The Communication & Technology Division of ICA

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Official account for the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association, @katypearce & @commfox & @anneohirsch at the wheel

MEOW-nitoring Morality: Prompt Games, Dark Algorithms and Verify Trust 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM 1.41 (CTICC1, Lev 1) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
NEKO-cessitating Narratives: Myth Chats, Fortune Sensemaking and Search Synthesis 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-suing Platforms: Online Mischief, Reporting Gaps and Fast-Scroll Effects 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-spective Gaps: Not Seeing Eye to Eye and the Power of Perceived Uncertainty 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-fectly Disclosed: AI Transparency, Influence and Affordances 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MEOW-rphing Trust: Chinese AI in Africa, Deepfake Ecologies and Facial Recognition Legitimacy 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Orchid (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MEOW-suring Relations: Anonymous Forums, Synthetic Transparency and Professional Endorsements 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Orchid (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MEOW-ving Through Mixed Realities: Norms, Affordances and Older Adults' VR Adoption 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
"Chatting Our Way Into Trouble?" Understanding Sense-Making of Users and Evaluation of Risk and Progress About Communicative AI 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MEOW-tivating Clarity: Deep Thinking, Decision Acceptance and Machine Heuristics 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-vasive Presences: Context-Aware Maps, Love Interfaces and Vernacular Hashtags 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Orchid (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Synthetic Media Resurrections 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-sonal Ties: WhatsApp Kinkeeping, Feed Confusion and Digital Well-Being 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Orchid (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MIAU-thropomorphic Algorithms: Socio-Cognitive Dynamics, Trust, and Human-Like AI Interactions 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
BILLI-eving In Advisors: Adolescents' Social GenAI, Perceived Harms and User-System Agency Problems 8-Jun-26, MONDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
ICA26 day-at-a-glance for Monday 8 June. Lilac gradient poster listing 15 sessions grouped by time slot. 9am: MIAU-thropomorphic Algorithms at Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2); BILLI-eving In Advisors at Freesia (CTICC2, Lev 2); PURR-sonal Ties at Orchid (CTICC2, Lev 2). 10:30am: Synthetic Media Resurrections at Auditorium 2; MEOW-tivating Clarity at Freesia; PURR-vasive Presences at Orchid. 12pm: "Chatting Our Way Into Trouble?" panel at Auditorium 2; MEOW-ving Through Mixed Realities at Freesia; MEOW-suring Relations at Orchid. 1:30pm: PURR-fectly Disclosed at Auditorium 2; PURR-spective Gaps at Freesia; MEOW-rphing Trust at Orchid. 3pm: PURR-suing Platforms at Auditorium 2; NEKO-cessitating Narratives at Freesia; MEOW-nitoring Morality at 1.41 (CTICC1, Lev 1).
The Communication and Technology Division is pleased to announce the 2026 Fredrick Williams Prize winner, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. #ICA26 Congratulations y Felicidades Dr. Boczkowski!
The Communication and Technology Division is thrilled to announce the 2006 Dordick Dissertation prize winner, Eugene Jang (PhD, U of Southern California University of Southern California USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; currently an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology) Dissertation title: “Social Network Analysis of Online Social Support in Twitter and Reddit’s Long Covid Communities” Congrats and 축하해요 to Dr. Jang! #ICA26
This year's #ICA26 #ICA_CAT reception is Sun 7 Jun at 6pm in CTICC Ballroom West (CTICC1, Lev 1). Come to meet our community and celebrate achievements.
Please join us for the #ICA26 #ICA_CAT business meeting. Sun 7 June, 4:30pm in Nerina (CTICC2, Lev 1). Learn about what the Division is up to, see awards being given, and meet our community! Image is an AI generated picture of cats at a conference in Cape Town.
