POLCOM at #ICA23 in Toronto

17.05.2023

Members of the Political Communication Research Group will share their latest research findings at the 73rd Annual ICA Conference in Toronto.

POLCOM members will deliver 13 presentations on various topics. Furthermore, Dominika Betakova and Svenja Schäfer co-organized a pre-conference on News avoidance where Dominika Betakova also chaired a panel on alternative news sources, misinformation, and news avoidance. More information about the pre-conference can be found here.

  • ICA pre-conference: News avoidance, resistance, and related audience practices: definitions, predictors, and consequences co-organized by Dominika Betakova and Svenja Schäfer.
  • Betakova, D., Boomgaarden, H., & Lecheler, S. (2023, May 25-29). I cannot stand this anymore! Text characteristics of news articles informing about avoided topics and expressed news avoidance intentions [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Chu, X., Otto, L. R., Vliegenthart, R., Lecheler, S., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2023, May 25-29). On or off topic? Understanding the effects of issue-related political targeted ads [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • de Haan, Y., Goutier, N., Kruikemeier, S., & Lecheler, S. (2023, May 25-29). The impact of algorithmically-driven search results in journalistic information [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Greber, H. (2023, May 25-29). The democratic worthwhileness of interactive immersive journalism [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Minihold, S., Lecheler, S., Gibson, R., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2023, May 25-29). Understanding digital campaign competence: Conceptualizing datadriven political advertising literacy [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Minihold, S., Lecheler, S., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2023, May 25-29). Increasing digital campaign competence [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Schäfer, S., & Schemer, C. (2023, May 25-29). Informed participation? An investigation of the relation between exposure to different news channels and participation through actual and perceived knowledge [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Stockinger, A., Lecheler, S., & Schäfer, S. (2023, May 25-29). "AI can’t deal with grey areas": How professional moderators perceive uncivil user comments and (potentials of) content moderation strategies [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Weikmann, T. E., & Lecheler, S. (2023, May 25-29). Cutting through the hype: Understanding the implications of deepfakes for the fact-checking actor-network [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Weikmann, T. E., Greber, H., & Nikolaou, A. (2023, May 25-29). On being fooled: How deception through a deepfake affects the way we see, hear and experience media [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Stockinger, A. (2023, May 25). Between feasibility, functionality and user acceptance – The perceptions and effects of moderating uncivil online comments [Dissertation proposal presentation]. ICA "Political Communication PhD Student Preconference", Toronto, Canada.
  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, May 25): The Forgotten Human-in-the-Loop: User Agency as a Means for Responsible Automated Content Moderation [Dissertation Presentation]. 12th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division, co-sponsored by the Mobile Communication Interest Group. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Planitzer, A. M., Lecheler, S., Schäfer, S. (2023, May 24): The Forgotten Human-in-the-Loop: User Agency as a Means for Responsible Human-centric AI in Content Moderation [Paper Presentation]. Conference: Building the Conditions for Responsible Human-Centric AI Systems. Division Affiliation: Communication & Technology Division, Communication Law & Policy Division, Political Communication Division. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada
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