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Session Submission Type: Panel
Despite the growing interest in data and society, relatively little attention has been paid to the implications of a data society for the forms and dynamics of publics and public communication. If the institution of the modern public sphere has always aspired to a degree of autonomy vis-à -vis its critical targets, what happens when its targets – be they government or business entities – begin to actively incite the production of public discourse and then harvest it as data for profit or surveillance? Does the advent of a data society lead to a new structural transformation of the public sphere? This preconference invites scholars to rethink the meaning and practices of publics and public communication in this new data society. Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: transparency of public data privacy of personal data data activism data and governance data and surveillance algorithms and publics algorithms in journalism data as discursive formation data journalism and publics data visualization and public communication big data and deceptions in politics data and the global public sphere.
Reconsidering ‘Public’: Governance and Regulation of User Data by Chinese Social Media Platforms - Lianrui Jia, York U; Lotus Yang Ruan, U of British Columbia
The Politics of Biometric Standards: How to Discriminate Scientifically - Avi Marciano, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev
Digital Diplomacy on Social Media: A Social Network Analysis of Information Flow on Weibo - Fan Yang, U at Albany, SUNY; Rose Luqiu Luwei, Pennsylvania State U
Losing the Digital Public Sphere: Uncovering the Implicit Role of Communication in Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action to Identify the ‘Intermediated Public Sphere’ - Morgan Weiland, Stanford U
Who Are Making Fake News on Sina Weibo? - Jiaojiao Ji, U of Science and Technology of China
The Hypothesis of Two Public Opinion Fields: Institutional and Private Sources' Credibility as Mediators Between Social Media Use and Social Confidence - Hongzhong Zhang, Beijing Normal U
The World in Chinese Online Public Opinion - Lu Wei, Zhejiang U
Academic Discussion on Big Data in Journalism and Communication Research - Zhian Zhang, Sun Yat Sen U
Machinic Dreams: Technographic Inquiry Into the Censorship of Chinese Chatbots - Yizhou Xu, U of Wisconsin-Madison
The Human Algorithms of Facebook Content Moderation - Sanna Jamila Ali, Stanford U
Puppetry, Digital Puppetry, and Publics - Jasmine Erdener, U of Pennslyvania
Chinese Cyber Nationalism Among Elites: Big V in the Diaoyu Islands Dispute on Sina Weibo - Miao Feng, NORC at U of Chicago; Elaine J. Yuan, UIC
The Right-Wing’s Creation and YouTube’s Contribution: The German Right-Wing Counterpublic in the Filter Bubble - Adrian Rauchfleisch, National Taiwan U; Jonas Kaiser, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard U
Death of a Hashtag: A Diachronic Study of Participation on Social Media During Two Norwegian Election Campaigns - Anders Olof Larsson, Westerdals Oslo ACT
Data Ideologies in the Cyberinfrastructure Community: Fostering Participation in Issues of Public Concern - Andrew R. Schrock, Independent Scholar; Kerk F. Kee, Chapman U
Microblogging in the Heart of China: Reconstruction of the Urban Environment in Beijing - Jingxi Chen, Beijing Jiaotong U
Online Witnessing, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in China’s Digital Society - Bingjuan Xiong, U of Colorado
The Lurker: Naming the Online Watcher - Anna Gibson, Stanford U
A Comparative Study on the Perceptions of Sensitive Data between Chinese and American College Students - Min Wang, Wuhan U
From Seeking Reward to Establishing Credibility: How Data Journalists Leverage Reputation to Cultivate Public Trust - Jan Lauren Boyles, Iowa State University
Big Data, Big Dream, and Big Brother: The Emergence and Growth of Chinese Big Data - Wenhong Chen, University of Texas at Austin
Alternative Algorithms: Made in China for the Global South? - Jack Linchuan Qiu, The Chinese U of Hong Kong
Mining Meaning: Applying Semantic Network Analysis to Understanding Large-Scale Social Discourses in Chinese Social Media - Elaine J. Yuan, UIC
Spreading China’s Voice via Facebook? Mapping News Content Produced by China’s State-Owned Media on Global Platforms - Fan Liang, U of Michigan