[Commlist] Online conference: Navigating Digital Democracy

Join us for the online conference of the Political Studies Association's 
Media and Politics Group and Technology, Information and Policy group 
Annual Conference, themed around ’Navigating Digital Democracy”. Held on 
7th January 2026.

We have four panels plus a keynote by Prof Jonathan Corpus Ong on 
"Exposing Disinformation Economies: Lessons from Asia and the Global South”.

Non-presenting participants can register for free 
here:https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jYm1d6rQT1Cpye_lKtyxvA 
<https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jYm1d6rQT1Cpye_lKtyxvA>

The provisional programme is below. All times are UK (GMT).

We hope to see you there.


9.00 – 10.15am
Panel: Platforms for Politics

  * Fajar Martha (University of Indonesia)
    Influencer Activism, Elite Critique, and Democratic Backsliding in
    Indonesia: Lesson from the Failed ‘17+8’ Movement
  * Paweł Surowiec-Capell, Chris Miles (University of Sharjah; AFG
    College with the University of Aberdeen)
    Public Engagement with Foreign Policy Using ‘Diplotainment’:
    Evaluations of a Hybrid Genre
  * André Almo, Ana Jovanovic-Harrington, Maíra Amaral (Technological
    University Dublin; Dublin City University)
    Games as Political Communication in Authoritarian Regimes
  * Weidong Jin (University of Leeds)
    Platformizing Neoliberal Femininity with Chinese Characteristics: A
    Case of RedNote

10.15 – 10.30am
Break

10.30 – 12.00pm
Panel: The Changing Face of Journalism

  * Huyen Trang Nguyen (Bournemouth University)
    Challenging narratives: How development journalism shapes LGBT+
    representation in Vietnamese media
  * Antal Wozniak (University of Liverpool)
    Media narratives of ‘the West’ in non-Western mainstream news: A
    case study of Brazilian, Indian, and South African reporting about
    the Russo-Ukrainian war
  * Susana Sampaio-Dias (University of Portsmouth)
    “You’re so sensitive! I’ll make sure one of your KPIs is to develop
    a thicker skin!” Early-Career Women Journalists' expectations and
    experiences of breaking through the sector
  * Alev Aslan, Nilüfer Timisi, Yeliz Dede Özdemir (İstanbul University)
    The Representation of ‘Women Experts’ as Speaking Political Subjects
    in Political Debate Programs on TV
  * Leonardo Desideri (Independent Researcher; PhD in Communication,
    Universidad de Navarra)
    The Rise of Almost-News: How Proto-Event Coverage on Digital
    Platforms Turns Signals, Hints, and Moves into Breaking News

12.00 – 12.30pm
Lunch break

12.30 – 2.00pm
Panel: Technology, Governance, & Democracy

  * Lambprini Papadopoulou, Theodora A. Maniou (National and
    Kapodistrian University of Athens; University of Cyprus)
    Democracy Under Surveillance: Digital threats and challenges to
    press freedom
  * Anuradha Sajjanhar (University of East Anglia)
    Epistemic Infrastructures of AI in Governance: Expertise,
    Legitimacy, and Democratic Accountability
  * Mohamed Ben Moussa (University of Sharjah)
    Technocratic Governance and Poverty in Morocco: Critical Discourse
    Analysis of Morocco’s Social Index
  * Natacha Ferreira Moreira (Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF, 
Brazil)
    Digital Colonialism: Discourses on the Construction of Data Centers
    in the Global South and the New Stage of Capitalism
  * Nael Jebril (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
    Artificial Intelligence and Public Discourse in Arabic-Language
    Mainstream Media

2.00 – 3.00pm
Keynote. Jonathan Corpus Ong

Exposing Disinformation Economies: Lessons from Asia and the Global South

3.00 – 3.15pm
Break

3.15 – 4.45pm
Panel: Discussing Politics in the Digital Age

  * Vera Gailis (Independent Artist, Curator, Researcher)
    Reclaiming Visual Agency: Counter-Dataset Practices for Democratic
    Participation in the Age of AI
  * Sameera Alotaibi (Bournemouth University)
    Constructing Saudi Arabia's Image through Mega Events: Institutional
    and Western Media Discourse
  * Marta Cantijoch, Andrés Bernstein (University of Manchester;
    University of the Balearic Islands)
    Hostility on Social Media and the Moralization of Politics in the
    United Kingdom
  * Thiago Costa (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
    Nostalgic Platforms: How Tradwife Content Shapes Anti-Democratic
    Imaginaries
  * Andrea Villalobos-Moreno (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    Presidential Standup: Critical Analysis of Daily Press Conferences
    in the Mexican Presidency

4.45pm

Conference close


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