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#IAMCR2025 Day 3 & 4 – International Association of Media and Communication Research

tropical garden in singapore

CPT – Users in focus: Weighing behaviour and attitudes in media governance and platform policies

I know how it works: Exploring the impact of algorithmic media content awareness on the privacy calculus of self-disclosure
» Dr. Zhang Hao Goh (Singapore)1, Prof. Gerard Goggin (Australia)2, Dr. Kym Campbell (Singapore)1 (1. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2. Western Sydney University)

  • More data = more insights within mobile AI applications
  • Layman vs. Expert – what does a model of knowing look like?
  • Hierarchical structure of Awareness: Experiential (knowledge and experieince); systematic (how algorithms work); Normative (values and norms/ethics)

Are All AI Applications Created Equal? Unpacking Public Attitudes Toward AI Policies in Taiwan
» Dr. Tsung-Jen Shih (Taiwan)1, Ms. WEI-SHAN ZHENG (Taiwan)2 (1. College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, R.O.C., 2. Telecom Technology Center (TTC), Taiwan, R.O.C.)

  • General public in Taiwan and how they understand AI policies
  • Deference and scientific authority (Lee & Scheufele, 2006) – we trust scientist more and we believe, if we do not believe we question legitimacy of science
  • Findings indicate that both deference and moral considerations benefit perceptions

Behaviorism Takes Command: A Study on A/B Testing and Experimental Culture in Big Internet Tech Companies
» Ms. Xia Yunxuan (China)1 (1. Peking University School of New Media)

  • Engineers vs. designers through A/B testing (testing as a decision making process)
  • How has A/B testing evolved from a testign tool to a mechanism of digital governacne?
  • A/B testing as a form of experimental culture – this emerges from within the tech industry as a constant process that is underway
  • The backbone of design inhibits how the experimentation of the testing process – expanding the gaps between techn workers and users

Characteristics and Regulations of Digital Identity Theft in the AI Era: A Grounded Theory Study of Rednote Micro-Influencers
» Ms. Yichuan Wang (China)1, Mr. Hanze Zhao (China)2 (1. School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, 2. Beijing Foreign Studies University)

  • It makes me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOuGH9Gpeos
  • Method (coding): Open coding, axial coding then

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CPT – Generative AI Governance: Institutions, Imaginaries, Innovations

Innovation vs Imagination in GenAI: A Comparative Patent Analysis of China, Europe, and the United States
» Dr. Yuner ZHU (Hong Kong)1, Dr. Xinzhi Zhang (Hong Kong)2, Prof. Bu Zhong (Hong Kong)1 (1. Hong Kong Baptist University, 2. City University of Hong Kong)

  • Systematic review of AI policy in Europe (Value Oriented), US (Market-driven) and China (State-led)
  • Examining the relationship between Innovation and Imagination
  • Patent filings: THomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index
  • Patent claims – 6.7% China, 86% Europe, 34.8% US – really clever way to identify where the innovation is and where the rest follow (I suspect it is highest in China with much interest emerging from Europe)
  • Q: Expand on the clash between the three policy spaces?

Strikes and unrest in Hollywood media industry: bringing workers into the debate over GAI regulation and governance
» Mr. ANDRE ROCHA (Brazil)1 (1. DigiLabour research lab)

  • digitallabour.com.br (double check this link) Brazillian colleagues doing work on the WGA
  • Hollywood strikes
  • Power resources mobilization: Institutional “Hollywood is ‘union town'”; Economic (structural): disruption of media markets; Societal (discursive): public opinion that AI is not art/threat to workers/reflects dominant views
  • This moment spilled over into the gaming industry and other labour movements

Preemptive Dispositif: Data Annotation, Security, and the Territorialisation of Generative AI in China
» Dr. PENGFEI FU (China)1, Dr. Jian Lin (Hong Kong)2 (1. Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, 2. Chinese University of Hong Kong)

  • China internet governance has existed in a ‘post-moderation’ mode since its inception
  • Concerns have moved from not what is made but how AI systems are designed, trained, developed, etc.
  • ‘upstream interventions’ – data annotation such as screening, cleaning, classifying, rating, marking and quality verification that can be used to train LLMs. Not just technical but also normative and social.
  • This is done as a ‘national workforce’. Ummmmm….
  • This sits within a global workforce labour model towards data annotation
  • Shift towards a pre-production regulation (this thinking aligns with our sandboxing approach), with focus on how training is done
  • Q: yes! But how to do this practically?

