[Commlist] ICA pre-conference: The Political Power of Information Technology Industries

Please consider attending the ICA 2025 pre-conference on "The Political 
Power of Information Technology Industries" which will take place June 
12, 2025 at the University of Denver. The program includes a diverse 
line-up of thought provoking studies interrogating the growing political 
power of these industries.

Sponsors: The Institute for Information Policy, Pennsylvania State 
University; Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies, University 
of Denver; The Underwood Institute

Full program: 
https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/research/centers/iip/iip-pre-conference 
<https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/research/centers/iip/iip-pre-conference> 
(program also posted below)
Registration: https://shorturl.at/fyvhL <https://shorturl.at/fyvhL> 
(till June 3)

The registration fee is $50 (graduate students receive a fee waiver).

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Pre-conference program

June 12, 2025 / University of Denver
Room 301, Anderson Academic Commons

9:00-9:15 a.m. -- Registration + coffee

9:15-9:30 a.m. --  Welcome and Introduction  Chair: Roei Davidson, 
University of Haifa)

9:30-11:10 a.m. -- Session 1 - The Path to Industrial Dominance

Chair and respondent: Roei Davidson (University of Haifa)

-- Benjamin W. Cramer (Penn State), Power Trip: The Big Tech Push for 
Nuclear-Powered Data Centers
-- James Alleman (University of Colorado at Boulder) & Jon Liebenau 
(London School of Economics), High Tech Politics
-- Juan Ortiz Freuler (University of Southern California), Digital Power 
and the Return of the Peripheries: Internet Centralization as 
Geopolitical Gatekeeping
-- Sara Bannerman (McMaster University), Bradley McNeil (McMaster 
University), Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary), Tanner Mirrlees 
(Ontario Tech University) & Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), The 
Tech Lobby Project: Methods for Studying Big Tech Lobbying in Canada

11:10-11:20 a.m. -- Coffee Break

11:20 a.m.-12:50 p.m. -- Session 2 - The Industry and Political Behavior

Chair and respondent: Amit Schejter (Ben-Gurion University and Penn State)

-- Gilad Be’ery, Dmitry Epstein & Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan (The Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem), “Let this sink in”: The Politics and Policy 
Attitudes of Tech-Workers
-- Genius Amaraizu (Northwestern University), Elon Musk’s Twitter: 
Participatory Culture and Networked Publics in a Personalized Tech 
Industry Power
-- Jonathan Plotkin and Dmitry Epstein (The Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem), The ‘Political Awakening’ of Tech Workers in Israel: Values, 
Professional Identities, and Political Engagement

12:50-1:50 p.m. -- Lunch

1:50-3:30 p.m. -- Session 3 - Regulation of and Governance by the Industry

Chair and respondent: Rodrigo Cetina-Presuel (UPF-BSM)

-- Le-Tian Cheng (Georgia Institute of Technology), Diyi Liu (University 
of Oxford) &Le Yang (Tsinghua University), How Do Speech Platforms 
Navigate Through Governance Demands During Crisis Events?
-- Joe F. Khalil (Northwestern University in Qatar) and Mohamed Zayani 
(Georgetown University in Qatar), Navigating the Digital Double Bind: 
Political Contention and Agency in the Middle East
-- Jing Wang (New York University, Shanghai), Perpetuating the Platform 
Power: Socio-technical Enveloping in the Case of Alipay+
-- Youngrim Kim (Rutgers University), Infrastructural desires for 
digital sovereignty: Hyperscale data centers and postcolonial 
imaginaries in South Korea

3:30-3:50 p.m. -- Coffee Break

3:50-4:30 p.m. -- Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions

Chair: Amit Schejter (Ben-Gurion University and Penn State)
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