[Commlist] 2021 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference

Cristian Vaccari is delighted to share the program of the 2021 
conference of The
International Journal of Press/Politics, which features academic
research on the relationship between media and political processes
around the world. The conference will be held on Zoom from 13-16
September 2021. The program is also available at
https://cristianvaccari.com/2021/08/27/program-of-the-2021-international-journal-of-press-politics-virtual-conference-13-16-september-2021/.

The conference is free to attend, but registration is required. Those
who wish to do so can pay a voluntary contribution for GBP5.
Instructions on how to register are below.

Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might
be interested.

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Program of the 2021 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual
Conference (13-16 September 2021)

Logistics
The conference will be held via a secure Zoom link shared only with
participants and attendees. All times are British Summer Time (BST),
or UTC+1. For each paper, participants will have a total of 25
minutes, which includes both the paper presentation and the live
discussion. Presentation of each paper will be immediately followed by
discussion of the paper.

Registration
Registration fees can be paid via shorturl.at/gtF35. The fees are £30
for presenters and attendees £5. Payment of the registration fees is
entirely voluntary for both presenters and attendees.
Those who would like to attend the conference need to sign up via
https://forms.gle/rqwRQziivVt6wCpn7. Those who sign up will receive
the conference Zoom link in the morning of 13 September. The link will
be shared only with conference presenters and those who signed up to
attend. It will not be published anywhere.

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Monday 13 September, 12:30-5:45pm

12:30-12:35pm Welcome and Opening remarks

Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University), Editor-in-Chief of IJPP

12:35-1:50pm News and the Pandemic

The Psychological Empowerment of Solutions Journalism: Perspectives
from Pandemic News Users in the UK
Xin Zhao (Bournemouth University), Daniel Jackson (Bournemouth
University), An Nguyen (Bournemouth University), Antje Glück
(Bournemouth University)

Framing migration during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: a
12-month media monitoring project
Thea de Gruchy (University of the Witwatersrand), Thulie Zikhali
(University of the Witwatersrand), Jo Vearey (University of the
Witwatersrand), Johanna Hanefeld (London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine)

YouTube as a source of information about unproven drugs for Covid-19:
The role of the mainstream media and recommendation algorithms in
promoting misinformation
Felipe Bonow Soares (UFPEL/UFRGS), Igor Salgueiro (UFPEL), Carolina
Bonoto (UFRGS), Otávio Vinhas (University College Dublin)

1:50-3:05pm Media and Politics around the World

Jacob Zuma and the public performance of ANC politics: The case of
‘Arms Deal’ court appearances
Lefa Afrika (University of Cape Town)

Populism Influence on Media Content: Polarization and
Professionalization in Ecuador before and during Correa’s era
Manel Palos Pons (University of California, San Diego)

Risks of COVID-19 reporting in (semi-)authoritarian states: Perceived
pressures on journalists in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
and Uzbekistan
Svetlana S. Bodrunova (St. Petersburg State University), Nikita
Argylov, (Far Eastern Federal University), Aliaksandr Hradziushka
(Belarusian State University), Galiya Ibrayeva, (Al-Farabi Kazakh
National University)

3:05-4:45pm New Perspectives on Misinformation and Disinformation
Chair: C.W. Anderson (University of Leeds, Associate Editor of IJPP)

Misinformation and Trust in Institutions in Four Countries in 2019 and 2021
Shelley Boulianne (MacEwan University, Edda Humprecht (University of Zurich)

Social media and political misinformation in the 2021 Mexico
elections: Maximal panic, minimal effects
Sebastián Valenzuela (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile),
Marcelo Santos (Universidad Finis Terrae), Carlos Muñiz (Universidad
Autónoma de Nuevo León)

Marking the boundaries between visual and textual disinformation in a
digital world: A literature synthesis and research agenda
Teresa Elena Weikmann (University of Vienna), Sophie Lecheler
(University of Vienna)

Setting the agenda through misinformation: Analyzing the vote-by-mail
coverage during the 2020 US elections
Jonas Kaiser (Suffolk University), Carolyn Schmitt (University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathryn Stapleton (Suffolk University)