Assembling Generative Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Policy Evolution and Governance
» Dr. Chao Su (United States)1 (1. Boston University)

  • Wayback machine to snapshot TikTok’s Community Guidelines from 2018
  • Published article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2513672

CPT – What drives digital adoption and regulation? Between moral panics and digital identity

Do Sleeping Sovereigns Dream of Digital Identities?: Identity, Sovereignty, Citizenship
» Mr. James Rosenberg (United States)1 (1. University of Wisconsin–Madison)

  • The introduction of the EU digital wallet
  • Self Sovereign Identity: the internet identity layer as a solution to public trust across the internet – a menas of proving identity on the internt
  • TCP/IP provides an address not an identity
  • 3 solutions: centralised model (id cards etc.); federated model (insert identity provider i.e. Google credentials); decentralized model (SSI – relationship between you and IP provider)
  • Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials
  • The sovereign individual – anyone can be rich, citizenship is dead, nation-state is dead, live elsewhere from your money in a tax haven

The Anxiety of Age: Moral Media Panics over Children’s Social Media Use as a Tool to Regulate
» Dr. Catherine Page Jeffery (Australia)1, Dr. Justine Humphry (Australia)2, Prof. Jonathon Hutchinson (Australia)1 (1. University of Sydney, 2. The University of Sydney)

  • This is our work, questiosn as follows: Is this private and public media? What is the reach of those orgs that are presented in the data? I don’t know if reach is the thing to measure here, I think it’s impact. Haidt > Wippa > 36 months etc. then the link with policy agenda.
  • What about individual ‘media’, as opposed to ‘the media’
  • Presented excellently by Cat and Justine

One World, Different Priorities: AI Technology Policies and the Global South
» Prof. chika Anyanwu (Australia)1 (1. University of New South Wales)

  • AI policies and tis translation around the world, especially the Global South
  • GenAI in Africe, a colonial lens,
  • “Technology transfer”: colonial term that the West will allow knowledge to come into Africa
  • Socially constructed technology spaces (GenAI) and how this transfers across the glove(the question of power and influence)
  • Superiority lens (McDonalds food is cheaper than good food as an example), Interesting read on this topic here
  • Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space Theory and Cultural Identity Today: A Critical Review
  • Noble and algorithms of oppression
  • Fascinating analysis of Africa from early ‘cheap labour’, then to material wealth
  • What about now (space for GenAI)?
  • Africa AI Policy Framework
  • Congo as a stronghold of minerals for tech, becoming ‘the bride of the US’ as a result of the tensions between US and China

Understanding Digital Cryptocurrency Communities: Digital Participation, Infrastructure, and Social Networks in the Global South
» Dr. Jonalou Labor (Denmark)1 (1. Aarhus University)

  • This is important work to bridge the scholarship between crypto worlds (bitcoin etc.) and platform studies
  • Multi-layers as a way to understand crypto (create their own platform layers), embedding this work in platform studies – think: Discord as a way to communicate about Bitcoin
  • Digital Bayanihan is the connection between collective action and cryptocurrencies – adaption of new frameworks in digital activism
  • Great work that provides clear evidence for the inclusion of alternative regioanl models (i.e Philippines) in platform studies.

Media’ s Embrace of Technology: How Media Portrays the Use of Autonomous Taxis and Its Impact on Individuals’ Adoption Intentions
» Prof. Christine Yi-Hui HUANG (Hong Kong)1, Ms. Ruoheng LIU (China)
1, Ms. Shuang GAO (China)1, Ms. Bo CHANG (China)1 (1. City University
of Hong Kong)

CPT – The Digital Transactions Turn: Making Policy and Governance Fit-For-Purpose

Digital Transaction Platforms in Asia
» Prof. Adrian Athique (Australia)1 (1. The University of Queensland)

  • Digital transactions are acts of: code, exchange, communication, solidarity and power
  • Xanadu Project was already doing this
  • Cascading transactions – automated and layered nature of platforms to think beyond economies
  • Strategic design
  • Transaction platforms: payment, banking, exchange, escrow, social media, social credit
  • Currencies: Airtime, social, crypto, legible reserves