KOT-nnected Concerns: Digital Harms, Literacy and Fact-Checking 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Jingxiang Huang, Nanjing University; Xue-Fei Yan, Nanjing University; Cheng-Jun Wang; Nanjing University - A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Unpacking a Three-Dimensional Framework of ChatGPT Awareness and Employment Substitution Risk Perception #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer , FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Alicia Gilbert, Institut für Publizistik Mainz; Adrian Meier, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg - From Distraction to Action: Digital Disconnection as a Self-Regulatory Strategy Against Procrastination #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
The ICA Communication and Technology Division is thrilled to announce the #ICA26 top papers. You can see these papers on Sun June 7, 3pm, Nerina CTICC2, Level 1 and the awards in the same room, 4:30pm.
MEOW-dern Love Lives: Expectations, Coping With Sexism, and Platformed Sexual Information 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Diaz (Westin, Old Harbour Level) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Students: Sunday June 7, 2026, 1:30pm Nerina CTICC2, Level 1
GATO-laborative AI: Human-Machine Work, Crisis Communication and LLM Variance 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM 2.65-2.66 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Silvia Chen Zhang — The Chinese University of Hong Kong Xucheng Cao — City University of Hong Kong Unraveling the Chilling-Backfire Dynamic: A Mixed-Methods Study on Misinformation Moderation through the Lens of Spreaders #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Hanna Certomà, Hanna Schneider, Annkathrin Sproeßer, Jana Dombrowski @janadom.bsky.social, from University of Hohenheim @unihohenheim.bsky.social @unihohenheim -- Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Presentation and Well-Being on Social Media – A Meta-Analytical Perspective #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Luo Dan — Shanghai Jiao Tong University Challenging Authenticity: ERC Framework Analysis of AI-Generated Cultural Images #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
The ICA Communication and Technology Division is thrilled to announce the #ICA26 top student papers. You can see these papers on Sun June 7, 1:30pm Nerina CTICC2, Level 1 and the awards in the same room, 4:30pm.
Please join us for the #ICA26 poster session on Sun 7 Jun at 1:30pm in Hall 2 (CTICC1, Ground Level). #ICA_CAT Image is an AI generated set of cats looking at conference papers.
Please join us for the #ICA26 #ICA_CAT top papers! Sunday June 7, 2026, 3:00pm Nerina CTICC2, Level 1 and you can see these scholars receive their awards at the #ICA_CAT business meeting, Sunday June 7, 2026, 4:30pm Nerina CTICC2, Level 1.
BILLI-eving Stigma: FOMO, Algorithms, and Visual Social Media Impacts 7-Jun-26 SUNDAY, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM 2.41-2.43 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MIAU-lti-Context Reliance: Daily AI Use, Platform Publicness and Tethered Lives 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Diaz (Westin, Old Harbour Level) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
CAT-chy Connections: Livestream Support, Influencer Narratives, and AI Anthropomorphism 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Please join us for the #ICA26 #ICA_CAT business meeting. Sun 7 June, 4:30pm in Nerina (CTICC2, Lev 1). Learn about what the Division is up to, see awards being given, and meet our community! 🐱 Image is an AI generated picture of cats at a conference in Cape Town.
MEOW-ney In AI: Exposure Payments, Deepseek Breakthroughs and Preferred Rules 7-Jun-26 SUNDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM 1.64 (CTICC1, Lev 1) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
GATO-verned Gig Economies: Platform Noncompliance, Nomadism Barriers, and Creative Labor Affordances 7-Jun-26 SUNDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MEOW-suring Media Use: Self-Reports, Behavioural Logs and Corrective Climate Actions 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Diaz (Westin, Old Harbour Level) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
This year's #ICA26 #ICA_CAT reception is Sun 7 Jun at 6pm in CTICC Ballroom West (CTICC1, Lev 1). Come to meet our community and celebrate achievements.
CAT-ching Quality Feeds: Instagram Engagement, GenAI Transparency and Investor Biases 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
GATO-ways to Digital Work: AI Publics, Youth Employment and Inequality Signals 7-Jun-26, SUNDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Diaz (Westin, Old Harbour Level) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
The ICA Communication and Technology Division is thrilled to announce the #ICA26 top poster in CAT is Mora Matassi from Universidad de 'San Andrés' The poster title is: Social Readings of Social Media Disconnection and you can see it on Sunday 7 June at 1:30pm in Hall 2 (CTICC1) and the award will be given at the CAT business meeting Sunday 7 June 4:30pm in Nerina (CTICC2). Congratulations Mora!