4:45-5:45pm Keynote Speech

Young Mie Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political
Science. Kim is a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns
data-driven, algorithm-based, digitally mediated political
communication. Kim’s recent research project, Project DATA (Digital Ad
Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the sponsors, content,
and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms
with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers
the algorithms of political campaigns. Kim and her team’s research,
“The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns
on Facebook,” identified “suspicious groups,” including Russian groups
on Facebook. The work received the Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the
Year in Political Communication (2018), awarded by the International
Communication Association. Kim testified at the Federal Election
Commission‘s hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication
disclaimers and presented her research at the Congressional briefings
on foreign interference in elections. Kim also spoke at the European
Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and
inequality in political involvement.

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Tuesday 14 September, 9:30am-2:30pm

9-30:10:45am Hearing or Ignoring the other side: Causes and Consequences

Why read news from the other side? How people’s selection and
avoidance of news articles on social media increases polarization
Jakob Boggild (European University Institute)

Selective Exposure and New Political Cleavages: Political Media Use
and Ideological Reinforcement Over Time
Adam Shehata (University of Gothenburg), Mats Ekström (University of
Gothenburg), Per Oleskog-Tryggvasson (University of Gothenburg)

Curating political animosity? The relation of algorithmic news
curation to ideological extremity and social and political intolerance
Linda Bos (University of Amsterdam), Jakob Ohme (University of
Amsterdam), Artemis Tsoulos-Malakoudi (University of Amsterdam)

10:45am-12:00pm Debating the Normative Foundations of the News

“Fair and balanced”: What news audiences in four countries mean when
they say they prefer impartial news
Camila Mont’Alverne (University of Oxford), Sumitra Badrinathan
(University of Oxford), Amy Ross Arguedas (University of Oxford),
Benjamin Toff (University of Oxford), Richard Fletcher (University of
Oxford), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford)

Fake News and Value Pluralism: A Liberal Response to Post-Truth Politics
Nick Anstead (London School of Economics)

“Polite Watchdog”: Kompas and Watchdog Journalism in the Post
Authoritarian Indonesia
Wijayanto (Universitas Diponegoro)

12:00-1:15pm Social Media and Politics

(In)Civility of Campaign Videos and User Comments in Facebook:
Affective Polarization and Mobilization
Taberez Ahmed Neyazi (National University of Singapore), Ozan Kuru
(National University of Singapore), Subhayan Mukerjee (National
University of Singapore)

The role of Facebook influencers in shaping the narratives of the
Rodrigo Duterte era
Renee Karunungan (Loughborough University)

Politicians and journalists – interactive communication in social media?
Kinga Adamczewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

1:15-2:30pm Communicating Covid-19
Chair: David Smith (University of Leicester, Managing Editor of IJPP)

Pandemic Nationalism: How Exposure to Government Social Media Affects
People’s Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in China
Anfan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), Yingdan Lu
(Stanford University), Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Aaron Ng (National University of Singapore)

Understanding the Agenda of Alternative and Online Political Media
Post-Corbyn and through the Covid-19 Pandemic
Declan McDowell-Naylor (Cardiff University), Stephen Cushion (Cardiff
University), Richard Thomas (Swansea University)

The role of political partisanship for the relationship between trust
in the news and trust in the government as sources for coronavirus
information: Findings from two cross-sectional online survey studies
in six countries
Anne Schulz (University of Zurich), Richard Fletcher (University of
Oxford), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford)

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Wednesday 15 September, 12:30-5:30pm

12:30-1:45pm Media Policy between Old and New Challenges

Content Moderation in the Digital Democracy: What’s the Problem?
Nahema Marchal (University of Zurich), Fabrizio Gilardi (University of
Zurich), Emma Hoes (University of Zurich), Jonathan Kluser (University
of Zurich), Meysam Alizadeh (University of Zurich), Mael Kubli
(University of Zurich)

Funding Democracy: Public Media and Democratic Health in 33 Countries
Timothy Neff (University of Pennsylvania), Victor Pickard (University
of Pennsylvania)

Good Journalism or Good Business? The politics of press support and
news production in Taiwan
Hsiao-wen Lee (SOAS, University of London)

1:45-3:00pm International Perspectives on Social Media and Political
Communication

Exploring Digital Campaign Competence: The Role of Voter Knowledge on
Data-Driven Election Campaigns
Sophie Minihold (University of Vienna and University of Amsterdam),
Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna), Claes de Vreese (University of
Amsterdam), Sanne Kruikemeier (University of Amsterdam)

The gendered use of social media among political candidates in
transition contexts: evidence from Tunisia
Malin Holm (Uppsala University), Yasmine Naila Skhiri (Uppsala
University), Pär Zetterberg (Uppsala University)

Pandemic Politics: Microtargeting Strategies on Facebook India
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj (University of Exeter), Holli A. Semetko
(Emory University), Anup Kumar (Cleveland State University)

3:00-4:15pm Digital Media and Politics: Dynamics and Influences

Incumbency, corruption, and the politics of online content regulation
Kyong Mazzaro (City University of New York)

Trolling with the Punches: How Journalists Navigate Online Harassment
Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), Chris Tenove (University of
British Columbia), Sabrina Wilkinson (University of Ottawa), Trevor
Deley (University of Ottawa)

News We Can Use: Local news and civic engagement in neighbourhood chat
groups online
Laszlo Horvath (University of Exeter), Joshua Blamire (University of Exeter)

4-15-5:30pm Virtual reception

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Thursday 16 September, 9:30am-2:30pm

9:30:10-45am Understanding Patterns of News Consumption, Avoidance, and 
Sharing

I Do Not (Want to) Know! An Empirical Investigation of the
Relationship Between Unintentional and Intentional News Avoidance and
Their Predictors
Dominika Betakova (University of Vienna), Hajo Boomgaarden (University
of Vienna), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna), Svenja Schäfer
(University of Vienna), Loes Aaldering (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Neither absent nor ambient: A more holistic view of incidental
exposure to news in the digital age
Ruth Palmer (IE University), Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota
and University of Oxford)

To convince, to provoke or to entertain? A study on individual
motivations behind online misinformation sharing in six Western
democracies
Sophie Morosoli (University of Antwerp), Peter Van Aelst (University
of Antwerp), Patrick van Erkel (University of Antwerp)

10:45am-12:00pm Contentious Politics and Information Flows

Now is the time to protest: the eternal sunshine of a spotless polity
Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça (UFMG/INCT.DD), Nina Santos (INCT.DD)

Conventional vs. Contentious: Exploring the relationship between
participation in the social movement and voting intention in Hong Kong
Pei Zhi (City University of Hong Kong)

Tale of Two Internets: How Information Flows from the US to Chinese 
Social Media
Yingdan Lu (Stanford University), Jack Schaefer (University of
California Los Angeles), Jungseock Joo (University of California Los
Angeles), Kunwoo Park (Soongsil University), Jennifer Pan (Stanford
University)

12:00-1:15pm Perspectives on Media Effects

The Other 98%: Exposure to and Effects of Political Content Beyond
News: Evidence from browsing data in three countries
Magdalena Wojcieszak (University of California Davis and University of
Amsterdam), Sjifra de Leeuw (University of Amsterdam), Bernhard Clemm
(University of Amsterdam), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American
University)

Does corruption corrupt? The behavioral effects of mediated exposure
to corruption
Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa), Patricia Moy (University
of Washington), Rico Neumann (University of Washington), Moran
Shechnick (University of Haifa)

Does Identity Matter? Ethnicity, Religion and Effects of Negative
Campaigning on the Perception of Candidates
Kelechi Amakoh (University of Amsterdam)

1-15:2:30pm Digital Innovation in News: Challenges and Strategies

The creation of algorithmic publics in authoritarian regimes:
Explaining digital innovation uptake in Russian news media
Olga Dovbysh (University of Helsinki), Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht
University and University of Helsinki)

Does political position matter? Affective engagement strategies of
news providers on Facebook in post-handover Hong Kong
Joyce Y.M. Nip (University of Sydney), Benoit Berthelier (University of 
Sydney)

Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of
Journalistic Autonomy
Felix M. Simon (University of Oxford and Columbia University)

2:30-2:45pm Conclusions and farewell

Cristian Vaccari Loughborough University, Editor-in-Chief of IJPP

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