TikTok Refugees and the Cross-Cultural Public Sphere: Social Transactions and International Communication Policy
» Prof. Haiqing Yu (Australia)1 (1. RMIT University)

  • TikTok refugees went to Insta reels, YouTube shorts but India won: Chingari, Roposo, Moj, Josh. Plus Rednote in China
  • Red note users: “What?!? Why do I now see all these blue eyes?”
  • Total cultural explosion between US and Chinese users – Cross cultural social translations
  • Exchange of English, Chinese, Chinglish is more informative than then a Chinese State or New York Times explanation
  • Impacts on policy – book idea: “policy intermediaries”

Platform Labor and Transaction Chains
» Prof. Cheryll Ruth Soriano (Philippines)1 (1. De La Salle University Manila)

  • Next Wave Cities – support for Philippines labour industries – digital jobs and labour
  • Upwork is the platform that results – think: Airtasker but better
  • This platform and service prompts a new kind of transaction platform – GCash
  • [This includes Vietnam]
  • The oversupply of labour has created new industries on how to be successful on UpWork
  • It’s very similar to the YouTube world – creators, MCNs, training, ‘universities/feeder schools’

E-commerce logistics in Southeast Asia: the cases of Shopee and Lazada
» Dr. Emma Baulch (Malaysia)1 (1. Monash University Malaysia)

  • Lots of talk of ‘intermediaries’ here – I think there is a thread that unexplored in all the work in this panel
  • Fascinating work that explores the tensions of delivery drivers especially in Malaysia
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#IAMCR2025 Day 1 – International Association of Media and Communication Research Conference Continues…

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CPT – Governing content and user behaviour on platforms: regulation, policy and practices

“Weapons of the Weak”: Daily Resistance and Collusion of Platform Content Moderators
» Prof. Enqiang Guo (China)1, Dr. Jiebing Liang (China)2 (1. East China University of Political Science and Law, 2. School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Content moderators utilising the form of adaption in the application of moderation
  • Data from Bilibili, Dounyin, Weibo, also used digital ethnography of moderators, users and creators
  • Timing is important, compliance risks due to overwhelming or working overtime
  • China is positioned between complex workgin conditions and platform content moderation. The moderators develop strategic and flexible practices to address stringent assmenet metrics imposed by platforms
  • Q: how does this compare with Western moderation practices?

Connecting Policies and Algorithms: A New Governance Framework for Cyberbullying
» Prof. Wei Li (China)1, Ms. Qingxuan Cheng (China)1, Prof. Hao Xu (China)1 (1. School of New Media, Peking University)

  • Cyberbullying: abusive, insulting, slanderous, invasive information (what does the literature say/could this be extended further?)
  • AI engaging in cyberbullying: “ChatGPT/4Chan is the worst model on the internet”
  • What are the new trends? What are the governing frameworks? develop new governance models;
  • New trends: rise of intelligent user networks. intellignet nodes become the centre of the network becoming the most significant ‘users’ in the network (how do we know this?)
  • Existing governance frameworks: Policy docs from Meta, WeChat, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp. Categories include Supportive Tools, Coercive Measures with minimal guidance, Weak connection to law enforcement in accountability
  • Dilemmas: High cost, Imbalance between control and guidance, Difficulty in pursuing and obtaining evidence
  • New dilemmas: AI can ‘crack the keyword audit system’ quickly
  • Integrating LoveGPT (?) (chat with victims), GPT-4Chan (speed of fake content)
  • By allowing bad content, this can help to train models (wow, contentious)
  • Looking for collaborators
  • Q: What about civic dissent/deviant practices (legitimate)?

Negotiating state-led governance policies: how self-regulation operates on Weibo
» Mr. Wenhao Zhou (China)1 (1. School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University)

  • Instructuralization on platfomrs – Weibo has 587m users, state-led regulatory model
  • RQ: How has China state-led platfrom governance policies evolved? RQ2: How can Weibo interact with state-led policies of regulation
  • “Negotiative Governance”
  • Platform governance, policy debates in platform governance, platform self regulation – the integration of these approaches is the background for negotiative governance
  • Doc analysis (regulatory papers), case study of Weibo, Platform biography
  • Evolution of regulation in China – content governance (health), market governance (fair), data governance (user rights)
  • The role of intermediary – can you unpack this further? Is this the role of Weibo?
  • The user participation and global collaboration (ordinary users and global platforms) Digital sovereignty (Shi & Yu, 2023)

