2023 Symposium Schedule

Click here for the 2023 Identity and Social Media Symposium: Bridging the Gaps between Computational Methods and Critical/Cultural Perspectives agenda/schedule.

Agenda

Friday - September 29th, 2023
All events will be held at Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute
255 S. Central Campus Dr., Languages & Communications Bldg [LNCO], RM 2910
8:30 AM - Breakfast
9:00 AM - Opening Remarks

9:15 AM - Panel 1

• Sneha Singh (University of Aukland), “Digital Citizenship Practices of Women in Indian
  Diasporic Communities: Using Feminist Ethnographical Approaches”
• Barbara Howe (University of South Florida), “State Identities on Social Media: The Strategic
  Narratives of China and Russia on Twitter and Facebook”
• Sananda Sahoo (University of Western Ontario), “Nonsensical Tweets as an Act of Online
  Violence: Negotiating Identity through Naming and Stancetaking”
• Faculty Mentors – Dr. Shannon McGregor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) & Dr. Rachel Griffin (University of Utah)
  10:45 AM - Break
  

   

• 11:00 AM - Panel 2

  • Sarah Nguyễn (University of Washington), “Finding Home and Dodging Displacement
    Amidst Information Disorder in Little Saigon”
  • Yu Jeong Hwang (University of Arizona), “The State-Led Online Political Astroturfing and
    Its Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effect”
  • Faculty Mentors – Dr. Jo Lukito (University of Texas, Austin) & Dr. Logan Gomez (University of Utah)
    12:15 PM – Lunch

   

  • 1:30 PM - Panel 3

    •  Eugene Agyei (Michigan Technological University), “#FixTheCountry: An analysis of
      networked protests beyond their outer structure”
    • Anna Yan Liu, et. al. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Data Labor
      Participation and fan identity: Superfans’ Role in Mobilizing Fans’ Twitter Voting for
      Billboard Award”
    • Ke M. Huang-Isherwood (University of Southern California), “Social Identity Perspective
      and User Engagement of Public Facebook Posts on Interstate Busing of Migrants”
    • Faculty Mentors – Dr. Deen Freelon (University of Pennsylvania) & Dr. Avery Holton (University of Utah)
    • 3:00 PM - Closing Remarks