ICA26 day-at-a-glance for Sunday 7 June. Sage green gradient poster listing 17 sessions grouped by time slot. 9am: CAT-ching Quality Feeds at Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2); MIAU-lti-User Metaverses at 2.44-2.46; GATO-ways to Digital Work at Diaz (Westin, Old Harbour Level). 10:30am: MEOW-ney In AI at 1.64; GATO-verned Gig Economies at Auditorium 2; MEOW-suring Media Use at Diaz. 12pm: CAT-chy Connections at Auditorium 2; BILLI-eving Stigma at 2.41-2.43; MIAU-lti-Context Reliance at Diaz. 1:30pm: GATO-laborative AI at 2.65-2.66; CAT Top Student Papers at Nerina (CTICC2, Lev 1); MEOW-dern Love Lives at Diaz; CAT Poster Session at Hall 2 (CTICC1, Ground Level). 3pm: KOT-nnected Concerns at Auditorium 2; CAT Top Papers at Nerina. 4:30pm: CAT Business Meeting at Nerina. 6pm: CAT Reception at CTICC Ballroom West (CTICC1, Lev 1).
KOT-rolled Cyber Violence: Bystander Interventions, Perpetrator Rewards, and Gendered Hate Responses 6-Jun-26 SATURDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Daisy (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
Critical Perspectives From the South: Digital Sovereignty and the Politics of Platforms 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM 2.61-2.63 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MIAU-steerable AI: Trust, Adoption, Dependency, and Behavioral Regulation in Generative Tech Ecosystems 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
CAT-egorizing Governance: Loneliness Policies, Facial Recognition Legitimacy and Climate Mobilization 6-Jun-26 SATURDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Daisy (CTICC2, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MIAO-ral Media: Language Engagement, Chatbot Influence and AI Bias 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
MIAU-dest Effects: Visual Cues, Synthetic News, Reporting Barriers and Digital Polarization 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM 2.61-2.63 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-sistent Digital Divides: From Algorithmic Awareness to Kinship Networks 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
This year's #ICA26 #ICA_CAT reception is Sun 7 Jun at 6pm in CTICC Ballroom West (CTICC1, Lev 1). Come to meet our community and celebrate achievements.
MEOW-tivating Interactions: Public AI Partners and Being Seen Online 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
CAT-ching Digital Divides: Apple Vision Elitism, Older Adult Resistance and Platform Veils 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Nerina (CTICC2, Lev 1) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
GATO of the Future: From ChatGPT Essays to AI Science News Rivalries 6-Jun-26, SATURDAY, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Protea (CTICC2, Lev 1) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
ICA26 day-at-a-glance for Saturday 6 June. Warm coral gradient poster listing 10 sessions grouped by time slot. 9am: CAT-ching Digital Divides at Nerina (CTICC2, Lev 1); GATO of the Future at Protea. 10:30am: MEOW-tivating Interactions at Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2). 12pm: PURR-sistent Digital Divides at Auditorium 2. 1:30pm: MIAO-ral Media at Auditorium 2; MIAU-dest Effects at 2.61-2.63; CAT-egorizing Governance at Daisy (CTICC2, Lev 2). 3pm: MIAU-steerable AI at Auditorium 2; Critical Perspectives From the South at 2.61-2.63; KOT-rolled Cyber Violence at Daisy.
PURR-sonalized Perceptions: Older Needs, Stigma Discourses and Feed Content 5-Jun-26, FRIDAY, 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM 2.64 (CTICC1, Level 2) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT
PURR-vacy Paradoxes: Fatigue Replications, Chinese Evolution and Alexa Data Requests 5-Jun-26, FRIDAY, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM 1.63 (CTICC1, Lev 1) #ICA26 #ICA_CAT