Communicating the Climate Crisis: Translating Science into Policy and Practice

Audrey Tan (Assistant News Editor (Environment), The Straits Times, Singapore Press Holdings Kong)

  • Straits Times – National newspaper covering national events, has a Singapore focus,
  • Keen interest in environmental reporting, weather reports have lots of engagement, people can see the relevance
  • Raising awareness, serving as a bridge, galvanising action, spotlight on SEA

Man Jing (Co-founder, Science and Environment, Channel “Just Keep Thinking”)

Adam Douglas Switzer (Director, CIFAL @ NTU, Asian School of the Environment, Professor, Asian School of the Environment, Assistant Dean (Development), College of Science, Director of CIFAL@NTU, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University)

  • $57Million funded project that brings science and humanities together – science project that brings communicaiton in at the foundation level
  • “Climate Change and Misinformation in the Media”
  • How do we do communication when the science is real and effects are visible
  • Leaders and their misinformation (i.e. Trump and Abbott)

Janil Puthucheary (Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information, Singapore)

  • How does the lessons from Singapore inform the world and vice-versa?

CPT – Digital geopolitics, sovereignty and technological interdependence

The European Third Way: the EU’s strategic narrative of a valuebased digital order and its global impact
» Dr. Julia Pohle (Germany)1, Mr. Leo Thüer (Germany)1, Mr. Milan Schröder (Germany)1, Prof. Christian Rauh (Germany)1 (1. WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

  • European values are framed as a way of European governance – promote as an alternative to the Chinese restrictive and the US liberal model

Towards a “federated sovereignty”? Mobilizations of decentralized platforms for (European) digital autonomy
» Dr. Ksenia Ermoshina (France)1, Prof. Francesca Musiani (France)2 (1. Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Centre Internet et Société, 2. Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France)

  • The Fediverse is the central focus of this research, requires a high level of technical knowledge
  • Federation sits between digital sovereignty and federation networks – less technical knowledge is required
  • This is relevant in a post Twitter world where users are lookign for new forms of communication (i.e. Mastodon, Matrix, Delta Chat)
  • RQ: How are ‘alternative projects’ adopted by European public institutions
  • Federation and sovereignty – encourages interoperability between services beyond proprietary silos
  • 4 Cs of Federation: Compatibility, Community, Customization, Care
  • Moving from platform sovereignty towards protocol sovereignty
  • Q: how has PSM as a particular kind of European public institution adopted (or not) federation sovereignty?

Politics, Privacy or Soft Power: TikTok Ban in the U.S. at the State Level
» Dr. wenhong chen (United States)1 (1. University of Texas at Austin)

  • US Federal policy tools that can be used to implement a TikTok ban: Legislative, Executive, Judiciary
  • CFIUS – the Committee for Foreign Trade in the US – these talks have been going on for several years and it has shifted from Federal to State level politics

Informational Ethos and Digital Sovereignty: Technologies, Neoliberalism, and Coloniality
» Dr. José Cláudio Castanheira (Brazil)1 (1. Fluminense Federal University (UFF))

  • Brazilian Liberal (Right Wing) Conference – hoihgly attended by Googel, Meta and CapCut who presented practical tutorials on how to produce automated videos and content.
  • Zuckerberg et al. was supporting the activities of this party
  • There is an environment of ‘congress is the enemy of the people’
  • AI politics in Brazil – They do not meet the needs of Brazilians (Barros; Vaz 2023)

CPT – Emerging Digital Technologies Policies and Laws in South Asia Beyond Geopolitical Approach

Policy Rhetoric to Practice: The Case of Streaming Services in India
» Ms. Shubhangi Heda (Australia)1 (1. Queensland University of Technology)

  • Viewing experience as a regulatory variable is ignored
  • State intervention is inevetiable

Dynamics of Elite Capture on Media Regulation: Policies and Practices in Pakistan
» Dr. Mahnoor Farooq (Pakistan)1, Dr. Shabana Naveed (Pakistan)2 (1. University of Haripur, 2. Lahore Garrison University)

Secretive Digital State: Hidden Policy Documents and the Issues of Transparency and Accountability of the National Identification System in Nepal
» Dr. Harsha Man Maharjan (Qatar)1 (1. Northwestern University in
Qatar)

Communication Policies of a Digital Authoritarian Regime in Bangladesh
» Dr. Anis Rahman (United States)1 (1. University of Washington)

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International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) preconference – The 50th Anniversary of Communication Policy & Technology #IAMCR2025

IAMCR 2025 CPT precon

I was honoured to be invited to participate as a panel discussant at the 50th Anniversary of Communication Policy & Technology preconference. I was invited to talk at the first panel, The Asia-Pacific Perspective to
Communication Policy Research, alongside Prof Yu Hong, Zhejiang University, China; Prof Ang Peng Hwa, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and Prof Yu-li Liu, Shanghai University, China.

