchuk
Internet Usage and Gender Equality Attitudes across the Post-Soviet Space by Tatiana Karabchuk, Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn Muschert
Three days to see: New developments and remaining issues on barrier-free films in China by Wiaotong Yuan
Do the Left and the Right Use the Internet Differently? by Idil Akin
Understanding digital inequalities and social media usage throughout the lenses of daily life practices during COVID-19 by Ceren Bilgici and Zeynep Baykal
12:00 Virtual Panel: Media Sociology Intersections 12:00 CET Chair Heloisa Pait
Ploughing through the waters of the digital world: experiences, ambivalences and dispositions of Internet use among young
people in Spain: Daniel Calderon and Stribor Kuric
Knowing about Covid-19: A Situational Analysis of Students' Use of Information Sources by Dušan Ristić and Dušan Marinković
The story of an African living lab: a critical and decolonial reflection on an ICT intervention in a South African rural area
by Tatenda Chatikobo
Guilty until proven innocent: autoethnographies of powerlessness in Instagram and TikTok account deletions by Carolina Are
The invisible colonies: an introduction to coloniality and disability in the digital domain by Lorenzo Dalvit
14:00 CET Virtual Panel: Digital Divides and Inequalities Chair Julie Wiest
A Scientific Mediation Synthesis on Digital Inequalities in Education: development, results and perspectives by
Prisca Fenoglio
Digital inclusion of low-literate Dutch citizens: the development of digital literacies and tactics in everyday life by Alexander Smit, Joelle Swart, Marcel Broersma
The second-level smartphone divide: A typology of smartphone usage based on frequency of use, skills, and types of activities by Alexander Wenz and Florian Keusch
16:00 CET Virtual Panel: Cultural Formations in Global Media Chair Juliana Trammel
A Disaster after the Disaster: A Media Analysis of Crisis Communication - Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by Juliana Maria Trammel
Proximity Media in San Luis: A Case Study by Sergio Quiroga
Digital Inequalities, Social Background, and Child Outcomes in Ireland: A Longitudinal Study by Melissa Bohnert
Reparative Media by Aymar Jean Christian
18:00 CET Virtual Panel: Media and Power Chairs Margherita Di Cicco and Juliana Laet
Resistance strategies in the era of surveillance and big data by Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda and Dafne Calvo
Weighing words: How economies of worth help us understand decision-making in platform-based content moderation by Anna Gibson
Plug and unplug sex work: The platformization of adult content creation and its resistance by Margherita Di Cicco, Daniele Sasso, and Gabriele Di Cicco
In search of the Global South: an exploration of geographic foci in digital activism research 2011-2018 by Suay Melisa Oezkula and Paul J. Reilly
20:00 CET Virtual Panel: Mediated Interaction Chair Katia Moles
Hybrid Learning and Collaboration: Strategies for Inclusion in the Digital Classroom by Katia Moles and Laura Robinson
Transformational structure: Conceptualizing the public sphere in the digital lifeworld by Minglei Zhang
Aestheticizing Expertise on YouTube: Emerging Content Formulas and Epistemic Strategies by Hsin-Keng Ling
Communicative strangers in Brazil by Heloisa Pait
22:00 CET Virtual Panel: Digital Inclusion Chair Jeremy Schulz
How the Aadhaar Biometric System Adds Value to the Digital Payments for Financial Inclusion in India by Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri
Why Household access still matters: impacts for tangible outcomes of e-government usage in Uruguay by Matías Dodel
A New Tiktok Challenge? Using Tiktok for Increased Gender Equality in High Prestige Medical Professions--the Case of Radiology by Aneka Khilnani
Digital Confidence and COVID-19 by Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson
