School of Media and Communication researchers attend International Communication Association Conference 2024
Researchers from the School of Media and Communication were among the thousands of attendees at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Researchers from the University of Leeds’ School of Media and Communication were among thousands of attendees at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), which took place last week in Gold Coast, Australia.
The School’s Professor Chris Paterson was one of the organisers of the pre-conference, ‘Whose News is It? Assessing the Role and Influence of International Media Assistance in Defining the News Agenda’, hosted by the Global Communication and Social Change division of ICA. He also presented his paper, ‘“God Has Seen We Want to Be Equal to Him”: Contending with Metaphysical Worldviews in Climate Adaptation in Rural Africa’ at the main conference.
Dr Cindy Ma presented her paper, '“It Was All Jokes”: Interrogating the Function of “Provocation” in Reactionary YouTube Communities’). Dr Ma won a Top Paper Award as well as the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her PhD, “Streaming to Transgress: The Racial Politics of Reactionary YouTubers and their Audiences”.
Dr Cindy Ma at the International Communication Association Conference 2024, Gold Coast, Australia
Dr Sherine Conyers won the Journalism Studies Division’s top reviewer award, demonstrating her citizenship and support for others in the field. Sherine’s paper was titled 'Risky Business: How Metrics Obfuscate Journalistic Values with Traffic Volumes in Digital News Production’.
Other University of Leeds researchers presenting papers at the prestigious conference were Dr Maitrayee Basu ('On Unbelonging Together: Affect, Intimacies and Identification Within South Asian Digital Diasporas’) and Professor Catherine Johnson ('‘I’m Not Much of a TV Person’: Understanding Less Engaged Television Viewers’).
Professor Cathy Johnson presenting at the International Communication Association (ICA) conference 2024
Professor Stephen Coleman, Dr Giles Moss and Dr Sophie Bishop were also co-authors on other conference presentations, but did not attend. Next year’s 75th ICA annual conference will take place in Denver, Colorado.