My panel followed an excellent opening remarks from the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Lionel Wee, and Prof Jeremy Shtern, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada (Secretary General, IAMCR), and Prof Gerard Goggin, Western Sydney University, Australia (Co-Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group, IAMCR). Within this session, I took two key items away:

  • Policy implications are pertinent and remain the same – allocation of resources, global north and south, voice those who have none, etc. (Jeremy Shtern);
  • Inter-generational research has really helped the Section grow (inclusion of ECRs and HDRs), how might this shift over new technologies and their introduction (Gerard Goggin)

This was followed by the Keynote Roundtable, which had five generations of Presidents of the CPT Section. THe following key points were made by the following colleagues:

  • Emeritus Prof Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
  • Emeritus Prof Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Dr Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEAsia, Sri Lanka
  • Prof Hopeton Dunn, University of Botswana, Botswana
  • Prof Francesca Musiani, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Emeritus Prof Cees Hamelink

  • The process of UN and IAMCR focusing on techniology and human rights, but nothing actually happening beyond broad and general agreement.
  • Bypass governemtns, engage with individuals

Emeritus Prof Robin Mansell

  • CPT – infrastructures and political economy, but also the uses of technology
  • The issues haven’t changed but the technologies have, the ‘thigns’ we research are changing (platforms, datafication, AI, social meida, etc.) but the underlying issues remain and continue to need attention

Dr Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEAsia, Sri Lanka

  • Wihtin the global context, the state is the issue – Sri Lankan state government is a huge hump in the road for communication and power
  • Regulator work is important

Prof Hopeton Dunn, University of Botswana, Botswana

  • Real growth came when the secion started working with the ECR network – this tells me that is is the crossover of policy research needs novel approaches
  • Shcolarship that ceoms form htose marginalised voices is important to encourage emerging scholars (and students) to understand their place within the world. It connot be just one voice and one way of scholarship
  • AI versus IA (internet access) – while some parts are forging ahead with AI work, some parts of the world are still coming to grips with getting online

After lunch, we moved to Panel 2: AI governance

  • Tarja Turtia, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO Communication and Information Sector
  • Dr Jingbo Wang, United Nations University Institute in Macau, Macau
  • Prof Jungpil Hahn, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Dr Chew Han Ei, Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore
  • Moderator: Dr Jun Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Local Organising Committee Co-Convenor)

Prof Jungpil Hahn, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Working on AI projects that are human focused
  • Has funding for projects

Dr Jingbo Wang, United Nations University Institute in Macau, Macau

  • Research community is needed to bring the issues to policymakers, and then to be involved with more hands-on work in terms of how the results go post-policy implementation
  • What will be the jobs in 10 years that we need to be focussed on within AI
  • Check this out: https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future

Tarja Turtia, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO Communication and Information Sector

  • UNESCO is there to protect humans
  • Guidelines for Governance of Digital Platforms
  • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
  • It’s difficult to undertake ‘fairness, equality, etc.’ as these principles are somewhat objective, burt UNESCO is ther to push pressure on policymakers
  • Working in AI and public media
  • The traditional media and the broader ecosystem also contributes to this AI discussion space

Dr Chew Han Ei, Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore

  • Policy studies and has a research project out that examine show chat bots respond to taboo subject: I’d Blush If I Could

PANEL 3: Policy beyond Communication Tech
Prof Catherine Middleton – Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Dr Bohyeong Kim – Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University, USA From Chat App to Fintech Giant: Kakao’s Journey Through South Korea’s Policy Landscape

Dr Renyi Hong – Associate Professor, Department of Communications and Media, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Dr Wijayanto – Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia Governing the Digital Space: Regulation, Institutional Fragmentation, and Governance Gaps in the 2024 Indonesian
Election

