ICA25 – International Communication Association Day 2

Scholarship continues into day 2… Took a chance on a random room and it was amazing. I learnt quite a bit about Bangladesh media, its regime, and the role news and media plays in this space.

Full notes from sessions below:

PARTNER PANEL: South Asia Communication Association (SACA)
Chairs(s): Zahedur Arman (Framingham State University) and Shafiqur Rahman (South Carolina U)
Discussant(s): MD Tareq Hossain (National University of Singapore), Zahedur Arman (Framingham State University), Uma Shankar Pandey (Surendranath College), Dilshad Hossain Dudul (Independent U of Bangladesh), Mohammad Ala-Uddin (Saint May’s College), Waqas Mahmood (GIFT University, Gujranwala), ANIRUDDHA JENA (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT KASHIPUR), Didarul Islam (Central New Mexico Community College), Aakash Shaw (U of Calcutta), Janifar Kamal Nova (Southern Illinois U ), Abu Ahmed, Sherin Farhana Moni, Khairul Islam (State University of New York at Oswego), Khadimul Islam (Chadron State College) and Nur E Makbul (U of Alabama)
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM; Quartz (Regency 3)

• Life without Twitter in India – Snowball sampling, 18-34, n=1200
• Users are mainly Facebook and Twitter
• Key issues: cyber bullying and wellbeing

Creating the Bubble: Newsmedia role in checking the Global South

• Bangladesh: examine selected text from selected press conferences. How do news media outlets exercise their journalistic freedom under the former regime?
• Challenges the norms of journalism, asking questions that are journalistic oriented, they would first praise the leader without criticism of major policies, then shifting to challenging questions.

In search of Habamasian Ideals – Abu Ahmed, Sherin Farhana Moni, Khairul Islam (State University of New York at Oswego)

• Broad (very) overview of public sphere, natioanl debate, inclusivity, all members of public

International Law in Kashmir and India and the spread of misinformation

• No studies on how governments shut down internet to stop misinformation
• RQ: how do governments limit the spread of misinformation in India
• Frame: political economy
• Misonfomraiotn happening for a long time makes the people more pessimistic
• Laws adopt to reflect this. make power more visible
• Public trust is declining (like most global areas) wht are the factors that are impoacting thisn in Bagledash
• There is s media reform underway in this country

10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Colorado B (Grand 2), HIGH-DENSITY: Digital Escapes: Problematic Media Use and Family Dynamics, High-Density Paper Session, Children, Adolescents and Media, Chairs: Allyson Snyder, U of California – Davis

Family Under the Screen: Problematic Mobile Media Use as a Family Issue and Its Relation to Children’s Self-Esteem, Parental Self- Efficacy and the Parent-Child Relationship Nele Janssens; K. Beullens

• Affordances vs. problematic mobile media use (PMMU)
• Research adopts a ‘family systems approach’ research understood as part of the family system
• Assumes PMMU leads to lower self esteem
• Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPs) check this here; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097920
• Many of these scholars are part of the Media Psychology Lab: https://soc.kuleuven.be/smc

Parent Problematic Media Use, Child Emotional Reactivity, and Household Income Relate to Parent Reliance on Media Emotion Regulation Strategies J. Shawcroft; A.L. Snyder; D.P. Cingel; J.B. Ruiz

• Emotional regulation – using media to calm or soothe children, not necessarily bad, and can be used in conjunction with other approaches to stressful situations
• This research focuses on resources: internal: screens etc. , external: family, housing etc.
• Published paper here

Smartphones as Surrogate Attachment: Examining Digital Dependency and Emotional Bonds Among Left-Behind Children in China F. Yu; K. Wang

• Nomophobia – no mobile phone phobia
• Phones as surrogate attachment – reasons for using smartphones: connections, relaxation, environment knowledge, reduced anxiety and discomfort
• Something about insert numbers and that equals children need phones when parents aren’t around

The Growth of Maternal Technoference Across Early Childhood and Associations With Child Problematic Media Use S. Ashby; S. Coyne; J. Shawcroft; M. Van Alfen; P. James; H. Holmgren; T. Austin

• Technoference (phubbing) – the disruptions from technology between children and parents
• Linked to higher stress and behaviour problems
• 7 year longitudinal study, 0.5- 6.5 year olds

Understanding Problematic Video Game and Mobile Phone Use in Chilean Children: The Role of Family Support and Parental Mediation P. Cabello; Matias Dodel; N. Delgado; M. Claro; P. Véliz

• WHO Gaming Disorder
• Research paper on Gaming Disorder
• Global Kids Online Chile (2022)
• n=1,469, 9-17 year olds, natioanlly representative

The Impact of Emotional Neglect on Internet Addiction Among Left-Behind Adolescents in Rural China: A Moderated Mediation Model H. Jiang; L. ZHONG; V. Huaxng; R. Zhong

• 15 million ‘left behind’ adolescents in China, parents move to urban area to make more money, but cannot bring their children, resulting in lack of education, and experiencing emotional neglect
• Internet addiction is 18.3% higher in this group of young people
• Published paper available here

12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Mineral A (Regency 3), Youth and Popular Culture, Standard Paper Session, Popular Media & Culture, Chairs: Miriam Rahali, The London School of Economics & Political Science

The Promises and Perils of Being a Popular Youth Online Content Creator Rebecca Ortiz; S. Condemi; K. Leahy; V. Hidalgo Garcia; S. Ramasubramanian

• Trans parasocial relation framework
• I hour interview with content creators, 10-17 years old, at least 3000 followers
• Let participants identify themselves (ethnicity, pronouns, neurodiversity, etc.)
• Tensions between online/offline – more like relationships that are not online
• Enacted online personas – once popularity emerges, they started thinking more about fame by changing and shifting their persona. “authenticity and the real content creator”
• Implications: constructing and affirming their personas, balancing authenticity against impression management, performative labour, navigating layers of risk
• Engages Communication Theory of Identity

1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Grays Peak B (Grand Conv Center 2), The Yuck Factor: Digital Disgust, Rhetorics of Repulsion, and Cultural Critiques in Food Media, Panel Session, Popular Media & Culture, Participant: S. Marek Muller , Texas State U; Participant: Banu Akdenizli, Northwestern U – Qatar; Participant: Sun Young Park, Florida State U; Participant: Diana Willis, U at Albany – SUNY; Participant: Antara Dey, York U

From Culinary Bridges to Cultural Barriers: The ‘Yuk Factor’ in Food Media and its Impact on Gastrodiplomacy B. Akdenizli

• Try not to gag reactions – disgust as communication/entertainment
• Binary between west and other food types
• “This can’t be real”, “WTF” – normalising cultural translations
• Gastro-diplomacy and state-led narratives
• How about this: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429465543-25/guide-gastrodiplomacy-paul-rockower

Disgust as a Communicative Tool in Food Media Sunny Park

• Food is popular (TikTok) but gross-out content is rising, or gaining attention
• Broad overview of ‘disgust’ and its psychological mechanisms (cognitive, emotional, behavioural, gagging etc.)
• Boundary setting: contamination, cultural, purity
• Framing theory (Goffman, 1974) and purity and danger (Douglas, 1966)
• Inductive coding from 150 TikTok videos – results to come

Nostalgia, Disgust, and Demon Quiche: B. Dylan Hollis’ Playful Critique of Mid-Century Cuisine Diana Willis

• Communication through Mid-Century America: clothes, language, references, recipes
• Disgust through language and vision