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
Day 4
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)
- Technology acceptance model
- Uber and Baidu partner for autonomous vehicles
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