Moderator: Prof Shaojing Sun, Fudan University, China

Prof Catherine Middleton – An Investigation of how Current Policy Debates about 6 GHz Spectrum and Wi-Fi 7 Will Impact Digital Inclusion in the Next Decade

  • License spectrum – set in a way that commercial operators pay fees to governments to use them, users pay to providers for access. Citizens are paying for a public resource (Mobile network operators)
  • Wireless networks are different in that we are not paying for them – permissionless innovation
  • US govt. is looking at charging for wifi spectrum – they would sell it to a provider and then we pay to use it.
  • Wifi 7 example given, required for faster broadband speeds to our home to avoid a bottleneck
  • Work by Ofcom: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/innovative-use-of-spectrum/ofcom-pioneers-sharing-of-upper-6-ghz-spectrum-between-mobile-and-wi-fi-services
  • Work by ACMA: https://www.acma.gov.au/consultations/2024-05/planning-options-upper-6-ghz-band

Dr Bohyeong Kim: From Chat App to Fintech Giant: Kakao’s Journey Through South Korea’s Policy Landscape

  • Kakao Talk – 43 million users, South Korea population is 51 million
  • Ride Hailing, information, food, etc. (super app)
  • Kako has 218 affiliates and 175 subsidiaries in 2023
  • 26 million users are on Kakoa Bank, it’s fintech subsidairy
  • Published article: South Korea’s Megacorp and super app: Kakao’s paths to market dominance – this is how the Chaembol are not able to own financial services industry
  • Sandbox finacial regulatoriy space(2019) – test services without regulation that might inhibit innovation – Q: how has this worked and could this approach be used in broader context of digital technologies? Could we reframe policy as a helpful tool and not a roadblock?
  • Kakao pay now also uses social media activity ‘points’ to understand financial information

Dr Wijayanto – Governing the Digital Space: Regulation, Institutional Fragmentation, and Governance Gaps in the 2024 Indonesian Election

  • Indonesia’s political battleground is on TikTok – positive disinformation and whitewashing were key tactics used
  • There are no laws against AI so it cannot be controlled – stance of govt.
  • Officials can have 10 accounts, and rely on platform governance to make sure all content is OK

Dr Renyi Hong – Platform Workers Bill: The Politics of Regulating Workers’ Injury in Singapore

  • Singaporeans are covered under a pension act, and a Platform Workers Bill (compensation)
  • Platform workers are now one fo the most dangerous workplaces (compared with construction, scarily)
  • Insurance is covered by platform providers for ‘free’ but it is actually included in the charge to consumers, but this de-associates the platform provider from the worker and their potential claims
  • Grab has Audio-protect – https://help.grab.com/passenger/en-sg/360035134272

PANEL 4: Regionalising Communication Policy
Dr Wafa Khalfan – Independent Scholar, United Arab Emirates
Dr Yongliang Gao – Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication
University of China
Dr Tianchan Mao – Postdoctoral Fellow, Fudan University, China
Dr Lydia Ouma Radoli – Associate Dean, School of Communication, Daystar University, Kenya

Dr Lydia Ouma Radoli – Searching for a Middle Ground: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence Policies for Journalistic Practice in the Global South

  • Ethical issues versus opportunities for machine jouralism
  • Shifting the practice of journalism to include more technological dynamics, significant politics and audience sentiment
  • Bias mitigation, transparency and accountability – all areas that are pertinent for AI in journalism
  • Trust again appears as a significant issue (I interpret this as trust and institution)

Dr Wafa Khalfan – Regionalizing Communication Policy & Technology: Situating the Gulf Region in Global Media and AI Policy Discourse.

Dr Yongliang Gao – From the Regulation of Content Production, Technological Application, Market Operation, and International Communication to Social Governance

Dr Tianchan Mao – Governance in the Shadows: Why the Co-Governance Model Undermines the Effectiveness of Platform Governance in the Facebook Oversight Board?

  • Two sides of platform governance – what the platforms claim, and the impact of their actions
  • What is the efficiency of the Facebook Oversight Board? (I thought it was a kind of puppet mechanism, even thought I have some amazing colleagues sitting on the Board – I’d be keen to hear their thoughts)
  • Thematic analysis which was then run through topic modelling process – violence became a key issue to unpack
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